Amanda's POV
I watch as he rolls the pink paint onto the walls, as he covers the white surface with the color that our daughter will see everyday. With every roll of the paint on the wall the room seems to get brighter and brighter. I rub my stomach and feel the tiny kicks of our baby as I watch him paint. "Are you just going to watch, or are you going to help me out?"
"I am overseeing the painting process, I'm just making sure that you are doing it correctly"
"I am just painting the room, it shouldn't need to be overseen" He laughs. "And if I had help I could get done faster"
"I am growing your child, I just don't have the energy right now"
"Whatever you say honey" He says it sarcastically. I look around the room and how by each second it's being completed, with the walls covered with the soft pink color I can now start to imagine the future the daughter will have growing up in this room.
"We need to go shopping soon for stuff for her"
"We will, just let me finish this room first. As soon as I'm done we can go and get the crib and her dresser, and everything else she will need"
"Okay, I just want to make sure she will have everything she needs" I have been reading this book that Nick's mom bought me, it's called "What to expect when your expecting" and it's said that around the second trimester I would be going through a nesting faze, it's where I want to make sure everything is perfect and ready for the baby, I can feel it coming on when I look at this room and all the potential is has to be the perfect place for our daughter.
"Trust me, she will" He gives me a reassuring smile and dips the roller into the tin of paint. I can hear the sound of the doorbell ringing and soon Frannie's barks fills the sound of the hallway. "I can get that"
"No, let me. You keep up the good work" I give him a thumbs up and then I walk down the hall to meet Frannie who is circling around the front door. I hold her collar and hold her back as I open up the front door, when I open it up I am face to face with the last person I expected at my front door. "Kim?"
"Amanda" Kim gives me a smile that she thinks could get her anything from anyone. Her eyes move from my face down to my round stomach. This must be a surprise to her to find me pregnant now, I remember the last time I saw her she lied about being pregnant herself, and then got me mixed up in the trouble that she always brings.
"Kim, what the hell are you doing here?"
"Amanda, don't be so rude to your sister"
"How did you even know where I lived?" The last time she came into the city she had came to my old apartment, the one that she robbed the last time she visited.
"Mom told me" I should have known that my mother would be the one to tell Kim, I decided that it was the right thing to so to tell my mother about my pregnancy, I wasn't looking for anything out of it, I just thought that I shouldn't try and separate us even further. It was her who asked for my address to send some money, I should have figured that she would jump at the chance to share my personal life with Kim as soon as she batted her eyes and asked.
"Kim what is it you want?"
"I don't know why you are being so rude, I just was going to be in New York and I thought I should come visit my sister"
"Amanda who was it at the door?" I can hear Nick walking down the hallway, soon he is standing behind me. "Kim?" Nick is just as surprised to see my sister at the door.
"Hi Nick, I didn't know that this was your house" Even thought this was Nick's house before I moved in, it's still insulting that she just assumed that this wasn't our house together.
"Yeah, It's mine and Amanda's house"
"Well that's so great, I can see you two have been awfully busy"
"Yeah I guess you could say that"
"So Amanda, are you going to invite me in? Or are we just going to have to continue catching up while I stand outside?" She smiles again but I can tell that she already knows that she is going to get what she wants.
"Yeah, Kim why don't you come on inside" I watch as she gives Nick a smile after he gives into her, I can already feeling it burning inside of me. I remember how she hung all over him the last time she was here, she always wants to take what I have, she has a knack for taking everything good in my life to try and make it her own.
"Nick can I speak to you for a second?" I give him a death glare, letting him know that I am not okay with this. "What the hell were you thinking?"
"What did you want me to do?"
"Do you not remember the last time she was here, she robbed me and almost got me arrested. And you just let her into the house where our children live"
"Amanda she already knows where we live, you can't just expect that she won't keep coming back. Let's just see what she wants and we can make her leave afterwords"
"Fine" We walk into the kitchen where Kim is looking around, I hate that she is stepping into the new life I have made with Nick, hate that she now thinks she is apart of this. "So Kim, what brings you here?"
"I wanted to see my sister, is that a crime?"
"If you are here for money we can't offer you any"
"Oh of course not, not with your baby on the way. It is Nick's isn't it?"
"Kim!" I can't believe that she would even insinuate something like that.
