Forever Pink and White chapter 14
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"Really Kat that's awesome!" Tommy beamed embracing her in a hug once more. He wanted so much just to lift her from her bed and spin her around right now but she needed rest so he refrained himself from doing so.
Kat however slowly returned the hug looking oddly at Tommy.
"Ummm, are you sure?" she asked unsurely. She swore by the way his face looked that he might have blown a cap or something, get angry at her and leave.
"Of course Kat! I can't believe we're going to have a baby!" he said still excited with stars in his eyes.
"Well this is a change of mood." Kat thought.
"This has got to be the best day of my life Kat………well you know, minus the fact that you're in the hospital."
Kat still dawned a skeptical look on her facial features.
"Are you on drugs Tommy? Or did you inhale to much smoke?" Kat asked.
"What?"
"Tommy……you're not mad at me?" she asked.
Now it was Tommy's turn to give her a skeptical look. "What are you talking about, why would I be mad."
"Well I just told you was pregnant and we're not married, I have no place to live, I have t retire from rangering for awhile I……….."
"Whoa, whoa, whoa, Kat, slow down." Tommy said stopping her from continuing her ranting. "Kat, for so long I always wanted to have children. You know someone to watch grow and learn, experience knew things, teach martial arts to. Kat it's been my wildest dream to have a kid of my own to experience these things with you know. Teach them how to tie shoes, or play baseball, and take to Disney land all the great things that come along with parenthood. And I have the perfect girlfriend to share it with. Kat, not only has it been my dream to have a kid of my own but…….I've always wanted to have a kid with you." He explained holding her hand within his.
And by the end of his little speech Kat couldn't help but let the tears fall once more for that evening. If Tommy wasn't the perfect man, she didn't know who was. Leave it to him to always want children or to not get angry when he found out in a burst of surprise that he was going to be a father.
"Kat I love you, and I'm going to love this baby." He said wiping away a tear and planting a kiss on her for head.
This only caused poor Kat to cry harder.
"Stupid hormones!" she cursed at herself fanning the tears from her eyes.
"Hey, hey, why are you crying?" he asked wiping away another tear.
"Because you're so sweet, I just can't help it. Oh Tommy I don't deserve a guy like you." She admitted wailing some more.
Tommy chuckled cupping Kat's cheek in his hands and gently brining her ear in level with his chest.
"Kat do you hear that?" he asked.
"mmmhhhmmm"
"What is it?"
"Indigestion?" she asked and he chuckled. "Seriously Kat"
"It's you're heart beat." She stated and Tommy nodded once again bringing her head up so he was eye to eye with her.
"mmhmm, and you know what, it's beating for you. It always has, and it always will be, Kat I love you like no other, you deserve me and I deserve you, 110 percent." He said and she smiled widely meeting Tommy with a kiss and embracing him in a hug.
"I love you too." She said crying happy tears once more. "Forever and always"
"Aww!" came a chorus in unison from the door.
Both looked up to see, Jase, Rocky, Adam and Haley standing in the doorway. Tommy and Kat both smiled as their friends melted over the scene.
"You guys really are the perfect couple you know." Jason said.
"Ya, I think Adam's crying." Rocky said pointing to his Asian friend who turned his back to them quickly wiping his eyes.
"I am not crying! Rocky poked me in the eye that's all." He defended and the group laughed.
"I think guys who cry are real men, not afraid to show their emotions, I like that." Haley commented.
"No real men are guys who cry because they got socked in the groin or the love of their life broke their heart, not because they just viewed some mushy love scene. That's just a wimp." Rocky pointed out and Adam elbowed him again.
"Ow!"
The gang just laughed again.
"So, it's official? Kat's pregnant?" Haley asked eager to find out if the affirmation was ok.
Tommy proudly nodded and Kat also nodded with a happy smile.
"Oh yes! Now we can plan a baby shower!" Haley said as the others chuckled but Kat interrupted with a yawn.
"I think we better save that for tomorrow Hail, looks like some one is getting sleepy." Tommy said nudging Kat some.
"I am not……(yawn)……..ok maybe a little." She admitted.
"Alright, we'll see you later than you love birds, it is getting late and everyone knows if I don't sleep in a nice warm bed, I am not a happy camper the next morning." Rocky said as they chuckled some more.
"You sure it's not because it's passed midnight and you have yet to cal your mother for the day?" Adam asked as they laughed some more.
"Ya, ya, I'll call her tomorrow." He said.
"Thanks for coming guys it's really appreciated." Tommy said.
"No problem, I mean if our friends are in danger we have to come give our support." Adam said.
"Do you want me to give you guys an extra key?" Tommy asked pulling his ring of keys from his pocket. "I don't think you can………"
"Bro, everyone knows you keep an extra key taped under your mailbox." Jason said and Tommy frowned.
"How do they know that?" he thought. "I've got to find a new hiding spot." He mumbled and the others laughed.
"Alright then, see you guys later."
"Bye you two loved birds." Jason said.
"Bye Kat, bye Tommy, bye baby!" Haley cooed and Kat rolled her already half asleep eyes before they made an exit.
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The next morning, Kat groggily arose with a bit of coughing to the sight of her boyfriend.
She smiled. "What a good way to wake up." She thought to herself as she watched him eating breakfast while watching the morning news.
"Morning" she greeted rubbing her eyes some and smiling at her boyfriend.
