Silence (Silence #1)(59)

“Her?” Can you find out this early? There was no way, right? It would just be a weird blob looking thing still.

Mia shrugged, smiling. I hadn’t seen one of those smiles in a long time, the ones that lit up her whole face.

“I don’t mind what it is, but I have a feeling it’s a girl.”

“Hopefully he’ll do the right thing by the baby, but if not you know you’re not gonna be alone, right? He or she will have their Uncle Cole.”

Wow, she was gonna have a baby. Mia threw her arms around me, almost knocking me back and squeezed the life out of me. Was this good for the kid?

“Alright, but you know you’re squishing the baby right now,” I teased breathlessly as she tightened her vice like arms.

“Thank you, Cole,” she whispered emotionally. “And she’ll have her Auntie Oakley!”

I chuckled and ran my hand through my hair. “Yeah.”

I really should marry that girl one day. We’d have to wait two years before she’s even legal to get married though, well unless we had her parents’ permission, but that was unlikely. Sure, they were happy we were together, but I don’t think they would want her getting married. I smiled to myself, maybe if I proposed on her eighteenth, or maybe we could get married on her birthday? Stop thinking about it, there’s no rush, you weirdo!

“Cole,” Mia snapped, waving her hand in front of my face.

I shook my head, clearing my thoughts. “Sorry.”

“Thinking about her?” she teased.

Narrowing my eyes, I sat back on the bed. “Maybe.”

“Aww, you’re so cute,” she gushed, reaching out to pinch my cheeks but I batted her hand away before she could.

“So when are you telling Mum and Dad?” I questioned, wanting to change the subject from my ‘cuteness’. “They’ll freak, you know that?

Her face dropped. Mia was almost twenty, but Dad still thought of her as his little girl. He would definitely not be happy. Well, not at first at least. I know he would love that little baby to death once he had gotten his head around it.

“In a minute actually. I am not looking forward to it, and thanks for you overwhelming words of encouragement.”

“You’re welcome! It’ll be fine though.”

“Thanks for being supportive, it means a lot.” She stood up to go tell our parents. “Oh, and if you hear shouting, come save me!”

“Good luck, Mia. Was nice knowing ya.” She rolled her eyes and walked out of my room slowly, groaning to herself.

I stripped out of my clothes and slipped into bed. The house was silent. I wasn’t sure of that was a good thing or not. Suddenly, Dad erupted. I couldn’t hear his words as they were mumbled and mixed into one long yelling mass of noise. Poor Mia.

I should have gone down there, but they needed to talk it out between them. If it got worse, or if I heard Mia cry, then I would. After a minute, everything settled down. I imagine Mum would have told Dad how ridiculous he was being, or Mia just said she ended it with Chris-the-dick, and they were celebrating.



School had passed painfully slowly, but thankfully it was over, and I was waiting for Oakley by my car. Kerry and Ben loitered around with my, flirting with each other and play fighting. Just what I wanted to see!

“You wanna tag along with us tomorrow? You know, so you don’t look so pathetic being alone on a Saturday night!” Ben said.

“Hmm, do I want to be a third wheel on your date? No thanks. I think I’d rather be pathetic.” The thought of watching them sticking their tongues down each other’s throats all night made me feel ill.

Kerry rolled her eyes and grabbed Ben’s hand.

“Fine, loser,” she chirped and pulled on Ben’s hand. “Come on, take me home.”

Ben waved over his shoulder, and I nodded my head.

I leant against my car and contemplated whether I should get my phone out in the usual, yeah I’m alone, but I’m on my phone, therefore, I’m not a loser thing. Just as I was about to reach in my pocket, I saw her walking out of the building with Hannah and some other guy, who was looking at her for slightly too long. If he valued his eyeballs he was gonna need to look away real soon. Wow, violently jealous now. Nice one, Cole, you’ve reached a new level of pathetic.

Oakley smiled as she saw me and I couldn’t help smiling back.

“Bye, Oakley,” Hannah said, giving her a little wave, which she returned.

I held my arms out for her, and she gripped hold of me so tight, it took me by surprise. It was as if she was scared I would run away or something crazy like that.

“I’ll miss you this weekend too,” I whispered in her ear, predicting that was her problem. She nuzzled my neck, confirming my guess.

The weekend was going to go so slowly. I definitely needed to go out and do something to make the time pass faster. Jasper was talking about going out so maybe I should go with him. It would be much better than being a third wheel on Kerry and Ben’s date. I could also stop Jasper from getting too drunk and calling Abby again to shout about how she broke his heart, and that she was an evil witch for making him still love her. Or maybe I shouldn’t, that was funny!

I took Oakley for ice cream after school. With all the stupid drama recently, we hadn’t been there in a while. We took our usual seat in the booth by the window, and Julie called to say she would bring our order over, knowing what we would have.