A/N: All exams are done till next year and I hope you enjoy this chapter and please review because I love to know what you think of my story.
Maxs POV
" Hello Dr Skye its Max here." The good thing about having a private Dr there was never any need to wait.
" Ah good to hear from you is everything ok?" He always seems to worry about me and I can never figure out why.
" Everything's ok I guess. There was just something I wanted to ask you before I lose it again. What's the sex of the baby?"
Their Maggie would be happy we'd be able to start decorating and buying new things for the baby. Excitement burst through my stone composure about having the child for the first time since finding out I was pregnant.
I held my breath as he began to speak. I counted to ten slowly. " Gives me sec I'll just get your information up on the screen, right here we are. Ok Max you're going to have a baby girl." I let out a small yelp it was odd even though I hadn't thought about the sex of the baby that much I think I'd wanted a girl. I think it just seems easier after all there'll be more to talk about and lots of pink things.
" Thank Dr Skye. Could you also tell me when the baby will be born?" My voice shook ever so slightly with the question I'd just asked.
" Late this month or early April the actual due date is one the 2nd of April." He spoke with such certainty. I looked over at the calenderer and noticed today was in fact the 28th of March. Doesn't time just fly when your having fun or hiding depending on how you want to look at it.
" Thank you Dr Skye." I whispered into the phone
" Max what's with the sudden change of heart?" His voice was covered with a shyness I'd never heard before.
" I think the time has come and I just was ready to know and not when everyone else wanted me to ask." I'd been waiting for the right moment until I was ready just bidding my time until everything was clear as a white crystal.
" Goodbye Max."
" Yes and once again thanks."
I listened to the phone dial till I heard a knock on my door everything seemed so surreal like the existence of time seemed too small. I looked over and noticed Maggie standing there with a pleased look on her face.
" I take it you asked then." She spoke and sat on the floor next to me.
" Yep." I squeaked.
" So is it a boy or girl?" Maggie asked in a hurried manner.
" I'm going to have a baby girl." I squealed.
" You know what that means then don't you?" She demanded.
" Shopping." I spoke making it sound more like a question.
" You got it in one."
For a woman that hadn't even liked shopping when I'd first met her she's fair growing to the thing. I could see the sparkle in her eye as she thought about it I think I was beginning to rub off on her, which wasn't always a good thing. When I thought of a baby girl the only colour I could think of was pink, which was a good thing because it was one of my favourite colours at the moment.
It seems to be that that the truth hurts more than the lies and I couldn't think why but then it came to me we tell the lies to stop the ones we loving being hurt and don't think of them as lies just words that weren't telling the whole truth like when some one asks you what you think of their outfit and you comment on there hair which you then insist is part of their outfit when they give you that look.
I myself had to stop living this lie I had people believing I just walked off and fell off the ends of the earth but in fact I haven't even left New York. I looked over at my phone as it sat on top of the windowsill, maybe I should call Fang but what would I say. I watched the rain beat off the window like it was trying to climb its way in but the locks were keeping it out. It had to be done as my mother had once said you learn from the mistakes others make but in trying to learn from your own is like climbing a mountain and sometimes people try to turn a blind eye to there mistakes but some can't be hidden trust me but once climbed and fought you feel better for it and this was one battle I was going to complete even if it meant death. I don't mean like physical death that would be completely gutting if I died just now.
The phone was in my hand I don't even remember moving, I flipped it opened and noticed my hands were shaking I must be really nervous about this but it had to be done. The first couple of times it went into voicemail and I was too wimpy to leave a message so I sent him a text. I listened to the strum of the guitar in the background as I listened to some of my old pre-recorded stuff. Hearing it now makes me think of the house I left and a couple of the people I left behind like Ari, Ella and Jim but I think it was more the people that brought me comfort than the almost empty house.
Time seemed to stand still while I waited for Fang to reply; I had the nagging feeling at the back of my mind that he wouldn't reply but he did. So tomorrow at five I would see Fang once again I got butterflies in my stomach just thinking about it but I was doing the right thing after all didn't he have the right to know even if he didn't want anything to do with the baby at least he would know the truth.
I looked through my wardrobe and sighed it's a shame I'm going to have to bin all these dresses once I've had my little girl cause I don't think you'd get many people who want second hand dresses but you never know you always get someone and my shoes cause they got all stretched. Pregnancy blows if anybody asked if it's any good I'd say " There's no way in hell I'm going through that again."
