Lucky Me

Getting Messier

Lucy's POV

The sound of rain and clattering came from around me and it startled me awake from my deep sleep. It seemed as of late, I was having the deepest sleeps and vivid dreams. This one was a particular good one I'd not wanted to wake from. I was literally in Willy Wonka's Chocolate factory and we were having a tea party with the Oompa Lumpas. Maybe it was my subconscious telling me to ease up on the sweet treats or I would end up looking like Augustus Gloop by the end of my pregnancy... Anyway, I rose from my pillow, wondering why the hell the rain seemed so loud, and that's when the clattering came again. The blinds at my window were being blown around by the wind coming in through the open window. I frowned at the thought of my scatter brain forgetting to close it when I came up to bed. But thoughts of Chris filled my mind as I'd made my way to bed. So I reluctantly got out of bed and sleepily wandered across the room to the window. 

I pushed open the drapes a little further and reached passed the blind to grab the handle of the window to close it up and shut out the grim November weather. But then I was stopped in my tracks. "Chris?" I whispered to myself as I spotted an unfamiliar car parked across the street and a door or two down from my house. I squinted my eyes a little to try and focus on the car that was foreign to the neighbourhood but familiar to me since well, tonight. Vaguely seeing it when he pulled up outside my house when he came round earlier. I strained to see but I could make out something or someone in the passenger side seat. Surely he isn't sleeping in there?!  I argued with myself in disbelief. He told me he had a hotel across town?! I shook my head at the ridiculous thought, but still stared at the car. Then there was movement. Without thinking about it, I grabbed my phone from sitting on its charger, and I dialled his number....

A few seconds later he answered. "Lucy?! What's the matter? Are you okay?!" He grunted sleepily down the phone. "are you okay?!" I ignored his questions. "what? Sweetheart what's happening?" he asked me again. "are you sleeping in your car?!" I asked him, still standing at my window. I saw whatever was in the car shuffle once again and then in the light of the streetlamp, I saw a little face turn to peer up at my house. "um...." 

"get your ass in here now" I snapped and cut the call. 

Chris' POV

I got out of my rental car with my bag and made my way across the lawn of her house to her front door, where she stood there looking mad with her arms folded over her chest. "hey" I smiled sheepishly at her. She didn't say a word, but stood back and let me in. I stepped out of my boots and dropped my duffle onto the floor beside them. I heard her close the door behind me, locking it before moving off somewhere. I knew I had to explain myself but when I located her in the darkness of her home, she was already making her way back up the stairs. "the guest room bed isn't set up so you're gonna have to share Groot's side" She said, immediately making me smile. So I grabbed my bag and followed up slowly behind her to her bedroom. 

...........

It was comforting and familiar in her room, everything the same as before, but I noticed the one change was there were no longer pictures of the two of us on the walls or the shelves. Her favourite picture of me had been removed from her bedside dresser and was since replaced with one of her and her niece. My heart broke. Jealousy filled every fibre within me that she had practically erased me from her life already. But I couldn't blame her. 

"Are you gonna stand there staring for the rest of the night or what?" her voice questioned me, snapping me from my selfish thoughts. I let out a little laugh and shook my head. "sorry." I smiled to myself, before moving to the empty side of her bed. Her little cuddly Groot that her niece had got her was sitting on the pillow, making me smirk as I reached out to move it.