Unpredictable Match 2

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🚫Trigger warning 🚫
*mention of r*pe

Cameron POV

I hold my daughter who burst into hysterics, tears managing to fall out of my own eyes. Externally, I have to remain calm to support my daughter. But internally, I am feeling ways that I can't describe. A mixture between wanting to hurt someone and feeling torn that my little baby girl is going through something that she, no one, deserves.

"No, I can't be! Please, no," she sobs into my shirt.

"Taleah, Honey. Let's discuss your options. You have a lot of them. And whatever you decide to do is entirely your choice, but you need to listen."

"What am I going to do?" her tears soak my T-shirt and I close my eyes and hold my breath to try and stop my flowing tears, but I crack and a whimper comes from the back of my throat. I give it up and exhale, and continue to rub on Leah's back.

"Why me, papa? What did I do?" she looks at me and I use my hand to wipe the tears on her face away. I take a tissue from my bag and wipe her nose. I kiss her forehead.

"Nothing sweetheart. This is not your fault."

"Care to explain?" Doctor Venus asks. I look at Taleah and she doesn't give me any signs that she doesn't want me to tell the doctor what happened so I go ahead and do that.

"Well, a few weeks ago Taleah was, um, taken advantage of. She was Uh-" the r word was taking forever to come out of my mouth.

I exhale helplessly and wipe my eyes. "She was, um, she was raped," I lower my voice on the last word "she doesn't know by who, but she was."

Dr. Venus' eyes widen and she takes a deep breath, "why didn't you guys come to me earlier? As soon as this happened?"

"I-I don't know, that was my mistake. At that moment all I was worried about was making Leah feel better," I lower my head.

"And how did you do that? Did she take a shower?"

I nod my head.

"Cameron. You know that you should have called me or went straight to the hospital, this issue could have been quickly resolved." Dr. Venus looks at me disappointedly and I can't look her in the eyes because I know she's right. I come up with the worst of solutions to every problem.

"We could've easily found out who that man was since there was sperm inside of her. Now there's no evidence. I really wish you would have told me earlier. Why didn't you tell the police, or anybody?"

I pull a tissue out of my bag and wipe my eyes. I shouldn't be crying. This is my fault.

"I don't trust police, but I should have called them anyway. I know. But what about right now? My biggest concern is still my daughter."

She can tell me all I've done wrong afterwards, but I want her to discuss with Leah her options first.

Dr. Venus sighs and looks at Taleah, "Alright, Taleah. Are you listening?"

Taleah sits up and nods.

"Alright, so ultimately you have three options. Your first option is to keep the baby, and raise the baby. There are plenty of programs out there that help teenage mothers and guide them through pregnancy. I understand that the way this baby was conceived was not ideal, but you still have rights to your baby."

I swear that I stop breathing for a second. I am not going to make any suggestions or comments to Taleah because this is her body, and one hundred percent her choice. I have an opinion, but I will keep it to myself. I don't want to sway her decision making.