Loved By The Ghetto (Urban)

Chapter 12

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"How'd you know I was here?" I ask him.

"I had man follow you." he says.

"Follow me?"

"Yeah." he replies casually.

"Why?"

"Cos I wanted to make sure you got home safe." he says. I look at him shocked.

"Really?" I ask.

"Yeah." he chuckles. I smile at him.

"Aight, see you later..." I look at the white boy, waiting for him to give me his name.

"Jake." he answers.

"Jake. Uh- typical." I add.

"What?" he asks.

"Your name's Jake. Typical white boy name." I laugh.

"Lol, I know." he laughs. "I'm not even white though, I'm Turkish." he laughed again.

"Well bye Shanae." he says. I wave at him while walking with Reuben to his Audi.

I walk away from the car and Reuben gently grabs my wrist. I turn around.

"What, you're not coming with me?" he asks. I shake my head.

"I'm going home."

"Yeah, I'll drop you." he says. I nod and get in.

The drive was relatively silent but Reuben kept on taking little peeks at me and it looked like he wanted to say something. We pull up to my house and I face him.

"What is it you want to say?" I ask him. He sighs.

"Was it your brothers that told you to tell me you're pregnant or did you come on your own accord?"

"Own. I just didn't tell you as soon as I found out because I just didn't tell you before cos you were scaring me and I didn't want you to do something you would regret." I answer.

"I was scaring you?" he asks. I nod.

"You're very scary when you're angry. Intimidating." I answer. He stays silent for a while.

"Sorry about that." he says. I nod. "You know I'd never hurt you right?" he says. I don't respond. "Shanae?"

"I-I don't know." I whisper, looking down. He reaches over and gently strokes my cheek. I smile and raise my head.

"I won't ever hurt you again babe. I'll never rape you again. I promise." he says. We kiss for a few seconds and I say bye and jump out the car. "Look after my baby!" he yells out the window smiling. I laugh and wave at him as he drives off, way over the speed limit. I put my keys to the door and walk into the house.

I head straight to my room. I take off my air forces and socks and then jump onto the bed. I stare at the ceiling thinking about Reuben.

"If she ain't fucking, she got to go (yeah)

Tell her don't waste my time.

Police wanna stop me, search my clothes (word)

Tell em don't waste my time.

If it ain't money, I ain't involved (nah)

Tell em don't waste my time

Wasteman waffling down my phone  (true)

Tell em-" I pick up my phone.

"Hello?"

"Love you!" says Reuben. I laugh. "Oh, and I know you were thinking about me." he says. I stop laughing and he bursts out laughing. We exchange our byes and love you's before cutting off. I stand up and walk to my wardrobe. I stare at myself in the full length mirror. I lift up my top slightly and stare at my stomach. I turn sideways and stare. A smile crept on my face but faltered slightly. I was happy. I was having a child in the next 8 months. But then again, I am only 15. And yeah, I didn't have sex, but like, doesn't that tell you something?