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She smiles at me as if to illustrate the point, but behind that smile is some annoyance.
I hold up my hands in surrender. "I am not here to make you feel bad about anything. I am glad that you are happy about this and have accepted it. I want you to know that I have accepted it too."
Although, I am still not happy about it…
"You have?" she asks.
I take a long breath. "I have. We cannot change what happened and need to plan for the future."
"Plan for the future? What does that mean?"
"I do not know, but I want you to know that the child will want for nothing."
"Yeah, but that doesn't help the child or me. We don't need the money, Logan. We don't need you to save us."
"I am not here to save you. I don’t know why you must attack me whenever we see each other. I know we haven’t had the best start, but we need to work together now."
"You stormed out when I gave you the news, Logan! Do you want to work together, or have you guilted yourself into doing the right thing?"
"I will admit that I did not handle the news as well as I should have, but I am here now. You are right, I do feel guilty about it, but I don’t know how else to feel right now. I needed some time to get my head around it."
"But that's what I'm worried about," Teal states. "Yougot to go off and think about it. This baby is growing inside me. I don't get to run away and do my own thing. Is this what is going to happen when the baby comes? Are you going to run off at the first sign of any problems and leave me to deal with everything? I don't want my child to have an absent father. I've dealt with that, and I know what it's like. Newsflash, it's not fun!"
"I am not going to run off, even though the thought of bringing a child into the world scares the hell out of me. I know we are not going to be a happy family, but we can give our child the best chance in life. I know we will both love the child."
"Yeah, we will." Teal sighs and walks over to the kitchen area. She flicks on the kettle and turns back to me. "Do you want a cup of coffee?" she asks. "Unless you have somewhere else to be?"
"No, I have time. I didn’t know how long this would take, so I took the morning off to be here."
"You thought we might fight for a long time, huh?" Teal smiles.
"Well, you never know," I say. "We don’t have the best record of getting on, do we?"
"I seem to remember one time where wegot onquite well…"
"That created even more trouble," I sigh. "I still cannot believe I am going to be a father. I thought I might be one someday, but this is soon?"
"Yeah." Teal lets out a long breath. "We're really doing this, aren't we?"
"We are," I confirm.
I walk over to the armchair and toss the hoodie into the basket of clothes so I can sit down. Our child will be cared for, but I cannot just throw money at the situation. Teal has not come out and said it, but it is pretty clear she does not want money to solve every problem. She wants to make it in the world and not receive a payday.
Although she did accept my help before, and I’m sure she will again if the offer is made in earnest.
Teal pours hot water into two cups and places them on a small tray. She adds a small jug of cream and a bowl of sugar. She brings the tray into the living area and places it on the table. I start to make mine up as she sits on the couch, not bothering about the t-shirt she sits on.
I watch as she stirs up her hot drink. She might only be wearing sweatpants and a tank top, but she still looks incredibly sexy. I berated myself for a while for being so stupid on the night we were together, but I can forgive myself after seeing her again, and I cannot deny that the night was terrific.
"So what do we do next?" I ask.
"I don't really know. I've been looking online to see what I'll go through, and there's just so much information. I've not been as sick as I was, so that's some relief. I don't know if I should go and see my doctor or even what they would do."
"Leave that to me," I say. "I have a private physician, and she is one of the best in the country. I'll make an appointment for you to ensure the baby is fine."
"Okay," she replies.
At least she is conceding that… My eyes wander around the apartment again, and I wonder where the baby will live. Maybe she could move into my place, but that would mean moving states, and I don’t think she would go for that right now. I need to be patient.
