Find Me At the Disco by Diahanna Aurora Hampton

Author:Diahanna Aurora Hampton [Hampton, Diahanna Aurora]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Diahanna Aurora Hampton
Published: 2024-06-04T04:30:37+00:00

Will

Chapter Fourteen

One winter night in 1958, they’d met at a deserted park that wasn’t too far from Café Society. Will did most of the talking and had to control himself from yelling to loud. His father had gotten into his head, and he lashed out at Dorothy.

“Who knows?”

Dorothy spoke, barely above a whisper. “No one. I haven’t told anyone.”

“But people will find out,” Will replied. “This fucks up everything. I should have never gotten involved with you.”

She was quiet and appeared to be sad and defeated by what he was telling her. He was too angry at the time to care, but he could tell she was scared of him by the way she trembled, holding back tears.

“I’ll pay for the operation. But after that, I want nothing to do with you! Do you hear me? You and I are through!” he shouted at her.

Dorothy didn’t respond. A single tear escaped from underneath her furrowed brow. She quickly wiped her cheek. When he handed her the envelope, she slowly took it with shaky hands. Once she stuffed it in her bag, Will looked around to make sure no one had been watching the. He turned in the opposite direction of the club and left her standing alone in the park.

Will didn’t hear from her, and he didn’t reach out either. Work got busy, and he was focusing on getting his relationship with Mallory back on track. She didn’t know about Dorothy, only that he’d had complications with another woman, which she had forgiven. But he thought about Dorothy the whole time. Her face the last time he saw her was etched in his mind. After a several months, he went back to the club to try to see her again.

Will looked around before asking one of the barmaids where Dorothy was. She looked at him suspiciously, but she told him Dorothy hadn’t been around for a while. He pressed her for more information, but she was hesitant. When he handed her a twenty, she revealed that Dorothy quite before having her baby. Then the woman quickly left his table. Will felt the room close in on him and he couldn’t move.

Before he had confronted Dorothy, he’d spent a week thinking about what he should do. Should he move on? Let her raise their baby on her own? Go to her and see for himself? Will’s curiosity was too strong for him to let it go, and that’s how he ended up at Dorothy’s apartment and saw his daughter for the first time, a moment he was grateful for and would never forget.

It was a different situation now, but he couldn’t help but notice the parallels—he was trying the get rid of what he saw as a problem. This was the worst thing that could possibly happen when things were getting to be alright between him and Liza. She would be devastated by the news.

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When they made it to the doctor’s office, Will wished he were anywhere else. He’d spent the whole ride wondering how the hell he could have done this to himself.

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