My dad helped Chris and I leave the state. I basically took off out of my mom’s in the middle of the night and she tried to hold Chewie hostage out of anger, but I was able to retrieve him before I left. My father housed Chris and I, sleeping in his Jeep before having him drop us off at the bus station in Spring Hill the next day.
It was Chris, me and Chewie all over again – like it should have always been. It felt so right. Chris was able to line up a place for us to stay at his brother, Colby’s, on Ocean Aisle Circle. They were absolutely beautiful apartments and they were in close proximity to a few shopping centers.
Chris, with the help of his grandfather’s best friend, Alton Jones, was able to find employment right away at the local grocery store called Food Lion, where he worked in the meet department.
I devoted my energy looking into abortion options, but the closest abortion clinic was all the way in Baltimore. We settled on having another adoption and I was determined to make this adoption even better than the last and I immediately found the most amazing couple, Devin and Jordan of Champagne, Illinois. Everything from their photos to their biography screamed perfection.
In March of 2020, Chris got cold feet about staying with me while I was pregnant with someone else’s baby. It caught me off guard because things seemed to be going so well between us but I found it to be completely understandable.
So, I made arrangements to stay with Nessa in Dearborn, MI. Chewie and I quickly got acclimated to the gorgeous cold weather. Loki Bear and Miss Acacia Grace were there as well as Ryan and Zamian. My time at Nessa’s was something similar to a juicy soap opera. Nessa and her boyfriend were experiencing a lot of issues and I’m pretty sure they were shooting up dope as well as using kratom every few days.
I spent the majority of my time there just hanging out with the kids and watching all the drama unfold. On more than one occasion the 3 of them would have it out on each other and I’d hide out with Chewie until it was all over, having the basement to myself.
Luckily for me Chris, after two months of being there, decided he didn’t want to live without me so in May I flew back to him. After I left I got word about a few things that were going on in Nessa’s home and I decided to call CPS on them. They knew immediately it was me and for a short while I was an enemy of the Kalanko/Marbrey household.
Chris was shooting up by the time I got back from Michigan. He met up with his best friend Kevin and quickly got badly addicted to heroin again.
Not a month after I get home to Chris does he tell me that he’s going out with a bunch of his friends from work and asks me if I can help him freshen up. I help him get ready, give him a haircut and pick out a nice outfit, sending him on his way.
About a week after I went through his phone one day only to find him texting a girl named Caitlin that he worked with. Evidently, he did not go out with a bunch of his coworkers that night, it was her he was getting ready for. I was so heartbroken, and it hurt even worse that it was me who got him all spiffy for a date with another girl. And I can’t even remember the last time he’d ever taken me out on a date.
Being insanely hormonal and hurt, I admit, I didn’t act accordingly. I started texting the girl, letting her know that I was Chris’ baby mother and I also called up his job and told them he was shooting up in the parking lot but I eventually called them back saying I was lying about it. I was just a heartbroken, hormonal piece of shit trying my best to hold it all together.
In the midst of all this I decided it was a good idea to start messaging Chris’ best friend, Kevin. I was flirting with him trying to make Chris jealous and that backfired on me because from that moment on I couldn’t convince Chris that I had never slept with him. Selling Chris the heroin he was using, I made things really uncomfortable between the two.
One day after Chris’ shift at Food Lion, Chris invites Kevin over so he could do a shot and not moments after he does his shot Chris suffered an overdose. I didn’t want to administer the narcan until I knew he absolutely needed it, but Kevin was yelling at me to use it and so I did and shocked him back to life.
Somehow, Colby discovered Chris was using again and had overdosed and he sent Donna and Delana over to get us out of the apartment. I had the adoption agency put us in a hotel for the duration of my pregnancy. We were doing pretty well at the Motel 6 and Chris was doing mostly Suboxone, I was going to a MAT doctor to get a prescription. But, kevin would occasionally meet up with him to sell him dope.
Kevin got a job working at Food Lion with Chris at the time. One day while Chris was at work, Kevin came over to the hotel room and he asked me if I’d like to fuck. I don’t even think I thought about it. I told Kevin to leave and wait outside for Chris outside.
Their next week at work Chris cornered Kevin in one of the walk in freezers at work and punched him in the face for trying to sleep with me and someone Kevin was the one who got fired. That was the end of their friendship. Kevin had crossed a line that couldn’t be uncrossed. Yet, somehow, after a brief introduction to Alton, Kevin was invited to come move in with him and we had somehow missed out on the opportunity.
On September 9, 2020, after taking a nice warm bath trying to prevent myself from going into labor I quickly realized it was time to push this baby out. Chris called an ambulance and he followed behind me in an Uber to the hospital. This was the first birth I’ve had where I had a loved one present. I refused to start pushing until Chris showed up but once he did he didn’t leave my side.
I allowed Devin, the adoptive mother, into the room so she could see her daughter being born. It was a magical experience for me, it truly was. It was everything I had ever wanted from an adoption birth. She was 7lb 11oz and I named her Camille Janis Isabella LaHaye. She came crying into the world and we’d all call her Jane.
It was the most incredible adoption story that anyone could have had. Chris cut the umbilical cord and took pictures of the whole thing… even when the doctor was repairing my tears. I gave Jane her first bath with her parents and the hospital hooked us up by putting them in their own mother/baby suite right next to mine. We shared many firsts together and I got to have unlimited time just learning and staring at my precious baby girl.
Because Jane had Suboxone in her system she had to stay a full week so I was discharged from the hospital before she was. She luckily did not suffer from any withdrawal. I went back to the hospital every day until she was discharged and just a day after she was released we all got together at their Air B&B for a beautiful photoshoot.
Allie Willey 