*P.S the dedication part of the chapter wasn't working so I had to write it out for myself.*

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"Issy, hurry up. Time is of the essence." Abigail said while clapping her hands together.

"You are way too excited for this." I said pulling my hair in a high ponytail.

Yesterday was a pretty hectic day for me. I found out that one of my best friends was born in the mafia and lived her whole life keeping their crminal activities a secret. I found out that my baby father is one of the head men in the mafia- next to Mr. Brown. I found out that Rivero was probably after me. I finally found out what this whole 'mess' was, and if I'm honest I wish I didn't. I learned a lot of new information about them, after I swore on the bible to the omerta.

And the one thing that didn't cause me any form of fear, anxiety or pain. I found out that I am in love with mariano. This makes me feel stupid though, because I don't know anything about him, except for the fact that he is a criminal. When I admitted this to myself yesterday it felt really good, although I really hope it's the hormones. But I don't think he feels the same way. To him I'm probably just the woman who's pregnant with his baby.

"You should be excited, it's the day you find out the sex of your baby." She said.

I rolled my eyes, I didn't wanna know the sex of the baby. I wanted it to be a suprise but mariano said that it was killing him to know. And obviously it was killing abby too. She has become attached to me, she says she's always wanted an older sister. Sometimes I find it hard to believe that I've only known her for 2 days.

I looked at the time, it's 10:52. My appointment is at 3:00. I have to leave early because my doctor is near to where I used to live, which is 4 hours away. Mariano said I didn't have to go that far because he could get a doctor to come here but I trusted my doctor more, and plus I wanted the drive out.

"Let's go." I said taking abby by the hand and leading her outside where mariano, yasmine and......... Samantha? What is she doing here? She cannot be coming to by appointment. No freaking way.

They all stood in front of the black hummer waiting on abby and I while samantha clung to mariano's arm.

"She isn't coming is she?" I asked pointing to samantha.

"No, she's going to the mall, we're just giving her a ride." Mariano spoke up.

I nodded and went into the van, I sat in the passenger seat while yasmine, abby and samantha went into the back.

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We dropped off samantha at the mall about an hour ago and now we are on the highway. My poor bottom is beginning to cramp. I reclined my chair and pulled my feet up on it, deciding to take a little nap. I sighed and leaned back into the seat closing my eyes.

"Ahhh." I screamed as I felt a terrible cramp in my stomach. I placed my hands on my stomach and winced.

"What's the matter?"

"Are you okay?"

"What's wrong?" Mariano, Yasmine and Abby asked in union, Worry evident in all their voices.

"My- AHHHHH." I screamed again as I felt more pain rising.

"What's happening to her?" Abby asked.

"I don't know." Yasmine said.

Tears streamed down my face as the pain became worse. I clutched my stomach and winced.

"Drive up, we need to hurry and get her to the doctor." Yasmine yelled with panic in her voice.

"D-don't speed u-up." I croaked.

"You need to be at the doctor soon, I'm becoming worried." Abby said.

"I will b-bare the p-pain, don't risk a-anything."I croaked out.

"I hate seeing you like this." Mariano said only audible for me to hear.

"I need you." I said barely above a whisper with tears running from my eyes.

"Yasmine, I need you to drive." Mariano said.

"Okay, Okay." She said.

I wasn't paying attention to anything other than the pain I was feeling. The car stopped and mariano took me from the front seat and placed me in the back and he entered with me. Yasmine took the driver's seat and abby took the passenger seat leaving mariano and I in the back. The car started again and mariano held me in his arms while rubbing my stomach and comforting me. He whispered incoherent words in my ear which I'm certain wasn't english, to try to calm me down.

After a while I found myself relaxing a bit as the pain began to subside. I leaned in closer to mariano's chest, inhaling his intoxicating scent. I began to close my eyes trying to fall asleep but my phone began to ring. I groaned out of annoyance and took it from my pocket. I looked at the caller ID and it read 'Greggy

I accepted the call and put the phone to my ear,

"Hello."

"Hello, Issy where are you?" His voice was full of panic.

"I'm on my way to the doctor, why?" I replied.

" I went by your house today and there was no one there, I figured that you went on the road so I decided to wait, but no one showed up. What's going on? did you move?" He spoke.

I sighed before answering. "Yes, I did." I said.

"Who are you living with." He asked.

"Mariano." I stated.

"Where are you staying?" He asked. I opened my mouth to speak but mariano interrupted me.

"Don't answer that." Mariano said looking me dead in the eyes. I swallowed my saliva and nodded.

"I can't say."

"Why not?" He sounded irritated.

"I just can't okay." I said.

"Fine, I'll call you later." He said before the phone went dead.

I turned to mariano, " Why?" I asked.

"Why what?" He asked.

"Why could I not answer him?"

"You can't trust anyone and we can't risk anyone knowing where we are. He could be one of rivero's men for all we know." Mariano said.

"I highly doubt that, you just have trust issues." I said leaning back down on him.

"It's something you'll soon understand, not everyone who says they're your friends can be trusted." He spoke.

"Mhmm." I mumbled as my eyes slowly began to close.

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"Okay, miss Marse?" The doctor asked walking into the room looking at a clipboard.

"Yes."

"You are here for an ultrasound, am I right? " The doctor spoke.

I nodded.

"Okay, I'm Dr. Gayle." she said holding out her hand and I shook it. " You can go ahead and lay down on the chair, I'll be right back." She said.

We ddin't make it all the way back to my doctor, so we decided to just do the ultrasound at this doctor, that my mom recommended to me for my first check up.

I did as she said and mariano watched my every move. Yasmine and Abby are in the waiting room because the secretary said that only one person was allowed in the room with me.

After a little while longer Dr. Gayle came back in the room.

"Are you comfortable?" She asked.

"Yes."

"Okay, I'm going to recline the chair a little." She said and I nodded. The chair went back but not too far.

"Are you okay? Can we get started?" She asked.

"mhmm." I mumbled.

She put on a pair of gloves and squirted blue gel on my stomach, it was cold. She rubbed it over my belly then she took up something that looked like a fat wand with a oval like bottom and moved it over my belly. She looked at the ultrasound machine screen as she did this.

I looked at the screen and saw the little baby inside me. It looked so peaceful.

"Do you want to know the sex?" She asked

"No."

"Yes."

The dr looked confused, I said no and mariano said yes.

"Yes, we want to know the sex." mariano spoke up. He held my hands in his.

"Miss Marse, do you want to know the sex?" She asked me. Mariano gave me an encouraging smile and I nodded.

Dr. Gayle looked at the screen once more before she spoke, "You're having a .........."

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