Chapter 4

A few days have passed and I’m eating breakfast at the table. Go the first time in a long time I’m not sad. Liam and I agreed to stay at the cabin together, we never did got ahold of the owner of the cabin for answers.

Staying with Liam has been easy, he’s very quiet and keeps to himself most of the time. He spends a lot of  the day in the forest and I spend a lot of time watching movies.

I wonder what he’s doing out there.

I hear his bedroom door open and his foot steps down the hall.

“What are you doing today?” He chirps.

“Same as every other day I’ve been here, nothing” I joke.

“Come on, let’s get some fresh air” he suggests “you haven’t left this cabin in days. It’s not healthy and you’re going to start to smell.”

I laughed. Im a bit worried about the wolf I thought I saw, but there’s been no sign of it.

I get dressed and meet him outside.

“This way, it leads to a cliff with a nice view” he begins walking.

I follow him and we walk side by side through the mature trees.

“I have been exploring these forests since I was a kid” he says as the ground crunches under our feet.

Where does he stay? From what I read online there’s nothing out here for at-least 100 miles and this cabin is new.  It begins to rain softly.

“Camping?” I ask curious about him.

“Something like that” he smiles.

Im about to ask him what he means when I slip on the wet rock. I start to fall backwards and Liam catches me before I hit the ground.

How did he get behind me so fast?

My stomach flutters feeling his warm body and hard arms around me.  I look up and our lips are inches apart.

I clear my throat and stand up.

Willow get a grip! I tell myself; you just had your heart broken do you want that to happen again?

“Maybe that’s enough of the outdoors for today” Liam laughs as it starts pouring.

That’s probably a good idea, we have spent enough time together to make me feel weird things and I don’t like being in wet clothes.

We turn to head down the trail back to our cabin.

We are almost back at the cabin in our soaking wet clothes. Despite being drenched, I feel better than I have in a long time. That’s until I see a familiar car in the driveway. My heart starts racing, I haven’t seen him in weeks.

Trevor is standing outside his car looking nervous as hell. Fuck, how did he find me?

“Who is that?” Liam asks lifting his eyebrows.

“No one, can you give us some privacy please?” I ask.

“Sure, I can give you and no one some privacy” he smirks before turning to walk towards the cabin.

I walk over to Trevor and he turns around.

“How did you even find me?” I demand my hands on my hips. 

“Your mom told me” he answers looking away.

Of course she did. She also thought I should forgive them both for the greater good.

“Why are you even here?” I squint my eyes.

“I have something to tell you and I want to say it in person” he says.

“What?” I say annoyed, but at the same time,  curious about what could be so important that he drove all the way here to tell me.

“Carly is pregnant” he whispers, almost like he didn’t want to say it out loud. He can’t even make eye contact with me “it’s the reason we were together that day when you called. We had just found out.”

My vision turns red and blurry. I have no control as I raise my fist and punch him square in the face. We had been trying for years to get pregnant, each month more hopeless than the one before. I guess I was the problem.

“We weren’t together because we are seeing each other,  we were together because she was telling me about the baby and she wasn’t sure if she was going to keep it.” He explains.

“So what does that mean?” I ask biting my tongue so I don’t cry.

“We are keeping the baby. You know I’ve always wanted to be a father. We are going to try to make it work for the baby” he says with a sad look.

At this point I am bitting my tongue so hard, I can taste blood. I don’t want to cry in front of him, he doesn’t deserve to know how heartbroken I am.

The sadness is quickly replaced by anger. This was supposed to be a happy moment and it was supposed to be my baby! I might be the angriest I’ve ever been in my whole life.

“Get the fuck out of here and never come back.” I scream waving my arm.

“Come on Willow, don’t be that way” he says “can’t you just be happy for me?”

“Be happy for you! If I ever see you again I will kill you” I scream lunging at him again and this time I’m out for blood.

If I did kill him I doubt anyone would find him out here.

I get a couple good punches in and someone, I’m assuming Liam, pulls me off him.

“Mind your own business Liam” I yell but he doesn’t let me go. I’m basically in a Liam straight jacket.

“Well it looks like you moved on pretty fast too” Trevor says referring to Liam being here.

That couldn’t be farther from the truth and it only infuriates me more.

I let myself drop and get out of Liam’s grasp. I’m not heavy but I throw all my weight at Trevor knocking him to the ground.

I am about to punch him in the face again and when I’m lifted off of him.

“Ahhh” I yell in frustration.

“Stop, you don’t want to do this” I hear Liam say.

Trevor gets off the ground and scrambles to his car and says “you’re a crazy bitch.”

It doesn’t take long before his car is long gone.

“Are you ok?” Trevor asks.

I ignore the question and start to walk towards the forest.  

Liam reaches out to me,  but I push his arm away and say  “I just want to be left alone right now.”

“Where are you going?” He yells from behind me.

Truth is I am not sure where I am going, anywhere but here I guess.