The Trio

Chapter 7, 8 & 9

Chapter 7

The next morning when Victoria came downstairs, she noticed James sleeping on the sofa with nothing but his grey boxers on.  She did not wake him up because she liked looking at his well-toned physique and his perfect tan, but then he started to stir and Victoria was startled and quickly went into the kitchen as if to get something to drink then James went back to sleeping on the sofa lying on his back as if he was sunbathing.  Just then Victoria heard footsteps coming down the stairs and ignored it and turned back to her cup of freshly ground and brewed coffee and took a few sips before approaching Edward saying “don’t you dare go anywhere near him you have already disrupted our lives enough, we would like you to pack you stuff and go now” then James was woke up and said “don’t you dare Edward you are staying and you are not to speak for me like that again and when you want to stare at me sleeping again be a little more discreet about it, you woke me up with your rushing to the kitchen earlier.”  Victoria then apologised to James for being noisy then she walked back to the kitchen and sat down at the table fearing James is slipping away from her and then all of sudden she felt sick and ran to the toilets upstairs, she then remembered that this was the third time this week she had been sick so she took a pregnancy test and sat in there waiting for the results, she hadn’t been this nervous since waiting for her results from college.

Downstairs James and Edward were staring at each other and Edward said “thank you for backing me up I really appreciate it”, there was silence whilst James stared at Edward then James said “I wasn’t trying to back you up I just wanted to confront you of what happened last night, because right now I’m a little confused”.

No one had said anything for a long while nor had they noticed Victoria had been in the toilet for a while, it had been the longest no one had ever spoken then James broke the silence and shouted “WELL!” which made Edward jump and his heart started to race, “Well basically I took your clothes off, but left your boxers on and went into my own room…” “Clearly you didn’t” James blurted out and cut him off mid-sentence, Edward continued “…went into my room at first, but could not sleep so I thought I’d sleep with you, BUT I didn’t know Victoria was going to be back quite so soon”.  Then Victoria came down with an expressionless face on but hadn’t decided whether she was going to be happy or disappointed, it took Victoria a while to tell James the news, James saw her expressionless face and sat upright and gestured her to sit down and to take her time and she did then finally said “James honey, you know how much we wanted a family” “yes of course, what’s wrong?” said James, “nothing is wrong, but I….I….. I’m Pregnant” she said and just as Edward was about to say something Victoria stopped him before he could get a sound out then she said “I don’t want you to talk when I’m around, now James please say something” “that’s great that is  what we wanted a family” said James happily.  “Yes it is what I want but is it what you want, I mean it feels like we are drifting apart slowly and painfully” said a concerned Victoria “of course I want a family with you, you are my only soul mate and we will work things out no matter what happens” said James comfortingly.

 “Ok James, we are going to do this for the baby, but you will have to turn those words into actions otherwise it will mean nothing to me” demanded Victoria, “Yes darling I will be helping you out a lot before and after the baby comes you can count on that, this also includes working on our marriage ‘for better for worst’ right” said James.

As Victoria was walking to the kitchen she said “those are just words James, I will believe that when I see it happen, now I am going to prepare some pasta for the three of us”. As she was preparing lunch James and Edward had time to talk more about what happened last night like how much did they drink or was it just because he was so tired from work.  James said “all I remember is coming home from work with and ate it sitting on the sofa watching something then that’s where my mind has gone blank, I think that’s when I fell asleep”.