See You Around~ Grester (completed)

Chapter Sixty-Eight

Chester's POV

"Ow!" I scream-whispered as Grace's hand reached my face in an attempt to wake me.

"Sorry." She said as I turned over and pressed my phone, the screen lighting up and showing the time.

"Grace, it's 1:43 in the morning." I mumbled, groaning as I sat up in the bed.

"I know. I'm hungry." She said, looking at me expectantly. She was waiting for me to go make her some food but it was 1:43am and I had no intention of getting up for another eight hours.

"Go make yourself some food then." I groaned, turning over and pulling the duvet up towards my head.

She pulled the sheets off of me, pulled my arm and placed my palm on her bump. I felt a kick under my skin and she placed a hand under my chin, raising my head so it was level with hers. She wrapped her arms loosely around my neck and hugged me closely. I felt her bump press against my stomach.

"Your baby's hungry." She whispered directly into my ear, quickly kissing my cheek and pulling away.

"I hate you, you know that right?" I said, trying to not let my smile escape.

"I hate you too." She mouthed. I placed a gentle kiss onto her lips and removed myself from the bed.

I manoeuvred myself downstairs and racked the cupboards and shelves for any signs of food.

"Grace?" I shouted from downstairs.

"Yeah?" She replied, running down the stairs and joining me in my kitchen.

"There's no food." I groaned, Grace instantly grabbed her car keys and her purse.

"What are you doing?" I asked as she took the handles of my chair and wheeled me outside.

"Getting food of course- bit slow today aren't we Mr See."

"Can we at least change." I said, looking at my oversized t-shirt which Grace had stolen for bed.

"Nah, we look great." She grinned, walking nearer the car.

"Am I allowed to put a shirt on?" I asked as Grace turned round so she was opposite me and looked me up and down, staring at my bare chest.

"You know what, I think you're okay like that." She giggled, helping me into the car. I sighed disapprovingly but couldn't help and laugh too.

"When did my wife become so crazy and free?" I asked, as she turned on the engine and we rolled down the road.

"I'm not crazy- just hungry."

Grace pulled up onto a driveway and parked outside of Taco Bell before quickly unbuckling her seatbelt.

"I needed tacos" She smiled sheepishly, hurling herself out the car.

"I think I prefer non-pregnant Grace." I admitted teasingly, Grace acted mocked hurt before running inside.

She returned back with way too much food and so at two o'clock in the morning we ate tacos in the front of a car on an abandoned road and it felt good. To do something stupid and unexpected, to live a little.

Doing idiotic things like this almost made me miss my youth and young adulthood; where I had no responsibilities or cares, where nothing but my own happiness mattered. I missed that.

"What are you thinking about?" Grace asked, her face dazing at me worriedly. I froze a little- not wanting to explain my thoughts out loud.

"Nothing." I said quietly. She didn't ask anymore questions but just left me to eat.

"I miss this." Grace whispered into the night's air.

"Me too."

"That's what you were thinking about wasn't it?"

"Yes." I replied quietly, looking up at Grace who pitifully smiled back at me.

"I miss the times where we would go out at ridiculous times in the morning and be idiots together, where nothing seemed to matter but us and the moment we were living in."

She clipped back her seatbelt and turned on the engine, sighing as she began to make her way back home.

"Well then let's do something stupid. Just for tonight let's forget our lives and the responsibilities we have. Let's just pretend this is a few years ago and we are young, free and in love."

"Like what?" She asked, looking at me expectantly.

"Drive to the beach."

"Okay." She giggled, I had no idea what the rest of the day held but it felt good to not worry about anything for once.

We arrived at the beach and laid down on the sand, retrieving a blanket from the trunk of the car. I let myself fall against the the sand and my hands run through it, I felt my body relax slightly and the night's cold breeze pulse within me.

Grace draped a blanket over me and came and wrapped the two of us within its warmth. She rested her head on my chest and I gently kissed her hair.

"What I said earlier, about missing our freedom, it was all true."

"I know." Grace replied.

"But I wouldn't change the world I have now. It can be a little grounding and sometimes I do want to be reckless again but it in no way lessens my affection for my life now."

"Okay." She smiled, wrapping her arms tighter around me.

"I just wanted you to know that."

"I knew."

"Good." I smiled.

"Do you think we'll do okay?" Grace questioned, her head tilting so she was looking up at me.

"At parenting?"

"Yeah. Do you think we can do this thing well?" I intertwined my fingers with hers.

"Of course. I don't think it'll be easy but as long as you love them it's okay right?"

"Yeah I suppose."

"You don't need to be scared Gracie. I'm here."

"I know and I'm so grateful for your existence." I laid my head back and gazed up at the stars which enlightened the sky.

I watched the two stars which sat together in the sky, I watched as they stayed there forever. I watched how they had secluded themselves from the ones around them and I thought about how they'd never separate- whether fate wanted them to or not.

I looked back at Grace who had gently fallen asleep on my chest. I watched her body rise and fall as she breathed calmly. I watched her face smoothen and noticed how she looked ten years younger when she slept. I watched her hair spread across her face and her fingers holding onto mine and I looked back at the stars and it all aligned.