A/N: There I finally gave everyone an update that they wanted after some people bugging me. I wanted to say this chapter is the second to last chapter of this story so I'm going to save my sob story for that chapter. School/Work and living with my roommate have been stressful these past few months so I've been only able to write a little bit of this story at a time.
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After the wedding Kevin and Lucy met their family and a few of their friends at the reception hall and danced the night away. Even though they had a small but intimate reception it was still one of the best. After their friends went home Kevin, Lucy and the Camden's along with Kevin's family went back to the Camden's home and hung around while Lucy and Kevin changed out of their wedding clothes and into more comfortable clothing and grabbed their luggage.
They were taking a 5-day West Caribbean Cruise and then headed to Savannah, Georgia and wouldn't be coming back until the 5th of May. Once they came back that was when Karen and Ben along with Eryn were going to catch a plane from Buffalo and stay with the Camden's for a few days and help Lucy and Kevin move. Originally Mary and Wilson were going to come for a few days as well but as luck would have it Wilson had to go out of town so Mary had to stay home and watch Billy but she promised Lucy that as soon as he came back all three of them would plan a trip back out to California to see the new place and stay with them for a week.
Two weeks after Kevin and Lucy had come back from their honeymoon they were sleeping peacefully in bed surrounded by the California sunshine that had started to stream through the curtains in the garage apartment. Eric and Annie had agreed to let Lucy and Kevin stay there while the house was getting a new paint job and new floors. "Go away" she heard Kevin murmur from the left hand side of the bed.
"Kev, I don't think the sun can hear you" she whispered snuggling closer to her husband. Even though it was May it still tended to be a bit cooler in the morning. Kevin draped his arm over her body and grasped onto her right hand and locked fingers.
"So" he asked her kissing her shoulder. "What are we going to do today Mrs. Kinkirk?" he asked giving her a sexy smile.
Lucy rolled her eyes. "I'm going to drop off my finals at school and meet you back here so we can go to the furniture store and pick out new furniture for the house.
"Sounds like fun" Kevin replied sarcastically. "What happened to those honeymoon days that everyone keeps asking me about?" he asked, pulling her closer to him and rested his chin on top of her head.
"We already passed those days" Lucy mumbled. Before jerking upwards at the sound of the side door to the garage door opening and slamming shut and someone was running up the steps to the garage apartment.
"Hey Luce? I need to know what color you plan on painting that third spare bedroom that is on the main floor" Annie asked her foot hitting the last step and was shuffling through some paint sample. "I know you said you like the blue and this green but the painters just called and said they needed you to make a decision by tomorrow or they are just going to paint it white and OH MY GOD" Annie screamed out loud.
"MOM" Lucy screamed grabbing the blanket and fitted sheet quickly trying to cover herself up as much as she could. She wasn't completely naked but being married allowed her to wear a lot less clothing to bed then what she was normally accustomed to while living with 6 other brothers and sisters.
Kevin on the other hand well….he was one of those boxers by day and nothing by night kind of men and well let's just say he was tucking the blanket and the bed sheets around him as tight as possible.
"I am so sorry you guys I didn't know …" Annie let her voice trail off. "How about I come back in about 20 minutes let you guys get dressed and then well never mind the moment's ruined. I was always worried about my kids walking in on Eric and me…I just never thought I'd be the one to walk in on my kids" she rambled on standing in the middle of the living/bedroom.
Lucy's face turned redder the more Annie talked. "MOM" Lucy blurted out. "Will you just go? I'll come downstairs in an hour"
Annie nodded and turned around and raced down the stairs and exited the garage.
Lucy breathed a sigh of relief and sunk back down into the bed covers and looked over at Kevin who still had a shocked expression on his face. "That was embarrassing." She told her husband.
"Did…she…us…see…you…me…?" he questioned not able to make a complete sentence. Lucy just laughed. "See what I mean about needing to go furniture shopping?" she told her husband leaning over to give him a small but sensual kiss before slipping out from under the covers and heading towards the bathroom so she could take a shower, leaving her bewildered husband to just stare at the bare walls ahead of him until the sound of the water hitting the bathroom tub placed him back into reality and he too also slipped out from underneath the blankets and headed towards the bathroom to shave while his wife took a shower.
Later that day…
"Kevin? What do you think of this couch?" Lucy asked him pointing to a deep chocolate covered leather bound couch.
