I don’t know what I’ll find out, but I pray Doctor Taylors and Doctor Meyers will be able to save my baby and me. If this baby and I are a match, then he or she will be my miracle baby. The mercy I’ve been waiting for.
Chapter Three
Chaz
Something’s going on with Jamie. I can feel it. The way she seemed nervous this morning doesn’t sit well with me. I’d never say I was an emotional person because I’m not. However, when it comes to Jamie, she’s my world. At the sweet age of sixteen she became the light to my dark world.
Growing up in the house that I did wasn’t easy. My parents never wanted anything to do with me. I was the screw up that destroyed their precious lives. Every day they reminded me of the fact with each smack on the head or the verbal abuse they threw my way. I learned early on to stay out of their way the best I could.
If not for my best friends and I forming the band I don’t know what I’d have done back then. They were the only thing keeping me going until that day in class when a little pixie of a girl walked in. She’d demanded my attention even when I tried not to give it to her.
Now life has gotten easier, though the dark cloud of my past still lingers over my head every once in a while, when the parents who didn’t want me come around. They demand I give them money for what they claim to need at the time. Though I never give in they continue to do this.
Why is it people always think they’re entitled to things that aren’t theirs?
Shaking my head, I need to get those thoughts out of my head before I let them pull me into a place I don’t want to be.
“Yo man what are you doing in here?” Hunter asks from the doorway to the storage room where we keep some of the extra instruments.
“Taking stock of what we need to order. Why what’s up?” Putting the clipboard down I face him head-on.
“Nothing, Jamie coming in later?” Now he has my attention. He knows Jamie always comes into work with us when the shop is open.
“What’s going on man?” I ask.
“I was just wondering that’s all.” Lifting his hands up Hunter furrows his brow.
“Dude tell me what the hell it is you want to say,” demanding, I step closer to him.
Sighing Hunter looks to the floor, “I saw her on the way here coming out of a doctor’s office.”
“Yeah so I know she had a doctor’s appointment.” Shrugging I go back to what I’m doing.
“So, you knew she was going to the prego office? And didn’t say anything to us,” Hunter’s words surprise me.
Spinning back to him I know my eyes are wide, “You just say what I think you did?”
“That I saw your girl coming out of the prego office, yeah I did. I guess from the look on your face you didn’t know she was going there,” he says.
“Naw but you can rest assured I’ll find out what’s going on when she gets here. It’s probably just about her birth control meds,” I state matter of fact. But in my gut, I know it’s more than that.
“Yeah man it’s probably just that. Either way you two are solid so it’s not like it’d be a big deal, right?” Hunter asks concern filling his voice.
“Jamie and I are as solid as they come. If she’s pregnant nothing would change the way I feel about her. Hell, I plan on asking her to marry me when we hit twenty. I’d do it today, but her grandma asked me to wait that long at least.” I laugh at the memory of talking to her grandma about wanting to marry Jamie.
“Boy got no problem with you wanting to marry my beautiful girl but wait till you hit twenty. Make sure you both have grown to where you wanna be first,” she’d said patting my leg as I sat next to her telling her of my intentions. Though I didn’t need her permission, I knew Jamie would want her blessing, since I couldn’t ask her father.
To this day my pixie still has a hard time talking about her parents.
“Well either way you know the three of us have your back,” Hunter says coming towards me to pat my back.
“Appreciate it man. Now help me finish this shit up and maybe we can work on that song some before the kids get here for their lessons.” Tossing the clipboard against his chest I don’t bother making sure he catches it. Turning back to the boxes in front of me I begin calling out what each is so he can mark it down.
By the time we finish it’s past lunchtime and I’m starving. I thought Jamie would be here by now or at least let me know she was here if she’d come in already.
Walking out of the storage room I don’t let the little voice in the back of my head trying to rear its ugly head. She is my world and I refuse to let any doubt in.
As we enter the main room of the music shop where Jamie usually works at the front desk, I don’t see her there but I watch as she comes through the entrance. Her smile not in place like it usually is. And tears fill her eyes as she finally looks up from the floor.
“I’m just gonna go in the other room,” Hunter says as he backs out of the room as I nod to acknowledge him.
Unable to move, frozen in place I wait.
“Hey,” she whispers.
“Tell me,” I demand.
“I’m pregnant,” she says immediately, tears flowing freely now.
Those tears are my undoing. Instantly I’m across the
