The Unexpected

Chapter 40

Scarlett's POV:

All I could do was gaze directly towards Chloe as she held me to her, tears falling down both of my cheeks at a rapid pace. I was a mix of emotions from the news I had found out, in such a sense I did not know how to react. Am I supposed to be overjoyed with happiness over the fact that I am pregnant, or am I supposed to be filled with sadness and confusion over how I imagine Mesut is going to react to the news? I just do not know. My head is a mess, all from not knowing how to think. This has confused me beyond compare, far more than I would in a sense have ever imagined. And, I know for a fact, that no matter how many times Chloe is to reassure me that everything is going to be fine when I tell Mesut, I know, that it will not.

“Scarlett you can’t do this on your own, you’re going to need help with all of these different changes you’re about to go through.” Holding onto my shoulders as Chloe spoke to me as of in that moment, I simply shook my head, refusing to believe anything she was saying. And so I brought my hand up to my face, wiping underneath my eyes as tears consistently were in a moment then to fall down my cheeks. I cannot do this, I cannot go through such a thing. But I am not going to give up on it, this is a special moment in my life, and whether I am then to have Mesut beside me, that is his decision. “Oh Scar, come here.” Pulling me into her arms I rested my head on your shoulder, crying heavily. “You need to tell him Scar, you really do…”

The second in which those words came from Chloe’s lips I looked up at her, my eyes starting to sting. “I can’t Chloe, I can’t tell him. Not yet.” Shaking my head in a vigorous way I sighed, wiping the underneath of my eyes. “I know how he’s going to react to this, he’s just going to walk away from me and I can’t deal with that. I can’t lose him, he means too much to me.” It was the moment those words came from me, that tears streamed further down my cheeks. I was a mess, not being able to sort myself out no matter what. “I know I’m going to have to tell him at some point but not yet, I need to get my head around all of these first before I in the slightest even think to tell Mesut about it.” Shrugging. “It just such a shock to me now.”

Nodding her head at me as she spoke, she smiled slightly. “I understand all of where you’re coming from, I really do.” Keeping her hands resting on my shoulders, softly caressing them with a smile upon her still. “But no matter what, you need to tell Mesut. He’s as much as of a part of this as you are.” I nodded, agreeing, knowing deep down that she was right in this moment of time. “He’s the father to you child Scarlett, and quite frankly I don’t believe that he’ll leave you for this, there’s no way.” Shaking her head, I remained silent. “All that’s now going on in your mind is due to the shock, but everything will work out in the end, I know.”

“I don’t know Chloe, I really don’t. But all I know now is that in my mind set, and when he is to find out, Mesut will leave me. He isn’t ready for this, not so soon after we’ve practically in a sense only just got together.” Just nodding her head at me in a response, Chloe continued to comfort me with stroking my shoulder. “But I will tell him, just not yet.” Again, she was in that moment to nod her head, somewhat understanding why I was being so stubborn in of a sense of not telling him straight away, realising, I need time to get over this all. “Would it be ok if you dropped me home Chloe? I just really need my bed, and time to get over all which I have just found out.” Shrugging my shoulders, Chloe agreed with such a smile. “Thank you.”

With a smile presented across my lips then Chloe handed me the pregnancy back again, as I pushed it to the bottom of my bag and began walking outside to Chloe’s car. Getting inside of it as she drove me back then, silence upon us both. But of course, with how supportive in which I know Chloe can be towards me, she did not let the silence settle. “I’m always going to be here for you Scarlett, no matter what happens.” Taking her eyes off the road for just a moment or two she looked at me, a smile spread across her lips. And so I nodded my head, in a way of acknowledgement towards her. “But I know for a fact that Mesut isn’t even in of a slight way going to let this news break you two, he loves you and you will work through it.”