Harry opened the door to let Gemma in the room. Once again, Finn sat on Harry's lap and Gemma sat on the chair next to them.

"Right, there's no sign of the illness." Mark stated and Harry and Gemma let out a sign of relief. "However, sometimes, early puberty can be a sign of the illness, and Finn is showing a small amount of development however at this stage, it's nothing to worry about. I've explained to Finn how to check himself and I want you to make sure you give yourself the examination about once a month and if you find anything abnormal or, different, you can tell your Mum or Harry, and we'll get it sorted okay?" He explained and Finn nodded.

"Right, I'd like to see Finn once every six months, just to check things over okay and once he's gone through puberty, I'll extend the checks to once every 12 months." Mark said to Gemma.
"Okay, so he's okay? He's gonna be okay?" Gemma asked.
"Well you know I can't promise anything but at this moment, there's nothing wrong with Finn." Mark replied and Gemma put her hand on her racing heart and let out another sigh of relief. "I'll sort it out nearer the time but you'll have to come back around the end of June for your next check up okay? Oh and I just want to give you these, just so you're aware." Mark said as he handed several leaflets to Gemma, but all were folded in half so that Finn didn't see that most were titled with testicular cancer.

"Thanks a lot." Gemma smiled as she stood up. Harry lifted Finn up onto his feet and the three left the room. Though Gemma was relieved that Finn as okay, she couldn't help but worry about his future. Finn's dad, grandad, great grandad and uncle had had testicular cancer so the odds of Finn getting it were certainly a lot higher than the odds for the average young boy.

"You okay?" Harry asked and Gemma was brought out of her trance. She hadn't noticed but she was sitting on the sofa in the living room, next to her partner and Finn was playing games in his room. She didn't even remember the journey home because she had zoned out wondering about Finn's future.
"What?" Gemma asked quietly.
"You haven't said anything since we left the hospital. You wanna talk?" Harry asked as he put his arm around Gemma's shoulders.
"I'm fine." Gemma smiled.
"But..." Harry trailed off. He knew she was still worried about something.
"But he's only 8. What if he misses something when he checks himself? Or what if he finds something but he's too embarrassed to say anything? I mean he didn't want me in the room with him did he?" Gemma explained.

"No, but he didn't mind me in the room so if he doesn't want to talk to you about anything, I'm sure he'll tell me. I know it's not something you want hear because you're his mum, but at the end of the day, as long as he talks to someone, that's all that matters right?" Harry asked.
"Yeah yeah I know. Look if Finn tells you something and he says he'll only tell you if you don't tell me, you have to tell me anyway okay?" Gemma said.
"Don't worry, unless it's something about a girl he fancies, I'll tell you." Harry joked half heartedly. Gemma smiled slightly as she rested her head on Harry's shoulder.

"I can feel her squirming about." Gemma mumbled.
"Her?" Harry smirked as he put his hands on Gemma's small 16 week bump. He couldn't feel anything because the movements were too small, but he just liked to have his hands there.
"It'd better be a girl, I can't live in a house with three boys." Gemma said jokily.
"Why not? I can raise my own football team." Harry joked.
"Mm." Gemma mumbled in agreement. "Did Finn sleep okay last night?"
"Um. Yeah, I don't think he woke up at all, or if he did he didn't wake me up." Harry replied.

"I think we'll try to get him to sleep by himself tonight. I'll run him a bubble bath, read to him and tuck him in with his football bear." Gemma said hopefully. The pair sat there for a while watching the news on the TV.

"What do you think he'll want to do for his birthday?" She asked.
"When is it?" Harry asked.
"22nd February; two weeks time on a Saturday."
"Paintballing?" He suggested.
"No, too dangerous. He'll be covered in bruises."
"How about a swimming party in the pool downstairs? And then a few of his best mates can stay here overnight as a sleepover." Harry suggested.
"Um... Yeah I think he'd like that. He's never had his own sleepover before."
"Why not?" Harry queried.
"We never really had room in our old flat." Gemma stated.
"Oh. Well are you gonna set a limit on how many people can stay over?"
"He'd probably only want Ollie and Jordan to sleep over so I'll speak to their mums tomorrow."