I slipped into my pink Celine Swarovski dress hope it to hide my bump a little but there was very little chance of that happening and I slipped into my Christian Louboutin shoes.
I entered the lobby of my hotel and let out a sigh of relief this place felt like home to me. There was just that warm fuzzy feeling as the doorman opened the door and greeted me with a welcoming smile and bowed his hat. The music floated through the corridor as I approached the conference room that had been cleared to make room for me. The room held two chairs and a waiter just waiting on me to snap my fingers and ask for anything I desired; god I'd missed this way of living. How people live without help amazes me, I'm not lazy but I've just had someone there to help me like all the time no matter where and how or why it was just done. I remember when I was five and we'd got a new maid to help the other one who was kind of old and she'd run around the house getting anything I wanted this lasted for a whole year till Jim told her to stop but it was worth every minute of it.
I leaned over the front desk and smiled down at Emily; she hadn't been here last time I'd checked in but then again I hadn't been here in a while.
" Hi can I speak to Fraser please?" I just felt the need to ask to see him after all he is the manger but I needed to know what's been happening well I've been away.
" Can I have your name please?" She smiled down a t the computer.
" Sure. Max Ride."
I heard an audible gasp as she looked up and saw me. I don't know what she was expecting but I have a feeling it wasn't me. " Right away Miss." I was obviously on high priority now.
I walked into the room and notice Fraser swinging on the seat with his phone to his ear. He let out a small sigh and hung up the phone.
" Max good to see you again and you brought a nice surprise with you." He gestured towards my stomach and let out a low chuckle. " So who's the father then?" He questioned.
" Trust me you aren't the only one who got a surprise. Now I am here on a matter of business about getting my second room back." My voice was stern as I spoke.
" I'm sure I can help you there Max but you know as well as I do that you didn't sell that room you just put it in someone else name; it was a false trail you left behind to cover your disappearance when you left. Am I correct?" He smiled and took another sip of coffee by the smell of it.
" You found out then. You must admit it was a good idea wasn't it? Do you know who my room belongs to then yet?" I could tell by the look on his face he had no idea because he went deep into thought.
" No that was the only bit of the puzzle I couldn't fix. I searched file after file and all the people who were ever-frequent users never belonged to a room." Frustration flitted through his voice.
" So he never came then?" Sadness coated each of my words as I spoke maybe I'd been wrong. Maybe this whole thing was wrong
" No I'm so sorry but he never did but how would I've had know?" He asked
" You would have typed his name and I can assure you it would have come up saying that room 615 belonged to him and not me it would be like I never existed." Just like it was meant to be I thought to myself.
" Are you going to tell me who it is then?" He demanded.
" Why would I do that, that would take all the fun away now wouldn't it?"
I walked out the room and let out an angry sigh getting a few glared looks from the employees maybe times had changed there use to be a time were I could strike fear into them by just walking past them in my louboutin shoes.
I switched the lights off in the conference room I didn't feel like being on show for the time being. I felt like screaming just to stop the silence that was filling the hall this whole place just seemed to screw with my mind as the walls closed in roundabout me but I think that was due to the pressure I'd put my self under the past eight and a half months. Only Five minutes to go and he would be here. This would be the moment of truth. The rain slashed against the outside window maybe to day wasn't a good day to be telling someone this. I felt the panic build up in my chest as my breaths came out in sharp shallow streaks, my heart rate bet as though I'd had an adrenaline overdose and my heart was unable to cope.
I could see his face glance round the room as I sat in the corner acting as though nothing was out of the ordinary like walking into a dark room was completely normal no matter what any one else thought. His face a pale white as he took the seat across from me it was like he'd seen a ghost. Death Cab For Cutie played in the background as the lights where switched on and at that very moment I could see the realization hit him and I hadn't even uttered a word. He's smarter than I gave him credit for.
" Hi Fang." My voice was weak from my panic attack awhile back that had still taken me by surprise I hadn't had one of them since I was ten.
" Hi Max." He sounded so unsure of himself as he spoke these two words.
I didn't know what to say I seemed at lost for words, which was so unlike me, but at that very moment I felt no need to justify myself that everything was meant to be.
