Unexpected

I love you

"We should go back to the room" Mark told me, calling the waiter over and asking for the bill.

"What's going on?" I asked panicked "What has she said?"

"Y/N please" he snapped, I flinched at his tone, shocked by his sudden change in demeaner. I just nodded and followed him back to the room. He didn't hold my hand, he didn't even look at me the whole way there. 

"Mark you're scaring me" I sighed once the bedroom door had closed, he just sat on the edge of the bed head in his hands. "Please tell me what's going on!?". When he glanced back up at me  he had tears in his eyes. Shit. 

He handed me his phone. It was open on the message from his ex. 

My hand shot to my mouth as I gasped. 

There, on the screen that I held in my shaking hand, was a photo. 

A photo of a pregnancy test. 

A positive pregnancy test. 

Accompanied by two words.

>Congratulations Daddy< 

I was in shock. 

Mark obviously was too. 

"What?" was all I managed to say as I felt heat prick behind my eyes. 

Mark opened his arms and I fell into them. Neither of us knew what to say, but we knew we needed each other. 

We fell asleep like that. Still fully clothed. Still wrapped in one another. 

************************************Mark's POV***********************************

I woke up before Y/N. She had rolled over in her sleep so I managed to slip out of bed without disturbing her. I headed to the bathroom and slid the door closed behind me. 

Leaning against the sink I looked at my reflection in the mirror. I looked tired. I still wore last nights clothes. I was lost. 

Pregnant. She was fucking pregnant!

Or so she said, I would need further confirmation before I did anything drastic. 

What the hell was I going to do!

Yesterday had been perfect. This weekend was supposed to be perfect. 

Y/N was perfect.

I didn't  know what to do with this information. Didn't know how to feel. 

Did I want to be a dad? Yes.

Had I dreamt of having children? Yes.

Was this how I'd imagined it? No.

I'd imagined it with my ex, sure. But that was before Y/N. 

Now I only imagined my life with Y/N. How would that work if I had a child with someone else. 

What did all this mean for us?

I sat on the edge of the bath and opened the image on my phone. 

I was going to be a dad.

There was a tap on the bathroom door.

"Mark?" Y/N called "Are you in there?"

"Yeah" I called back "I'll just be a minute"

"Okay" she replied and I heard her footsteps retreat. 

I brushed my teeth and splashed my face before leaving the bathroom. 

"All yours" I told Y/N

"Thanks" she smiled, but the smile didn't reach her eyes.

I turned on the kettle to boil and stepped out onto the balcony. 

I pulled out my phone and dialled my best friends number. 

"Hey" I greeted "I need you to do something for me"

*********************************Y/N's POV************************************

The kettle had just boiled when I came out of the bathroom, but I couldn't see Mark so I made the brews.

"Thanks darling" he smiled as I handed him his mug. Neither of us knowing what to say to one another. I wanted to ask him where his head was at and what he planned on doing. But I didn't want to push him.

So I said nothing. 

We drank our brews in silence. 

"Are we going to address the elephant in the room?" I finally asked, unable to take the silence much longer.

"Come in the sauna with me?" Mark replied, changing the subject. 

"Ok" I sighed following him into the bathroom. 

He began taking off his clothes and I did the same. 

He was in just his boxers but I was struggling with the zip on my dress. 

"Here let me" he said, stepping behind me, I lifted my hair as he found the zip. Even in this odd situation, it was difficult to ignore the feeling I got when his hand brushed the bare skin of my back. 

"Thank you" I told him, he caught my eye in the mirror and smiled, the first genuine smile since the text message.

I removed the rest of my clothes and wrapped myself in a towel, Mark did the same. 

We perched on opposite sides of the sauna with our legs stretched out and backs against the wall. 

"This wasn't how this weekend was supposed to go" Mark sighed

"We weren't supposed to have lots of mind blowing sex?" I joked, trying to lighten the mood a little, Mark smirked but I sighed, I knew what he meant.

"I had no idea" he continued 

"Where's your head at?" I asked him

"I don't even know" he sighed "I need some clarity first"

"Clarity on what?" I asked

"Whether she is really pregnant" he explained 

"You really think she would fake it?" I asked

"She was really pissed off" he replied

"I know but, come on Mark, why would she lie about that?" I asked

"I don't know" he sighed "But I need to know for definite before I make any decisions"

"So let's say she is" I started "What are your options?"

"If she is..." he started and seemed thoughtful "And that's a big if!" he added "Either I stay here with you in the new house and visit the baby as often as I can....or I go back and be a bigger part of their life"

"So it's a no brainer then really" I replied, unable to look at him for fear I might cry.

"How so?" he asked

"Mark I know you" I exclaimed "You're not going to be a part time dad"

"Y/N" he sighed "I've dreamt of being a father" he confessed "to our child, not hers"

"You got married" I replied "You must have planned on having children with her"

"It was never the right time" he sighed 

"Mark I have dreamt about starting a family with you too" I confessed "But that doesn't mean I will stand in the way"

"But I love you Y/N" he replied, voice trembling.

"And I love you" I sighed, eyes filling with tears. "But I'm not going to be the reason that baby grows up with an absent father"

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