Hard Knock Life

Prologue

Hours passed by before I finally felt myself getting tired. My eyelids started getting heavy & then I was drifting off to sleep. Not even a couple of minutes later my phone started ringing waking me up out of my slumber.

Jolting up I grabbed it off my nightstand, looking at the screen before hesitantly answering, "Hello?"

"Open your window I'm walking down the street now" he answered before hanging up. I looked at the time on my cable box seeing that it was 3:00am. Sighing, I dragged myself out of bed and walked over to my window leaving it wide open for him.

Walking into the bathroom connected to my room, I washed my face. I caught a glimpse of myself in the mirror that was hanging on the back of my bathroom door, I lifted my shirt. I was 9 weeks pregnant and still no one knew anything except Emaleigh and Olivia, you couldn't even tell I just looked a little bloated. Turning off the light as I walked out of the bathroom, I turned to lock my bedroom door so that my parents wouldn't come in.

Just as I was getting back in bed, there he was climbing through my window.

"Hey" I said with a small smile but he just stood there staring at me. Even in the darkness I could tell he was really pissed off as he walked over to my bed, sitting on the edge.

"Yo when was you gonna say something ?" his voice boomed. I opened my mouth to ask him what the hell he was talking about but he spoke again, "Don't you think you should've told me that you're having a baby? MY baby" he gritted through his teeth, anger laced through his voice. My heart dropped.

"Ho.. How did you find out" I stuttered.

He pulled something out of his sweater pocket, tossing it on my bed. Instantly I knew what it was the sonogram picture. I mentally cursed Emaleigh for leaving it on the sofa. I picked it up contemplating on what to say and I had half a thought to deny it but it had my name on it. But of course it was like he could read my mind.

"So my only question right now is were you even planning on fucking telling me? Cause you even went to an appointment by yourself like that shit was cool"

"No I wasn't. I mean I was but just not yet, I couldn't do that to you. You're away at college right now and I'm only a junior in High School, this would ruin all your plans. All of my plans, you get to play college football. You're living your life. I didn't want to tell you because you worked so hard and I don't want to be the reason yo-

"You ain't wanna be the reason for what Iz!?" he cut me off, raising his voice slightly. I prayed my parents did not hear us bickering.

"We're just not ready for a baby Hezekiah"

His head snapped up to look at me "So what? You gonna get rid of my baby?"

"No, I would never. I'm just saying that financially we aren't ready. There's a lot we need to think about" He shook his head walking back towards the window, he was half way through the window when he turned back.

"You know I really thought you were different, but you're just like the rest of these stuck up bitches with money. You're fucking selfish." He said as he climbed the rest of the way through the window leaving me there in the darkness of my room.

I sat on my bed thinking to myself, how the hell was I going to fix this...