You Knew (H.G., S.M.)

Happy Birthday Baby

I picked up the cake after I got Shawn a new outfit and wallet, I also got him a pair of shoes. I picked Mahogany up and the Mini Cooper was filled with balloons. Mahogany sat with the twins in the back and I put the cake in the passenger seat. I put his presents on the floor with the gift bags and tissue paper.

"Mahog, can you please call Matt and see how things are back at the house?" I asked looking into the rear view mirror. She nodded and put him on speaker.

"Hey beautiful, how's the shopping?" He asked.

"It's fine Matty, how's the decorations? Are they all set?" She asked.

"Yup, Nash and Hayes are setting the tables and chairs out. Carter texted and said that Shawn wants to come home and see you, I told Carter to keep him out for a little more time." He replied.

"Okay, did you invite his family?" I asked raising my voice a little so he could hear me better.

"Yeah I did, they are coming soon." He replied.

"Okay, we will be home soon." I say and he hangs up.

I pull into the driveway. Pretty soon, Scarlet begins to cry. Brianna wakes up and cries too. Mahogany begins shushing them. She unbuckles both of them and holds Brianna in her arms. She grabs a bag from the trunk and goes into the house. I grab Scarlet and hold her to my left hip as I grab a few bags and let them hang on my right wrist. Matt comes around the side of the house and helps carry the bags into the house. I relieve my wrist from the bags that cut the circulation of my wrist. I grab Scarlet from Mahogany's arms and run both of them upstairs to pack. I unpack their nursery stuff and lay them in their cribs as I warm their bottles. I change into a teal dress and add a brown necklace.

"Why is everything packed so soon?" Hayes asked. He stood in the doorway.

"I'm gonna tell Shawn tonight and we're moving into the new house tomorrow, I think he's really going to like the new place." I reply. He steps towards me.

"I'm glad you're happy, I've been jealous because you both really connected and I wanted that for us." He said tenderly. I smile.

"I'm sorry it ended up this way but I'm happy. And I hope that we can still be friends and be an amazing uncle for Scarlet and Brianna." I reply and he smiles back.

"Of course." He gushed. I picked Brianna up and cradled her in my arms. I put the bottle in her mouth.

"Do you mind feeding her?" I asked. He shook his head and held Scarlet in his arms and fed her.

"Why don't you like your name?" He asked. I paused and sighed.

"Brianna is my given name and my mother picked it out. Dad picked Angela and mom picked Brianna. Dad always called me Angela and mom called my Brianna. But when she died, I stopped listening when somebody called me Brianna because that was mom's thing. So I go by Angela so I don't think of what happened to her." I gulped hard. He paused and looked at me. Scarlet and Brianna finished their bottles and I sat them in their cribs. Hayes put his hand around my arm and brought me close to him.

"I'm sorry." He said almost in a whisper.

"It's not your fault." I said with a slight giggle.

"I'm sorry for everything." He said in the same way, it was almost seductive. I began to walk away and his lips crashed against mine. I pushed away from him.

"Hayes what are you doing?!" I ask trying to process what he just did. My heart beat was fast, as if I wanted him to do it again. I looked blankly at him, he leaned in again.

"Hayes don't." I push his shoulders and he stumbles. He takes me in his arms and kisses me again, he pushes me to Scarlet and Brianna. They look at me with their big blue eyes and cry.

"Hayes leave me alone." I say and guard them with my hands in front of their cribs. He grabs my arm and pushes me to the floor. What has gotten into him? 

"Stop!" I scream. I get up and punch his jaw. I hear a small pop. He winches and holds his jaw. He drops to the floor.

"Matt!" I scream and nobody answers. They must be outside. I begin to run, I try to run down the stairs to get help. I feel a hand wrap around my ankle. I grab the railing and hold tight. I try to kick him off of me.

"Hayes stop!" I yell. My heart is pounding. I can barley hear myself think. I look down at the stairs and notice that I am going to fall.

"Nash!" I yell trying to hold on.

"Nash!" I yell again. I think of Shawn, Matt, the old Hayes, Nash, everybody. I see Taylor walk through the door and one hand slips. I scream and he slowly walks over to me not knowing of how much danger I'm in. Hayes' hand let's go of my ankle and I tumble. I tumble down two flights of stairs. I think I black out, I slowly wake on the couch hearing the faint noise of arguing.

"You could have killed her! What were you thinking?!" Taylor yelled.

"I was thinking that if I couldn't have her, than he couldn't either." Hayes replied softly.

"You are sick, you should leave now before I call the police and have you arrested for assault on multiple occasions." Taylor said. I tried to get up but my side hurts really bad. Hayes walked out the door glancing at me. Taylor walked in, his face was red and his hands were shaking.

"Are you okay?" He asks almost out of breath. I nod and slightly hold my side.

"Can I look at it?" He asks and when I nod he slowly lifts my dress up to my stomach. Don't worry, I'm wearing a pair of shorts under the dress. A bruise starts to appear around my ribs. He fixes my dress and looks at my head. I have a major bruise there too.

Soon enough, the party was all set up and Gilinsky had made hot dogs and hamburgers on the grill. Matt had filled two bowls with chips and a small one for salsa. Mahogany had put the muffins on a tier and laid them out beautifully. The desserts were lined on a separate table from the rest. All of the guests came except Luke, Austin, Carter, and Shawn. 

Finally they come and Shawn looks so surprised when he walks out the back door and notices that we are throwing him a birthday party.

"Aww baby, you did this for me?" I nod and he smiles.

"Happy birthday Baby." I say and bring him close to me and my lips crash against his. Everybody cheers. After we all eat, the Dj comes and tells Shawn and I that we have to go to the middle of the grass. The Dj played a slow song. Shawn looked at me with love in his eyes.

"105 is the number that comes to my head, when I think of all the years I want to be with you. Wake up every morning with you in my bed. That's precisely what I wanna do and you know one of these days when I get my money right, but you everything and show you all the finer things in life. Will forever be enough, so there ain't no need to rush, but one day I won't be able to ask you loud enough, I'll say will you marry me?" He sang and pulled a small black velvety box out of his jacket pocket. He got down on one knee and opened the box, exposing a beautiful diamond ring.

"Will you marry me?" He asked. I nodded and smiled. Tears filled my eyes and he put the ring on my finger.