Forever and Always, In my heart

Chapter 61:

Ch. 61

 ~David POV~

Ever since Peyton told me about her being pregnant, she’s been acting strange towards me lately. I know it’s for the simple fact that she thinks I’m just going to leave her to deal with this alone. It frustrates me to no end that she does this. I’ve told her time and time again that I’m here with her to get through everything. She just won’t seem to listen.

I grabbed out my phone and shot a text to Peyton, Hey, what are you up to today?

It took a few minutes for her to reply. Just going to hang out with Jules and Ally .I’m finally going to tell them about the baby. Ally’s been bugging me for a week about why I quit the softball team and why I freaked out last week.

You still haven’t told them? Wow, I’m shocked! Lol  I tried to tease her.

Obviously it didn’t work too well with her reply, Well, what can I say? I’m just trying to protect you from Ally going off on you.

I wish she would stop caring. I don’t care if Ally goes off on me. I can handle my own. Besides, I really don’t care what Ally thinks. I care about what’s really going to happen and that’s going to be that I stick by Peyton’s side.  Babe, I can take whatever she throws at me. Promise. I love you I replied back.

…Love you too. And with that I knew she was done texting for now. She still wouldn’t believe me.

Maybe it wasn’t even the fact that she wouldn’t believe me, it was just that she thought she was ruining my future. She’s not ruining it though and I wish she would realize that. I’m not mad at her for getting pregnant. Obviously it’s not completely her fault. Both of us had some say in it. If anything, I had more say in it happening than her.

I shook my head and climbed out of bed. This was actually perfect that she was going to go hang out with her friends. I had a few things to do today anyway, but I didn’t want to leave her hanging if she didn’t have anything to do. I walked downstairs and was instantly hit with the smell of waffles. They made my stomach growl, making me want one. “Morning mom.”

“Morning baby.” She smiled at me and then looked over at me from the toaster where she was putting in more waffles. “Oh, sweety, what’s wrong?”

“It’s just the fact that Peyton won’t believe me when I tell her I’m going to stay by her side through all of this.” I groaned. “She insists on acting different towards me now and it’s scaring the hell out of me. I feel like she’s going to push me away and I won’t be able to get her back.”

If I could vent to anyone, it was my mom. She was great when it came to giving advice. Especially on girls. When we told her about the baby, she told us she wasn’t too happy that we were still in high school, but that she was going to support us no matter what because I was still her son, and she loved Peyton to pieces. She just told us that she thought we would have learned something from the scare with Amanda.

“Just give her a little bit of time. She’ll come around.” Mom said. “She’s just scared of what could happen. I’m not saying it will and that you would leave her, but every girl has her doubts. Especially since you are going off to college in the fall; she’s scared that someone will take you from her. Just be patient with her. Don’t get too frustrated.”

I nodded, “But I told her she was coming with me to college. She even agreed to wanting to go. I wouldn’t have asked her if I didn’t really want her there.”

“I know, but there is still that doubt running through her that you’ll find someone better. She knows that she’s going to get larger and she’s worried that you’re not going to like her anymore because she’ll be too big to move around anywhere and do anything by herself. Trust me, I know. I’ve been there. But also, you have to think; she’s not used to relying on anyone except herself, so to have to put full trust into you is going to be hard.” Upon seeing my face to that, mom continued on, cutting me off before I could say what I wanted to. “Don’t give me that look. I didn’t mean that she didn’t trust you. Okay, so that was the wrong choice of words. What I meant was, she doesn’t want to cause you misery and she’s convinced that you’ll resent her for following you and not giving you a real chance at college.”