All That You Can't Leave Behind

A glimpse at the truth

“Jay I’m glad to see that you could join us.” Jayne said as I walked through the door late again.

“Sorry I lost track of time.” I apologized to everyone.

“yeah what was so important that you and your lassie had to rush out the door before the beans were even ready?” Nathan asked turning to look at me from the make-up chair he was currently in.

“Don’t worry you all will find out soon enough. By the end of the week I promise.” I reassured everyone.

“Jay do you have some kind of announcement to make? This thing isn’t going to affect anything is it? I need to know if you’re going to land yourself on the front cover of every magazine and not in a good way.” Jayne seemed to be just a tad bit worried.

“I will tell you soon. You lot will be the first people I tell. Promise.” I tried to calm Jayne down.

"Hope your track record at keeping promises is better than your track record of being on time this week.” Tom grumbled from across the room.

“Yeah mate you’re starting to make Nathan look like the punctual one.” Max added laughing at his own stupid line.

Everything with the photo shoot went swimmingly from there. We had just swung by to pick Carter up from the store she got Addie to drop her off at. She walked out of the shop with two bags in her hands.

“What you got there love?” I asked corking an eyebrow at her. I don’t remember her saying anything about her needing to pick anything up.

“Just some stuff for a date night with my guy.” I smiled at Jay and then kissed him as I sat down next to him. Right then a wave of nausea hit me. I didn’t make a big deal out of it because the guys where there and so far I have been doing a good job at hiding it from them. Like this morning they never even noticed my morning sickness and I was bound and determined that they wouldn’t notice it now. I don’t understand why they call it morning sickness if it last all day long. Whoever came up with the name made it sound better than what it is. At least it doesn’t last through the whole pregnancy.

On the ride back to the guys’ house I got a bit tired and ended up falling asleep on Jay’s shoulder. I woke up a couple hours later laying in Jay’s bed.

“So much for our date night.” I grumbled as I looked around to see no one in the room. I could hear the boys laughing about something downstairs; Jay’s being one of them. I checked the clock to see that it was about ten O’clock. I was still slightly tired, but my stomach wasn’t going to let me go back to sleep. It let out a monstrous growl telling me that I was hungry. I went downstairs in search of something to eat. I knew what I was craving I was never going to found in the fridge. I mean how many people keep McDonald’s chicken nuggets and nacho cheese dip in their fridge?  What I did find that seemed to fit one of my cravings is honey mustard on bread with pickles. I know it must sound weird but being pregnant it’s what sounded like heaven.

A few minutes after I was done eating I started to feel nauseous again. Wanting to hide it from the guys I decided that it would be better for me to go home. I told the boys goodbye and headed towards the door. Max stopped me going all protective dad on me about how it was too late for me to go and walk home by myself. After I reinsured him that I was perfectly capable of walking myself home in the dark he let me go. He held open the door for me as I walked out. I took three steps before I realized I could no longer push the feeling back and ended up bending over to puck off of the steps. Max yelled for Jay and all the guys came to see what was wrong. They stayed there with me until my dry heaving was done with. Jay was rubbing my back the whole time trying to comfort me.

“Carter you’re too sick to be going home now. Why don’t you spend the night here? I’m sure Jay won’t mind sharing his room with you.” Max went back into over protective dad mode. The rest of the boys nodded in agreement with him.

Jay took me upstairs and into his bedroom. He sat me down on his bed and then sat down beside me.

“You’re not really sick are you?” He asked

“No it was just a bit of morning sickness.” I told him confirming his suspicion.

“You know we still need to tell the lads. We can’t have you scaring them like that all the time.” Jay wrapped his arms around me and brought me into his chest.

“It won’t last forever, just the first trimester.” I reminded him.

“But we still have to tell them.” He pushed

“Fine tomorrow.” I agreed. After that Jay and I laid down and fell asleep because I was still really tired.