Bury the hatchet?

Chapter 38

Georgette had finally talked Craig and I into hosting a baby shower, on the one condition that there wasn't a huge fuss made out of it. She'd helped Craig and I plan it all including decorations, food and a few of the small activities; she had been a lifesaver. I was also pretty exited because my dad was coming out to visit, neither Ronnie or I had seen him in a long while; I really did miss him.

When the day of the baby shower arrived, I was woken up at the ungodly hour of 9 in the fucking morning by Georgette knocking repeatedly on the front door. With much regret I waddled out into the hallway as Craig had completely passed out last night from drinking. I opened the door squinting as the light hit my eyes.

"Hey girl! Wake up sleepy, people will be starting to arrive in 2 hours!" She exclaimed to happily for this time in the morning. I looked behind her and saw TJ practically dragging his feet across the ground as he carried a case in his hands; on top of the case a present was carefully balanced. He had sunglasses covering his eyes but I could tell that he was pretty badly hung over and tired. "Teej, can you bring the food in when you have the chance?" He simply nodded making Georgette giggle. "Love you babe." She kissed his cheek causing a small smirk to form on TJ's lips.

I rubbed my eyes and became confused as to why TJ was carrying a present. "Err what's all this?" I asked eyeing TJ as he placed the case and the present down on the coffee table in the living room.

"Oh! This is for you and Craig but you're not to open it until everyone else arrives." She said pointing to the present. "And I've brought my make up and hair stuff to make you look extra gorgeous not that you really need to look any better than you do now." She smirked making me giggle.

"You have to be joking, I weigh a tone and my hair looks like a rats nest."

"Don't bring yourself down hun you look better than I do in the morning." I decided not to argue back as I was too tired for this sort of argument. I decided to let Georgette carry on doing what she had to do and decided to head upstairs and try to wake Craig up.

"I'll be back in a second, I'm going to wake Craig."

Georgette looked confused. "He slept through me knocking the door and us talking?"

"He's passed out." Georgette simply nodded.

"So was TJ, I still made him wake up and come with me." She said before heading out to her car and began helping TJ bring the food they had brought into the house whilst I headed through into our room where Craig was still flat out on the bed.

I sighed. "Craig." I called out to him shaking his shoulder; he slowly began to wake up. "You have to stop this." I muttered opening the curtains.

"Stop what?" He grumbled rubbing his eyes and he sat up leaning on his elbow, I saw his eyes scrunch up as the light hit his face.

"Drinking till you pass out, it's the 3rd time this week Craig!" I exclaimed sitting on the end of the bed, he sat up and pushed the hair out of his face, he took my hands in his and placed a finger under my chin turning my head to look at him.

"I know babe, I'm sorry." He apologized pecking my lips.

"I don't mind you drinking just in moderation." He nodded and smiled. "Anyway, time to get up, Georgette and TJ are here and we need to help set up."

Craig looked confused and looked at the time on his phone. "But its only ten past nine, I thought people weren't arriving till like eleven?" He asked.

"I know, don't bother questioning it I'm just letting them do what they have to." Craig nodded smiling; he got up and headed to the bathroom to take a shower. I decided to change; I couldn't stay in my pajamas all day (as much as I wanted to, I don't think it'd look very presentable).