"Damien, I'm three weeks pregnant."
"That's a lie, I made sure that I pulled out…"
"Well, I guess your pull-out game wasn't good enough."
"That baby isn't mine, go and find whoever is the father of that child."
"Oh, the baby is yours sweetheart. Cause I for one haven't had sex in a long time until I met you at the club."
Damien didn't want to believe what he was being told right now, getting a girl pregnant wasn't on his list of things to accomplish this year, it was something he planned on doing in the future, but not at this instant.
Alas, it seems that it was his carelessness that brought him to this point in time. But what surprised him the most was that, he actually made sure that he pulled out, so how was she pregnant?
"Ok fine, what exactly do you want me to do?"
"Nothing, I just came to tell you about the fact that I am pregnant."
"So, you are planning on taking care of the baby yourself?"
"Oh no, hell no, look I am planning on getting rid of this thing growing in my stomach ok."
A look of terror appeared on his face. "Wait, don't tell me, that you are planning on aborting the baby?"
"Well yes, yes I am. This thing is a hindrance to my career, and I cannot afford to let it grow in me."
"You are keeping that baby." He said with a serious tone in his voice.
Stella shook her head. "No, I'm not."
Damien let out a sigh, "Look since I am also the father, I also have a say as well."
"I have heard things that happened to some after they gave birth, and I don't want any of that to happen to me." She said, completely ignoring Damien's statement.
"Things like what?" Damien asked.
"After you give birth, you lose your former body shape…"
"Which can gotten back with an intensive workout."
"You would have stretch marks…"
"I am pretty sure that there are some creams that can clear stretch marks from the body."
She pressed her lips together, "I just can't keep the baby, what if the paparazzi find out and then post it on social media?"
"Why don't you live in my house?" Damien suggested.
Stella looked at him for a while, then she said, "But, you are also a popular personality, won't paparazzi also be at your side as well?"
"I would pay them off, none of them would come to my side. Just so you know, I have a huge number of maids and cooks, they are very efficient too, so your stay at my place would be smooth."
"But, what about my career? I don't think I would have deals like the way I used to."
"I am sure that won't be a problem either, I mean even if you take a break from work, and come back many brands would still want to work with you."
Damien saw that she was still reluctant about the whole thing, and he then decided to throw in something that would make her agree.
"Would an all-expense paid trip to the Bahamas make you change your mind?"
"Bahamas?" She said softly, she had never been there before, mostly due to her being busy with so many things. But since Damien said that he would pay for it, it definitely doesn't look like it would be a bad idea to carry Damien's child, after she gives birth he can keep the baby and she can go on with her life afterward.
"Fine, I would keep the child." She finally concluded.
"Good. So you should go and get your things ready by tomorrow, my driver would come pick you up."
Stella nodded her head. "No problem."
****
Stella told her manager and long-time friend Linda, that she was taking a nine-month hiatus, and that she should post it on all her social media accounts.
"Well, of course, I can do that for you. It's just that the brands that you work with would start calling almost instantly." Linda whined.
"How is that a problem?"
"What exactly should I tell them is causing you to take the hiatus?"
Stella never thought this far, it's easy to tell the public that she is going on a hiatus without telling them the reason for it, but the brands she works with would definitely want to know the reason behind the hiatus.
"Just tell them that it's a health-related issue." It wasn't too far from the truth after all.
Linda nodded her head, taking out Stella's work phone, she wrote exactly what Stella told her and posted it on all her social media pages.
It didn't even take two minutes since Linda made the post, instantly Stella's work phone started vibrating with incoming calls from the brands that she had contracts with.
Linda looked at Stella, and Stella shrugged. "Just tell them what I told you. Anyways, I am off, I need to pack my bags, and prepare myself to head out tomorrow."
Stella stood up, with Linda also standing up alongside her.
"Remember to always call me whenever there is trouble, or just need sisterly advice on something," she said wrapping her arms around Stella for a warm embrace. Stella returned it back with a smile on her face.
"Of course, I would," they stood hugging each other for a while, then removed themselves from the hug.
"I would miss you so much, the agency won't be the same without you."
"Speaking of agency, Charles would most definitely throw a fit when he realizes that I am going." Stella let out a wry laugh.
"Don't worry, I will handle him the best way I can."
With that Stella left the building, only to step outside and see a swarm of paparazzi, taking pictures of her, and asking her random questions about why she was taking a hiatus.
They are fast, Stella said in her mind.
Her bodyguards tried their best to make a way for her to pass and get into her car, which was a very long time.
Stella let out a breath of relief when she was finally inside the confines of her car. She just hoped that Damien would make sure that none of those bastards were at his place during her stay there.
She picked up her private phone, as the car started driving towards the direction of her house. She was scrolling through her social media feeds and saw that many people were already making up theories as to why she decided to go on a hiatus.
Many of them said that she was nurturing a disease, and other people went against what that user said, that she didn't look like someone who was sick.
Another user said that she probably had a fallout with her agency, Stella smiled. That would never happen, she thought in her mind.
One of the users said that she was probably pregnant, another user asked why would she need to hide her pregnancy, and another replied that most agencies treat their models who got pregnant as a liability. Plus Stella's fans would probably go into a frenzy as well.
Stella switched off her phone and looked at the palm trees, that Malibu was mostly popular for. The internet is one scary place, she thought.