The Bad Boy Calls Me Dork

Chapter 20 - The Truth About Angie

We quietly creep downstairs, being extra careful not to wake up Lily again. God it's hard to put that child to sleep, she always thinks of a different excuse every second to get up and avoid bed time. 

 As i'm walking into the living room, I forget there was a step (typical me) and land face first on the hard wooden floor.  "Ah sh-" I pause, remembering there's a little kid in the other room. "-iver me timbers i was not expecting that." 

Zac just chuckles and offers a hand to help my clumsy self up. I take it and dust myself off. "You can swear in front of me you know, i won't tell your mummy." He jokes, imitating a toddlers high pitched voice. I roll my eyes and stare at him, then i remembered i'm supposed to be angry at him.  "Whatever." I walk into the kitchen and take a seat at the breakfast bar, facing the opposite direction. 

"And i thought Lily was immature. You're just as bad throwing little temper tantrums when you don't get your way." Zac takes a seat opposite mine so i was forced to look at his stupid hot face. 

"Says the one calling someone names because they talked to another guy." I return. An idea flashes in my head, lets play a little game and see what happens.

"Was someone a bit jealous?" I smirk, making his cheeks flush, which was definitely a first.

"I- your- no! You're the one jealous of me." He stutters.

"What's there to be jealous of?" I question.

"The fact that i can get any girl I want and you can't get any guys." Oh, now he's gone and done it.

"Please, the only thing you 'get' girls for is sex, and then you just dump them the next day, or the day after that if they're lucky. Thats not something to be proud or jealous of the way that I see it." He grits his teeth as if to refrain from speaking.

"You probably don't even know the meaning of love." I say. He looks down at his fingers and back up at me. 

"Actually, i know a lot more than you think."

"Bull. Prove it."

"I don't have to prove anything to you." He states angrily.

I turn to the side and head to the door to leave, Lily's asleep and Zac's home i think they can take care of one another. I hear a sigh coming from behind me and a grip fastens on my arm. "Look, sit down and i'll tell you a little story." 

I reluctantly follow him over to the seats and sit down. 

"Do you remember me mentioning the name Angie a while ago?" 

"Yeah I guess." I shrug.

"Well... her and I had a thing, we went out for a while, and i loved her, a lot." Zac starts.

Zac? Loved someone? Sounds fake. "Oh wait, let me guess, you cheated on her cause you're a jerk?" I finish. He sighs and continues to talk.

"Just shut up and listen. She just told me she- was pregnant. I wasn't ready to be a dad, but i wasn't going to give up on her and leave her all alone, so I just accepted it. It took me a while to come to terms with it but finally, we were ready to go tell her parents and then as we were driving, a truck pulled put of nowhere and-" he paused, tearing up. I knew what he was trying to say though, she had died in a car accident. I feel so bad for him. 

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"Alright, see ya man." I say to Jake as I exit his garage and get back onto my motorcycle.

"Yeah, good luck with Angie tonight." He winks. Tonight was going to be fun, my mate Chase has this massive annual party of the year, it's a night to remember, or not to remember if you drunk out of your mind like most people are.

My phone stars to buzz in my pocket. "Hey, speak of the devil." I laugh at Chase, it's Angie calling. 

"Heeeelllloooo?" I answer.

  "Zac, hey baby, I have some- uh- news to tell you, promise you won't be mad." She stutters. She's so cute when she stutters.

"Promise. What could be so bad that I have to-"

"I'm pregnant."

I stand there in shock, everything goes blurry. She has to be lying, I'm 16, I'm no where near ready to be a dad! Shit shit shit shit, what the hell do i do? What the hell do I say? What the hell am I supposed to think? I'll have to get two jobs, quit school and not get into college. This will change everything i've ever planned in my life all because i couldn't control my stupid hormones. 

"Babe? I'm so sorry. This wasn't supposed to happen. I understand if you want to abort it, or leave me, just please say something." She cries on the other end of the phone.

I pause for a while. "No." Is all i can say.

"No what?"

"This baby is ours, and no matter the consequences, it's our responsibility to look after it. I'll- I'll get two jobs, and- and i'll support us." I stutter.

Angies cries even more onto the phone, it's almost as if i can feel her tears from the other end of the phone. "Thank you."

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 "Zac I'm so sorry." Was all i could manage to say.

"That's not even the worst part, I was fine, she copped it all. If only i'd been driving that night instead of her.." He mumbles.

"Don't say things like that. She wouldn't have wanted that, neither would your family or your friends, including me. It wasn't your fault." I comfort him.

"Yeah, well sometimes things happen whether you want them to or not." He says coldly. We sit there in silence for a while, i'm still trying to let this all sink in. How much that would of hurt to loose Angie, the baby, and then his dad. Maybe thats why he went so cold hearted and mean.

"Look, I didn't mean to make you all depressed I just needed to vent."

"No, it's okay. I understand." I reply. 

He nods. "Let's not be sad all night, wanna watch a movie?"

I nod and he sets up the DVD player and the couch. The movie starts to play but i wasn't paying attention to it at all, all i could think about was Angie, and Zac. 

I rest my head on his shoulder and send up a silent prayer to Angie.

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OML 

-chlo x