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^ Thirteen Weeks Pregnant ^

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C.J

I travel to my hometown for Christmas every year for a couple of days to a week at the most if not long and Summer just stays home. We never in our relationship spend Christmas Day together. Every year she does this and sometimes I'm tired of her saying those same words, 'I can't do it this year, maybe next year.' She's only met my parents and my sister twice since we've been together. I want just her to feel welcome and get her to know my family.

I wanted her to come with me, but she uses that excuse too many times and I will not ask her any.

I have a fun time with my entire family on each side. Seeing my cousin and their children. Watching my cousin as dad makes me want to have kids now than to wait. In the back of my mind are Tasha and her unborn child. I wonder if. No, let's not get ahead of myself here.

When I got home from spending Christmas with my family, Summer was busy getting groceries and baking done for New Year's Eve. Since, our friends and some of her family members coming to celebrate. Hopefully, it doesn't rain this time because last year it did. But this time it was supposed to be clear skies and hot. And I'm going to do a bonfire. The day before I gather a pile of fresh-cut up wood from my soon-to-be in-laws.

Summer was cooking a storm in the kitchen all morning. She got huge; I mean a huge turkey I've ever seen in the oven since this morning. She makes good homemade stuffing, but not as good as my mom's stuffing. She peeled about a ten-pound bag of potatoes yesterday, cut them all off and let them soak in a big pot of water. I asked her for help but she said nope, so I just left it at that.

"Babe, can you grab me those oven mitts that are on the table, please?" She was ready to check the turkey again.

"Sure thing." I passed the oven mitts to her. The last time a throw them to her they landed in a bowl of gravy that was cooled down and splatter all over her. I tried not to laugh, but she put me on the couch for a couple of nights.

The house smells so good and I can't wait to eat. I watch her basting the turkey and putting it in the oven.

"Is the turkey done yet?" I ask Summer.

"It needs to brown some more. So, in a couple of hours, it should be done."

"What time is everyone arriving at?"

"I told them to come around seven."

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I look at the clock. It was four-thirty, and I was getting nervous to see Tasha. It's going to be tough to talk to her alone and in private, where no one else can hear us talk.

"Summer I'm going to go for a run in the woods." I needed to burn off a lot of steam.

"Okay sure hun, just be careful out there and bring your iPhone with you in case of an emergency." Summers always worried about me when I run into the bush because she's afraid that I'll get killed by a wild animal.

"I'll be fine. You don't have to worry." As I walked out of the kitchen and made my way to the bedroom. Stripping off my shirt and pants. Leave me in my blue and black boxers and white socks. Going through my drawers to find a muscle shirt and shorts.

After putting them on and now got to find my headphones. Which were still in my gym bag and also my water bottle which was still in there. Rising out the bottle and putting cold water in my bottle. Went downstairs to the shoe rack to put on my running shoes. Plugin my headphones into my iPhone. Scrolling down to listen to my classic rock shuffle. Out the door and began running.

Running to the right out of my driveway. There are lots of trails up the road where I live. The music was pumping through my body. I needed this.

As I enter the trail, I was watching where I was running because there are lots of rocks, holes, and roots from the trees that are in the path.

After an hour and fifteen minutes of running and walking. My shirt was soaked in sweat and it was clinging on to me. I'll run the last of ten minutes. I look at my iPhone and then I trip on something and hit my right shoulder and the side of my face on the tree. I closed my eyes shut.

"Fuck." I said out loud. Laying there in the same spot. Above, my right eye hurt like a bitch and my shoulder hurts a bit. I was taking deep breaths. I got up slowly and rested my back against the tree. I slowly open my eyes to see that a root of the tree trips me. Then I felt something warm go down my face. I touched it with my finger and bring to my sight and it was blood.

I took off my shirt and pressed against the cut above my eyes. I look at my legs to see if I got any scrapes or cuts. I have a small scrape on my knee and it was bleeding a little bit.

I sat there for a bit. I look at the time on my iPhone and it was six o'clock. I better get back and wash up well. Take care of my wounds. I hope I don't need stitches. I got up slowly and I could feel the soreness on the right side of my body. Since I'm at least five to ten minutes away from the existence of the trails.

When I reach the driveway at my house. I notice a couple of vehicles there. It must be Summer's friends. I limp myself up the stairs and open the door. I tried to close the door quietly and it made a very loud squeaky sound.

Shit.

"How was your run Corey?" Yelling from the kitchen. I could hear more than two-foot steps.

"It was good." I was still holding my shirt over my face.

When she and her friends see me. Summer's eyes went huge looking at me and her friends were eye rapping me from head to toe.

