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open and shut. He lifted his face from his hands and sighed deeply, ready for whatever Zariah was about to offer. She came into the room with her head hung low. She paused in her steps and leaned against the wall. Quincy stood up from the bed. “So where have you been?” he asked.
    “I um needed to clear my head,” Zariah replied as she looked everywhere in the room but at Quincy. She fiddled with the keys in her hand.
    “Look Zariah I don’t want to argue anymore. I’m just trying to move forward with you. It just feels like we are stuck though.”
    Zariah didn’t reply.
    “ I’m trying to talk to you instead of walking out; can you please try and make this easy?” he asked.
    Zariah sighed and looked up at Quincy. When Quincy saw her tear stained face his heart paused then begin rapidly beating second after second like it was about to burst through his chest. He’s never seen Zariah look so distressed before and it was eating away at him that he was the reason for all this because his heart and mind couldn’t seem to agree on anything.
    “Why are we doing this Q?” s he asked.
    “W—what do you mean exactly when you ask that?”
    “Why do you want to be with me? You made it clear yesterday that you can’t love me fully because half of your heart is still with her.”
    “Look I only said that out of spite, because….” Quincy stopped in the middle of his sentence hesitating on if he really wanted to tell her the truth or not.
    “Because of what?” She asked.
    “ Zariah having a baby scares me right now because I know I’m not financially stable. Shit it’s sometimes hard for us to pay our rent on time. You mean to tell me you want to bring a baby into this struggling situation as well?”
    “Q no one is ever really prepared to have a baby unless they are married and rich as hell,” Zariah said back. “All I know is that I’m ready to have a baby with the man that I love.”
      Quincy sighed deeply and walked over to Zariah. “Zariah,” he said above a whisper. She refused to look at him. He cupped her face with his index finger and thumb, gently lifting her face to meet his eyes. “Listen to me, I understand everything that you are saying but I wish you would’ve talked to me before you started making decisions behind my back.”
    “I understand that…and I apologize,” she said in return.
    “It’s okay I’m just glad we can come to an understanding…have we come to an understanding?” Quincy asked wanting to make sure. Zariah looked him deep in his eyes then said, “I just have one question for you.”
    “Okay I’m listening.”
    “Do you want to have a baby with me?
    “We will cross that bridge when it comes, take it one day at a time. When do you go to the doctor’s office to see if you really are pregnant though?”
    “Next week,” she replied, feeling somewhat hurt on the inside. Quincy had a way of making her feel low even when he wasn’t trying to.
    “Look don’t feel sad, we will get through this. There’s just a lot on my mind but we will get through this.”
    “Okay Q…whatever you say,” Zariah said leaving it at that. She was too tired of arguing and too weak to keep putting energy into someone who didn’t love her fully.
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
                                                Chapter 5
                                         Jaidyn’s P.O.V.
       I woke up in the middle of the night to find out Quincy was calling me. As my blurry vision came into clear I looked at the clock and noticed it was 4 in the morning. What could possibly be wrong that he would call me at 4 something in the morning? I thought to myself as I answered the phone. If he wanted to say sorry for not coming earlier he could wait until it was a reasonable hour,