Love in Vein by Britt Morrow

Author:Britt Morrow [Morrow, Britt]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-11-26T06:00:00+00:00

I don’t know how long I sit there. But it’s long enough for the parking lot to clear out. Even the lingering UT fans, celebrating by shotgunning beers and high-fiving each other repeatedly, have departed, giving me curious glances, but probably just chalking my state up to the loss. I know I should leave, but I don’t know where to go. I don’t want to have to explain where I’ve been to Jeremiah.

“Levi? Are you alright?”

It takes me a few seconds to recognize who’s speaking to me.

“Levi?” The urgency in Coach Carson’s voice brings me back to the present.

“Yeah, fine.”

“You don’t look fine. That was a hard hit. I think we should go to the medical center.”

“I guess I’m not fine. But it has nothing to do with the hit.” In fact, I’d completely forgotten about it. Even the throbbing in my temples has taken a backseat to the unsettled feeling in my stomach.

“What’s going on?” He drops to his knees beside me with a slight grunt.

“I’m having a baby. Maybe.”

I have no idea what prompted me to tell him. Maybe the hit did do some damage to my brain.

“Maybe? As in there is a girl who may or may not be pregnant?”

“There’s definitely a pregnancy…” I’m trying to word this delicately, but there’s really no way to euphemistically talk about it. “I just don’t know if she’s keeping it.”

“You know that you can’t make that decision for her though, right?”

“Yeah. But I still want to convince her that we can do this. That we’d make good parents.”

The shock on his face is evident, but he conceals it quickly. He obviously wasn’t expecting me to be the one who’s pushing for having the child.

“Do you love her?”

I reply without hesitation, “More than anything.”

“Does she love you?”

“I don’t know.” I think she used to, but that was before I left, before she knew the position in which I’d left her.

“Why doesn’t she want to have the baby?”

“She doesn’t think it would work. That we don’t have the money. That I won’t have the time or the desire to be a dad. That she would just be a burden.”

“Is any of that true?”

“Just the money part. I came to university to make a life for myself, get a job with a good salary and benefits.”

“I won’t presume to know what the right answer is, Levi,” he sighs. “What I do know though, is that it’s important to make a good living. But not at the expense of making a good life. And bringing a new life into the world is pretty damn special. Especially with someone you love.”

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