Summer Nights (RE-WRITTEN)

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A:N This story includes themes of mental health and eating disorders, please only read if you feel ready too, you are beautiful always x

I huff loudly as I put down the box pillows in my brand new apartment I was currently having, Luke, Autumn and Sammy turn to me incredulous expressions.

Luke grunts out as he balances the box in between his hands, "Seriously? You're the one who is huffing."

I raise an eyebrow, "Do you understand how hard it is to walk up the stairs pregnant?"

Sammy snorts, "You're barely pregnant."

I narrow my eyes, "I'm nineteen weeks which means, I'm practically half way through, I don't think that's barely at all."

Sammy gives me a sheepish smile, "You're hormones are making you usually scary."

I batter my eyelashes at him, "Good."

He covers his mouth as he whispers loudly, "Someone needs to warn Rocky before he comes home."

I roll my eyes softly, "There's still like ten weeks before he's home. I'll probably have calmed down by then."

"Or you'll turn into a total monster, who knows?"

"Don't push it Samuel."

"Yes ma'am."

Lucas turns to me with a worried look, "And you're still sure this is what you want?"

I rub a hand over the small bulge in my stomach, "I think it's a bit too late to back out now."

He rolls his eyes, "No, I mean about living here. You know you're always welcome at home."

My heart squeezes tightly, "I know but I need to do this, it isn't fair on anyone to be woken up by a crying baby at three in the morning."

"Scar, I don't care if there's going to be crying, you're my baby sister, I'll even deal with the shitty nappy changes if you need it."

My heart squeezes again as tears threaten to form, "I know you will and I love you for that but this is the right thing to do."

Sammy nods as he looks around, "Plus this place is fucking fantastic, can I move in too?"

"You can stay over as much as you want, you all can."

"Starting tonight?"

I laugh at his excitement, "Yes, starting tonight."

He claps his hands together, "Autumn and Luke, get your lazy asses moving, you two need to unpack, so we can have a proper sleepover."

The couple scoff at him loudly, "Why are we the only ones unpacking?"

"Because Scarlett is pregnant and I'm pregnant mentally for support reasons."

"You're full of shit is what you are."

Sammy gasps dramatically, "How dare you insult a pregnant woman?"

Autumn rolls his eyes, "You're not pregnant."

"Mentally, I am. I even signed up for Lamaze classes."

I tilt my head, "You have?"

"Yes, I have. You'll have to come with me though, it'll look pretty weird going on my own."

Lucas shakes his head, "All of this is pretty weird."

"Oh I need a picture!" I announce, "I want to photograph everything for the baby, I barely have any pictures of my mom and I want to make sure I document all the small bits and bobs."

I rummage in one of the boxes sat on the floor before grabbing my camera, I set up the timer before placing it on top of the fireplace. "I want everyone in it!"

Sammy stands beside me with Luke and Autumn on the other side.

"Everyone say unplanned pregnancy!" The boy standing next to me cheers.

...

I smile lazily as I snuggle up on the sofa which took nearly four hours to assemble. Sammy was snoring loudly by my feet. Lucas was still attempting to attack any form of flat-pack furniture possible. Whilst Autumn dished out the take-out food we ordered.

"I know, I should really be helping but I'm extremely comfortable right now."

Lucas rolls his eyes, "When the baby is born, I am so making you return all of these favours."

"And I will gladly do them all when I'm not being kept awake all night because my unborn child thinks it's funny to make me pee constantly."

Lucas almost looks impressed, "The kid is my favourite in the family already."

Sammy makes a muffled sound, "Can I take Brooke then?"

I gape at them, "Wait, What about me?"

"I'd rather have Brooke, she bakes fucking awesome cookies."

Autumn nods thoughtfully as she passes out the food, "She really does."

I feel slight panic when I glance down at the food in my lap, I've been making heaps of progress but eating in-front of a group of people still made me feel extremely uneasy. I jump slightly when the copper-head girl now sat next to me reaches out and gives my hand a reassuring squeeze.

I give her a nervous smile before harshly shovelling some of the food down my throat because I had no choice, there was a small person relying on me.

I can't help but feel relieved when Sammy prompts a question to distract me.

"Are you finding out the gender?"

I nod as I continue to slowly pick at me food, "Yeah, I am. I've pushed the appointment back, so Rocky can attend."

"Are we betting on the gender or no?"

"You want to bet on my unborn child."

He shrugs, "I could do with some extra cash."

"It'll be a girl." I mutter as I harshly swallow once more.

"I'll counter that and say a boy." Lucas chimes in, "I've got strong Uncle intuition."

Autumn shakes her head, "I agree with Scar, I'll be a little girl."

"I'm going to say boy because Rocky practically promised that he'd name the baby Samuel."

I snort loudly, "He did not."

"Pretty sure he did, I was there."

Lucas looks appalled, "If they're naming the baby after anyone it's me, this situation wouldn't even be happening right now if it wasn't for me. I'm the one who introduced you both."

I laugh softly, "Actually, I forced my introduction onto him whilst he was talking to you."

"Exactly, he was talking to me. Therefore, you've got me to thank."

"I'll thank you after I've pushed the baby out."

He wrinkles his nose, "That's not an image, I want whilst eating Thai food."

Autumn laughs before asking, "Do you have any name ideas?"

"We do, we've sorted of agreed on two, one for a boy and one for a girl."

"Is it Samuel and Samantha?"

"No, it's Arlo and Violet."

Autumn smiles fondly, "I think them names, are you using Rocky's last name or Summers?"

I blink, "We haven't even discussed that, I'll want to use his last name though I think. He deserves some sort of good connection to his last name."

Lucas nods surely, "He does."

Sammy slowly spits out his food, "I'm really sorry but does anyone else's food taste like complete ass?"

Autumn shrugs, "I like mine."

"Then you my friend have no taste, I think eating an actual shit would taste better than this. I'm ordering pizza, any takers?"