Run Away for my Baby

Chapter 7

Holly

He's going to be there for us, I am so happy. I know he isn't going to tell his girlfriend but I'm fine with that. I'm not jealous of her at all, I don't like Ollie anymore. At least I don't think I do.

I just having his baby that's all, feelings for each other don't need to be added to the mix. He will always be part of my life whether I like it or not, if we can be civil to each other that would be the best thing.

I glad I told him, he deserved to know he was going to be a father.

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I yawned awake, still extremely tired. I rolled out of bed onto the soft carpet beneath my feet. I have half an hour before work starts. This be my last late morning before I start school on Monday. Yay!

I dressed quickly for the day, my stomach rumbling the whole time. So I quickly headed out of my room, as I entered the hallway, Ollie came out of his room. He looked at me before smiling slightly. God, things were awkward between us.

"Morning," he grumbled roughly in his sexy morning voice. That so turned me on, stupid pregnancy hormones.

"Morning," I smiled sweetly back. "Sleep well?'

"Eventually," he sighed. "We need to talk later about this pregnancy thing."

"Sure," I nodded. "After you come back from school?" He nodded.

As he was about to walk away my stomach rumbled loudly. "Hungry much?"

I laughed lightly, "Sorry my baby must be greedy, he gets it from his father."

Suddenly Ollie laughed with me. "Are you sure he's taking after his father, I thought it was his mother that was greedy." All the awkwardness evaporated between us, it felt right. "Well we'd better get Mommy here some food," Ollie talked to my belly.

"Yeah we'd better," I replied.

I followed him down stairs to the kitchen. He quickly put on some toast and made scrambled eggs for me.  I thanked him before sitting down at the table. Shortly after he joined me.

We sat there talking for a few minutes about random crap before we were joined by Carley. She glanced between us giving me a sharp nod understanding that I had told him.

"I'd better go," he told me. "I'm going to be late. Um... Carley do you want a ride?"

"Um... sure," she replied. "See you later Holly."

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I went to work shortly after they left, in a few short hours I would be telling Ollie everything about the pregnancy.  We'll have to work out a schedule of who gets the baby when and that sort of thing.

At three Ollie and Carley arrived together at the cafe. Carley joined me behind the counter after changing onto her work uniform. Ollie took a seat at the counter not too far away from me, so we could chat.

"So what are we going to do about the baby?" he asked straight away.

"As you know I'm keeping it, I was thinking today that we could look after her on alternative days."

"The baby's a girl?”

"I don't know, I want it to be surprise."

"Okay I understand.  I like the idea of having him on alternative days for now as we live together but soon we're not going to be and things will get complicated. "

"Yeah you’re right," I said sadly, I don't want to leave my baby for more than a day.

"How about I take the baby at the weekends and you have him during the week. I'm only suggesting this because I am planning on going to college next year and I would like to see my baby every week, if I can't see him every day."

"Okay, I agree to this, only if I joined you and the baby at the weekends as well, I can't leave her."

"Sure that's fine. Next thing is I want him to take my surname."

"I was already planning that," I whispered.

"Thank you," he said kissing my forehead. "Next baby names."

The door jingled before I could reply. I smiled at the next costumer and said, "What can I get you?" They quickly ordered and headed out.

I turned back to Ollie with smile, "You were saying?"

"Baby names, I was thinking-"

I interrupted him by saying, "If we have a girl I want her name to be Avery and for a boy-"

"Jamie," he said. "If we have a boy his name will be Jamie."

"Okay," I replied not asking why he wanted our baby to be called Jamie."

For the rest of my shift he stayed talking to me about baby things, we actually have a lot of fun. At the end he drove me and Carley home, we chatted about Jake and she seemed really happy, even though they weren't together.

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Starting school on Monday was really awkward, I barely knew anyone so I stuck with Carley. I was grateful that we shared a couple of classes.

At lunch we sat at our own table in the corner of the room, "I'm not popular," she explained when no one came to join us. "I'm a bit of a loner, I hope you don't mind?"

"No its call, I am one too," I told her truthfully. Yes, I had I had friends back home but I preferred being on my own.

I dug back into my lunch, it was surprisingly good. Once I had finished I looked up and watched the room. I saw the table that sat Ollie, Jake, two other boys and a crowd of girls. I saw Jake staring this way. "You know he's looking this way?" I told Carley.

"Who?" she asked confused.

"Jake," I said setting her straight. "You know I think your feelings for him are reciprocated."

"Really!" she exclaimed excitedly.

"Yeah, he definitely likes you."

"Thanks Holl. You know Ollie likes you too."

"He did once," I told her sadly. He crushed my heart when he left and now I will never give it to someone else.

"He still does but he just needs to find it."