Chapter 15

HENRY POV

I wake up to beeping and I am confused not knowing where I am, bright light flashes in my eyes urging me to get up but when I try to move I feel nausea, the urge to throw up is strong, plus trying to get up with the weight of a pregnant belly is not an easy feat. Memories of what happened a few days ago floods my senses. I can't remember how long I have been in the hospital but it feels like I have been here for a long, long time and I cant wait to leave here. There is a knock on the door and I tense thinking it is Jace,

"C-c-come in." really hoping it is not Jace, not ready to see him yet. The person that came in really wasn't Jace. I cant believe he is here, I only called him yesterday how did he get here so soon.

"Robbie, its you. I'm glad you're here." I said with hardly any control over my emotions. everything I held in for so long came pouring out with just one look from him. in a flash I was in his arms sobbing in his chest. With heart wrenching sobs he held me through it all not saying a word until I could feel myself calm down. I could hear him shushing me and I actually took comfort in that.

Being in his arms just brings back all the good times I've had in the past, he has been there for it all, the bad just overshadowed some of it and now he is here again when I need him the most. He is my saviour, Robbie. He brought me out of that wretched place I call my home and then he became my home.

"Hey baby boy, what have you done this time huh. Stop crying sugar its ok, you're gonna be alright." Eventually the crying died down and I could talk clearly.

"Hi Robbie, thanks for coming, I'm sorry for calling you, you might have been busy and just had to call you and make you come here."

"Hey now sugar you didn't make me do anything, I chose to come, although Barry couldn't make it." Barry is his husband of ten years. They both helped me when I tried to commit suicide all those years ago.

"Was I not enough for him, why would he cheat on me, I think I get it now I'm not meant to be loved, im just an unlovable mess, not even my parents wanted me."

"Hey now don't say that, if those people couldn't handle you its because they were not meant to and that's their loss not yours ok. Besides as soon as they give you the ok to leave this place, you are coming home with me. We miss you at home, and Barry misses cooking for you and you big appetite,"

He pulls away from the hug and takes a good look at my swollen belly, and just laughs to himself.

"What, why are you laughing right now."

"Well I and Barry used to wonder where all the food you eat go to but I guess we don't have to wonder anymore huh its out for all to see." My face turns a dark shade of red at his teasing.

"Are you trying to call me fat, you know better than to aggravate a pregnant person it wont end well for you." We both laugh at that. I have missed this. We both were laughing unknown to us there was brooding shadow watching out exchange outside the door.

"WHO IS THIS GUY." The smile on my face slips away because I already know who that is and I'm not ready not now, not when I was letting it all go. Robbie just looks at me before facing Jace.

"Sugar is this him." uh-oh

"Robbie don't." he gets up from the bed and takes a step closer to Jace.

"Is this the motherfucker that broke your heart, cos I'm gonna break his face."

"Robbie stop, don't its ok." He calms down enough to get back on the bed.

"Robbie this is Jace, Jace this is Robbie, he's my guardian/ father/ best friend." I said still tense and wary in the awkward atmosphere.

"Robbie, can you please give us a moment, it ok." He reluctantly gets up and leaves the room giving Jace the stink eye all the way to the door. I watch him leave the room and then I turn to Jace all trace of emotion wiped from my face or at least I hope that is what it looks like.

"What are you doing here Jace, what do you want now." He looks nervous and fidgety. GOOD

"What do you mean what am I doing here I came to see you, to see how you were doing, Baby I came to explain, what you saw is not what happened I swear it you just have to listen to me baby please."

"You're trying to say I didn't witness you two kissing in your office when you told me you will be backed up with meetings all day huh, then by all means tell me what really happened because apparently I have all of a sudden become blind." I huff getting mad.

"I guess she slipped, fell and landed on your laps and the went on to mistakenly plant her lips on yours , because I don't see why you wouldn't push her off the minute she landed on your laps."

"You gotta let me explain, she is my ex." That word dropped like a bomb. Of course he had to marry a totally beautiful woman and she had to choose now when we were happy to come back and of course he is going to choose her I mean why not, she is the mother of his children why wouldn't he choose her. I guess there is nothing keeping me here anymore, I just hope he is not taking my babies from me.

"I know what you're thinking and I am not going to get back together with her, I don't even know why you would think that, I love you and that is not going to change."

"You know I would have trusted you before I saw your tongue down her throat trying to suck the life out of her body." The hope he had in his face about me actually believing him was dimming like a light that has lost its spark, well now he knows how I feel.

