A New beginning

Chapter 5

Messiah-

I hear my door swing open and I already know it's Mayla coming to bother me. "Get up sleepy head it's time for a new beautiful day" Mayla said opening all my curtains. I pulled the covers over my head. " I shouldn't have gave you that key" I said. "Well you did now cry about it." She said while pulling the covers off of me.

"It's my only day off Let me sleep in please" she sighed. "Da we go to park?" I heard Delilah say while walking in my room. I looked down and I saw she was looking at me with pleading eyes. I sighed. I didn't feel like going but I didn't want to say no.

"Tell your daddy to stop being lazy and get up" Mayla said picking her up. Delilah just nodded her head. I groaned and got up. "We can go to the park in a little while, but first let's brush our teeth and eat breakfast" I said taking Delilah out of Mayla's hands as she giggled.

After we brushed our teeth I went to the kitchen and made some grits, eggs, and bacon. "You want some?" I asked Mayla. "Yeah, sure" She said. We were all sitting at the kitchen table. "So how are you and your little boyfriend?" I asked her. "We're good, our one year is next month" "TT got boyfriend" Delilah said. "I want one" Mayla started laughing.

"No, you're too young for a boyfriend" I said. She huffed. "I get girlfriend?" She asked. "You're too young for that too" I said again. She huffed and went back to eating. "What about you are you talking to anyone?" Mayla asked me sipping some of her apple juice. "Nah, but I got my eyes on someone"

"Who" she said suddenly getting interesting. "Justus" I said going back to eating. She choked. "Justus? Justus, Justus? Like the one from the shop Justus?" She said. I simply nodded. "He's gay?" I sighed. "No" "so why do you have your eyes on him then?" "Because I want him" I shrugged.
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Two hours later we were finally at the park. I watched as Delilah was playing with all the little kids. It was actually nice out today. All the little kids were outside having the time of their lives. "Anything from shana?" Mayla said from beside me. We were on a bench. We had a good view of the whole park. "Yeah, she want's to come down here to see Delilah but I don't want her too" Shana was Delilah's mother.

We dated when I was 17 and she was 18. Shana's a year older than me. We met in high school, she stayed back a year so we were in the same class. She wounded up getting pregnant and that's when everything went down hill. When she was 5 months pregnant we broke up. She found a new nigga and didn't want me in her life any more.

I said that's cool but I still wanted to be in the baby's life she didn't want that though. For the rest of the pregnancy she didn't contact me. She wouldn't let me come to the appointments or anything, I wasn't even there to find out the gender of the baby. When it came time for her to give birth she didn't contact me. I only found out because her best friend felt bad and called and told me.

~Flash back~
When I showed up at the hospital they said only one person could be in the room with the mother. I told them I was the father but they said the father was already in there. After a while of waiting outside the door I heard the cries of the Baby and the nurses congratulating Shana. I still waited out there for some more time.

After about two hours I saw Shana's boyfriend walk out of the room, I guess that's the father they were talking about. He looked mad and he made sure to push me out of his way when he seen me. I didn't even entertain him all I wanted to do was see my baby. Soon enough I was granted with the permission of seeing the baby.

when I walked in the room I saw Shana laying on her back with the baby on her chest. "Can I hold the baby?" I asked. She looked hesitant but soon the baby was in my arms. I soon realized she was a girl. "What's her name?" I said. "Delilah Ronae Harris, like you wanted" I just nodded. It was quiet for a while. "He was mad because I didn't put his name in the birth certificate" she said.

All I did was nod. I didn't care about their relationship. It wasn't none of my concern as long as my baby was fine I was too. "He doesn't want you in her life" she said while turning her head to look at me. Before I could say anything else the nurse came to take the baby away and her boyfriend was at the door. I shook my head and stormed out of the room.

When Delilah was 8 months I only saw her a total of 4 times. They did everything to keep me away from her and painter me as the bad guy. I came home from work later than usual one day. I was working at McDonalds trying to get as much money I can to buy whatever I could for Delilah. I would soon know that the money I was giving wasn't going toward Delilah but towards drugs for Shana and her boyfriend.

When I got home I saw something on my steps. It was really dark and cold outside so I didn't really make out what it was. I turned on my flashlight and soon realized it was a car seat. rushed over to it soon realizing it was a sleeping Delilah. I was furious. I didn't know how long she was out here. Nobody was home. I brought her into my room and turned on the heater. It was freezing outside. I took her out the car seat and gently layed her on my bed.

I picked up my phone to call Shana and she didn't answer. I called her mother who also didn't answer. I then realized the note that was in the car seat. 'I don't want her nomore I figured sense you wanted to see her so bad you would keep her. She looks too much like you and she's messing up my relationship. Don't contact me' I could tell it was Shana's handwriting.

After that I got a better job while my mom watched Delilah for me. I saved up enough and moved out of that state.
~end of flash back~

Now here I am with the most beautiful and happy little girl ever. I love her so much. About a month ago Shana contacted me through social media. She told me how she wanted to see Delilah and how her boyfriend cheated on her and got another girl pregnant. She said how it was a mistake to leave me and she wanted to start a family together.

"You shouldn't keep her from her child Messiah" Mayla said in a quiet voice as if she already knew I would get mad. "She chose to not be in her life, so she can stay out of her life" I said standing up and stretching. I started making my way to Delilah so we could go home. "I'm just saying give her a chance maybe y'all could be something" she said catching up to me.

I know she wasn't trying to get me mad but the things that were coming out of her mouth were stupid so I didn't pay her any mind.