Desperado

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After dismissing Samuel quickly, him muttering that they were merging into one, she stripped and ran herself a hot bath. She wasn't ready to face the results, or Maurice yet and she knew it was only a matter of seconds before he came looking for her. She just needed time to think, time to clear her head from this giant mess!

Maurice burst into the room, staring at Robyn in a way he had never seen her before. She covered her breasts with her hands, seeming as everything else was covered with bubbles, feeling somewhat vulnerable in her emotional state.

"You finna tell me wassup?" Maurice asked, trying to be stern, but found himself cracking at the sight of Robyn so low.

"Leave Maurice!" She hissed, before adding "Me no talk to he!" She was being stubborn, but effective in her attempts to push him away. He groaned, stripping himself of his clothing. Throwing it all to one side. Before he heard something hard fall to the ground.

"What's this?" He asked, unearthing the pregnancy test from under his T-shirt.

Robyn's heart dropped down into her stomach, as she suddenly found it hard to breath! Soon her heart began beating in her ears, and tears cascading down her face. She was well and truly terrified as to how he'd react. Kicking herself for not even mentioning the idea of her being pregnant to him. Already feeling it in her soul that she hated her very being.

"Well-" She gulped down her words in a struggle to catch her breath.

"What is this?" He questioned her again, no care for the fact he could evidently see she was struggling to keep her resolve, even catch a breath in her panic attack.

As she broke down into sobs of hysteria, he softened his approach. Climbing into the scorching bathtub just to wrap her body around his, a desperate attempt to keep her clinging on to something real. Hoping that it would distract her from her mind. She registered the feeling of his arms around her, burying her head into his neck as she sobbed. He soothed her by playing with her hair and kissing at her shoulder. As soon as she was coherent enough to hear him, he sat back in the bath so that she was looking at him. Her big bright emerald eyes scanning him, she looked so lost and so empty that it was breaking him.

"You're pregnant?" He asked, immediately regretting his choice of words as she began struggling to breath. Her chest heaving at the mention of the word. She shook her head.

"I- I honestly didn't think it was possible! I-I tried so hard to keep on top of things! And when Sam told me that my implant was due to be renewed and I knew I had missed a few of the pill... I couldn't deny it any longer! I was meant to do this all away from you, fuck, Reese we can't bring a child into what we have... With your job either one of us could be shot, killed or jailed! What good of parents would we be?! I'm 23! That's far too fucking young! For me anyway!! And baby we ain't even been together a year, we ain't even know if we off the hook with Aubrey yet! Like-" she bowed her head as the tears fell again. She was so defeated, she could've sworn she kept up with her contraception. Prayed that she wouldn't fall pregnant when she knew she had skipped a few days and when her period didn't come...

"I'll quit!! Pass down the whole thing to Mijo, Michael! Robyn, I've told you that I ain't had nothing like this before and to bare with me. I vowed the second I caught feelings for you that I'd ride and die with you! I'm willing to run to the end of the earth if that's what you wish..." he cussed himself for not even having the words to express just how he felt for her, not in a way he felt would do it justice. He grabbed her hand and placed it on to his chest. "You feel that?! That's all you!... What ever you say goes! And if we are having a baby then ima make sure we good, we set, the baby is set! I didn't have my father around when I was growing up, he was killed during a taking that turned sour, and I ain't making the same mistake with my children. Or you! My momma struggled to raise me by herself, selling herself just to make ends meet and eventually all of the debt she was in mounted up and she..."

"Baby! Baby... it's okay! You don't gotta-"

"She killed herself, overdosed and died slowly. I spent six days with her in the hospital, they tried repeated flushes but nothing worked. Her internal organs were too damaged... the point is ima do right by you and the baby... Just tell me you're with me!"

"I'm so sorry baby" she sobbed, holding him as close to her as humanly possible. "Yes. Yes! I'm with you!" She quickly pulled him into a desperate kiss, needing for him to feel just how grateful she was for him and how much she loved him. Feeling it in her soul that he needed refuelling.

"What does it say?" Maurice asked passing her the test. It dawning in him that they should actually confirm the results to be positive, they were both just assuming it was positive.

"Shit, I don't know! Does that even count?!" She huffed out loud, rubbing at her puffy eyes so she could be sure that there were in fact two lines and not just the one.

"There's two lines Rob, it's gotta mean positive!" He beamed brightly as she groaned.

"I don't know Reese! That don't seem clear enough to me, that's a negative for sure!" In some way she felt relieved, but could sense his disappointment.

"So what now?" He sighed.

"I mean I guess we're cautious like it's positive but I say we get Sam to confirm... in the morning!!" She could just see the cogs in his brain working and knew he wouldn't have any guilt in dragging Sam out of bed to sort out the situation they were in.

"Okay, but we head over there asap!"

"For now though lets jus enjoy this!" She smiled positioning herself so that she could lay back comfortably on him, watching as he played with her fingers.