Flash Flash part 1
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6 weeks later
"Mel, is this height okay?" I called from the top of the step ladder where Cameron and I were hanging the banner that screamed 'Melissa's 19th Birthday' in hot pink, silver and gold letters.
"A little higher," she replied, standing below us with her hands on her hips in her active wear. We were preparing Mel and Cam's apartment for her birthday party. She'd invited roughly 50 people with a mixture from our old school and some new people from uni we'd met this year. Being the party coordinator she is, she was going to make it perfect, everything was going to have a place and everything was going to go according to plan.
Mason was making trips to-and-fro from the car, bringing things from our place that she'd requested.
In all honesty, me standing on top of a step ladder that was a metre and half above the ground probably wasn't the best and this was accentuated when I got a grilling from Mason as he walked into the apartment carrying a box.
"Mel, are you insane!?" He dropped the box onto the coffee table causing it to jingle with miscellaneous objects in a haste. He strode over to me quickly to help me down from the ladder.
"Mason, it's fine," I giggled as I reached the floor. "I'm not that clumsy,"
"Doesn't matter, that thing's dangerous," he sighed, worry lines creasing his forehead as he looked me over. I tried to hold back my giggles because I knew he was serious.
"She's fallen off worse things, Mase," countered Mel, as she opened up the newly arrived box and sifted through the items. Mason moved behind me so he could continue to scold a disinterested Mel.
"Yeah, well this time we've got precious cargo on board." He said, reaching in front of me to rest his hands on my stomach lazily.
"Yes sir," she saluted him as she walked past to the kitchen, earning a giggle from me and a smirk from Cameron.
"No more climbing, please?" He whispered into my hair, kissing the top of my head. I sighed in mock frustration.
"Fine," I groaned, strolling into the kitchen to join Mel in sorting out balloon colours.
6 weeks earlier (flashback)
"How do you know?" I whispered, guiltily staring at my feet. This is a disaster. "This isn't how I wanted you to find out," I sniffed, feeling tears prick at my eyes.
"The night you got back, I couldn't find your slippers so I took the socks from the top of your bag. I felt something hard inside them so I pulled it out and... well, you get the idea."
There was silence. What do I even say? He must be furious with me.
"Are you mad?" I asked, my eyes pleading as I stared at his face while his eyes were still averted.
He snapped his head up, his face incredulous.
"Why would I be mad?"
"Because I didn't tell you and, well, because I'm pregnant. I get that you'd probably be angry,"
He surprised me by pulling me into a tight hug. I was stunned, I couldn't move as he stroked my hair.
"No, I'm not mad," his voice was muffled and I felt breathless as the anxiety that had been sitting in my belly finally exploded. My breath fell out of my body like a tsunami and my chest tightened as I tried to take more in.
"I've been so scared," I sobbed, my voice barely legible or audible as sob after sob rocked my body.
"I know sweetheart. I'm so sorry you were scared to tell me," He continued stroking my hair, pulling me closer to him. I held tightly onto him as we waited for me to calm down. It wasn't even me that reacted like this, it was my body. I'd been holding on to so much stress this year alone that it exploded out of me like a storm.
Mason was fine. I'm sure he was upset that this had happened but he was fine. This whole time I'd been panicking that he was going to lose it and he's the most calm out of the two of us.
"What are we going to do?" I asked once I'd composed myself - an incredibly long time had passed might I add - and could manage to sit back and think rationally.
"What do you mean?" He held onto my hand as though I might disappear at any moment... or to say that he supported me, that we're in this together, that he's going nowhere.
"Well," how do I phrase this? "there are options for us,"
He shook his head violently and I couldn't help notice the fleeting appearence of fear across his face.
"No. No, please don't get an abortion." He begged, his face set in stone.
"It's an option, Mason. I'm not saying I agree with it but it's an option,"
"No, I refuse. Don't forget that this is my child too. I understand it's your body and ultimately your choice, and I respect that, but I'll do everything me my power to not let you do that, not after what happened with my cousin," he was on his feet now, pacing in front of me like he always did when he was stressed.
I felt an odd sense of déjà vu.
