cheating - a.t

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Abel
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Me and the crew spoke as we concentrated on the screen of the game we were playing.

"I haven't seen Roselani in ages," Hawk mentioned, his eyes still glued to the screen.

The guys nodded in agreement and I just rolled my eyes at the mention of her name. Ever since the shit she pulled at Tatiana's dinner party, we haven't made any contact whatsoever except from the odd greeting when I see her with Tatiana.

"She's busy with her new man," I chuckle.

"Oh yeah, I saw them together on her story." Lamar says.

I roll my eyes for the second time and the room is silent for a while. All that can be heard is the clicking of the buttons on our game controllers and the sound effects coming from the game.

We're interrupted by a light knock of the door and of course, Hawk is already up to answer it.

"Is it the pizza?" Cash asks.

"Shut your fat ass up, all you do is talk about food" Hawk waves his hand in the air, opening the door.

Cash holds up his middle finger at him and me, Hyghly and Lamar can't help but snicker. We all hear Hawk shriek as he sees who's at the door, making us curious as to who's there.

"Lani!" He screams, answering our question.

I furrow my eyebrows as Hawk let's her in. Nobody invited her so why is she here?

"You came to see me, didn't you?" Hawk smiled, flipping his dreads.

"I actually came to talk to Abel," She speaks with the slightest smile on her face.

I look at her and we both make eye contact. Her eyes have no emotion in them and I notice a few stains of dry tears on her cheeks.

Totally flipping it off, I stand up and put my controller down before walking towards her. Hawk sits back down and I guide her to the kitchen to talk.

"What do you want?" I ask, taking a sip of a water bottle.

"I'm pregnant," She blurts out.

I choke on my water a little and raise my eyebrows. Clearly, I was taken aback at watch she said and how fast it came out.

"Congratulations, I guess?" I shrug.

I was dismissing all facts that the child inside of her right now could be mine and assumed it was her boyfriends child.

"I don't know if you're the father or not," She mumbles, her eyes welling up.

"I'm definitely not the father, that ain't my child" I laugh, pointing at her stomach.

Roselani furrows her eyebrows and all tears that were threatening to come out a second ago were nowhere to be seen.

Her eyes were full of anger and sadness at the same time and a wave of regret and guilt went over me.

"Do you think this is a fucking laughing matter? I may be pregnant with your child and you're laughing at it like it's nothing?" Roselani raises her voice. "How the fuck do you think I feel? Xavier is already in a fucking mood with me and now you're laughing off something like this!"

I stay silent as I can't think of something to say. Wishing I had taken back all I had said to her, I watched as her eyes filled with tears of anger.

"If you're the father, how am I going to explain something like that to Tatiana?" She whispers, hot tears running down her face.

As I'm about to speak, she takes no time in leaving the house. I'm assuming the guys had heard everything since when I got back into the room, they were getting their stuff to leave.

I just sat down and ran my fingers through my hair in frustration. Roselani was right. How would she tell Tatiana? But most importantly, how would I tell Tatiana?

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Roselani
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I returned home in tears. Of course, Xavier wasn't here and it was just me. Right now, I really needed someone to tell me everything is going to be alright but I had nobody.

As soon as I took of my shoes, I placed my back against the wall and slid down it, breaking down into an outburst of tears.

"Roselani?" I heard Abel's voice from behind the door.

"Fuck off, Abel" I shout.

He goes silent for a second and manages to pick the lock and open the door. When he sees me on the floor, he sits next to me and pulls me into his arms.

I rest my face in his chest and let all my emotions out. A feel of safety and care rushed through me as he held me tightly in his arms.

"I'm sorry for how I acted," He apologises, kissing the top of my head.

I nod, wiping my tears. He lifts up my chin and looks into my eyes before planting a soft kiss on my lips and wiping my tears after.

"We can go and take a DNA test if that makes you feel any better," He suggests.

A DNA test would be very helpful, right now. Then I can know who the father is and get the weight lifted off my shoulders.

"What if you're the father?" I ask, thinking about all the possible outcomes.

Abel tenses up a little bit tells me that he'll do whatever he can to protect the baby and me. I was still wondering how Tatiana would react because she has a tendency to get wild when she's angry.

"I'll book the test and everything, you need to get some sleep. You look exhausted from all that crying," He chuckles, helping me up.

I laugh a little too and he walks me to my bedroom. I get into bed and he says goodbye to me before leaving.
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Authors Note
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shits about to go down 🙃