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got up off of her seat and walked over to Ivy trembling. “Oh God. I’ll have your father kill him!” Sadie begged for a mother’s worst nightmare to be coming true.

“Momma, he didn’t rape me, but I did sleep with him.” She tried to avoid eye contact.

“Sit down, Ivy.” Sadie gave Ivy the napkin. “Was this your first experience outside of Grey?”

“Yes,” Ivy said trying to catch her breath. “And now I’m pregnant and I don’t know who that daddy is.” Ivy leaned against the counter and buried her head in her face.

For a moment, Sadie wasn’t sure what to say. She prayed that she had heard Ivy wrong. Surely, her only daughter did not just tell her that she was still in college, pregnant and unsure of who the father of her child was. She took a deep breath feeling herself beginning to hyperventilate.

“Ivy could you say that again. You mother is getting old. I seem to be hearing all the wrong shit these days.” She gave a little laugh.

“I got…pregnant,” she said slowly. Ivy wouldn’t dare remove her eyes from the table placement in fear of meeting her mother’s eyes. “And I don’t know if the father is Grey or Nicola.”

There was a long silence as Sadie tried to pull her thoughts together.

“You want a drink, because I need a drink,” Sadie said standing up.

“I can’t drink. Didn’t you just hear what I said? I’m pregnant.”

“Oh, I heard what you said. I just…” Sadie leaned against the countertop. “I just can’t believe it.”

“I can’t either,” Ivy said softly. “I was thinking that maybe I should sit out and get things straight.”

“Straight? Ivy you aren’t thinking of having an abortion are you? Regardless of the father, you are still that child’s mother. And I am still that child’s grandmother.”

“I’m three months pregnant. And although I’ve thought about it a hundred times, I don’t think that’s what I want. I really want to keep it.”

Sadie let out a sigh of relief. “Good. Good.” Sadie wiped her tears away, trying to hold back all the wrong words to say.

“I know that I’ve let you down. And I’m so sorry, but I’m prepared to be the woman that I know that I can be for this baby and myself.”

“So, if you’re prepared, you don’t need to take any time off. You need to finish what you started and graduate. You have a job waiting on you…and what about the wedding?”

“Grey and I are continuing. He knows what happened and why?”

“And what did he say about all of this?”

“He’s prepared to still be the same man to me as before?”

“I’m not sure that good enough considering the man before broke up with you. You know having a child doesn’t necessarily mean that you have to have a husband. It’s better to have a two-parent household. But when one parent doesn’t want to be there…”

Ivy begin to cry again. Her tears were filled with agony. It had been this easy the whole time? Her mother hadn’t said one cross word. She had been closing herself off from the world for what? Ivy’s emotions became uncontrollable. She cried aloud. “It’s been so hard to hold this all in,” her eyes were red and puffy.

“But baby, you didn’t have to keep this from me. I’m your mother. I love you regardless of what happens to you in world.”

“I know. I know, Momma.” Ivy let go of soft sobs.

Sadie held her close, rubbing her daughter’s head and kissing her check. “It will be okay. You hear me. You can make it through this. We’ll do it together. We’ll do it together, baby.”

**

Madison placed his keys on his sofa table and walked into his den where his Doberman Pincher lay on his cranberry leather sectional watching television. It had been an exhausting day and all he planned on doing was jumping in the shower and resting the entire night without interruption. Pouring a tall glass of orange juice, he stared out of his kitchen window at the full moon and cloudless sky over the Atlantic Ocean. It was on peaceful nights like this off the coast of Emerald Isle that he dreamed of being back in Memphis with Sadie and Ivy and even Emerald with his wild ass. Taking a sip of his juice, he frowned at its bitterness. Adding the remainder of the vodka sitting faithfully by the flour jar on his counter, he tasted his drink again in approval.

Surveying the room, Madison was pleased to see that his dwelling was spotless. “Kept the place well for me, did you, General?” Madison said rubbing his dog behind the ears. Lately, General had been his only companion. He had no time to date, and when he did find someone he thought would make a good mate, she always had some indelibly large flaw.

Hitting the answering machine on the end table, Madison listened to his messages. First, his son Emerald asked for five hundred dollars, as a loan of course. Second, Dish Network was having a special on satellite systems. Third, Sadie called to tell him that Ivy was pregnant. Wait! Replaying the message he listened carefully, praying that he heard a faint snicker in the background. It had to be a joke.

“Madison. Hello, it’s Sadie. I am calling about our daughter. Just as plain as I can tell you…It seems that Ivy is pregnant…three months pregnant to be exact and doesn’t know who the father is. She also has moved out of her dorm into her own apartment I don’t foresee this getting any better. Call home, I mean, call me when you get a chance… at my house. You know the number. By the way, your son has run up a five hundred-dollar credit card bill that he needs to pay. You’ll probably hear from him before I do. Get in his ass, and tell him to send me a money order ASAP or else. Thanks. Take care. Bye.”

Damn, this was no joke. Turning off the television,