“He knows, right?”
I nod, guiltily.
“When were you thinking of telling me?” he
says, raising his voice.
“There’s nothing,” I try to say but Nate, damn
it, talks again.
“We have to talk about the baby. About us.”
“Us?”
Patrick is upset and blinded with rage. He
rushes to Nate and grabs him by the jacket.
“Patrick, please.” I try to break them apart
before the benevolent arrival of Jay.
“What the fuck is happening here?” he yells,
looking at Patrick.
“This asshole was just about to leave,” he says,
continuing to look at Nate threateningly.
“I’m not going anywhere unless Erin comes
with me.”
So Patrick looks at me with his deep scared eyes
and I’d like to be able to calm him but I can’t, not
now. I need to clear some things up with Nate and
I was stupid to wait until it got to this point, but I
was happy and I was lying to myself that I could
hide this in some little corner of my mind.
“She’s not coming.” Patrick hands down the
sentence, waking me up from my stupor.
“I … what?” I ask, raising my voice.
Jay tries to get involved and to calm us all down
but I’m already on top of him.
“I go where I want with who I want.” I am
