What I Want

Chapter Twenty Two

Karlie's P.O.V

Staring at my phone and making the decision to call IMG was the best decision I've made in a long time. Dialling the number I just felt free, free from judgement. I listened to the dial tone on the other end and before long Jo picked up. "Welcome to IMG you're talking with Jo."
"Hey Jo, its Karlie. I need you to cancel that shoot in L.A tomorrow. It's Christmas and I'm staying in New York." I heard typing on the other end and when I talked about cancelling the shoot the typing stopped. "What do you mean Karlie?" I took a deep breath.
"Look I know that I could lose my career by not doing this shoot but I don't care, family is more important." I spoke in a rush towards the end. I hoped that IMG didn't drop me but my family did mean more. "What, lose your career? For a shoot? Are you kidding me Karlie?" I closed my eyes hoping I wasn't going to be yelled at. "Yeah..." I spoke in a soft voice as Jo's voice melted down to a normal talk. "The shoot was cancelled, we called Zoe this morning to let her know that you didn't need to be there, and as for your career. You are one of the most successful models out there and our number one model. IMG will have you for as long as you want us okay?" I nodded then thought.
"Wait this morning, Zoe called me an hour ago and told me that I had to be on the next flight out." I was really confused. "Oh Karlie, I think it's time to find a new manager to be honest. Henry the photographer cancelled when he realised it would be Christmas in the states it's not until late January now." I felt a bit dumb but knew that it wasn't my fault. "I'll talk to Chris." She mused, "He'll work it all out. Just go and have a good Christmas." I nodded and thanked her before hanging up. I was really confused. She specifically told me to be in L.A on Christmas for a shoot that was cancelled this morning and she called me an hour ago. 'What is going on?' I didn't really spend too much time thinking as I ran upstairs with my suitcase and threw it into the wardrobe to unpack later, grabbed a jacket and dashed downstairs again. Hoping they were still in Starbucks.

Arriving at the corner I spotted my mom with Allie and Taylor with my dad. They were standing around and for once there was no paparazzi. Walking up behind my mom I kissed her cheek as she jumped and looked at me. I held out my arms as she placed Allie in them. "Hi precious," I whispered to her as my mom said. "Taylor, look at this." She turned and her jaw just dropped. She was shocked and I knew we would have to talk about this but for right now I handed Allie back to mom and kissed my fiancé in the middle of New York on Christmas Eve. I turned back and watched Taylor take Allie as we window shopped for another hour until Allie got grouchy and I knew it was because she was tired. I looked at Taylor who said about going back and nodded. Eventually everyone went back too. The twins looked like they were having fun, Kariann more than Kimmy who looked like something was bothering her. But I didn't worry too much. If she wanted me she knew where to find me.

Later at home I went to the kitchen with my parents and Kariann as Taylor went to take Allie for a bath and pyjamas before her bottle and bed. But as I looked around our kitchen I noticed Kimmy wasn't with us so I went looking for her. I was walking upstairs when I recognized her voice. "I might be pregnant Taylor." My whole world shattered right there. My baby sister was inside my shared bathroom with Taylor telling her rather than me. I knew I couldn't get mad at Taylor but I crashed to the floor listening to Kimmy and Taylor who handled the situation like a pro. Hearing the lull in the conversation and the bath plug pull out I knew they were close to coming down so I scampered downstairs where my mom said, "Gosh this is a nice place Karlie." I smiled and explained how Taylor brought it but I helped her unpack, but I left out the details of how we had sex on the floor of her walk in wardrobe. My mom didn't want to hear that stuff. "Where's my gorgeous grandbaby Karlie?" I heard a voice call from behind me. Whirling around I found myself face to face with Andrea Finlay and Scott Swift not far behind. "Hey mama Swift..." I spoke pulling her into a hug.
"Karlie, call me Andrea." I blushed and turned to my mom and said.
"Mom this is Andrea Finlay, Taylor's mom. Andrea this is my mom Tracy, my dad is around somewhere his names Kurt and Kariann is in the kitchen and Kimmy is somewhere else." I finished off with a sigh. My mom laughs at me as Andrea pulls Tracy into a hug. "Hi I'm Andrea, this is Scott, Taylor's dad and Austin her brother is coming tomorrow." I left the women to it as I climbed the stairs almost running into Kimmy, "You okay?" I questioned her noticing her red eyes. She nodded and continued downstairs, shaking my head I carried on walking upstairs until I bumped into Taylor carrying a very sleepy Allie. "Hey babe," I spoke softly kissing her cheek. "Your parents just arrived..." she nodded and continued to rock Allie. "She's beautiful right Karlie?" I nodded as we walked to our room. I was dying to ask Taylor about Kimmy but left it. Taylor sat on our bed as Allie started to grumble. Standing up she was about to leave when I said, "We should talk later, I've got heaps to tell you." She looked at me.
"Anything bad babe?" I shook my head.
"No, good it all makes sense." She smiled her wide smile that I love so much and left the bedroom, hearing her footsteps walk away I sat and then laughed a little and followed her down to where Scott had taken over the cooking and was chatting to Kariann while my mom and Andrea were fawning over Allie who was still grumbling. Kimmy was immersed in her phone texting like mad while Taylor was making Allie's bottle. I looked around the room and never thought that I'd end up here with my family and my fiance's family in one place. Sure there are problems within the room with Andrea and Scott's split but they were still living together so maybe something would happen. My sister could potentially be pregnant at seventeen and my fiancé and I have a three week old baby, things are weird and complicated but I love everyone in this room and I feel blessed to have that much.

