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Chapter 23

Hello. I don't think you guys want to sit and read this, I think you want to continue where we left off. Shall we?

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Hardin's POV

"Tessa! Calm down. Please. Look, I know there we were past those moments in our lives and that none of us thought that we would bring another person into this world but it happened and we are. I'm going to love this baby so fucking much." I say sitting on my knees before her. I put my hand on her belly. "We created this. This is our baby and me, you, Emery and Auden are going to love the shit out of it." Finally, her beautiful laugh.

"Yeah. I guess so." She says. "So you're not angry?"

"Angry? Why would I be angry? Tessa I will raise this child so good that he or she will never want to leave this house."

"Well, I hope he or she will leave someday." She laughs again, I join her.

"Look. Tomorrow I'll schedule a meeting with our doctor and we'll see where we'll take it from there." I kiss her and we go to bed.

I'm going to be a dad again... I'm not going to fuck this up.

Emery's POV

It's Saturday now. I'm lying in Jake's bed waiting for him to come so we can continue with the movie. He said that he'd bring snacks or something. It was kind of weird to return to his house again after what happened with dad and his dad. When Zed opened the door for me I saw that he still was a little blue around his eye. I just gave him a nervous chuckle and then Jake came and dragged me to his room.

"You have that look again." He says and gives me a glass of water.

"What look?"

"That." He points to my face. "Is the look you always have when you're deep thinking."

"Wow..." 

"What?"

"You know my faces." I say shocked.

"Yeah, so?" He laughs.

"No. It's just- You know my faces."

"Yees?" 

"I don't know. Just weird." I laugh.

"Weird that I know you well enough that I know your faces?"

"Just forget it. You just knew me better than I thought." 

"Oh, I know you alright." He says and takes the glass from me and puts it on his dresser then walks back to the bed and kisses me, biting my bottom lip in the process.

"I know that you like it when I bite your lip." He then leaves a trail of kisses on my neck. "And when I kiss your neck." His left-hand makes its way to my shirt, unbuttoning the buttons. "And I also know how much you like it when I kiss your breasts." Well, the shirt is off. God his kisses feel like heaven. 

"How come I'm the only one undressing here?" I say, already out of breath. He stops kissing me and sits up.

"Please. Take off whatever you want." He smirks.

"My pleasure." I grab the bottom of his shirt and pull it over his head, revealing his perfect abs.

"Liking the view?"

"Very much, yes." I start kissing him, his mouth, neck, especially behind his ears, it's his soft spot. And I know I've hit the right spot when he lets out a moan. 

"Pants." He says, clearly out of breath. "Take them off." He stands up, taking off his as well. 

I take off mine and he stops in his tracks. 

"Batman?" He says, trying not to laugh.

"It's laundry day!" I laugh back.

"Uh-huh, yeah sure." He laughs.

"Shut up and come here."

"Not going to say no to that."

His lips press against mine again. Harder, more passion, like he's afraid to let me go. He grabs my thigh and pulls it, making me fall underneath him.

"Smooth." I smile.

"Well, I've had a lot of-" He stops himself, just hearing what he said. I get out from underneath him and reach out for my pants.

"Emery, I didn't mean-"

"No, it's fine." I button my pants, searching for my shirt. "I lost track of time, I've got to go home anyway." Found it. I put it on and start buttoning the buttons.

"Emery." He says looking at me.

"Look Jake... I- ... I've got to go, I'll see myself out." As I get out of his room and close his door I hear him calling out for me but I honestly don't care. 

On the bus home, I start thinking about everything.

Maybe I overreacted? 

I mean I know he's been with a lot of girls, I always knew that. But he didn't have to go and say what he said in bed. It just ruined the whole mood. Completely.

When I'm home I head straight to my room and change into sweats, putting my hair up into a bun too. 

"Emery?" Auden walks into my room. "Mom and dad want to say something to us, coming?" I nod and walk with him downstairs to the living room where mom and dad are sitting on the couch holding hands. They look.... weird.

"Is everything okay?" I ask. "Is someone dead?" 

"No! No... We have some news."

"Don't tell me we're moving." Auden says.

"No one is moving." Dad answers.

"Then what is it?" I ask, looking at them. They only look at each other.

"Your mother and I had some fun... in bed-"

"DAD! EWW! NO!" Auden and I scream.

"You could've skipped that part Hardin." Mom looks at him but he's laughing.

"Sorry. But well well... Something happened."

"What happened?" I ask.

"What your dad is trying to say is that... I'm pregnant."

The silence is thick. T H I C K.

"Pregnant? As in with a baby?" Auden asks.

"No, with a tractor. Yes a baby." I say to him. I look back to mom and dad. "I just- How? I mean I know how it's just... How?" 

"Well... Things happen and we've decided to keep it."

Wow...

"Oh no. Don't tell me it's a girl. I can't handle one more of that." Auden says and points at me.

"Excuse me? I-"

"Enough." Mom says. "We don't know the gender yet. All we know is that the baby is healthy."

"That's all that matters." Dad says.

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So that's it! I'm in a writing flow so I'll probably get a few chapters done now, hahaha. See you next time!