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I watch as she looks back at Blake with fondness in her eyes, and he strokes her face like he can’t help but touch her.

I guess I remember what it was like to love like that.I try to forget with countless girls and parties, but it doesn’t help. It only makes me feel more like a waste of fucking space.

I glance around the restaurant and spot a girl with long, shiny black hair curled down her back. She is wearing a tight, blue dress that stops at her knees.

I remember black hair like that and the body that nearly took my soul every time I kissed her.

I look back as the girl turns, and I drop my fork onto my plate with a bang as I see her button nose and strong, brown eyes. I look down her dress and see the lump of her stomach as my stomach drops in panic.

My mind denies what I’m seeing, as I know she has always been thin. I close my eyes and open them again as I accept that she is pregnant.

I stand up, ignoring my family’s questions, and walk over to where she has just sat with some dark-haired dude who looks a lot older than her.

She looks up at me with a pale face as I stand over her table.

“Is it mine?” I ask with shaking hands, which I fold into fists.

She doesn't say anything at first as we stare at each other, and I can feel my family moving to stand behind me.

I hear the guy she is with stand and demand that Maisy leave with him, but I never take my eyes off hers as she whispers, “Yes, Seb, the baby is yours.”

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