Realistic or Modern A Path I Can’t Follow

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He nodded and held onto her. “Mommy can I have a nap when we get home?” He asked while she grabbed his backpack. “Is your friend still coming over?”

Carmen frowned as she swallowed back tears. “No. I never told you I was on the pill I told you that birth control makes me psycho so I don’t take it.” She muttered. “I assumed you wanted this. Wanted us to have a future and a life together and to me, kids is a part of that.” She told him frowning. “I’m not giving this baby up.”

 

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Max nodded softly and kissed the top of his head "Yeah baby you can, and yes he is coming over still." She said softly smiling happily at him as she walked home with him

Pero frowned and stood up taking a deep breath "I will see you later....I uh....I need sometime to think." He mumbled

 

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“You’re leaving?” She frowned and stared at him a little in shock. “Please don’t go.” She whimpered feeling they panic set in.

He frowned and held onto her nodding. “Okay.... what’s for dinner?” He asked her wanting to know the plan of every day and if the plans changed he was prone to freak outs.

 

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Pero frowned more and sighed heavily "I'll be back okay? Just gonna get some fresh air." He murmured softly to her before he left her there.

Max smiled softly at him "Well I'm not sure about that, what soundd good to you huh?" She asked softly kissing his cheek "You can come to work tomorrow with me if you want."

 

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She frowned and watched him, freaking out, as he left, just trying to
Think about what she was going to do if he left her. She still wouldn’t give the baby up.

He frowned some and shrugged. “Mommy I want chicken nuggets.” He told her. “No, I don’t wanna go to the office. It smell lik the permanent marker” he told
Her frowning some.

 

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Pero took deep breaths as he thought everything over. Him a father? He was TERRIBLE with kids, they hated him. Plus no child needed him as a father.

Max frowned softly but gave a small nod kissing his cheek "Okay baby we can definitely do that, daycare then?" She said ruffling his hair

 

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“Can’t we both stay home?” He asked her pouting dramatically and looking just like Danny for a moment.

Carmen waited for hours for him to come back but when it started getting dark she had given up hope that she would see him again tonight, getting up and locking up her house, starting to break down as she did so, going straight to bed and curled up there crying herself to sleep.

 

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Max took a deep breath for a moment before she smiled softly at him "I'll see if I can work from home okay? No promises though." She said smiling happily at him and kissing his cheek gently before she got food ready. As the night went on it was nice and quiet and finally when she got to bed she fell right to sleep

Pero sat at home drinking himself away as he thought more and more into all of it before he finally passed out on the couch

 

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Danny got home that night to find him there, frowning some but just chucked the bottles away and threw a blanket over the top of him before heading to bed.

Carmen got up early thanks to morning sickness and ran straight for the bathroom, sorting herself out before going to check her phone for any calls or missed texts or anything from him, swallowing back tears when it was empty.

 

[Forever6A7X]

Max woke up the next morning and called her work to let them know she would be working from home smiling softly when she saw Roman come into the living room in his footie pajamas clutching his blanket as he rubbed sleep from his eyes "Well goodmorning sunshine."

Pero woke up the next morning groaning some as he glanced around trying to find ibeprofen near him. He sighed when he realized he had forgotten to set some out and got up heading towards the kitchen to find a few tabs

 

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“Mommy I had a dream that we had a puppy and you loved it more than me.” He told her climbing onto her lap.

She made her way into work for the morning shift to just get everything set up, not talking to anyone until she felt a hand on her arm and shrugged it off. “Don’t you fucking dare.” She spat at Pero. “Not after last night.”

 

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Max gasped dramatically and cuddled him close "Oh my sweet boy, puppies are absolutely adorable and so so cute, but you wanna know a secret?" She asked smiling as he nodded some. She leaned in close like it was a secret and smiled wide at him "Nothing is cuter than you!" She squealed happily before she started blowing raspberries all over his stomach to cheer him up

Pero walked in and sighed heavily seeing Carmen there. He was still conflicted but he knew he needed to speak with her. He placed a hand on her shoulder and frowned as she moved away instantly from him

 

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She frowned as she watched the glass in her hand that she was cleaning rather than meeting his gaze, putting it down when he asked her to go into the office, following him reluctantly.

Roman giggled loudly and held onto her, “Mommy! Stop!” He squealed and cuddled her close. “What’s for breakfast?” He asked her

 

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Pero frowned some and gave a heavy sigh "Meet me in my office, we need to talk." He murmured to her before he left her to it

Max smiled happily at her son and shrugged some "Not sure, what do you want? Mommy is gonna have some fruit." She said to him running her fingers through his hair

 

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She frowned finishing up her current job and going to find him in the back office, closing the door behind her and crossing her arms over her chest. “You left me on my own last night. You didn’t call DIDNT text..... just never showed back up again.” She snapped at him.

