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No, no, no, don’t pass out…
I hear my voice, but it sounds distant as I call out. “Ghost…”
The floor comes up to meet me, and then there is nothing for a few moments.
A loud crack stirs me a little, and looking up from the floor into his eyes, I see the door is cracked around the lock and his hands are on my face.
“Talk to me, beautiful.” His hands are under me and lifting me up, carrying me out of the bathroom.
My pants are still around my ankles, and my hand is clasped tightly around the test.
Sitting down onto the bed with me on his lap, not even worrying about my pants, his hand is on my cheek.
I stammer, trying to get the words out, but I know I need to.
“I’m pregnant,” I whisper as I open my hand, and we both look down at the test, with two bright blue lines across it. “I had to know.”
And then the tears start down my face. From pure shock, but as I bury my head in Ghost’s shoulder and he wraps his arms around me as tight as he can, I know part of the tears are from happiness. I have a little baby growing inside me, and even though I’m petrified about what that means, I know it is that gift the lady told me a baby would be.
A little soul created from our love.
Maybe something good can come from this mess.
I have to believe that, to get through what is staring up at me in my hand.
Fear starts running through my body. Ghost hasn’t said a word.
What if he doesn’t want the baby? We don’t even know each other. It’s not what he signed up for when he said he wanted me.
Why is this even happening to us? My life is spiraling down when I didn’t think it was possible it could sink any further.
“Cassie, look at me,” he says, but I push my head into the crook of his neck harder. I don’t know how to face him.
But he won’t let me stay hidden. His strong hand on the back of my head is directing me up to look him in the eye.
“I’m not shocked.” The compassion in his eyes says everything.
“What do you mean?”
“Remember, I’m the details man, I take in everything around me. You’ve been sick, we’ve been having sex every day, more than once a day for over a month, and you haven’t had a period. Then your mood swings are getting bigger, which is not new, but these ones are different.” I want to argue about that, but he’s right.
All of a sudden, it makes sense.
“That’s why you were angry this morning.” My heart sinks; he doesn’t want the baby. “It’s okay, I understand. I can cope on my own.”
“No, you don’t understand at all. Yes, I was angry, and I still am. But it’s not what you think.” He runs his hand down my body, and suddenly, we both realize I’m half dressed.
“Shit, Cassie, sorry.” He stands me up and pulls up my pants, and I can’t help letting out a little giggle.
I sit myself back in his lap and curl into his body again.
“Let’s get this straight. I’m angry because this isn’t how it should be. Finding out we’re having a baby should be the most amazing time in our lives. Yet here we are, in hiding, and you’re stressed and panicking. I can see it in your eyes. And all I feel is rage at what they are putting you through.” He takes a breath, his hands on my waist and lifting me again so I’m straddling his big, muscled thighs. We’re facing each other so neither of us can look away.
“But all of that aside, knowing you are carrying my child…” His hand is now lying on my lower stomach. “Is the most beautiful thing in this world. And it just makes this even more important that I get you away from here. I promise you that I will keep both you and our baby safe. They will never find you.”
“You can’t promise that, Ghost.”
“Watch me!”
