It's Your Baby (1)

"Howard, I got pregnant."

I was shocked, then I glared and said, "Go tell the man who impregnated you. Why did you call me out?"

"I have only slept with you this year. It's your baby!"

"If I say I have only slept with you this year, will you believe that?"

"Howard Cooper, you bastard!"

"Who said we are gonna be serious about the relationship? Don't blame me for this. If you want me to take responsibility, at least show me some proof. I'm not a fool. No man would want to be caught unprepared and become a father!"

Penny Hudson was silent for a while and said, "I just had an abortion. I have no proof."

I was angry. "Am I that stupid to you? You aborted the baby, and then..." I raised my hand and continued, "Then, you told me that I'm the father. Penny, you're an adult. Can you act like one?"

Penny bit her lips while looking at me. After a while, she said, "You don't want to take responsibility, right? I'll go to where you work tomorrow..."

"Seriously?" I cursed.

Penny bit her lips tightly and looked at me. She looked pitiful, but in my eyes, she was just acting. What a good actress. I met her at a bar and then we had a one-night stand. A woman frequenting bars had only slept with one man this whole year. If I believed her, I would be the biggest fool in this world!

I didn't want to be entangled with her anymore. I took out my wallet and handed her all the cash in it. "You want money, right? Take it. Don't come to me anymore!"

Penny didn't say anything nor pester me. She nodded, turned around, and walked into the hospital with an umbrella in her hand as if she still had some bills there to pay...

I was silent for a long time before I finally stopped her. "Wait..."

Penny turned to look at me.

I took out a bank card from my wallet and handed it to her. "This is a credit card. You just aborted a baby. Buy something good for yourself."

Penny, however, did not take it. "No, I won't take it. All I want from you is to take responsibility. I just don't want to be a fool who is knocked up by a bastard and gets an abortion!"

...

In a bar, I drank to my heart's content while waiting for my only friend in this city, Jason Wheaton, who was also my colleague.

I lit a cigarette, took off the thin film on the case, and put it above my eyes. I looked at the swaying light and felt my body swaying along to the same rhythm. I seemed to see a rotten kingdom. I got a bit entranced.

Jason removed the film in my hand, and everything in front of me suddenly became clear again.

"Why did you get me to come in such a hurry?" Jason put down the briefcase in his hand, took out a cigarette from my case, and lit the cigarette for himself.

"Lend me some money. I was blackmailed!"

"You got some girl pregnant again?" Jason was not surprised.

"Damn! This time, I was really blackmailed..."

"Who did that?"

"Can't you just shut up?"

"It costs me a few hundred dollars every time. Can't I just know who blackmailed you and took my money away?"

"Penny," I said as I lit up a cigarette.

"That model?"

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