Passionate Fate

Chapter Thirty Two

Over the next couple of days, I remained pretty reserved. "Vi, honey?" Ric was clearly very concerned at my unusual behavior. "Hm?" I was looking at my feet. "Babe, what's wrong? You're scaring me." I took a deep breath, "I have something to give you." He walked over to me and knelt down. I reached under the bed and handed him a gift bag. "My birthday isn't for another two weeks." "I know." I was now smiling, hoping. He opened it up, obviously very confused.

He pulled out the baby onesie. It said, "Locally brewed". He was confused at first but then slowly realized. "Violet?" His eyes met mine, "Yes?" I was grinning. "Are you..pregnant?" I nodded. He put the onesie down and picked me up. "You're gonna be a dad." Tears formed in my eyes. "Holy shit, I'm gonna be a dad. You're carrying a mini human inside of you. We're going to be parents." He cheered with delight, hugging me close before setting me down.

"Are you happy? I was scared to tell you." I rubbed my stomach. "Violet I'm ecstatic. All I've ever wanted was to be a dad and it's coming true." He kissed me passionately. I was beyond glad he handled that so well.

"Do your parents know?" He asked as we sat down on the floor. "No. I'm scared to since I'm so young." "I'll be by your side." I looked up at him, "Really? You'll be there?" "Vi, I'm not letting you tell your parents that alone. Who knows what would happen?" "Fair. When should we do it?" We thought about it, they still didn't know that I was dating him.

"Tomorrow? They both took the day off to actually be home." I eventually suggested, Ric liked that idea. "That works. Like I said, I'm not letting you do this alone." I held him close, "Thank you." "Anything for my queen."

The rest of the day was spent preparing how we were going to tell my folks. We decided to go with a cake and I called my mom. "Mom?" "Yeah honey?" I took a deep breath, "My boyfriend wants to meet you and dad tomorrow. When can we come over?" "Does 10 am work?" I looked at Ric, he nodded. "Yeah. That works." "Great. We'll see you then. Love you." "Love you too mom."

The only people I had left to tell was Sarah and Elijah but I knew they would handle it well. I was terrified to tell my parents for multiple reasons. "Mom, dad this is my boyfriend who is 14 years older than me and I'm pregnant with his child." Yeah, no, that wasn't going to work. This was going to take some serious thought.

The cake would take care of the baby part but nothing would prepare them for Ric.