Time For Happy Ever After?
-thank you so much for all your support on my last fic. Meant so much to me. You are truly all amazing. Here is the follow up for "Love, Lies & Drama"
-If your new to this story welcome! But to understand my version of events, I would read LL&D first :)
-OMG I can't wait for the Jouren reunion on the show, this is to keep us satisfied to then. ENJOY :) xx
25th September 2013 (roughly 6 months later from LL&D)
Lauren Branning was entering the last few weeks of her pregnancy and she had to admit it was probably the hardest thing she had to do and this wasn't her usual drama queen self talking. It was hard work and Lauren couldn't see her toes anymore. She felt fat, really fat and the past few days she had been really ill and barely left the house. Lucky Lauren had her cousin, Alice Branning, to help her as Lauren walked into the kitchen on that September morning.
"Morning! So how you feeling today?" Alice asked. Lauren's pregnancy had made Alice very hyper like she had injected herself with happy pills. Maybe it was because the child Lauren was carrying was also Alice's niece or nephew but that was whole different story.
"I feel fat, sick and did I mention fat?" Lauren shot back, as she sat down. She whined as she had to sit further back from table than usual because of the baby bump.
"Your not fat. It's just my beautiful niece or nephew inside of you" Alice replied, as she made Lauren a cup of tea.
"I think your more excited about this baby than me" Lauren stated as she poured some milk on her cereal. Alice giggled as she handed Lauren her cup of tea.
"It's going to be amazing. Joey is out in the next few days. It kinda sucks they won't tell us when he is coming" Alice said, smiling as she sat down.
Joey was Alice's brother and Lauren's cousin, boyfriend and baby daddy but it was way more complicated than it sounded and made Lauren mentally groan every time she thought about it.
"Keeping us waiting. As long as this baby can wait until their daddy is home. All is good" Lauren replied. Alice nodded as she drank her own tea.
"So now your not working for a bit, what shall we do today?"Alice asked. Up to until the week before, Lauren had worked at her best friend's, Lucy Beale, cafe now she was on leave Lauren was bored, seriously bored.
"You decided, Al. You always make the best plans. Not too far though, still feel like crap" Lauren replied, sighing and rubbing her stomach as she got a pang of back pain. Just another joy of pregnancy, Lauren thought.
"Maybe just a quiet day in, with some DVDs and ice cream, I could ask Abi if she isn't at college or with Jay?" Alice suggested. Lauren smiled at her.
"Honestly, Alice Branning, you are a godsend I don't know what I would do without you" Lauren exclaimed, smiling.
"I'm not about to let you find out. For one, my brother would kill me" Alice said. Lauren laughed at this.
"Yes, he probably would" Lauren admitted.
The day was relaxing, just what Lauren needed, she thought as they put on Angus, Throngs & Perfect Snogging. Alice choose the film after Lauren choose The Avengers for the last one.
"Honestly, your worse than Abi when it comes to drooling over the leads!" Lauren told Alice. Abi was at college and then had plans with Jay.
"What? Aaron Johnson is fit!" Alice replied.
"Yeah and he is married to a 40 odd year old with 2 kids so I think it's save to say you got no chance!" Lauren shot at her, smirking.
"Just because your love life is sorted for life, some of us are stuck single" Alice moaned, crossing her arms.
"For life? Oh aye, Alice, what do you have planned for me?" Lauren questioned.
"Well you and Joey are getting married of course, ain't you?" Alice asked, looking at Lauren who stared at her and started giggling.
"Back down, the baby isn't born yet and marriage is a massive thing. Lets not get ahead of ourselves" Lauren replied, holding her hands up in a dramatic gesture.
"Don't you want to get married, Lauren? Your the perfect sister in law and you guys are made for each other" Alice said. Lauren stood up, sighing, her head in her hands.
"That's not the point, Al. I do want to get married, don't get me wrong but I'm only 19 and you know having a baby is one thing but getting married? Pfft, I don't think I'm ready for that" Lauren confessed, as she paced the room.
"Not ready for it for the right reasons or just not ready because your scared what people will say?" Alice asked. Lauren stared at her at moment, about to defend herself when she sat down, sighing.
"It's not that I'm scared what people will say. I'm just scared in general, Alice. This has all happened so quickly, if you told me this last year that all this would happen, I'd say you were crazy but now? I'm about to give birth, with the possibility that my boyfriend won't be there and argh, he is my cousin, how do you explain that to a child, Alice without them thinking you are some kind of twisted thing?" Lauren replied, hormones getting best of her and started to cry.
"This child is going to have the most open mind ever with you and Joey as their parents. Don't worry about it, Lauren. Aunty Alice will be here to save the day anyways" Alice told her, laughing. Lauren rolled her eyes and they carried on watching the film. Once it had finished, Lauren yawned.
"Do you want a bath? You look knackered" Alice asked her. Lauren nodded.
"Bath sounds amazing" Lauren replied.
"Stay there, I will go and run it for you" Alice said, standing up.
"Thanks, Al. I don't know what I would of done, if you wasn't here. Thank you" Lauren told her, stopping her for a second, grabbing her arm. Alice shrugged and went upstairs.
The next morning, Lauren's worst nightmare came true as she woke to a wet bed and a sharp pain in her stomach.
"ALICEEEEEEEE!" Lauren screamed, trying not to cry as she realised she had gone into labour.