Motherhood

Chapter 10- "I love you"

"Aaryn, Paige, nice to see you girls, it's been a while." The 20 year old greeted my sister and I. I offered my hand to him but instead he walked towards me opening his arms.

He came in to greet us both with a hug. "Hey Hunter, I'd totally forgot you worked here." I said coming in to him for a warm hug. He smelled really good, like the cologne I'm used to smelled on Mason, Armani I think.

"Yea been here for a while." He smirked "How are you doing?" he asked after I stepped back to my position next to my sister.

"I-" I started but was immediately cut off by my raging sister. "Look I realize you haven't seen each other in a while, but enough for the small talk, can you get us in the back to see Thea Bradley?" she asked with her arms crossed over her chest.

"Well, um ya sure." He said as he looked at me and I gave him apologetic eyes, he then approached the desk that the mean receptionist sat at. After a short while the lady ultimately buzzed open the big doors with a huge blushy smile.

What a charmer he was

"Thanks Beatrice." He said as he motioned us to follow him and led us back to the area where patients were kept.

The hospital was fairly large, we had come through the emergency room entrance but I guess since Thea has mental problems, they had her in a more special area in a room on her own.

"Room 10-" Hunter started but got an amused look on his face as my sister busted in between both of us and ran into the room marks 104, I don't know how she knew, but this was Thea's room

"DELLY!!!" My sister said as she ran up to the patients bedside and hugged her. 

"Hey Stelly." Thea recalled her by the nicknames they had given each other after their ships on the vampire diaries.

I noticed Thea had an IV in her arm, her arm had bandages around it, like she'd been burned, and her leg was propped up on a pillow, nothing looked too serious, she could probably be out in a few days.

"Hey Mama T" I created her with a hug, she reciprocated. It looks like she'd been taking her medication lately, because she seemed to remember. Hunter had walked out of the room leaving us to check on Liam's mother.

I felt a quite sharp pain in my chest and I started feeling a bit dizzy. But I shook it off and continued standing next to Thea's bed.

She looked, sick, her face was a bit pale, her long brown hair looked to be a bit shorter and dull, and her skin looked a bit rough. I was deeply concerned, even though Liam isn't a big part of my life anymore, I still want to make sure that his family is okay, because after they found out we broke up, his sister Lauren literally beat the crap out of him and helped me paint his locker pink. Thankfully no one found out it was us.

"How are you feeling?" I asked the patient. I caressed her hair as she looked up at me with a faint smile. My sister seemed to keep her eye on the heart monitor that kept beeping.

"Oh, I'm fine, I just-I'm a bit clumsy, ha ha, guess I should count the steps next time." She joked, obviously she was in pain, but she wanted to put on a brave face, Thea was like a second mother to me, and I couldn't stand to see her this way.

"I have to pee" I let out as I walked towards the door leading to the hall, my sister took my place at Thea's bedside.

As soon as I stepped out into the hall I felt a big rush and my head started pounding, the next thing I knew I only saw white, no objects, no people, not even walls, just white, like someone covered my eyes with white paper.

-

I sat by the pool and watched the kids play, as my husband sat next to me, my feet were dipped in but not to far, I looked up and gave the tall man a kiss as the kids were screaming and splashing water towards each other.

"Aaryn"

I heard my name, I started looking around, and saw my sister.

"Aaryn?"

"Aaryn-"

-

"Wake up" I heard my sister call as I woke up from my daze. I was in a hospital bed hooked up to an IV much like Thea's, I slowly listened to my heartbeat and Liam and Mason stood on the other side of my bed and My sister walked out.

"What-what happened?" I asked, expected either of them to answer me. "You fell out" Mason said with his  head down. Liam just had his hands in the pockets of his dark blue jeans. "You fell, on your stomach." Mason finished and my pulse striked up. I quickly sat up in the bed and started clutching my stomach as Mason shot towards me.

"It's okay, the baby's okay." Mason said. "You just have to stop panicking so much, it's not good for the kid, they say you fell out from stress." He said rubbing my hair

I didn't even realize I was stressed

"It's my fault." Liam finally spoke up "I shouldn't have asked you to come check on my mom, not after what I did to Stone, not after you seeing me get arrested, not after you realizing I knew about the baby." He said still holding his head down but now rubbing his hands together "I'm sorry" he apologized to me

"You didn't do anything wrong, all you did was protected me, and you were concerned, I wanted to help you, it's not your fault." I said reaching my hand towards him

He walked towards my bed slowly and grabbed my hand.

"I'll just..go find River, she um she went to get Coffee I'll see what's taking her so long" Mason excused himself rather quickly

After the door shut Liam finally looked up, his eyes were full of guilt. I hated seeing him like this, every time something happened, he would blame it on himself. It wasn't healthy and one of the traits I really didn't like about him.

He looked like, he was going to cry.

I lifted up towards him and pulled him closer to me, as my hand grabbed his neck and pulled his face towards mine, he exhaled and closed his eyes, as did I, then our lips met, his lips were cold, but I used mine to warm them up as he reciprocated the deep kiss and placed his hands on my sides, he grazed my bottom lip with his tongue but before I could let him in he gently bit my lower lip. I let out a soft sigh and he used the opportunity to slide his tongue into my mouth and explore, our tongues touched and interacted, in the heat of the moment I reached for his dark glossy hair and pulled it in desperation of letting myself fall for him again.

I pulled back before things could get any deeper.He reluctantly gave back and looked at me with eyes full of lust.

"I love you"