Love hurts?

curiosity

Michael's POV

It's the middle of the night and I wake up feeling Ocean stirring and moving around, trying to get comfy. "are you ok?" I whisper and she mutters something inaudible clearly still asleep. I turn on my side putting my arm around her placing, my hand gently on her tiny baby bump and smile falling back to sleep. I know it may sound weird we're not telling people since this time we have no reason to fear people finding out, but it's nice for us to have this little secret to ourselves because it's probably the only secret we've ever had that actually won't hurt or upset our family when they find out and will be a lovely surprise when they do. It's also kind of become somewhat of a tradition, we're also planning a home birth like we had with DJ and Nevaeh.

I fall back to sleep and again I'm woken. Only this time its through Ocean crying slightly. I lean over and she's still asleep. "Ocean!" I whisper trying to wake her and her soft cries turn to sobs "Ocean!" I say again slightly louder "No... Stay away from him!" She says shakily sitting up, but clearly still dreaming "Ocean calm down. You were just having a bad dream" I say softly "please don't take him from me" she sobs staring at me terrified and I cup her face in my hands. "Ocean, baby it's me" I say softly trying to break her from her dream and she looks at me confused for a moment then she finally wakes up properly. "it's ok, it's was just a dream" I smile softly pulling her in close to me and she holds me tightly.

She starts calming down and I suddenly hear DJ scream running towards our room and I Ocean jumps up. "I need my mommy" he sobs and Ocean picks him up holding him tightly to her. "Ssh, its ok baby, mommy's here" she says shakily. "I don't want the bad people to take me away from you" he sobs onto her chest. "it's ok, buddy. Nobody's gonna take you away from mommy" I reassure him pulling them both close to me. With all the crying, Neveah soon wakes up and I go to her room to get her and Ocean takes DJ in our room.

I get back and her and DJ are lay together cuddling on the bed and I bring Nevaeh in with us putting her next to DJ so me and Ocean are at either side of them wrapping our arms around them. This has been happening many times and we've spoken to our therapist about it and he thinks that even though DJ was very young when we lost custody, him and Ocean our having repressed memories of what happened that day at the hospital.

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Jessica's POV

I'm sitting in the kitchen eating breakfast and Robert walks in. "morning!" He smiles happily and sits down with a bowel of cereal. Today would have been Marissa's 26th birthday and clearly Robert has forgotten. I sigh not saying anything and he rolls his eyes at me. "what's wrong now?"

"todays your sisters birthday and you don't even care" I frown. "no it's not! Ocean's birthdays not for months!" He shakes his head. "MARISSA'S!" I snap at him. "I completely forgot. I'm sorry" he sighs. "you have no problem remembering Ocean's clearly" I scoff. "it's to early for this" he rolls his eyes. "oh! that's right I forgot we don't talk bad about Ocean. Marissa on the other hand he gives a fuck" I scoff. he sighs not saying anything and Ray walks in. "Geez! You guys arguing again?" He rolls his eyes, sitting at the table "no. I just forgot we're not allowed to bad mouth Ocean" I say sarcastically. "so you shouldn't! You can't bad mouth someone who's..ouch!"

He jumps slightly getting cut off by Robert nudging him under the table. "who's what?" I frown "nothing" he shrugs innocently "Ocean's cool. So quit bad mouthing her" he frowns leaving the room before I get a chance to ask anymore. "what was that about?" I turn back to Robert. "nothing. I'm gonna get dressed, before Frank gets here" he shrugs getting up from the table. "Robert, please consider what I've said? You know how I feel about you doing those drugs"

"I already told! It's MY life and I'll live to the way I want!" He snaps at me. "if you don't like it, then get the fuck out of my apartment" he shrugs and walks out.