Kevin made a face and Lucy rolled her eyes. "Kevin this is the 10th couch you've either made a face at, told me no, or you've just plain old walked away from. We have got to decide or we'll be living with my parents for another two years" she told him walking away and looking at another living room set across the furniture store.
"Excuse me miss? Is there anything that I can help you with?" Lucy heard the salesman ask her. "Actually I do have a question about this set over there" Lucy motioned to the salesman as they walked to the complete opposite side of the store leaving Kevin to test out which recliner he was thinking of buying for the extra rooms that were in the new house.
They walked over to the light tan colored loveseat, couch, and two chairs that Lucy had seen as soon as they walked into the store. "I saw these when my husband and I walked in and I was wondering if you guys happen to have deliver on Saturday's?" The salesman nodded and Lucy and him continued their conversation for a few more moment before he wrote up the order for the loveseat, couch, the two chairs, a dining room table, a coffee table and two end tables and a few odds and ends. Lucy handed him her credit card and told him she'd be over in the recliners with her husband in case he needed her for anything.
Lucy walked over to where Kevin was and cleared her throat. Kevin had fallen asleep while she had handled the entire transaction. "Kevin! God can't you do anything without falling asleep? I need you to go and sign for the furniture" Kevin awoke up a snort and stared at Lucy and rubbed his face.
"Wha--? Lucy what is your problem? I'm just sitting here. You're the one that had to go off and be all "miss in charge". You didn't have to go and buy everything in one day you know" Kevin argued back.
Lucy placed her hands on her hips and glared at her husband. "Just for your information. I didn't BUY everything. Tomorrow we are coming back for the bedroom set unless you want me to call JcPenney and buy that race car bed that you had your eye on?" she asked him sarcastically.
Kevin gave Lucy a look and was about to say something as the salesman came forward with the receipt to have Kevin sign it and then handed Lucy all the information that she would need when the delivery men came to the house in two weeks. "Mrs. Kinkirk is there a specific time that you need the delivery men to come?" the salesman asked opening up an appointment book and flipping forward to two weeks.
Lucy thought for a moment. "If you guys have something in the morning I think that would work the best" the salesman nodded and wrote down her name and address and thank Lucy profusely and bid her a good day adding that he would see her in the next couple of days to assist her in purchasing the bedroom set she had been telling him about.
Lucy just glared at Kevin and snatched her purse up from one of the chairs and started to walk towards the front of the door not bothering to wait for Kevin to have a chance to catch up.
"Lucy wait up" Kevin yelled at her once they got outside jogging up beside her. "What's your problem? One minute your wanting to buy furniture and the next minute your upset because I didn't like the couch that you liked?"
Lucy ignored Kevin and got to the Dodge Durango and waited for Kevin to unlock the doors and hopped in the passenger seat and shut the door. Kevin just stared as his wife through the windows and shrugged his shoulders. Maybe picking out furniture was a big deal to Lucy...she just never mentioned it. He opened the driver's side door and hopped in and started the car and drove back towards the Camden home.
They arrived back at the Camden home and Kevin parked the car. As soon as the Durango was in park Lucy hopped out of the car and headed up towards the garage apartment slamming the passenger door shut. Kevin got out of the car and walked to the backyard where Eric was playing football with Sam and David.
"Was that Lucy I just saw going up towards the apartment?"
Kevin nodded as he sat on top of the picnic table. "Yeah, she's pissed off at me apparently"
"What for?" Eric asked tossing the small foam football to Sam who missed and started chasing it around the yard while David flopped down on the yard and laughing loudly as Happy started to give him doggy kisses.
"If only I knew. We went shopping for furniture this morning. One minute she was excited the next minute she was upset then again it didn't help that I had fallen asleep either"
Eric laughed and joined Kevin on top of the picnic table. "Annie told me what happened this morning." Kevin groaned. He didn't want to talk about sex with his father-in-law. Eric put his hands up in defeat. "I'm not going to say anything else besides she apologized to me about 100 times. I just kept telling her I wasn't the one who she needed to be apologizing to" he chuckled a little bit. "But Kevin I gotta tell you. After being married to Annie for so long and then having three girls it's hard to get adjusted when you from living by yourself to living with a women. She's going to have different mood swings"
Kevin groaned. "I thought when I moved out of the house and away from Patty-Mary I would of gotten rid of those days. I guess I just moved right back into those days" he joked with Eric.
