Skater Boy

Chapter 9

Seven Months

Mason

I still miss her everyday.

I miss her smile and her laugh, I miss her dancing to ballet in the middle of our band practices.

I miss her teaching Amanda how to dance.

I missed her bad jokes and the way that she looked at us all when she thought we should be laughing.

I missed kissing and touching her.

I just missed Scarlet.

I downed my beer before making my way over to the stage, I had been booking gig after gig, anything to help me try and get over her. Today we were playing a sixteenth, luckily it was for a guy.

Looking at my band mates, I nodded, we were going to sing the song that I wrote a few months ago. When the anger finally settled in.

We had the crowd worked up, and bras were flying towards us. This we were going to seriously encourage. I noticed a cute red head watching me as I sang, with a wink I promised myself that I would find her later.

and find her later I did, she was the older sister of the kid whose party it was. She was good but nothing. Nothing would ever compare to my Sugar Plum.

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Scarlet

I rubbed my now protruding belly, the baby kicked making themselves known. "Hey sweet baby, yeah I know you're in there."

I was happy that I was in the OB-GYN's office and I wasn't the only mother talking to her stomach.

"Ms O'Hara?" the nurse called out my fake name that my grandparents insisted that I come up with. I could only imagine their faces if they heard what I had come up with.

"Yes." I said, grabbing my purse and following her into the small room.

"How are you today Ms O'Hara?"

"Just fine, I think the morning sickness is finally passing." I said, rubbing my stomach.

"That's good, now last time you were here you asked to know the baby's sex but since your little one wasn't having that, we would like to know if you would like to know now?" the nurse asked, helping me on to the table.

"Yes please."

"And I have to ask again, will the father be joining us?" they have asked me this each time I come in.

And each time I say. "No the father will not be coming in."

The doctor walked in with a sad smile on her face. "No father again Scarlet?"

"No father again Dr Kylie." I replied, my own sad smile returning hers.

"But you are going to find out the gender of the baby today yes?" she asked, squirting the gel on my stomach and moving the wand around.

"Yes, thank you."

Dr Kylie nodded and moved the wand more, before she found the heartbeat and the little picture of my baby. "It's a boy." She said, pointing to the screen. "See right there, that's how we can tell."

I look at what she was pointing at, I had no idea what she was talking about but I nodded and the tears started streaming. I was having a boy, but what if my parents found out? Would they want to make me come back and then raise the baby? I couldn't make my child go through that. Maybe giving him away was the best thing to do.

"Scarlet, we'll print out a copy for you, so if you just wait outside we can have them ready for you."

"Thanks Doctor." I said.

She smiled again and left the room, leaving me to my thoughts and to my baby. "What am I going to do baby boy? I want to keep you but I don't want your nasty grandparents to know about you."

My little boy kicked, and I couldn't help but smile. There was no way I was going to give him away now.

I sent another letter to Cleo, telling her to tell Mason that he has a son and if he still wanted to be apart of his son's life, he was still able to.

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Mason

"Happy fucking Birthday Mason!" Rock shouted as we clinked our glasses together, "Fucking finally!"

"Just because I'm one of the youngest!" I slurred. Downing the drink as fast as I could, Layton had convinced us to go to a local nightclub, there were girls everywhere and the music was loud, Layton was making out with two different girls, Alfie and Aaron were dancing on the stages in the middle of the dance floor, Rock was paying for the drinks and I was just happily drinking whatever they gave me. There was another red head that was eyeing me like crazy, I could go there and I probably will.

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Scarlet

A few weeks later

I sat on my bed and rubbed my stomach, I was eighteen today and my grandparents were actually going to make my favourite meal and I would even get some cake, I have been craving chocolate cake for months, and I was finally going to get some!

I was reading another pregnancy book when my grandparents called me down stairs. I was excited for idea of eating that cake, that I practically skipped down the stairs but when I landed on the bottom floor I couldn't smell anything chocolate.

When I walked into the dining room I saw my grandparents sitting at each end of the table, and none of my favourite foods were sitting on the table between us. "What is this?" I asked, shocked and hurt.

"This is your birthday dinner, we know that we said that we would bring around cake and your favourite foods but the list that you gave us, was not healthy, we don't want you to get any bigger then you already are." My grandmother said, as she put some of the grilled chicken on to her plate and then mine. I just sat there with my mouth wide open.

"But I was promised chocolate cake." I said, a little bit dumb struck by that was happening.

"Yes but that is not healthy for you young lady." Grandfather said his he piled vegetables on to his plate.

"Happy eighteenth birthday." I mumbled tomyself.