Page 89 of Her Loyalty

"No. I'm not telling him." I shook my head frantically. He'd already just said he wasn't ready, I wasn't about to just pin a baby on him.

"Tiana." She looked at me seriously.

"One, y'all decided to have unprotected sex so you knew the risk. Two, you already know what happened the last time you kept something from him." She explained while I poked my lips out.

"But we haven't had unprotected sex recently. I made sure he put a condom on every time. I'm always responsible. He is too." I expressed to her and she shrugged.

"Well, he must've slipped up or something. I don't know, that's for y'all to talk about but you're pregnant." She said checking over the test again while I cried my eyes out.

"You want to take another one to be sure?" She went onto ask and I shook my head no. I didn't need another test telling me that I was pregnant, three was enough.

"Aight. Well are you ready to go and tell him then?"

"Because you can't keep this from him and I'm not holding anymore secrets."

No. I'm not telling him.I thought to myself.

"Ok, I guess." I gave in and she nodded.

We then made our way out of the bathroom and down the staircase.

"Just relax." She calmed me down again as we walked out of the front door.

"Yo, what the fuck gon' on? Why y'all being so secretive today? And when the fuck did y'all become best friends?" Dominic asked us as if he wasn't happy to see it.

"Shut up, nigga." She spat to him, sitting down while I stood in the door way with teary eyes.

"Yo." He furrowed his eyebrows, looking over to Dej.

"What the fuck you do to my girl?" He quickly stood to his feet as she smacked her lips, waving him off.

"What's wrong with you, baby?" He asked as I turned around and walked into the house while he got the hint and followed close behind.

"Baby." He called again once we made it into the living room. I stood there for a while, wiping the loose tears from my eyes that now wouldn't stop falling.

"Tell me whats wrong, T." He spun me around to him.

I stood there crying like an idiot as he looked into my eyes.

"You makin' me nervous, ma."

"What's wrong?" He asked again as I frowned, looking down.

"I don't want to ruin your life." I blurted out and he snapped his head back.

"What?"

"I don't want to ruin your life with this information I have. Considering you weren't trying to do this on purpose and we always take extra precaution every time. Plus you just said-" I stopped, taking a deep breath.

Saying nothing else, I looked down at the floor as he stared at me for a long while.

"Tiana." He spoke sternly, making me quickly look up.

"You pregnant?"

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Tiana

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