My Only hope

Chapter 23: Different

Jon's P.O.V

It's been awhile since Melody lived here, but the best room in the house will always be her's. Every so often, we go into her room and wish that she was still here. Ethan misses giving her a hard time, me and Mark miss calming her down. Alex and James miss the times on the boat with her. Steve misses watching movie after movie with her. Kevin misses her coming into his room in the middle of the night because she can't sleep. Lastly, dad misses her because she was like the daughter he never had.

I go to Melody's old room and find dad curled up on her bed. I really wonder if he misses curling up with her. At some point while she was still here, Melody made all of us take a nap with her. Some more than others. We have all come to notice that our lives don't revolve around our girlfriends, but they revolve around Melody.

"Dad, are you alright?"

"Ya, I just miss her being here," he says in a painful sounding voice.

"We all do. Maybe we can stop by hers and Tom's place to visit."

"I don't want to just visit her Jon. I want to watch movies, take naps, and carry her to this bed like we used to."

"I think Tom is going off to college soon. Maybe he will have Melody stay with us.

~One month later~

Melody has a little bit of a stomach on her. She has a small pump that causes a whole shit ton of mood swings. We can't horse around like a bull in a china shop anymore. It's kind of dull because of Melody being pregnant. Tom has called a few times to check up how his wife and child are doing.

Right now, dad is taking a nap with her upstairs. He doesn't mind that she's pregnant considering he can still watch movies, take naps, and carry her to bed. She does go to Kevin's room in the middle of the night, but she falls asleep instantly. He misses talking her to sleep, but he seem okay with her just coming in and sleeping. She seems to miss sleeping with Tom because she never spends a night alone. She always is in one of our rooms or sleeping on dad's lap down stairs on the couch. Another thing that has changed a lot is the fact that we can't take her tubing anymore, but she wants to. Dad is scared she will fall off the tube or the boa, sink, and drown.

Melody's personality has been weird too. She won't let James put his arm around her and she has some really weird carvings. Last night, she ate a pickle with peanut butter, sprinkles, and hot fudge all over it. The pickle made Alex throw up, which made Melody throw up when she seen him doing so. Her morning sickness isn't bad at all, but her mood swings are terrible. Her main ones are anger, sadness, or clingy. She tend to cling to dad the most, but he doesn't seem to mind.

"Jon, have you heard from Tom," a soft voice asks from the doorway. I turn to find melody leaning on the door frame with her hand on her belly.

"Not yet. When did you wake up," I ask gently. I'm a little surprised that she's up.

"I woke up like ten minutes ago. It takes me a little while to get up and down the stairs."

"You went down the stairs by yourself?!?"

"No james held my hand and had his other hand on my back. There is no way in hell I would be able to do that on my own."

"Good, you could get seriously hurt doing that in your condition."

"Jon, Melody is well aware of this. That's why she came and woke me up," James comments from behind Mel. "While we are on the subject though, Melody why aren't you sitting down?"

I pull out the stool with the back on it and James helps Melody up on it. As soon as Melody is secure on the stool Steve walks in. He give Melody a hug and a kiss on the cheek. Dad does the same thing except he also rubs her belly a little bit before getting himself some coffee.