Love hurts?

Waiting

Jessica's POV

"... and I have a puppy called Benjie... and my room looks like it has Lego walls and floor!" Duncan beams. As he tells me for the millionth time how PERFECT Ocean and Michael's house is. "if you want a Lego themed bedroom. I can do that for you" I smile and he shakes his head. "my new rooms bigger and Benjie will sleep there too!"

"trying to bribe a child with a puppy, that's typical" Sherri scoffs "well there's more to parenting than just gifts" I frown annoyed. "exactly! and the courts will see that" she tries to reassure me. Which she's been trying to do alot since I got that letter. I know there's still a chance they won't be granted custody, they've tried before and failed, but it worries me that this time they WILL get him back especially now their taking it to court. And by the sounds of things they are doing really well for themselves and I have to admit for them to own their own home at 18 and 20 is actually pretty impressive. but they already have a child and this supposedly perfect life. I'm not asking for the perfect life just the chance to be a mother again and Duncan is my final chance at that and I'm now at risk them taking him away from me.

"and we're gonna get a new baby!" Duncan says excitedly eating his breakfast, still talking about Ocean and Michael. "your mommy's having another baby!?" I turn to him wide eyed. "not yet... one day though" he smiles "it's gonna be called princess Ocean or Prince Michael" he says excitedly.

"them two have serious ego problems!" Sherri scoffs "who names their children after themselves and gives them the title princess and prince"

"so they'll have THREE children" I mumble. "no.. They'll have two. Thats if they have another. their not going to win. I can feel it and all their doing is giving the poor boy false hope"

"no three!" Duncan cuts in counting their names with his fingers. "me, Veah and one day new baby"

"sweetie, I don't think the stalk is bringing your mommy and daddy another baby" Sherri tells him then turns back to me. "even the stork wouldn't be that cruel on a child" she chuckles slightly. "storks don't bring babies... stupid" Duncan frowns. "Duncan! Apologise to your aunt right now!" I snap at him "but they don't YOU just telling lies again" he folds his arms in protest "if it's not the stalk. then where do you think YOU came from smartie pants" sherri turns to him "mommy's vajay"

"what!? Who said that to you!?" I gasp "daddy. He said storks don't bring a baby. The daddy does and it grows In the mommy's belly"

"did he say how they put it in the mommy's belly?" I frown annoyed Michael and Ocean would tell a child this. "yup! Did it with his peepee"

"Carson! Have you heard this!?" I frown as he walks into the room and I tell him what Michael and Ocean said to Duncan. "well he'll have to learn sometime" he shrugs "not a TWO! They shouldn't be teaching him stuff like that"

"well pretty soon it won't be our problem" he shrugs "maybe in the mean time they could teach him how to wipe his own butt properly"

"I'll be speaking to Abby about this. It's not acceptable and it's terrible parenting!" I shake my head. "so they told him where babies come from big deal! Maybe if you'd talked to Ocean she wouldn't have got knocked up in the first place" he shrugs uninterested. "I did talk to her!"

"clearly you forgot the part about contraception" he chuckles slightly. "I shouldn't have had too! She knew full well she shouldn't have been doing those things until she was married. It's not my fault she became a shameless little tramp!" I snap. "their here!!!" DJ squeals hearing a car pull up in the drive and rushes over to the front door.

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Ocean's POV

It's been over a week since what happened and neither of us have mentioned it since Michael flushed that stuff down the toilet. Not because it's something we don't want to discuss, but because it's something we don't need to. What happened in the past is a distant memory and in some ways feels like it wasn't real, like a terrible nightmare that you wake up from that feels so real at first then you realise it was all just a dream.