The next morning, Lindsey woke up alone. Freddie had obviously stayed somewhere else that night after that row the couple had. Climbing out of bed, Lindsey got ready into her black leggings, white vest and checked shirt with her low white canvas Converse. She shoved her hair into a ponytail and picked up JJ from his crib, walking into the kitchen, getting a fright as Mercedes was stood in the kitchen making herself a drink.

"And how did you get in?" Lindsey asked, walking over to where her friend was.

"Fred gave me a key." Mercedes responded, holding up the key in her hand with a smile.

"Why? I'm fine on my own." She replied, filling up the kettle to make herself a drink, JJ in her other arm.

"He obviously didn't think so." She shrugged, grabbing a biscuit from the biscuit tin.

"Yeah, just go ahead, make yourself at home." Lindsey said sarcastically as she looked over at Mercedes.

"You're not going to eat them." Was Mercedes reply as she gave another shrug of her shoulders.

"Well, seeing as you're here." She passed her JJ carefully, Mercedes looking at her with that disgusted look on her face. "He needs his nappy changed and a feed before nursery."

"Are you jokin' me?" She said, scoffing as she looked at the child in her arms.

"Nope. I mean, you'd be doing me a massive favour and you want to be godmother to the baby right?" Lindsey replied, rubbing her baby bump softly with her hand.

"Urgh, fine!" Mercedes answered, strutting through the house and into the nursery area to change JJ.

Lindsey giggled to herself as her friend walked away, a sudden wave of pain going through her stomach, the same as yesterdays but worse.

The two best friends walked along through the village, arms linked as they walked, well, strutted actually.

"So, where we going?" Lindsey asked Mercedes as they walked through the alleyways.

"The Dog for lunch! Where else? Need some proper catch up time before this one arrives." Mercedes replied, placing a hand over Lindsey's bump with a smile.

"Just because I'm having another baby doesn't mean I'll forget about you!" She chuckled as they arrived at the pub, taking a seat on the patio outdoors as they both set their bags down and picked up the menus.

" 'Aye, you better not! I'm still your main girl, even when she arrives, alright?" Mercedes giggled, poking her tongue out a Lindsey jokingly.

"Don't worry! You'll always be my main girl even if you do try and steal my man." She joked, responding with poking her tongue out back.

"Oi, don't bring that up! It was just a fling and you were with Joe so." She shrugged and took a sip of her drink that had been brought over.

"Still, you two were so in it to make me jealous." Lindsey replied, taking a sip of her orange juice as she glanced over at her friend.

"Um, there was a spark there! He was pretty dreamy." Mercedes said, her sentence trailing off at the end as she took a sip of her wine.

"That's my boyfriend you're talking about."

"I'm only kidding, ew! No way would I ever go near him again in that way. Biggest mistake ever. Anyway, off that subject! Why did Freddie storm out on you last night?"

"Don't even ask. Pretty pathetic, you'll probably just laugh." She sighed deeply. "Basically, I had to go for another scan. I've been getting these horrific pains and I was scared something was wrong with the baby, so I went along to get checked out with Sandy without asking Freddie and when he found out all hell broke loose."

"You jokin'? He stormed out on you because you didn't invite him to a scan?" She scoffed before batting her eyelashes at Darren as he delivered the food.

"Nope. I can't believe he did it. I didn't invite him because I didn't want more stress being put on him, he's doing far too much as it is."

"He got stabbed, what? Like six weeks ago? He's already back at the club twenty-four-seven and he works at the garage as well, doesn't he?"

"I know – and soon she's going to be here and urgh. He just annoys me sometimes."

"It's men, believe me. I've had my fair share of guy troubles."

Lindsey shook her head and chuckled as the pair tucked into their food.

"Shouldn't you be with Lindsey?" Joe said as he worked on the engine of a car, Freddie laying beneath it as he worked on the outside.

"She probably doesn't want see me right now." He replied harshly, continuing with his work.

"Fred, she's probably really worried about you. Don't you think you should go find her?"

Freddie sighed, sliding out from under the car and standing up, grabbing a cloth from the side and wiping the oil off his hands.

"I'm sure she's coping without me, she did the other day. Why do you care anyway?" He shrugged his shoulders as Joe put down the tools and turned to look at his brother.

"Because I care about Lindsey! And I know her pretty well, I also know that she needs you right now."

Freddie sighed once again, knowing that Joe was right. She did need him, he needed her but right now, he couldn't even speak to her. He shoved the cloth on the side and got back under the car to finish the job.

"So you're not going to do anything then?"

"I've got to finish this, now will you leave me alone?" Freddie replied sternly.

"I'd totally have a bit of Dazzle. He's not with Nancy anymore, he's single so." Mercedes said, flopping onto the sofa as she picked up her glass of wine.

"I don't know, I mean. Don't get me wrong, he's cute but. Actually, no. I'd so get with Darren if I was single." She giggled before stopping as the cramping pain shot through her stomach, causing her to double over.

"Linds, what's wrong?" Mercedes said, still laughing from Lindsey's reply.

"It's nothing, honestly." She whispered through the pain. She clutched her arms around her stomach as the pain continued for at least another minute.

"You sure? It doesn't look like nothing!"

"Honestly." She stood back up straight as the pain faded. "I'm just going to nip up to the loo." She said, Mercedes nodding in response. Heading upstairs, she stopped suddenly as she gasped loudly.

"Oi, what's wrong?" She asked again, sitting up on the sofa as she glanced over at her friend.

"The baby.." Lindsey whispered quietly.

"What about it?" Mercedes asked, not seeming that bothered.

"Merc!" She yelled. "I think this is it, these pains. They must have been contractions!"

"You what?" She replied, jumping up from the sofa. "But you're not due for another six weeks!"

"The baby is coming, Mercedes! Help!" Lindsey shouted, frozen to the spot halfway up the stairs.

"Well I don't know! I ain't a midwife. Clamp your knees together woman, I'll call an ambulance." Mercedes said frantically, grabbing her phone from the side as she dialled nine-nine-nine.

Lindsey breathed deeply as she moved herself to sit down on the step, her arms clutching her stomach. Six weeks early and she knew this was it, her baby was going to be born.

A/N; Well, that's the end. Or is it? I was going to keep this as a one part story but I've decided to make it a three part long running story! I've got so many ideas and I just couldn't fit it into one part so three parts is going to be it. In the meantime, I'll be writing oneshots. I'll start uploading part two soon but I am leaving you all on this cliffhanger for now. Thankyou for some wonderful reviews and to all my lovely readers! Keep your eye out for part two.