Rounds

Chapter 10

                                     Ivy was just getting out the car, going to get her son from one of her friends house, in other words, her playboy's house. She walks up the stairs and on to the porch, the man answers, "Ivy! Come in! He's sleeping on my bed ready to go," "Thanks Bobby, I owe you one," Ivy ran upstairs to get her son and came back downstairs, "You can call me any time," Bobby says with a smile, "Thanks, I'll see you tonight," "Okay," He gave her a kiss and Ivy headed to the car. She puts Evan in the back, his bags, and her purse in the back and makes her way to the drivers seats, "Okay, Ready to go baby?" Ivy said with a smile, he baby looked at his mother like she was crazy. Ivy started the car and pulled off into the road, on the way home, Evan was fussing and fighting about getting out the car seat, "Hold on baby, we're almost there," Ivy's phone was ringing while she was driving, she looks at her phone and doesn't pick up. Her eyes on the road, Evan starts to cry, "Be quiet back there!" she yells at him, her phone goes off again and she looks at it and hesitates to pick it up.

                               Ivy stops her car at a red light and picked up her phone, she answers the phone and doesn't say anything, it's dead silent over on the other line. "Hello, is this Ivy Bottom?" "Yes, this is she," "Well, we're calling in on behalf of your child, Evan Bottom," Ivy's eyes got wide open and she hung up the phone, she drops her phone in the arm rest and ignores it several times. When she got home, she got Evan out the car and into her apartment, she gets in and looks at her phone again and sees that she has three missed calls from the same number that called her in the car and a couple of messages from her best friend, Beth. "Hey, you told me to call you as soon as I got your message," "Hey, I just wanted to see how you and your son were doing," "We're fine, we just got back home and he's in his room playing with his toys," "Yeah? How's his father, is he doing well too," "Ugh, I don't even want to talk about it right now," Ivy scoffs and sucks her teeth.

                                "He's not with you still?" "No, I've been trying to bring him back, but he doesn't want to come back, it seems like he only wants Evan, as the rest of them did," "Hey, maybe that's not true, maybe he still has feelings for you like back in high school," "Yeah right, his parents didn't even like me," "Well, have you tried talking to him?" "I saw him at the Café" last week, all he was talking about was the baby and how much he didn't want to be with me, just like the rest of them," Ivy says with her head down in a soft voice, "Awwh, honey, maybe it'll get better, I mean maybe he'll open his eyes and see how much you want to be with him," "He's not going to, he was pretty serious when he said it to my face," "It'll all work out, now I gotta go, my baby is crying and she needs my attention," "Okay, just call me when you can," "Alright, love you," "Love you too," Ivy says, hanging up the phone.

                               Ivy didn't want to think about Aidan because it did nothing but make her want to smoke a cigarette and drink, she grabs her Ciroc from the fridge and a single cigarette out of the pack. Ivy sits back on the couch, flicking through channels, when all of a sudden Evan starts to cry, he runs to Ivy and shower what he did to himself on an accident, his arm was red and a little bruised, "Why are you so dumb?!" she yells at Evan, she hits Evan right where he got hurt, Evan starts to cry even louder and harder, "Can you shut up!" Ivy gets up from the couch and puts her cigarette down, she grabs Evan aggressively and pined him against the floor, she starts to jerk the baby around, hitting his head on the floor and shaking the baby. Just then, there was a knock on the door, Ivy stopped and let go of Evan, she rushes off the floor and shuts Evans bedroom door behind her.

                                Ivy looks through her peep hole and opened the door, there was a woman in a suit holding a briefcase, she starts to panic and Evan gets quiet. Ivy turns her back to the door quickly and leans on the door in panic, she didn't know why she came to her apartment, "shit!" she mumbled, "Hello, Ms. Ivy, can you open up the door please, I need to negotiate with you about your son," Ivy went to Evans room and made sure he was knocked out, she picks him up and puts him in the bed. Ivy straightens herself up and goes to the door, she opens up the door and invites the woman in, "Hello Ms. Ivy," "Hello," Ivy said looking at the woman with a confused look, "And what brings you here miss," "Linda, call me Linda," "Okay, what do you need?" "I wanted to come and talk to you about your son and his father," "Oh alright," "May I have a seat?" Linda asks politely, "Sure you can," Linda takes a seat at the dining room table and sat her briefcase on the table.

