No matter what

How could she?

3 months later

"6 months down 3 to go" perrie smiled as she looked at her bump in the mirror, although it wasn't the biggest bump she was happy that it had started showing when she was coming up to bring four months pregnant.

"Alex!" Perrie screamed from upstairs, he quickly got up and rushed to find perrie, "Pez what's wrong? Are you ok?" He questioned looking her up and down to check she hadn't injured herself. "I can't get my jeans on" she said, Alex looked puzzled "and why's that a bad thing?" He asked. Perrie giggled, "it's not, Alex look" she pointed at the mirror and turned to the side, Alex looked towards her stomach and saw the outline of the bump, "wow" he smiled, "I'm finally showing! And we can finally feel this little baba!" Perrie smiled, tears rolling down her cheeks.

"Only three months until we get to hold our little girl" Alex explained, "I can't wait, and I don't think Teej can either!" Perrie smiled, Tabitha had been asking Alex and perrie questions about looking after a baby for the past three months and it warmed their hearts to know that they'd always have an extra pair of hands to help them out.

"The girls are coming round today, could you tell Teej?" Perrie asked Alex, "of course, I'll go get her now" he smiled walk-in off to tabithas room. After a few minutes he returned to his and perries room along with Tabitha, "you excited to see the girls baba?" Perrie smiled, Tabitha nodded hesitantly before looking down at the floor, "What's wrong princess?" Perrie asked, Tabitha shook her head, "it's nothing, I'm just excited to see jade and lee lee" Tabitha smiled happily, "what about jes?" Perrie said, Tabitha nodded but perrie could tell it was fake. "How about you go and play with the dogs downstairs, we'll be down in a minute" Alex suggested, Tabitha smiled happily and ran off to find hatchi, Otis and Leo.

"What's the deal with Tabitha and Jesy then?" He asked perrie, she shrugged, "I don't know. Me and Leigh noticed that Tabitha still isn't close with jes like she is with the others, and that she gets quite jumpy and shy when Jesys around" perrie explained, "maybe she just needs more time" alex exclaimed, "I'm not sure, I mean she's even become close with Andre, Jed, Aaron, Paul, Adam and more of the team but she's still not close with Jesy" perrie said obviously confused by the situation. "You don't think jesy's said anything to her do you?" Alex asked, he didn't want to accuse Jesy of anything but he just couldn't understand why Tabitha was so funny with her. "No, I doubt it. Tabithas never been on her own with Jesy and if she'd said something I'm sure someone would have told me" perrie said, "we'll figure something out soon" Alex smiled. "I'm sure it's nothing" perrie added before they heard the doorbell ring.

They went downstairs and opened the door for the three girls, "hiya!" Jade smiled, perrie wrapped her arms round her best friend, "hi!" She laughed. "Is it just you two today? No Tabitha?" Jesy asked, "um no, Teej is in the other room" alex said shooting perrie a confused look which she returned, "why? Is there a problem?" Alex added, "Oh um no! I just asked because I couldn't see her" Jesy smiled unconvincingly.

"Feel free to go and sit in the lounge with Teej and the dogs, we'll be through in a minute with drinks for you all" perrie smiled as her and Alex walked off to the kitchen, "what's up with Jesy?" Alex whispered shutting the door behind him, "i don't know but I have a feeling she doesn't like Tabitha being around" perrie sighed. "I'm sure they'll be fine but please don't stress it's not good for you or the baby" alex said before handing her two of the glasses to take to the lounge.

1 hour later

"I don't feel good daddy" Tabitha whispered into Alex's ear, "Tabitha it's rude to whisper" Jesy remarked. "Why what's wrong?" Alex whispered back, "my head feels fuzzy" Tabitha said, Alex noticed the tears in her eyes. "I'm going to take Teej into the other room for a bit, she's got quite warm in here" he told perrie, she nodded before returning her attention to the girls. "Finally" Jesy sighed, "what?" Leigh asked, "we can talk about adult things without having to censor it for a child" Jesy replied. Perrie looked down at the floor before looking up at Jesy, "and what's wrong with that?" She asked, "im just sick of everything having to be appropriate for a child, and she's always crying for you or Alex no matter where you go" Jesy laughed. "Jes she's only nine!" Perrie said raising her voice a little, "well she needs to grow up a bit and stop being so clingy to you and Alex" Jesy said, "she's clingy because they're the first two people to show her what love is jes! No one has ever been as loving and caring towards her as Alex and perrie have, she's an amazing little girl and I don't for one second believe that you can't see that sparkle of determination in her eye!" Jade snapped back at Jesy, she was sick of her dumb comments about Tabitha.