The Lucky One ⇝ Muke

chapter twenty nine

hola, I might finish this book soon, so I'll bang out some updates now

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Luke and Michael headed out in to the town, finding a large Home Depot shop, Michael knew exactly where to go for baby furniture, he'd been here a bunch of times with his parents and his mum and his would always end up in the baby section cooing over everything. And Luke found himself doing the same.

"Oh my god Michael this one has bunnies on! We can have bunnies on the walls—no wait this one has dinosaurs."

"Luke—"

"Rainbows!"

"Our kid will be so gay if there's rainbows everywhere." Michael said.

Luke grinned, "cmon, we could either theme the furniture or just go white and then a colour to make it all pop."

"I'd rather have white with a colour than rainbows everywhere." Michael said, sliding his hand in Luke's. They walked over to the more plain cribs, finding a plain white one, Luke read the board with it that said it adjusted heights and came with an extra siding so it could be used when the baby became a toddler, "this one is interchangeable." Michael said.

"Yeah." Luke hummed, "I like the bunny one more though."

Michael huffed, "you want the bunny one?"

"Yes please." Luke smiled, "we can buy them a bunny toy too, they'll love it."

Michael shook his head with a fond smile on his face, they picked out a changing table and drawers, along with a cute rocking chair and a rug, they found an employee to help them and went to the till. Luke pulled out his card as everything they order came in a large trolley. Michael let Luke pay for it because Michael defiantly couldn't afford all of this, but Luke could.

Someone helped them take their stuff to Luke's car, which he was thankful he had attached the trailer to for their trip. Luke turned to Michael as the employees put the stuff in the trailer, "you wanna go look at other baby stuff? Like clothes? Toys?" He asked his boyfriend.

"Sure." Michael smiled, "but let's take this stuff home first."

Luke nodded, agreeing. They thanked the employees and got in the car, driving home, Michael had all moved in by now and it was comfortable and nice. Michael's parents came out to help them with their stuff, taking it upstairs to the spare bedroom which would become the babies room. Karen put her hand on Luke's lower back, "would you like me and Daryl to take apart the double bed for you while you're out?"

Luke smiled, "you would?"

Karen nodded, "of course."

"Okay then, we wanna go buy more baby stuff."

Luke and Michael left his parents to the fast and they went back out in to town, Michael Google's some baby stores and they went in to each, getting up little toys and books and clothes and shoes and extras for the baby. Luke found a cute baby bib and came over to Michael who was absentmindedly rubbing at his bump as he looked at a cute small rabbit teddy. Luke placed his chin on his shoulder, "that's adorable." He said, "look at this too." He showed Michael the bin, "has a sun on it, it's cute."

"It is." Michael smiled, "should we get the bunny?"

"Yes." Luke said, kissing Michael's neck before stepping away from him. "Let's go buy it, get some food for your parents and go home yeah?"

Michael agreed so they paid and took their stuff to the car, went back and picked up a take away, some fish and chips and went back home. In the spare bedroom, Michael's parents had taken apart the bed, everything piled up against the wall and the sheets were in a neat pile. "That was quick." Luke said, smiling. "We brought you lunch for helping."

"Great."

They ate downstairs in the back garden of Luke and Michael's home, discussing baby things and what they were going to do in the future until Karen brought up marriage, "so when are you gonna get married?" She was only teasing, insinuating that because they had their baby they should get married now too.

Michael blushed deeply, "mum."

Luke smiled, he had a ring, he and Ashton had gotten one before Ashton had gone back home with Calum and their daughter. He just had to pick the perfect moment.

"We've only been together a year," Michael said, "I'm not ready for that just yet."

Luke shrugged, he could understand that, "when will you be ready?"

Michael looked to Luke, he knew Luke was ready, he was almost thirty, Luke was ready for everything. "Uh, I don't know." Michael shrugged, "give me another year?"

Luke nodded, "I can wait a year." He smiled, his smile reassuring Michael that that was okay, they could focus on the baby then too.

Later that night, Luke and Michael were in bed watching TV when Michael spoke up, "I found the ring."

Luke blinked and looked down at Michael in his arms, he was rubbing his bump with one hand, the other in his hair. "You did?"

"Yep." Michael tilted his head up, "it's pretty, so thank you, but if you show me that ring before this kid turns one I'll punch your neck in."

Luke laughed, "alright, it can sit in my drawer a little longer baby." Luke leant down and kissed Michael's head, "I love you."

"I love you too." Michael gave him another kiss, "you're a massive softie."

"I know." Luke nuzzled their noses softly, "you still feeling up to seeing Awsten tomorrow for your pregnancy date?"

"Yep, I'm okay." Michael said, "but I might feel different in the morning."

"Well if you do, he can come over instead, he and Reece can have some lunch if you like?" Luke offered, "I got better at cooking chicken."

"I'm never eating your chicken again, I got food poisoning from that." Michael glared.

"Hey I did too!" Luke said, laughing, "I'm learning, I'm new to this domestic thing, your mum got me a cook book for Christmas and I'm still trying everything out."

"Cute." Michael smiled, "I'm tired." He whined and pressed his head to Luke's bare chest, over his curly chest hair.

"Go to sleep then." Luke picked up the TV remote and turned off the TV and then turned off the lamp, he rolled over and looked at Michael's shape in the dark. "You look pretty."

"You can't fucking see me."

"I mean," Luke laughed, "with your bump and everything, you look so glowly and pretty." Luke smiled, he moved a little closer and pressed their foreheads together, Luke cupped his face and kissed his mouth. "I love you so bloody much."

"I love you too." Michael kissed him again, "I actually can't wait to be Mr Michael Hemmings."

Luke smiled, "me too."

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