I flopped down in the couch, in the living room and turned on the television. I needed to clear my mind. It's saturday and I still didn't ask mariano to come to the dinner, heck I didn't even tell him that I'm pregnant with his child. I got his number because I asked Mr. brown for it, I told him it was a business matter. Mr. Brown is Yasmine's father. I called him but I got no answer. So I just gave up. I turned the tv to disney channel and watched phineas and ferb.

When that episode ended a new one started. My phone started to ring I took it up and looked at the caller ID, it said unknown. I hesitantly answered it.

"Hello?" I said.

"Who is this?" A husky deep voice asked.

"You were the one who called me." I said.

"That's because I saw three missed calls from this number." He said sounding annoyed.

"Mariano?" I asked.

"Yes, who is this?" He asked.

"Issy. I need to talk to you."

"Okay, go ahead talk." He said.

"In person." I said.

He let out a wary sigh before answering. "Okay."

"Can you meet me at the park?" I asked

"Yes."

"In an hour." I said.

"Okay, later." He said, then the line went dead. I sighed and turned the tv off. I walked up to my room and took a shower and got dressed. I wore a tank top and knee long yoga pants. I caught my hair up in a ponytail then grabbed my car keys. I headed downstairs and to the garage.

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I sat on the swings and waited for mariano to arrive. I wonder if I should tell him about our baby? Will he want the baby? Will he deny it being his? Will he accept it? Will he take care of us? My thoughts were interrupted when someone came and stood infront of me. I looked up and saw mariano. He sat on the swing next to me.

"What did you wanna talk about?" He asked without looking at me.

"Well, aum, my parents are having this dinner tomorrow and they asked me to invite you." I said.

He raised an eyebrow at me."Why would they want you to invite me? we're not even going out." He said.

I looked down at my feet. "Because I-I-I I'm..."

"You're what?" He asked raising his voice a little.

"I'm I'm I- I am...."

"Spit it out." He said sounding irritated.

I swallowed a lump of saliva before I spoke. "I'm p...." Before I could finish I felt the food that I ate earlier coming back up. I got up and ran to the garbage bin, I let everything out in there. Everything just kept coming up more and more. When I finally stopped. I wiped my mouth and sat on the bench next to bin. I had my head down in my hands and I felt a presence. I didn't bother to look up because I knew who it was. I felt him rubbing my back. I slowly looked up at him with tears in my eyes.

"I should go." I said getting up, but he held my wrist and gently pulled me back down. He looked at me with a confused expression, before he spoke.

"I'll come to the dinner, where is it keeping?" He said. I looked at him with a smile on my face while tears were still falling from my eyes.

I told him my parents home address and what to say to get in.

"How about I just pick you up and we go together?" He asked.

I nodded simply because I couldn't find my words. Why is he being so nice?

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I am now putting in my earrings. I looked at myself in the mirror and was satisfied.

"Issy, there's someone here for you." Zen said from my door way. "You look gorgeous." She said with a smile.

"Thank you." I said smiling at her.

"Did you tell him about the baby?" She asked.

"No, I tried but then I threw up." I said and she giggled.

We headed downstairs where I saw mariano sitting in the living room.

He looked up and saw me and smiled. I smiled back then we headed out to his car. I only saw a black mercedes benz maybach outside. The glass was tinted black and the engine was running. It looked like the 2015 model.

"Is this your car?" I asked.

"Yes." He said opening the door for me. The inside was beautiful. There are cream leather seats and small tv screens on the back of the front head rests. The seat beside me had a stand like thing coming from the back of the front seat, it had a laptop on it. The door on the other side opened and mariano came inside and closed it. He then said something to the driver in another language and he started driving.

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We pulled up to my parents house after half an hour of driving.

"Mom." I called as I walked into the kitchen. Gabby was in there.

"Hey, Issy." She greeted me.

"Hi gabbs." I said

"You must be mariano." She said with a smile.

He smiled back and nodded.

"This is my younger sister Gabrielle." I introduced her.

"It's a pleasure to meet you Gabrielle." He said.

"And you the same."

"Where are mom and dad?" I asked her.

"They're in the dining room." She said gesturing for us to follow her.

We walked in the dining room and I saw mom and dad sitting at the end of the glass dining table and a boy who looks about 21 sitting by the table as well. I hugged my parents and sat down. Mariano sat beside me and Gabby sat beside the young man.

"Issy, this is james." Gabby said hugging the young man. They look so cute together. I couldn't help but smile at my sister. She seemed happy with james and he seemed happy with her.

"You must be mariano." My mom said with a smile.

"Yes ma'am." He said smiling.

"It's so nice to meet the father of my grand-child." My mother said still smiling. My heart stopped beating right then and there. I forgot that my parents know that mariano is the father. What am I gonna do? I looked at Mariano and he had a confused expression on his face. He spoke up.

"I'm sorry ma'am you must be mistaken, I don't have any children." He said.

"Well, ofcourse not, not yet, she's still pregnant." Gabby said in a 'duh' tone.

"Who's pregnant?" He asked.

A look came over gabby's face as she realised that he has no idea.

"Oh, We're sorry, we were mistaken, we were mixing you up with jerry. He's the father of my other sister's unborn baby." Gabby said so fluently you could've never said that she was lying.

"Oh it's okay." He said. I looked at my mom and she gave me a disappointed look before shaking her head and turning to talk to james. I hate when my parents are disappointed in me. It's one of the worst feelings. I decided to just tell him, if he doesn't want to be apart of our child's life then it's his loss.

"Can I talk to you?" I asked looking at him.

"Aum sure."He said.

"Excuse us." I said as I led him to my old bedroom. We went in and locked the door.

"Yesterday, I was trying to tell you something, but I didn't get around to it." I said sitting on the bed.

"Yeah, was it that you're pregnant?" He asked putting his head in his hands.

"Yes. Wait, how did you kn..." I was cut off.

"I'm not stupid Issabella, The vomiting at the park yesterday, and your family. I mean it's always obvious that someone is lying when they use a name like jerry."

I just sat there awkwardly.

"Who's the father?" He asked.

Was he serious? Did he really just ask that? I thought he said he wasn't stupid.

He was silent for like 5 minutes until he spoke again.

"Is it mine?" He asked looking up at me.

I was quiet for a minute before speaking up.

"Yes."

"How do you know?" He raised his voice.

"Because I've only had sex with two people before you and they used protection." I raised my voice too.

"condoms can break." He shouted.

"Well, they didn't and I know you didn't use any protection whatsoever." I shouted at him.

"I was drunk." He shouted.

"So was I. And if you don't want our baby, I can take care of it on my own. Ju...." He cut me off by holding his hand up to stop me from speaking. I put my hands on my hips waiting on him to speak.

"I never said I don't want my baby." He said softening his voice.

"You want our baby?" I asked barely above a whisper in disbelief.

"Ofcourse I want my child, It's my first child, We don't have to be together though." He said. I was happy up until he said we don't have to be together. I really like him, but I guess he doesn't feel the same way, atleast he'll be there for our child.