Author's Note: Sorry, I know it's been a while. I'm a week out from exams so things are a bit hectic. This is the last chapter, thanks for reading and reviewing, hope you all like it!
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Bright strong rays shone through the bedroom window. Ignoring the sun Matt reached over to Emily's side of the bed, wanting to wrap his arms around her. When he realized Emily was not in reaching distance he begrudgingly opened his eyes.
"Em? Jody?" he called, when he saw that Emily's side of the bed hadn't been slept in. Then it came rushing back to him. It was 2007, he loved Emily and wanted her in his life but he was stupid enough to let her go. She was what he defined as perfect, what he saw as happiness. Matt jumped out of bed making a beeline for his car, disregarding the fact that he was in his PJ's and that no sane person would be awake this early in the morning.
Once he reached his destination, Emily's place and rang the doorbell, pausing for a moment to think. It had been six days since they broke up. This time a week ago, he would have been waking up with Emily in his arms watching her sleep. He smiled at the thought of sleeping Emily's cute face. However, the grumbling from the other side of the door snapped him from his thoughts.
"It's seven freaking o'clock in the morning. This better be important!" he could hear her mutter, while she fiddled with the locks.
"It is" Matt replied as she opened the door.
"What do you want Matt?" Emily asked angrily. It was quite obvious Matt was not one of Emily's favorite people at the moment. Not only had they broken up days before, he had interrupted her Saturday morning, one of her very few Matt free days which she had been looking forward too. Although it seemed like Emily was angry, she was more hurt and upset. She spent all week hoping they would somehow resolve their problems. Most of her nights were restless; she tossed and turned, finding it difficult to sleep without Matt as her pillow. Her blind date with Pete hadn't gone so well last night. Although he seemed like a nice caring guy, he wasn't Matt. During their date, she had thought about Matt and picked at her food more than she spoke with Pete, leaving him quite happy to talk about himself for the whole night.
"We need to talk" Matt said softly.
"On a Saturday, at 7 am?!?!" she glared softly. In the past week, all that could come of their conversations was yelling and screaming. She thought today would be the first day where since they broke up where she could get away from each other's hurtful words. All she wanted to do was crawl back into bed and stuff herself with comfort food and wish she could go back to a week ago when she was happy.
"I love you, Em!" he blurted out before she almost closed the door on him. "I'm so sorry, I can't believe I let you go. I miss you so much. I hate that I'm so close to you every day and I can't touch you or sweep you up in my arms and tell you I love. I use your pillow now because it smells like your perfume. That's the closest thing I have to you now and that kills me. I can't sleep for more than a few hours before I wake up again and realise I'm living a nightmare. I miss you Em and I don't want to lose what we have." Matt continued. She stared at him for a moment, looking at the man on her door step. He stood there in his pajamas, the one with puppy dogs she had bought for him as a joke. He was wearing them at that moment when a month before he swore he would never wear anything with dogs on it. Small tears were forming in her eyes. She had missed him more than she had let on. Taking a small step forward, she kissed him with passion.
"I'm sorry too. God I missed you" she murmured. "Love the puppy dogs by the way" she whispered as they started tugging at each other's clothes on the way to the bedroom.
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Five weeks later
"Em? I'm home" Matt called, entering his house. Emily had left work early that day for a doctor's appointment; she had caught a bug during a negotiation the other day.
"Hey" she greeted him brightly.
"Hi, how was it at the doctors?" Matt asked rather concerned.
"It's all normal" she replied, "or as normal as it can be" she added silently.
"Good" he replied as she settled down on the couch. Two weeks earlier, Matt's dream about their family had been bugging him and he brought up the topic of marriage and children. They had both agreed that it was something they wanted in the future but they didn't know they were ready for that step. However the news that Emily had was about to change all that.
"Hey, Matt, do you remember that morning a few weeks ago when we go back together?" Emily asked slowly.
"Yeah, how could I forget?" he replied with a smile.
"Matt…..I'm pregnant" she said quietly like a scared child.
"But we used-" Matt said shocked before he was cut off.
"I know but it's not 100 effective" she said quietly. She had her own little cry when the doctor told she was pregnant but tears began fall from her eyes again.
"Come here Em" Matt said. She crawled onto his lap and quietly sobbed. Matt thought back to his dream about his future with Emily. She had mentioned Jody was conceived from their make up sex but never thought anything of it until now.
"Listen to me. We'll be okay. I love you so much and I love our baby that you're carrying. You two are the most important people in my life." He told her gently stroking her hair and wiping her tears away.
"I'm scared…" she trailed off.
"Me too but we'll get through it, we'll get through it together. You're gonna be an amazing mom. And in eight months time we'll have an amazing little baby girl in our arms" Matt said as Emily's tear streaked face gave a small smile.
"Wow... how do you know it'll be a girl?" she asked quietly, her head resting on Matt's shoulder.
"Daddy's intuition" Matt replied as they sat in silence, letting reality sink in.
"What do you think about the name Jody? I've always loved that name." Emily whispered a few minutes later.
"Jody" Matt repeated. With his hand on Emily's stomach, he could picture their little girl from his dream, the image of her dark hair with Emily's eyes and her bright smile was still floating around in his head. "Jody, Jody Flannery. I think it sounds perfect."
