I woke up to the stinging sensation in my body. Ofcourse it was the damn needles that poked my body out. I couldn't help but see my flat tummy. It was tired, with all the stretch marks and scales.

It only meant one thing.

I gave birth. It did take me a minute to recover from the past incidents. The teacher, the school, the pre-graduation and there was the part in which my water broke. And there was the part where Blaze carried me to his car, and there was the moment when I completely lost control of my thoughts. There I was, not knowing what's happening around me.

I heard footsteps approaching me and prayed to God it was my family. I wanted to see them, and my babies.

"Ms. Jefferson, you are awake," a  staff nurse came through the door who held a heavenly thing. My baby.

I couldn't help but notice his pink fingers and tiny elbow. It was my boy. He was wrapped in a blue onesie with a hazel towel.

I felt tears swelling up my eyes and voluntarily making its way down.

She handed him to me. That was the moment when I reborn. He looked surreal. He had my hair and looked like a dumpling, just like me. His facial features resembled my dad's. Oh my god. He is little Weston!

That's when I found the perfect name for him. Weston Jefferson. Wait, where is the other baby?

"Here we go," Blaze entered the ward with the baby. They looked so adorable together. He wrapped her with his arms so gently like he was afraid of hold her wrong. I can't wait till he knows the truth.

"Little Miss Jefferson," He sat beside me on the chair and helped me sit properly. He put her into the crib and got Weston from my hands. He did the same with Weston and took her.

I- Can't beleive it. She had the same scar as Penny, Blaze's Sister. She looked like she is the amazing thing in the whole universe. Her eyes tightly wrapped and she was eager to see the world. Her eyeballs moved up and down and I played with her fingers.

"Harper," Blaze whispered, taking my hands in his. I looked at him, he had tears in his eyes. He kissed my hands slowly and He looked at the baby as if he knew something that I didn't know.

"Harper,"  I said it again.

I liked that name immediately. He once told me that his sister wanted to name her unborn child Harper. She looks exactly like her, but with my hair and wait, the mole. The mole my father had. I was about to weep but stopped.

The moment was ended with Reece barging into the room with all the baby stuff in her hands, followed by my family. "Welcome my fellas!" She shouted to which Little Weston started crying. There we go.

"Oh my god, Praise the lord," My aunt went near the crib and looked at them like it was her life. She had tears in her eyes too. "He is your father, Pearlin," She said that and I felt my father's presence at that moment.

I wanted to thank Blaze for all this. For giving me a new life. A life with my babies, which sucked me back to the world. If it was not for them, I would have ended up in a rehab or something.

"What are their names, let me guess!" Reece faked her thinking and I already knew the answer. I bet she says Kendall. "How about Kendall?"

Man, she is so obvious! "Pfft, We already named her," Blaze scowled lowly to which Reece made a funny face. "Ooh daddy and mommy named thier kid already,"

Mommy, okay. But daddy- "Shut up," I told Reece in my most serious tone. She can't do this now, I must be the one to tell him. "And Pearlin, you should let the dad name one child, preferably the girl," My aunt said that a little too loud. At that moment, I regretted telling about Blaze  being the father.

"Please," I looked at him apologetically.

Reece looke like she was about to shove me to death. "You haven't told him yet?"

"Jesus, Reece,"

I was a little out of mind. I gutted my teeth in anger. I guess it was obvious to the public. I was about to have a panic attack.

"Relax, Pearl, I know," Blaze said as calm as a cucumber.

"What? You know what?" I asked still in a state of restlessness.

"They are mine," He had this exhausted face and not the betrayal face.

Cause I was the one who got betrayed.

I looked at Reece and she didn't even look me in the eyes.

"What? Who told you this?" I looked at Reece and my aunt.

"That doesn't matter," He again grabbed my hands. But I shoved jolis hands away from me. How could this happen? Why, no, I was supposed to tell him.

"No, it matters to me blaze!" I got all teared up. "You! You, one hell of a sister, you did this!" I couldn't control myself from shouting. Screw post partum.

"Listen, Honey, it was me," My aunt tried to put the blame on her but I clearly know it was Reece who did this.

"Don't make this all about yourself, Princess Amelia," Reece said to which My tears just increased.

"I will make this about myself, I was supposed to tell him, not you," I know my sob voice was not clear.

"I'll tell him tomorrow, my ass, Pearlin, my ass." That made me more furious.

"That's my wish to tell him or not tell him,"

"Again Pearlin, you are making this all about yourself, see the guy, he deserves to know the truth!"

"Don't pull the dad card, Reece." I was already tired.

"I shouldn't pull the card, then okay, hear me out." I was afraid of what she might tell.

"When dad and mom passed, you didn't even talk to me, you took drugs and made yourself out of the world. You didn't even think of me, you made things all about yourself. As if you were the only child that lost her parents. I was younger than you, you were supposed to be taking care of me. But hell, you did everything except taking care of me.

People die Pearlin, it's nature. You can't control that.and when I knock your door after mom and dad died, you curse me away. You always told bad things to me and I know that you grieved but you should atleast talked to me, right? We should have come out of this together. But again, you made this all about yourself and didn't even let me to your life and when we moved here, it was painful for me. I had my life back there in Vegas. I came here for you, I did this for you!"

"I didn't ask you to,"

"Just stop okay? Anybody would say you were never going to tell him that he is the father, Pearl. That man deserves everything. Even after you heard about his sister's death, you didn't have the heart to tell him about his babies, that shows how pathetic you are,"

"Are you done? Cause I have a lot to share."I stiffened up my shoulders. She is playing the parents' card, then imma dive into it.

"When Mom and dad passed away, I was not in my mind, Reece,. Unlike you, I was with them everyday, not partying and going overboard with your friends. And when dad died, you know how horrible that was and when My one whole of a bitch bestfriend did that to me, you were not even there, you just went out, not to mention mother's death.  That one practically murdered me, I thought you would have known this, but you didn't. When I tried to come out, I just couldn't. But I had to because, I had to take care of you. I wanted to make sure you are happy, I wanted to be the parent to you but now, you," I sobbed and Hard and Blaze hugged me from the back.

"I was going to tell him after we met with the teacher at school and that's why I had all other balloon stuff in my bag,"

"Pearlin, and you must have thought, 'um let me tell some other day, today is rainy.',".I got irritated. How low can she think of me?

"Unlike you, I was afraid. I was afraid of everything. That's why I had no friends back there and I thought you knew it too, The friend I had turned out to a whore and The boyfriend I had turned out to be a motherfucker. What did you expect me to do? Tell Blaze that he is the father, I was terrified of what He might do when he hears that. I wanted to make sure that everything is okay. What if he too left me? I cannot bear it, Reece, I simply cannot," I broke. My knees felt weak and I felt like dying.

"Tell me, Reece, Tell me, what did you expect me to do?" My shattered voice Echoed the room and my tears filled up all my face.

"What made you think I'd leave you Pearlin?"

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