I Can't Live Without You (Sixth book of the Finnick and Annie series)

Chapter 6

Chapter 6

Finnick's POV

This is just great. Someone erased the voice-message and my daughter hates me. Fantastic, could life get any better? It just sucks. Maggie and I have a really great relationship, or I should say had. She is right though, I was stupid. It is partially my fault and I feel awful. I just wish she didn't blame me, that she knows I made a mistake. I didn't do this to her when she was dating Michael and I tried to tell her he was cheating. But this situation is a lot harder to swallow, and any normal person would blame me.

"Maggie, can we talk?" I ask.

"What is there to talk about?" She asks.

"Maggie, you should talk to your dad." Darius says.

I like this kid.

"I don't have to listen to you, you know?" She says with a slight smile at him.

I can just tell they're in love, and I'm happy for her, and him, too. I've always wanted him to be happy too, so I'm glad they're happy together.

"I know, I'm not saying you have to. But you should want a good relationship with your dad, Mags."

"I do," she says.

"Then you gotta talk to him," he kisses her forehead, and she grabs his hand, but he walks away.

"Maggie, I hope you know I never cheated on your mom, and I never will."

She nods, "I know that. I just, I don't know. Lately you two didn't seem to be as happy together or something, but clearly I observed wrong since you're having another kid."

I smile, "We're so happy together Maggie, don't ever think otherwise. This whole situation makes us cry at night because we don't want to lose each other. If we weren't happy together we wouldn't be this concerned."

"I know," she says. "But I go to school and my friend's moms are all crazy about you and it makes me think that you might be interested in someone else one day but I don't want that. Because I love you and mom, but I love you even more together. And I know I joke when you guys kiss or something but it really does make me happy. It really does. And what made me upset was that I know whose going to leave, you are. You won't let mom give up the baby." 

"You're right," I say. "I can't let her take the baby."

"And you shouldn't, I'm just gonna miss you. And if I continue to spend so much time with you, I'll just miss you more."

"Maggie, you don't think I'm just gonna stay with her do you?"

"What do you mean?"

"I mean, the minute she takes me, is the minute I escape."

She smiles, "Really?"

"Of course, don't forget I am Finnick Odair. I don't go down without a fight."

She nods, "I'll never forget."

She hugs me, and I hug her back tightly. I can't let Alexa take me, I have too much to lose. 

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Maggie's POV

I see why mom and dad never fight, I mean how in the world do you stay mad at my dad? He makes you feel bad for being mad at him even if you have a perfectly good reason for it. Maybe he does it on purpose, maybe it's natural. I don't know. What I do know is that I love my dad no matter what, and he didn't mean for this to happen. And he didn't cheat on my mom, and he never will. And they'll always be together. I'll always be able to look up to them, watch them love each other so that I know how to love Darius, and be a good girlfriend to him, and learn from them. And learn how to deal with struggles in relationships. I'll always have them to look up to for everything and anything.