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“Amelia,” I breathe.
She stands up and puts Kayn in his swing. “No. No fucking way. You can't!”
“I have to. If I stay here, I'll have to drop out of college to take care of him, and I want him to have a mom he can look up to. My parents can help watch him as I finish school.”
“But what about Easton? What about the family you've created?” she yells.
I get up from the couch so that I'm eye level with her. “We're going to work something out so that he's still involved in Kayn's life.”
“Still involved,” she repeats, making it sound like the most disgusting thing she's ever said. “That's a fucking joke. How could you do this to him? I trusted you!”
A lump forms in my throat and I look away. “I'm sorry. I don't blame you if you hate me.”
That manages to get through to her because she sighs and her voice drops a few levels. “I could never hate you, Ken, but seriously? You two work so well together, and you're just going to take him and leave?”
“I have to do what's best for Kayn.”
“And this is what's best for him? Moving away from his dad?”
I don't answer, because I'm not completely sure it's the right thing to do. I stare up at the ceiling and blink back the tears, but Amelia isn't as strong. She just lets hers fall.
“What about you and Easton?” she says sadly. “I was counting on you being my sister-in-law one day.”
“That's not going to happen.”
Her brows furrow. “You don't know that.”
“I do,” I murmur.
She scoffs. “Oh, right. The all-knowing Kennedy. How dare I doubt you.”
It's clear she's getting angry again, and honestly, I expected it. But one thing about Amelia is that she doesn't know when to quit.
“Did you even talk to him about your future together? Did you even try?”
She continues to shout questions that also feel like accusations at me, and each one hits me right where it hurts.
“You do know he loves you, right? Like he's actually in love with you,” she keeps going.
“He's not.”
“Oh, stop with the denial shit.”
Finally, my restraint snaps. “He didn't fight for me!”
She flinches at my tone. “What?”
“He. Didn't. Fight. For. Me.” I enunciate every word to make sure she really understands. “I told him my mom was encouraging me to move to Texas, and he didn't fight for me. He didn't argue it. He didn't fight. He didn't even ask me to stay. He didn't fight for me.”
Amelia stares back at me, completely silent, until it all becomes clear. “Oh my God.”
“Don't, please,” I beg.
“You're still in love with him.”
I shake my head and wrap my arms around myself. “Seriously, Meelz. Don't do this right now. It doesn't matter anymore.”
She looks at me like I've lost my mind. “Like fuck it doesn't. You know damn well he feels the same way.”
“He doesn't,” I answer honestly. “He used to, yes. But after everything with Alec happened, it changed. He stopped looking at me as the girl he's in love with and started looking at me as just the mother of his child. And I can't blame him for that. There's just too much damage there. So, please, if you love me at all, just leave it alone.”
