Suffocating feeling

“Yes, I do now.” Ariel responded with a sigh as she wiggled her fingers together.

“What happened that night after the both of you discovered your identities?”

“He was furious and accused me of being a gold digger and a bad friend who was trying to snatch her friend’s boyfriend. Nothing I said that night to defend myself got in his head. He ended up throwing some wad of cash at me, and it was funny how it was the exact amount I needed for my mother’s surgery. No matter how much pride I had and the amount of humiliation it brought, I still bent and picked the money then I left. Hannah, who said she did not have money to lend me and that her bank was having issues, sent me money when I got to the hospital.”

“You know that you wouldn’t have had to go through all of these if you had just given me a call, right?” Mariam still looked angry.

“I already made the mistake, there is no way to go back in the past and correct it. I can only move on.”

“So you found out that you were pregnant and we