Anika: there's babies all over the place!
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Brookester27: I think after a certain amount of vomit you sort of just get over it hahaha
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alright definitely not my favorite chapter at all. But it's just another transitional chapter to help move to the end of the story. I hope you like it and if you don't I'm sorry!
5 weeks passed quickly. Fall arrived at the lake accompanied by leaves that changed to brilliant colors and then drifted to the ground around us. Winter followed soon after and cold settled in the mountains. I grew accustomed to our life away from cameras and prying eyes. Lincoln and I were finally returning to our normal relationship, where we were happy to be together and weren't constantly fighting. Well actually it was better than before because over the past weeks we'd learned more about each other than we had before.
A week was left until it was time for us to go back to Los Angeles. There was a fire blazing in the grate in our bedroom spreading warmth and an orange glow over us while we slept. Over the crackling of the flames and through the closed-door the sound of the TV that hadn't been turned off in the living room could be heard.
"-hasn't been seen in Hollywood for almost 6 weeks now amid allegations of a split between our favorite musical power duo. Beca adamantly denied the reports of a feud between the two resulting in the division of their production company when she was spotted in LA yesterday with fiancé Jesse Swanson."
Beca's voice filled the living room as the news cast cut to a clip of her surrounded by paparazzi carrying two baby carriers and closely followed by Jesse with two of his own. "Of course we're still working together, she's just on vacation with her husband. Now get out of my way, I'm carrying two babies and they're getting heavy!"
Kat Sadler reappeared on the screen after the clip finished, "Amber and her husband Lincoln are expecting their fist child on March 8-"
Outside the gravel crunched under tires before a door opened and shut quietly. Monroe who had been sleeping on the rug in front of the fireplace in the living room lifted her head and watched the door with her ears perked up. The handle rattled as a key flipped all the locks and then the door squeaked open and someone quickly stepped inside. The dog started to get up, "Stay, Monroe," obediently she laid back down.
Lincoln and I slept on while the TV was turned off in the living room. I was laying on my right side with my hand on my stomach, Lincoln had his back to me. The door was opened, "Amber...Amber, sweetie, wake up!"
Slowly I cracked my eyes open when I head my name then I jumped back as I took in the face in front of me. "Oh my God! Mom, what are you doing?" She grabbed my arms to help me sit up and throw my legs over the side of the bed to stand.
"I came to surprise you!"
"Congratulations, I think you succeeded!" she kissed my forehead and looked over at Lincoln who had rolled over onto his back when I got up. His hand was searching around the bed for me while he continued to sleep.
"Oh look at that, he got his hair cut! It looks like that boy's hair you used to have a crush on, he was in those musical movies about high school or something," she smiled down at Lincoln while she rambled on. "Um, you know who I'm talking about baby?" she waved her hand around while she tried to think. "You had those posters of him in your room," in the dark I blushed scarlet while I pulled my sweatshirt over my head and over the baby. "Oh! It was Zac Efron! His hair is all elegant and sexy like Lincoln's-"
"Oh my God, mom, stop please!" I pulled the sheets farther up Lincoln's bare chest and kissed him on the cheek before I led my mom out of the room.
"Amber, it was a compliment, He looks great! I like that sort of messy put together look, better than when he looked like a shaggy dog! At least he didn't look like that for the wedding," I laughed at her and sat down heavily on the couch. Monroe came over to me and laid her head in my lap. "Well aren't you just glowing! Look at that big belly, you're going to have a beautiful, healthy baby, I know it!" She grabbed my cheeks and kissed me again. "It would be better if I knew what you are having though, Amber," she looked at me with her eyebrows raised so I would tell her.
"Moooommy," I whined tiredly, "I can't tell you. Lincoln wants it to be a surprise, so I can't tell anyone!" my eyes started to close as exhaustion washed over me. "So what exactly are you doing here at 2 in the morning? Not that I'm not happy to see you," I added hastily.
By the glow of the fire I saw her face suddenly grow serious, "I came here to talk to you."
"At 2 in the-"
"Amber."
"Sorry, mom."
"I'll just cut right to the chase then...I got married-"
"M-m-m-married? Got married? As in you already said I do?" To say I was surprised would be a severe understatement. I wasn't even aware she had started dating again.
"Yes, it was just the other night."
"Oh my God," I groaned in surprise. "Who is it?"
