Chapter 1 - Rocky Beginnings

Originally Posted on 10/21/11

"Come on!" Alicia urged "when? when will you be 'ready'??"

Her husband and high school sweetheart sighed, he grew old of the prodding, the questioning that surrounded when he would "be ready" to have a child. After all, to bring a life in to this world is well… a rather big deal… at least to Jarod it was. To Alicia it seemed like the simplest decision ever.

She sweetened up quickly, brushing Jarod's hair out of his eyes, "I just need to know when to stop taking my birth control, honey." She tried to smile convincingly. Jarod sighed again, "I'm just…not ready yet" he answered. Her sweetness wore off quickly, "FINE", she grumbled as she stormed off.

The next morning after Jarod had left for work she stood in the bathroom straightening her hair when the little white box of contraceptives caught her eye. She thought momentarily before putting the straightener down on the counter and taking the box, opening it, and popping each and every little white pill in the toilet. She quickly flushed it and grabbed the tic tacs out of the medicine cabinet, carefully replacing each pill with one orange breath mint. Satisfied with her ingenious plan of action, she smiled to herself; after all, if she just "got pregnant" Jarod would have to man up and get ready to be a father, like it or not! She convinced herself that she was just taking fate in to her own hands and making sure that she was able to have the large family she had dreamt of as a child, and always yearned for as an adult; how could anyone argue with that?

The next 2 months went smoothly, she stopped questioning Jarod about babies and even took up gardening!

One morning Jarod strolled in to the bathroom and found Alicia getting very sick to her stomach. He frowned and quickly rummaged through the medicine cabinet looking for some pepto for her. In the midst of all the rummaging he accidentally knocked the little white box of contraceptives out of the cabinet. It toppled to the floor, its lid springing open, and tic tacs went everywhere! It took a couple of seconds for the shock of seeing bright orange breath mints all over the floor, instead of little white pills, to sink in. Alicia stood up, wiping her mouth with a hand towel, "I can explain!", she said quickly. Jarod's face fell, he gently placed the pepto on the counter and left the room.

A little while later Alicia found Jarod out front obviously peeved. "You're pregnant." Jarod said, it wasn't a question either, but more a statement.

"And you got pregnant… on purpose." Jarod finished his sentence as the anger he felt apparent in his steady, low voice.

His anger boiled over as his voice raised ever louder before leaving the property and heading to the local bar. Her disgust at how he had treated her was written all over her face.

After changing in to some comfier clothes, she patted her newly forming bump, "it'll be ok little one, Daddy will get use to you."

After a nap that afternoon Alicia sleepily got to her feet, changed her clothes and called out for her husband. She received no response so she walked out front to see if he was getting some
more air. As she shut the door behind her she saw a couple boxes and a duffle, Jarod was loading his things in to a cab!

She quickly asked him where he was going…

and he started in on some rant that Alicia was unable to comprehend.

Confused and queesy Alicia stood out front her very small home as Jarod left her.

A couple days later as Alicia spent some time in her garden...

...the (very angry) postal man arrived with a letter …from Jarod!

She read the letter from start to finish a couple times over...

Dear Alicia,

I am sorry I can't stay with you through this. You lied to me, you deceived me, and I simply can't and won't raise a child with such deceit in a relationship. I simply won't make a good father ever, so to avoid messing up the child you now carry I am leaving. You, however, should have as many children as you can, a hundred or so …you are an excellent care giver, children seem to love you no matter what. Have a nice life, and please don't mention me to the child.

Love,

Jarod

Seeming to have had some sort of mental break at reading the letter and realizing her love wasn't going to come back she vowed to have 100 babies… for Jarod. She vowed to teach them all they needed and to send them out in to the world prepared… she also vowed not to get attached to another man, she would simply use them as donors and SURELY when the daunting task of raising 100 children was over her loving Jarod would return to their quaint little home! After all, at that time, after 100 babies she surely wouldn't want more... then Jarod and her could go on living a beautiful, love filled, child free life.