Bound by freckles (Sebastian Sallow x Garreth Weasley x f!MC modern AU)

74th Chapter - Three

The next few weeks flew by again.

Arwyn handed in his thesis and passed all the exams. Unfortunately, he didn't find out the result immediately, so he was quite nervous and pondered a lot whether he would pass, while Sebastian began to train a little to cut a good figure for the wedding.

Garreth was in the kitchen even more than usual, testing tons of recipes to put together a menu for the two celebrations.

Reza was frequently practising her make-up and hair styling, while I was quite relaxed.

Of course I was excited, but it all felt so right and so good that I almost enjoyed the preparations a little. It was a lovely period where we were all excited but not worried. We were all absolutely confident that this was going to be the most beautiful wedding in the North of England.

After all, we already had the most important thing. The boundless love for each other. Only platonic in some constellations, of course, but we cherished our time together.

But I was not entirely idle either. I decided, in consultation with the others, to drop out of my psychology studies. Sebastian was not overly happy about it, but understood that I found it much harder to understand people's psyches.

So Matilda signed me out for psychology, and signed me up for social pedagogy.

Sebastian and I started our driving lessons and enjoyed our time together and finally overcame Sebastian's fear.

Arwyn had hired builders to extend the terrace in the garden and build a large balcony above it, so that we could sit on the terrace in the garden even when it rained, and he wanted to put a glass roof on the new balcony above it to have a small version of his castle conservatory.

The building work started and finished quite promptly, and so at the end of March, on the Sunday before my driving test, Arwyn and I were lying on a sofa in our new conservatory.

"Caelie. I need to tell you something," Arwyn said quietly, taking my hand.

I was immediately a little worried, but Arwyn didn't seem nervous, so it didn't seem like anything bad. "I want to be a father. I didn't think I wanted it yet, but I do. I'm not going to force you to do anything you don't want to, but it would be nice if you thought about it. It doesn't have to be right away either. Then when you're ready. I'll wait for you. You don't have to give me an answer yet either. Just think about it, will you?" Arwyn said and smiled at me before giving me a kiss.

A child? A thoroughly lovely thought, but was I ready for that? Is one ever ready for it until the time comes?

Suddenly Arwyn continued, "I also talked to the other two boys a while ago and they would like it too. I just want you to know that. So you don't have to worry about that. And even if you don't want it at all, I will marry you, but I at least wanted you to know that there's a desire in me for that."

"But then what about my studies?" "You could interrupt it, but I wouldn't ask you to do that. We could hire a nanny, after all, I'm sure there are plenty of grannies in Inverness who would be happy to look after children. Or I could just quit again. It's not like I necessarily need a source of income." "But you're so looking forward to your work." "Yeah, but it's not as important to me as my family," Arwyn said, hugging me even tighter.

"Would you want to move then?" "In principle, yes, but not until everyone else wants me to. I'll never separate you from the others, Caelie. I do want you to be happy. That is my very greatest wish and desire."

I thought about Arwyn's wish for the next few weeks, while each following day caught on faster and faster.

Sebastian and I both passed our driving tests and three days before our holiday started Arwyn got the information that he had passed all the tests.