More Than a Soldier

Chapter 79 - Jojo

Scarlett's POV:

Our little guy is now 26 weeks and the size of a cauliflower. His lungs are now able to breathe, and he really is starting to look like a proper baby. Y/n had a little scare last week with cramping and bleeding, so Dr Callahan had us come in straight away. Thankfully it wasn't anything serious, but it did mean that we got to see our son once again.

I can't believe how much I've fallen in love with someone I've not even met. He's gotten a lot bigger, and we could see his cute little fingers and toes. However, Y/n really didn't appreciate when I said that he was looking a lot bigger. She took that as me calling her fat because apparently, if he's bigger, then the bump is bigger and she's looking more like a beached whale by the day. Her words, not mine. I spent a long time trying to get her to stop crying and show her how beautiful she is.

I adore seeing Y/n pregnant. I love it even more when I see her doing something so simple with Ava, but watching them together, makes me excited for what's to come. Our family growing. But I'm making the most of this time. I'm not sure if we'll have more kids in the future, so I'm taking in every moment of this pregnancy.

Y/n has been quite affected by her hormones. Mainly from being oversensitive. She cries a lot more which was actually quite hard to get used to. Before she was pregnant, she wasn't one to cry. But now she'll cry over little things, like a sad advert or if she drops something. It's actually really cute, but I don't dare tell her that, not again anyway.

Her hormones mean that her emotions can do a 180 in record speed and laughing at your cute, pregnant, crying wife will certainly result in you being iced out of any affection for a few hours. I learnt that the hard way! Though her moody moments are few and far between. They're normally followed by her crying because she thinks that I'm offended, or she's hurt me. I'm always quick to reassure her. I'd happily sit here and let her roast me for hours on end. She's giving us a baby after all!

My trip to Europe is getting closer. I'm still really apprehensive about going. I hate the idea of missing out on so much of the pregnancy. But I already have the first visit home in the diary. It's 10 days before my first trip home, so it's not too bad. I've also promised to call Y/n as much as I can. I know she's going to be at the café quite a bit, which puts my mind at ease as both Sophie and Hannah will be there to make sure she's not doing anything to overexert herself.

Lizzie will be moving in for the few weeks that I'm away and I'm so grateful to her. I know that Y/n doesn't need a babysitter. But it helps to put my mind at ease. I know that if something were to happen, Lizzie will be with her, and Y/n won't be on her own. Besides, I need to make sure someone is still going to get her craving of a big mac at 11 o'clock at night!

But before I fly out to London to start filming, we're attending the Jojo Rabbit premiere. I'm so excited for this to be released. I really enjoyed filming it and I can't wait for the world and, more specifically, Y/n to see it. It's a project that I'm really proud to be apart of and it's exciting to finally share that with Y/n.

The press were absolutely eating up having Y/n on the carpet with me. They even let out a moan when she left to allow me my solo shots. I would be annoyed, but we are cute together, and if these photos are anything like the ones from the Endgame premiere, then they're going to be amazing.

I actually got one of the pictures from the premiere framed it was so nice. I've got my hand on Y/n's bump and her hand is resting over the top. I'm looking up at her with a look of complete love. One that she is matching as she looks back to me. I absolutely love it. Y/n looks incredible. It really is true what they say, pregnancy makes you glow!

I introduce her to the cast and her and Taika hit it off really well. They're joking between them, and Y/n is fan girling about how much she loved Thor: Ragnarök. We end up chatting for so long, we're ushered through to the theatre by the assistants worried we're going to delay the start of the premiere!