"Um...it's Brighton-"
"Oh my God. Oh my God. Oh my God," I leaned my head back against the couch and pushed he tops of my wrists into my eyes. "Oh my God, Mom, are you crazy? Have you lost your mind? You married Brighton? Mom, he's dad's business partner! Dad's gonna kill both of you! He's just gonna kill everyone!" Well that made Noah my step brother now and I guess Chloe my step sister-in-law. I was really shocked though, I mean I knew they had been friends since high school, but it just didn't make sense. She had just barely finished divorcing my dad and suddenly she was married again. "Ah, he's gonna kill both of youuuuu," at some point I had started to cry and I wasn't quite sure when.
"Amber! Why are you crying?" she was looking at me wearily while I gasped through the tears.
"It's these d-d-damn p-p-pregnancy hormones," I sobbed. "Give me a minute and I'll p-p-probably be p-pissed off." My mom tried to hold back from laughing at me while she rubbed my arm consolingly. In a few minutes I got under control and steadied out my breathing. "What are they going to do at work?"
"Well they decided they wanted to separate the firm. This happened before we got married though, but now Brighton wants to start a firm with Noah in LA. So surprise we're moving!"
I gave her a hug, "Have you told Aubrey? Where's Brighton?"
"Ah, no. And he's in LA already with Noah and Chloe. He thought he should tell them and go congratulate them on the baby. Isn't this great now I'll have two grandkids in a few months! Anyway, I just wanted to come tell you before I got on the plane, I didn't want to spring it on you when you got back."
"Hey, mom, don't mention the two grandkid thing around Bree...she and Luke have been trying and it's not going as fast as she hoped."
"Oh, I didn't know they were trying!"
"Yeah, I don't think they've told too many people though." We sat and talked for awhile about everything we'd missed out on since we'd last seen each other. About an a hour later she got up to leave, "Mom. make sure you tell Aubrey as soon as you can." I walked with her to the door, "I love you, Mom, and I'm really happy for you guys! We'll see you in a couple days!"
"I love you too, sweetie," she kissed me one more time then left.
Beca
"You probably know her from her first two cd's Jump Start and Three Days of June among countless other singles she's collaborated on. If you don't you need to get your head out of your ass and reevaluate your life because I'm pretty sure your life fucking sucks, but I know her as the only person who Chuy feels normal sized around. Please welcome Beca Mitchell!" After Chelsea finished her introduction I walked out quickly onto the stage towards her. "Hi, sweetie," she said with her usual bored tone of voice even though she was smiling.
"Hi, oh my gosh hi, Chuy!" I waved to the tiny Mexican man sitting in his chair across the stage.
"Well, I was actually excited to meet you but now that you've showed more interest in my little nugget I'm not so sure," she drawled. I turned my attention to her and laughed.
"Oh God no I'm so excited to be here, I watch every night, you're hilarious. It's just not very often I meet someone shorter than me!" I laughed again.
"Chuy told me earlier he'd bang you, if it wasn't for those four kids that just shot out of your lady business." She stared pointedly over at him while she tucked her leg underneath her and he winked at me. I blew a kiss to him, he caught it and pretended to throw it into his pants. "Ew, Chuy, don't be disgusting," I laughed because Chelsea didn't really have room to criticize. " So tell me about those tiny 'bundles of joy' you have."
"Ah, yeah we've got Parker, she's the oldest, Jesse Jr., Lane, and Rory and they're just a little over 6 months now."
"So does that like mess up your sex life, having all those kids? I could never have kids just because that would ruin my penetration," No matter how hard I tried not to, all I could think of was Amy telling Aubrey that that was not a good enough reason to use the word penetrate.
"Ah...yeah," I chuckled awkwardly. "It's interesting, but I love being a mom and I love them so its all good...for now-"
"I sent Josh by your dressing room earlier because I wanted him to spy on you," this seemed to be completely normal on this soundstage, "And he said that you've got a hickey on your shoulder," she smiled and winked. "So you must be getting something."
I was starting to get extremely uncomfortable, "Um, actually, that's from Parker, she's a biter. It doesn't really hurt, she doesn't have teeth so yeah!"
"i heard, well actually someone else told me, that you and Amber are really into a cappella. I didn't realize that was like still a thing."
"Yeah I started in this a cappella group called the Barden Bellas my freshman year of college and Ambers older sister Aubrey was the captain. But we were the first all female group to win the ICCAs and then Amber joined the next year!"
"That sounds sort of lame.
"Ah, I thought so at first too, but we made it cool! And i love all the girls that were in the group, everyone lives in California so we still hang out."
"I only hang out with people when I'm drunk because I hate everyone."
"Sometimes I feel the same way."
"So are you making any new music right now? Or are you Amber on the outs?"
"We're not in the outs, she's just taking a vacation. But we've been working on an album of all the songs we left off the other two and we've done some collaborations with other artists that will be on there."
