Together

Chapter 19

Chloe's POV

I walked into the school and was immediately met by the principal, oh yippee

"You're Toby's mother?" He asked me, looking me up and down, between my obviously lacking in age to have a child Toby's age and the fact I'm currently pretty huge he's got a few things to look at I suppose

"Stepmother, don't call me his mother in front of him or he'll kick off" I warn and the principal looks at me judgingly

"Can I take him home now then?" I ask and he looks at me like I'm just some stupid slut, yeah no

"I think we should have a discussion about his behaviour first" he tells me but I'm not in the mood for this shit

"I think it would be better if my husband comes in to talk about it when he's back from his work trip, I'm not really the right person to be discussing how to deal with Toby's actions nor am I prepared to do so at the moment so perhaps you could schedule something with him when he gets back" I tell him, perhaps slightly over aggressively but he nods in agreement, albeit looking at me like I've unsettled him quite a bit

He wanders off and soon shows up with Toby

"What?! No! I'm not going anywhere with her!" He yells

"Toby please just come on so we can go home" I plea with him but he's clearly about to kick off again and I'm just not in the mood so I finally snap at him "TOBY! PLEASE!"

My sudden raising of my voice makes him jump, he clearly didn't expect that

He huffs and glares before walking straight past me towards the door and heads for the car park

"I'm sorry" I apologise hurriedly for his behaviour before following him as fast as I can

We head for the car and when I finally catch him up he's stood by the car, waiting impatiently for me to unlock it so he can get in

When I finally do so he gets in and slams it shut, I just roll my eyes in response, I'm really not in the mood for this right now, I feel like crap and his shit is not helping

"Can we just not for one day, please?" I beg of him but that riles him up

"Can you just drive already?!" He growls at me

I start driving but I'm done with this tiptoeing around him

"Why are you doing all this Toby? You're a good kid, much better than all this, why are you acting like this?" I ask him, I want an answer, he didn't just change, there's a reason for this and I want to know what it is

"Just leave me alone" I hisses but I choose to ignore him

"No, you can hate me all you want Toby and you can hate the baby too but I still care about you and about your father, something is going on that is making you do this and it's affecting both you and your dad, I love you both and I don't want either of you to be hurting over this, please just talk to me" I plea with him but he clearly has no interest in cooperating

"JUST LEAVE ME ALONE!" He yells and I finally snap, the stress breaks me, I can't hold my temper anymore

"WHY DO YOU HATE ME SO MUCH?!" I couldn't hold it in anymore

"BECAUSE YOU STOLE MY DAD AND RUINED MY LIFE!" He replied aggressively

I was quite taken aback by that but apparently he wasn't done

Toby's POV

"I wish my dad had never met you! I wish that stupid baby didn't exist!" I tell her out of anger, I don't mean it, I know I don't but it hurts less if I hate her, I know she's gonna stop caring if she even really still does so I'm just protecting myself

We finally get home, I grab my bag and storm straight out of the car, I saw her begin to cry a little before I got out and I felt kinda bad but she's ruining everything, I'm just gonna get put aside when this baby comes, dad's already all over her and the baby who isn't even born yet

But then I noticed Chloe wasn't behind me, and I heard crying getting a bit louder, I didn't think I'd been that harsh

I went back to the car to find her stood leaning against it, tears in her her, pain written all over her face

"Chloe? What's wrong?" I ask worriedly but I get no reply, she puts a hand on her bump, uh oh

"Chloe, what's going on?" I ask her again, this time she manages to pull herself together enough to lie to me

"It's okay, I'm fine, it'll pass in a minute" she tells me but I can hear the pain in her voice

"Chloe what's going on? Is it the baby?" I ask worriedly, I grab onto her and help support her, worried she'll collapse in a minute, she's gone really pale

"I...it hurts" she whispers as a few tears fall down her cheeks

"You need to go to the hospital" I tell her hurriedly

"No, I'm oka....ahh" she cuts herself off as she appears to get a sharper pain

"You're going inside and then I'm calling an ambulance because this isn't okay this is bad, this isn't supposed to happen" I tell her very finally but what she said next really worried me

"Toby it's fine, it's happened before, not this bad but still, it'll go away eventually" she tells me but screw that, she's going to a hospital

"No you're going to see a doctor, dad would kill me if I didn't make you go" I tell her but honestly I just want her to go because I don't want something bad to happen to her or the baby, of course I don't really hate her or the baby, I'm just so confused about everything

I got her inside and made her lay down on the couch while I called 911, they told me an ambulance would be here asap

I just couldn't stop panicking, she seemed to be in a lot of pain and it was all my fault

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Uh oh, what do you think will happen? Now Toby's explained himself do you think they can sort all this out? Most importantly though will Chloe and the baby be okay? Xoxo