Life

Telling them

2 months later

Ava is 3  1/2 months pregnant.

I sit on his couch in the garage. He sits on the coffee table.  I can barely look him in the eye.

"I'm pregnant" I say quietly. He probably didn't even hear me.

"What?" He says with a touch of sympathy.

"I'm pregnant" I say quietly again but this time loud enough for him to hear me.

"Abort it" He says sternly. His jaw tightening. Hot tears run down my face.

"I can't, it's too late" I lie, I tried to get an abortion but I couldn't go through with it.

"Why not you just found out didn't you!" He starts to raise his tone. I shake my head.

"I found out a little over two months ago" I say staying quiet. He shakes his head in disbelief.

"You should have gotten an abortion sooner"he says trying to be sarcastic.

"Don't you think I tried! I WENT TO THE CLINIC AND HAD A BREAK DOWN! I COULDN'T, I CANT KILL AN INNOCENT CHILD!" I raise my voice 4 octaves. I get off he couch and grab my purse, then walk out. He just sits there speechless.

When I get out to the living room his mom, Mrs. Karry, stands up and and just hugs me.

"You brought me the greatest gift anyone could ever do, he would have never wanted kids in the future" she whispers into my hair.

"Well he doesn't want it, so I don't know what I'm doing now" I say. She takes me out to my car.

"He'll come around, just give it time. I want all the sonograms, and I want to come to down of them with you. Exspecialy the one when you find out the sex of the baby" she says excitedly. I reach in my purse and pull out a picture of the baby, I hand it to her and she starts to cry.

"That's from last week, I'll find out the sex in 3 weeks, and I'll call you so you can come...." I hugs her once more" I'm so glad your not being mean about this and you want to support my decision on this"

"I'm glad you're glad" she says pulling away.

"Well I'm off to tell my mom" I say.

"Good luck, see you soon" she says then goes back inside. I head to my moms.

When I get to my moms house I see that her husband Chris is there. And since I'm telling them I should just call my dad and have him come here.

He picks up in the first ring." Yes Ava?"

"I need you to come to moms it's important" I say starting to feel like I'm going to be sick.

"Yeah I was on the way over there anyway your mom needs to talk to me too" he says.

"Ok well, see you soon" I say and hang up. I sit in my car and try to gather my thoughts.

Am I going to just tell them or explain it. I start to text Val but I get interrupted by dad knocking on the window. I slowly get out and hug him.

"I love you dad" I sob into his shoulder.

"What's going on why are you crying?" He says.

"It's better if I tell you inside along with mom" I started walking up the drive way with him following me.  I enter the house and see my mom and Chris sitting on the couch. My dad joins them. I stand there, tears drying on my cheeks.

"Please don't be mad, I didn't mean for this to happen......" I say my voice starting to break. "I'm pregnant.....and I'm 3 1/2 months along"

My mom sits there on the couch, my dad however gets up and hugs me.

"I'm sorry daddy......" I'm crying. Again.

"It's ok,.....I haven't heard you say that in a long time baby" he starts to cry. My mom just sits there in the couch.

"Ava, I've known you've been pregnant for a while, I'm not stupid, I have 5 kids, that's why I called your father" she says. I look at her with disbelief.

"What the fuck! Why would you call him it's my job to call HIM mom, it's not your place to tell people!" I say getting angry.

"Well your almost 4 months so yes it is my place, are you going to tell Oliver or let him figure out that he's a dad when he's watching push a baby out of you?!" She says mimicking my tone.

"I told him today, and just to let you know he wanted me to abort it, literally the first thing that came out of his mouth was 'abort it' and it hurts me so much that he said that" I say and go up to my room.

My mom comes up about 12 minutes later and lays down on the bed with me.

"One month after its born you have to move out, we have no room ok? I love you, it's just there's no room. And you know that" she says and plays with my curls.

"Okay, I love you too, I have no idea what I'm doing, I feel sick, and hungry, and tired and just overwhelmed" I start to cry again, fucking hormones.

"Aww, it's ok Ava...." She hugs me tightly.

"I'm so scared mom" I cling on to her for life, falling asleep in her arms.