Run Away for my Baby

Chapter Eight

It had been three months since I had married Josh and things weren't going great. We argued on a bi-daily basis, I hated it. I just wanted a normal conversation with him but for some reason we couldn't handle it. We went to our weekly couple's council meeting and you could tell that our therapist hated us, all we did while we were with her was argue. I was fed up.

The only positive thing in my life was the guy I had met in one of my class, Brody. We had sat down next to each other the first day of class, we got talking straight away. This was the first guy that had ever been interested in me. The thing was that I was interested in him too, I really liked him.

So as we're walking back to his apartment block, I wasn't surprised when he asked me, "Anna, I was wondering if you'd like to go out one night?" I looked directly into his gorgeous dark eyes and sighed. Josh and I never said that we couldn't date other people but I still felt like I would be cheating on him if I did go out with Brody.

I looked down at the ground shyly, I couldn't bear to tell him the news. "I can't," I muttered. "I have a boyfriend, Brode. If I wasn't with him I'd go out with you."

"Oh..." Brody ran a hand through his blonde hair. "I didn't realise, you never told me."

"Yeah, I'm sorry. Josh and I we keep our relationship quite private."

He looked at me deeply for a moment before saying, "If you ever break up, tell me, I'll be first in the queue Anna."

I smiled at this, I had never been wanted. He turned away from me and headed into his apartment block. "Wait!" I called loudly to him. I ran up to him and on impulse I kissed him. "A placeholder," I explained before leaving him there.

Josh was already home when I entered. He sat on the couch with Lux on his lap. "Had a good day?" he asked surprisingly pleasant.

"Yeah it was okay," I replied back still thinking of Brody at that kiss I gave him. I felt a little guilty about it, I shouldn't have done it. I led him on, I gave him false hope. Only three more months, I thought to myself.

"Are you sure? You sound different," Josh turned to face me with a look of concern on his face, this was unusual for him, especially towards me.

"Yep I'm sure," I grumpily said back.

"Tell me!" he growled.

"Fine! I like someone I can't be with because I'm fucking married to you. I had to tell him that I had a boyfriend even though I don't. You've ruined my life Josh. I hate you so much."

He stood there in front of me in shocked for a couple of minutes as I breathed deeply. This was the worst I've been to him. "You can be with him if you want," he muttered. "I don't care if you date other guys, it's not like we're going to spend the rest of our lives together, and that would be torture."

"At least we both agree on something," I sighed still frustrated with this whole situation and him. "I'm going to take a bath." I really needed to calm down and relax. I already knew that I was going spend the evening eating some pizza and ice cream whilst watching some of my favourite Disney films. I needed that tonight.

"Okay." Josh replied seriously. "Oh by the way Holly called earlier and said she's coming over tonight for a date night."

My evening plans were ruined by this news. I would now have to pretend to be the perfect girlfriend to the guy I hated. After I had told my parents about Josh and me, Holly and Ollie were the next to tell. As soon as we told them, they said they knew something had happened whilst we were in Vegas and were happy that we were together.

"Great."

I headed upstairs with Lux following me, to my bedroom, well mine and Josh's. Josh and I now shared the bed together. I knew you might be confused as to what I'm saying so let me explain.

It had been a couple days since I had moved in Josh had taken the couch like he had promised. But on the forth night he came to the bedroom and started complaining about how uncomfortable the couch was. And so I let him have the bed and I went to sleep on the couch.

After couple of days my back started to ache and I knew that I couldn't sleep on the couch anymore. So I complained to Josh and we came up with a compromise. We decided that we'd share the bed as long as we had a pillow wall between us.

Even that didn't last long. Either one of us kicked it off during the night and found ourselves waking up curled around each other. Now we just went to bed at the same time and snuggle together as we fall asleep.

"Anna are you okay in there?" I heard Josh ask from behind the bathroom door where I was lying in a bath full of bubbles.

"I'm good," I replied.

"Good. I just wanted to tell you that your sister will be her in a few minutes so you might want to get ready. Also I've ordered some pizza for us and got us a couple of tubs of Ben and Jerry's."

"Thank you," I sighed happily. One thing Josh did well at was knowing when I was in a bad mood and buying me food that always cheered me up. 

"Your sister is bringing over some films as well."

"Great!" my evening had just been brightened by this revelation. "I'll be a few minutes."

I climbed out of the bath and wrapped a thick towel around me before heading out into the bedroom. Josh and Lux were nowhere in sight fortunately, there had been a couple of times when I had gotten out of the shower and Josh had been changing in the bedroom.

I quickly slipped on a comfy pair of sweats and a large t-shirt that happened to be one of Josh's which I had stolen a couple of months ago. I honestly didn't care what I looked like, I was only spending the evening with Holly and Ollie.

As I walked downstairs I heard the doorbell ring. Holly and Ollie were here. I was in for a fun night of acting like Josh's girlfriend. Yay!