peaches • daniel gillies

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I waited until the last guest left. Paul just had so many things to say, we literally needed to force him to leave. Well, Phoebe did. Nina kept saying to me how I need to film Daniel's reaction, and even tho I wanted to, I also wanted this special moment to stay just between us. Claire hugged me and kept laughing which I was afraid is gonna be suspicious, but no one noticed a thing.

 Then I made us dinner, Daniel's favorite garden salad he just adored for some reason, still didn't tell me why. Every time I asked him what he wants to eat, he just simply answered 'garden salad'. 

"What did you girls talk about?" Daniel asked while eating the famous garden salad.

I stopped eating the second he asked it, trying to figure something out.

"Uhm...nothing really. Phoebe was happy how things are with Paul now... just this kind of stuff, you know." I replied and finished my plate.

"Oh. Okay, yeah. Paul is happy as well. Did you have fun?"

"Yup." I simply said and we stayed silent for a few seconds, until he started talking about something else.

"What's up with you?" he asked after we finished our favorite movie. "You seem... weird. Is everything okay?"

Little pots of sweat showed up on my forehead. I felt nervous, I didn't even know why. I wanted to tell him so badly, but at the same time I didn't want to tell him at that specific moment. I was just making a big deal out of it - again. As I always do.

"Daniel... There's probably something I want to tell you." I said. I just couldn't pretend everything is okay, because it was more than okay. I grabbed a big bag where I put a pair of yellow small kid shoes. I prepared after our guests left, but before we had dinner with Daniel. Those shoes were mine. My first shoes I had as a newborn.

I gave him the bag. He was looking surprised.

He pulled out the shoes and just stared at them for a second or two.  Then he looked at me, grinned and stayed silent.

After a couple of seconds he started crying.

"Aww." I simply said.

"Are you..." he couldn't continue, because his voice broke.

I laughed. "I am."

We got into a long hug, he kissed me multiple times and just wasn't able to let me go.

"We are going to be a huge family, India." He whispered into my ear. " I love you."