" So. I guess this is why you called me here then." His voice sounded so heart broken and I couldn't figure out why. He looked towards my small but swollen stomach. Maybe this had been a bad idea.
If I'd know that it would have of upset him so badly then I wouldn't have asked him to come here.
" I'm sorry Fang but I didn't know what else to do." I couldn't even look him in the eyes to tell him.
" Who's the father then?" His voice cracked on the last word like his whole world was about to fall out the sky.
I really I had no idea why he had to ask the question I thought it was quiet clear who the father was maybe I'd been wrong maybe that was why he looked so upset. He thought I'd been with someone else.
" You are." I watched as the sparkle in his eyes began to return and I guess mine reflected off of his.
" Honestly. How come you never told me? I could have help, you didn't think I would be that useless did you?" Anger covered his voice slightly at not being told but he was taking it very well if I'd told some of the other guys that I was knocked up they'd have of just walked out by now.
" I'm sorry, I really am but I didn't know what to do everything just seemed to happen so fast. I truly am sorry Fang." I leaned over and took his hand and gave it a light squeeze.
" Does anybody else know? Or is that why you done your little disappearing act nearly over a year ago well just under that but you know what I mean." He laughed like nothing in fact was going to change his life.
" Yes but just Angel and Nudge but there my best friends and also Angel figured it out by herself due to you. Fang the reason I asked you to come to day was to give you a choice since just taking a guess nobody wants to be told there going to be a dad at seventeen. Oh. Sorry I missed your birthday. I want you to know that I don't mind if you walk away and act as though this conversation never happened like you never met me here. " I handed him over a small black box with his present inside and smiled trying to hide the sadness that was washing over inside me.
" Max." He took me by the shoulders and shook me slightly to keep me focused. " Did you even think for one moment I'd just walk away and leave you like this? I may be young but I can guarantee I will not turn out like my father." He kissed me as though that was sealing the deal.
Tears cascaded down my face like a never breaking bank. This was eight months worth of tears falling from my tear ducts. " Thank- you. I've missed you so much while I've been away. Will your mum not kill you when she finds out about me?" I whispered. I t hadn't noticed till that very moment how much I missed him.
" She will but when she sees how happy I am she won't complain trust me and she'll be just as thrilled when she gets over the shock of being a gran as for my dad he doesn't matter the now. I promise Max I won't leave you I wasn't brought up that way." He voice lilted with such flow it was like a lullaby.
" I'm so sorry for messing up your life Fang." I cried.
" Max you have done very little to mess up my life apart from make me happy and we all do crazy things when you're in love." He spoke in such a loving manner it made my heart stop for a moment.
I couldn't stop my tears they just kept flowing.
" Do you know what you're going to have yet?" He asked with such urgency you would have thought the building was on fire but there was only excitement in his voice.
" I'm having a little girl but I have no idea what to call her." He was getting me excited now.
I watched him, as he seemed to go into autopilot. " Where we going to live? Clothes. Prams. Names… Everything. Paint." He spoke so quickly I missed a couple.
" Fang calm down we will figure it out ok you can relax just now I've still got a month to go."
" Sorry."
" Its ok but I'm kinda glad you're excited because your starting me off because telling you was the biggest worry I had."
" That was silly but I guess we don't know each other that well so that's another thing we'll have to do before our baby is born." He seemed to glow with pride as he said our baby.
" Relax. People are going to think you're high when you walk out this building."
" Sorry but I can't wait."
"I'm really glad I did this because now I know. And everything seems to just fit into place now like I've found the missing piece of my jigsaw." I looked over at Fang and all I could see was love in his eyes.
" I was the missing piece thanks." He whispered with such love that it made me giddy.
" I love you Fang."
" I love you Max."
We kissed slowly as I knew I wouldn't be able to see him during school time as he was still doing exams but next week was his last week. I'd still phone him and stuff but I was going to miss him and I wanted him to do well in school unlike me who hadn't even last three months there and it was his last year as he'd told me earlier on because once the baby was born he didn't want to miss anything. I think we are going to make a good family hopefully if that's what you could even call us.
So I'd been wrong oh well one down and one other to go.
A/N: I have a poll up on my page for the names of the baby and if you have anymore ideas for names just leave it in a review. I think I'll put the next chapter in Fangs POV.
