Pregnant and Homeless✔

Chapter 16

"Good morning, beautiful. How are you?" I turned my head and looked down at the woman who was poking her head through the back door window. I blushed at the older woman's compliment. It wasn't often I get compliments like that so early in the morning, or get compliment at all.

"I'm okay. How are you?" Lil mama was kicking me this earlier this morning, so my sleep was cut short, but I didn't mind because she kicking was a sign that's she's alive and well so It was the least of my problem.

"I'm great. Now get in the car, these fancy people don't like people hanging out in their driveways." I smiled at her words, then opened the backseat. I took a seat beside her and smile. "Are you ready to bake?"

I nodded, "I'm ready to learn how to bake." she laughed and touched my knee.

"I can tell you'll be a natural." she grinned. She looked at the driver, "That's Bryan, my driver. I don't know how to drive to save my life, so Kevin got me a driver." she smiled, "He treats me like a princess," the older woman said dreamily. I could tell there was no pretending in their relationship; their love was 100% real. She rolled her eyes, "Sorry, enough about me. Tell me about yourself. What did you want to do before fate took its course?" when she looked down at my tummy, I knew exactly what she meant. So I answered her accordingly.

"I received a scholarship to NWU for Civil Environmental Engineering. I have an interest in construction." Hannah raised her eyebrows, impressed, so I continued, "I think it's in my genes when I decided to do that my mother said that's what my father wanted to do as well, that's one of the few things I know about him." I shrug, "I don't know, but I just love building things."

She smiled at me, "Well, you can always follow your dreams after the baby is born."

I bent my head, "I lost my scholarship. I'll probably have to do something else."

She shrugged and rested her hands on my shoulder, "I thought getting pregnant was it for me, but it wasn't. I worked in restaurants after restaurants, diner after diner until I saved enough money to create my own business. I started with a small bakery that sold coffee; I had four seats for my customers. Now I have a chain of small bakeries that sell coffee, I admit, I didn't do it all by myself, but I started it, and that's what matters." she looked in my eyes and smiled, "You can do it too," she laughed, "Not the bakery part. Still, you can go back to college after the baby is born, and you can get your degree in Civil Environmental Engineering. You can be whatever you want to be; you just have to believe it. I believe in you, Uvaldo believes in you now it's time for you to believe in yourself."

I ponder her wise words. Both her and my mother were in similar situations, they both got pregnant young, both worked in restaurants and diners, but they both had different results. My mother continues to work for restuarant that controlled her while Hannah started her own business. I guess my mother didn't try hard enough.

I looked at Hannah and smiled, "Thanks."

"Uvaldo told me his plans to help you. I want you to accept his help because he's doing it from his heart. I work with single parents every day, Valdo knows that yet he's never had a personal interest to help them individually and yet he found you on the streets and offered you so much. He's never done that before, but he saw something in you, and I know you saw something in him as well or else you wouldn't be living with him."

She had a point. There was something that drew me to her son, that made me believe his words. It was fate that led me to find his apartment that night. Fate led me to him, so why not accept fate and let it lead the way but apart from his generosity, there was something else deep down that made me accepted the offer.

I looked at Hannah, "I tell him Thanks every day because I'm so grateful that he found me, I had my doubts about him at first but after meeting you and Kevin all of those doubts vanished. You guys are the most loving family I've ever met, and you've taken me under your protection, and for that, I'm forever grateful."