Without You

Chapter Thirty Nine

February 3rd-4th

The weekend my parents came to visit came quicker than I expected, one minute I was saying bye to Zayn and the next I was welcoming my parent into my house. Mum and Dad were both keen to have a look around the house, Dad being more interested than Mum, Mum just wanted a catch up. It was nice catching up with them both, hearing about what Mum had been doing. Since recovering she'd gone straight back into work, she was in the middle of a world tour which was the reason they were only staying for the weekend. Dad was doing well as usual, his chain of hotels were doing more than great and he had opened a few more since I'd last saw him, what more could he want?

"Hey, how did the scan go?" Zayn asked as soon as he'd answered the phone.

"It was great, you have to see the photo! I'll send you a pic later! The babies are doing great, they are both healthy, yeah everything is just perfect!" I found myself smiling away.

"I've been worried about them, and you..I'm relieved to hear everything is fine" He went quiet, it upset me when he was like this. "I miss you like crazy"

"I do too" I replied trying to hide my emotions.

I was becoming an emotional wreck. Frankie was doing over time at her hairdressers meaning I was alone on the days I didn't have work, which was more often than not.

February 8th

"I'm not going Frankie, no matter what you say. I'm not well!" I moaned as snuggled further down into my bed.

"You can't miss this meeting and you know it! Don't make me get Jack" Frankie tried pulling back my quilt again but I had a firm grip on it. "Fine, I give up!"

"Finally" I sighed as her footsteps became quieter.

20 minutes later I was disturbed again.

"Summer I don't care if you come how you are now, just as long as you come" Jack continued to try and persuade me to get out of bed.

"That sounds like a good offer"

"But it doesn't mean that you will be going like it, you may not care now but you will when you're bed hair is on the front page of a magazine" He replied sarcastically.

"I hate it when you're right" I mumbled before peeling back the quilt and getting out of bed, "If I'm sick on Simon I will kill you" I threatened.

Not long later I was ready, dress to impress in a grey tracksuit with converse. Jack hurried me into the car and we drove off.

As Jack and I walked into the reception area I gave Gary a smile as we passed just as I did every time I came to Simon's offices.

"Morning Janet" I mumbled as we entered the small office.

"Morning" She chuckled at my enthusiasm and pressed a button on the phone to let Simon know we had arrived. "In you go now" She nodded towards the door and returned to work on the computer.

"Summer, Jack take a seat" Simon said as soon as we entered, clearly in a hurry. As always. "Let's begin, remind me why you wanted this meeting Summer?"

"Well, I wanted to talk through what is going to happen once the babies have arrived" I replied as I got comfortable in my seat.

"Yes, I had a feeling this would be about that" He sat forward and tilted his head to the side, "Go on"

"Uh, of course I'd love to carry on, but it's not going to be that easy with a new born baby let alone two, especially as Zayn and I are working most of the time. So I was thinking, maybe I could build a recording studio in our home so I could work while looking after the babies, I can easily bring them to photo shoots and interviews with me but I not flying out to America or anywhere else. I don't want to hire a nanny to look after my children. They deserve to have a mother and a father." Simon nodded here and there whilst I talked.