The Football Player's Roommate

14.

Theo's POV:
From Mya:
It's a -

"Oh Thompson! Looks like you've finished the deed. All ready for the father life?!" Tyler, the most obnoxious guy on the team, read over my shoulder and shouted in my ear allowing for every single person left in the locker room to hear.

Including the coach.

I tucked my phone away in my pocket quickly unfortunately not being able to read the final part of the message.

"Thompson!!"

Why did I know that was coming??

"Coming coach!" I yelled back and walked into his office, but not before sending Tyler a glare.

This is gonna be great. All thanks to some dumbass I was about to get a lecture about being irresponsible, when in reality I had done nothing wrong.

"Thompson, why am I hearing Smithson shouting about you being a dad?!" His face was quickly turning red with anger.

"No, coach, it's not what it seems. You see-"

"You and I have been working so hard to build up your career, and you go and do this?"

"No. No, sir. It's just that-"

"If you have a kid you're going to start pulling away from football and your reputation will forever be changed. You know your chances of making it to the NFL are slim when you're too busy paying attention to your schoolwork, let alone with a kid."

"Coach. I didn't get a girl pregnant."

He looked taken aback. "Thompson. I know I'm hard on you, but don't you dare lie to me. I'll eventually find out the truth no matter what."

"No need. I can tell you. I didn't get a girl pregnant. Tyler eavesdropped on my cell phone conversations and made his own assumptions." I told him rolling my eyes at Tyler...that dumbass.

"What did the text that he saw say?" The coach asked now looking more confused than anything.

"Um...well. You see-"

"Thompson I don't have all day!" He shouted and you could tell by the way he kept staring at me and watching my every move that he wasn't getting any more patient with me.

"Sweetheart, no matter if you want to admit it or not he or she is also half mine. Oh by the way is it a boy or girl?" Wasn't exactly something I wanted to tell my football coach, so I decided to shorten it up a bit and change a few things here and there.

"I asked her if it was a boy or a girl, sir." I looked down at the ground kind of embarrassed about sharing my personal life with him.

"Well..it sounds like Tyler was right. Unless you have some other info that I don't know about." He stood up from his desk and crossed his arms standing in front of me.

Why is it that everyone kept jumping to conclusions?

I looked at him wondering how by asking "boy or girl?" somehow stamped "NEW DAD" across my forehead. I literally could've been asking the question to anyone. Coach wasn't exactly thinking this through...but you'd never hear me telling him that to his face.

"Yes, sir. This random girl in my apartment building adopted a dog and was texting me about it, so I was just having a conversation with her about it."