Baby, baby.

T H I R T Y

I throw the door open, my hand pressed to my head as I groan loudly. "David!" I shout in a whiney voice. The contents of my mind clouded with Riley causing a smile to make its way on my face.

"What's got you all smiley?" I hear from behind me and turn to find Riley with a lifted eyebrow.

"You." I grin.

"You brought him into our home?" I turn quickly to find David standing at the end of the stairs, our baby in his arms reaching for me with bright eyes and a wide smile.

Without thinking I turn all of my attention to the beautiful baby and a smile makes its way to my face as I stride towards the pair. David's eyes seem to soften and he grins down at me as I take the baby from his arms.

"Seeing you two together will never cease to amaze me." He sighs deeply and I hold the baby to my chest, her small hands pressed to my cheeks. "Don't fuck boy up the house too much while I'm gone. And no sex while my child is in the house." He directs the first but towards Riley who wiggles his finger in his hand and the second part is whispered, so only I can hear.

"I'm not you, David." I hiss.

"Why don't you rethink what you're doing, Layla. This is completely uncool. You belong with me. We should be a family." He whispers.

I watch as his hand gently rubs Maria's head and she smiles over at him. The interaction between the two reminds me exactly why I feel how I do about David. But i refuse to let him back in. I will not do it. Forcing Riley into my life and using him to make myself feel better and make David jealous is a terrible thing and I hate myself for it, but what else am I supposed to do?

"If you find a way to unfuck Liza, please do. Then you can take that extra fuck you just saved yourself and use it on you." He sighs deeply before glancing at his phone and placing a kiss on my forehead.

"I love you, Layla." He rushes out before kissing Maria's cheek and exiting the house.

I'm frozen in my spot as davids words replay in my head on a continuous loop. He's in love with me. But I refuse to admit to myself that I'm in love with him.

No. If he loved me he wouldn't have treated me like shit. Don't play yourself, Layla.

"Did he just say I lube you?" Riley chuckles from behind me.

His heavy footsteps are heard coming towards me and I have to cover up the fact that I'm a silent sobbing mess by saying it's how tired I am and the headache pounding against my skull.

"Poor baby." Riley tucks a piece of hair behind my ear. "I'll head out, call me." He grins. A perfect set of teeth showing.

The differences between him and David are extremely different, and I find myself comparing the two. David's face is burned into my mind like a red hot iron. The thought of him brings a tear to my eye.

"Are you okay?" The concern shows in Riley's voice and I nod slowly.

"I'll see you, I'll call you later."

A few moments pass and I'm left by myself with only Maria in my arms. Without warning I start sobbing. Every emotion I've felt the past few days pouring out of me as I cry like a little baby.

Maria stares at me with a confused look on her face, it's almost as if she understands what's going on. Her small hands slowly meet my cheeks and I realize the comfort of my baby is all I really need.

-

"Don't stress things too much." Scotty assures me and I nod slowly, shoving another piece of popcorn in my mouth. "David deserves this type of torture. But you shouldn't do it because you want to hurt him. Don't push yourself to uncomfortable limits. Focus on you, work on you honey. You deserve to find true happiness." He throws his arm around my shoulder and I find myself melting into his side. The comfort of my best friend lifting my mood slightly.

"What'd I do to deserve an amazing best friend?" I question and gently elbow his side.

"I ask myself the same thing all the time. I'm handsome, funny, smart, charasmic." He grins and turns his attention back to the massive television in front of us.

"I can safely say that you're none of those things." I joke. "But I love you anyways." I stick my tongue out at him and smile widely.

Just being around Scotty made me feel a million times better. I find myself thankful beyond words for having such an amazing friend.

"I'm glad that you're feeling better. I'm happy everything is working out." I grin up at him and he waves it off.

"I won't really feel better until you do. No more midnight crying calls, I hate seeing you like this." The corner of his mouth twitches upward and I lift an eyebrow, no idea whats going on in the fucked up mind of his.

"But I love seeing David so tore up. He deserves." I nod slowly in agreement.

"I don't really know what I'm doing anyone. Why am I even still here? My father's dying and I'm worried about David? I'm a shitty person." I turn on my side and begin kicking him violently but playfully. "Leave me to die! Alone and upset!" He shakes his head and pulls me up to his side, tucking me underneath his arms so I can't find any way to move.

"I'll tell you why you're here. You see that you should be with David, but you can't be. But you do see that you need to be here for Maria. Like it or not you're not just a nanny anymore. Lay, that's your baby. And in such a short amount of time you've made an impact on all of our lives. So maybe you can't be with David, but you're my best friend. And I dont want you to leave." Tears spring to my eyes and I stick my bottom lip out dramatically.

"Why couldn't I have fallen in love with you?" I cry like a baby and wrap my arms around his torso.

I stay like that for a moment before my eyes trail to the crib in the side of my room where Maria sleeps peacefully after a long day of being my source of happiness.

"You'll be just fine. I would tell you if you wouldn't be."

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Hey so uhh I just thought I'd let you know that I've unpublished all of my other books. I'm going to be changing them COMPLETELY. new story line new characters maybe and what not. But same stars, like Draco, Harry, jdm. And they'll have the same name. But if you rlly fw me you'll check out the recreated versions! They'll be up within the next few days :)

I can't thank you all enough for 40k reads! That's insane. I used to write Nash Grier fan fiction when I was 12 and I remember when I hit 1k reads and almost shit myself. Then a few days later I realized I sucked and deleted it. But my point is that I've always wanted to write and stuff-though I'm not the best (I'm still learning!) this makes me insanely happy.

Just thought I'd early update and let you all know ab my other books and what not :)

Ps. My hearts BIG broken and I'm not doin v well, be patient for a short while while I get myself sorted and what not. Not sure when the next update will be :)