Pregnant with the Bad Boy - Second Book

Chapter 36

I was smiling, walking inside the store that, according to their site, was selling the boiler we needed when I was strolling around in my sneakers, not knowing anything about what was on display. Still, I didn’t care, just happy we had gone outside Perryville. Into little rock, it was nice to just get out; Travis was right about that part; I had been living inside my head for too long.

Travis was standing further away, talking to the guy selling them, when I smiled more; he was handsome, wasn’t he? I stared some more, feeling my heart do another lap of faster beats when he still was carrying my baby; he didn’t even ask anymore, just picked him up, making me smile more, not caring that the whole world could see me act stupid, it was just so sweet, and I wasn’t going lie, it made me like him more.

“Hey, you need help?” the guy that had popped up from nowhere in my world was smiling when I shook my head, not wanting to talk; that was not why I was here. I just strolled around instead of listening to the boring sales talk I had heard before; please, I had been dating Grant.

“You sure?” he was still smiling when I sighed and looked at the guy who was finally trying way too hard to talk to me with his annoying pushy attitude.

“Yes, I’m sure.” I said it back cold when he looked familiar, he did, and I hated that he saw me recognize him like that had been the go sign to start talking to me even more.

“Hey… I know you, Thompson, right?” I nodded; what was the point of hiding it? I didn’t understand how important that was, but even Travis knew, and he wasn’t even from Perryville.

“Yes, I thought I saw you before; you were in my classes, and you married Hopper, didn’t you? My mom told me that you got knocked up…” I was just staring at him when he was babbling. Was that so important to talk about? Me getting a kid with Dylan and that he just skipped out on me like everyone had told me in the end? How nice.

“Is he still locked up? You divorce, aren’t you? Saw that he got a new girl and….” The man kept blabbering about stuff I didn’t want to answer and didn’t seem to care that I was frowning when he was too busy staring at my boobs!

“Look, I need to go back to my baby...” Looking back, I saw that Travis was gone, making my panic blow up instantly; where had he gone?! He had my baby and my money!?

“Travis!?” I didn’t care when I started to scream, all the calmness in my body was gone when he wasn’t answering, and the guy that wanted to talk looked at me like he was just getting every rumor right that I was crazy, f**k him! I just wanted to know where my baby was and my money!

“Travis!?” I started walking to the spot where he had been standing just a minute before that asshole had distracted me with his stupid talk about s**t that I didn’t care about; I was going to kill him for making me look away!

“Oh god! This isn’t happening…. It's not; it's not happening!” I was chanting it into my hands, starting to cry when I couldn’t find him, and he had Beau; why was I so f*****g stupid to trust him with my baby!? I didn’t care about the money; I just wanted my son back!

“What the hell is going on here!?” I was freaking out and crying, feeling hopeless and wanting to kill myself for losing the most important part of my life, my baby!

“Did you make her cry?!” I looked up and saw Travis standing over the guy that had talked too much, making me lose him; my heart started to beat again, seeing that he was still holding the carrier that had my baby inside, which didn’t look like he was in any state of emergency like I was!

Oh, thank you! I was already going over to the carrier, not caring that Travis was scowling and speaking harshly to the man that looked like he wasn’t so eager to talk to me anymore when I was crying and kissing the hands of my Beau, promising that I was never going to let him go again, he was my whole life!

“No, she just started to freak out!? I don’t even know what happened!?” the man was defending himself, upset that I just started screaming. I knew the whole place was probably staring at me with judging eyes, believing I was just as much a freak as my old school classmate.

“Jen, what happened?!” I looked up from my baby, tears falling when I didn’t know what to tell him, scowling at me, that I panicked over that he was gone, and I thought that he had kidnapped Beau and stolen my money? Yeah, I wasn’t sure that’s the story I wanted to share before anyone listened in on us!

“Nothing… nothing happened….” I said it back, ashamed when the guy who had been talking to me was shrugging like he knew that the rumors were true and I was just as insane as the town was talking about back home.

“Okay, fine…. I won’t get the boiler here, not when you get harassed by the employees anyway….” I didn’t say anything seeing Travis's eyes that had gone back to the man, who stared back in disbelief over the fact that Travis had turned and stared him down like this was all his fault and not mine for freaking out!

“I didn’t; she is just crazy; everyone knows that!” I didn’t argue against that, seeing that the man was right, I was, and he was just telling what everyone else already knew in Perryville that I was nuts.

“Well, if she is, why did you work so hard to get her attention when she didn’t want to talk to you?” I sniffled, seeing Travis’s usual glare, only this time, it wasn’t on me; it was the guy pushing me to talk when I didn’t want to.

“It's my job??” I snorted at that, he didn’t even try to talk any sales with me, just asking me about my personal life wanted to get more gossip so maybe his mother could spread around town, f**k him.

“No, you didn’t? You just asked me about my personal life. That is none of your business!” I snapped back, waking up from my numbness; Travis was right, he did harass me for asking me things that I clearly didn’t want to answer, and now he was playing innocent!?

“...and you just lost that business.” I loved every second of seeing the man's stunned face and hearing Travis's cold voice; he had no idea that trying to get gossip from me would result in him losing money. I was smirking even though my eyes were still wet from crying; take that, you bastard!

