Too Young (Travlyn Fic)

Aphmau

"I am Katelyn Fury."
I feel part of my anger wash away. Not all of it, but some.
Travis looks in wonder at his daughter. It's clear it's his. Her eyes are like his, but without the pain. I remember when Aaron first saw Alina. The same look.
"This is your daddy, baby girl," I whisper.
"What!" Donna cries. Shoot. That was louder than I meant it to be. Katelyn is just sobbing now.
This is the first time I've heard Katelyn cry in a long time. It washes always all my anger. She's still my best friend, my sister.
"Here," I whisper. I pass Travis his daughter. His eyes widen. "Lucy, make sure he doesn't faint."
I move off the couch. Lucinda releases Katie's hand and takes my spot. I sit next to Katelyn. I shouldn't of lost my temper. I should of acted like a civil adult. We can talk about her lies later. Right now, it doesn't matter.
She needs me.
"Come here," I say. I open my arms and she collapses into them. I stroke her hair. It's purple now, but I can see hints of it's true baby blue colour in its roots. "It's okay, your safe now. I'm here." She sobs into my shoulder. Donna looks so confused.
Later I mouth. Later.
She gets the message. I watch as she stands up and takes Abby from Travis muttering something about how a stranger shouldn't hold Katie's baby without her permission. He's not a stranger. But she doesn't know. She doesn't know Travis like we do.
No one knows Travis like we do.
Lucinda says something to her. Donna shakes her head.
"He can't hold her. Not unless Katie says so."
Now my face is flushing red again. It's not her fault. But at the same time it feels that way.
"Look it's his kid, let him hold her," I say. Katelyn lets out a whimper, hiding her face in my shoulder.
"Then where was he when she was born? Where was he threw the whole pregnancy? Where was he and where were you guys?" Her tone sounds aggressive. I bite my tongue. I can practically hear Aaron telling me to cálmese, to calm down.
"Queríamos ser!" Donna looks confused.
"What? English please?" Her pleasant tone is wearing down. I can tell she's tired. It's early morning. We are all tired.
"We tried to be!"
"Not hard enough! You should of been here for her." Her tone softens. "It's hard to deal with a friend being pregnant so young, trust me I know. But she needs you to be here. She needs you support and..."
I can't hold it back anymore. She's educating me on the struggles of being a teen parent! Me?
"What! You just assume I abandoned my friend because she was pregnant! You assume I don't know what it's like? I was fifteen, three years younger than Katie was when I had my baby!" She falls silent. I stand up on my tippy toes trying to make me seem taller. I've done that since I was a little kid. "Don't act like I'm just a foolish naive little girl, because I lost that years ago." I'm shocked at how cold my voice sounds.
"Donna, it's all my fault." I spin around. Katelyn is wiping away her tears with her sleeve. She has a determined look on her face.
"What?"
What is Donna a broken record player? What, what, what?
"I ran away. I was scared and alone and so many things. I ran away from everyone." She stands up and takes my hand. I give it a squeeze. No matter what I will support Katelyn. No matter how mad I am at her. And even though the anger has gone away for now, I am still very, very mad. "Then I came here and I lied." She takes a deep breath. "I lies to you. I lied to everyone. Because I was scared."
Donna looks stunned. I smile. Katelyn is sounding like the old her again. I can hear that old tough voice, the voice of a girl who was fearless.
"And I am so, so sorry. I never should have lied to you. I never should of left," Katelyn says. She looks down at me and into my eyes. "I am so sorry, Aph."
I want to say it's okay, but I can't. Because it's not.
"Apology accepted," I tell her. I whisper into her ear, standing on the tips of my toes, stretching as much as I can so I can reach, "I've missed you so much."
Donna still stands there stunned.
Katelyn has a half smile.
Together we walk towards Travis. He stands up.
"Hey, Katie-Kat," he says quietly. He doesn't quite look her in the eye.
"Trav, I am so sorry. I'm..."
"I know," he cuts her off. "I know." There is an awkward silence. I look at Lucinda. We are both wondering the same thing. What next?
"They thought you were dead. They thought you had... you had..." he doesn't need to finish. We all know what he was going to same.
They thought you had taken your own life.
"Her name is Abigail Travis," Katelyn blurts.
"Huh?"
"Her name. Our daughter. It's Abigail Travis. After you."
Travis looks like he's about to start crying again.
"Look, Katelyn, I understand if you don't want to be with me, but at least tell me what I did."
This is something that has bugged him for a long time.
Katelyn just opens and closes her mouth. In a different situation, I'd tease her about it. Key word there. Different.
An idea pops into my head. A silly idea, but an idea non or less.
"Hold hands," I say. Everyone looks at me like I'm a lunatic. "Come on. Everyone."
We form a weird circle thing.
"Okay. What now?" Lucinda says. She's holding Donna's hand awkwardly because Donna is still holding Abigail.
"We each have to say how we are feeling and how we feel about the person to the left of us. Remember we use to do this in like Grade One?"
Everyone nods.
"I'll go first. I'm feeling overwhelmed, excited, and slightly mad at the same time. I love Katelyn very much, she's like a sister to me. I am so glad we found her, but she was getting on my nerves for pretending not to know me." I pause. "You next, Kats."
Katelyn takes a deep breath.
"I feel.... I guess you could say anxious, but also happy. Happy because there is no more lies. Happy to see you guys."
She pauses. We all stare right at her, waiting for her to say how she feels about Travis.
"Travis. I love Travis more than I love any other person other than Abby. They share equal parts in my heart." I pretend to be hurt. She smiles at me. "I have missed Travis so much because of my stupidity and I want to apologize for all the pain I've put everyone through. Travis, I didn't mean to break up with you. I am so sorry." Her voice breaks. I squeeze her hand tightly. She squeezes back. "I love you Trav."
"I love you to Katie. More than anyone else."

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Poor Donna! She's so confused. I feel kinda bad for her. Anyways, I hope you guys enjoyed this chapter. We are coming to an end on this book. I have two fan fictions planned. A completely unrelated one and a sequel/prequel. Really it just depends what you want to see first. The prequel would focus more on Aph and Aaron. Your guy's choice!
Hope you enjoyed.
-AJKBookworm