One // Leigh-Anne Pinnock

Chapter Seven

Recap:

Leigh decided to call it a night so she went into her room to change her clothes so she can have a shower. She took off her shirt and took out a towel from her closet. She set it on the bed when she heard the door, which she had sworn she locked, swing open. She tried to cover her top half but she was too late.

Sairah already saw.

"Leigh?! Is that a-"

She got cut off. Leigh had yanked her into the bedroom and quietly shut the door. Sarah sat on the bed, eyes wide. Leigh put a finger to her lips signalling to be quiet.

"Are you-?"

"Yeah." She said sitting next to her sister.

"Were you gonna tell me??"

"Of course! That's why I came home."

"Does Jesy, Jade and Perrie know?"

"Yeah."

"Does Jordan know?"

"Yeah."

"Does mum know?"

"No. Like I said that's why I came home."

"Wow." She said. She hadn't yet gotten over the initial shock that her baby sister was having a baby.

"How far along are you? How long have you known?"

"Umm...about 10 weeks and...a month." She said sheepishly.

"You knew for a month and you didn't tell me?!" She exclaimed lightly slapping Leigh's arm.

"Sorry! But in my defense I had to wrap my head around it plus I had to sort things out with Jordan." Leigh said softly, hoping she wouldn't pick up on the last part. Her hopes were in vain.

"What do you mean by "sort things out?" She said putting air quotes around sort things out.

Leigh sighed and ran her hands over her face.

"He left. He doesn't want to be a part of the baby's life." She whispered. "He strongly feels that I'm not ready to be a mother and he's not ready to be a father so he wants no part of it."

"What?! That's so low and cowardly!"

"I know."

There was a long silence before Sairah continued.

"To be completely honest, I don't think anyone is ready for a baby or parenting. All the books and magazines you read, all the advice you recieve it can never truly prepare you for raising a child. It's a round the clock job that you invest all your time and life in. I think that's what Jordan's afraid of. If your baby is sick in the middle of the night you have to forgo your sleep to take care of her. If she's has a problem it's you she'd come to. She'll see you as her hero. It's a big responsibility and that's what he's not ready for.