After All This Time

Chapter 27: Hope

Authors note: Hello all you beautiful people!! i first wanna say thank you so much for all the kind words! they truly do mean a lot to me<33. Hope you enjoy this chapter and have a wonderful day!!

ALSO!!! I realized i wasn't really keeping track of what exact months it was sooo im very sorry BUT we are just going to say it is now December. I'm so sorry i wasn't actually counting that lol!!

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(a little bit of a time skip charlie's 9 months the pregnant, PICTURE ABOVE OF HOW BIG HIS BELLY IS)

Charlie's POV:

I just started my 9th month at 37 weeks. i'm absolutely terrified! i'm a huge balloon, im always in pain, and these braxton hicks never stop!! On top of all that Christmas is just around the corner

and we have no idea what we are going to do! i've already shopped for nick and clover but we have no idea what to do about stephane and david.

Sarah, as much as she hates them, knows that she needs to see david and to see david is to see stephane. Nick isn't sure if he really wants to go because he's already but these men out but also feels bad to leave them with his mum.

It's currently Friday December 1st with my c-section planned on the 23rd. I'm still kinda pissed about that time because who thought that would be a good idea? whatever anything to just meet our colette.

I'm laying in bed counting down the minutes until Nick gets home. He's usually back before Clover because she's a kindergarten teacher so they start later. I hear the front door open and nick yell

Nick: "BABY IM HOME!!"

Charlie: "IM UPSTAIRS! BUT CAN YOU GRAB ME SOME GRAPES PLEASE!!"

I pull my phone out and start aimlessly scrolling through instagram. i see Tao has posted about some date with Elle. I'm still pissed about what happened. He still hasn't reached out to me about it! Everyone else has reached out to say something and i've invited a few to come over a few weeks after colette is born to meet her. That being everyone except Tao. I know he will come but i hope he just apologizes to me and we can move on.

I hear nick come up the steps but i continue to scroll until he's sitting on the bed beside me placing the bowl on the nightstand.

Nick: "hi darling"

He leans down and kisses my lips. It's light and sweet like he's afraid i'll disappear. I sit up, leaning against the head board. Nick moves slightly closer to me and turns his body to me.

Charlie: "hi"

I say reach out for his little beard. I let my hand rest there for a moment until i pull him towards me and kiss him again. After we make out for a bit Colette start to move around A LOT, you can the movement from the outside a lot.

He pulls away and his hands go straight to my belly. He pulls my shirt up more so he can watch as our baby moves more and more, getting more painful. he rubs my belly to try and get her to calm down a least a little but it does nothing.

Charlie: "god she's really going at it. like someone must've really pissed her off"

I say through the pain, nick tries to laugh but i can tell he's just concerned. He continues to rub his hands around and kisses 'her' a lot. I use one hand to rub my head (i have a headache) and one on my belly.

Nick: "headache?"

Charlie: "yes and she certainly isn't helping"

Nick: "try to eat something and that could help both."

I move the hand that was in my head to grab the bowl and start to eat a few-nick stealing some too- and before i knew it they were all gone with no headache.

Nick is now lying down between my legs, head resting on the thigh. I can feel his fingers ever so lightly moving in circles on my outer thigh and his other hand resting at the very bottom of my stomach, moving his fingers up and down.

The more i think, the more i realize how ready we are to be parents. I go through a mental checklist that we have everything, and we do. A checklist that we have everything we need packed for the hospital, and we do. Still not knowing what to do i make sure i got enough for both Nick and Clover, and i definitely did. But my brain than goes to Stephane and David because what the hell are we going to do? My daughter is going to be born only 2 weeks before Sarah wants everyone to meet. I realize that the only thing we can do is to hope everything will turn out okay.