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When Jillian rushed off to elope with her boyfriend her friends told her it was the most romantic thing they ever heard of. Of course that was what they said to her face. Behind her back were the whispers of how she'd been careless and gotten herself pregnant. It was true. Nick wouldn't have proposed to her when she was nineteen if she hadn't been pregnant. He was busy with his career, and she was living it up in college. There was plenty of time for marriage and children later.
The problem of course was that life had a way of throwing you curve balls when you least expected it. It was near the end of her second year in school when the test came back positive. She'd known she was pregnant before the little plus sign showed up on the stick, but she had hoped she was wrong. When she told Nick he rolled with it as best he could. After all, this wasn't his plan either. Still, when he proposed she had been relieved. It was easier to face her parents with a ring on her finger.
Not that it had helped lessen the blow really. Her father was infuriated that she was giving up school. How could she be so careless? How could Nick have been so careless? Her mother did her best to calm him down, but it had taken time. Time and a baby bump.
It was that first dinner they had at her parents when she was visibly pregnant that Jillian noticed the change in her father's attitude toward their situation. He softened a bit, and pointed out that at least Nick was a good man. He had a stable career, a good head on his shoulders, and the maturity to help her deal with becoming a mom so young. She'd left that dinner feeling like maybe things would be okay. Because maybe she was going to be a mom, but she was a daughter too. Her relationship with her father had always been precious to her, and disappointing him by accidentally getting pregnant had left her feeling like a complete failure. Who knew the power that a baby bump hurled against disgruntled grandfather's to be?
By the time the baby was born and given her father's and her husband's names you would have thought Richard Garrett had been excited about his grandson's arrival all along.
The problem of course was that life had a way of throwing you curve balls when you least expected it. It was near the end of her second year in school when the test came back positive. She'd known she was pregnant before the little plus sign showed up on the stick, but she had hoped she was wrong. When she told Nick he rolled with it as best he could. After all, this wasn't his plan either. Still, when he proposed she had been relieved. It was easier to face her parents with a ring on her finger.
Not that it had helped lessen the blow really. Her father was infuriated that she was giving up school. How could she be so careless? How could Nick have been so careless? Her mother did her best to calm him down, but it had taken time. Time and a baby bump.
It was that first dinner they had at her parents when she was visibly pregnant that Jillian noticed the change in her father's attitude toward their situation. He softened a bit, and pointed out that at least Nick was a good man. He had a stable career, a good head on his shoulders, and the maturity to help her deal with becoming a mom so young. She'd left that dinner feeling like maybe things would be okay. Because maybe she was going to be a mom, but she was a daughter too. Her relationship with her father had always been precious to her, and disappointing him by accidentally getting pregnant had left her feeling like a complete failure. Who knew the power that a baby bump hurled against disgruntled grandfather's to be?
By the time the baby was born and given her father's and her husband's names you would have thought Richard Garrett had been excited about his grandson's arrival all along.