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Fooled Into Fatherhood

Member: Ktone

Where do I start with this one… This story is about the time that a girl tried to fool me into being a father.

I was living on my own in a small town in central Massachusetts. For a year and a half I’ve been single and looking forward to meet someone new.

My friend Jed calls me out of the blue one Friday and asks me if I want to go to a party with him. At first I wasn’t sure, but then he mentioned that he knows his friend Carla is bringing her visiting friend from the Czech Republic, and she’s cute. Well being a Czech myself I decided to take Jed up on his offer.

I got ready and hopped into my convertible to meet Jed at a condo complex where the party was being held.

At the party I ran into a whole bunch of old friends plus some people who knew who I was, but I didn’t quite remember who they were. Those moments are always uncomfortable, aren’t they? The person says “Hey Vince, how are you? I haven’t seen you in such a long time…”, meanwhile, I’m racking my brain trying to figure out who this acquaintance really is.

On the balcony I saw Jed talking to a few girls who were smoking cigarettes. I took that as my invitation and met them out there.

Jed introduced me to his friends and I was wondering if one of these was the vacationer he teased me with. Soon I realized that no one had an accent, which led me to poke Jed on the shoulder.

“Jed so where’s this cute Czech girl you told me about”, I said. Apparently the Czech girl and Carla were at a local sports bar not too far away from where we were, and we were going to head out there soon.

Well I was a little disappointed at first, but then the condo owner Cindy started talking to me. Cindy was recently engaged and apparently very tipsy. She kept hitting on me and making innuendos in front of her friends and fiancé. I’m a Leo, so I do appreciate the attention and compliments, but I felt pretty uncomfortable with the things she was saying and her fiancé standing nearby.

Cindy basically said that she would dump her finance in a second if I asked her too! Can you believe this girl? What most people don’t know about me is that I’m not very attracted to slutty girls, or girls who just act slutty. But besides that, if I was her fiancé, I think I would have broken the engagement of from shear embarrassment.

Her fiancé pretended that he didn’t hear what was coming out of Cindy’s mouth and Cindy just kept laying on her promiscuous charm on me. I acted calm and collected but inside I felt bad for her fiancé.

Soon Jed got a call on his cell phone and motioned me to walk over to him. He asked if I was ready to meet more girls that want to take me home, and I just smiled in reply.

Jed and I took both of our cars to the sports bar and moments later I meet the girl who I thought might be the one. Don’t forget though that I just came from a drinking party, and I was already buzzing. Plus my ego was pretty full of itself since the girls at the previous party charmed me to death; making me feel super handsome that day.

Jed walks over to Carla, who is playing pool with a brunette while gabbing to a group of guys. I grab a beer from the bartender and join the scene.

I meet Carla and her Czech friend Katie. I must have been pretty buzzed, because Katie and I shared one of those strange moments where you look into someone’s eyes and you feel like you know them already. Being silly the first words that I said to Katie were “So you want to hop on a plane to Vegas and get married now?”, LOL I’m not sure what possessed me to say that but I just did.

Katie and I started dating from that day. She came with a whole bunch of baggage and I wasn’t used to that. She moved to the US to peruse a relationship that recently blew up in her face, because she was not being honest with the guy. I was actually the rebound guy and even more than that later on.

I liked Katie but I didn’t love her. At the time I was too busy running a business to truly devote myself to the relationship and something inside was holding me back.

One day I was dropping of Katie at Carla’s house; which is where she was living after her recent relationship backfired. Carla was screaming at Katie and kicked her out of the house. Oh my God! I didn’t want to have a roommate ever and now I had no choice but to help Katie out.

“Katie, you could come stay with me”, I said as Carla was throwing Katie’s luggage out of her apartment. Man, I was so used to living on my own that I was hoping Katie’s stay would be very short. I was simply opposed to have roommates because Jed and Brian were roommates and they fought like cats and dogs. Of course Katie and I were dating, so this was a little different, but that didn’t change the fact that I loved living by myself.

Well before I knew it Katie and I were living together. I went to work while she stayed home. The good thing was that she knew how to cook and I didn’t. One day I came home and she prepared me a meal that my mom used to cook for me. Man I was pretty happy that day.

Katie and I were good together but something was missing. Eventually Katie and I connected on a deeper level because we shared some personal feelings when we were both buzzed from some type of alcohol.

One thing that I didn’t like about Katie is that she drank a lot, I mean tons of alcohol this girl would consume. And she had me drinking more than ever too. Have you ever done something that you knew was wrong but you kept doing it anyway? Well that’s how I felt about the drinking with Katie.

Eventually Katie an I hooked up and being the person who always finds it hard to trust people I made sure I used protection each time. You never know when someone is going to try pulling the wool over your eyes.

Well Katie lived with me for about a month, when she told me that she had to go back to the Czech Republic. I stayed quite because my intuition told me not to say anything. I let Katie make her return trip plans without interruption. Somehow I knew that I should let her go.

Katie left to go home and there were some questions left behind. Like why did the toilet look like someone has been vomiting in it on a daily basis. Why did her friend point out that Katie keeps a used tampon in her suitcase (Yes I know how disgusting that sounds). Well I found out one day.

It was Thanksgiving in 2006 and I went to my family’s house for dinner. Katie told me to call her using a pre-paid phone card earlier that day in an email. I called her from my car while sitting in the driveway as my sister an niece periodically looked out the window.

Katie told me that she was pregnant. Somehow I wasn’t surprised and I was sure that it wasn’t mine. All of the sudden these little clues that she left behind were highlighted by my imagination. The tampon, the vomit trails, the excessive eating, all this happened before we slept together.  I asked her if she was sure and she said that she was. I said “Katie, don’t take this the wrong way, but I only know you for 2 months total and I always used protection. I really don’t think this is my child; after all, you were with two other people that you told me of, before you met me while in the states”. Katie insisted that it can’t be them, so on and so forth. But Katie also didn’t let me take any pictures of her most likely because she wanted to cover up her bulge that I wasn’t noticing. Lastly I told Katie that I have no problem being the father to this child, but because of the strange circumstance I would need a DNA test and I’ll pay for it to be done. That’s when Katie’s story began to fall apart and it wasn’t long before I lost contact with her.

She would send me emails here and there and when I asked her about the pregnancy she said that she was mistaken. I’m not 100% sure, but I think she might have had an abortion or maybe she even had the kid, I don’t know. What I do know is that this girl really tried to convince me that I was the father of her kid; while her ex-friend on the other hand warned me to be careful the day she was kicking her out.

The moral to this story is that if you meet someone under strange circumstances, like someone warning you about them beforehand, maybe it’s wise to keep your distance and your guard up. I’m really glad that I said the hard things that needed to be said that Thanksgiving and I’m really happy that I didn’t marry the wrong girl because I was being foolish.  In my life, I have been screwed many times, so I’m not surprised that this happened to me. I am grateful that I developed a strong sense of intuition however, because it’s the only thing that I could rely on in moments of complete bewilderment.

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0 #2 The Nerve — Just_My_Thoughts 2010-07-16 11:25

Glad to hear you relied on your intuition. Some people don't and they do get burned. I for one seem to never follow it..LOL! Good story!

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-1 #1 Picture says it all — Ktone 2010-03-04 15:08

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