𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐭𝐡 𝐨𝐫 𝐝𝐚𝐫𝐞?

39

"Christopher, Uh.. Belmont?" A woman's voice echoed through my mind as I am half asleep next to Robby in the waiting room. He shakes me and then I come to my senses, and rise up as fast as I can.

"Yes! That's us" He shouts quietly, as he rises up from the chair.

"He's awake, Should be recovering great! Just be gentle and use low voices when you go into the room" The doctor tells us as we both nod.

"Thank you so much" We brush by her and immediately bolted to the room.

Robbie and I had been waiting for hours, after our conversation in the cafeteria, We both bonded for a bit over dealing with Chris. We had ended up telling stories and I learned some interesting things about their childhood.

We walk into the room to see Chris laying down while staring at the ceiling in a haze. We enter quietly while Chris turns his head to look at us.
We practically groans once he realizes that I had met his brother.

"Hey buddy" Robbie says, quietly as Chris gives him a small smile. I assumed that they hadn't seen each other for a long time based off of what Robbie said.

"I see you two have met" Chris mumbles, As he turns his head towards me to give me a small smile as well.

"Oh yeah, lovely girl! So lovely that I am not quite sure why I haven't ever met her before Huh Chris?" Robby backfires, causing Chris to let out a small laugh.

"Do you mind if we have a chat real quick?" I ask Robby and he nods accordingly. He begins to exit the room and wait outside in one of the chairs.

"I'll be right outside, I'm going to need a quick chat to my brother as well after you're done" He says and I then nod back. He walks over to the door and I then hear the door click shut.

"How are you feeling?" I ask Chris as he sits there slightly wincing as he repositioned his body.

"I could say that I've felt better" Chris says sarcastically. He was in the hospital with gunshot wounds and still cracking jokes, typical.

"Yeah, That definitely makes sense Chris" I chuckle, grabbing his hand and giving it a small squeeze.

"I'm sorry for everything, I wish that I could've stayed out of this shit but I just wanted to give you what you wanted" Chris says, referring to the nice house that we had purchased.

"You just have some work to do, Especially after tonight. We don't need to talk about this right now, I'm more concerned about your health" I respond, making sure that either of us didn't stress.

"I'll do what I have to do, I promise on everything. I'll actually get a job, And make sure that you don't ever have to worry about this again" He pleads with me, and I actually think that he meant it.

"I think that you're ignoring the elephant in the room Chris" I reply, not wanting to have this conversation but I knew that it had to be done.

"Right, The elephant" He responds, Referring to the baby as the elephant, which I thought was quite funny.

"Yeah you definitely know what I mean by that" I say quietly, as I look down to the floor to avoid his eyes on mine. He sighs, and looks down for a moment as well. I had the feeling that he would've bolted by now if he wasn't okay with this.

"You're pregnant, I heard you. In that moment that I heard you, it was all that I thought about and I wanted to get you out of there safely. I'm not going to play around anymore. I promise that I will be there even if I'm not ready to be a father, I will try my best and I will do whatever I have to do" He explains, which immediately takes all of my worries away.

"Are you absolutely positive?" I ask, needing to be sure that this wasn't a pity party. I wanted him to be ready and prepared to do this with me.

"More positive than I ever have been in my life" He gives me a small smile as he assures me.

"I know that you didn't want this, I know that this is far from what you would've imagined to be happening right now considering. We need steady income, I can only do maternity shoots once I get bigger and we need to focus on giving 'The elephant' A good life" I nod my head as I make sure that he understands.

"I promise that I want to be there for you and our baby. I'm so sorry if I ever made it seem like I never loved you, because I never knew how to do it right. I will do anything to make sure that you are safe and that's why I kept taking the jobs- To be able to provide for you" He says while staring into my eyes apologetically.

"Well thank you, I'm going to let you talk to your brother and I'll be in the waiting room. I love you Chris" I say before walking out.

"I love you Lucie"

My mind was kind of running wild at this point, I didn't know what to think. I believed him, I'm sure I did, but after all of this I didn't really know what was next. It all happened so fast and sudden, the man of my dreams turned out to be the man in my nightmares.

***

As the hours went by, Robbie and I ended up going back to our places. We couldn't stay the night at the hospital and Chris insisted that I go home and get some rest. Robbie drove me back to the house and by the time we arrived, it was about eleven PM.

As I entered the house, it was too quiet for my liking. I hated being alone in such a big space, it was definitely different than my apartment. I walk past all of the unopened boxes and furniture that had been left hanging around for the past few days.

I slid into the bed that was hardly made, I threw the comforter over my body and allowed myself to attempt to fall asleep peacefully. I ran my hand over my stomach while staring at the ceiling, In disbelief that I was really pregnant. Before fully falling asleep, I prayed that things would get better from here on out. It would be too much heartbreak if things got any worse than they have.

AUTHOR NOTE

hey everyone! I know it's been a long time coming and it's probably the shortest chapter I've written, but I've been very sick over the last month and didn't do a whole lot. I will be back into updating, hope you enjoy!
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