"Okay. Please please please please please can I be in charge of party bags?" Harry begged.
"How old are you?" Gemma joked.
"Have you seen the stuff that you can get?! I've always wanted to make my dream party bag-"
"But remember it'll be for Finn." Gemma stated.
"I know I was joking." Harry lied as he picked up the laptop and searched on google shopping: 'Party bag fillers'.
"And don't you dare get anything loud or something that makes a really annoying noise." Gemma said sternly.

The rest of the evening went swiftly, however for Gemma, bedtime for Finn came too fast. She tried and tried after a bath, reading and tucking him in but he just couldn't sleep so she ended up giving in and letting Finn sleep with her.

The next day, 3:00pm
Normally, Finn's school didn't finish until 3:10pm but Gemma decided to get there early to speak to Ollie and Jordan's mums. All three were in the same class and they had been best friends since nursery.
"Hey." Gemma smiled as she approached Sue and Leanne, she was rubbing her hands on her small bump, though it was visible because she had a tight top on along with a cardigan, skinny jeans and uggs.
"Hi Gemma." Sue replied happily.
"Listen, for Finn's ninth birthday, I was going to throw a swimming party and then ask if ollie and Jordan wanted to sleep over our new place the night after." Gemma said.
"Yeah, I'm sure Ollie would love that, he's amazing at swimming." Leanne smiled.
"jordan would love it too." Sue replied.
"Great, that's one thing to tick off then ever ending list to organise it." Gemma joked. "Got any tips? I've never organised a sleepover before and it's been years since I've had one."
"Don't set a bedtime, if you do, they'll stay up later than that to prove a point." Sue laughed.
"Yeah, whenever I wanted to get them to sleep, I just put on a movie and put them in sleeping bags in front of the TV and then they fall asleep like that." Leanne stated as she clicked her fingers. "Do you want any help with anything? I'd be happy to help." She added.
"Um, no I think I'm alright thanks. Harry's helping and he's more excited about the party than Finn is." Gemma joked which made Leanne and sue smirk.
"How's the pregnancy going? If you don't mind me asking."
"No no, it's fine. Um, its tiring but it's worth it in the end." Gemma said as she caught a glance of Finn running out of the school doors amongst the crowd. He ran up and hugged Gemma. "Have a good day?" Gemma smiled.
"Yeah, it's Sophie's birthday so we got sweets." Finn smiled as he held up a small packet of haribos. "I saved mine for you." He added.
"Aw, thank you." Gemma replied. "C'mon, we can share them." Gemma opened them and offered some to Finn which he gladly accepted. "Right, I'll ring you soon about times and dates but we'd better get going eh?" Gemma said to the two women, and then to Finn.
"Bye." They both smiled and then Gemma and Finn walked the 5 minute journey back to the penthouse.

Just as Gemma and Finn were walking into reception, they caught a glance of the black rolls Royce with the number plate TR355LER but it soon drove away. Gemma carried on with Finn to the lift and up to their apartment.

"Hey, was that your dad I just saw?" Gemma asked as she hung her own, and Finn's coat up, and then put both of their shoes on the shoe rack.
"Yeah, and my mum." Harry replied. "Er, Finn just stay here for a minute please." Harry said before Finn tried to sneak off to his games room. Gemma and Finn sat on the sofa near Harry. "Right basically, my dad, has set up a savings account for you Finn, and there's £10 in there,for every week since you've been born." Harry began. "There's just over £4,500 in there, and he's going to continue to give you £10 a week. Now you can't access the money in your bank until you're 18, but you can use the £10 you get per week, or you could save it up it's your choice."

"That's my money?" Finn asked in disbelief. He had never had his own money before, if he ever wanted something, he would politely ask his mum and she would- most of the time- get it for him, as long as it was something that he would use more than once.
"Yep. Once you're 18 you could put it to university fees, or use it to buy a car or anything you want." Harry replied.
"Thank you." Finn said as he jumped up and hugged Harry.
"Don't thank me, thank my dad the next time you see him." Harry smirked as Finn hugged him tightly. "Go on, you can go and play now." He smiled as he pulled away. Finn happily zoomed off to his play room and shut the door behind him.

Gemma couldn't believe it either, that was more money than she had ever had in her life let alone Finn having it. She didn't even have that much in her bank account now because she was still paying off her student loan with a percentage of where earnings.

Harry pulled Gemma onto his lap sideways and put his hand on her 16 week bump. "He's set another savings account up for this little one too." Harry said softly as he looked at Gemma's bump. For 16 weeks, it was actually quite a big bump considering she barely showed at all with Finn at that point.

