A Journey With No End

Faint

DANIEL'S POV

Work was tough. Investors were pulling out and I had to fire some people because of it. Dad has been working me like a slave. Another thing that has been weighing on my shoulders is telling mom about the baby, obviously she won't be too thrilled. I'm just happy I can finally go home to Emily, the only person, other than Charlotte, who I really consider family.

As I walk through the door I feel relieved for the first time all day. As I walk into the bedroom I can tell that Emily can sense my sour mood.

"Something wrong babe?" she asks.

I sigh "Work was hard and on top of that I still haven't told my parents about you being pregnant and that stresses me out a little bit."

She gives me a quick kiss on the cheek "It'll be fine. If you want, we could tell them together?"

"As you know Em, my mom doesn't exactly have a soft spot for you. I think I should do it alone."

"If that's what you want then of course that is fine with me." She smiles reassuringly.

I smile back at her. "This is why I love you. you have the ability to make me feel better just my saying simple things like that." I kiss her. "I'll never get bored of the feeling I get when I kiss you"

"Never?" She says jokingly.

I kiss her again and pretend to think about it. After a long pause I finally say "Nope."

She smiles.

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My eyes flutter open and I see that Emily is not in bed. Which is not unusual, she's always the first one to wake up.

I pull the covers off me and go to get changed. There's a note on the dresser, it reads

Dear Daniel,

I'm sorry I'm not home, I left to go

for a walk on the beach. I should be

home by 9. I love you.

- Emily

I check my phone it's 8:32. That means a half hour until Em comes home and we go to The Manor for breakfast. That's when I am going to tell my mom about the pregnancy.

I bet Charlotte will be excited to hear that she's going to be an aunt. Dad will probably like the idea of being a grandfather. But mom? Mom is not going to take the news well.

I have to stop thinking about this or it will drive me crazy. Since I have 30 minutes to kill might as well get some work done. I turn on my laptop and I smile when I see my wallpaper, the picture of me and Em on the beach kissing.

After about 20 minutes of work I hear the door downstairs close and footsteps on the stairs.

Emily walks through the door. She walks over to me and wraps her arms around my shoulders.

"How was your walk?" I ask as I get up from the chair to kiss her.

"It's really nice out, not a cloud in the sky." She replies. Then she gives me a serious look. "Are you sure you're ready to tell your mother?"

I chuckle. "As ready as I'll ever be."

"Well in that case we should get going, you know how Victoria does not like to wait." She places her hand in mine.

"After you Mrs.Grayson." I say as we leave the bedroom.

"You know it's been over a month since we've been married and I'm still not used to being called that." She gives me a small smirk.

We walk across the beach to The Manor hand in hand. Walking along the beach with her reminds me of our first date. We've come so far since then, so much has changed.

We finally reach The Manor and before we go in, I tell her, "Remember Em, if my mom makes this to uncomfortable we can leave."

She nods her head in agreement. As we stride inside the door we are immediately greeted by my father.

"Hello Conrad." Emily says with a smile.

"Hi Emily. You are looking beautiful as always."

"Thank you." She replies. We all begin to walk into the kitchen where we will be eating. Mom and Charlotte are sitting at the table chatting.

Charlotte gets up from her seat when she sees us. "I feel like I haven't seen you guys in forever. How have you two been?"

Emily and I glance at each other and then reply, "Great!" at the same time. She looks at us suspiciously but doesn't ask anything.

Finally mom talks. "Good morning." She stares at Emily and gives her the usual fake smile. She gives me a big hug before turning to Emily to 'hug' her. If you could even call it a hug. It looked like mom was trying not to come into contact with Emily's skin, like it was poison or something.

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After we finished eating we all got up from our seats we went into the living room. I decide that I should tell them now rather than never.

"I have to tell you all something." I announce. Emily squeezes my hand I'm support to what I'm about to say. "Guys, Emily is pregnant."

Charlotte starts jumping up and down in excitement and dad just smiles a happy smile. When I turn to see mom's reaction I realize something is wrong. It looks like she is frozen. All of a sudden her eyes roll to the back of her head and her body starts to fall to the ground.

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A/N: Dunn dunn daaaa. Cliffhanger. Kinda.

First I want to point out that the new cover was made by bsg3897. Second I wanted to say that I'm sorry about not updating sooner but I've had like 6 projects to do these past weeks and I've been really busy with soccer.

Anyway, season 3 is so nerve-racking I just can't take all the intenseness. What about you guys?

I'll update ASAP. Bye.