 

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Pero nodded some and gave a small sigh "Yeah I know, look we need to talk after your shift okay? I'll take the day and we can figure everything out." He murmured sighimg softly

 

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She glared at him. “No. No you’re gonna tell me right fucking now what the hell is in your head. Cause so far you’re acting like this is my fault and my problem to deal with.... you helped make this baby.... you are just as responsible.” She snapped at him. “So don’t you dare try and brush this off as something unimportant.” She was staring him down now

Danny was in the kitchens listening to all of it just because the walls were thin enough and picked his phone up, texting max that she might wanna call carmen later on.

 

[Forever6A7X]

Max looked at the text she received and frowned some but told him she would and then went back on her laptop to work

Pero frowned and sighed heavily shaking his head some more "I don't want kids Carmen. I never have....I'm not father material. You want the baby then fine, but I don't think I should be in their life." He tells her truthfully

 

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“Then fucking spit it out. You’re leaving me because I’m carrying your child... say that out loud and hear how fucking stupid it sounds!” She yelled at him, losing her temper now and swung the door open, storming out into the restaurant “Hey! Just so you know, the guy that runs this place gets girls pregnant just to fucking dump them!” She yelled loud enough at all the customers that every head turned to look at her.

Roman walked over to her when he got bored of his show and climbed up to sit in the chair next to her. “Mommy what you doing?”

 

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Pero glared at her as she stormed out and looked at her in shock for what she said. He grabbed her arm and took her straight back to his office shakimg his head "You're fired! Get your shit and leave right now!" He spat "I'll fucking give you money for the kid but fucking leave right now!"

Max smiled some and turned her computer to show him the photo she was editing "I'm making all the photos look pretty!" She said happily before giving his cheeks a squish

 

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He giggled some "I wanna try!" He told her, trying to climb into her lap happily.

Carmen glared at him, "I'm fucking gone alright. I don't want your money. It's fucking tainted anyway!" She spat at him, heading out of there quickly after she grabbed her bags.

 

[Forever6A7X]

Max laughed lightly and pulled up a dummy photo to work on smiling wide helping him onto her lap "Okay baby here this is how you do it." She said happily before she showed him

Pero frowned morr shaking his head and taking a deep breath. He did not want this to happen this way but sadly it had and there was nothing he could do now

 

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-8 months-
Danny stood outside Max’s front door with a couple bags of food, ready to make dinner for the three of them. He’d been getting to know his son over the past several months and he couldn’t be in a better place for himself at all. He knew max was still seeing someone else and although it hurt, just having her in his life at all was enough... at least for now. He grinned as the door opened and Roman squealed excitedly "Hey buddy, where's your mom at?" HE chuckled and walked in with him, heading straight to the kitchen to set the bags down "Hello?!" He called through the hosue, chuckling when he saw Max come down in just a towel, "He opened the door by himself."

Carmen lay in the hospital bed, curled up with her little girl in her arms, crying quietly as she held her close, "Please... Please don't take her away." She sobbed quietly but she knew it was useless. She'd been dragged back into her old life after everything that happened and her little girl had been born early because of it, a couple months in the NICU and she was finally being allowed to go home... but not with Carmen. The authorities were taking the little girl off of her because in the time since she'd been born Carmen hadn't managed to get her life under control again

 

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Max gasped when she came downstaris and saw Danny standing there. She gave a small glare to Roman shaking her head some "Roman Blue! How many times have I told you NOT to answer the door? That could have been a stranger that could have taken you!" She explained sighing heavily before glancing at Danny "Please back me up here." She murmured before she went to get changed. The first few weeks of seeing Danny with Roman had been awkward to say the least but soon they fell into a comfortable groove. She was still seeing Arlo but things on that front seemed tp be spiraling down hill quickly

Pero sat in the alley way smoking a cigarette while he wondered where Carmen might have disappeared to. He had tried Max but even she had no idea. He was worried about her and wanted to know she was safe. He had been a wreck since she left, he only worked now barely even stayed at home, he was miserable to be around and he had had atleast 10 people quit on him because of his attitude.


The social work shook his head and reached out to take the baby away from her "I'm sorry m'am but we can't let you keep her. You didn't get sober." He murmured before taking the girl in his arms "We will place her in a good home m'am."

 

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“She has a father. I know who he is.” She whimpered staring at her little girl as she started crying. “Pero Tovar. He’s her father.” She told him quickly, sobbing as she was taken away.

Danny frowned shaking his head. “Don’t look at me bud your mom is right. You should never answer the door without your mom there.” He told him seriously.