This Love (A Stemily Fanfiction)

13. Nothing safe is worth the drive.

       

Stephen's POV

I went over to help her carry in the huge present she had gotten for Mav.

She smiled upon seeing me. "Hi brother."

I took the gift from her and simply nodded.

"Are you going to be like this the whole time? Because if that's the case I can go." She said.

I set down the box at the gift table.

"Look we're not going to do this here. I will be civil for Emily and Mavi, but we have some things to talk about and you can't expect me to act like you weren't the cause of me almost losing everything."

She didn't respond or I didn't give her a chance to, I went into the bedroom to check on the girls.

"How's everything going?" I said enthusiastically. I looked over to Mavi who was now sitting in between Kennedy and JJ. They were all in matching swimsuits.

Jenny was getting along perfectly with Emily, and I really hoped that she was being genuine and not getting close to feed information to Cassandra.

"Hey, we're all ready to go here." Emily beamed.

I couldn't help but smile when I looked at her, she was my everything.

Everyone started to lead the kids out of the room to go to the pool and Emily stayed, sitting on the edge of the bed.

"Everything okay?" I asked making my way to her.

She nodded. "I just need to change. I'll be out in a minute."

I didn't believe her; she wasn't as enthusiastic in this moment as she was when the kids were in here.

"Are you sure?" I questioned.

She sighed.

"What's going on?"

She bit her lip. "You're going to make fun of me."

I shook my head. "No I'm not."

"I just don't want to go out there in a swimsuit, especially in front of your ex-wife with her perfect body."

I smiled. "Emily, you're pregnant, and you're beautiful, you don't need to feel self-conscious."

She still didn't budge.

I took her hand in mine and turned her face toward me. "You are perfect to me and no one is going to think anything horrible about you, you are the most beautiful woman here and you have to believe that."

She smiled and kissed me.

"You always know the right thing to say."

She grabbed her swimsuit and changed, while I waited so we could walk out together.

Once we were in the living room, my mom walked up to us.

"Finally. I've been waiting to see my babies." She said and I reached out to give her a hug, but she turned to Emily and hugged her.

"Oh I see how it is." I faked offense.

She smacked my arm. "Oh, Stephen. Be quiet."

Emily's smile stretched from ear to ear as my mom praised her and the twins.

I wrapped my arm around her and kissed the top of her head.

"I told you." I whispered into her ear.

We all went outside together and I jumped in the pool while Emily sat and talked with my mom. All the kids were in the pool except for Mav, she was standing at the edge with Italia.