Taylor's P.O.V

It's been a few hours since I fed Allie and Karlie burped her before we took her upstairs and Karlie left me to put her to bed, we have a little schedule where I rock her and sing softly and Karlie does the early morning wake-up. We both do the late night one but Karlie rises early to go to the gym so she takes the 5.300-6.00am one. Rocking back and forward I let Allie suckle on the end of my finger as she drifts off. Karlie wants to talk a little later and I'm a bit nervous but not too bad. Can't worry too much. It's almost 11.30pm when we crawl into bed. I'm thankful that our house is so big and has a few rooms to choose from. The apartment itself has seven bedrooms with us in the master, Allie next to us and one being our office it leaves four rooms in the house. Two are downstairs and two more upstairs with ours. Making five up and two down as well as four bathrooms excluding our master bathroom. So eventually the twins go downstairs claiming that they don't want to listen to sex all night and our parents upstairs stating they will wear earplugs. Karlie and I laugh knowing that we only do that when the house is empty we are at the point in our relationship where we don't need to have sex all the time and it's nice.

Snuggling under the blankets we were silent as the minutes crept by but I knew she was still awake. "Karlie..." I whispered as she groaned in response.
"What is it babe?" she questioned rolling towards me. I turned and flicked on the light.
"Uhm I need to talk to you." I watched her sit up and look at me. "Well Karlie, I talked to Kimmy today and she uhm...told me something." I stated in a hushed voice. Karlie looked at me and then looked down. "I know babe, I heard the conversation but I couldn't interrupt she would never forgive me." I nodded and looked at her. "Are you okay?" I asked her as she nodded and said. "Kimmy has always been the baby and I guess I'm just shocked that she could be but we don't know. Did you give her a test?" I looked at her and nodded. "Why do you have one babe?" she questioned me and I looked at her. "When I dated Jake, he never wanted to use protection and even though I was on the pill I still wanted to be safe and so I had them incase of emergency. Never used one though." I stated as I looked at her and she looked a little shocked. "Do you feel better now?" she asked me as I turned off the light and snuggled down again. "Yeah I do. Thank you for understanding."
"That's okay baby. Oh and I fired Zoe today. She lied to me. IMG cancelled the shoot, well the photographer did when he realised it was Christmas here and that I have a family." I was a bit shocked. "Why didn't you go?" I questioned gently. Karlie smiled and said proudly. "Because I love you and I don't want to lose you or our family so I stayed."
"Do you regret staying?" I asked rolling closer as she turned to me and I lay on her chest.
"Not at all..." she trailed off as I lay still but she was just turning to see the clock and I noticed it was now 12.35am. "Merry Christmas baby." She whispered into my ear as I raised up to kiss her lips.
"Merry Christmas Karlie. I love you." We kissed for a little bit before settling back to sleep. Waking at 5.30am when Allie woke up. I groaned and pulled the covers up. "I got it baby. You sleep." I grinned knowing that this was where Karlie belonged. With me." I slowly fell asleep to her gentle voice over the baby monitor and was almost asleep when Kimmy entered the nursery and talked to Karlie. "Karlie I took the test..." I sat up waiting for Karlie to speak.
"And..." she questioned.
"I'm pregnant."