Jay’s POV I’m a deer in the headlights, looking from my horrified girlfriend to my shocked stepmother to my dangerously shut down father. ‘Son’ dad ground out, ‘is there something you need to tell us?’ I gulped, tightening my hand around Aniyah’s instinctively, ‘uh, Aniyah and I are having a baby . . surprise!’ I added weakly. My words seemed to snap my stepmother out of her head, ‘surprise?’ she whispers, ‘surprise??’ that one was louder, this isn’t going to be good. ‘What do you mean surprise, Jameson?’ she yelled, standing up abruptly as I shrunk away from her wrath. She spun to my father, gesticulating at me, ‘surprise he says, Jackson, like it’s some sort of Christmas gift.’ Aniyah was trembling next to me, pulling her hand from mine as she went to shift away from me. ‘I’m so so

