Consistency

Chapter 11: Drowning Part 2

Melanie:

"I have a daughter. Her name is Leah, and she's 2 years old."

I was frozen, not by the cold air coming from the snow outside, but by the words that just came out of J.R's mouth. Out of all the things that this guy could have been going through, but a baby? I was shocked, but I was mad at the same time. I was happy, but I was was sad too. All of these emotions started to build up inside my head.

The baby from the store. How could his own mother lie to me like that. It all made sense, she looked just like him. How could I be so foolish? Why didn't I ask?

He's stood there looking at me, I could sense the fear from his body language. He was obviously nervous about telling me this. A part of me wanted to punch him in the face for not telling me in the first place, but that wasn't solving anything. Something about that man's words made me come down from that window  and close it back up. This was bigger than me, bigger than us, this was his future. Leah was apart of his flesh for the rest of his life, and I couldn't stand in between that.

Everything was coming into plain view now. The call and the rush after dinner that night, the ignored phone calls and messages, blowing me off, even our breakup. He did this all for his daughter, and here I was being a bitch and making his life hard, for what?

I wanted to just get down on both knees and start apologizing like a maniac, but I had another question.

"Who's her mother?" I asked walking over to my bed and taking a seat as I looked up at him.

"Krystal Banks" he answered.

When I heard that name my heart dropped as I put my hand over my mouth in shock. I hoped to God there was another Krystal Banks running around NYC.

I looked back up at him. "Krystal Banks, is she short about 24? Thick? Ratchet as fuck? Stripper?"

His eyes got big, which confirmed the description to the person. Krystal Banks, Deshawn's little hoe ass sister. I couldn't believe it.

"Look Mel it was a one night stand that should have never happened. Way before I-" I put my hand up to stop him from going any further. I couldn't handle any more surprises.

Now I knew why Deshawn stopped talking to her. His little sister  had gotten pregnant, and most likely did not know who her baby daddy was, and Deshawn being the guy he is, that obviously didn't sit well with him. I hadn't seen her in years, not that I wanted too, but now I finally figured out why. She was hiding her baby, Jay's baby.

J.R:

The room was silent, which scared me. I was happy that at least she was out of that window. I just wish I knew what she was thinking. She obviously knows who Krystal is, which shocks the hell out of me. I guess the good thing was that they weren't friends, and she doesn't seem to like her in the first place.

"Why?...Why didn't you tell me earlier?" She spoke as she stared at the wall.

"The day I broke up with you, was the day after I had found out I had Leah. My mind was scrambled, I didn't know what to do, I didn't know how you would take it." I explained. "We never talked about having kids of our own, so I wasn't sure how you would take the news."

She shook her head. "I can't believe this shit Jay."

"Mel-"

"Shut the fuck up Jay"

I took a deep breath. The last thing I wanted to do was hurt Mel, but I couldn't change what was done in the past. I can only hope to do what's best for the future, our future.

I took a seat next to her on her bed and looked at her. She was beautiful, her hair was messy, and her big brown eyes stared back at me. We just sat there staring at each other for what felt like hours, but it was only a minute.

"I can't believe you would think of me as that person to really shut you out for having a kid. Jay all you had to do was be honest with me, you know me better than that." She balled up her fist as she spoke.

She was angry, but I didn't know what was better. Her being angry that I had a child or that I didn't tell her? Either way, I think I could handle this drop of anger better than her not liking the fact that I had a child.

Or maybe I should be afraid that she might knock my head off.

It was silent again, but she was right. How come I was so scared to tell her? We loved each other, I knew she would understand, but I let my fear get in the way of what was real.

"I love you Mel, and I'm sorry. I really didn't want to hurt you." I said calmly.

"Look Jay, I have work in 2 hours, so I think you should go" She stood up and pointed toward her bedroom door.

At this point she was 100% done with me, but I didn't want to leave her, in fear that she might do something stupid.

"I'll sleep on your couch, but I'm not leaving.", I stood up and walked to her door. I wasn't taking no for an answer. If anything were to happen to her, I don't know what I would do. 

"Whatever Jay" she rolled her eyes as she threw a blanket from her bed at me.

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I'm pissed because Wattpad decided to delete part 1 to this chapter so I have to go back and rewrite the whole chapter, I don't even whole-heartedly remember what happened in that chapter, so something maybe changed.....Grrrr.....that makes me so mad, all that work for nothing.... -_- 

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