Baby, baby.

T W E N T Y E I G H T

"You're being an asshole. You have no right to decide what I do and don't do. Especially after what you did to me." I mumble and continue to type out a random text to my mother on the new iPhone David got me earlier today.

He's been bitching non stop for the past hour about how my dress is way too short and how my makeup looks way too nice to leave the house-but I definitely did it on purpose. I want him to be upset and one way to do that is to look extremely good and not to brag but I really do.

I can't help but agree that the dress is way too short-because it is-but I'll never let David know that I agree with him about anything ever again. It's slightly petty but I think I get a few months of allowed rage at the situation. He should be happy I didn't tell everyone about the baby. I'll never do that not in a million years, but he should be glad I didn't.

"I'm not okay with this. I'm not okay with you doing this to me." He complains as he pulls into my parents driveway.

I tap my nails awkwardly on the handbag and he goes to exit the car, but I stop him quickly with a tight hold on his wrist. "What?" I lifts a eyebrow in an annoying manner.

"They're not.." I trail off momentarily and retract my hand. "They're not okay with what you did to me." I glance at him momentarily and unbuckle my seatbelt.

"Layla," he begins but I shake my head slowly, every emotion I thought I got past flossing into my mind and making me realize why I was so angry and why my family is.

"I'm not okay with it, David." I roll my eyes before exiting the car and grabbing Maria from her seat.

Her wide eyes shine in the moonlight as her tiny hands cling to me and her little lip quivers as we move towards the door, David following my with the diaper bag even tho I told him not to.

"We should just go home and watch a movie. She won't have to be apart from us then." David mumbles in my ear as I shove my key into the lock.

"I'm getting drunk and I'm getting laid, not with you. You can go home, I don't need you to babysit me. Alright?" He shakes his head but before he can respond to what I said the door swings open and I'm pulled inside by my father, who acts as if David doesn't exist.

"Hello, princess." He smiles at me.

The sight of him saddens me immediately and I need to hold back the tears with all of my light. What David did to me is shoved to the back of my mind as I talk in my father's appearance.

The treatment for his condition hasn't effected him much but the sickness has. His features have grown darker and he looks older. He shaved his head to save the trauma of having it fall out. The man I love with my entire heart is dying right in front of me.

"Hi dad." I pass Maria to David and quickly pull him into a tight hug. "Your hair." I gently touch his head and he shrugs it off, a smile appearing back on his face.

"You're so beautiful honey, I'm so extremely blessed to see you as such a strong beautiful woman." He takes in my appearance and I smile widely and place a kiss on his cheek.

A few minutes pass and me and David settle Maria into staying with my parents for the night, and I'm surprised to see that by the time we're in the car Ana hasnt made an appearance once.

I ignore the thought and before I know it davids parking outside the familiar house that I've been to so many times now.

I quickly make my way into the house and no matter how hard I try to shake David from my side he doesn't move. And I can tell that everyone's eyes glued to me makes him extremely uncomfortable.

Me and David enter the kitchen and I'm not surprised I find all of our friends there grouped together around the table, Liza immediately catches my eye.

"Hey princess." She grins widely. "Hello, baby." She winks at David and the table goes silent, everyone's eyes darting between the three of us.

"I don't care what you do with him, just shut the fuck up and stay out of my way. I've honestly had enough of your shit." I mumble and shove past her, my shoulder aggressively slamming into hers as I walk by. Her tiny frame is shocked at the action and she stumbles and almost lands on Scotty who sighs deeply as he watches her.

"I'm sorry, I can't even help you up. That was a dick move you did, and Layla's my friend." He shrugs.

I watch as he places a kiss on Kristen's cheek and grabs a drink before dancing over to me and taking the clutch from my hands. I grin and he aggressively shoved the clutch that holds my things into davids chest and grips my hand, pulling me to the massive living room filled with people we don't know.

"How are things going?" I question and down the drink in a swift motion, taking the one from Scotty that he holds in his hand.

"I don't really know," he shouts over the music before leaning into my ear. "I think I need to wait this out with kristen. She's been here so long, we've been through so much together." He pulls back and I pull him into a tight hug, the alcohol slowly making its way through my body.

"I'm so happy. You guys are perfect together, don't ruin it ever." I reply while we're in the embrace.

"Like you and David. He made a mistake. Just think it through, alright?" I roll my eyes and pull away, but I'm stopped when he grips the edges of my dress tightly and tugs it down. "Damn, you really wanna rebound don't you." I nod quickly and wink at him.

Before I know it I'm dancing with a stranger and making extremely intense eye contact with David who sits on the couch across the room with some random blonde chick on his lap. And as the alcohol saturates my system my worries about David flow away.

And I do realize that I haven't seen Emily once tonight.

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Hi uh this is EXTREMELY unedited. Just like all of my other chapters. I won't be editing them until I finish the book and then I'll be putting all of the revised and edited ones into a new book since I'm sure by the time I'm finished with this I'll have a few things I wanna tweak to make the story seem less fast paced for those of you who think it moved too quickly and I wanna make it easier to understand. But I'll be keeping this one up as well for those of you who enjoy this version and what not. I just know that I really appreciate when there is a revised published version of a book I really enjoyed reading.

So I might update early again. I know that my last update was extremely late. But I'll try my best to stay caught up!! I hope you enjoy.

Side note:
I feel like Layla and David have a extremely hard to understand relationship and it's sort of something that I can visualize but it might be a little different to other people. I know that it's not that crazy but there is a lot of different ways that I could have made this story go and the decisions that the characters make. Basically what I'm trying to say is that most of the decisions and events I've made in the past 3 chapters have been just off the top of my head, so I was thinking because I don't have a definite ending in mind right now I might do an alternate ending or two because I think that it's just a really cool way you can switch up a story. And some of you might not like the way it ends so I think it would be nice.

NOW sorry for wasting your time with this boring long note, enjoy the story ❤️