"You have a date set?"
"Not yet."
the rest of the interview went by quickly and soon I was on my way home. Everyone was over when I walked through the door, Aubrey and Chloe were laying on the floor with babies on their stomach and Jesse was passed out on the couch holding Lane. Noah and Luke were watching hockey next to Jesse with beers in their hands and Parker was asleep in the pack and play we had in the living room.
"Who's that, Rory? Who's that? Is that your mommy? Yes!" Aubrey was holding Rory up in the air and she was giggling as Aubrey talked to her. Se brought her down to her face and kissed her making the baby giggle again. "Hey, Becs, how'd it go?"
I walked over to look down at Parker who was sleeping with her arms above her head and smiled down at her. "It was good, Chuy hit on me a lot."
"That's a sign you've made it!" Chloe said while junior drooled on her. The door opened again and everyone looked around surprised. "I didn't think Veronica and Brighton were coming over till later," Aubrey groaned at the sound of her mothers name and the retribution se thought would come from her dad.
"God, I may look like my mother but I'm not nearly as old as her!" I spun around with a crazy smile on my face and my eyes wide in excitement.
"AMBER!" I ran over to her and hugged her around her stomach. She had to lean forward to reach me. "Oh my gosh you guys are early and you're huge!" I rubbed her stomach before I mace Lincoln a hug. Everyone else was getting up to deal out hugs.
"Ooh thanks for that bec. Aubrey! Chloe!" She hugged her sister, well I guess sisters, tightly then Noah and Luke. Jesse was still snoring on the couch with Lane fast asleep on his chest. "Oh Aubrey-" she stopped short when she looked at her sister.
"what?" Aubrey said in alarm.
"I didn't know you were-" she stopped again and then smiled while she hugged her older sister again.
"Were what?"
"Um here," she said unconvincingly. "Chloe, how's the baby?" She said quickly to move on.
We spent the afternoon catching up with each other and drawing on jesses face. Aubrey and amber walked off tithe kitchen together after a couple hours. Chloe and I walked after them because we wanted to hear what they were going to say. "What were you talking about earlier?" Aubrey asked while she leaned up against the counter. Chloe and I were crouched down behind the bar listening.
"Nothing." There was a silence and I assumed Aubrey was glaring at her little sister. "Um I just was wondering why you didn't tell me you're pregnant." Chloe's eyes widened next to me a we both covered each others mouths to keep quiet.
"What the fuck are you talking about? So what I've gained a little weight that doesn't mean I'm pregnant!"
"Aubrey! When have you ever gained weight in your life. You've been the same size since you were 15! I was just wondering! But like have you taken a test?"
Right then Noah walked by the bar looking for chloe he opened his mouth to call out her name and I jumped at his knees dragging him down. Chloe moved up by his head and told him to be quiet before she kissed him and we dragged him underneath the bar.
"of course! I took like a million."
"I thought you told me you were growing up still? That's not food poising, Bree. When did you take the test?"
"I don't know a couple weeks ago."
"God I ne'er thought I'd say this but you're really stupid. Come on Beca has a ton in her bathroom." They went up the stairs in the kitchen and we waited until their footsteps died away.
"What are you two doing?" Noah asked shocked.
"Spying!" We got up together and ran up the steps leaving him behind and confused. We burst into the bathroom while Aubrey was peeing, "You know Chloe as the best friends, I like to be involved in stuff like this!" Aubrey screamed and Amber jumped in surprise when we walked in.
"if you knocked we would have let you in!" Amber rubbed her stomach and then Aubrey stood back up and we waited while the results came back. When five minutes passed Aubrey didn't grab the test, she threw it at Amber to check. "What makes you think that I want to check!" She threw it to me and I looked down at it.
"You really just made yourself look really dumb, Bree," I smiled and threw it back to Aubrey.
"it's positive? It's positive! OH MY GOD IT'S POSITIVE!" She was jumping up and down and se grabbed all of us in a hug. "I'm having a baby! Luke and I are having a baby. I'm gonna be a mom! Amber you're gonna be an aunt!" She was getting teary eyed when the guys ran upstairs.
"Love, what's with all the yelling?" Luke ran over to Aubrey who was crying for real now. She pushed the test in his face and he went cross eyed to look at it. It dawned on him what it was and he startEd to laugh and then picked Aubrey up and kissed her. "were having a baby!"
The next chapter I'm gonna skip forward a couple months and then go from there. I'm pretty sure that the will be the last chapter and then I'll do an epilogue. Thank you all so much for the reviews and the support it has been amazing and I appreciate it to no end!
