The Preacher's Son by Carl Weber

Author:Carl Weber [Weber, Carl]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: General Fiction, cookie429, Kat, Extratorrents
ISBN: 9780758220332
Publisher: Dafina
Published: 2005-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

I wasn’t sure who it was standing outside my bedroom but I could feel a presence before there was a knock on the door. I was hoping it was my brother Dante, ’cause I wasn’t ready to face my father again, and the Lord knows I wasn’t ready to deal with my mother’s crap.

I hesitated for a second before answering. I sat up, sniffling back tears and wiping my eyes. It had been close to a half hour since I left my parents in the living room with the thought that I might have an abortion. I was actually surprised that neither of them had come upstairs to talk me out of it. They were both staunch pro-life advocates in our community and just the thought that I might have an abortion was as bad as the reality of me being pregnant. Then again, knowing my father, he was probably just waiting for cooler heads to prevail or perhaps for Dante to come home so we could discuss the whole situation as a family. Now that I thought about it, I wouldn’t be surprised if all three of them were standing outside my bedroom door.

Once I had gotten myself together, I turned toward the door and hollered, “Who is it?”

No one replied, but the door opened and my mother stepped into the room. She was alone and her face was still wearing the same evil scowl she had earlier when she and my father confronted me downstairs in the living room. She closed the door behind her and started to pace back and forth in front of my bed. The way she was staring at me made me feel like a wounded antelope about to be pounced on by a hungry lion.

“You just couldn’t keep your damn legs closed, could you?” she finally snarled.

I didn’t answer, so she continued her outburst. This time, though, she pointed her finger in my face at the end of every sentence to drive home her point. “How many times did I tell you to stay away from them boys? How many times did I tell you that if you didn’t stay away from them boys, you were gonna end up getting knocked up?”

She paused and took a deep breath, but there was no relief in sight. She was no longer acting like the first lady of the church that everyone knew and respected. She was now acting like her true self. She was acting like a bitch. She scrunched up her face evilly as she continued her finger-pointing tirade.

“But nooooo, you just wouldn’t listen to me, would you? You swore up and down that you weren’t doing anything. That you wasn’t having sex. That you was gonna wait till you got married. Well, you’re pregnant now, and I wanna know when the hell you got married, ’cause I sure wasn’t invited to the wedding.”

And you won’t be in the future if I have anything to do with it, I thought.

“Now, I wanna know who this baby’s father is, and I wanna know now.

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