Free The Quarterback's Love Child (A Secret Baby Sports Romance Book 1) by Stephanie Brother

now.”
    Harmony remembered something. “When I find out the best place for my family to drop you, I will talk to my cousin who comes here every five years. He’s cool, young, and good at keeping a secret. I will put the instructions in your locker when it’s all sorted. You don’t have to worry about anything.”
    And they both stood up and shouted abuse at me as they walked together arm-in-arm out of the dining room. I watched and tried to protest, but I was never good at acting, unlike them. Harmony winked as she went through the door. Carl stood up and I knew that he was going to see if I was okay. Dwight held him back and shook his head. Again, Mrs. Turner came over to rescue me. Again, I cried in the dining hall, because once again I was alone. I officially had no one to talk to, but the only good thing was the fact that I would be free.
    I smiled at her and said, “I think that I just want to graduate in peace.”
    She smiled at me and said, “You will do so, my dear, and then this nightmare will be over.”
    She didn’t realize how true her words were, only after graduation would this whole nightmare be over.
     
     
     

Chapter Twenty
    Carl
     
    Today was so darn hard. I saw Harmony and Faith flipping out at Michelle over something. I didn’t get it, why would they desert Michelle in her time of need?
    I’d kept away, knowing that she had them. I tried to grab them to find out if there was a way that they could resolve their differences.
    “Michelle needs you, Faith. Why are you leaving her?”
    She shook her head, “You don’t understand. Michelle needs to be left alone.” She inched herself closer to me as we stood by her locker.
    “If she talks to us and we talk to you, then it could get back to her dad,” her eyes shifted from left to right, but I knew what she was going to say.
    “She would be punished.”
    Faith nodded, “Exactly. This way it’s just safer for her.”
    I sighed, “I’ve got an aunt that she could stay with. I even went to the house one time to try to get Father Roger to set her free, so that she could get away from this place.”
    Harmony was behind me, I didn’t even realize it until she said, “They would find her eventually and besides, I don’t think Michelle is strong enough to leave this place.”
    I defended her. “But she is, her weakness grows because she stays in this place. In that house. That’s the issue.”
    Harmony sighed, “Maybe.”
    That surprised me, because I’d thought that she was the logical one in the group and would know that Michelle’s problem was her dad, pure and simple.
    “What about Mia? Could she stay with your aunt too?”
    That was the one thing that I had thought about, but then that would be a burden. “I’m not sure if she could take her sister.”
    Faith shut her locker and she cupped my face. “Sometimes, you’re too handsome to be stupid.”
    Harmony blurted out, “Sister!” And threw her hands up in the air as she walked away from me. I stood there and knocked the back of my head against the locker. Harmony was right. I was trying to save Michelle’s dignity. Paint a picture of her being so pure and untouched until we’d got together, but the truth was that Mia was her daughter and not her sister.
    Even Michelle had admitted it to a certain degree, yet I’d chosen to ignore that part. My aunt was good and she would consider them both. I was confident about that; Michelle just needed to leave and I called my dad and told him the news, that it had to be both Mia and Michelle at my aunt’s.
    He told me the news, but I couldn’t hear him properly, because of the school bell that was ringing so loud. I finished class and called him from outside. It was against the rules using our mobiles in school, but I didn’t care.
    “Your aunt is getting married,” Dad said quietly. I could tell that he was as shocked about the news as I was and he went on to say, “She says that Michelle can stay with her, but she’s not sure