"Oh my god... What happened to you?" Summer came in a hurry in front of me. Looking at my injuries.

"I trip when I wasn't looking." She tried to reach for my shirt.

"I'm fine Summer. I'll be upstairs in the bathroom." I told her.

"Okay, I'll be up in a bit to check you out." She looks concerned about me. I nodded at her.

I took my shoes off and headed upstairs. Once I enter the bathroom, I looked like shit. I slowly took off my shirt and it was a big scrap above my right eyebrow. It will probably be a scar after. A little bruising around it. I strip off my clothes and put them in the basket. I took a good look at the right side of my body. My right shoulder is starting to bruise.

Before I opened the glass door to turn on the shower, the door to the bathroom open and Summer's head pops in.

"Hey, babe... Aww, look at those bruises on you. I could kiss it all better." Summer closed the door behind her and stalk towards me. Eye rapping me and biting her bottom lip.

"Summer not now, you have guests downstairs." After I said that she started kissing my bare chest and I could feel her lips go down.

I better stop. It feels good. I will not lie. But someone makes my whole-body light up like sparks.

I step back to make her stop. "I'm not in a mood to do this Summer. We have guests downstairs. Please leave." I said in a firm voice.

"Fine. We haven't had sex in over three months, Corey. I've been trying to subdue you and nothing works. Do you find me attractive still?" I could tell it upset her in her voice.

Yeah, I only had sex with Summer once since after I met Tasha. But my body misses the touches of Tasha. Summers kept bugging me to have sex with her, but I turn down every time.

"I find you attractive Summer, it's just I... I don't want to have sex with you every day but I want to make love to you all night. And we are so busy with work, visiting family, and hanging out with friends. Sometimes I don't want to have sex for weeks and weeks but that's all right with me." I look right at her when I said that. She was quiet and not saying anything. I didn't know if it was a good or a bad thing.

"Summer says something," I whisper to her.

"I get it I guess." In her snobby voice. She walked out and slam the door. I quickly lock the door.

After my warm-cool shower to soothe my sore right side. I want to dress nicely for someone. I put on boxers, socks, black jeans, and a white button-up shirt. I quickly brush my teeth. I grab my black sweater.

I could smell the turkey dinner that Summer was cooking. I heard a lot of voices coming from the living room and the kitchen.

It was six-forty. It was time for me to go down. I took one last look at my face before I went down, and it was okay. I went to the kitchen to see all the food that's on the counter. Summer was still putting food into dishes.

"Corey, can you take the turkey out? And just put it on the stove." She asks me.

"Sure." I grab a pair of oven mitts, put them on, and open the oven. Oh boy, I could feel the heat. I quickly put it on the stove because I could feel the heat going through the oven mitts.

"So where is everyone eating Summer?" I ask her because all the people can't fit around the dining table.

"I just told them they could eat inside or outside. Can you start the Bonfire so they sit around it? Corey, please and thank you." She kissed me on the lips.

I went to grab my shoes and headed to the shed to grab some wood, paper, and a lighter. After gathering a pile of wood in my arms and dumping it into the pit. Grabbing some newspapers and crumbling it and putting it between the wood. Getting the lighter and lightning up the newspaper and letting the wood, light up.

It's mostly girls that are inside, last year it was equally but I could say at least seven guys and twenty ladies. The poor guys that are inside with them.

I went back to the shed to grab chairs to sit around the fire. I grab four stacks up chairs.

"Hey, Corey do you need help?" A voice from in front of the shed. Coming out of the shed with chairs in hand. I see Richer, Troy, Kyle, and Sylas.

"Sure, there are chairs inside the shed and put them around the Bonfire. While your guys do that, I'll go grab blankets." I said to them. They all nodded their heads at me.

I walk back of the house in the sunroom, where we have a closet full of old blankets that we don't use. Summer asks friends or family members or goes to a garage sale to buy blankets. I grab an arm full of blankets.

I see the guys put a lot of chairs around the Bonfire. Troy took half of the blankets and one in each chair. I see that we are short four but I told them I'll grab the rest and they can go inside and get some dinner.

I look through the window door to see if Tasha or Summer were there. I didn't see them yet. Everybody was getting their plates ready to eat. So, I brought the last four blankets down.

"There staring to get serve the food," I said to the guys. They nodded their heads and left me here to put the blankets into empty seats.

I headed back into the house and went to the kitchen. Right as I was going around the corner, I bump into someone.

"I'm sorry I...." I looked down at the person and it was Tasha. She looked nervous and stayed quiet. She looked beautiful as always to me and she had a glowed in her. I could see her baby bump. Maybe that's my unborn child in her that's growing.

