Pence

Chapter Nineteen

"Dad!" Grover yelled, following him to his study. "How can you yell at a pregnant woman? Get out of your immature mind and realize how big this is, and how much she needs you right now! How dare you treat her like that!" Grover was yelling so loud everyone could hear him from the study.

"Here, drink this." Spencer grabbed a bottle of water and opened it for Stephanie. She took a sip. "Do you want to tell me what happened?" Stephanie shook her head.

"On behalf of that-that asshole, I'm so sorry, Steph." Grover rubbed her shoulder gently.

"It's not his fault." She wiped away a tear.

"He'll come around." Max promised.

"Thanks Max." Stephanie smiled, though there were tears trickling down her cheeks now. "I'm gonna go for a walk, alone if you don't mind." She got up, put on her jacket and walked out the door.

"I can't believe dad did that." Grover growled, his voice rasp.

"Me neither." Max got up and left to change out of his football gear.

"The thing is, is that I can believe he did that. It's just like dad to hurt the people around him and then try to crawl back with his tail between his legs." Spencer sunk into the couch. "Why is he such a jerk?" I picked up a pillow and threw it on the floor out of anger. "I'm-uh-gonna go call Niall." I gave Grover a curt nod and ducked out to my room.

"He-y Niall." I could tell my voice was breaking, and my hands were shaking.

"Babe? Are you okay?"

"Steph told my dad that she's pregnant and it didn't go very well. Everyone's pissed, and nothin will change until he apologizes with flowers and chocolates." She was trying to hold back tears, but eventually the emotions got the best of her.

"Hey I'm here. It's gonna be okay."

"B-but you're so far away. I just want to be with you." She admitted.

"Me too, Pence. I miss you so much. I promise I'll see you soon, okay?"

"Yeah."

"What's wrong? All of it."

"Well besides the whole Stephanie thing, and the really, really missing you thing, I guess it's also my mom. There's a pressured relationship. And people at school are gonna be all weird about it everything."

"About us? They can fuck off. It's not like they're a part of this relationship. It's just you and me."

"Yeah. You're right. I know." She was nodding her head even though he couldn't see her.

"Are you gonna be okay?" She could hear the worry in his voice.

"Yeah, I'll be fine. Don't worry about me too much."

"No, it's my job to worry about you too much."

"Oh you're cute." She laughed.

"You're beautiful." He paused. "I know you're turning red right now, but you're the most beautiful girl in the world and I cannot wait to see you."

"When are you coming, anyway?"

"I'm not telling!"

"Well what about this summer?"

"Oh I have a really good plan, but I'm not telling."

"Please!"

"Nope! I'm not giving anything away!" Niall laughed as he spoke.

"Not anything? Just tell me the main form of transportation that we'll be using." She pleaded.

"Multiple. That's all! I'm not saying any more!"

"Okay, fine. I don't want to go back to school tomorrow. What are you doing tomorrow?"

"Just spending the day with my family. They really want to meet you."

"I can't wait to meet them! Oh is that what we're doing this summer?"

"Do you really want to spend two months with my parents in Mullingar?"

"Well if you put it like that, then not particularly, no." They both giggled at the thought.

"Good, I don't either. I don't know if this goes with out saying, but make sure to not tell anyone that I'm going to be home tomorrow."

"Got it. I'm gonna go make dinner and then I'll call you back, okay?"

"I'll be waiting." He sang. She giggled and hung up, made pasta and came back. She opened her computer to see a tweet from Eleanor. It was a picture of her and Danielle getting pedicures with the caption. "Missed you and Perrie today, we'll have to all get together soon!"

"Are you done?" Was the text from Niall. She smiled and called him, falling asleep on the phone.