A/N: See? I told you I'll upload more often.. :D Cooper is finally back! Enjoy..
CHAPTER 13
"So your families will be here tonight?" I asked Kurt and Blaine while we were having breakfast in our garden.
"Yes, they are. They will be so thrilled!" Kurt said.
Not all of them, I silently noted to myself. "Is Coop coming, too?" I asked.
"Yes he is," Blaine told me. "I think he is mostly coming, because he misses you. Looks like you've stolen my brother's heart."
"I knew it since Cooper first laid eyes on you," Kurt said and sipped his tea.
"Well too bad, I guess everything is over for us now," I said.
"Why? Did you speak to him?" Blaine asked while putting marmalade on his bread.
"No, but he is most likely going to break up with me tonight, after we tell them the news," I said.
"No way. He loves you. I know my brother well enough, he hasn't felt his way about anyone else..."
"Anyway we'll see tonight... Pass me the salt?"
I spent all day thinking about how I am going to announce to Coop that I am pregnant.
"Hey Coop... I'm pregnant and it's probably your brother's child. Just kidding. No, but seriously, it's 50 % his."
Not going to work.
The first ones to arrive were Kurt's parents.
"So, tell us about the exciting news," Kurt's father said. "We came all the way from Lima, we deserve to know."
"We have to wait for my parent's and Coop," Blaine explained.
"Lucy honey you look anxious, what's up?" Carole, Kurt's step mother, asked me.
"Me? Oh no, I'm not anxious. I'm fine...," I tried to sound relaxed.
"And you seem kinda different too," she went on. "Like... you face has softened..."
Oh crap. "Umm I changed the shape of my eyebrows?" I said and I certainly didn't mean for it to sound like a question.
A few minutes later Blaine's parents arrived. The men kept chatting, so I was stuck alone with a pushy Carole and Blaine's mother. I tried to make myself busy, so I started setting the table. Of course Carole offered to help me which made Tracy Anderson want to help too.
"Talk to me," Carole said, while I was taking some plates out of the shelves.
Tracy immediately became curious. "What's going on?" she asked.
"Look at Lucy," Carole told her and Tracy observed me carefully. "Lucy... Are you pregnant?"
Tracy gasped, her face showing that she understood Carole's thinking. "What?" I asked, trying to sound surprised.
"Is it Coop's?" Carole pushed me even more. I could see a wide grin spreading on Tracy's face. Perfect! She thought I was pregnant with Coop's child and that she would become a grandmother.
And that was the first time I was so thankful to hear the doorbell.
"I'll get it!" I said.
Things went from worse to even 'worser'. It was Coop. As soon as he saw me, he pulled me out of the house and threw his arms around me. I took his scent in and let myself relax in his arms. Oh, how I am going to miss this...
His lips met mine. "I missed you so much," he told me.
"I missed you, too," I told him.
We went back in the house and he held me close. Carole kept watching my every move and I felt I could explode any minute. Coop greeted his parents and then we both took our places.
"Lucy are you staying here with Kurt and Blaine?" Blaine's father asked me. Tracy, who was sitting on his right, was looking at me and Coop lovingly. Of course, she thought that I was expecting her first grandchild.
"Umm, yes," I said awkwardly. Coop was watching me as if I was everything to him. He was literally hanging on each and every one of my words, as if they gave him life. How could I do this to him?
"So... are you ready for the surprise?" Kurt was more excited than anyone in the room.
"Kurt and I decided it's time to expand our family," Blaine started.
Everything was going in slow motion for a moment and then everyone was babbling. Carole and Tracy exchanged a worried look and then they both turned to me. They had connected the dots.
"This is great!" Burt, Kurt's father, said.
"So are you adopting?" Blaine's father asked.
"Not exactly," Blaine replied.
This is it. It's coming. Coop was now holding my hand and examining my worried face.
Oh baby I didn't mean to hurt you, I silently told him.
"A surrogate?" Burt asked. "Guys we aren't solving a riddle here, just tell us already!"
"Yes it's a surrogate!" Kurt and and now both him and Blaine were looking at me.
"Lucy? You don't seem surprised, baby..." Coop told me, his blue eyes connected to mine.
I took that as my cue. "I'm not," I said.
"Why aren't you? Did you know?" Carole pushed me. Oh, that woman!
"I am not surprised...," I began. "...because... Because I am the surrogate."
What followed was the definition of awkward silence. Everyone was now staring at me. Carole smiled at me encouragingly. Coop's smile had frozen on his face.
"Excuse me?" he finally managed to ask.
"Coop, look, Kurt and I asked Lucy to carry the baby because..."
"You asked my girlfriend to carry your baby?" Coop had stood up and was pushing Blaine against a wall, while I tried to restrain him.
"Coop easy..." their dad held him by the shoulders while their mom and Kurt helped Blaine stand up.
"Are you serious?! Why her?!" Coop shouted, while now both his father and Burt were holding him.
"Coop please," I held his face in my hands.
"Did you agree?" he asked me, his voice full of hope.
"It's already done...," I let my tears escape.
Coop escaped from his father and Burt's grip, walked past me and left the house. I ran behind him.
"Why Lucy? I told you I was coming back for you," he told me. "Damn it, I promised!"
"Baby listen to me," I put my hand on his shoulder. "You know that I never had a family. You know how much this means to me..."
"We could have been a family Lucy," his voice... I could hear it. He was hurt. "I should have stayed here with you..."
"We still can be a family," I told him and wiped a single tear that ran on his cheek.
"Once you bond with my brother's child, you'll never be able to leave it behind," he said.
I chuckled at this. I actually sounded like a psycho. "You think I'm gonna live with Kurt and Blaine forever?"
"It's not that simple...," he said.
"It is simple," I cut him off. "Because I love you and because you love me. And as soon as the baby is born I'm gonna have to leave Kurt and Blaine's house no matter how much I have bonded with the child."
He remained silent. "Please tell me we're not over," I spoke again and looked right into his eyes.
He pulled me in a tight embrace. "I love you," I told him. "I love you more than anyone."
"I love you, too," he said and took in the scent of my hair.
"Will you apologize to Blaine please? For me? I get that you're mad, but he never pushed me to accept..."
"For you, anything..."
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