“You have to admit it is, just a little,” she breathed out. The towel slipped from my waist as I adjusted my body above her, and her eyes dropped down. “Yeah, I don’t think the whole paper bag thing will work. You need like a full body suit made out of paper bags if you want the girls to leave you alone.”
“Mmhm,” I murmured against her neck. I arched my hips into her and she let out a gasp, the laughter finally dying down. Serves her right.
Chapter 12
Leah
It was finally here, graduation day. I couldn’t believe that the time had passed so quickly. The semester had flown by between studying, work, Caleb, and getting used to the idea of being pregnant. When I went to the doctor, they confirmed my pregnancy and had told me that I was newly pregnant at four weeks.
After the next couple of appointments, we finally got to see the baby on the ultrasound and I think that was when it really sank in, I was going to be a mom. I mean, I knew for all intents and purposes I was already a mom to Caleb, but it was so weird to think I had this little human growing inside of me.
Chase handled me like a delicate flower and wanted me to quit working at Gino’s right away, but I put my foot down. We needed the extra money, and after I graduated who knew when I would put my degree to use. Who wanted to hire someone when they were almost five months pregnant?
“You look so cute, look at your little baby belly.” Ally stood back and looked at me in the deep blue dress that she had helped pick out. “And now we have to go and make it all ugly with this bag.” She tossed me my graduation gown and I carefully pulled it over my hair.
“I don’t know, she still manages to even make that look pretty sexy.” I smiled when I turned to see Chase standing in the doorway, his hands latched at the top of the doorway, just giving me the briefest glimpse of his hard stomach. My pregnancy so far had been pretty uneventful; the one thing that I really noticed is that I constantly wanted Chase…like constantly.
“Uh-oh Chase, she’s giving you those eyes, you need to get out of here now.” Ally pointed towards the door with a stern look on her face and Chase backed up reluctantly. “Don’t even think about following him, me and you need some alone time before I leave tomorrow.”
Ugh, she just had to bring that up. I thought maybe me being pregnant would change her mind about going on tour with the band, but it didn’t. She promised to catch a flight back the minute I started having contractions, but it wouldn’t be the same and Remy was leaving too. Now I would just be stuck with a bunch of boys.
“So, are you excited? I talked to Remy earlier and she was practically bouncing off the walls. You’re pretty calm about the whole thing. What gives?”
“I don’t know,” I shrugged my shoulders and picked at the hem of the hideous gown I had on. “I am excited, I just feel like it’s not such a big deal because I’m not going to go out and find a job right away like I planned to.”
“I know honey, but you have Chase now and you know he loves to take care of you and Caleb. I know you don’t like being taken care of, but just let him. By the way, how’s the whole situation at school going for him, have you guys heard anything new?”
I let out a groan and flopped back on the pillow, wishing I could take a nap but I knew we needed to leave within a few minutes to make it to the ceremony on time.
“I don’t know. Truthfully, things don’t sound good. Maybe that’s why I’m not as excited. What if Chase loses his job? Then what are we going to do? They don’t have any evidence of what that bitch is saying to find it true, but I guess her parents are pretty influential in the town. I don’t know, it’s just a little stressful.”
“Don’t worry honey, everything will work out. I just know it.” She patted my stomach and then grabbed onto my hand to haul me off the bed. “Now, let’s go graduate.”
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The graduation ceremony did end up being pretty exciting in the end. It felt good to know that all of my hard work had finally paid off. Now I just needed to figure out when I would actually be putting my degree to good use.
The goodbyes with Ally and Remy had been rather emotional. Ally had been there for me so long, it felt strange that she was leaving and I didn’t know when she would come back. Remy had become a good friend as well, and I would miss all of the time we had spent together. I had been a wet, crying mess when I watched them drive away. I was blaming it all on the pregnancy hormones. Totally their fault.
My phone ringing brought me back to reality and I smiled when I saw that it was Chase.“Hey, baby. You think you can bring my briefcase over to school? I don’t know how I just realized that I forgot it this morning, but I’m definitely going to need it for my last class. Are you busy?”