Love story

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"Do you have to breathe so loudly!?" Spencer rolled her eyes at Hanna. Spencer was in the last few months of her pregnancy and she was beginning to get very snappy and irritable. I saw Caleb was about to say something to defend Hanna.
"Spence." I said giving her an 'I-know-you're-pregnant-and-extremely-uncomfortable-but-these-people-are-your-friends' kind of look. She sighed.

"I'm. sorry. Hanna." She said and then smiled a very sweet and very fake smile. The afternoon continued this way and at about 4:00pm Hanna and Caleb left and I went to watch TV, kind of tired of Spencer's attitude.

That evening, way past midnight I heard a quiet noise coming from outside our bedroom. I rolled over in bed to put my arm around Spencer but she wasn't there. I got up and I opened the door to our bedroom. I walked along the corridor and my heart dropped when I saw her sitting at the top of the staircase crying. Her whole body shaking.

I sat down on he step next to her and pulled her into my chest, my arms wrapped around her, holding her tightly.
"Spencer, what's wrong!?" I whisper, rocking her back and forth. She pulled away from me, her eyes red from crying .
"Do you still love me?" She asked, her voice shaking. She looked at me for a few seconds, tears in her eyes,
"Because I've been acting like an idiot and I don't know why, and I'm getting fatter, I don't just mean my stomach I mean everywhere, I'm dumb, I'm obsessive, I'm insecure and I overthink things. I always say and do the wrong things and I never think before I act. I'm a liar and I'm a mess and everyone that I care about walks away. Im not the cute, smart, innocent high school girl that you fell in love with anymore. I've changed and I don't think it's for the better." She collapsed into my arms and I felt the wetness of hear tears against my skin. I hugged her tight and kissed the top of her head, and as I held her I couldn't for the life of me think of a reason that anyone would walk away from somebody like her.Her breathing was heavy and her face was wet with tears.

I shook my head and I held her head in my hands.
"Look at me," she kept her head down. "I said look at me Spence!" She lifted her head until her beautiful brown eyes were locked with mine.
"I will always love you." I said "I'll love you if your fat, if you're skinny, if you're in a bad mood or a good mood, if you do something crazy like dying your hair a bright colour or getting your eyebrow pierced. I'll even love you when you're old and wrinkled and need a stick to walk. Because you are the girl that I fell in love with and you always will be. You. My beautiful, funny, sarcastic, crazy smart fiancée. Don't you ever think that someday I could stop loving you."

Her eyes were still locked with mine. She leant forwards and kissed me.

"I am so lucky," she whispered as I hugged her tight again.