"Morning bumble bee." came a reply.
Just as she was about to answer something hit her. "Wait a second, that's not Tommy? When did he dawn a British accent? And he never calls me bumble bee. Only my ……………. Oh boy." She thought to herself before turning around to face none other than her father; sitting in all his father glory.
"Uh, hi, daddy" she said a little nervous of her father being there. She knew he said that his flight would come in soon but jeez, she had expected a little later.
"Hey pumpkin, how are you feeling?" he asked now getting up and sitting on the edge of her bed checking her temperature as if she was a little kid.
"I'm fine dad" she said setting his hands away. "The doctor said I should be out of here by this evening or tomorrow morning."
"Oh Kat I was so scared, I knew it wasn't a good idea to send you to live on your own, you're still too young. It's that blasted mother of yours influence you know. Ever since she moved her to the states she's gotten that wild life stile stuck in her head and now wants you to follow…………." He said.
Kat could only roll her eyes and cut in from her father's rambling. "Dad, please don't bring mom into this." She asked.
"Sorry dearest but, I want you to come back to London with me. I can't stand sitting there alone and growing a patch full of grey hair not knowing what sort of danger you're in."
"Daddy it's not dangerous here."
"Oh right as if you haven't heard of those gigantic monsters constantly attacking day by day. I do read the news Kat"
Kat sighed. "Daddy I'm fine, how am I supposed to be on my own if you keep sheltering me?"
"I only want the best for you Katherine"
"I know that daddy and I've found the best for me" she answered glancing at Tommy who was now into their little conversation.
"What are you talking about? Kat you're homeless, everything was destroyed in the fire. Do you expect for everything to suddenly reappear? And where do you expect to live? In a box? I will not have that for my bumble bee" he said growing a little frustrated that his daughter wasn't seeing his point. He had come expecting to handle everything with the lawyers and insurance company, and get his daughter to come home with him, not put up a fuss.
"Well jeez when you say it like that, you make it look like I've failed and can't take care of myself." Kat thought to herself feeling the tears stinging her eyes.
Noticing the look on his girlfriends face, Tommy took this opportunity to but in.
Clearing his throat, he stood up making his presence known. "Um excuse me sir but with all do respect, I was um……I was hoping that Kat would move in with me." He said and instantly her realized that was a bad idea because Kat father seemed to grow more angry by the second.
"Oh boy, I have a feeling that wasn't the best thing to say." Tommy thought wishing that he could gobble his words back up.
Kat's father was stunned speechless and he kept glancing from Tommy, to Kat, Tommy to Kat, Tommy looking half apologetic half scared and Kat looking as if she was going to cry.
"And just who the hell are you!" her father demanded to know after finding his words.
"I'm………"
"He's my boyfriend daddy, Tommy Oliver." Kat admitted to her dad, interrupting Tommy and staring down at her feet wishing this wasn't happening.
Her father went temporarily speechless again. "Excuse me, boyfriend? Katherine what the bloody hell have you been doing all this time! Why have you all of a sudden lost all your moral values when you moved to the states? Has you're mother's influence made you loose! What is it Katherine! You've only been gone for about three months and you've already got a boyfriend that you want to move in with! No! I won't allow it! I forbid it!" he yelled.
Kat could feel the tears falling now, her father's words really hurt and it didn't help either that she was in a very emotional state.
"Daddy it's not like that! I've known Tommy since high school, we dated before I graduated, now we're simply getting back together." She tried to explain, wiping her eyes free of tears.
"That makes no difference Katherine. It's been two months Katherine, only two months! You should be getting your life together not fooling around with boys."
"Daddy I'm not fooling around!" she yelled back. She was sick of her father now, as much as he spoiled and pampered her, he was to sheltering toward her and never let her live.
"Right, and the next thing you know you're going to tell me that you're pregnant with his child am I right?" he said sarcastically but Kat looked down at her feet, shedding more tears. She could give a response to that one because Lord knows she can't lie to her father. Not to mention she was a horrible liar.
Noticing his daughters silence Kat's father, James, spoke up.
"Katherine?" he asked.
She didn't reply but only sniffled continued to look at her feet.
As Tommy watched he could only want to hold Kat in a comforting hug but he knew this wasn't the time. Her father just might decide to murder him and he wanted to live to see the birth of his child.
"Katherine?" he asked again.
She looked up this time, with puffy eyes and salty tears cascading down her cheeks, and it took until then for James to understand her message.
"No" he said trying to change the fact with his words.
Kat solemnly nodded full out crying now as Tommy took this time to console his girlfriend no matter what her dad did to him.
James was beyond shocked. He was stunned, speechless, surprised, and all of the above. He really didn't travel all this way to hear this. Not this is not what he expected. "Katherine! How could you……….you………I………….Have I taught you nothing Kat! Has being in London only taught you to be a whore!"
"Stop it daddy! Just stop it! I'm 25 years old and I'm a grown adult! I can do what I please and I don't need your permission for it! So please, stop dad!" she yelled as there were now a few onlookers from the hallway of the hospital.
"To hell you can not! Katherine I am your father! You do as I say, and I………."
"Honestly James, cut the crap and let her live. I already went through that "I'm the man" phase with you for 16 years, she doesn't need it too." Came the voice of the argument stopping, hug giving, daughter supporting woman, Elizabeth Hilliard; Kat's mother.
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