he was my dream, and we were his

Chapter 2: Manchester vs London

you opened your phone after arriving back to your London flat to around 1000 notifications, you only came to the realisation what had happened when you scrolled to a text message from Emma which read ~seriously Stella you weren't supposed to tell anyone yet~. the only thing you could think to do was message jack, he explained the situation and although you were upset that your entire love life had just been pasted across social media you looked on the Brightside that you and jack no longer had to hide everything well everything except the 17 week old foetus growing in your uterus.

you always wanted kids at an young age, around 25 not 19 but around 3 months into your relationship with jack you fell pregnant. you already had names for the baby and most things arranged the only problem was living arrangements. in all honesty you had convinced yourself that you could kylie Jenner and hide your pregnancy till then end that would give you time to discover what was gonna happen. you and jack rarely had this conversation because it mostly ended in arguments, jack didn't want to leave Manchester and you didn't want to leave London mostly because at 19 years old you had your apartment, work, family and school (when you eventually got around to completing a media management degree). although you empathised with jack wanted to spend time with the baby it would mean that you would complete isolate yourself from the only family and friends you have to spend an with jack a night, a hour at which the bay would mostly be asleep during, in your opinion it wasnt fair for jack to expect that from you unfortunately he didn't see it from the same perspective. 

you and Emma weren't very close growing u but this whole situation has brought you a lot closer and shes pretty much taken over jacks role in the pregnancy when he couldn't be there.

the two weeks before and after baby Grealish' s gender reveal were absolute mental and all kind of turned into a blur, of course Emma and Kim did the most amazing job planning it but the time between 17 weeks to 22 has been stressful. week 18-19 of pregnancy were spent in hospital as there was a scare with baby's heart. then the gender reveal rolled around and it was pretty simplistic, some friends in a lovely room and a balloon. you and jack discovered baby was a boy and it made you slightly more understanding of jacks reasoning of the Manchester move as he wanted to raise the baby in 'football culture' however you found this point simply ridiculous as Monday to Friday 9-5 you were most likely at Cobham helping Kim with media management.

although now the bump was to big to hide in baggy clothes so u grabbed Kim and got her to take some incognito photos at the airport since your pre-pregnancy body was almost identical to kids body. you posted them on Instagram and announced your 'social media detox in France' really you spend the next two weeks tucked away in either yours, Emma's, Kim's or your dad apartment. you new car came with completely blacked out windows so you could travel to and from apartments, Cobham, the doctors and jacks. 

when week 32 finally rolled around you decided the conversation need to happen so you closed a Cobham meeting room and dialled jacks number. he answered immediatly fearing you were in labour, he had clearly just woken up from a nap. you decided to just cut to the chase and tell him straight ~jack I'm not leaving London, I cant my family's here I need them for support, Emma's gonna watch him whilst I have to work, I really cant leave your in the gym or at training or with Phil and the lads all the time and we've already had the discussion that that wont change so would I move away from them to spend an hour with you~ then the shouting started, you have never coped very well with shouting since your parents you to fight a lot so that combined with the overwhelming amount of hormones in your body made you start balling. luckily enough mason caught you just before you told jack to fuck off if he thinks hes coming into that labour suite with you, but mason reached the phone calmed you down and asked the arrangement. at 36 weeks jack was supposed to come and stay with you until the baby born and then six weeks after but you were completely with mase that you didn't want to be around jack. so he told jack the arrangement was still but he could stay at masons and he would come and check up on me until i was either ready to speak to jack or the day I delivered baby.

finally the day came and it was time for baby to be born, after 42 long tiring hours of labour you finally welcomed baby Ellis Peter Grealish into the world on the 19th of august at 12:34 am