I'm just staring at him unable to say even a single word. This is why he kept quiet the whole time, because he was planning to propose to me. Just that, he is a little too late. I can't get married to him when I know clearly this pregnancy is not his and I'm not even planning to keep it. Now is not really the time for him to go down on his knee and try to propose to me. I know maybe I hadn't thought of marriage, but all I wanted was for him not to abandon me and worse to tell me to get rid of it. He looks very anxious on his knee and I don't know what to tell him. I know what I'm going to say might just destroy his ego but I need to tell him the truth. "Thomas I.." "Cass." He stops me and I keep quiet swallowing hard when I feel suddenly my throat is so dry. He takes my hand in his

