Chapter Ten
"Marilynn, wait. Please." Zac begged. Marilynn stopped and looked back, waiting. "Don't leave me yet." Marilynn studied his face.
"What Zac?"
"Can we work this out?" Marilynn thought about it. Maybe she had reacted a little too soon. She didn't say anything, but walked towards him. He stood up and smiled. "Thank you so much Marilynn. I have a different idea. The problem with the plan was that you didn't want to be amrried right away at eighteen, right?"
"It's not that. The part that I don't like is that if we went through with the plan and got married at eighteen, but we didn't love eachother, the whole concept of being married would be irrelevant."
"Alright, so, how 'bout we continue with the plan, except we can go out with other people, like usual. I'd still visit whenever. and we'd spend time together, with Lucy, as a family. And if we don't love eachother by the time we're eighteen, or any other time, we can marry someone else."
"Okay. I'll go with that. How are we going to tell our parents?"
"I'm sure Ike or Tay'll watch her for a few minutes. My parents are around here somewhere."
"Should we go find them and get this done and over with?"
"Sure. I'll get my brothers." He ran into the other room. "Guys?"
"It's about time. What happened?" Taylor asked.
"Tell ya later. Can you watch Luce for half an hour or so?"
"Sure. Bring 'er in."
"Thanks." Zac went to get Lucy. "Lucy?"
"What daddy?" Zac smiled. He still had to get used to being called daddy, but he kind of liked it so far.
"Would you like to play with uncle Ike and uncle Tay for a while?"
"Sure daddy."
"Kay. Come on this way." He put his hand down so Lucy could hold it. He escorted her into the room. "As long as she has her Dolly, she's fine." Zac informed his brothers. Isaac and Taylor grinned at Zac, sor sounding like a father already. Zac shrugged and returned to Marilynn. "So what did you tell your parents? Did you tell them I was the father?"
"No. I told them I was raped. The first time I ever revealed who Lucy's father was was on a radio contest to win backstage passes for Lucy and I to this concert. We had to tell crazy stories, and I knew no one would believe me, so I called and won. I was right. They didn't believe me."
"So what have you been doing besides raising Lucy?"
"I got out of treatment a year ago-"
"Treatment? This way." He inturrupted as they turned right around a corner.
"Since I had told them I'd been raped, they sent me to a shrink for therapy, and a rape victim support group. But since I wasn't raped, I didn't need to do any of it. I just humored them. They originally wanted me to have an abortion, but I ran away, convincing them that I wanted to keep Lucy."
"Usually little kids don't run up to strangers and throw their arms around them calling them daddy. Does she do that to all your boyfriends?"
"Boyfriends!? HA! Yeah right. But no. We've been watching you. Every time you made a t.v. appearance, I pointed you out to her. she knows who you are."
"Here. They should be in here." He knocked, opening the door slowly. "Wait out here a sec."
"Kay." He disappeared inside.
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