"Xavier, breakfast." I murmur in his ear as he sleeps. He stirrs and groans, obviously enjoying his little sleep.
"Fine, I'll eat your breakfast." He sits up and gives me a pout.
"I'm up." He grumbles.
I laugh silently and follow him down the stairs to mum, dad, Janice and Scott. Mum has made her famous pancakes. I love this sort of food, yes, I mean that as in unhealthy and seriously deliscious. It's nice to have all the people I care so much about, in the same house together. It's holidays for Janice and Scott to so I thought we all may as well do something together.
"Anyone up for a picnic on the beach?" I ask as it rounds midday.
"Yeah, it's a nice day for it." Xavier chimes.
"Dad, can you go get some chicken and chips on the way to the beach. Xavier and I will take my car, we'll take Scott and Janice is you take the equipment." Dad smiles at me and kisses my forehead.
"You're growing up too fast." I smile and hug him before walking to the car.
It's rounding 1pm and it's extremely hot today. On the walk down to the beach from the car, we go past a beautiful cliff, overlooking the ocean. I smile and close my eyes, taking in a deep breath of the salty sea, I love this smell, this place, it's perfect. I feel arms wrap around my waist and a head rest on my shoulder. I smile and place my hands over Xavier's.
"It's beautiful up here." I muse.
"Yeah, it sure is. But only because you're up here." I roll my eyes at his cheesiness.
"Where's Janice and Scott?" I ask.
"They went down to the beach, your parents are down there with the food." I nod my head and look up at him.
"This cliff is so beautiful, I don't really want to move." I say as I play with the ring on my finger.
I can feel Xavier's smile as his cheek is pressing against mine.
"Let's get married up here. I can call the council and get it approved." I look up at him shocked.
"You don't want to marry in a church?" Xavier presses his lips softly to my cheek.
"I don't care where we get married, as long as I get married to you. You like it up here, and I know you want to marry on a cliff overlooking the ocean so we can get married here if you want." I smile and kiss his lips softly.
"You're amazing, you know that?" He smirks and wiggles his eyebrows as if to say 'of course I know'. I roll my eyes and whack his chest softly before walking down to the beach with him.
"What took you two so long?" Dad asks in an alomst whine since mum made them all wait for us before eating.
"I was enjoying the view." I mumble sheepishly.
Dad smiles and rolls his eyes before digging into some food. It's amazing how so much can change in such a small time space. I mean, I do worry every now and again of the pace in which we are progressing in our relationship but at the end of the day I love him, and he loves me, and we'll love this child completely so what is there to fear?
Fear is a negative emotion and when those sorts of emotions make their way into your mind and they manafest they can be detrimental in your relationships and if you wory and fear of the relationship ending, and have it set in your mind that it will eventually, then it will end up that way. So for now, I'm pushing all that away and letting myself be happy and content in what I have now in the present.
"Wanna go for a swim?" I smile up at Xavier and nod my head, giving him my hand, so he can pull me up onto my feet.
As soon as my dress is off and I'm only in my swimmers, Xavier's arms are around me and he's lifting me off the ground. I squeal and laugh as he walks to the water with me. He just smiles at me with his arms around me in the water. The contentment in his eyes are heartwarming, how can anyone so in love and content be capable of leaving that person. I know for sure there's no way we'll end.
"Scott, do you want me to drive you home?" Xavier asks as we relax on the couch. It's almost ten pm.
"Ah...sure." Even a blind man would know that he doesn't want to go home. He's almost terrified of the mere concept.
"You don't have to go, you can stay here as long as you want to Scott." Dad chimes in.
I smile and kiss dads cheek, he tries to come off as the hard arse but he is the sweetest guy in the world. There's no nasty bone in him. Scott relaxes visibly and nods his head timidly. I think Xavier should give Scott's brother a visit, straighten him out a bit. But I'm not going to force him, besides the urge is probably my meternal instincts kicking in from being pregnant.
Mum and I sit down with Janice as Scott, Xavier and dad cook on the barbieque and talk. It's nice having some girl time.
"So Janice, how'd you and Scott meet?" I ask smiling as Janice blushes.
"Well, Scott's in a couple years above me. Some girls from his year were bullying me and he stood up for me. The next day I saw he was sitting on his own at lunch so I sat with him." She says with a shrug. I smile, she's such a sweetheart.
"What about you and Xavier? How did you guys end up going out?" I laugh and go red.
"Well, we were watching movies at his house, when he said he wanted to set me up on a date with one of his friends and I said the only guy I want to go on a date with is him." She gushes as does mum.
"Then what happened?" Mum asks. I cough awkwardly.
"Then things went in a direction which this girl shouldn't hear about." Mum laughs as I say this with a red face.
"I know what sex is you know." Janice says pointedly. Mum laughs even harder as I roll my eyes and go red again.
"Doesn't mean I should tell you about my sex life." I mumble.
"So you guys did have sex after that." Janice says smugly. I roll my eyes and groan at her. What happened to the cute, innocent baby sister I once had.
"What we talking about?" Dad asks as he walks in. Mum starts laughing again and I go red, covering Janice's mouth as she goes to blurt it all.
"Talking about periods, do you mind?" I say smirking at dad.
The pure horror on dads face with the wide eyes was enough to make all of us laugh. Dad walks away without another word being said.
"I don't know what would have terrified him more, us talkiing about your sex life or us talking about periods." Mum muses. I laugh and shrug my shoulders.
Personally, I think he would find both as equally terrifying as the other.
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We're Older Now
Romance"I want to set you up on a date with a mate of mine" I frown and look up at him. "I don't want to go on a date with one of your friends" He cocks his head to the side and stares into my eyes with his brown eyes. "Why not?" I can feel my heart beat...
