“Oh my god……you cheated on me……with HER!”
What???
“GOD NO ARI! I swear to you I have not been with anyone but you since Thanksgiving. I swear to God!”
“Then how the fuck is she pregnant with your baby Jeff?”
I ran my hands through my hair again.
“She told me she was seven months pregnant. I ran into her at Rebels, the weekend before Thanksgiving and we…. . . we um…. . . ” I looked up at Mark and he was glaring at me. Fuck….
“You fucked her Jeff? How many other girls are going to start showing up saying you got them knocked up! You promised me that you used protection! You PROMISED!” Ari screamed so loud it caused me to jump.
“I did Ari! I did use a condom baby. She’s claiming it broke but I was not drunk when it happened and I would swear on my life the condom did not break. Ari I swear on my life!”
Ari stepped back away from me, no……no God please no.
“Why didn’t you tell me you got a call from her? You must have gotten the call right before we came over. Why didn’t you say anything?” Ari shouted at me.
“Ari I was going to tell you I swear to God but I wanted to talk to Rebecca in person. To see if she was even telling me the truth because I didn’t want to hurt you unless…. . . unless…. . . ”
“What Jeff. Unless it was true…. . . well now I know. I think we need to step back and take a break. ”
Fuck no……no way I was going to let her walk away from me again! Goddamn it I was going to fight for her with everything I had.
“NO! Ari this does not change the way I feel about you baby. I love you Ari. I want to marry you; I want to have kids with you I want…. ”
Ari started crying and shaking her head. She put up her hand to get me to stop talking.
“Do you know I was just talking to Ellie about this just the other day. I was telling her how excited I was to know that one day…. . . one day. . …” Her voice was breaking. Mother fucker…. . . I fucking hated Rebecca Moore with everything I had right now.
“One day, I would be able to tell you we were expecting a baby. I wanted to see your face; I wanted to be the one to see your fucking face when you were told you were going to have a baby! Would you want a boy or a girl? Would you even care? I just wanted to be the one to tell you that. ”
“Baby I do want to have kids with you……more than you will ever know!” I walked to her and reached out for her.
“DON’T TOUCH ME! I will NEVER be the person who had your first child because you got some fucking whore knocked up. SHE gets to be the one who has your first child Jeff…. . . . NOT me!”
I looked over at Ari’s father who was standing there looking torn. He looked at me with almost pleading eyes. What the fuck was I suppose to do!
“Ari I swear to you I’m going to find out if this baby is mine. I really don’t think it’s my baby, I will get it taken care of I promise you. ”
“Well it looks like you’re going to have to wait a few months to find that out now aren’t you! Until then I don’t want to see or talk to you. ”
“What?!”
“Now Arianna don’t do something based on your emotions right now sweetheart. Let Jeff talk to this girl before you do anything rash. ”
I could not believe Mark was on my side. If that was my daughter I would tell the fucker to leave and never come back.
Ari turned to her father and glared at him. He took a few steps back and turned to walk away a little.
She turned back to look at me. I could not lose her again. I won’t lose her again!
I dropped to my knees in front of her. “Ari please, don’t do this to me. Please don’t leave me again……I beg of you!” I felt the tears running down my face and I didn’t give two shits. I was pretty damn sure we now had an audience.
Ari was crying as she looked down at me.
“I love you Jeff, more than anything but I can’t handle this right now. I need time……I need to be alone and away from you while you work this out. I’m not leaving you……I just…. . . I just need to be away from you. ”