Seeing Love (bxb)

20. Liars Conundrum

6/21/17
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Nick's POV

The next morning Jack was gone and I needed to get ready for school. I got dressed and I walked out my front door.

"Nick."

My heart quickens and I turn around.

"Blair... what are you doing here?" I say before recognizing a big black bruise on her cheek.

"I have proof I'm pregnant!" She says a bit too loudly while franticly waving around a paper.

I was shook. I looked around grabbed her upper arm and took her inside the house closing the door so we'd be away from prying eyes.

"But I thought you..."

"How could you think I could kill our baby?" She said with an astonished face briming with tears.

The words 'our baby' kept echoing in my ears making me clinch my jaw.

"Then your really..."

"I am and here's proof." She replies waving around the paper with shaky hands.

She hands me a ultrasound picture, the small shape curled up in a ball held many emotions at the moment I looked at it. Paper clipped under it was a document from her doctors office with her name and medical information. No doubt shes pregnant.

"Nick please I need your help, my dad found out about the baby and he wants to meet the father."

"Me?" I clarified again eyes still glued to the small blurry figure in the photograph.

"Yes Nick, you. Please, I tried to keep it a secret from him but he found out last night and said that if I don't tell him who the father is he'll kick me out."

"So you want me to talk to your dad?"

"Well I kinda told him we were dating."

"You what?!" She's crazy.

"I told him that so he would stop..." My eyes zeroed onto the fresh purple bruise. "I just need you to come over and make a good impression that's all then your good I'll take care of the baby and you'll never hear from us again."

Am I heartless?

No I'm not.

"I-I'll do it." I said reluctant but willing.

"Ok dinner starts at 7 tonight don't be late." She says then opens the door and leaves.

7?

Crap, I have a date with Aden at 7.

I grab my keys and bag and head to my car to go pick up Aden for school.

Aden's POV

I hear Nick's car horn honk from my room.

I got to the door and say goodbye to my parents. Go down the drive way and hop into his car.

"Hey babe." He says in a weirdly phony sounding enthusiast tone that sounds as if he's hiding something I can't quite pinpoint. Nervousness?

Nick's been acting strange lately usually he's all clingy and romantic but lately he's been a little distant. I know that once you get comfortable in a relationship some of the cheesy stuff fades but I'd be lying if I said I wasn't worried. We've only been together for a few months and I thought everything was great but something feels off. Am I doing something wrong?