Everything stopped; Mason was in mid bite, frozen in place. Cooper set his fork down. Jackson set his cup down on the table. Hailey and Jaylinn stared at me with wide eyes. Dad sighed. Chloe squeezed my hand that she was still holding. Mrs. McCormick and my mom shared a look and Alex was the only one making noise with his little rattle.
"You're kidding right?" Mason asked.
I shook my head.
Jackson looked from me to Chloe and then to where our hands were together. "You know? And you didn't tell me?" He glared at her. "That's why she was at the house so early Saturday morning." He said putting the pieces together.
I nodded confirming what he already figured out, "Yes that is why; I was scared and didn't know who else to talk to. If I wasn't pregnant and it was just a misread I didn't want to have to tell anyone."
I looked at Cooper; he was looking at me but not meeting my eyes. He didn't say anything, I am not sure if this is a good thing or a bad thing.
Mason and Cooper both looked at each other, got up from the table and a few minutes later I heard their car start out front. I pulled my hands away from Hunter and Chloe and pinched the bridge of my nose and rested my elbow on the table, Hunter ran his hand up and down my back, trying to comfort me. I was hoping they would be supportive and not freak out but that was just wishful thinking.
Jackson didn't say anything more about the pregnancy; I didn't really expect him too. Chloe said she would catch up with me later in the week and then the three of them left. Jaylinn and Hailey were both happy for us. Mom and I were in the kitchen cleaning up dinner when Hunter came walking in with Mason and Cooper.
They both had their hands in their pockets, no one was shooting daggers at each other, all good signs except for Hunter's busted up lip. Hunter came over, took the dishrag from my hand and motioned with his head to go to them. I did and they led the way to the sitting room since everyone was in the living room watching TV.
"Before you guys say…." I started to say but Cooper cut me off. "We talked to Hunter, we're all good."
"I'm not good with it but I'll deal. He gave us his word and that's all I need to deal with it." Mason said.
"What happened with Hunter's lip then?"
"Nothing." Cooper said, as always. This was his answer when they got into a fight over me.
"Didn't look like nothing."
"Kenz, drop it." Mason said stretching out his hand; at least I knew who hit him.
I didn't like that they hit him but it was over with now. Now that everyone knew, the weight I had felt on my shoulders was gone. I had everyone behind me and I actually for once wanted protection for anything that would be thrown my way.
Hunter and I went to our house later that night and I went straight to bed, I was completely exhausted from the stress over the last few days. Hunter helped me strip out of all my clothes, I wasn't use to sleeping like this but he insisted and who was I to fight him.
"So tell me more about these doctors' appointment and stuff. I have no clue about any of this shit." He fluffed up his pillow and laid back. I curled up in the nook of his arm and rested my hand on over his heart, something I loved to do.
"Well since I am still pretty early on in my pregnancy I go to the doctors every four weeks, around eighteen weeks or so we can find out what we are having." I lifted my head to look at him. "Do you want to know what we are having?"
"Do you? I don't really care as long has he is happy."
I smiled at his slip, "You just said he. You want a son?"
Smirking at me he said, "Yeah I would like a son."
"Well I'll let you decide if you want to find out or not, we have a little while before we have to think about that. I only have one small problem though; I really want to keep my doctors up here so we will have to make two trips back here over the next two months so I can get my checkups."
"That's cool; I could check in on the house renovations and shit while we are here too. I meant to ask you earlier how you figured out that you were pregnant."
Shit! I could lie to him and tell him my mom figured it by seeing me getting sick but I didn't want to start our relationship off with a lie. "I need you to promise me you will not get pissed off." He nodded. "It was actually Logan."
He glared at me and then I explained to him everything that had happened up until the day he found out. He hated that Logan figured it out and that Dominic was involved at all.
My eyes were growing heavy listening to Hunter's heart beating, "I love you."
"I love you too CC." Hunter whispered and that was the last thing I remembered that night.
29
Hunter, Hailey, and I returned to school that weekend, on the way back I told Hailey what my plans were for next year. I explained about going to school in Jersey so that I was closer to home and the baby and I could be with Hunter. She agreed with me that, that would be for the best. She said she would be transferring too since there was nothing left there for her. I was staying in Jersey and Mason would be moving back to Jersey as well.
Hailey and I made an appointment to speak with our councilors that week to explain to them the situation and started the process of transferring our credits to our local community college.
Hunter had refused to let me stay at the dorms after the first night that we were back. He said he didn't like the fact that he couldn't take care of me the way he wanted. He spoke with Bentley, and they both agreed to have Hailey and I move in with them. I felt bad for not giving Bentley a choice but he assured me that he was perfectly ok with us and he even joked around with Hailey and me about cooking to earn our keep. I stuck my nose in the air at the mention of food while Hailey and Hunter laughed at me. They had to explain that cooking food made me sick but Hailey said she had it covered. I was really going to miss seeing Bentley when we moved back home; he turned out to be a great guy even when he threw some crazy parties.
Hunter and I had our first little argument since getting back together about me keeping my part time job at the library.
He had his hands on his hips, scowling at me he said, "I don't want you working, you don't have any reason to."
"Yes I do, I'm not just going to quit when I am perfectly capable of working."
"I don't like it Kenzie. You need your rest."
"Hunter, I'm fine. If I feel it becoming too much I'll give them my two weeks' notice."
I eventually won since he had no valid point that I couldn't. My first day back, I pulled Logan aside and thanked him for talking to Dominic about him figuring out that I was expecting. Hailey stopped by one evening to check up on me, Hunter's part of the agreement that I could work, and she and Logan talked about what happened earlier in the year. It came down to a huge misunderstanding about Brittany. Dominic was also stopping by a few times as well to check in and see how I was going, Hunter didn't like that but he was dealing with it. Dominic told me how he and Brittany were fighting once again because she refused to believe that the baby wasn't his.