Chapter 26: News

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Your POV:

I let out a long, angry sigh after I hung up the phone. Tears pricked in my eyes, but I forced them away. Instead, I had something else I had to do. I walked from the meeting room (Where Sam and I stay), across the amiibo hallway, into the old office, where Dan and Suzy were talking.

"Hey, Y/n. We heard you getting upset on the phone, why don't you sit down and talk with us?" Suzy asked, offering me a seat next to her.

"Thank you, Suz, I will gladly take up your offer, but I need to speak to Dan about something first."

"Sure, no problem!" Suzy gestered Dan to go and talk to me, and we walked back into the meeting room and shut the door.

"Is everything okay?"

"Dan," I inhaled deeply, letting air out slowly. "How should I put this? I, um, I don't think I should move in until next month, after the deal we made is up."

"Okay. That's cool, why was that so hard?"

"Bf/n said some horrible things about us 'having an affair'. But what we have isn't really an affair, is it?" My eyes danced up at him, taking in his face, watching to see if I could predict what he was feeling. My fingers were woven together so tight my knuckles were turning white. His eyebrows drew close together, and he himself took a deep breath.

"I don't know, Y/n. I guess it depends on how you look at it." His tone was harsh, and he was avoiding eye contact. Dan being like this made my stomach sink, and I felt like I was all tied up in knots.

"He doesn't remember who I really am, let alone the fact that we're married. If he doesn't love me in his current state, then I'm not really cheating on him right?" Dan was facing away from me, and I could tell he was tense.

"Do you still love him?" he said, his voice weak.

"What?"

"Do you still love him?" I couldn't believe what I was hearing.

"I, ..."

Mark's POV:

I was sitting on the couch talking with Sean, when I heard Bf/n screaming my name.

"Is she okay?" Sean, asked, getting up.

"I'm sure she is, you can wait here, I'll be back." I winked at him, and saw color rise in his cheeks. I ran down the hallway and saw her standing outside the bathroom door. She was smiling, and she also had tears rolling down her face.

"We did it, babe." I saw a flash of something pink in her hand as she wrapped her arms around my neck and kissed me. Wait.

"You're pregnant?!"

"I'm pregnant!"
"Oh my god, Bf/n!" I picked her up and swirled her around, and then quickly setting her down, thinking I probably shouldn't do that. Before I knew it, I was crying too, and laughing, I just couldn't stop smiling.

"This is wonderful!! I can't believe it's actually happening!"

"Convenient timing, too. We just adopted Regina's baby, I'm afraid to tell her right now. Let's just keep this between us for now, okay? I don't want her to think we don't want her around now that we're also having our own. Plus, I think I found out super early. I think I can pinpoint the time this happened. There is still a huge chance I can have a miscarriage. Let's not tell anybody until I'm at least ten weeks along, okay?" Her face was serious, but her eyes were still sparkling with happiness. I pulled Bf/n close to me, and poured all my passion for this moment into a kiss.

"Ten weeks it is."

Your POV:

"Well?" Dan has turned around, his hands firmly gripping the seams of his pants. Oof. What do I say? I do love Sean, I'd contradict myself if I said I didn't, but I can't have him, and Dan has been so good towards me, I don't not want to be with him. What should I do?

"I can't love him. Not when he's like this."

"But you do love him?"

"...Yes." Dan started to exit the room, stopping him, I grabbed his hand. "Dan-" he spun around, cupping the back of my neck with his other hand, and pulled me in, kissing me in a way only he could. I kissed back, placing my hand in his hair, and feeling his soft curls fall in between my fingers. He started reaching under my shirt when I pulled away, grabbing his hand, so I was holding both of them.

"I do want to be with you, Dan." I felt his grip on my hands loosen, and he started leaving again.

"I know." He winked, and smiled, making me grin. He left the room, and I stayed behind, I need to collect my thoughts.

"Dada!" I heard Sam's voice, and when I looked through the glass in the door, I saw Dan stop where he was heading to pick up Sam out of his play pen.

"Hey little buddy! Say 'Danny!' 'Danny!'"

"Dada!" I watched Dan sigh.

"We'll work on it, right, buddy?" Sam smiled, I watched as a smile worked its way out of Dan's face as well. They became out of my sight as Dan took Sam into the kitchen, no doubt to give him some applesauce or a teething ring. Arin had gotten Sam some special Grump Head teething rings and they are the cutest thing in the world. There's even one of Sean's Grump Head, that one's Sam's favorite. He may call Dan "Dada" but I think it's because it's the only word he knows how to say. He says it when he's in the other room while I'm doing dishes, like he's calling for Sean, but he never comes. When that happens, he starts crying and all he says is "Dada" over and over again. That's when I pull out the videos, and the pictures, and his face lights up. The tears dry up, he tugs on my shirt and points to Sean and smiles. Sam's a smart kid. He knows who his real father is. I believe he enjoys Dan's company, too. He loves everyone, just like his father. He's using what's in his personality from Sean, and channeling it to what he's learning from everyone else. He just can't express it into words yet. I was ripped from my ocean of thoughts when I realized Arin was calling my name. I looked at him, acknowledging his presence.

"You alright? I need to talk to you." Oh god. I hate it when anybody comes up to me saying they want to talk with me. I could feel the tightness in my chest swell, and my knees feelings as they could collapse any minute. I slowly backed away from the door, and let Arin in.

"Is everything alright between you and Dan?"

"Yeah, why wouldn't it be?"

"You two just seem to have this on/off, "I love you" to "We're just friends" kind of thing going on."

"I will admit, it does get complicated sometimes, but I try to keep our professional relationship stable."

"Oh yeah, your professional relationship on the show is perfect. Listen, Y/n, if you ever need to talk, I just want you to know, I'm always here for you. It'll be just like Game Grumps, except the only audience is me."

"Thank you, Arin, I really appreciate that. Why don't I make dinner for you and Suzy one of these nights? We could all just sit and talk together."

"That'd be nice, Y/n. Thank you."

"No, Arin, thank you. I don't know what I would've done without your help." Arin opened his arms for a hug, and I gladly accepted it. We both walked out, caught up with Dan and decided to record more Grumps episodes.

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