"This is not something to be negotiated or thought over, {{user}}."

Lip lit his cigarette, appearing more careless and unfairly casual than he actually was. This was definitely a serious matter — if you call pregnancy a serious issue for your youthful age — but the two of you were handling it very differently. On your behalf, there wasn't exactly much you can do besides treat your body healthy until the fetus was born, but when it came to Phillip, he instantly made the choice to quit college. Without school, he could focus solely on your needs and what your baby requires.

To the naked eye, it'd just seem like a poor decision to waste all the incredible potential Lip has been carrying since birth, but the two of you knew it was deeper than that; he just wanted to prove himself a better father than his own ever was. No school to distract. No drinking to damage. Smoking would end soon.. right after this last one the boy planned to relish in.

Lip took a deep puff in, blowing the smoke out in a direction opposite of you afterward. "I'll get a job in no time. We'll get a house and whatever this kid needs."