                            "So, Ivy, How long has you and Evans father known each other?" "Sense high school," "Did you get pregnant in high school," "Yeah, I was a Senior when I was pregnant with Evan," Linda took out her iPad and started to type notes down, also doing a secret voice recording of the meeting with Ivy. "What is your son's name?" "Evan, my son's name is Evan," "Is that legally his name?" "Yes," "May I see proof," "Oh, I can't do that right now," "And why not?" "My lawyer is taking a look at everything right now and at the moment I don't have anything of his," Linda typed some more on her iPad, "When was the last time you let with your lawyer?" "Yesterday," Ivy said quickly looking away from Linda, "Do you know where your lawyers office is?" "No I do not," "Then how do you meet with your lawyer?" "He calls me and texts me," "May I see the text messages," "Look, I don't know what you're getting into, but you need to not get all up in my business okay," Ivy said with an attitude, Linda looked at her strangely and suspiciously, " Okay, whatever you say," Linda continued to take down notes, "What do you think can be done about Evans father?" Linda asked and leaned in closely.

                             "I think what needs to be done to him is he needs to not be done is I need to get an restraining order on him to keep him away from my son, he's bed news and bad to be around him," "Do you think Evan would want his father?" "No, I haven't seen any signs of him wanting to be with his father." While Linda was taking down notes, she say a drawing by Evan, there was a little stick man and a big stick man that had the name 'Daddy' written on top of the head, Aidan popped in her head, "What about that drawing on your fridge Ms. Ivy?" "Oh that? That's Evans babysitter," "Are you sure?" "Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, he loves to draw people and pictures," "May I take a picture?" "Why do you need to take a picture of my child's artwork?" "It's for evidence," "Fine, go ahead." Linda gets up from the table, and goes to the fridge, she takes a picture of Evans drawing, she stops and takes another good look at it.

                                     "Alright, Ms. Ivy, I think I have everything I need now for my case, do you have any questions for me?" Linda leans into Ivy, "Yes, aren't you the bitch that was with Aidan the other day?" Linda looked at her with disgust, "Yes, I am that bitch," Linda grabs her briefcase and heads to the door, Ivy stops her in her tracks, "What do you think you're doing? You think Aidan can take me down with everything I have against him," "Not necessarily, Aidan has already won," Linda pushes Ivy out the way gently and Ivy stares at Linda shook, "So, you just came here just to get your evidence?" "Basically," "Why are you helping him, he's a bad father to Evan and he doesn't know how to treat me," Ivy says trying to get her point across. Linda opens up the front door and stands in the hallway, peaking her head into the apartment, "He's not, he's a great man, and if you would let him in, Evan doesn't have to suffer," Linda slams the door and ends the recording on her iPad.

                                  Linda walks out of the apartment building, into her car, and out of the complex with confidence, she had faith that Aidan and her was going to win this case. Ivy was in her apartment frustrated, she couldn't help but grab a drink an a cigarette, drink and smoke away. She didn't know what to do if Aidan won this case, if he won this case that means she loses again, and loses another man once again. Ivy has lost a lot of men in her life, but in her eyes, Aidan was different, she didn't want to admit it, she thinks honestly Aidan would be a great father, it's what she told him while they were dating. With the few bay fathers that she has, she was too desperate to lose another one like Aidan, she wanted to be with him too and Aidan doesn't want the same, and it frustrates her. Ivy wanted to live her life with Aidan, but she either needed to change or be a single, selfish person that she is, which one would it be for her?