Jada's POV
"Wake up baby. We need to leave." I shake him after packing some of his clothes into a duffle bag.
He doesn't respond just as I remember I haven't taken his personal effects. I run to the bathroom and pick up his blue toothbrush and soaps.
Just as I take out two of the soaps, I see some dollar bills stacked together in a small can. I pick it and place everything together. When I'm done, I walk back to his bed just find him still sleeping.
"I'll just have to carry you baby." I mumble positioning the bag so that I could carry both.
"Let me help you with the bag. You can carry Ryan." Abby says making me turn to her. She moves closer to me and takes the bag from me.
"So this is goodbye?" She asks and I nod. Since she told me she had feelings for me, I don't even know how to act around her.
"Can I at least get a goodbye kiss?" She asks looking at me even though I can see color rise to her cheeks.
"Please. I just need closure." She says and I let out a sigh. Abby has always been there for me. She knows more than half of the shit I passed through.
"Come here." I say and she drops the bag moving closer to me. She raises her hand to my hair looking into my eyes but I look away. Too much emotions.
"I'm really going to miss you Jada. You made me enjoy my stay here. I really want you and Ryan to be happy." She says moving closer to me. I look at her face. I wipe the tears on her face.
"I survived this because of you. You were my friend Abby. You're someone I'd never forget. Ever.
When I leave, find someone who deserves you, okay?" I say gently and she nods while crying. I move closer to her taking her familiar lips into mine.
They're kiss is slow and gentle but I stop it when she tries to increase the pace. "Don't make this harder Abby." I say moving away.
She takes the bag and starts walking towards the door and I look at her until she gets out. I look at Ryan's sleeping form and smile as I walk towards him.
"You are a good actor baby." I say but he doesn't move. He continues pretending to sleep and I sigh.
"Maybe I should just leave him since he's sleeping. I'm too weak to carry him." I say walking to the door and before I know it, his small body runs to me. I laugh and kneel then hug him. I missed you Ryan.
"We're you really leaving me Jada?" He asks his eyes round and I purse my lips pretending to think.
"How about I make a preposition?" I ask and he looks at me thoughtfully pretending to think.
"Does it involve something brown and sweet?" He asks.
"Something better." He pretends to think again.
"If I don't like it, I still get the brown sweet thing." He says and I smile.
"Yeah, deal." I say shaking his hand. " We're leaving baby just you and I." I say and he nods excitedly. "Do you want me to be your mummy?" I ask and for the first time I'm nervous. I never get nervous.
Ryan's eyes widen even more in excitement making me giggle as he nods his head up and down. "Then I'll call you mummy? And we'll do all the fun things together that my friends at school talk about?" He asks and I only nod as tears fill my eyes.
Ryan might be my baby. I just saw Ashton in him for a second. His green eyes just shone like his always did.
How did I never see this? Is this happening because I'm desperate?
"We will. I'll be your mummy and nobody else will take that away from you okay?" I say while crying. Ryan looks at me puzzled.
"Then why are you sad?"
"These are happy tears. You are my son Ryan. Okay?" I ask and he nods looking at me.
"And you're my mummy." He says as I try wiping the tears but I can't do it. "Are you still crying 'cause you're happy?" He asks innocently and I nod.
"Girls are weird." He says and I laugh.
"I need you to go to my car. You'll find Abby outside. I just need to freshen up." I say and he nods then runs outside the door leaving me alone to my thoughts.
SEVEN YEARS AGO
I wake up to a dark room. I immediately notice that I've never been here before. 'What happened to me?'
I ask myself as I feel my head start throbbing in pain. I try to feel around but my arms are heavy and tired but I know I'm on the ground.+
'Did I fall?' The question in my mind raises panic in me. I try raising my hand to my belly only to find it flat. 'No, no, no.' This can't be happening. Not my baby too. Not my baby.
I start crying as I remember the events that took place. My water broke, I was carried to another room where I gave birth about an hour or two later but they wouldn't let me see my child.
The midwife didn't even tell me it's gender saying it would be less painful that way. I can only remember it's cries.
A woman was given my baby but I couldn't see her face. She had been hidden.
I tried shouting for my baby but was immediately injected something.
"No. My baby. I want my baby." I start crying the pain in my head intensifying but I don't care anymore.
"I see you've woken up bambino." Marko's thick Italian accent makes me look up and I try getting up.
"My baby. Please. I'll do anything you want. Just give me my baby." I cry dragging myself to him. He starts moving closer and crouches in front of me. "Please don. I'll do anything." I say trying to look up at him but he starts letting out a laugh.
"I've tried breaking you for months Neonata. I must say your stronger than many men I've seen." He says taking my hair between his fingers and tugging on it.
"Anything don. I just want my baby."
"I've always wanted to hear that from you puttana." He gets up and starts walking away. "I have plans for you. You're stretched out I can't have you but my men have always wanted you." He says with an evil smile.
"Tuo figlio è morto dopo che hai dormito. I'll send Giovanni to take you to your work station tomorrow."
{Your child died after you slept}
I understood everything he said. I wish I couldn't. I let out a piercing scream thinking about how Ashton would be disappointed in me. Wondering what my family did to the Italians to deserve this.+
I was a bitch to many people in high school but I changed. What kind of twisted karma was this?
I get up from the floor and walk to Ryan's bathroom. I pour water on my face as I think about Ryan. Midnight black hair as mine and green eyes. Ashton had green eyes too. Ryan's have specks of blue but it could be because of mine.
I need to be sure. A DNA test should do but that would mean that I should stay longer here. I won't leave without knowing the results. I take in a deep breath.
After Jayden asked to elope I panicked. I injected him some sleeping medicine into his system that should knock him out for at least five hours. That was two hours ago.
I should just go back to my apartment with Ryan. In the morning I'll meet with a doctor who'll do the DNA test and we'll be going soon.
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