He had arrived at her dads when she had refused over and over in text to join everyone.
Luckily for him, Sophie was home alone because Corey wasn't quite ready for the storm that was about to hit him.
"That's all you fucking care about." Sophie spat, causing his previous teasing grin to fall into that of confusion.
He wasn't quite prepared for her sudden change in tempo, thinking that he would easily get her out the door and joining everyone else.
"What do you mean?" He opened his arms in question.
"Going out. Why can't you give a shit about something else for once and accept that I want to stay in." Sophie bit.
"Okay, Soph calm down. I thought you were just avoiding it. Chill."
Corey's last word was one he should not have spoke because Sophie had very little patience in her already and that was one thing that could push her limits.
"Don't tell me to 'chill' Corey." She mocked. "If you want to go out, go out. Just leave."
"What the fuck is wrong with you?"
"You. You're what's wrong."
"What the hell did I do?" They were clearly not on the same page and that was just making everything even more intense.
"Last night my car broke down. I was stranded and couldn't get hold of you." Sophie began and Corey was already aware of this after being informed by text the next morning once he had noticed her missed calls.
"And I wonder why that was?" She asked a rhetorical question, no answer from him being necessary. "Because you were out, in a club, likely getting pissed with a bunch of girls caring about nothing else! Do you realise how messed up that is?"
Looking back at her in utter confusion, Corey began shaking his head. He didn't know where this was all coming from nor why she was so mad at him.
Yes he felt guilty for missing her calls but he hadn't quite expected this overloaded reaction.
"No I don't understand how messed up it is, soph. You really need to explain this to me."
"Of course you don't." She chuckled, yet this was anything but amusing to her. "Because that is all you care about."
"What and you don't? Has London suddenly made you a changed woman who is too good for that lifestyle?"
Corey's question had Sophie's whole body tense up even more. Her hormones were causing every bit of this argument to escalate more than it usually would.
"No, it's fucked up because how can I rely on you for anything if you couldn't even answer a damn phone call?" Sophie threw her arms out in aggravation.
It was now becoming clear where this all was coming from even though it was completely unknown to Corey.
The baby news had made her begin to rethink everything and begin critically observing every aspect of the potential dads.
She was scared and alone and was trying to figure out how each of them would step up to being a dad.
However, it was clear from this minor incident and her anger that Sophie would very quickly be swaying towards the idea of doing this whole parenting thing alone.
"I'm sorry but it was just..." Corey began to speak before Sophie interrupted him.
"Aaron and I haven't been speaking yet he was the one who answered my call and he was the one who came and got me out of that mess. You've been sleeping in my bed every fucking weekend Corey yet you couldn't even take a night out of your childish antics to come and help me out. That's so fucked up."
The tone in Sophie's voice was expressing more anger by the second and it wasn't being missed by Corey.
He obviously wasn't aware of Sophie's real reasons for the lash out but he definitely knew pushing her limits right now wouldn't be safe. However, due to his character he was finding it difficult to not fight back and defend himself.
He hadn't had the experience of knowing when to just let the girl be right and move on. He didn't realise how much easier it could make an intense situation like this be.
"The music was so fucking loud Soph and I didn't hear my phone. Aaron was at home, of course he would have heard his." Corey reached out to take Sophie's hands to guide her into him but she refused and shrugged him off.
"Whatever, I don't even care. Let me know when you have grown the fuck up and maybe we can talk. But until then, I want you to leave." She spat and he just looked back at her in shock for a moment.
He wasn't quite sure how to react and unknown to him this was Sophie's final decision that he wasn't a great 'dad' fit if it happened to be him. This was giving her one more reason to take the option of being a single mum.
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