Of Commitment

Of Commitment (Hessa) - part 25

Tessa's POV

After two hours with Alice, Toby and their little baby girl, we finally arrived home. I went directly to the kitchen to put some ice on my wrist because there is a little bruise.

"Baby?"

"I'm fine. I just want to put a pack of ice on my wrist."

"Let me see it." He takes my hand and he looks at my wrist. "It hurts?"

"Not too much."

"I'm sorry for this."

"You don't have to be sorry, babe. It's not your fault."

"I will tell you what happened, ok?" He kisses my forehead.

"Yes."

He takes out the ice and he let it on the counter, then he lifts me up on the counter and he puts some ice on my wrist. He is cute.

"You are cute."

"I am?"

"Yes, you are."

"And... what were you saying about a child?"

"I want one. You have no idea how good you look with a baby in your arms."

"And you don't look bad with a baby, but... You know it's not the right time for this. I want to finish my college and to work more."

"But a baby won't be an obstacle."

"For you, it won't be. I have to carry the baby, Scott."

"I know. But I'm going to help you."

"You can carry the baby?" I giggle. I want a baby with Hardin, but not now.

"I can just help in conceive the baby, and I will make all your cravings."

"I really appreciate what you want to do, but we should wait a few months. I'm going in a few days to take my contraceptive shot and I'm going to ask Dr. Robbins what we have to do if we want a baby, ok?"

"Ok. But we can start after your graduation?"

"I see that you are obsessed on this."

"I want to be a young father."

"To take her in a club and to pretend that you are her boyfriend?" I giggle.

"Her? How you know we will have a girl?" He sits between my legs and I put my hands on his shoulders.

"Well, I have this feeling."

"Then we should make a rehearsal for a baby? Like how we want to conceive?" He smirks.

"Yeah, not today, Scott. You owe me an explanation about what happened between you and Trevor."

"Ok, fine." He moves back and he helps me to get down from the counter.

"Can we change our clothes before?"

"Sure."

We go upstairs and we change our work clothes with our pajamas, then we go back to the living room where we lay down on the couch and we cuddle.

"So?"

"Me and Trevor were mates in college. We were good friends until one time... He was with this girl for a few months and he seemed to be in love with her, but she used him to come to me. And she did what she wanted. And I slept with her because I wanted to have fun, nothing more. And... Trevor found us doing this. He was really mad and we had a bad fight and it was not nice. I broke his nose and I had a broken rib. And everything ended in that night. I lost every connection with Trevor and that's all."

"It wasn't exactly your fault..."

"I had a part of this fight. I let her to make a movement and I was distracted. And since then, I never wanted to be involved in a friendship or a relationship. Until you..." He smiles and he kisses me.

"I love you."

"And I love you. Thank you for showing me what true love is."

"And you showed me the same. And even if in the first moment I saw you, I didn't like you, but now... Now it's something else. Now I feel that I love you more than anything and I really want to grow old with you. I really want to see our grand-children and to be happy until the end."

"I know it's not a good place to do this and it's not a good moment either, but do you want to marry me?"

"I'm already married with you, Hardin." I smile and I gently rub his cheek.

"No, we have a fake marriage. It's just a paper, it wasn't exactly with our consent."

"But it's a legal paper, Hardin."

"You don't want to marry me?"

"I want to marry you, I will marry you over and over again. But why to spent money on another wedding?"

"It was a boring wedding and I would like to see you happy in our wedding day..."

"I don't know what to say, Hardin..."

"I can let you to think."

"Good."

"But I really want to marry you, again. And it's not necessarily to have a big wedding."

"I'm going to think about this."

"Ok." He kisses my forehead. "Wanna watch a movie?"

"Yeah, that will be nice to end this night."

A few days later...

I just finished making our breakfast and now it's time to wake up Hardin. I enter in our bedroom and I walk to the bed.

"Babe, it's time to wake up. You have to go to work."

"Two more minutes."

"It's already late, babe! It's almost 9 am. And you have to be at work at 10:30 am and you also have to drop me at college."

"Can we skip this day? Come back to bed and let's sleep." He pats the bed and I giggle.

"I can't. It's my last week before exams. So, get up lazy man!" I takes his hand and I try to get him up, but he's stronger. "C'mon, Hardin!"

"Will you marry me?" He drags me over him and he opens his eyes to look into mine.

"When you are going to stop?"

"When you are going to marry me."

"I'm still thinking about this. Now let me go!"

"And I'm thinking if I'm going to let you go."

"Hardin... We will be late."

"I don't care. I want you to be my wife."

"But I am your wife."

"When we married, we weren't in love."

"Ok."

"Ok?" His smile grows on his face.

"Yes."

"I love you, Tess."

"I love you. Now get up, babe."