Cigarettes [Bennoda] ✔

Chapter 67

^This is what I picture them looking like in the story rn if any of you were wondering.

Also this chapter is kind of rushed and weird but oh well.

Chester's POV
The past year and a half had been crazy for us. I had broken my ankle, we had to cancel our honeymoon, I had to have surgery, and we had toured in the States together. Just when I thought we'd have a while to just relax, Mike wanted to do something else that would add to the craziness.

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"Um Chester? Can we talk about something?" Mike asked one evening a few weeks after our tour had ended. We had just finished putting dishes away and were now sitting on the couch in the living room. I muted the TV and turned toward him.

"Yeah of course. What is it?" I asked. "So... um... we've been married for about a year and a half now and... I've been thinking a lot about, you know, maybe having a child soon." He said kind of nervously. My eyes widened and I nodded for him to keep going. I wanted kids with Mike, but I hadn't planned on it happening this quick or while I was this young.

"I know you're just 23 and might not be ready for it yet, but I've just been thinking about it a lot. I'm 32 and I'm ready for it. You know? I don't wanna be 40 when I have my first kid." I took a deep breath and nodded.

"Okay. Let's talk about it." I said with a nod. "Well, um, do you think now is a good time? I don't want to rush you or anything." He said. I thought for a second, and figured that now would actually be a good time. Everything was starting to calm down in our lives again, so it would be good to do this now before something else happened like a new tour or something unexpected like me breaking another bone.

"Honestly... now might be the perfect time. I mean, the thought of having kids scares me. I think it's scary for anyone at first, but I think now might be good. We've been married for over a year, we're both done touring for a while, I'm finally in a good place mentally... Now seems good." I said. He smiled and nodded.

"Okay, so obviously we have a lot to talk about then. Do we want to adopt? Get a surrogate? Foster?" He asked. "Definitely not foster. I get too attached too quickly and I can't deal with worrying if they'll be put back with their parents or anything like that you know? Also, I've heard adopting a foster child is even harder than adopting from an orphanage or anything like that." I said. He nodded. "Okay. What seems like the better option to you then?" He asked.

"Adopting sounds the best to me. Getting a surrogate just seems weird to me. I dunno how I feel about mine or your sperm being in some random girl." He laughed and shook his head.

"Okay. So, you wanna adopt?" Mike asked. "Well... yeah. I mean... I'd rather do that than get a surrogate because it just seems weird to have some random girl be our kid's mother. I don't know... I can already feel the drama and shit that might come from that." I said. "That's understandable I guess. What if your sister was the mother though?" He asked. I cringed a little.

"You want Kat to be the mother of our child?" I asked. "Well I mean, you and her look a lot alike and are literally just alike except for the fact you're a guy and she's a girl. So if we wanted a kid of our own that looked like us both and had both of our DNA... It would be a good idea. Plus we would get to watch the whole process of our baby up until it was born. We could be there when it was born. I just think it would make the whole thing more special and feel like it was really ours. You know?" I nodded and thought about it for a little bit.

"Also, if we did that, we wouldn't have to worry about having to go to court, having in home visits, and all that. Or worry about the birth mother trying to start shit. Kat would already be in its life and I don't think she'd try and fuck us over in any way. You know?" Mike said. I nodded again.