Here is the second chapter. I hope that you like it. Please comment.
Sometimes things aren't what they seem to be.
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After setting up an appointment for the next month, Angie said we had to go and tell Gram. I agreed.
Angie asked me, "What do you think she will do?"
"After she smacks us along side of the head, I think she is going to be overjoyed that she is going to be a great-grandmother," I laughed.
When we got to Gram's we sat in the den with her. We didn't say anything at first.
Gram sat looking at us and said to Angie, "Your pregnant, aren't you my dear?"
Angie nodded.
Gram just sat there. Then WHAM, she hit me on the side of the head with the long grabber she always kept next to her.
I yelped and grabbed my head.
Angie looked shocked. Gram looked at her and as she put the grabber down, said, "Don't worry, my dear I would never hit the woman who is ...carrying...my...great... OH MY GOD...I AM GOING TO BE A GREAT GRANDMOTHER...OH MY GOD...MILLIE... MILLIE COME HERE."
Millie came running into the room. She went over to Gram and put her arms around her.
Gram was crying. She said, "Millie...Millie, I'm going to be a great grandmother. Me, who had given up dreaming about ever having a grandchild, I'm going to be a Great-grandmother. Oh god this means that I will have to live a lot longer."
Angie and I went over to Gram and put our arms around her. She hugged us to her and cried.
Finally, when we all calmed down, we sat and talked.
We talked mostly about what was going to happen when we told Father and Mother. Gram was really concerned. Mother could be convincing and if she didn't get her way very vindictive.
I told both her and Angie, "There is nothing she could ever say or do that would ever, in a million years, convince me to do what she wanted."
Angie said, "Don't be like that Billy, your mother does love you."
Gram was just looking at me.
I told them, "When I was in High School, Mother wanted me to go somewhere that I really didn't want to go. I flat out refused. She nagged and nagged. She just wouldn't let up. Finally, I thought if it means that much to her, what the heck, I'll go. Do you know what she said to me when I gave in?"
Gram said, "What's the matter William? Don't you have the balls to stand up to your mother?"
I was flabbergasted, "How do you know that Gram?"
"Your mother told that story at one of the very few parties your grandfather and I went to. Your grandfather got up and was going to tear her a new ass hole. I pulled him back into his seat. 'Let Billy do that, Jimmy.' I told him."
Angie turned to me and put her arms around me, "Oh, Billy, I'm so sorry."
I kissed her long, hard and passionately.
Gram banged her grabber on the floor and said, "Knock it off, you guys...there will be no sex in the den."
I broke the kiss, looked at Gram and said with a smile, "Now, that's not what I heard Gram."
Gram actually turned red. She sort of smiled and said, "Damn you Jimmy. You always did talk too much."
We all roared with laughter.
We thought about it and decided to call George and tell him. He didn't say anything for a long time. Finally, he said, "Well that is not quite what I would have advised, but what's done is done and I know that you two will make great parents. If you ever need my help..."
Angie and I had decided that we would talk to my parents when they returned in late July... early August...mid August, well...late August. The next time they came home...whenever that would was.
It was the last weekend in August, Angie and I were packed and ready to head out to Chicago. We would be leaving on Monday. We had packed Angie's sedan. We wanted to drive to Chicago together. I could always come back for my car, later.
On Saturday afternoon and Angie and I were in the pool. I was doing fast hard laps and Angie was doing them slowly.
I had finished and I told her that I was going up to shower and change. Angie wanted to swim a bit more.
Angie was just beginning to show. Her once flat belly now had a lovely slight roundness and her face was just the tiniest bit fuller.
I was completely taken by this change in her body; I thought that she was becoming more and more beautiful, if that was possible.
As Angie swam, Mother and Father came out onto the patio.
"Angie," my father bellowed, "enjoying the pool, I see.'
Angie smiled and said, "Don't want to loose my girlish figure, Mr. Mallory." She got out of the pool, pulling her loose bathing suit away from her belly.
"Keep up the swimming, Angie," Father laughed.
Mother looked at Angie and said, "Angelica, go get dressed, we have work to do in the library."
As I came down the stairs, I heard Mother talking in the Library.
"Angelica, answer me truthfully, ARE YOU PREGNANT?"
Angie answered in a quiet voice, "Yes, I am, Mrs. Mallory."
There was silence for about three seconds, then Mother exploded, "You whore, you fucking ghetto whore, I brought you in my home and what do you do? You fuck every one around and get pregnant."
I ran into the library. Mother was standing behind the desk. Father was leaning on the bookcase in the rear of the room and Angie, my Angie was front and center in the room.
Mother looked at me in surprise. "William, get out, this does not concern you."
I slowly walked over to Angie put my arm around her and said, "Mother, this does concern me."
"NO IT DOESN'T, THAT WHORE IS PREGNANT"
"Yes, Mother, I know."
"YOU KNOW???"
"Yes, Mother, I know all about it."
"SHE TOLD YOU, WHY WOULD SHE TELL YOU???"
I looked at my Mother and softly said, "Because, I'm the father."
Silence.
Mother looked at me and said, "William, I know that you like Angelica. But, you have to see her for what she is, a fucking Ghetto Whore,"
"Well, then this ghetto whore, as you call her, is carrying my child, your grandchild."
"No...No...she is not carrying your child."
"Yes, she is Mother."
"No...No...NO THAT THING IS NOT YOUR CHILD!!"
"DAMN IT MOTHER, I AM THE ONE WHO MADE ANGIE PREGNANT."
"AND JUST HOW DO YOU KNOW THAT YOU ARE THE FATHER?"
I looked at my Mother, and with a quiet voice filled with malice said, "I know that Angie's baby is mine, the same way that your husband knows he is my father."
Mother, went quiet. 'No, you will not do this to me. I want that thing aborted. Do you hear me?"
Just as quietly I said, "Yes Mother, I hear you...but now hear me. We are not going to abort our child."
"William, I will not have this. I will destroy the both of you. I will grind you..."
My Father, exploded, "YOU BASTARD, YOU UNGRATEFUL BASTARD, HOW COULD YOU DO THIS TO HER. HOW COULD YOU DO THIS TO US?"
He rushed at me and gave me a round house to the jaw. I flew back and landed on my ass.
Father continued, "Get the fuck out of my house, don't you ever come back, when I am through with you; you won't be able to get a job slinging burgers in a fast food joint."
Angie ran to me and helped me up, she was crying. I was rubbing my jaw and staring daggers at my parents.
I took Angie's hand in mine and said, "Come my love, let's go home."
"HOME...HOME...WHEN I'M THROUGH WITH YOU THE STREETS WILL BE YOUR HOME," my Father screamed.
Father was still screaming as Angie and I walked out of the front door and went around to the side of the house, where Angie's car was parked. Thank god, we had packed it early with things we were going to take to Chicago with us.