GROWING PAINS

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Just then a male walks in, "Babe, you left your phone in the car." She turns around and smiles, "Savannah, Brandon, do you remember my husband Justin?"

I glance up, "Wow. No way, hey Justin." Justin smiles, "Savannah, my gosh it's been forever." I smile, "Yeah."

Justin glances at Brandon, "Hey bro. Wow, you look great." Brandon smiles. "Thanks, you too. Congrats on the baby." Justin smiles, "Thanks man. I'm honestly the luckiest husband on this planet."

Gwen smiles, "You know what? We should all go out for coffee like right now." Justine smiles, "Yes, that's a great idea."

I glance over at Brandon who is staring at me. I nod, "Alright then, where do you recommend?"

Justine takes a moment, "How about Mark's cafè?" I shake my head, "Nah, uhh how about Starbucks?"

Brandon nods, "Sounds good to me? You two?" Gwen nods, " Yeah."

-At Starbucks-

Justine and Brandon are talking about sports. I glance over at Savannah. "So when's the baby due?"

She smiles, "He's due Decemeber 1st." I nod, "Wow, that's in like two months." She nods, "Yeah, I'm excited."

I smile, "Do you have a name for him yet?" She nods, "Zach." I smile, "Love it." She chuckles, "Yeah, you planning on settling anytime soon?" I shrug, "Honestly, I don't know. I mean hopefully yeah after the next three years, I'd like to. Although, I need to find a husband first."

She laughs, "Yeah no, defiantly. I mean I didn't expect to get married at twenty. Or to fall pregnant two months later."

I nod, "How's uhm, you're folks?" She sighs and stiffens, "I don't know. We haven't visited since we've gotten married and they haven't reached out to us either."

I nod, "How's Camila?" She nods, "Still mom and dad's favourite. But shes doing really well for herself. Still hasn't found a boyfriend though."

I laugh, "Will she ever?" Gwen shrugs, "Doubt it." We laugh. She reaches for my hand, "You okay though?" I nod, "I miss them." She nods, "I can imagine."

I nod, "But I'll be fine." She smiles. I sigh and ask softly, "Can you ever forgive me though?"

She glances up at me, tears bottling up in her eyes. "I already have. I mean, I get it. You were only trying to protect me, and I'd also be really upset if you were expecting my ex's baby who I still loved. I get it."

I sigh and nod. She glances at me, "Could you ever forgive me?" I smile, "I already have."

She smiles, "Look at us. Ha, who would've thought." I smile, "That we would reunite? Yeah, not me. But I'm glad we did."

She smiles and nods.

-Later-

Brandon and I are currently on our way home as we just grabbed some lunch.

He chuckles, "You know, bumping into them was actually pretty cool." I smile, "Yeah, I mean it still feels unreal."

He nods, "Yeah, how you feeling?" I smile and nod, "Better." He nods. "Good."

We walk inside my house, "I still cannot believe that she's expecting a baby." He nods, "Yeah. I cannot believe she's married Justine."

I turn around and nod, "Yeah! I expected her to, I don't know get married to someone else?"

He stops eating and glances up at me. "You expected her to marry Thomas?"

I stop eating and shrug. "..Maybe. But she didn't." He looks up at me and asks quietly, "You still love him, don't you?"

I laugh, "Don't be ridiculous, you can't still be in love with someone you haven't seen in over two years."

He nods, "Agreed. But you can still be inlove with the person you were with in High School. Just you'd be falling for who they were back then."

I stare at him, "No, I'm completely over Thomas. I swear." He says quietly, "Really? Seems to me that you're not ready to move on."

I fold my arms, "You hardly know me!"

He nods, "No you're right, I hardly know you and you clearly don't know me. I've fallen for you Savannah. I despised you back in High School but looking at you now, that girl who was a bully is now one of the sweetest girls that I've ever come across. I finally get it, I really do. You had a hard life."

I stare at him, uncertain as to what to say. He shakes his head, "I try my best to stop caring for you as much as I do. I try to focus on our deal, but when I'm with you I get so side-tracked."

I say softly, "You really don't want to be with me. I advise you to please stop falling for me. You don't know what you're getting yourself into."

He stands up, "No, I swear it's crazy what a bit of love can do to a person." I sigh and sit by the couch, "I really don't want to hurt you. You have such a good heart that will not be broken and shattered by me. You can't fix what's already broken."

He follows, and plops himself right next to me. "You definitely can't. But you can love something as much as you did before it broke. That's how you know the love is real."