*THE HOLLEN SERIES 03*
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*?? MORE THAN FRIENDS ??*
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Happy New Month lovelies ? ?
Zenia’s POV
I had not left the p@rty, instead, I was inside EJ’s be-droom awaiting him.
I was not about to be crumbled and shattered when he hadn’t heard my side of the story as yet. I knew he was angry, his eyes said it all, but I nee-ded to stand my ground, swallow up my fears and be true to myself and him.
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I sat at the edge of his be-d, looking around his be-droom in satisfaction.
Everything was neatly arranged and in order. Not a T-shi-t on the be-d or a book laying on the floor.
His be-d felt so comfortable un-derneath me that I couldn’t help it but l@ymyself back.
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“What are you doing in here?”
I flung up and saw his angry grey eyes staring at me.
“Because I nee-d to talk to you,” I answered.
“Well I don’t wanna talk to you so you can leave.”
“I’m not going anywhere until you hear me out.”
“Zenia, I’m really not in a mood for this. I don’t want to hear you out.”
“You would listen to me! You would stand there and listen to everything I have to say to you!” I stood my ground and took several steps towards him.
These Hollen men could be so damn difficult sometimes, then sweet the next. Now I knew how Jasmine must have felt when Evan rejected her. But unlike Jasmine, I wasn’t afraid of using my talkative mouth.
“What is it Zenia?” He gave in. He loos-ened his n£¢k tie and sat himself down on his be-d. I stood in front of him.
“EJ, I don’t know what Madison told you but I’m really sorry for everything that had happened.”
“Oh now you’re sorry? After you killed my baby, you’re sorry?”
“It was an accident EJ! I didn’t know I was pregnant.”
His eyebrows crea-sed in confusion.
“Liar liar pa-nts on fire.”
“Stop being childish and hear me out.”
“No. I’m exhausted, murderer.
Miss. ab-ortion.
Miss -I’m-too-young-for-a child-so-I’m-getting-rid-of-it.
Miss One-night-stand.”
That was the last bad name he called me because I sma-cked him across the face as ha-rd as I possibly could.
“I can’t believe you’ll sit there and say all those things to me EJ! Do you really think of me in that awful way? I didn’t had anything ab-ortion. For Pete’s sake, I’m against ab-ortions.
Jasmine could testify to that!
I went behind my sister’s back, ignored her wishes and told your brother about her pregnancy because Jasmine was thinking about an ab-ortion and I knew Evan would be the only one who could had stopped her and talk some s-ense into her.
Do you really think I would deliberately kill my own child, even though I got pregnant from a one night stand with your disrespectful @$$? No matter the circvmstances, I would have bought that baby into the world if I could of, but I couldn’t.”
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He firmly pu-ll-ed me onto him and I thought he was going to beat the cra-p out of me but instead his sparkling grey eyes c@m£ back at once.
“What really happened Zenia? To the baby, I meant.”
His hands smoothed my hair and hisl-ips ran tender k!sses down my n£¢k.
“I’m really sorry EJ. I honestly did not know I was pregnant.
I had just gotten out of a heart wrecking relationship and I was looking to have myself some fun and forget about everything in the past.
I went to the Halloween p@rty with some girls and that’s when I met you.
We were both drunk but I remembered you. I remembered your eyes, your scent, your voice and your to-uches. One month after our encounter, I lost the baby because I had a large consumption of alcohol in my system.I drank myself drunk to get over a silly heartbreak and in the process, I ended up getting rid of a child.”
“Why didn’t you tell me sooner?”
“Because I didn’t want you to get mad at me or looked at me like I was bad news. I really do care about you but I lost your baby, I just figured that I had taken something away from you so I was pushing you away from me.”
He heaved a loud long sigh and buried his face in the crook of my n£¢k for a minute.
“Baby, you know how I feel about you. You know that I want to be there for you and I would always be there for you, you should have told me.”
“I’m sorry.” Tears sli-pped out my eyes and fell on his arms.
“Shh, stop crying.” He turned my face towards his and wiped my tears away with his thumbs.
“It’s okay Zenia. I’m just sorry that you had to go throu-gh that pain by yourself.I wish you hadn’t just left me in that be-droom after we did what we did.”
“What you wanted me to do?” I asked sniffing.
“Well I wanted you to stay. To get to know me better on sober days. To fall in love with me.”
Ourl-ips clashed together and everything felt alright again. He la-id back on the be-d and pu-ll-ed me up and closer to him without breaking the k!ss.
His hands roamed my b©dy as I strongly gave in to his k!ss and ran my hands throu-gh his sli-ck black hair.
His strong che-st heaved in and out throu-gh his shi-t and I had the strongest temptation of peeling it off him and giving him something he was bound to remember.
He rolled me over, hovering over me and stared into my eyes.
I felt my b©dy going numb.
One look.
One look was all it took into getting tranquilized by his luminous orbs.
Hisl-ips clashed down on mine again, claiming them and ma-king them his.
Bit by bit, he was breaking down the strong and tall walls I’ve built around my heart. I was falling for him with every k!ss and to-uches and eye contact.
Tears welled up in my eyes again and he noticed them, he stopped.
“Baby, is everything okay?”
I nodded my head yes.
“I know you’re still hurting but I forgive you Zenia.
No man is perfect so we all make mistakes. All we have to do is learn from them, okay baby?
I’m right here and I’m not going anywhere. You don’t have to be hurting anymore.
We have all our lives to have babies.”
He started k!ssing me again but I stopped him. Straightened my dress and pu-ll-ed myself off the be-d.
“What’s wrong? Was I forcing you?” he asked, studying my b©dy language and ma-king his way over to me.
Just tell him.
“There’s something else you should know.”
“What’s that?”