"Babe, you have to trust me I would never cheat on you."

"Don't call me that again, I thought I could trust you but now I don't think we can ever have that back, you broke me, just when I was getting happy. I just have one request as you move on with your ex-wife and your kids, please, please don't take away my babies from me, they're all that I have left we can come to some sort of agreement but please don't take them from me."

"Babe what will it take for you to believe me. I never chose her, I never meant for that to happen."

"Look Jace I know you didn't mean to but you also didn't stop it. What 's done is done, nothing can change it, I will go back with Robbie when I give birth to my babies, but I will not think of keeping them from you I just wouldn't stay with you anymore." I pause to take a breath saying all this things just makes it all so real. This is the type of stress the doctor told me to stay away from.

"I will be staying with Robbie and when I have the babies, I will go home with him." Jace has a heart breaking expression on his face, but it cant be helped now.

"Henry I know you say all this now but I promise you I wont let you go, not when we were so close to having out forever, not when we love each other so much. I will fight for you, and I will get you back, whatever it takes."

"Jace I love you too but as you can see, love is not enough, you couldn't fight for me then what makes you think you can fight for me now." I smile up at him motioning for him to come closer and then I kiss his cheeks.

"I will miss this, us. We had a good run." I lay back down on the bed and face away from him

"I need to rest, I'm tired, the doctor said I should get enough rest and less stress."

"I will come back for you, we're meant to be], you just have to see it." When he leaves the room, that is when I break down and let all the emotions run free on my face. The pain, all manifest in tears. All the pain I have held back come rushing back to me. I cry for the love we once shared and for the future we could've had, for our children. Why did this have to happen, we were doing fine.

*****

I think I cried myself to sleep because when I wake I am hit with a horrible headache and nausea. I look at my baby bump and rub it slowly, I wonder where Robbie went.

"Hey, you're up. I had to call Barry since it looks like we are going to be here for a while since the doctor said that its not safe to move you. Bed rest for the rest of the pregnancy which means you have three more months left till you give birth (I don't know if I gave a specific time for how far along Henry is but he is six months along)and three more months on this bed." Robbie comes into the room and sits at the edge of the bed.

"You're man friend left about a few hours ago. He stayed for some time after you fell asleep but said something about his kids and how he had to run." My ears perk up at the kids part.

"His kids, are they ok, nothing happened to them right."

"Calm down Sugar, take it easy, you don't need to panic, he just had to pick them up from school, their nanny cancelled." I relax a little after that. The kids are ok.

"I want to see the kids, I miss them a lot. I really don't want to leave them but when I go I want to know that they are being taken care of, I trust that Jace loves his kids but sometimes he can be really, well his priorities can be a little bit focussed on the wrong things." Robbie looks sad for a minute.

"I can get your boyfriend to bring the kids over."

"He's not my boyfriend, not anymore, but I will like that very much." I yawn and my tummy growls and I realize I cant realize the last time I ate.

"Um Robbie,"

"Yeah Sugar."

"Can you get me some peanut butter and pickle sandwich and ice cream with a bag of raisins. Matter of fact bring the whole jar of pickles and the whole jar of peanut butter. God knows I cant survive with the poison they call food in this hospital. Ooh and if you can get me the biggest size of chocolate you can find, mmmhh chocolate."

Robbie looks at me like I'm crazy and shakes his head.

"Although I've seen the belly and spoke to the doctor, I've never been more convinced that you were pregnant more than I do now, you sound the way my brother's wife sounded when she was pregnant but you sound way worse."

"Just do it or the wrath of a pregnant person will be upon you. Be gone."

"Alright your highness, your wish is my command, although you've got to take it easy. you don't want to get fat once your nine months are over, youre already gaining enough as it is."

"Are you calling me fat." I say with tears welling up in my eyes.

"I guess that's why Jace cheated on me, because I'm fat and ugly." And then the tears start pouring out for real, I couldn't hold it anymore. Why would he do this to me.

"No no no no. That's not what I meant, of course not, you're still the same beautiful boy you were when I found you. HE cheated on you, that's on him, its not your fault." He cups my cheek and smiles his comforting smile.

"You're perfect and he's a fool for not seeing it."

At times like this, I'm thankful for the people that still care about me no matter what happens.

"Now let me get you what you ordered, you're eating for two. Best not to keep you starving."

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