What Would You Give

Roe

Roe stared at the two little lines as she sat on the toilet in Dante's bathroom. He was out for the night and honestly that was probably a good thing as she was close to having a breakdown. All it took was one time and that one time wasn't a drunken one night stand with her best friend, but more along the lines of a lot of sexual tension that had built up between them in a time of emotional stress.

When it happened, she was going through the rigorous time of finding a good job and dealing with college. It got the best of her and then there was was Dante who couldn't make up his mind on whether or not he really loved her. She wasn't angry with him, but disappointed until he found her in a heap at his desk after a long day of job hunting and dealing with finals for that semester. She was under a lot of stress and when that happened she became a very emotional person. Dante took advantage of that and it wasn't that she didn't want it, God yes she did, but she was even more disappointed when he seemed to ignore what had happened the next day.

It was like he was ashamed of what he did.

Dante had wronged her, but she still cared deeply about him, even loved him. However, the object in her hand was a complication. Recently she was offered a chance to study abroad for her remaining year of college and honestly, she didn't know how that was going to happen now. This tiny little object with the two pink lines changed everything.

"Roe?" Lady's voice came from the other side of the door.

"Yeah I'm coming." She wipped the tears from her eyes and stood up to open the door. When Lady saw her she couldn't hold back the tears anymore.

"Oh God." Lady wasn't a very lovey dovey person, but Roe needed her at that moment so she sucked up her pride and went into the bathroom and embraced her friend as she cried. "I'm sorry Roe. I'm so sorry." Lady knew the answer already and rubbed the crying womans back as she held on to her.

Minutes later they sat on the couch in the shop after Roe had dried her tears. She still held the little object in her hands with the two pink lines and Lady could only feel sympathy for her friend. More so both of her friends as this was also Dante's problem too. She reached over and put a hand on top of Roe's, squeezing it in support and concern.

"I don't know what to do." The chestnut haired woman said looking down at her hands and the little object. "I don't know how to tell him or if he will accept it. What's worse is that I still have to finish school and then the offer to study abroad." She clenched her fists as she felt more tears seeping into her eyes.

"I wouldn't worry about Dante. Just take care of yourself and do what you think is right." Lady said with empathy in her voice. "He doesn't have to know and you don't have to stay here. I know you well enough to know that you will keep your baby and you will make it work, but I also know Dante well enough to know that he cant handle himself much less a child." The raven haired woman said to her friend. It was the truth. As much as Roe loved Dante, Lady was absolutely right.

So, Roe kept the baby a secret from Dante. She got on the plane to go overseas a month later and then gave birth to her son a few months later in Redgrave City while attending University there. She would send post cards to Dante to let him know how she was doing, but never mentioned her son in them. He wouldn't know until she decided the time was right.

Now as she crept into her apartment dead tired and ready for a long night of sleep, she found the babysitter sleeping on the couch. Roe had not ment to stay out so late, but business called. James had asked to meet her at a local bar to pick up the pendant she had aquired at the casino. She had taken it to the local witchdoctor to have the enchanment nulled as soon as she returned to Capulet earlier that day.