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Nicolette sighed and sat down at the kitchen table, feeling more tired than before she had laid down for her nap and distinctly nauseated as she struggled to stop crying. Yanking off a paper towel, she quickly wiped her eyes and felt her parents watching her.
“I’m in love,” she whispered openly, staring at her hands and realizing she would never have to hide her wedding band anymore.
While this was not how she wanted to tell her parents.
This was probably the easiest, just getting it out all in the open so her father could blow up –away from Luke– and then proceed to calm down… eventually.
“Good, sweetie. I’m glad you found someone special…”
“Marisol,” her father stopped her mother, putting out his arm. “Withwho, Nicolette? Who are you in love with? Who’s the father?”
“Aeron, settle down…” her mother encouraged softly.
“Iamsettled…” her father snapped, glaring at Nicolette. “Keep talking, young lady.”
“Daddy,” Nicolette whispered painfully. “I love him, and I want you to understand that. I’m a grown woman and really need you to…”
“I know him…?” her father said, stunned, his blue eyes widening in surprise, hurt, and disbelief as he grabbed the back of a chair. She realized that a powerful gust of wind could have blown him over in that moment because he was so stunned.
“Daddy – yes. I married…”
“YOU’RE MARRIED?” he roared angrily – and then stopped.
It was like watching a volcano ready to explode only to settle down with a deadly awareness that not only was it going to blow? It was going to take the side of the entire mountain and everything in its path at the same time…
“What?” her mother hissed tearfully, looking at her dad’s face – which had a strange tic along his jaw. “Aeron, baby, honey, calm down. I know you wanted to walk her down the aisle, but things change and…”
“I married Luke two months ago…” Nicolette said quietly.
“Luke…Fuller?” her mother whispered – and looked at her father again.
“Yes.”
“Oh, my gosh…” her mother breathed, stunned.
The world seemed to explode within seconds around her.
“I’LL KILL HIM!” her father screamed, flinging the pregnancy test at the wall where it imbedded with a thunk into the drywall, shocking both her mother and Nicolette – who promptly burst into tears.
“Daddy, NO!” she wailed, getting up from her seat and reaching for him, pulling desperately on the fabric of his shirt, trying to slow him down and get his attention. “Daddy! Wait! No! Daddy, please! I love Luke…”
“HE MARRIED YOU AND GOT YOU PREGNANT?” her father was still screaming angrily, looking completely out of control. “I was going to walk you down the aisle! I was going to give my ONLY DAUGHTER away in her wedding… and that BOY-CHILD stole that moment from me? You got married and KEPT it from us? From all of us…?”
Her father hesitated, turning ever so slowly to look at Nicolette again.
“Do the Fuller’s know?”
His voice was eerily calm again.
“We have told no one yet.”
“But you are pregnant?”
“Yes.”
“And married?”
Nicolette let out her breath for a moment, realizing that he might be calming down just a bit so they could all sit down together and talk.
