Charlie P.O.V
For one of the first times, I'd woken up before Brax and it was only because I had half an hour to get ready and pick up Ruby. I moaned quietly so I wouldn't wake Brax before untangling myself from his body and getting into the shower. I wore denim shorts and a strapless cream top that was loose and had a plated pattern going around the top. I let my hair down so it would dry, not wanting to turn the hair dryer on in case I woke Brax. I looked at my phone and realised I was already late to pick up Ruby. I groaned and quickly ran into the bedroom to find my keys but I actually found Brax gone.
"Brax?" I called out. He walked into the bedroom with a toothbrush in his mouth.
"What are you doing?" I asked, confused as to why he was up, clothed and brushing his teeth. It was only 10:00am and he had a late shift at work.
"I'm coming with you?" He said through the foamy toothpaste in his mouth. I giggled at the sight of the toothpaste starting to turn to liquid in his mouth and run down his chin. I walked up to him and ran my hands up under his shirt.
"Really?" I whispered, kissing around his mouth to skip all the toothpaste. He smiled and nodded, now unable to talk because the toothpaste had become too much. I looked up at him and suddenly took my hands away from under his shirt. I smiled happily.
"Hurry up then." I said enthusiastically before kissing his cheek and heading to the car. I heard him call out "wow" but I just kept going, happy with the excited state I left him in. I sat in the passenger seat, deciding Brax could drive because I was too tired.
"Keys?" He asked for once he got into the car. I dug through my bag for nearly a minute before I found them. He laughed when I handed them to him.
"What do you have in there?" He remarked sarcastically. I punched his leg before we started driving to the hospital.
Brax's P.O.V
We walked into the hospital room to find Ruby sitting on the chair beside her once bed, with her arms crossed.
"You're an hour late!" She said angrily, immediately picking up her bags and heading to the car park. Charlie looked up at me and started to laugh. I smiled and kissed her forehead before wrapping my arm around her waist, and heading towards the car park also.
The trip home was rather quiet, Charlie feeling bad, Ruby feeling angry and me feeling lucky. Since I was driving I decided we'd get some pizza before we got home. Since it was basically lunch time and Ruby probably hadn't eaten pizza for 2 weeks, I thought everyone would be happy with that decision.
"Where are we going?" Charlie groaned when I didn't take the turn to Leah's house.
"To get pizza." I happily replied back. Charlie stared at me sternly before sighing and looking out the window. She was already beating herself up about being late to pick Ruby so she probably just wanted to get her home. I don't know why she was so moody lately.
"That," Ruby said, "Is a great idea." She moaned. "Hospital food is so gross." She then laughed. I looked at her in the back seat through the rear view mirror and winked. She smiled at me, both of us knowing Charlie would be agitated, but not caring anyway. Once I got to Angelo's, I headed up the stairs and got the pizza, leaving Charlie and Ruby in the car.
I walked up to find Bianca leaning over the bar kissing Heath.
"No public displays of interest in my restaurant." I called out. I heard Bianca giggle before kissing Heath one last time and looking over at me.
"And where have you been of late?" She said sarcastically. I laughed before going and telling the chefs to make two margarita pizzas. I walked back out to find them in action again. I cleared my throat and Bianca jumped up, Heath looking disappointed.
"Where might I find Charlie?"
"Car park." I replied.
"Im going to g over to hers okay, babe?" She said to Heath. He looked at her understandingly and nodded just when the pizzas came out. I immediately thought I'd missed something.
"Oh actually, if you're going to go over to hers, could you take these pizzas to her too? She's just in the car park and that way you can drive with her." She smiled and took the pizzas off me. I thought I may as well start working if I was already there.
"Yep." She replied happily.
"Tell her that i'll call her." I called out before she walked out the door. She put her hand up with out looking back to give me her reassurance that she would tell her. I started putting out the knives and forks when I got a message from Caroline.
I'll be there at 5 x
Can't wait x, I replied.
Charlie's P.O.V
After Bianca drove us home we went inside and ate the pizzas.
"I'm going to go over to Casey's!" Ruby declared.
"Oh Rubes, you could get him to help you pack up all your things for the new house. We haven't found one yet but I'm going to look now so yeah. And then maybe you could help him pack too." She immediately looked up at me and grinned.
"You mean, he's moving in too?"
"Yes." I smiled and she squealed.
"Thank you, Thank you, Thank you Charlie!" She hugged me and hugged Bianca before heading to Casey's. Bianca turned her attention to me.
"Don't even try it Bianca. I don't want to talk about it." I knew exactly what she was going to say.
"You have to tell him sometime Charlie, it's not like he isn't going to start to notice." She sighed.
"I don't even know if I want this baby." I regretted the words as soon as I said them. Bianca looked at me stunned.
"Okay look, you must have your reasons but you love Brax and he loves you and he will love this baby." She smiled.
"I just think that a baby could ruin our relationsh-" She cut me off before I could finish.
"Well you should have thought about that before you had sex with Brax every 5 seconds!" She yelled at stormed out of the house. I sat there a little shocked. Then I heard her return.
"Brax is one of my best friends Charlie and later on I'm going to go and see him at Angelo's and when I do, he should tell me the good news and If he doesn't have any news to tell me, I'll tell him about the baby myself." Then she stormed out of the house for good.
I sighed and rested my hand on my stomach. I knew I had to tell Brax, It wasn't like he wasn't going to start to notice how fat I was getting. I groaned out of frustration and decided to look at more houses. There were houses less than imperfect that I found all until I did find an almost perfect one. It had 5 bedrooms, it was 5 minutes from where we lived now, it was still in Summer Bay and it was quite big. I sighed and realised it was probably the best we could do. I looked at the clock. 5:00. I picked up my keys and bag, and headed to Angelo's, knowing that the house I found wasn't the only thing I had to talk to him about.