"What happened with your cousin?" I asked delicately.
Flash forward
"So, I'm thinking pink, gold and silver. Classic, stylish, me." Chimed Mel as she sorted balloons into piles on the bench.
"Sounds great," I smiled at her before turning my attention to the loud thud and cuss that came from the living room.
"Why'd you drop it on my toe, you dickhead!?" Cried Cameron as he hobbled over to the couch. If I strained my ears I could hear the sound of Mason muffling his laugh with his hands.
"They're like children," I snorted as I continued with the balloons.
"Speaking of children," began Mel, side-eyeing me with a cheeky grin, "How are you feeling?"
"Not too bad," I replied, pursing my lips as I thought of the days, "I'm just about 2 months 2 weeks now which is exciting. I've had a bit of morning sickness, but not a lot thank god and I've been eating everything but there are some foods where I smell it and I'm instantly sick." screwed up my nose at the thought of tomato sauce, chicken wings and eggs.
She giggled before putting her arm around me in a quick hug.
"I'm so glad you decided to keep the baby,"
"I know me too. I never wanted to abort him," just thinking about it now made my head spin, I'd grown to love him so much already and I even though he's going to be a bit of a kink in the road, I wouldn't want any other kink.
"And I don't think I could live with putting him up for adoption and never knowing getting the opportunity to know him ... so I guess I was always going to have him."
I smiled, pressing my fingers gently against my belly. I wasn't showing enough to be obvious or for anyone to even consider that I was pregnant, but I knew my body and my belly was definitely protruding slightly more than my usual bit of feminine tummy down there.
"Him?" she questioned her eyes wide and excited.
"I don't know, I have a feeling though Mason thinks he's a she. Funny, I said the same about him, he wasn't too pleased." We laughed loudly, attracting our boys' attention who came into the kitchen with sour faces.
Flashback
He sighed heavily as though it pained him to talk about it.
"She got pregnant to some guy she'd known for like three weeks. She couldn't tell my aunt and uncle so she got an abortion though it didn't go well. She had to have all these other treatments because her body got infected cause they didn't get everything out or something," he cringed, running his hands through his messy hair, "she can't have children now, Ash, her and her husband were trying for years but that procedure just really messed her up. Don't get me wrong, I don't have a problem with abortion, I think that the fact women have it as an option is good especially when they're put in difficult circumstances, but Ash there are risks and I don't want to lose you."
He joined me again on the couch, taking my hand tightly in one of his and my cheek in his other.
"I never wanted kids, my whole life I said no... but I want kids with you, Sweetheart. There's no way I'm going to let the risk of that being taken away from us. Even if it means starting earlier than we'd intended." His eyes held my gaze captive and I couldn't stray away.
He really wanted to have kids with me one day? He wanted to have kids with me now? Damn, maybe I should've said yes...
"Did you propose to me simply because I'm pregnant?" I hated to ask it, I hated to know the answer.
"Yes and no," he started, fiddling along the couch for the box, "Yes, because I know how you feel about tradition, I know that you want to get married and have a home and stuff like that because you like the romance of it all and I wanted to give that to you. And no, because I really do love you. As soon as I found the test, my second thought was 'I want to marry this woman, I want to make her mine and only mine'"
I was overwhelmed and at a complete loss of what to say.
"And your first thought?" I squeaked out, my eyes alighting with humour at the grin that adorned his face.
"Oh shit." He said bluntly and we laughed in unison.
The tears which had dried on my face were now wet again. I hate crying, but I'd been doing an awful lot of it.
"It's only a thirty quid ring," he chuckled, opening up the box to show me what seemed to be a Pandora or Swarovski ring, "I thought you might want to choose a proper one," he looked at me hopefully.
"Mason, I love that you know me so well, but," his face began to fall so I tilted his chin up with my finger, "let's take it one step at a time. So what we have a kid before we're married, nothing we ever do is in order right?"
Part two coming soon!!!
I've been really quick with these updates lately, I'm squire surprised haha!
ALSO just because I say don't ask me to update straight in an earlier chapter, DOES NOT MEAN that it's null and void in the next chapter. It carries across, okay? Thank you!