Unbeautifully Loved (Breathe Again) Read Free Page A

you treated you.
    Four and a half months later I found out I was pregnant. It was a shock since I was on the pill and had been even before we started dating. Dex wasn’t one bit happy, he flipped to be exact. Accusing me of trapping him into the relationship and wanting to keep my hook into him but what he didn’t know was before I found out, I was getting ready to end it. Then once I saw the pink plus sign everything changed and from that day forward my life changed, not all for the best but more for the worse.
    Mollie’s face appeared in front of mine. “Yo, Lexie, where’d you go?”
    “Huh?” I asked shaking my head, my brows knitting together.
    “I’ve been calling your name from the kitchen for like a hundred years and you didn’t answer, you’ve just been looking at the wall, very intensely I might add.” She looked at me pointedly knowing where my mind went.
    “Molls I’m fine. It was nothing,” I lied.
    She crossed her arms over her chest. “Liar, I know that look in your eyes. I know exactly where your thoughts were just then, they were on Dex the fucking douchebag,” she said in a matter of fact tone.
    “Don’t worry about it, I’m fine. Let’s just eat and then we can talk.” I changed directions quick before we got into a full on conversation about Dex.
    Mollie eyed me knowing what I was doing but her face softened and her body relaxed. “I went out and got some things this morning while you and Finn were still asleep.”
    “What kind of things?” I eyed her curiously.
    Mollie’s eyes brightened as the corner of her lips curled. “Oh you know... some groceries,” she turned and walked into the kitchen, “a few things for around the house, some towels, new bed sets for all of us, couple things for the kitchen, some movies, new clothes for all of us and toys for Finn. Nothing too major, most of it was on sale. Lucky hey!” She said nonchalantly and I knew she was hiding something from me.
    My eyes widen as my jaw hung open in shock, “What... the... fuck, ” I whispered my eyes piercing into hers. “Please tell me you are joking Moll’s, I mean seriously tell me your fuckin’ joking.”
    She looked at me with her lips curled into a small smile. “Lexie, chill it’s all good, believe me and trust me when I say what I’m going to say next. One, we need all that stuff, you can’t deny that. And two, I have a feeling we are going to be here awhile. I don’t know how to explain it but I just have a very good feeling about being here; one I haven’t had in awhile or ever got at any of our other places.”
    I felt my body stiffen; it was unlike Mollie to say anything positive about the places we went. She was the one who was always a few steps ahead of things in regards to where we went next; when it was time to leave, she was the one who locked down places and small jobs for us.
    “You also said you had a really good feeling about that hole in the wall hair salon you went to when we went to our senior formal, you do remember what that ‘very good’ feeling got you right? And yeah I totally went there,” I said crossing my arms over my chest. Mollie was always one who took her looks very seriously, and that hole in the wall salon didn’t have a good ending.
    Her eyes flew open and her jaw hit the floor before she picked it up and spoke. “Alexia May Todd, how dare you bring up that experience? My hair turned green! I had to go to senior formal like that!”
    I couldn’t help but snort at the memory, it was something else. It was horrible at the time, but thinking back, fuckin’ hilarious. “Moll...”
    “Lexie just trust me would you, let’s make some food and then we will talk and I can explain everything alright?” she said then started to walk back into the kitchen.
    “Fine, but do me a favor?” I asked.
    “Anything,” she replied.
    “Do not call me Alexia again,” I said my voice hard and firm.
     

     
    “Lexie, without getting mad and freaking out, what do