Back To You

17

The call, that's all she was waiting for, Charles was looked after and in his playpen playing with his rattle toys, she was sitting in the living room thinking over everything that has happened in the past week and a half, she knew telling FP about Charles was the right thing, but she wasn't so sure if being with him was the right thing, or at least jumping in all the way that fast. She loves him, she doesn't need to doubt that, he loves her and Charles, and she doesn't need to doubt that either, she knows it's the truth. She knows Gladys well enough to know she is a bitch and could very well be lying, but she also knows FP better than he knows himself and knows how he was in High School.

"Hey..." FP said not meeting her gaze.

"Can I... can I take Charles in the room and play with him? Might not see him for a while depending what these results are and uh I want to spend some time with him."

She didn't respond, just nodding her agreement.

She broke down in hysterics, she didn't understand why she loved this man so much. That's a lie, she knew exactly why she loved him and that's why this is so hard. 2 hours, 2 hours until the doctor would call with the results. She turned on the tv to try to distract herself but it was no use, she ended up just falling asleep.

An hour later she felt FP shaking her to wake her up.

"What is it FP?"

"I changed Charles diaper and gave him some baby food but he's still fussy I think you need to feed him, sorry for waking you."

"No it's fine, i'm in pain he needs to help me out here, when he's done I am going to pump as much as I can, so when you have him and I'm not around you can feed him."

He nodded.

"So you really don't believe me or trust me? You're really just going to up and leave?" He asked as he handed Charles to her.

"If you aren't the father I'm not going anywhere, but sometimes I will need to go out and I will leave him here with you and he will need to be fed some milk and I don't really want to use formula if we don't need to, its $60 a case and he'd go through it in like a week. I love you FP, and I really want to trust you, but I have trust issues, I have abandonment issues, you need to know that."

"I know that, I'm sorry, and i'd pay anything I had to for him Al, you know that."

"I know, but that money can be put in a savings account for his future or something instead of milk, I'm perfectly capable of feeding him and it's a bonding thing for us, just like when you start feeding him the bottle when I'm away will be a bonding thing for you guys." She smiled.

He nodded in agreement.

Charles finished up eating and FP took him from her and she fixed her shirt and heard knocking on the door, she got up so she could go answer it.

"Gladys." Alice said as she rolled her eyes at her, "Where's YOUR baby?"

"She's with Penelope, she was sleeping but I needed to be here to hear the results."

Alice just nodded and heard her phone ringing.

"Al, it's Doctor Patel..."