Invisible Man (Completed ) ✅

♥ Twenty One ♥

Lacey took a step towards him, tears running down her face. "I forgive you, Joe. I don't want our baby to grow up thinking Uncle Joe is some kind of monster."

"I do, too," Jordan replied, walking towards him. "I forgive you." He hugged Joe, and felt the younger man's shoulders shaking as he sobbed.

"I am so sorry I acted like such a shit head!" Joe exclaimed, crying onto his friend's shoulder in a way that surprised even him.

The other three went into the kitchen to find a snack for the mothers-to-be.

"I don't I can handle much more excitement," Donnie said, sinking onto a kitchen chair as the girls searched through Jonathan's cabinets. "All this in two days!"

"Oh, please," Lacey said. "Try being pregnant." She pulled a tub of Ben & Jerry's out of the freezer.

"Anyway," Oriana added. She found an unopened can of Pringles in the cupboard. "You men get the easy part making the baby!"

Donnie stuck his tongue out at her as the other two men came into the kitchen. "And you're going to be a father?" Jordan asked him. Donnie stuck his tongue out at him.

A month later 

"Remind me never to have sex with you in the winter!" Oriana snapped at her husband as she sank onto a lawn chair. Lacey, Jon and Joe had come over for a cookout. Jordan was out of town for a promotion of his album until the next afternoon. He had promised Lacey that it was the last time he would go out of town until she had the baby. Both girls were approaching their due dates.

"Why?" Elijah wanted to know.

"Duh," Jon replied rolling his eyes before , throwing a potato chip at his head. "It's ninety degrees out. Would you want to be carrying all that weight around in ninety degrees?"

"Oh," Elijah said, smiling at his own stupidity.

"I can't wait to get my hands on you again, Sexy," Donnie said to his wife, bending down to kiss her cheek.

"Six weeks," Lacey said primly. "That's what my doctor told me. You have to wait six weeks after the baby is born." Joe handed her a glass of ice water, and she smiled at him gratefully. He had become like her own brother over the last few weeks, and she had easily forgiven him for being such a douchebag in the past.

"Six weeks!" Donnie groaned. "I'll die by then!" He sighed dramatically as he flipped steaks and burgers on the grill.

"I should have gotten you that fake stomach thing when they offered it to me at Lamaze class," Oriana teased him. "Then you would've seen what real suffering is!" Everyone laughed, but then froze as an odd look crossed her face.

Donnie turned around and began to laugh at her. "What, you had to go so bad you couldn't even make it to the bathroom?" He motioned to a puddle underneath her seat.

"No, D, I don't think that's what it is," Joe said, rushing over to help Oriana out of her seat. Donnie dropped the spatula he had been holding.

"Oh my God! Oriana , what can I do?"

"Go start the car," she told him calmly. "Joe, please run up to our room and get my little bag. It's behind the door. Jon, if you could help me to the car, I'd appreciate it." She turned to smile at Lacey. "Well, girlie, I guess this is it."

"Good luck," Lacey said, rubbing her own stomach and beaming at her friend. She watched the men rush into action while Oriana remained perfectly calm.

Lacey, Jon ,Elijah and Joe waved as the car sped out of the driveway. Lacey sighed, wishing it was her, but glad it wasn't. She didn't want to have the baby without Jordan there.