Pregnant and Homeless✔

Chapter 28

"Are you nervous?" Valdo said he enlaced his free hand in mine.

 I looked across at him and smile. "I'm terrified."

  He kept his eyes on the road while he replied, "Everything is going to be okay."

  "What will people say if I go waltzing back in their town after disappearing? What will they say when they see me with a baby? Oh, and let's not forget you. What will they say when they see me with you?" Anxiety was killing me. Alton was a judgmental town, and the news of my return would spread like wildfire. 

    "You'll keep your head up. We're going for your mother, not for them. They're not important. They never were, and they never will be." he looked and me briefly then back at the road. "Can I tell you a non-secret?"

   I nodded, "Sure." "When I was around eight, my mother lost her job, so we didn't have much money or much of anything, to be honest. She decided that she would put pride behind her and go back to her parents for some help."

   "That's brave of her." There were many days I thought about going back to Alton, but I knew I would never be able to look those people in the eyes and be brave. I just couldn't do it, and so I chose to continue being homeless. 

   He nodded and continued. "It was. I remembered that day like it was yesterday. She packed a few pieces of clothes for the both of us and then we left on the first time bus Monday morning. It was one of those towns where everyone lived at least a mile away from each other, and then there was the town. The town is where the bus would let off passengers. As soon as we came off the bus, I heard the whispers. I knew they were talking about us because they were staring, pointing and even calling my mother's name. We had to wait for a taxi to take us to my grandparents' ranch and while we waited, we were the centre of everyone's attention. My mother was trying her best to ignore all their mean words at her, but I could see that she wanted to cry, but she didn't. We stood and waited for fifteen minutes, and as soon as we entered the taxi, she started crying. She couldn't let them see her break. You shouldn't either. Ignore, Ignore, Ignore." he looked at me. "If anyone says anything to you, then I'll be right there to defend you."I squeezed our enlaced hands.

   "Your mother is brave." 

   "And so are you." he gave me a quick smile. "You can't change the past, so embrace it. If you didn't get pregnant, then we would have never met. You would have never got the opportunity to see the real person you were dating. You'd probably still be with him thinking that he loves you." Valdo was right. If I didn't get pregnant, then I'd still be William's puppet. Now I know that his intentions were only purely physically. I should have seen it from before, what good man slander his mother's name? 

   "His name is William. I think I should tell you in case we run into him while we're there." the thought never crossed my mind until now. What will I do when I face the asshole who denied my child and called me a whore?

  "He'll be running in my fist if I ever see him." I chuckled at his response. If I have the strength and confidence to punch William, then I would have when he denied my child and called me and my mother whores, but he was too tall and big. His body mass was nowhere near's Valdo's, but William scared me a little. I get the sense that if I hit him, then he'd hit me back and not regret it. He was ruthless, and it took me getting pregnant for me to realise how cruel he could be. 

  "He deserves it." I'd love to see Valdo's fist meet Will's face because he did deserve a punch. No real man would abandon his child.

  "I doubt he'll want to step up and be a father." I laughed. 

  "No, he won't. As far as he's concerned my mother and I are town whores."  

  "Good." I frowned at his reply, he noticed my frown and smiled, "I mean good because I don't want him near Jamaica. He's toxic." he gave me a look then continued. "I know it's not my call whether he gets to be apart of her life or not, but whatever happens I want you to choose what you know is best for Jamaica."