Faster than the Night

Chapter 57

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The next month had increasingly gotten more difficult. I was still staying with Bella, which I was incredibly grateful for, but I needed to get out of her apartment. It wasn't fair that I had been staying there without paying for literally anything, and was now unemployed. Being six months pregnant, we both knew no one was looking to hire me, so I hadn't applied for any jobs in Vermont.

After much discussion with Bella, I decided to go down to my parents home and stay there for a few weeks. I was nearing the end of my six month of pregnancy, and things weren't only getting difficult for my situation, but for my body as well. My back had been giving me tremendous amounts of pain, and I had to pee every thirty minutes. I could barely walk up flights of stairs without being short of breath, and the cold weather of Vermont was not helping with that.

My baby bump was getting increasingly larger by the week, stretch marks making their way in as well. However, I welcomed it. I had always wanted to be pregnant, and feel all the symptoms as a young girl, and now it was finally happening. Except, I was still a young girl, with no boyfriend and no job. My life was utterly fantastic.

I was excited to go back down to Orlando and to see my family, even though my mother couldn't be less thrilled to see me. Peter was having a baseball game this weekend, which I was excited to watch since I would be leaving tomorrow. The game was in two days and I was so genuinely happy that I could see Peter in action again. When I was in school and lived in Orlando, I would never miss a game. I had gotten to know all the team moms and the players were like my annoying little brothers. My friends had always liked to watch the older teams play, begging me to go talk to them. Obviously I never did. Thankfully, all those older kids, which in reality were my age, would be out of the league being that they'd be eighteen and nineteen years old.

Focusing back on packing so I could make my early nine a.m. flight tomorrow, I decided to put on my Kane Brown playlist. Listening to music had always helped me to move things along and get on track, and lord knows I loved me some Kane Brown. I was interrupted from my dancing and jam session when Bella knocked at the door.

"You ok?" she laughed, walking in the room and helping me pack.

"Yup." I laughed along embarrassingly.

"I can't believe you're leaving me." she frowned as I did the same.

"I know. Thank you so much for all this, really. I couldn't have survived this breakup and moving out without you." I grinned up at her as we walked to the bathroom to get my toiletries.

"Don't you thank me! This is not a friendship this is us being sisters." she chuckled. "We'd do anything for each other. You know that."
"I know." I smile.

"She's getting so big." She said excitedly, pointing to my large baby bump.

"I know. I swear the doctor thought there were twins in here." I laughed. Shit. I hadn't realized I needed my monthly checkup, and that I needed to switch doctors since I wasn't in Atlanta anymore.

"How do you think it'll go with your mom? Have you spoken to her?" Bella asks, trying to tread lightly on the subject.

"No." I sigh. "She won't speak to me. My dad said that she is just disappointed in me and my 'life choices'" I said sarcastically with air quotes.