Stay With Me (Completed)

Chapter 20: Nails

Sometimes the people you least expect to come back in your life come back at the most needed times

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"Baby,feel this she's kicking" I say looking down at my round belly feeling my baby girl kick.

His eyes opened wide and he was a few feet away from me as if he was scared to feel the baby kick.

"Really? She's kicking, what does it feel like"

"Come over here and see how it feels"

His eyes opened wider then he slowly walked over to feel her kick.

"Wow this is amazing,it doesn't hurt?"

"No,I don't know how to describe the feeling but it makes me feel comforted. I feel like kicking is her way of communicating with us while she's in my stomach"

Chris continued to feel her kick while looking up at me smiling,and I smiled back at him.

"I love you and her so much"

"I love you too"

And right as he was bout to kiss me

Huhhhh

I grasped for air waking up from my dream.

Why was Chris in my dream?
I haven't dreamt about him in months
Why was I pregnant in the dream?

All these thoughts went through my mind as I thought back on my dream. I went into the kitchen to get a glass of water to shake these thoughts. As I drank my water the front door caught my attention.

Knock knock knock

I went to go open the door not knowing who it was. I open the door and it was Chris.

"What are you doing here?" I said wiping the tears from my eyes

"You just left the party without telling me. I thought I was supposed to take you home."

"I don't need your ride home"

"What's wrong baby girl" He said stepping towards me putting his hands around my waist.

I took his hands off my waist and turned around so that I wasn't facing him.

"Chris please just leave" I say wiping the new tears off of my face.

He runs in front of me so that he can make eye to eye contact with me.

"Please tell me what's going on"

"Fine since you insist. I saw you kissing that Jordyn girl outside the party. The one you promised me there was nothing on with. Is this some kind of payback from what happened with Steven? I thought we were over that"

"No,No,No baby it's not what you think"

"Then tell me what's really going on"

"I-I can't. Can you just trust me on this please?"

"Just leave Chris"

He put his head down and left out the door closing it.

Diiing Diiing Diiing

The sound of my alarm brought me out of my Flashback. Summer asked me to go to this workshop with her,so I guess it's time for me to get ready.  I wasn't sure what I should wear so I texted summer to ask her what I should wear. She told
me to wear something comfortable. I threw on a hoodie and the most comfortable pants I could find. I decided to do some subtle make up with some dark lipstick.

Shortly after I finished my makeup I heard Summer honking her horn outside indicating she had arrived. I grabbed an apple and left out.

"Hey girl"

"Heyy"

"You look cuteee"

"Thank you, you do too"

"You ready to go?"

"Yeah"

On the way to the workshop we talked about all types of things,reminiscing on things that happened in high school just having a good time together when we pulled into the workshop. When I thought to ask a question I should've asked a long time ago.

"What is this workshop exactly about?"

"I'm kinda trying to be a nail tech so this workshop is basically teaching me how to do different types of nails"

We walked into the salon, and there were two seats next to each other which we decided to sit in.

"Okay hi everyone,My name is Ivy Dales and I'm the owner of this shop and the facilitator of this workshop. Today we will be learning how to paint nails neatly,and how to remove gel polish. So I want everyone to start by grabbing a plastic hand,these are what we'll be painting today"

She began to demonstrate how to neatly paint nail polish on as if we didn't learn that when we were 8 .

"Okay everyone, now I want you to try"

Me and Summer looked at each other and bust out laughing at the simplicity of the workshop so far. We grabbed our plastic hands and began to paint the polish onto the hands.

"So how's everything going with you and Steven?"

"Umm everything's good" I said with a fake smile

"Okay girl spill it cause I know you don't think I would fall for that fake smile"

"I don't know Summer,it's just being with Steven isn't the same as when I was with Chris. When I was with Chris I was so excited to see him everyday and I always got butterflies around him. When I was with him, I actually felt the love the both of us shared and it was a real love. With Steven it's more like a friendship love. Steven was there for me when Chris broke my heart but I'm kind of stuck. And I keep having these flashbacks of when Chris hurt me. I don't know if that means I'm still hurt or what"

"Well it sounds like you're just with Steven because he was there. Like it seems like you feel like you owe him for helping you out which isn't the case. Do you still have feelings for Chris"

"I think so. I think I'll always love him. Even at the class reunion when I saw him with Jordyn I got crazy jealous forgetting that I was there with Steven . I even had a dream last night that we were together and I was pregnant with his baby. I don't know what that was about but I think the love I had for him before is creeping back into my heart. I don't want to get hurt again though. We've both moved on with our lives."

"I think you need to be honest with both of them because you can't keep living a lie. If you love Chris get your man sis. If you love Steven then stay with him but you need to make a decision before it's too late"

Right when she finished that sentence I heard the bells on the door chime. I turned around to look at the door and who just came in.

Of course it's Chris

He walked over to me and I crept a smile but as soon as I felt it appear I went back to my straight face .

"Amber can I talk to you?"

Oh god what does he want?

A/N
   Okay so I hope you guys enjoyed this chapter! No amber is not pregnant for real but that idea just popped into my head. What do you guys think the dream means? Well thank you for reading and don't forget to Vote,Comment,and all that Jazz 🤪