"I guess I should go up there and talk with her. I did cause the fight" Kevin said as he hopped off the picnic table.
"Good luck" Eric replied as he started to chase the boys around the backyard as Kevin headed towards the garage apartment with his hands in his pockets.
The next day…
"Hey babe" Kevin was greeted with a few soft kisses to his lips as he woke up.
"Hey what are you doing up so early?" Kevin asked sleepily giving Lucy a small put sensual kiss back.
"I have to go turn in my last final exam paper and I thought we could spend the rest of the day together" Lucy told him smiling as she kissed his jaw line.
"I'm sorry about yesterday. I don't know what got into me" she told him suddenly looking into his eyes as her eyes filled with tears. "One minute I felt like I was on top of the world and the next minute I was so angry at you…and I" Lucy started to cry.
Kevin gathered Lucy up into his arms and let her sob for a few minute before she was able to compose herself. "I'm going to take a shower" she told him wiping her eyes. She hopped off the bed and changed her mind and headed over towards the kitchen and opened up the small mini refrigerator that they had and pulled out a small carton of skim milk and popped the top and poured the contents into a tall glass.
"Since when did you become such a milk drinker?" Kevin asked as he also had gotten up and put a pair of jeans on.
Lucy shrugged her shoulders. "I don't know I've just felt like drinking more milk lately" she told him finishing off the glass, placing it in the sink and then hopping off towards the bathroom so she could start her shower.
"Hey Luce? Did you want me to still meet you at Newman's Furniture store after you drop off your final exam?" Kevin asked opening the door partway to the bathroom.
"Yeah that would be great sweetie" Lucy replied as she turned the faucet on. "We can pick out the bedroom set and then get the three guest bedrooms as well while we are there. Then we'll be done! Isn't that great Kevvy?"
Kevin winced at the sound of his old childhood nickname. Only one person was allowed to use and that was his wife. When Lucy was little she couldn't say the letter "n" so she would just say "Kevvy" instead. Everyone would tease him about it but it was sort of like a private, intimate name between him and Lucy. Kevin forced a smile. "I think that's great Luce" he replied shutting the door to give his wife some privacy while he walked over to the bed and grabbed the pillows off the bed and threw them on the floor and started to make the bed when a soft thud came from the bathroom.
"Luce?" Kevin asked out of concern as he finished smoothing out the sheets and threw the pillows back on the bed. "Is everything okay?" he waited for a response but when he didn't get one he started to get worried. He walked over to the bathroom and knocked on the door. "Luce? Everything all right in there?"
When he didn't get an answer, Kevin slowly opened door and saw Lucy lying in the bath tub with her eyes shut. Kevin rushed in to the bathroom and grabbed the towel that was lying on top of the toilet and wrapped it around Lucy and helped her out of the shower. "I thought you were taking a shower?"
Lucy nodded as she stepped out of the tub and her feet hit the tiled bathroom floor. "I was and then all of a sudden I started to feel sick to my stomach and I sat down and I knocked over the shampoo and stuff and the bathroom started to spin in circles so I had to close my eyes" she told Kevin as he guided her towards one of the kitchen chairs.
Kevin eyed Lucy and crossed his arms. "Are you sure you're feeling okay? You've been acting strange the last couple of days. I'm starting to worry about you these days" he told her bending down so he could.
Lucy sighed and stared at her reflection in the mirror. Kevin was right she had been feeling very well lately. She had been having bad headaches, feeling tired all the time even when she was going to bed early and getting up late but she figure it had a great deal to do with the stress of her school finals and with her and Kevin moving within in the next three weeks. Lucy gave Kevin a weak smile and patted his knee.
"I'm fine really. I've just been stressed out between finals and moving. I promise if anything else happens I'll go and see Dr. Field" she promised as she watched Kevin stand up straight.
"Promise?"
Lucy nodded her head and forced a smile. "I promise" she repeated as she got up off from the chair and wrapped the towel tighter around her and went back into the bathroom to finish her shower and change her clothes.
Kevin threw on a shirt and headed down the garage stairs was fixing his shirt collar when the garage door opened and Annie poked her head through the door.
