Bruno Mars | Natalie, the untold story (Complete)

Nasty surprise

Chapter 16

Nasty surprise

I couldn't believe we were at the top of our love. Everything seemed to be going fine. I grew a little baby bump in these past few weeks. If I wore clothes you wouldn't see it. Well, only if they were tight. 

It seemed Bruno and I grew closer together with this new life growing inside of me. I guess almost everyone knew by now. My mother was excited to become a grandmother. I could hear her cry through the phone when we told her. Although she never met Bruno she knew I was happy now. I didn't want to tell her anything about Bruno's bad side. He made some mistakes, but who doesn't? It wouldn't be fair to tell her and make her worry while there is nothing going on anymore. 

Bruno's parents where happy too for us and so where is siblings. We wanted to visit our parents, but we needed all the money to pay for all the baby stuff. Bruno didn't make that much with his new job, but it was more than what he first earned. He had a steady paycheck. Where ever he could he would take the opportunity to perform, it didn't matter where it was, if he would make money for his family he would do it. I didn't get to see him very often anymore in the weekends, but it was all worth it. We both worked our asses off to make sure we could buy this baby all it needed. I'd also put money aside to go back to college again. I had been doing that ever since I started my job at the diner. Now that I was with child, I realized I needed to get a better job even more. I didn't know how we would all fit this in to our lives, but I didn't want to worry about that right now.

 Bruno and I decided that we could get some things for the baby. I was around 15 weeks of pregnancy and I wanted to buy some clothes that could fit both a boy and a girl. Bruno’s hand was holding mine tight. He didn’t let go for a minute. This whole time he had that beautiful smile on his face. When we walked in the mall I had this feeling that we were being followed. I don’t know why,  but you know that feeling when you know someone is watching you? Well, I had that exact feeling. I tried to shake it off and enjoy this quality time we had. We went to H&M to see what kind of stuff they had there. We didn’t had that much money, we couldn’t go to the expensive stores. I didn’t want to go to the cheapest ones, so I guess this was a good store to at least see what they had. 

We walked in and looked for the baby section. It was on the second floor so we went up. They had the sweetest things for girls! I saw this cute little pink dress. It had white polka dots all over. I held it in my hands and looked at it. My fingers traces the fabric. I dreamed about a little caramel colored girl, with long curly hair, running away on her bare feet, Bruno chasing after her. 
“Cute isn’t it honey?”, Bruno said snapping me out of my daydream. “Yeah, it’s so cute.” “But, we can’t buy it. Not until we know if it’s a boy or a girl”, he said and carefully took the dress out of my hands and put it back. “Let’s go over there baby, I see some things that could go for a boy and a girl”, he said pointing to his left. He released my hand and walked away. I slowly followed his footsteps. We looked at the cute little clothes that were hanging neatly into the clothes rack. The fabrics of the baby suits were soft, kind of velvet. 
I looked at some pajamas and in the corner of my eye I thought I saw someone familiar in the mirror to my right. I looked into it and I saw a shadow quickly disappearing. I shrugged my shoulders and picked some cute pajamas. I showed it to Bruno who nod his head in approval. He had the sweetest baby suit in his hands. It was all white with a red crab on the front. The crab was wearing a little swimsuit. We found some pajama’s to go with it. “Imagine our little one wearing this! It must be so cute!”, Bruno said with a smirk. Every time he spoke about this little human inside me his eyes sparkled. My heart would melt every time that happened. We found two hats that we also took. Just when we wanted to go to the cash register Bruno walked past the boys section and saw a blue fedora. “Oh no, here we go”, I thought to myself. “Nat! Look! I need to buy this!!”, he yelled in excitement. I rolled my eyes. “Oh come on! I know you think it’s cute too!” I crossed my arms and gave him a look. “You and those fedora’s. I will never understand…”, I said with a sigh. “It’s better if you don’t”, he said with a smirk. “Now, can I take it or not?” “No.. We don’t even know if it’s a boy! If we know, that can be the first thing we buy okay?”, I said walking away. He gave me sad look and pout his lip. “Not gonna work!”, I said and strolled over the cash register. 
We decided to go have lunch at a small bistro. Bruno always liked these small dining places. I guess he liked the cozy vibe that they had. We sat down and placed our orders. We started chatting about the baby and the stuff we needed to buy. When our food was served I got that weird feeling again. I looked around to see, yeah to see what? I didn’t know what I was looking for. Then my eye caught a man who’s posture I recognized. I only didn’t know what from. He saw me stare at him and hid behind a clothing rack. “What are you looking at babe?”, Bruno asked and tried to shove a whole bun in his mouth. “Oh.. nothing..”, I said a little distracted. I saw him wrestling with his bun and laughed. “You’re such a pig sometimes.” I looked back at the place where the unfamiliar, yet familiar man stood, but he was gone. 
“You should eat something. I don’t want you to faint now”, Bruno said nodding his head to my plate. “Yeah I will”, I said and started to eat my scrambled eggs. 
After we finished our meals we walked past some other stores. We didn’t found anything to buy, but we had fun just looking at different strollers, and baby baths and car seats. I never in a million years could think we would be doing this. I mean I loved Bruno to death, there was no one in this world I would want to share this with, but him. But his dark side scared me and for some time I really thought I had to leave him. I knew what he did wasn’t right and our relationship wasn’t healthy. But this little one changed everything. 
We walked back to our car and dropped the bags in the trunk. Bruno pulled off the parking lot and hit the road. After a few minutes I noticed a car behind us. Bruno saw it too. “That car seems to be following us”, he said looking in his driving mirror. “Maybe it needs to go to the same direction as us?”, I said looking behind me. “Yeah could be, maybe he will take a turn somewhere”, he said and looked at the road again. My thoughts drifted away and I forgot about the car that followed us. But at the last traffic light before we reached our home the car was still there. Bruno didn’t notice, but I did. There was one car directly behind us and behind that car, stood the black Volvo. 
When we pulled up the parking lot the car was gone. I guess it was just a coincidence. 
“Let’s take a shower”, I said dropping the bags into the bedroom. I turned the shower on and got undressed. Bruno undressed himself and joined me. The hot water drips shattered on our bare skin. Bruno stood behind me. His hands trailed off to my little baby bump. He put his hands on the bump. I turned my head and our lips softly touched. I placed my hands on Bruno’s and if it knew, I felt a little tingle inside me. I gasped, not willing to believe I just felt our little one for the first time. “Bruno..”, I whispered. “I think I just felt the baby for the first time.”  Bruno turned me around and kneeled down. He placed his hands on my body again and started talking. “Hi little one, it’s your daddy speaking again. Mommy just told you were moving around in there. Be gentle to her okay?”, he said and kissed the bump. “You already are so sweet to this little one”, I said to him and gave him a kiss when he got up. We hugged and washed our selfs.

