Mom collapses in the chair after my admission. The heartbroken look in her eyes was undoing
Travis, who had been holding me, lets go as if I had burned him. He backs away from me slowly
until he’s a few feet away.
I know the rest had varying degrees of shock, but they didn’t matter to me right now. Not when
my family was looking at me like they didn’t know me. Like I was a stranger.
“Please tell me you’re playing a sick joke on me,” Mom pleads. “Tell me you didn’t have a child and
kept him hidden from us all these years.”
I want to lie to them just so the heartbroken and disappointed look in their eyes will disappear. I
know that I can no longer do that. There was no hiding from this. There was no more running from
the truth.
“I’m sorry. So sorry,” I cry as I stumble towards her. “I wanted to tell you, but I was so ashamed.”
I go to take her hand, but she flinches and pulls it away.
This is what I’ve been so afraid of. Ava was right. I was the perfect daughter. The one who never
made any mistakes.
The one that thought things through before, except for that one time. Now their image of me is
tarnished. Now they know that I am just like them. Human. The Ace card I had over Ava was gone. 2
I was in the same boat as Ava. I made mistakes that are now hunting me. Sleeping with Calvin
remains the greatest mistak
y life.
“H–How did this happen? When did it happen…did dad now?” Travis asks as he paces, frustration
clear in his steps.
“Dad didn’t know. No one except Calvin and Molly knew.” I look at the ground, unable to face the
look on my mom’s face.
“Start from the beginning and don’t leave a single thing out. I want to know why the hell you’ve
kept my grandson a secret from his family,” Mom growls, her eyes turning fierce.
I didn’t want to rehash the past, but at this point, I don’t think I had any choice. If I didn’t want
them to be even madder than they were right now, then I had to spill it.
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“When Rowan married Ava, I was broken I tried not to let it show. Tried to make you, dad, and
Travis believe I was okay because you were all so worried about me. I felt like I was drowning,
Mom. Like my world had exploded, and I’d been left with nothing. When I went back to school, I
didn’t tell any of you, but I fell into depression.
I sit down on the grass, feeling as small as I did back then when I learned that Rowan had slept
with Ava.
“I was fading away. I didn’t eat, I didn’t sleep, and I didn’t attend classes. In fact, I rarely left my
room. Molly noticed this. She started pushing, and when I refused to get better, she threatened to
call you guys to let you know. I didn’t want you to know how I was struggling. I didn’t want Ava to
find out how tough things were for me.”
I was lost in memory. I had so much bitterness and resentment towards Ava back then. I thought
if she ever found out how far I’d fallen, she would have been ecstatic. It was probably a year and a
half later that I discovered she had been going through her own kind of hell.
“Things were going well after that. Molly became my anchor. My grades were improving, and I
didn’t constantly cry or think about Rowan every second.” I take a deep breath “It was by
coincidence that I met Calvin again. It turns out we went to the same Uni and he was also Molly’s
assignment partner.” 2
“I didn’t really talk to him. After all, we weren’t friends. I tolerated him because he was Molly’s
friend, and when he didn’t show any remnants of the obsession he had for me in high school, I
stopped being weary of him. We co–existed. He stayed out of my way and I stayed out of his.”
Fuck. This was hard. I wanted to stop, but now more than ever, I knew they wouldn’t let me.
“Like I said, things were going well for some time. They weren’t perfect, but they were bearable.
That is, until the night m alled me to let me know that Ava had given birth to a baby boy and
that Rowan fell in love with his son at first sight. Everything around me crumbled, and all the pain
I’d been hiding came to the surface.” I try to breathe through the pain of the memories, but it was
so fucking hard.
“I was in pain, and I was really angry. Angry at myself for turning down Rowan’s proposal, angry at
Rowan for getting drunk and sleeping with Ava, angry at Ava for getting pregnant and marrying
the man I loved and angry at the baby for being born.”
I hear a sharp intake of air. I don’t need to turn to know that it is from Rowan. I still struggle with
being around Noah because if everything had gone the way I wanted it to, then he would have
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Fuck had I been wrong. I hadn’t planned for what was to come next. What destiny had planned for
“To answer your question, yes I was still a virgin. Anyway,” 1 paused. “I told Calvin about the
baby. I didn’t want the child and I wanted to get rid of it, but he wouldn’t let me
“You wanted an abortion?” Mom asks, her voice ringing with horror and disappointment.
with my plans. I didn’t want you to know about my mistake, so I agreed to carry the baby to term
and he would keep his mouth shut. It was the worst period because I was forced to carry a baby I
didn’t want but had no other choice.”
“That was during the time you completely stayed away.” Travis whispers. “You wouldn’t even
allow us to come visit you.”
When I got bigger, Calvin took me to a house his grandfather owned, which he left to him when he
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