Begin Again

Chapter Eighteen

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Begin Again- Chapter Eighteen

Tyler's P.O.V.

"Caroline!" I yell her name as she turns back towards me, a stack of plates in her hands, this slight smirk on her face.

"Hang on, let me just put these down." She says, taking them outside as I wait for her. Caroline takes longer than she should. She's avoiding me, avoiding the topic that I didn't bring up earlier about her announcing her pregnancy to everyone. Instead, I sat with my friends and laughed and congratulated her- just like they all did.

She comes back inside, this confused look on her face. I must look irritated- pissed off probably because Caroline follows me without questioning when I tell her to come into the hallway with me.

Before she can even ask a question, I open my mouth first. "I thought we said that we weren't going to tell anyone about the pregnancy yet. Caroline, we just found out about it! Why are you telling them already?" I ask her, my uneven breathing- an indicator that I'm annoyed with her. My tone is harsh, cuts her deep as she looks down at the floor, tears flooding her eyes when she glances back up at me.

"They're our family, Tyler!" She points out. I huff out a breath. Our family? Okay, maybe they are in a way. But, Caroline and I are a family and we agreed before even going over to Bonnie and Damon's that we wouldn't tell anyone about the baby-not yet.

"Why are you so worried?" She asks me. My head snaps up from the lock my eyes have on my wedding band. I love her. I love 'our family.' But, in all of my wife's excitement. She seems to have forgotten one thing- How hard this has been on us. How hard it's been on me, watching her fall apart after we suffered loss after loss of babies we thought that we could actually have.

"Because, what if something goes wrong again, Caroline? I can't just sit by and watch you fall apart." I confess to her. Caroline sniffles, taking a few steps towards me as she wipes her eyes and places her hand against my chest softly.

"Tyler, it won't. I just...I have a feeling that it won't. Have a little faith." She says with a small smile, glancing up at me again. Her blue eyes glazed over from unshed tears.

"You never know, Caroline. I just- You shouldn't have told anyone yet. We promised each other that we wouldn't say anything." I remind her, wrapping my arms around her small frame, listening to her exhale as she says in a voice that's just above a whisper.

"I know, I know we did. I just got excited and I'm sorry. But, please..Tyler. Please, believe me when I tell you that we're going to be okay. All three of us." She says with a smile, tightening her grip around my waistline as I lean down and kiss the top of her curly blonde head. All three of us- It makes me smile, the way she says it and suddenly all I can think about his holding a baby in my arms...Our baby in my arms.

Jeremy's P.O.V.

She smiles at me as she hands me a glass of ice water, wiping her hands on to her now dried shorts.

"How are things going with the kids, with Stefan?" I ask her, hearing Elena exhale out a breath as she looks down at her hand, nervously spinning her wedding ring. We both turn around to hear Stefan walk past the front door. "Don't mind me, I'll give you two sometime alone, I'm just going to go in the house and wake the kids up, make a few phone calls and get us ready to leave this weekend." He says, opening the front door and leaving Elena and I, sitting on the front porch steps, silent for awhile until she replies.