stumbling into line (sidemen ff)

Chapter 29: 'This was an adventure'

If there was anything Freya enjoyed more than getting gifts, it was giving gifts.  Good ones to be precise, presents that were special and she knew the receiving candidate would like because she loved the look on their faces and she enjoyed the inevitable hug that came after as well. That is why she wasn't bothered about the scorching heat, and the sun rays right in her uncovered eyes because what was sitting on her knee was probably the best present she would ever gift and it wasn't even anyone's birthday, well, it was someone some where's birthday but she didn't know the millions of inevitable people to be born on June Twentieth and so was not obligated to buy them a gift or even wish them a happy birthday but she did do that very thing by a simple tweet of, 'It's such a beautiful and exciting day that calls for a lovely, fumes filled bus ride through the dirty city.  I hope every one that was born today is having a happy birthday.'

The fact that it wasn't a special occasion made it even more special as it was spontaneous and Josh wouldn't see it coming, which excited Freya because surprises were also one of her favourite things.

She had been a little bit of a cheap skate when buying said gift and had entered the supermarket with no idea how much it was going to cost and had eventually found all the brands she knows at a whopping ten to fifteen pound in range and she was about to leave, refusing to pay that much, when she spotted the own brand ones for two for four pound.  She practically jumped at them, the excitement that she had held before she entered the shop once again returning.

Now, she was so excited to show Josh that she couldn't even see the dwelling dark grey monsters threatening to cry on her.  She didn't even falter when said threats became a reality and pitter patters of rain spat on her skin, in fact, she enjoyed the relief of the cool liquid against her burning skin and it was the rain she liked.  It was still warm but the rain was cold, her mother used to say that it rained after a long period of heat to wash the earth and rid it of the dust that had built up and the smell she absolutely loved and it was quite possibly the scent of her child hood.  It smelled of hot tar and freshly cut grass, even though there was none around, and so she was slightly upset when her bus came chugging down the road, it's windscreen wipers going faster than probably necessary, and stopped in front of her, waiting for her to hop aboard.

Once the bus had yet again set off, she stared at the window, not out of it - at it, and she counted all the rain drops that landed on the murky brown surface and made a splatter bigger than a ten pence.

By the time that the bus had pulled into her stop she had counted six hundred and eighty-two, a new record.

She gained stares as she skipped down the road like a five year old and knocked loudly on Josh's door.  She immediately hears crying, lots of crying, as she enters the house, and shouting too, but she doesn't let it dampen her mood and she lets her self in, guessing that no one had heard her knocks.

She runs up the stairs and to Josh's room, the crying louder there, and she opens the door to see Josh at his desk, his head in his hands.  Slowly, she approaches him like he is a wild animal and places a hand on his back.  His head snaps up at him and Freya immediately takes note of the massive bags under his eyes.

"What's up?" She asks, furrowing her eyebrows and keeping the gift behind her back.

"That fucking baby hasn't shut up in hours." Josh grits his teeth and hisses, his head pounding and aching for some silence.

Freya smiles, "Well, this might make you feel better but then again, it might not." She jokes, revealing the small shiny blue box with pink ribbon wrapped around it, that had indeed cost more than it's contents.  Josh's eyebrows knit together in confusion as he hesitates to take the box and untie the ribbon.

Upon looking at the contents, his eyes light up, his tension completely gone as he springs from his seat and lifts Freya from her feet by her waist and spins her round, her arms immediately wrap around his shoulders and she buries her face in his neck, a massive, contagious grin spreading on her face.

He's laughing and smiling, his face buried in Freya's shoulder and he doesn't even notice the cease to screaming and wailing that came seconds after he saw a blue and white stick with a plus sign on it.  Now, he wasn't an expert on pregnancy tests, and he didn't claim to be, but he had taken science at school and knew, from physics, that a plus was in fact positive and there was also a key to the side that said ‘+=positive' for anyone that was stupid enough to think otherwise.

"Wait," he says putting her down and staring right at her, unable to stay serious as a grin manages to break through onto his face, "I thought we were going to do this together?"

Freya grins also, nodding her head and claiming that she was too excited and she was sorry.  Josh knew that was true but also suspected that she wanted to do it alone so she could a) surprise Josh and b) come to terms with it first.

He was happy.  He was more than happy.  He was elated and felt a little scared but he didn't pay that much attention because he would be more worried if he wasn't scared and knew that it was because of the unexpected to come.  This was an adventure.  An adventure that he wasn't at all, in any way prepared for but was more than excited to experience it and to be able to experience it with someone he loved and cherished deeply.

"I love you." He claims, kissing Freya's nose and laughing at how cute she looks when she scrunched face up.

"I love you, too!" Freya shouts, way louder than she should have and it resulted in the sound of a baby, yet again, crying and she immediately regretted it but had thought that she loved him that much that she needed to shout it.  She didn't and now she had to suffer screams for the inevitable future.  Unless…

"Let's go to mine.  It's quieter." And with that they exit the house, their minds muddled and filled with thoughts of 'is it a boy or girl?', 'where are we going to live?', or, 'why is there one odd, bright green sock in the back of Josh's car?'.

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Chapter 30 sneak peek:

‘This is a chapter that, though important, is dangerous and risks tearing the whole essence of space and time apart, creating a paradox as we, not only travel back, but travel back to travel forward across a time already documented within this story, but we do not travel forward over the same path we went back.  Instead we make a circle, or more of a figure of eight, and end up at the same point, that point being seven PM on June Twentieth, in a Nandos local to the group of people this very story is about.'