The Veil

Chapter Thirty-One

"I missed you!" I was woken up with a jolt, breathing heavy, my heart rate double speed as Jade jumped on Tom's bed, shouting, causing us both to panic.

"Fuck, Jade, why are you like this?" Tom groaned as he hid his face in my neck, using my hair to shield him from Jade.

I beamed up at her, excited to see her when my heart had returned to its normal rhythm.

"Oh screw you Grey you love me." She stopped jumping up and down and dropped down to sit at the bottom of the bed, crossed leg.

"Not right now I don't." He mumbled into my neck again.

"Grumpy." I kissed the top of his head and moved it to sit up, I rested my back against the headboard and Tom didn't bother, he just put his head down in my lap, I ran my fingers through his shaggy hair absentmindedly.

"How was your weekend?" I smiled over at Jade.

"It was great! Martha and Peter were so happy for us, we were so worried they'd think it was too soon, but they said as long as Andrew can still graduate it's not too young." She shrugged and sighed, looking down at Tom. "Is he asleep." She raised her eyebrow.

"I wish I was asleep." He groaned.

"Oh and I was wrong about the size of the baby, not a pea, Martha says it'll be about the size of a blueberry, nearly a raspberry. She also told me some super gross things about pregnancy." She shuddered and grabbed her stomach.

"Do I want to know?" I asked, scrunching my nose up.

"You really do not. But if it's as gross as she say, little blueberry here will be an only child." She giggled. "Anyway, what did you guys do this weekend, did you get the storm too?"

"We went to see Tony's band on Friday, we left early though. We got the storm all day Saturday, we had a blackout! But we've been hanging out here all weekend. We did laundry." I smirked and Tom burst out laughing, eyes still shut and his head still in my lap, causing me to blush.

"Ew, ok maybe I don't want to know how your weekend was." Jade made a fake gagging sound that made me smile.

"Do you think-" I started and realised I wasn't ready for the answer.

I'd asked Andrew before they'd left but I was worried they'd had a chance to talk and made their decision.

"Do I think what?" She cocked her head to the side like Sky sometimes does when I talk to her in a high pitched baby voice reserved just for dogs.

I sighed again and stopped moving my fingers through Toms hair. "Are you going to move out?" I asked sadly.

Jade smiled sadly at me, Tom finally decided to sit up, he mirrored my position and rested his back against the headboard, wrapping his arms loosely around his knees.

He ran a hand through his shaggy hair, making it go wild and looked worriedly at me, we hadn't spoken out them moving out, we'd been avoiding the subject, well I knew I had anyway.

"We still don't know, we want to stay of course, but we can't expect you guys to live with a baby, they're loud and make a mess and where would we put them?" She asked, she'd clearly been thinking about it as well.

"Lily can move in here? You can have her room as the nursery?" Tom suggested, he turned and raised an eyebrow at me, asking if it was ok.

"You want to move in together?" I asked, a little shocked.

Tom rolled his eyes at me and laughed, "We've lived together for over three years."

"But you want me to live in here? Like, all the time?" I smiled.

"My room is bigger, my closet is bigger, your room is next to Jade and Andrews so it makes sense." He shrugged.

He turned to look back at Jade, waiting for her answer.

It seemed silly that I was considering this a big thing, if we were a normal couple that had just met a few months ago it would be crazy to move in with each other so soon, but he was right, we'd lived together for years, and we hadn't really spent any nights apart since we got together.

We basically already shared a room. And Tom didn't seem to think it was a big step, just a logistical move for Andrew and Jade to stay here even with the baby.

"It would be perfect." Jade beamed at us, "I'll talk to Drew!" She jumped up from the bed and darted from the room without another word.

"You want to live together?" I asked him again, still shocked. I couldn't seem to move passed it.

"What are you talking about Lily, we already live together?" He asked, genuinely curious as to what I meant.

He let his arms drop from his knees, stretching his legs out in front of him and glancing away from me down to his flannel clad legs.

"I know but it's different, you know I have a lot of books right? And my DVD's? And Sky, oh my god did you even think of Sky, she'll be in here every night, and so will I? And what if you get sick of me and you need space? And my photos!" I started to climb over him to get out the bed, apparently I was a little freaked out.

"Hey, Lily." He grabbed me before I could finish my escape.

He gripped my thighs either side of his so I was straddling him. "Would you calm down." He chuckled and kissed my forehead.

It took the urgency out of me and I slumped down on his lap. "I don't know if you've noticed this, but I have met Sky before, we've been introduced I think she'll be ok sleeping in here. There is plenty of room in here for all your crap-" He noticed my glare and laughed, "Plenty of space for your amazing not crap stuff. And as for getting sick of you." He tucked my hair behind my ear and ran his thumb over my cheek, waiting until I met his eyes, "I very much doubt that will ever happen Lily, I kind of love you, you know that?"

I sighed, of course I could move into his room, we spent every night together anyway, and if I was really being honest I was kind of happy to get out of my room, it had started to feel darker and lonelier, it was frightening me being in there alone.

I leant forward and wrapped my arms around his neck, burying my face in his chest. "I kind of love you too."

I felt his laugh rumble in his chest.

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