"Kevin! Good you and Luce are still here" she exclaimed walking through the door closing it behind her. "I need to ask you a favor. Eric took the boys and Ruthie to School and then he had some church errands to run and I told Simon he could use the car today because him and Cecilia are doing some sort of an a final exam and they needed it to go to Glenoak Public Library and since I know you and Lucy were going to finish your shopping today I was wondering if you could drop me off at the church so I can wait for Eric to come back so I can use the car for a while.?" Annie inquired as she reached out a hand towards the staircase.
Kevin winced. He wasn't sure if he should say yes or no to his mother-in-law only because Lucy was the one that suggested they spend the day together. "Well…I ummm…Lucy and I were planning on spending the day together so I'm probably not the best person to give you an answer. I think you should ask Lucy" he replied.
Annie nodded and started to head up the stairs when Kevin stopped her. "Annie? Do…do you think that you could talk her into going to the doctors tomorrow? She hasn't been feeling well lately and I'm worried about her. She's been complaining of bad headaches, feeling exhausted even though she's been going to bed early and waking up late and today she complained that she felt sick to her stomach after she fell in the bathtub" Kevin explained.
Annie pursed her lips together and nodded her head in understandment, and then her eyes got wide and she quickly turned back towards the stairs and started to head up to the garage apartment. When she got to the top she saw Lucy sitting on the bed with a large towel wrapped around her body.
"Luce? Is everything okay?" Annie asked her as she walked over to the kitchen and turned the faucet on to cold so she could get herself and Lucy a glass of water. Annie turned around in time to see Lucy shake her head no. "Is something wrong?"
Lucy wiped her eyes and nodded her head. "I don't feel well. I feel sick to my stomach all the time, I have this horrible headache that won't go away and I'm tired all the time. Plus I can hardly eat anything and when I do I throw it back up again. I can't handle this anymore" Lucy sobbed into the cream colored towel.
Annie set the two glasses of water down on the kitchen table and walked over to the bed and sat down and put her arm around Lucy. "You know Luce it's going to be okay. I mean I felt the same way when I was your age" Annie told her patting her on the knee.
Lucy looked up and wiped her eyes. "Really? So it won't last? Thank god. I hate these mood swings" she replied with a sound of relief in her voice.
Annie laughed. "Of course it won't last I'd say give it about another three months to get your body adjusted and you should be fine" she winked at Lucy.
Lucy stood up and clutched the cream towel closer to her body. "Good, I mean with graduating, moving into a new house and being married to Kevin I knew I was going to be stressed out but I didn't think it would take that long for me to get use to everything but as long as I go back to normal that's fine by me" she laughed throwing her arms around Annie's neck.
Annie gave a short laugh. "Luce? Do you have any idea what I'm even talking about?"
Lucy poked her head out of the bathroom door. "Of course I do" she replied brushing her hair. "You were telling me to not over do it because moving and graduating are stressful."
Annie shook her head. "Luce, I felt the same way as you did. I had no or little appetite, even if I could eat I would throw it up, I had the worse headaches and I was always tired"
Lucy looked annoyed. "So?"
"I felt that way when I was pregnant…all 7 times" Annie explained
Lucy's eyes got wide and walked back into the bathroom and slammed the door and walked back out three minutes later fully clothed. "Mom, there's no way I mean…" her voice trailed off. "You don't think?"
Annie laughed. "Luce if it's one thing a mother has it's the intuition of their children and believe me mine is telling me your pregnant"
Lucy closed her eyes and felt the room swaying from side to side. "I can't be. Kevin and I talked about it we aren't going to start a family until after I graduate. I can't handle having a baby, graduating and moving into a bigger house. It is just a mistake I mean I'm just really stressed and that this is how my body reacts" she gave a short laugh and tossed her hair. "Thanks mom for scaring the crap out of me" she told her mother sarcastically.
Annie shrugged her shoulders. "If you think so Luce it's just my opinion. By the way do you care if I tag along with you and Kevin for a bit? I need someone to drop me off at the church so I can get the car from your dad so I can do some grocery shopping"
"Sure the more the merrier!" Lucy replied as she grabbed her purse off the table and picked up the two glasses of water that Annie had gotten and placed them in the sink. "You know what mom? Why don't you go find Kevin and tell him I'm ready and I'll meet you guys at the car? I need to fix my hair for a second" she told her mother.
"Okay" Annie responded heading down the stairs and out the door towards the house to find Kevin and grab her purse and grocery list.
Lucy raced to the bathroom as soon as she heard the door close and took a close look at herself in the mirror. She wasn't pregnant…was she?
