Jenalyn: A Splitting Personality (#2) [Complete]

Chapter 71: Hayden

Monday, 9:22 A.M.

Tyler: I WILL be sorry?
What's that supposed
to mean?
Tyler: Oh, okay... no
response 😑
Tyler: Hayden you know
I didn't mean it that
way... please?
Tyler: Look, I was horny
and mad I got shot down,
okay? I was stupid
Tyler: Hayden don't go
out there trying to
revenge fuck or some
thing because I was
being stupid. I just
realized yesterday that
Sophie is gonna be a
part of our lives now...
I don't like it as much
as you- but I was
trying to find us a
median. Something
stupid and meaningless
that'd make it a little
more bearable...
Tyler: I'm going to bed.
I hope you'll think about
this and forgive me... you
know I love you.
Tyler: Really Hayden?
Tyler: We have an appt.
for the baby today, don't
act like this, please.
Tyler: I see you keep
reading my messages,
and seeing my missed
calls. That's really cool
Hayden. Want the truth?
I'm a fucking human.
YES, I'm jealous of some
wannabe badass east
coast dude still fucking
my girlfriend, okay? But
I'm doing what I can
because I made a promise
to you. So excuse me for
having a fucking slip up!
Tyler: Know what? I hope
the appointment goes well.
You clearly have nothing to
say to me.

I reread all the messages Tyler had sent me since I left his house last night as I half listen to the Goldskateers whisper about their excitement.

I still can't bring myself to respond... I've been having a hard time shaking this angry voice from my head.

"Is Ty coming?!" Harper takes a moment from their whispering to excitedly ask. "The sonographer is going to be in here soon! He's gonna miss it!"

I lock my phone without responding to him- again. I meet all three of their gazes, putting a smile on my face though I'm sure to also add concern to sell my next statement.

"He hasn't messaged me yet," I say with a shrug of my shoulders. "Maybe something with Sophie's baby came up..."

The room falls silent for a moment before Harper clears her throat to end it.

"I think it's nice that he's not a deadbeat!" she offers, her brows raised in question of whether or not she should've opened her mouth at all. "I mean- yeah, he should be here with you! But... I don't know! Do you get what I'm saying?"

I nod my head. Mama G and Harlee also do- though you can definitely tell they're just following where they think the majority is going.

"It's not like he won't know the gender, just like everybody else!" Mama G pipes in after a second. "Oh! That reminds me! Jovanna says we really need to out the news before the media does, or it'll hurt your image a little. You'll definitely start showing more soon, and you've got a whole press tour with Harlee coming up in the next couple of weeks. Did you figure out what you want to do about the announcement yet?"

I shake my head, my mind growing flustered at even just the thought of the media releasing the news that I'm pregnant before I do.

Dane would kill me.

I still haven't figured out what to do about that yet. I guess I've just been avoiding it because I literally can't fathom how this will play out...

"I think I'd like to get a chance to tell my family and everything personally before I just go and... announce that to the world," I say uncertainly.

I can tell right away that it makes the air tense. Mama G's mouth cracks open for only a second before she let's out a quick sigh. "Isn't that what you were just over there for?" she asks, trying to hide the underlying annoyance in her voice. "When are you trying to take another trip, Hayden? For how long?"

Harper narrows her eyes at me, and Harlee is quick to pull her phone out to pretend to tune all of this out.

"I went to visit my family a little last time..." I say matter of factly, though weak. "I'd go this time to... make sure everybody knows about the pregnancy. I didn't really tell anyone last time."

Mama G rolls her eyes but covers it with a mothering glare. "Hayden Victoria!" she snaps, "I don't need you out there unsupervised, and around... that lifestyle any more than I've allowed it already!"

I have to stop my eyes from narrowing at her. "They're my family too," I say with a little more attitude than I’d meant. "I didn't come out here to try and erase all of the people I've spent my life up until this point with, like some jackass."

Mama G's jaw drops, and both Harlee and Harper snap their heads toward me with a look similar to hers.

"Language, Hayden!" Mama G snaps, her eyebrows furrowed in a way I'm sure could mean I'm in some type of trouble. "And you know what? Watch that attitude! I didn't bring you all the way out here for you to run away back to that place every chance you get, and then get into the things you were into when we found you... like some dummy!"

I'm thankful no one or nothing inside of me has anything to say right now, only because I can feel the holes Mama G's angry eyes are burning into me right now.

Mama G takes a short breath to calm herself down for a moment, before recalibrating herself and fixing her hair.

"I'll think about the trip," she says, her tone super mothering now- to the point of almost being weird. "But for now- I think you need a day or two to think about the attitude you show the person who plucked you from a crowd that way too many other women fall victim to!"

"What do you mean?" I ask without much thought- my mind instantly on the defensive as it realizes she's trying to take Pennsylvania away from me.

Mama G lifts her purse from the empty seat beside her, shuffling through it with her brows raised, and jaw tight before sighing and lifting her eyes to mine.

"I mean you're grounded, Hayden," she says matter of factly. "It's clear you and I need to have some time to talk about your new situation, and what it means for your old one. I've been lenient these past few months because I know the transition must be hard- but things need to change, young lady, and I'm not liking your attitude towards that."

Harper's head snaps toward Mama G, to me, and back to Mama G with a look like she's almost as offended as I feel right now.

"Mom!" she says almost pleadingly. "I think that's a little extra. For saying jackass? C'mon!"

Mama G eyeballs Harper in a way I'm sure is supposed to intimidate her, but Harper's expression doesn't change.

"No, Harper Catherine!" Mama G says calmly, though in a warning tone. "Because I am the mother, and I make the rules- got it? I don't, and never have let you or Harlee run around like unsupervised children! I am not going to start with Hayden!"

Harper glances at me as if to apologize for failing me or something before letting out a defeated sigh and raising her phone to her face again.

"I'm not running wild when I'm in Pennsylvania!" I can't help but defend myself, solely just because I've never actually been grounded before. "I'm visiting my family and keeping them a part of my life!"

Mama G shoots me another warning look, this one more serious than the last, before a soft knock on the door pulls everyone from the tense atmosphere in the room.

Talk about saved by the bell.