A Life Worth Not Giving UpBy Heidi H Disclaimers-These are not my characters and I am making no money off of them. Ratings-Sam/Donna, a life can take so many unimaginable twists and turns Sequel to A Life Worth Wanting Note-There will be another sequel to this one Donna looked at all of the beautiful gifts that her friends from work had given her. The little sleepers and blankets brought tears to her eyes. These were the people who had supported her through everything and that were here for her now. Donna could feel her son kicking and moving inside of her and thought back. She had come very close to writing Sam a letter telling him that he was going to be a daddy and how bad that she felt for excluding him and denying him the right to be there for everything. Donna had put that thought out of her mind when she found out that he was now engaged to another woman. A woman that she had apparently lost her husband to. Donna had run into CJ at the grocery store. CJ had said hello and all of those other pleasantries before getting down to the heart of the matter. CJ had asked who the father of her baby was. Donna had shrugged off the question and said the baby’s father was someone that she was currently dating. CJ gave her a look and Donna didn’t care if she believed her or not. These people had distanced themselves from her because it wouldn’t look good and she no longer cared what they thought of her. CJ had quickly ended the conversation when Donna responded icily to her question. The tabloids had picked up the story of Sam and Laurie’s engagement and made a big thing about it. Donna couldn’t even answer her phone because everyone wanted to hear her story about her ex husband, her, and the call girl. The reporters camped out on the steps to her apartment trying to get something out of her. They immediately noticed the fact that she was pregnant and started shouting questions and asking who the daddy was. She ignored them and entered the building and by eight a.m. the next morning, her picture was on every tabloid in town with the heading “Who’s the daddy?”. Donna turned the phone ringer off and turned down the volume on the answering machine. This was more than she could handle. After calling into work, she cleaned the apartment and worked on the nursery. Donna refused to get sucked into the media frenzy. She was trying to make a life for herself and her child without the trappings. She would make sure that her child would grow up to be strong enough to do the right thing without hurting and destroying other people. Later that evening, Donna was going through the messages on the machine. After deleting everything from tabloids and tv shows, she got down to the ones that really mattered. Her family had called wanting to know if she was okay and how the baby was doing. There was one from the doctor’s office reminding her of her appointment later in the week. Then the White House calls were the last thing she listened to. CJ wanted to know if she should make a statement to the press or if Donna wanted to let things go. Josh called to make sure that she and the baby were doing well and if she needed anything. He may have fired her, but he still felt like he had to inquire about her life. Then Sam called. He wanted to come over and talk to her and get some things straight. Donna wasn’t in the mood for this confrontation, but it had to be done. She picked up the phone and called his voice mail. She left him a message that she would be home all week, if he wanted to stop by and talk to her. Sam called her later that evening after checking his voicemail. The message said that he would be by at lunch tomorrow and that she should be prepared. Donna didn’t want to dwell on what that meant. She had no intention of loosing this baby through court proceedings to her ex husband and his hooker fiancé. It would happen over her dead body.