“Hold on, wait a second…” Travis was already going for the front entrance when I followed, looking back and feeling good about knowing that the guy that I didn’t remember, not really, was the one to feel stupid in the crowd of people that was inside, no matter how petty it was.

“How about we make some arrangements??” I didn’t stop, but Travis did when the man was calling out to our backs and made a sly smile that I saw before turning around completely, still carrying Beau, that was staring up at the ceiling and looking bored, if only I had been so lucky.

“What kind of deal?” I wasn’t sure what was going on when Travis didn’t move, so I didn’t either when the man was coming closer, clearly not wanting to lose the sale he needed.

“10 percent off the installment, and then I’m being generous.” Travis's face didn’t twitch like the guy before us, and he was supposed to be a sales guy? Really? I didn’t say a word wanting to just tell him to go to hell, but Travis clearly had other plans with him stopping and actually listening to the creep!

“Installment I can handle; I want 20 on the boiler, or we’re walking.” The man looked like he didn’t like that, not for one second when he started sweating. Was this his first day or something??

“I can’t do that; the best I can do is ten, and that’s it.” He looked sterner when I saw some other man walking at us, seeing Travis smirk like he was going for that. Wait?

“Look, we can do this back and forth, but I have other places to be; just give me 15, and we'll call it an even, and I won’t give you a bad review for your boss to see, Kevin.” He looked at the nametag and gave the guy whose name was Kevin, a bigger smirk and looked like he knew that he had won when the guy was shaking his head, not believing he agreed to this.

“Sure, but I’m not removing the shipment fee; we have a business here, not a charity.” Travis nodded, and I smiled at him; what did he just do? That was so hot, and I didn’t even know why?

I didn’t follow when they were wrapping up the sales, but I didn’t let Travis with the carrier away for a second with my eyes still unsure what I would tell him. What really happened? It felt like crap saying that I freaked out and couldn’t handle a second alone.

“Jen, come over here a second.” I was still standing on the spot near the entrance when Travis called my name, and I was surprised when he looked stern again. I gulped, walking over in my sneakers, my feet still swollen from being pregnant and wanting to know what was so important that I had to come over to the guy that was a creep in my eyes.

“Tell me if this is right or not…” I had my arms behind my back, looking at the receipt Travis had slid over and glaring more when I looked closer, seeing the numbers that made me frown, same as him; what was this??

“That’s just ten percent; how stupid do you think we are??” I looked back into the creep called Kevin that lost his confidence; did he just try to cheat us because he heard some rumor that I was insane? Just how stupid was he? Perryville was just as big the other way, and if I told my mom about this, it would spread all over town, making his family embarrassed for him.

“Oh? It is… must have tapped the wrong numbers….” I didn’t care that Kevin was fake smiling, hatting every second of pretending to be friendly and not staring at my boobs just so that he could make a sale. Like I said, creep.

“Okay, that’s alright because it's twenty now….” I tried not to start smirking wider when I heard Travis beside me; oh, I liked that sound; make him pay for trying to cheat us, yes.

The man called Kevin looked over us like he was trying to find a way out of this. I smirked more, there wasn’t.

“Fine. f**k… don’t tell my boss…. I’ll take away the shipping fee if you keep this between us….” Travis nodded when I had crossed my arms, feeling powerful for once in my life with the stern Travis that didn’t smirk anymore, just watched the man redo the sale and the new receipt when everything was done.

“Nice doing business with you… Kevin…” I said it happier when he just looked blankly back, hating every second of ever seeing my face. I didn’t laugh until we were outside the store, holding the papers that confirmed that we would have hot water soon.

“Okay, that was…. Insane….” I laughed some more, seeing Travis smiling like he was happy to see me all giddy when I was still riding the high on putting that asshole back in his place; who was the crazy one now, right?

“Not insane, just…. smart….” He winked when I felt my cheeks get flush from his eyes, showing me that he liked all of it. I made another nervous laughter now, checking Beau so I wouldn’t show him how embarrassed I was from getting a compliment.

“Alright, let’s get some food and head back; it can’t be fun for the little guy to spend all his waking time in this thing….” He was swinging the carrier when Beau was sleeping again; he really slept a lot; I hoped that would hold on, knowing some horror stories from Mom when Mandy and I were babies.

“I think he is fine; he likes being swung like that….” I smiled more, Travis swinging my baby back and forth; I couldn’t be happier that I didn’t have to carry him around, at least not in his seat.

“Travis…. Thank you…. again for what you are doing… I know we're not dating, but… yeah, it was good being inside that store with you, and I haven’t felt that way since….” I lost my smile; I was going to say, Dylan, he made me forget to be scared, mostly because I was so angry half the time and lost in his eyes the second part, but still….

“Don’t tell me if you don’t want to… let's just get back and celebrate having some money left, your money Jen…” he chuckled amid the seriousness, making me smile too; he was crazy; that was for sure, just being able to shake anything off him, I envied that.

“Yeah, let's….” I walked towards the driver’s side, got inside, and saw Travis put up my baby. I pulled him further back inside, scared to death that he would get hurt; when Travis gave me a look to calm down, easy for him to say, I was so scared, and that would never go away.

“Let’s go, momma…” he laughed again when I rolled my eyes, putting the keys inside the old ignition and turning them around, loving every second of driving again, I was going to get my own car for the money that was left now that I didn’t have to pay rent.