June 2005

At 16 weeks pregnant with her first child, Gemma was sat at just 18 years old, in the middle of her biology exam- her final biology exam, for her A-Level. Luckily, the college hadn't yet worked out that she was pregnant, otherwise, they would've given her so much extra attention that she didn't need, let alone want. The father -Muppet- had buggered off when Gemma was 5 weeks gone (just after she found out she was pregnant, and he was the first she told) but luckily, Gemma's mum had decided to be extremely supportive of her daughter.

She had just turned the page on her paper and couldn't help but smile at the fact that there was a page of questions on meiosis, the process of gamete cells dividing which was currently happening in her uterus at that very moment. She knew all the answers of course because when she was revising for that exam, she had been revising the topic of reproduction a lot because she liked knowing what was happening inside of her.

She looked around the exam hall, filled with around 100 students, each taking the same paper and unlike Gemma, they were all unaware that meiosis was actually taking place in that very room that they were in.

"Gemma? Gemma?" Harry said and she was brought out of her memory. "You okay? You look a bit dazed." Harry queried.
"No I'm fine. Sorry I was just day dreaming. What did you say?" She queried.
"My dad's set up another savings account for this little one." Harry said as he put his hand on Gemma's bump. "And he's gonna put £10 a week in from the day that she's born. There is something else, for me and you." Harry began as he took out a small rectangular piece of paper. "My dad wants us to be independent. He said he's more than happy to help us if we're ever in financial trouble, but he wants us, in general, to be able to live off of what we earn." Harry said. He then unfolded the paper and showed Gemma the cheque for £200,000 from his father and her mouth dropped open. "He's given us this as a one off, but other than that, he wants us to be able to make our own living." Harry explained.

Harry wasn't sure if that was a bad thing or not. It was a good amount of money, and they would definitely be able to live off of the money that they earned, but would he be able to spoil his child?

In reality, of course he would be able to but because he had grown up with an abundance of money surrounding him, he hadn't ever been put in a situation where there was a limit to the amount of money that he had.

"Harry, that's... That's... I don't know what to say." Gemma admitted as she took the cheque in her own two hands, touching it with great care as if it was a delicate rose petal.
"Look I'm sorry," Harry began.
"Sorry?" Gemma shrieked. "Harry, this is more money than I've ever had in my life!" Gemma stated.
"So you're not disappointed?" Harry asked confusedly.
"Of course I'm not! I'm thrilled!" Gemma stated as she turned to straddle her legs around Harry's waist and then hugged him tightly. Harry let out a sigh of relief as he hugged Gemma back. "Wait, I need a wee." Gemma said as she pulled away from Harry and quickly walked to the bathroom that was next to Finn's game room.

Harry smirked as he saw her walk away. He then picked up the cheque and put it in a safe place, before he looked through the cupboards to find something for dinner.

Gemma came out of the bathroom and Harry was chopping up some onions and mushrooms whilst watching the news on the TV in the living room because the rooms as open plan and he could clearly see it.
"Whatcha doing?" Gemma asked as she leant on the kitchen side.
"Cooking my amazing spaghetti bolognese and before you ask, yes I'm doing a separate one for Finn without any onions but with extra mushrooms." Harry smirked. Just as he did, an advert for Winter wonderland in Hyde Park came on the TV. "Hey, why don't we go there with Finn this weekend? I heard some of the nurses went there the other day and they said it was really good. I mean, we haven't had a proper family day out yet have we?" Harry suggested.

"Yeah, Finn loves rides. Though I think I'd have to hold your bags for most of them." Gemma smiled as she rubbed her bump.
"Oh yeah you wouldn't be able to go on the rides. Never mind, we can go somewhere else." Harry stated as he continued to chop up the mushrooms.
"No, no. I'd be happy to take you two, it could be a reward for Finn's school report for the autumn term. He got all effort 5s and 4s." Gemma stated proudly.
"Okay then, winter wonderland this Saturday it is." Harry smiled.

Btw, I know this chapter is set in the beginning of February and winter wonderland would've stopped by then but oh well... Also, I went to winter wonderland on Friday and I highly recommend it if you like rides, it's amazing! (Though some things are expensive.)

Also, I've just remembered that at the beginning off his, harry had his wrist in a cast so just imagine he's already had it taken off...

Thanks for reading, please review x