“Mama are we really in New York? People smell bad here.” Isabella tells her mother as they step off the plane She starts laughing at what her daughter just said, as they step out of the plane breathing New York air. She forgot what it was it like. It has been 5 years to the date she left pregnant and didn’t look back. Nothing much had change except for her. She was a just a young girl when she left but she returns as a woman, a mother. Memories of her past came flooding in like avalanche in her brain. She stops herself. She is not here for long or to reminisce. She doesn’t live here anymore. That was another lifetime for her. New York didn’t even feel like home to her anymore like it used to. She came to New York solely for her sister; whom she couldn’t wait to see and embrace after so long. To be clear it wasn’t that long since she last seen her sister in person. It was about 6 months or so, but it felt like years to them. Last time Tatiana saw her sister was over Christmas. Mila came to Croatia to their little island to give her the big news of her engagement and to introduce Tatiana to her wonderful fiancé, Robert Tate. Mila would brag about him to Tati nonstop, she was so smitten with him. She fell for him hard at first sight. While Tatiana roamed JFK airport with her daughter in hand looking for the gate, she starts to think of her life she had in NY before she left. Tatiana Franko immigrated to United States after her mother’s sudden death. She was goody two shoes for most of her life. Even with tragedy she had to endure at young age she always excelled in school. She was saving her virginity for her wedding night, as promised to her mother. She broke that promise. As she turned 18 years old all plans, she had for her own future had changed. She never expected to be 18 years old when she had one night stand with none other but her best friend’s Gia Noel’s older brother Simon. At that time Simon Noel was 20 years old at the time in college studying business in college. Simon was also dating a girl name Vienna Yang. This one certain night Vienna was absent from the party for some reason. Tatiana didn’t know why. Tatiana didn’t care whether Vienna was there or not. She actually and for selfish reasons liked having Simon’s attention all to herself. When Vienna was around, Simon seemed to mostly ignore Tatiana, though not purposely he was just tired of hearing Vienna’s mouth complaining why are Gia’s friends always around him. One person she couldn’t stand seeing around Simon…Tatiana. Vienna was extremely jealous of Tatiana, so much that it was eating her up inside every time she would see Tatiana at O’Neil’s household. The night that Tatiana conceived was the one and only time Tatiana slept with Simon whether he was drunk or sober wasn’t an issue then, but boy was he was totally drunk to say the least. Sure, enough it wasn’t first time for him, since he was the most popular guy in their local high school and college, girls literally threw themselves at him whenever they saw him out. Guys hated him and wanted to be him, and girls wanted to be with him. For those girls to have the title of Simon’s girlfriend was like being the First Lady. Such an honor in their minds. That was one title Tatiana always dreamed of having one day herself and seeing envy in girls’ eyes and she walks around with him. A girl can let herself dream. FYI, that night was Tatiana’s first and only time she had ever had sex with anyone in her life, yet it happened to be with the guy she always secretly wanted, so when she got the chance, she went for it, I mean why the hell not? Like they said better to say, “oh well’ than “what if?’ Her wildest dream came true, and she didn’t want to regret not going for it later. For once in her life, she was stepping out of her comfort zone and being little rebellious. For years she desperately wanted him to notice her as a girl not just his sister’s best friend. Why would she want to miss it and kick herself for it later? She didn’t even think of consequences. She knew who and what she wanted, but then again remember she was a young horny inexperienced girl. She was unaware the repercussions of that night until weeks later. After noticing she missed her period and started puking in the mornings which when it first started happening, she would dismiss it as stomach bug, though she had a feeling it was more than that, so she went straight to gynecologist and found out she was expecting. She was shocked and scared to say the least. I guess Tatiana wasn’t paying attention in Sex Ed class how important protection is. HAHA. Poor girl was scared out of her mind when she found out she was pregnant. So many decisions hanging over her head now. What does she do? Does she stay or does she go? Who does she turn to? She decided not to move forward with telling Simon. She weighted her pros and cons. She wasn’t trying to punish him. She acted out of fear for future of her baby. She went into Mama B