Our Wonderful Mistakes

Chapter 9 (Edited)

Brooklynn's POV:

Wow. I can't believe this. I have a brother? Since when? I always thought I was the only child? I guess an hour and a half ago, I was proved wrong. Me and Alex were sitting at the airport, waiting on my brother. A couple minutes later a guy about 5 foot 11 walks up to us. He has deep brown eyes and brown hair. He's muscular and defiantly, older then I am. He looked kinda like my dad. He had rectangular framed glasses that sat on his nose and a bit of stubble growing on his chin.

"Hi..I'm Nathan.." He trailed off.

"Brooklynn.."

"I'm um. Darrell's oldest and only boy. I'm an only child."

"Um Darrell's my dad. Tina, my mom. It's nice to meet you. I never knew about you until I got a call from an unknown number."

"I didn't know I had a younger sibling until dad gave me your number and told me it was someone who I should've met a long time ago and someone I should've known about the day they were born..then he shoved a plane ticket in my hand along with the piece of paper containing your number..so I called you.."

"He never mentioned to me anything about another child."

"Yeah." Then he yawned.

"Oh. Um you're probably exhausted. I'll take you home." Alex grabbed Nathan's bags and we walked out to the car.

"Nathan, this is my boyfriend Alex."

"Hi." Nathan said, looking up at Alex.

"Hi." Alex replied.

The rest of the ride home was silent.

Once we got in Alex and I packed his bags up to the guest bedroom. I started cooking dinner. We were going to have tater tot casserole and mashed potatoes along with green beans. While I cook, the boys visited in the living room.

My phone suddenly goes.

"Hello?" I say through the speaker.

"Hey." It's Beth. She sounded sad. Like she has been crying.

"What's wrong?"

"Everything. My parents. Seth. Kayla. Everything. I don't think I can handle all this plus being pregnant.."

"Come over. Pack a bag and get your ass over here."

"I'd have to walk.."

"I'll have Alex come get you. Is that okay?"

"Yeah.." She paused but continued, "Just. Hurry. Please."

"Okay. Bye. I love you."

"I love you too." I hung up.

"Alex!!" I yelled, loudly. He came into the kitchen like lighting speed.

"Is everything okay? Are you okay?"

"Yes, everything is fine. I just need you to go pick up Beth. Dinner should be done by the time ya'll get back, okay? Please?" I gave him the puppy look.

"Yeah. You know I can't say no to that face!"

"I know!" I walked over to him and kissed him.

"Nathan can go if he wants to."

We both looked at him.

"Um sure."

"Okay." They got up and left. I sat down at the table, glad to have some alone time. Even if it was for about 10 minutes. I sat there and scrolled through Instagram. I got up and walked into the bathroom. As I was standing in the mirror we had on the back of the door. I stood sideways and pulled my shirt up a bit. I looked at my belly. I was slowly forming a bump. I slid my iPhone out of my back pocket and opened the camera. I took a quick picture of belly. I put 5 months on it to remember. I walked out to hear the oven go off. I took the casserole out and sat it on the counter and laid set the table. As I laid down the last fork Alex, Nathan and Beth walked in.

"Mmmm. Smells amazing baby." Alex wrapped his arms around me and kissed my forehead. We sat down and ate dinner.

"So Nathan. Tell me about yourself. I mean you don't have to. Just a thought.

"Oh no its fine. Well um. I'm 24. I have a fiancee who's pregnant with a baby girl. I didn't really have parents growing up. Our house keeper mainly raised me. Much not else to tell. What about you?"

"I'm 16. Didn't really have parents growing up. Beth is like my sister. Um Alex here is my boyfriend. We've been together for a year now. I'mpregnant." I said the last part quickly.

"I'm sorry but what was that last part?" I looked over to Alex and Beth. They both nodded.

"This is kinda weird and uncalled for but I'm going to be a mommy. In 4 months. I'm pregnant."

"Is he the father?" He said, meaning Alex.

"Of course."

"Well I can't really say anything or do anything so congrats."

"Thank you."

The rest of dinner was spent in silence.

We were all in the living room together around eight.

"Beth?" She looked at me.

"Wanna go chill in my room? Talk a bit, yeah?" She nodded and we got up and went to my room.

As soon as I shut the door she started crying.

"Woah. What's wrong?"

"My parents. Seth. Kayla."

"What'd your parents do?"

"There just being dicks. They called me fat and told me I need to walk more."

"Fuck them. You're perfect the way you are. What about Seth?"

"He called me a whale. Said the only way I'd lose weight is if I starved myself."

"Which isn't true. You're not a whale nor need to starve yourself. It leads to bulimia and anorexia! That shit ain't nothing to fuck with. It can cause serious/permanent problems. Even death. And it's a long ways to recovery. What did Kayla say?" Seth is Beth's younger brother.

"She's just like being a bitch. Saying everything I've been through was for attention. I'm an attention seeker."

"Well your not." Kayla was Beth's ex-girlfriend who doesn't care if she hurts Beth or not. I held her as she cried keeping her from having an anxiety attack.

"Shhh. Just lay here and go to sleep."

"I'll be in the living room if you need me."

"Wait. If Nathan has the guest room and I'm here where you and Alex gonna crash?" she asked me.

"Parents room." She nodded and dug deeper in the soft security of my comforter. I closed the door and walked back in the living room to find Alex and Nathan watching a scary movie. I curled into Alex's side. He wrapped his arm around me and kissed my head whispering, "You're so amazing baby." I smiled.

"Well guys. I'm exhausted. I think I'm gonna head to bed. Night." Nathan said, standing up.

"Alright. Goodnight." He left. It was just Alex and I now.

I slowly started to drift off to sleep. I heard Alex shut the TV off. He got up and picked me up bridal style laying something on my tummy. I'm guessing our phones. I wrapped my arms around his neck and he carried me upstairs. He laid me down on my parents bed and shut off our phones then crawled in next to me. He kissed me and I laid my head on his chest, my left hand above his head with his left hand interlocked with mine and our right hands interlocked on his tummy. We slowly drifted off to sleep.

Author's note: So this is long and over a 1000 words!! Anyway, this is gonna be short. i don't know when i'll be able to update next time. We leave for vacation in a week!!! Crazy right? Yeah. So I'll be busy getting ready for that and everything. but thank you all for reading! Means a lot!! <3

Xoxo-Brooklynn <3