Sleeping with a lie

(12)

Theo P.O.V

Today I had to go visit Shai. I can't believe I didn't visit her in the last few days. Walking in the crowded elevator filled with the elderly and crying babies, I press the DOWN button.

Standing with sunglasses to hide my face, someone taps on my shoulder.

"Excuse me," a womanly voice calls out. "You're that Theo James guy?"

I turn my head slightly. "Yes. And you must be Lauren."

She takes off her sunglasses slowly. The elevator opens for the others, until we are the only ones standing.

Lauren blocks the elevator door, standing in front of me.

"Its complicated," I sigh.

"Doesn't look like it to me. Who are the flowers for? That weak, understatement of a woman, Shailene?"

Her words made me instinctively punch her in the jaw.

Lauren stumbles, shaking it off. "Is that how you treat your girlfriends?"

I hit her again, but she just kept egging me on.

"What about the one with the miscarriage? Did you kill the baby too? Your driving people away... Theo."

I grasp her neck, choking her up against the elevator wall. I smack the emergency button.

"I swear if you tell anyone about this, I will hunt you down, this time- kill me myself."

"Is that a threat?"

"No. It's a promise."

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Shailenes hand smoothed over mine. I placed her roses in a vase. Lauren who was a old ex girlfriend from London, wants to separate us. She must've heard the story about Shai and I.

"I talked to the interviewer today. Her name was Bren," Shai says with her head rested on my shoulder. "Theo, I want to consider something..."

I lock my jaw. "What is it?"

"Adoption."

Somehow that almost brought me to tears. "Shai, I known this is a lot of pressure put on you, right now- but will Ansel be okay with this?"

"I could care less about Ansel. He is dead to me. You didn't hear what he did earlier?"

"No,"

"He got peed off and broke chairs and tables. I'm changing Belle's name to mine."

"Or ours," I suggest.

Shai doesn't respond.

"Anyways, I have to go. But if you want me too, I could stay."

"Stay." She nods. "Would you be a handsome dear and feed Belle?"

Carefully grabbing Belle out from the equbator, her little hands hit my face. I smile at her cuteness. Shai lied down and unfortunately went to sleep.

I sit in the chair near her, feeding the bottle to Belle.

"Would You like it if I were your daddy?" I say in a small voice. "Huh?"

"We could start a new family, live in London where no paparazzi barely knows about us. I'm thinking about proposing to her during the Insurgent premier."

The bottle puffs air as Belle cooed and swat her hands in the air. Before putting her back in th equbator, I kiss the top of her blonde head.