"Tasha, come and get your food." Rachel raised her voice over the people talking. She looked at me one last time and she left me hanging there.

I kept watching her and I think she knew that I was staring at her.

Tasha

I can't believe I'm here in C.J's house. This is so awkward for me. Rachel begged me to come since she asked me and I kept telling her no, but she drags me anyway. I dress in a red long sleeve shirt that goes to mid-thigh and black leggings. I straighten my hair and put on light makeup.

As I was about to go buy the ham, the smell hit. It made me very nauseous. I plug my nose and looked at Rachel.

"The smell of ham making you sick?" She asked me and I nodded my head. I needed to get some hair.

"I'm going to get some air," I said to her. Grabbing my plate with only turkey, mashed potatoes, gravy, stuffing, and vegetables. I walk to the front and put on my boots. Walking outside and going to the back. Rachel said that there's going to be a bonfire. I love the smell of a Bonfire.

The fire was pretty to look at, but the warmth coming from it made me all cozy. I sat down in front of it. Putting the surrounding blanket. I was getting ready to eat when someone sat beside me and I turn my head to see who it was and it was...

C.J

"I brought this down for you." He holds out a water bottle in front of me.

"Thanks," I said as I grab the water bottle from him.

"So..." He paused and looked at me.

"So what?" I ask him.

We were both silent between us.

"I'm sorry if I keep bumping into you every time and the other night you rush before I could really talk to you. Why do you keep running off before I say something?" He asked me.

It's about to go down from here. Telling him the truth.

"It's just... that you really hurt me C.J. I felt really used, and it's sickening. I thought I had something with you but... Why did you cheat on Summer, who is like a sister to me? Why C.J?" I was holding back some tears after saying that to him.

I know he was thinking about it.

"I'm very sorry that you felt that way, Tasha. I didn't use you like... When I first set my eyes on you at the club, I needed to know you because the sight of you got me walking to you and..." I had to cut him off right there because my emotions from my hormones are crazily sad.

"I don't want to hear that C.J. I want to know why?" I ask him again.

"Let me finish saying this first. When we first talked, Summer didn't even exist in my life. It was just you. The more we talk it was like me and you as a couple. The night we had together been passionate and loved Tasha. Summer doesn't exist when I'm with you. I'm falling out of love with her. I'm falling for someone who sits in front of me right now." He moved my plate that was on my lap and placed it into the seat next to him. C.J grab my hands and gave them a tight squeeze. A few tears came out. He quickly wipes them away.

"How can you say that when you are going to get married C.J?" I ask him and he chuckles at me. Like it was funny to have, but it wasn't.

"Summer kept bugging me to pop the question for years and finally I did it to shut her up and here we are. She planning the whole wedding without me. Well, with some of my opinions. I just don't want to marry her anymore."

"Then why are you staying with her then if you don't want to marry her or love her no more?" I kept bringing up questions for him.

He stayed quiet as I was staring at him and he was still holding my hands. I ask him a good question.

"I guess I have to tell her about you, but I will not say your name though."

"I can't see her get hurt C.J. Her family will hate you and never forgive you." I hated seeing Summer or Rachel cry because it upset me as well.

"I have a feeling that she's cheating on me as well. Her love for me is falling out, too. But I need evidence to prove that she is creating me."

"How are you for sure?" I can't believe she's doing this if it's true.

"There's a guy at her work who's friendlier than a guy who is a friend. She tells me he's gay but I don't see that way." C.J said to me.

"Let's change the subject, she'll we." I think it's time to tell him.

"Sure, what's on your mind."

"Remember that one night we had together?"

"Yeah, I remember everything. Why?" He arches his left eyebrow, looking at me.

"Well, you forgot to use protection C.J and it resulted as..."

Well, here goes nothing.

"As for what?"

"I'm pregnant C.J." There I finally told him. And not he's not talking.

"I'm... I'm... the... father...aren't I?" He sounds so nervous saying that complete sentence.

"Yeah, you are the father of this little baby right here." He removed his hands and placed them on my baby bump.

"I can't believe that I'm going to be a dad. I'll be there every appointment you have and I'll support you." C.J just staring at the bump and rubs it a little.

"Why didn't you tell me sooner when you found out?"

"I wanted to but I was afraid that you'll reject our child and I need time to what to say to you. I was scared that you don't want me anymore." He cupped my face and made me look at him.

"I would never reject you or our child, Tasha. You don't have to be scared to tell me anything. If you have a problem, we will both solve it. We are going to be parents soon. How many weeks are you?"

"I'm thirteen weeks and a few days."

"I'm excited to become a dad and this lovely woman who carries our unborn baby." Then, after that, he kisses me on the lips. I waited for so long to feel them against mine.

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