“Let me see your bump!”, Sarah yelled to me. “Yeah, show us”, Hailey called out. “Okay, let’s go to the restroom, but don’t get to excited”, I said and we all walked to the restroom. Hailey closed the door and I pulled up my shirt. They gasped and dropped their jaws. “Oh my, there’s a little bump!”, Sarah whispered. I stood there with a big smirk. “I know! And you know what, I felt this little one for the first time yesterday I think.” They looked at me with their eyes widened. “Wow! Awesome!”, Hailey exclaimed. I put my shirt down and we went back. We talked about my baby and all kinds of baby stuff all the time when there we didn’t had to do anything. Around dinner time the diner filled up and it got busy. “Natalie? Can you stay a little longer?”, Brian asked his face looking stressed out. “Sure, Bruno is working too tonight. No problem”, I answered. 
At ten o’clock we finally closed the diner. I didn’t want to walk all the way to Bruno’s place so I decided to walk to the bus stop around the corner. I started walking and I got that weird feeling again. It was dark and a little breeze twirled some leaves around. Just when I walked into an alley, which was a short cut, I heard a twitch crack. I turned my head but there was no one there. I guess it was just the wind. There were no streetlights in this alley. The only light I saw, was a small yellow strip that was formed on the end of the alley. I got a little nervous and started to speed up my pass. Just before I reached the street again a dark shadow showed up in front of me. I looked up and saw a man standing in front of me. “Hello Natalie. Remember me?”, the voice said sarcastically. My feet froze in an instant. My heart was pounding in my chest like a boxer hit his opponent K.O. I felt like I was choking when I heard his voice. I could barely speak. “Vincent…”, I whispered as my body started to shiver. “Good to see you again, Natalie.” His eyes looked dark, he smiled a mischievous smile. I wanted to run, but I couldn’t, I just couldn’t move. “I guess you never thought you’d see me again, did you? Well, here I am. What? No warm welcome? No hug? Oh no, I forgot! You are fucking that half black little midget!”, he said through clenched teeth. “Leave Bruno out of this!”, I said my voice cracking. “So his name is Bruno.. What kind of lame ass name it that?”, he laughed, showing his white teeth. “Look, Vincent, I know you’re mad-” He cut me off. He walked towards me, stumping his big feet on the concrete floor. His massive body caused a shadow to fall over me. He grabbed my arm forcefully and bend his head down to mine. “You little bitch! How dare you talk to me like that!” Before I knew it I felt stingy feeling on my jaw. I had lost my balance and my back hit a dumpster that was standing against a wall. He pulled my arm again and his fist hit my jaw again, causing a pain stroke all over my face. “Please, NO!”, I cried at him. I tried to get up but he pulled a gun out of his jacket and pointed it at me. “SHUT UP!”, he yelled. “YOU ARE HAVING HIS BABY, ARENT YOU?” I didn’t dare to say anything. All I could hope for was he would let me and my baby live. He demanded me to stand up and so I did. “YOU ARE GONNA PAY FOR WHAT YOU DID TO ME!! PUTTING ME TO JAIL! FOR WHAT?! I HATE YOU, YOU LITTLE PIECE OF SHIT! I SHOULD HAVE FINISHED THE JOB BACK THEN!”, he screamed. His face was full of rage. I saw veins popping up on the side of his head and in his neck. He slapped me with his pistol and that’s the last thing I saw before I passed out… 

Author's note: 2k?! Oh my! My jaw dropped when I saw this!! Thank you all again for supporting me and this story! It means so much to me!!