"MERCEDES"
On hearing her best friends scream Mercedes turns back around from where she had been using her phone.
"I'm trying, I'm trying he's not answering!"
"Try harder, I need him here"
"I am, linds!"
"It hurts so much I need him"
"I'm going to try again I'll be back"
Mercedes slipped out of the birthing suite and frantically tried to call joe. 20 minutes later joe and freddie came running through the doors.
"Where is she? Joe exclaimed.
"She's in there, go quickly" Mercedes pointed out.
Joe went straight into the room and freddie tried to follow, Mercedes pulled him back.
"What?" He asked.
"Don't even think about it" she answered.
Back in the delivery room joe ran over to Lindsey and kissed her head before rubbing her back. At the this point she was crying in pain.
"I'm so sorry joe, for everything, for freddie" she cried.
"It's okay it's all forgotten, just breath okay?"
"No it's not, I lied joe, I lied to him"
"What do you mean?"
-—
An hour later baby Alex was born. Lindsey had fallen to sleep a little while after giving birth. Joe walked out to the waiting room where freddie and Mercedes were waiting.
"A little boy, called Alex." Joe smiled.
"Oh my god, congrats!" Mercedes said jumping up to hug joe.
"What's wrong? You seem abit down to say your fiancées had a baby" freddie questioned.
"She said something, she said sorry, for lying, what does she mean, freddie?" Freddie had a guilty look on his face, the one joe recognised from when they were kids.
"I- I don't know, ask her." He tried to explain.
"Freddie, don't lie to me." Practically shouted at his little brother.
"I'm not I swear-" Freddie tried again to exain before being interrupted my a nurse.
"Lindsey has just woke up, she's asking for someone called freddie?"
Freddie walked slowly into the room where he saw Lindsey laying in the bed.
"Freds, I need to tell you something"
"What is it?"
"I lied, it wasn't yours, there was no way it could have been."
"No,linds-"
"I'm sorry, I really am, but the baby is joes."