A/N: Here is the sequel to Time Changes, I am very excited about this. It can stand alone, so if you have not read Time Changes, you can still enjoy this story. It can also be considered a separate story altogether, but in the end, I decided to name it the sequel. This story will be a lot shorter than Time Changes. Well, here it is, so enjoy!
Cam POV:
Pain shot through my body once again, and I tried to contain the scream that broke through my lips.
I had to stay conscious through the entire thing, I had to keep fighting for my little girl.
Zach held my hand and kept telling me to push. I screamed that this was all his fault. I held his hand tighter and I thought it would break.
The nurse and doctor kept encouraging me, that she was close.
It had been a painful 10 hours of labor, and I was ready to see my baby girl.
Another scream broke through, and at the doctor's word, I gave one final hard push, before hearing a cry come from my little girl.
Exhausted, I fell back onto the bed, and closed my eyes. Zach kissed me, and kept saying things I couldn't really understand.
Slowly, I opened my eyes and saw that the nurse was holding my baby, gently lowering her onto my chest. Zach helped me sit upright and I began to feed her.
Zach wrapped his arm around my shoulders and we stared at the tiny being in my arms, marveling at the miracle she was.
"She's perfect."
"So are you."
"I love you."
"I love you."
In that moment, we were able to forget the past and be filled with pure happiness.
The past few months had been amazing.
Well the last eight years of our lives were amazing.
Zach and I had finally started dating after our shared kiss on the treehouse. We were inseparable.
Of course, we always had been, even as children, but our relationship's new level had made us even more inseparable.
We had flown through our senior year, been crowned Prom King and Queen, as well as being voted the favorite couple of the senior class.
Both Zach and I had gotten into our first choice college, NYU, attended, and graduated from there. Zach had gone in for business, while I had pursued journalism.
While we had been in school, Zach had gotten a loan from our fathers, and invested in a start-up tech company. Most people had said he was crazy, that he was delusional to think that the company would be anything but a failure.
Now, they were eating their words. Zach's investment had paid off so greatly, that he had even given our parents an extra twenty-thousand, on top of the loan he repaid. He was able to afford a flat in New York by our Junior year, and subsequently asked me to move in.
Zach went on to start up his own investment firm, which was wildly successful, and he now didn't need to work another day in his life if he chose to do so.
I chose to intern at a small newspaper in New York until they offered me a paid position there.
Once, we graduated, Zach and I continued to date, until he proposed to me.
It was perfect.
We had gone back to Roseville, to visit our parents for the weekend.
I should've suspected something was up, since all our friends had been there that weekend. Usually when we went back, there was only one or two people from our group at Roseville. This time, all of them had been there.
We had started out our day with breakfast with our parents, then we had plans with our friends to have a movie marathon at Macey's house, much like old times.
Zach, of course, had known that being with friends and family always put me in a good mood and was something I always looked forward to doing.
Afterward, he had said he had some dinner plans for us, but it was a surprise, so I obviously had to be blindfolded.
We always stayed at our parent's house when we came back to Roseville, so he had to pick me up.
Because of the blindfold, I had no idea where we were going, but it turned out he must've driven in circles, because by the time he had parked the car, led me to my seat, and taken the blindfold off, I took in my surroundings, and we were in my backyard.
Except, it didn't look like my backyard.
There were string lights and flowers throughout the yard, we were sitting at a small table that I had never seen before.
"Zach, how did you do this?"
"I have my ways."
"You were with me the entire day, how did you manage to pull this off?"
"Cam, you seem to forget that we have really great friends."
"So they knew about this?"
"Well, yeah."
"How long have you been planning this?"
He shrugged, "Cam, are you going to keep asking questions, or are we going to eat?"
That's when I noticed the plates in front of us, my stomach growled, and I remembered how hungry I had been five minutes ago.
We went through dinner, with Zach avoiding any question on how he set up.
I wasn't expecting him to propose to me, mostly because we had talked about our future together.
While we both knew that we wanted to spend the rest of our lives together, we wanted to wait until I was fully settled into my job, having received a promotion that came along with new responsibilities.
Zach had been the one for me, that much was clear. We couldn't live without the other, so there was no need to take a break from each other, or to see anything else.
"I'm the luckiest girl in the world."
"What?"
"Well, here I am, sitting in my backyard, that doesn't even look like my backyard because my amazingly romantic boyfriend decorated it beautifully, on a date with said boyfriend, and it's not even my birthday, or our anniversary. Not to mention, that he does do this quite often, and most importantly, I'm dating my best friend. So I am, in fact the luckiest girl in the world."