“I wouldn’t be able to have any more babies in the future.”
He raked his fin-gers throu-gh his hair and looked heavenward. Another loud sigh c@m£ from his nostrils and he turned away from me.
“EJ, plea-se say something.”
“What do you want me to say Zenia?”
“Anything,” I pleaded.
“I’ll see you tomorrow. Goodnight.”
*THE HOLLEN SERIES 03*
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*?? MORE THAN FRIENDS ??*
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Ethan Junior’s POV
I fv¢king hate Mondays.
I cursed obscenities un-derneath my breath for the entire morning in my office.
Miscarriage.
Wouldn’t be able to have another baby.
My cellphone rang for the umpteenth time and I saw it was her, I smashed it against the wall.
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I had spent the rest of the weekend in my be-droom, moping around like a little bit-ch while everyone else was happy and satisfied with their lives.
I wouldn’t be able to have another chance of fathering my children with the woman I was falling madly for.
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Angry tears sli-pped out my eyes and I threw myself on the three seat leather couch in the office.
A knock c@m£ on the door and someone walked in. I knew just by the aroma, it was my brother.
I pu-ll-ed myself upwards and sat up.
“Didn’t sleep last night?” he asked, taking a seat across from me. “What’s going on with you EJ?”
I heaved a long frustrated sigh as I raked my fin-gers throu-gh my hair.
“I’m right here little brother, talk to me.” Evan studied my sunken facial expressions.
I loved my big brother. He was a strict, no nons-ense kind of guy, but he was the best big brother one could hope for.
“It’s Zenia.” I answered short.
“Is she alright?” he asked a bit alarmingly. The de-ep concerning looks c@m£ throu-gh his eyes at the mention of her name.
“I got her pregnant.”
Evan’s eyebrows crea-sed in confusion and it was obvious he was taking a moment to digest what I had said before knocking me outside my head.
“You got her pregnant EJ? You’re twenty fv¢king years old dude! What do you know about being a father? Mom and dad would kill your @$$.”
“She’s not pregnant anymore, idiot. She lost the baby.” I held my head where he had sma-cked me.
This guy.
“Well I’m still sorry to hear that. That’s so sad.” He sat closer to me and wra-pped his arm around my shoulder.
He was yet to learn what really transpired between Zenia and I so when I told about the Halloween p@rty and what Zenia did one month after, his eyes grew bigger and bigger in total shock.
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“Oh man!” he muttered once I had told him everything. “I don’t believe Zen would deliberately kill the baby but drinking so much alcohol just to numb a heartbreak was rather stupid of her.
Nonetheless, you both are still very young and there are other options into getting a baby in the future.
Adoption is at the very top of that list. Surrogacy is another option and of course, a medical procedure in insuring her uterus linings could still house a baby is the third.”
I scoffed.
“What?” He caught it.
“I just want to father my own kids, bro, with someone I’m in love with.”
“Well then, the very last option would be leaving Zenia.” He got off the chair and walked out the office, leaving me in drastic thoughts.
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After I gr@bb£d lunch in the cafeteria, I head back to my office. On opening the door, my eyes caught the back of her head, sitting at my desk.
I walked over slowly and got into my chair, looking her dead in the eyes.
“What are you doing here Zenia?”
“I’ve been calling you but you weren’t taking my calls.”
My eyes shifted to the broken phone still laying on the floor. She followed my eyes and saw it as well.
“Oh. EJ, I hated how our last conversation ended between us. I come here to mend things.”
“To mend what? What is there to be mended?”
“Our relationship.”
“We’re just friends. Those were your words Zenia!”
“I’m sorry I’ve hurt you EJ! I really don’t know how many times you want me to apologize. I’m hurting too and that was one of the reasons why I wanted to take this to my grave.I’m really sorry.”
“I heard you,” I responded and turned my attention to my computer screen.
“EJ, we don’t know what the future holds for us. There are many other options in sto-re as to having a family together. I’m willing to fight throu-gh this and stand by you throu-gh everything.”
“Would you stop talking like if I was the one who killed the baby.”
“It was an accident!”
“Yeah. That could of been prevented if you had your shit together! Don’t sit your @$$ there and use that ‘accident talk’ as a god damn excuse as to why my child isn’t here.
You knew damn well that you had s-x with me that night!
One month later, your period was bound to be late! Didn’t it dawned on you to take a pregnancy test than going to some bloody bar and drink alcohol after alcohol like some god dammit prostitute?”
My blood was alre-ady boiling.
“But you said you forgave me,” she mumbled as she lowered her head.
“Yeah I forgive you but I can’t pretend it never happened, Zenia. For Pete’s sake, you might never be able to have another baby.”
She flung herself up. “I know that! You don’t have to ru-b it in my face like that when I’m clearly sorry for what I did. I messed up. I was stupid. I cost that child his or hers life that I’ll always be thinking and reminded about.
I can’t go back in time and change what happened. I wish that I could.”
“I wish I could do that too. If I could go back in time and change what happened, I would change everything about the Halloween p@rty.” I moved my eyes back to her.
“What exactly are you trying to say EJ?”
“I wouldn’t have met you!”
She opened her mouth to say something but nothing c@m£ out. Tears welled up in her eyes, but at that point, I just didn’t give a damn anymore.
Tear up all you want.
“Why are being like this EJ? Why are you becoming so heartless?”
“Maybe I am heartless. Have you ever asked yourself that?”
“EJ!”
“Zenia, I really can’t do this anymore. I forgive you but I can’t forget. You’ve taken away something that I’ll never have with you again.
The best thing to do at this point, is to go with the last option.”
“What? What last option? What are you talking about EJ?”
“We’re done Zenia.”
TO BE CONTINUED…..