Marjoreece - Date Night

The Come Down

After a fairly uneventful day of work, Reece drove back over to Marjories nursery to collect her. "Hey Gorgeous, where's Aut?" He asked, noticing his sister wasn't at her desk as he walked round to plant a kiss on the top of Marjories' head.

"Oh, she wasn't feeling well, so I sent her home this afternoon."

"Is she OK?" Reece asked with concern, running through his voice.

"She said she was fine. She even refused when I offered to free up Winter to go with her because he was supposed to be on the close."

"Wait, so she's been on her own all afternoon?!?!" The concern changing to panic now at the thought something might be wrong with his sister.

"Oh, no, my love. As soon as she'd left, so she couldn't kill me for ignoring her, I got Winter out of ratio and sent him home to her. He would have only been 5 minutes behind her." She stood up and wrapped her arms around him, gently rubbing his back to try and calm him down from his panic. She felt him relax into her as he put his arms around her too and lowered his head to rest on hers.

"OK, at least she's got Winter. I'll message her in a bit to see how she's feeling. Are you ready to go?"

"Yea, yea, just need to lock up." Marjorie replied through a massive yawn.

"Tired baby? Has your day been busier than you were letting on?"

"No, I think this is the come down after such a high over the weekend and this morning. I might need to take a quick power nap when we get home before dinner."

Reece lifted her chin and softly kissed her lips. "Whatever you need beautiful."

By the time Reece had driven them home, Marjorie had fallen asleep in the passenger seat. Reece got out of the car and opened the front door to Marjories house, taking her bag in with him. He then went back to the car and gently lifted her out, carrying her into the house and laying her down on the sofa. He slipped her shoes off and lifted her legs up onto the other end to make her more comfortable. After a few seconds, he heard a sleepy voice call his name. He crouched down next to her, stroking her hair. "Sshhhh, I'm here gorgeous, just go back to sleep for a bit. You need the rest."

"Reece, can you stay with me? I sleep better on you." She'd opened her eyes and was looking at him giving the doe eyed bambi look he was sure Carly had taught her. Not that she needed to, he'd do anything for her, and she knew he was wrapped around her little finger, even if he might try and fight it every now and then.

"OK." He replied as she sat up slightly, allowing him to sit down. She rested her head on his chest, and his arm fell around her shoulder. He sat playing on his phone while she slept. After about half an hour, she started stirring. He gently kissed her head and started tracing shapes with his fingertips over her arm and shoulder. He didn't speak or move beyond that as he wanted her to come round in her own time. She stretched slightly before tightening her grip around his waist and pulling herself closer to him, taking in the scent of him on his shirt. She let out a soft moan as she exhaled. "Mmmhh, I could stay here forever." She looked up at his phone to see how he'd been keeping himself entertained. What she saw was a list of houses. "Houses? What are you up to?" She asked, sitting up a bit more to get a better view of the screen.

"When Aut told me she was pregnant, I started thinking about selling my place and moving closer to them. I want her to know she's got support, and I want to make sure this baby has all the love we didn't have growing up. I just thought that might be easier to be more hands-on if I wasn't so far away. Also, if we're getting married now, we'll need a place of our own to start our lives. I know you don't want us to stay here, and my place is a bit bachelor pad, so I thought we could start our lives together properly."

Marjories eyes teared up slightly at the fact he'd put so much thought into this. "Reece, that's an amazing idea. What have you seen so far?"

Reece started showing Marjorie some houses. They were all lovely, but he was looking at 2 and 3 bed places. In her mind, that meant they'd probably have to move again. Even in the short space of time since they'd started this conversation, she was envisioning them having Autumn and Winter's child over for sleep overs. He could have his cousins' kids over, too, and what about if/when they had kids of their own? What if Autumn and Winter had more? If they had kids, Carly would definitely want to stay over as well. She could think of so many reasons why they would need a bigger place.

"Reece, they're all amazing, but..... If we were looking at it being a forever home, do you think it might need to be a bit bigger?"

"What do you mean?"

"Well, I'm just thinking we'd have our niece or nephew stay over obviously, and your cousins kids would probably want to come too... Not to mention Carly!!! And that's before you even think of the fact that Autumn may have more than one.... And, I know we haven't talked about it since the pregnancy scare, but what if we were to have some? In the future, I mean." She didn't make eye contact as she said the last part, nervous about how he would respond. "I just think maybe, even if it's not got loads of rooms, it might need a fair bit of space."

Reece was silent for a few seconds, although to Marjorie, it felt like forever. "Maybe you're right, here, you have a look through see what you find. I'll go make us some coffee." Reece said, handing Marjorie his phone and walking out to the kitchen.

He came back in with the coffee, "Any luck, gorgeous?" He asked as he sat back down, and Marjorie cuddled back into him.

"A few." She said, handing him his phone back with some 4-5 bedroom places on the screen. "Nothing that makes me think that's the one, but we can start looking around. It's not like there's any major rush. Have you spoken to Autumn?"

"Yea, I messaged her earlier. She's still not feeling great. She says if she's still feeling off in the morning, she'll probably go get checked out. Just to be safe."

"OK, well, fingers crossed it doesn't come to that. I'll message her now and say if she needs tomorrow off anyway just to try and rest, that's fine. I can manage in the office on my own."