-Sophia's POV-
Everyone was sitting around me in the living room. My mom and dad, Sio and Noëlle, Sami and Alex and even Violet. They all were staring at me the same way though, in pure shock, Violet to a lesser degree though because she saw a similar thing happen with my mom and I guess history repeats itself.
My eyes landed on Alex who seemed truly hurt, like me not telling him this was the ultimate form of betrayal.
And then I looked to my dad who's expression almost mirrored Alex's. I wasn't expecting him to act this way, to even care that much, but he did and that hurt me.
Tears started to slip again as I saw how disappointed everyone was in me, "I'm sorry," I got off the couch and ran outside to sit on the cool and oddly comforting stone steps.
I wasn't alone for long before the presence of another was painfully obvious. I looked up to see Alex sitting down right next to me, our bodies touching.
I laid my head on his shoulder, sobbing as he wrapped an arm around me comfortingly.
I didn't want to be mad at him, especially not right now when I knew I was going to need him the most.
I wanted to believe that he didn't do anything with Layne, I really did, but I needed some really good explanations if I was going to let him off the hook and trust him again.
"Layne says you two had sex. Why would she or anybody else lie about something like that?"
"Soph, I didn't have sex with her. She's setting me up. On the night you left, I came home to find all of them in my room. I went downstairs to talk to my mom and your dad was there. I think my mom told Layne to do this. She knew if your dad saw it, he would just have all the more reason to hate me. I wouldn't sleep with her, I'm with you!" He raised his voice only slightly, but I didn't think it was too much of a big deal. "Why would you lie to me? You said the test was false. You were happy and I believed you!"
I sniffled, "I didn't want my dad to know and if my mom found out she was going to tell him. I meant to tell you, but then you seemed happy and I didn't want to ruin that...with this," I waited a second to see if he wanted to say anything, but he didn't, he just stiffened up, "I don't want to keep it, Alex. Neither of us are ready for a baby."
He never really seemed upset with the whole situation, but now he was very clearly pissed off. He unwrapped his arm from me and turned slightly, a better confrontation angle. "So what? You want an abortion? Is that what you're saying?"
I thought about it for a second before nodding.
"No!" He shouted whilst jumping to his feet and going to stand directly in front of me, "You can't do that. I don't get a say?"
"Alex, it's for the best. It's either that or adoption."
He shook his head wildly, running his hands through his dark hair, messing it up, "No, that's not for the best. You have no idea what it's like growing up in a broken home, I don't wish that on anybody, especially not my own kid. What if we do adopt it out and it gets stuck with some crazy closeted pedophile or something? No, we're not doing that."
"Calm down," I was sure that everyone was looking out the window at us at this point. Alex wasn't necessarily being quiet. "It would be in a broken home if we kept it, we're teenagers in the middle of a mafia crime family. I want to get out of here before I start having children."
He gave me an angered look, he wasn't going to be backing down anytime soon just like I wasn't, "We're not aborting it."
"My mom says the father's don't have a choice, I don't have to ask your permission and you can't do anything about it. It's up to the mother and that's me."
"Some mother you are," he seethed whilst kicking a loose rock to the side angrily. "I will never forgive you if you do this."
"I can live with that," I said proudly, but deep down I knew that wasn't true.
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"Can you please look at other options?" Sami had joined forces with my dad surprisingly, both of them super against the abortion decision. "I'm pretty sure we're all going to support you, Phia. Why do you want to get rid of it? We'll all help out however we can."
My dad nodded in agreement, shocking me. Why did he care so much? Since when did he care at all? "What are you worried about, SoSo?" He asked quietly, his eyes bearing deep into mine. "We have enough money, that isn't a problem. Our family's big so there will be no lack of love. I'm sure your mother would watch him or her for you while you finish up school."
"It's too much. I don't want this, any of it. I'm not ready for motherhood and I'm not going to force a little baby to deal with that its whole life, dad. Mom was young when she had me, but she had you. You were older than her and more prepared to have a baby than who I'm stuck with."
"What the hell's that supposed to mean?" Alex just so happened to walk into the dining room at the wrong time. He never cooled down since last night, so I had been distancing myself from him all morning long. "I think I'm more prepared than you are," he roughly grabbed a glass out of the cupboard and filled it up with water.
"Fuck. You," I sneered at him.
"You already did. That's why we're here right now," his cockiness was emanating off him.
I rolled my eyes, disgusted with him, "Can you kick him out? He's making this a lot harder for me," I asked my dad, knowing he would gladly comply with my wish.
He looked to mom for help though, doubtful, before shaking his head at me, "You two need to come to an agreement on this...baby situation."
Oh my god, he's so whipped.
I didn't think we were going to come to an agreement any time soon. Alex was pretty adamant about keeping the baby, whilst I was actually looking at everything that that would entail. The two of us could barely take care of ourselves, how would we add a baby into the mix?
"My mind is already made up," I whispered avoiding eye contact with any and all parties.
Sami's smile dropped even lower, "Soph, you're just upset with everything right now. Don't make any big decisions when you're sad or angry. Alex told me that you were pretty set on either abortion or adoption, so I googled ways to persuade a mother, and a pretty popular answer was having you actually see the baby."
"I don't want to."
That was going to make this harder and I didn't want or need that.
"Well, it looks like google and I had the same idea," mom spoke, "I made you a doctors appointment for later today. I think you and Alex should go."
Of course she did.
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Is Soph gonna keep the baby?
What do you think?
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The Reject & Mr. Mafia's Daughter (MESMERIZED SERIES BOOK THREE)
RomanceFamily vs. Family De Rossi vs. D'Amico Alex vs. Sophia Sophia D'Amico, daughter of one of the most infamous mafia bosses around, finds herself in the middle of right and wrong. She's never done anything wrong and as far as she's concerned...
