Changes

Chapter 13

I looked over at my phone and say that Zayn was calling me. I picked up the phone inmy hand but didn’t answer it yet. “Can you please take him upstairs before you go? I don’t want Zayn to hear him and I don’t want to wake him up” I asked Louis

“Sure. But Your gonna have to tell him sometime, before he finds out himself” Louis said taking Coleton from my lap

“I will, but not over the phone. In person” I told him as I answered the phone,

“Hey!” I said picking it up, walking into the kitchen to find something to eat

“Hey Sorry I couldn’t text that much earlier. I was driving home”

“Its fine. I was in class anyway”

“Ohhh bad girl! Shouldn’t you be paying attention” He said kiddingly

“Its called multi-tasking” I joked back

He was telling me about his ride home and I was making a snack.

“So do you work tonight?” he asked me

“No I usually do on weekends, but sometimes I work on weeknights” I told him

“What do you do exactly? I don’t think you ever told me”

I giggled a little and said “I guess I never did tell you. Well I referee for football games”

“That’s really cool! I didn’t know you were into football. Me and the lads play all the time” he told me

“Its funny you said that Louis is actually leaving right now to go play with some of his friends”

“We should play sometime. You can show me your game”

“Oh its on!” I said back with a big smile on my face.

“Perfect. Anyway since im home now I was thinking we could meet up and have our second date?” he asked slyly

“I would love too. What if we went somewhere by my school. Its like 30 minutes out of Doncaster, I don’t think it to far fromBradford” I told him

“Okay that sounds good. What day is good for you?”

I thought about it for a moment then responded “Wednsday, I have morning classes and then I don’t have a class again until 2”

“Okay that sounds good. And I am guessing you know some places around there?”

“Yeah.Illlet you know tomorrow what place would be good”

We talked for a little bit more before hanging up. I took my bags up to my room and went to go get Coleton up. If he didn’t wake up now he would never fall asleep tonight, which would be bad for the both of us.

I sat with Coleton on the floor of my room, he was sitting in my lap playing with one of his toys as I was reading through my notes for my test in statistics tomorrow.

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“Leah! I’m home” I heard my mom yell from down stairs

I picked up Coleton and took him down to the living room.

“Bear” he said and started to cry.

I realized he was talking about his stuffed animal that he was playing with in my room.

He saw now crying as I brought him into the kitchen where my mom was.

“Why are we crying?” My mom said in a baby voice to Coleton.

“I left his bear upstairs. Can you take him for a second”

She nodded as I handed over Coleton and placed him in her arms. She started to rock back and forth and rub his back to sooth him but he didn’t stop.

When I came back down with the bear he was still crying, but not as bad. My mom gave him back to me and I gave him the teddy bear.

My mom handed me a cup of tea and I thanked her. She always knew what I needed.

“So we didn’t get a chance to talk last night. How was everything this weekend?” my mom asked.

Unlike most mother and daughters, my mom and I became a lot closer when I got pregnant. She wasn’t happy about it but she supported me. She was going through the divorce with my dad and Louis wasn’t around to much because he was angry at me, so my mom and I bonded.

When I had Coleton, well she fell in love with him. She was an amazing grandma, except I was never aloud to call her that, only Cole was. She was always trying to help me take care of him when I had a lot of school. We had become each others best friends.

I told her about this weekend and Zayn. She had seen the pictures at work and had laughed at the allegations of the ‘love triangle’ between Louis, Zayn, and I.

“I think you and your brother will work it all out. He came home, which is a very big step!” she said

“Yeah, I know we are on better terms, were talking a lot more. And hes been watching Coleton, which is great”

“What about the whole Stan situation?” she asked me

“Louis was really pissed when he found out how he has been treating me and Cole. I guess Stan had been telling Louis a whole different story about everything. Louis said he’s gonna talk to him, but I need to talk to him too. For real this time. I’m not gonna let him keep acting the way he has been, its not fair to me and its especially not fair for Coleton”

“Well I’m proud of you. Stan will hopefully come to his senses, he was such a nice kid, I just think that he doesn’t understand he has a responsibility” she told me

I went back to studying my notes when she put dinner on the table. I picked up Coleton and put him in his chair and gave him dinner. Breaking the silence she said “So Louis friend Zayn, he’s cute! I’ve meet him the few times I went up there”

I gave her a look “Its not serious or anything”

“But you both like each other. Right?” she asked as I started to blush.

She started to laugh a little “See I was right!

“Yeah but we are taking it slow. We have a date on Wednesday”

“That’s great! I’m happy for you. You haven’t been on a date in a while”

“Don’t remind me, its been like over 2 years.”

“How does he feel about Coleton?” she asked

I didn’t respond, I just looked over at him and wiped the food off his face.

“So he doesn’t know” she said, then added “You’re planning on telling him soon right?” she asked giving me a knowing look

“Yeah, what was I gonna say. Hey Zayn I really like you, did I tell you that I got pregnant at 17 and now have a son! Lets go on a date” I said sarcastically. I took a breath then said “I’m gonna tell him soon, I want us to get to know each other and then tell him. I’m not gonna lead him no for to long, but I don’t want to scare him off.”

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We talked for a little bit more, before my mom got called into work. She’s a nurse at the near by hospital and was on-call a lot. I  had given Coleton  a bath and put him to bed. I was just about to fall asleep when Louis called me. Why would he be calling at 11 at night? I thought