Someone You Really Love // A Damon Albarn Romance

22 - Real Talk

Over the next 2 weeks in between tour dates, Maryanne was back at her flat and felt like her emotions were everywhere and felt sensitive to a lot of things, smells and nausea especially.

Among all the madness of tour life she hadn't been thinking about her period, but now she'd thought of reasons why she wasn't feeling quite herself...her period was over a week late.

Her thoughts went into overdrive and the only way to put this concern to rest would have been to do a pregnancy test.

After back from the chemist she took out the pregnancy test pack and did a quick sign of the cross looking up... having peed on the stick she waited 5 minutes and the result came back positive.

POSITIVE.

Maryanne's POV

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I sat on the bathroom floor shocked...in total disbelief. I mean, a baby is a life-affirming experience for a woman and now in my late 20s it made sense, but I hadn't known Damon for a super long time, I was more dreading what his reaction would be, the baby was definitely his because I hadn't had sex with anyone else in over a year. I was more than capable of looking after a child but I was scared at Justine's reaction and of course my managements...

The appropriate time to tell him would be during this break before the tour starts as this could go either way and I wouldn't want it effect the tour in any way.

So I picked myself up off the ground and sat on the front room on the couch.

Lifting up the receiver I called Damon...

Damon's POV

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I was lying in bed and the phone rang, it was 9am. "Hello?" I croaked with my morning voice. "Hi Damon, hope didn't wake you but wondered if you are able to come up and talk some things through with me?" She sounded quite quiet, I wondered if she was maybe unwell or something. "Of course Mare, I'll be up in an hour see you shortly", "Thanks Dame", she answered..I could hear a small smile in her reply.

Knocking on her door I called through the letter box so she'd know it was me.
Opening the door I was taken aback by her appearance, she looked pale and as if she'd seen a ghost.

"Please come in Dame, I need to talk to you." "Of course my love I came straight over for you", I reached forward to hug her and she gently wrapped her arms around me. I kissed her head.

Walking into the front room that I'd instantly fallen in love with, it's so Maryanne in taste and decor.

"You'll want to sit down for this.." she breathed out heavily.

"Okay......" I asked questioning.

"There's no other way to go about this then to tell you that I did a pregnancy test earlier...and I'm pregnant Dames...it came out positive"... she handed me the pregnancy stick.

"Oh shit, woah... this is for real?" He stared back at me utterly gobsmacked. "Yes Dames, and it's definitely yours...you're the only person I've had sex with in over a year...we can't have used a condom amidst our drunken bunk shag."

"I don't know what to say, I mean, I'm happy it's a kid with you...but fuck...I gotta approach this with Justine sooner than I planned. I'll say to you now Mare that in the short time we've known each other so far I love you so much and this is insane news but my god I couldn't be happier than knowing it's with you..." at this she covered her face and bawled her eyes out.

"Oh Damon, I do love you too and I've never felt like this about anyone either, not to this depth anyway. It's so much to take in and I'm scared about how everyone's going to react and hope it doesn't mess up the tour...." she said in-between tears.

I got up and wrapped my arms around her with her head buried into my chest, she was holding onto me so tightly but it was okay, I know she was overcome with a multitude of emotions. I spoke into her hair "We don't need to tell anyone yet, at least not until sometime after tour is over. We'll work through this I've got you Mare, please know that" .

She lifted her head up and said "I honestly don't deserve you, and she kissed me gently on the lips and said louder "I can't believe it...us...mum and dad!"

I was sharing the happy moment for sure but internally braced myself for the challenges that were coming our way.