My Baby Boy

Chapter 3

Riley's P.O.V

My heart stopped when Lilly put the ring on the table. "I found this at the scene of the accident, tell me how you feel about it." Lilly said looking at me, ready with her pen and note book. "Why did you even go there?" I asked.

"Therapy related reasons Riley." She answered not looking at me. "You're lying." I pointed out. "I'm trying to help you Riley." She said. "But you're lying, I don't like being lied to!" I shouted as I stood over her. She wrote something down on her notes and it pissed me off.

"What the hell are you always writing about me?" I asked grabbing the book from her. "Riley don't read my notes." She said snatching the book from me. I pulled the book from her and pushed her back making her fall.

I realized my mistake.

Lashing out at her wasn't right, I'd have therapy for longer now. "Lilly I'm s-sorry..." I said lowly. I put her book down and helped her back up. "I hope you didn't break anything." I said. She rolled her eyes at me. "I'm twenty one years old, I've fallen over before." She said smiling at me.

"Riley, if Axel were to ask you to marry him...what would you say and tell me honestly. Say exactly what you'd say to him, only I will know your answer and I will not judge you by it." She said taking her note book from the table.

I looked at her then closed my eyes. What would I say if he asked me? Yes, no? I sucked in a breath and imagined he was on one knee with a ring in his hands.

I'd look at him dead in the eye. I'd feel so happy and that ring would make me his legally. We'd adopt a child and it would be so amazing. It would be perfect. That's if I say yes though. If I said no...he'd be heart broken. I'm not ready for marriage but I'm not ready to reject Axel, I'll never be able to reject him.

But if I said I wasn't ready, he'd understand, he'd wait for me...right?

"I'd say..."A-Axel I-I would love to say yes but I...I'm not r-ready yet. If you'd just wait for me...but if you don't want to it's okay, I understand"." I said uneasily. "Riley it's okay, he wasn't going to propose you don't have to cry." Lilly said. I didn't even notice I was crying.

I wiped the tears that had fallen out my eyes. I snuffled and tried to pull myself together, but I couldn't. "H-he was going to propose...and then this h-happened, now he doesn't w-want to s-see m-m-me..." I said as I cried.

"Riley it's a promise ring. I took a long and hard look at it and it has your name and 'I promise' molded into it." She said trying to calm me down. It's not that I didn't believe her, no, I'm crying because of the possibility of not seeing Axel ever again.

I wiped my tears away and snuffled some more. I wasn't done crying, no the f**k I wasn't, I was keeping the tears in so I could cry tonight and not go to school tomorrow so I could spend the day weeping. I took the ring and put it on my right hands ring finger. I smiled at how it fit.

Perfect.

I loved it on my finger, there, where it was made it look perfect and made me feel better. The melted part of it made it special, I didn't want another one, I loved this one...I loved it very much.

"Is it real g-gold?" I asked. "Yes." She answered and I smiled. Axel went through the trouble of getting a pure gold ring, getting it custom made for me and paid probably over a million bucks for it...all just for me. I mean a lot to him and although I don't have the money I'll get him something.

"Riley are you okay?" Lilly asked. My mind returned to the room and current situation. I smiled at Lilly and nodded. "I'm okay." I said. She smiled and began to pack her things. "I'll see you next week and just so you know, you are making great progress." She said which made me smile.

"Thank you." I said lowly as she walked out the door.

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Rita's P.O.V

"Just so you know, you are making great progress." I said to him. He didn't look at me. I frowned, he hadn't looked at me since he got to my office. "Are you okay Caleb?" I asked. "So you remembered." He said lowly. "I'm sorry, remembered what?" I questioned the young man in front of me.

"To call me by my second name." He said and realization washed over me. "Oh that!" I giggled nonchalantly. "How could I forget, you don't like anyone calling you by your first name anymore...uh, who did you say could call you by your first name again?" I asked.

"Don't worry about it, it's not important." He said. "When can I see him again?" Caleb asked, sounding like he wanted to cry. "There's still a lot we need to do before you can see him again. I still recommend you stay away from him until you're better." I replied.

"I don't understand why I can't just see him!" He shouted out of frustration. A single tear fell from his eye as he looked me in the eyes. More tears slipped out his eyes and he covered his face. "Why can't you understand that I need to see him." Caleb cried some more.

I sighed.

"Caleb there are certain things you need to understand about this. In order to help you get better I need to distance you from what he caused." I said. "It's not his fault, it never was. He didn't put the bomb there, he didn't try to kill me!" Caleb shouted at me.

"Then who did Caleb, who was the person who put that bomb there and who was the person who tried to kill you?" I asked almost shouting myself. He looked at me with emotionless, watery grey eyes before he sighed. He closed his eyes and held his head.

"It was-" He tried to say but my phone cut him off. Some people choose the wrong times to call me.