Zach broke out into a grin.
"Well, it's a good thing that you think that, because I am now going to make you climb that tree, so we can go into our old treehouse."
"Is that supposed to be a bad thing?"
"Most girls don't usually like climbing trees while on a date."
"Well then, I may have to retract my statement then."
"Come on, Cams."
"We haven't had dessert yet."
"I'm not sweet enough for you?"
"You, Zachary Goode, have a huge ego."
"Yeah, that usually comes with the knowledge that you're dating the most beautiful girl in the world."
"You're so odd."
"Are you ever going to come with me to the treehouse?"
"Yeah, yeah."
Zach started up the stairs and helped me onto the treehouse.
I couldn't help but gasp as I saw the inside of the treehouse.
There were candles on top of every flat surface, throughout the room, as well as rose petals.
I looked around until I felt Zach behind me.
I turned to face him.
"Zach, I-"
"I know, not yet. That's not why I did this. I want to wait, too."
"Oh."
Before I could say anything else, something caught my eye.
I stepped away from him, towards the window.
The string lights were twinkling now and as I stepped closer to the window and looked out, music started playing.
"Zach, can you come over here and see this? There are people-" but just as I turned around to grab his hand and push him to window to confirm I wasn't going crazy, I noticed Zach wasn't standing anymore.
Zach was kneeling.
Zach was holding a black box in his palm.
Zach was proposing.
My eyes widened as I realized that Zach was actually proposing to me.
He opened the box to reveal the most beautiful ring I had ever seen.
Zach had given me plenty of jewelry over the years, he had given me really expensive jewelry once his investment had paid off, but looking at this ring, I couldn't help but think that this ring probably cost more than all the jewelry he had ever bought me combined.
He reached out towards me and grabbed my hand, using it to pull me closer.
"Cameron Ann Morgan, I love you more than anything else in the world. I have loved you ever since we were kids, being with you has made me the happiest guy in the world. You bring out the best in me, and I can't imagine my life without you. I cannot wait to spend the rest of my life with you, to start a family with you, to grow old with you. I promise to always be there for you, to support you in everything, to do everything in my power to make you happy, and to love you forever. Will you do me the honor of marrying me? To be my best friend for the rest of our lives?"
"Yes! Yes! Yes! A million times yes!"
Zach broke out into the biggest smile I had ever seen, jumped up and kissed me.
"I love you Cammie."
"I love you Zach."
He reached for my hand, and slipped my ring onto it.
He then brought my hand to his lips and kissed it.
"Forever."
"Forever."
He picked me up and twirled me around the treehouse, until we accidentally knocked over a candle.
"Zach! We're in a treehouse, why do you have candles everywhere?"
"Don't worry, they're LED candles, see? No actual fire."
"Oh, okay. How did you manage to do all this?"
"Well, if you really must know, we can go back down, and you'll be able to thank everyone who helped me."
"What-"
"Come on."
He started to make his way down the treehouse, and just as I stepped through the door, I saw all our friends and family, waiting for us.
"Are you coming, Gallagher Girl?"
I made my way down, where I was hugged by everyone.
The rest of the night was spent congratulating us, and explaining to me how Zach had managed to plan this, months in advance. He had managed to get everyone in town for the weekend, had asked my parents for my hand in marriage, and convinced me to make the trip down.
The following year was spent making wedding plans, until the big day had arrived, and Zach and I had stood in front of all our loved ones, and vowed our love for each other.
The months following out wedding had been pure bliss.
Nothing had really changed between us, unlike with most couples who said that everything changed once you were married, but I guess that was because we had known each other most of our lives and had already been living together.
The only thing that had changed was the physical part of our relationship.
I had always believed and wanted to only be with my husband, and Zach had agreed.
Even though we were fairly certain that nothing would get in between us, we had chosen to wait until our wedding night.
So it wasn't long until I became pregnant.
That had been one of the happiest moments of my life.
I had been throwing up and Zach was so worried that he took me to the hospital. After a few tests, they told us the reason why I had been feeling unwell. I was pregnant. Zach and I couldn't have been happier.
He had been so ecstatic that we started preparing everything for our baby. The morning sickness was all worth it, because we would soon have our baby.
Zach started working a bit less, so he could spend more time with me, and get everything ready. Our friends and family were so excited for us, we would be the first to have a child.
A/N: So what do you think? Please Review! Thank you!
