Chapter Three
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Chapter Three
Amber’s point of view
Cath went upstairs for a well deserved rest, and me and the guys stayed in the front room. Johnny wouldn’t let the baby go, which would have been cute if it wasn’t insanely obvious he was only doing it so no one else would give her cuddles and by no one else.. I mean Ollie. Jeremy wasn’t a threat to Johnny in his eyes because of me and our baby, but Ollie was basically his enemy at the minute.
Which is weird because they had... Somewhat of found a common ground when Cath was in the hospital. I don’t know. I won’t attempt to try and make sense of what was going through his mind. He has some serious issues. If he wants Pandora and Cath so badly, be a man and get back with her. They have so much history at this point... Who isn’t rooting for them to be together? Well... I can think of one person...
Ollie.
It's so obvious he has feelings for Cath, but, he thinks there is too much water under the bridge for them to ever be anything.. And at this point, he’s probably right. The situation is already f****d up, now there was a child involved... A child that could essentially be my step daughter... God...
‘What are you thinking about?’ Jeremy suddenly asked. I snapped out of it and just shook my head. ‘You sure, you seemed pretty deep in thought’.
‘I was just thinking about.. You know?’ I nodded towards the baby and he ‘’mm’ed’’. We hadn’t really talked about it much because every time we tried to.. We ended up fighting and, well, we just didn’t want to fight any more.
‘Nothing’. I lied and he knew it. ‘Nothing we can’t talk about later’. I corrected myself. He nodded, accepting it and our attention went back to the others. ‘You know, why don’t you guys go out and have a drink or something? Wet the baby’s head?’ I suggested.
Beer was a subject that would always bring the guys together.
‘Yeah, ok’. Ollie stood up and waited to see if the others were going to join him. Johnny looked down at Pandora.
‘Who’s going to look after her? Cath is probably asleep by now’. I stood up and opened my arms for her.
‘I will give me some more practice before this little one is due’.
‘Ok’. Johnny passed the sleeping baby over to me, and I held her tight in my arms. I couldn’t help but lean down and kiss her head. She still had that ‘’New Baby’’ smell that made my extremely full womb do a backflip.
I couldn’t wait for my baby… correction, our baby, to be here. There wasn’t long left to go now.
Johnny got up and went to find what I assumed was his keys and wallet. Ollie went over to wait by the front door, but Jeremy made no attempt to move.
‘Aren’t you going too?’ He shook his head. ‘Why?’
‘I just want to spend time with you’. I couldn’t exactly be mad at that, but I knew the real reason, he wanted to have that conversation. THE conversation.
‘No, no, you should really go, have fun, honestly’. He shook his head.
‘No, I don’t want to’. I wasn’t going to push it because then we would most likely have an argument before the argument… if that makes sense. I just wish we could discuss this.. Her, the baby, all of it without things getting heated, but, im emotions, he doesn’t want to talk about it.. Or accept it, so, really, an argument is inevitable.
‘Ok’.
The guys left and soon it was just me, Jeremy and Pandora. Cath was my best friend, so, if this baby was Jeremy’s, we were all going to be around each other pretty much every day. It was unavoidable.
‘So…’ He started but stopped.
‘So?’ He looked down at the baby in my arms.
‘She doesn’t even look like me’. I couldn’t help but roll my eyes. I knew he was trying to break the ice by being playful and light hearted, and it worked, but, still...
‘That doesn’t mean anything’.
‘I know. I don’t want to cause any upset for Cath, she's JUST had the baby, Amber’. I nodded.
‘I don’t want to cause any upset either, but we all need to know. We’re about to have our own baby, we deserve to know. Ollie deserves to know, Johnny deserves to know’.
‘I know! Jesus Christ, Amber, but drop it for now! I love you but just drop it’. See, he was already getting upset and annoyed over this. Like every f*****g time.
‘You know what, just go out and have some drinks with the guys, Jeremy, I don’t want you around me right now’.
‘Fine, whatever’. He took the car keys and stormed out, slamming the door behind him. I wanted to scream after him, but if the door didn’t wake Cath up, me screaming would have. She needed to rest.
Sighing, upset and annoyed, I looked down at the adorable baby in my arms.
‘Who’s your daddy, little one?’ I asked her. She just stared back at me. I know I was being selfish not wanting it to be Jeremy, but I couldn’t help it. If she was, she was, but I hoped she wasn’t. We will always love her, of course we would… I just don’t want her to be Jeremy’s daughter…. But, I suppose... We will only know if she is or not AFTER a DNA test is done…
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