"What? I'm just looking out for you, you never know" She directs this comment at Nick and I can feel that burning inside of me again.
"Well it is Nick's, I am 100% sure about that"
"Wow, so Nick how's your daughter?"
"She's good"
"She was your only kid from you marriage right?"
"Yeah, but I also have a son"
"Wow, step mom to two kids and now having your own. You will be very busy Amanda"
"We aren't married actually so I'm not officially their step mom yet"
"You aren't married yet? You really want your baby to be born without their parents being married?"
"She will fine, we are committed and that's what matters" She seems to be further irritating me by the second.
"She? It's a girl?"
"Yes"
"Oh my god! That is so exciting. I'm going to have a niece. When did you find out?"
"Just a few weeks ago"
"Well that settles it, while I'm here we need to go shopping, I want to buy her some stuff"
"I don't know, we've been really busy paining the nursery and everything"
"You know what Amanda, I think I will be okay finishing up the painting on my own, why don't you two go out and have fun. You can pick up some stuff that you were saying we needed" If I could throw daggers with my eyes that is exactly what I would be hurling at him.
"Yay! I'm going to go wait in the car" She gets up and goes out the front door, it was that easy.
"Nick, what the hell was that?"
"You wanted her out of the house and now she it, just go and pretend to have fun and figure out why she is here and what she is planning"
"Fine, but that nursery better be painted when I get home"
"It will" I go and pick up my purse from the counter and Nick tries to kiss me but I only let him kiss my cheek, I can't let him off the hook that easily. "I love you"
"I know" I walk out the door and see Kim sitting in her car, I get in the passengers seat and she backs out of the driveway. The drive into the city is pretty quiet and I try and avoid conversation as much as possible. We go into the store and I am looking around at all the stuff, I find this little pink bear and think it's the cutest thing I have ever seen. I buy it and am looking at cribs when Kim comes over to me with a onsie that I have to admit looks adorable, it says "I heart my mommy" and it makes me kind of emotional when I look at it. I'm really someones mom now. "That is super cute Kim"
"I know, and who would have thought in a million years that I would be shopping with you for baby cloths"
"What's that supposed to mean?" She hasn't said yet that it was meant as a bad thing but it still feels like she meant it to be hurtful.
"All I meant was that I never expected you to be pregnant, I mean sure you could have gotten yourself knocked up but not in a committed relationship, much less with someone with two other kids of their own"
"There is nothing wrong with the fact that Nick has two other kids, I love those kids and they have just given me practice for being a mother"
"Come on Amanda, this isn't you. You aren't really the mom and step mom type, I mean you are so about your work, always have been"
"People can change okay?"
"All I'm saying is I never thought you wanted to have kids"
"Maybe I didn't, but now I couldn't imagine wanting anything more" I take the onsie out of her hand and go up to the register and purchase it, I won't let her completely ruin my day.
"Amanda don't be upset"
"No Kim, I am. You can't just walk into my life whenever you please and try and tell me how I feel about my child" I walk out of the store and look around for a cab.
"Amanda where are you going? I was your ride here"
"I'll just take a cab home" I hail the cab and get into it, I give the driver the address and look at Kim one more time before it drives away. The cab pulls up into the driveway and I pay the driver and get out of the car, I walk through the front door and set my purse down on the kitchen counter and walk into our daughters room. I am pleasantly surprised to find that Nick has actually finished it, the walls are all covered in the soft pink paint and the tarp and all the paint cans are gone, it looks more real than ever right now. Nick comes up behind my and wraps my arms around my waist.
"Hey"
"You finished it"
"Are you surprised?"
"Yeah, it looks really nice"
"Thank you" I turn around and kiss him, everything from earlier is forgiven.
"How was it?"
"It was awful, but I don't want to talk about that right now"
"Okay" I pull out the bear and the onise from the bag to show him.
"Look what I bought though, it's not a crib or anything but it's a start" He holds the bear in his hands and gets a big grin on his face.
"I love it"
"I saw a crib that might look nice in the room though"
"We can look at that tomorrow" I kiss him again and look around the room one more time, taking it all in. "And maybe we could pick a name soon, I was thinking we could paint in on the wall, it could be over her crib"
"I like that, I like that a lot actually" I try and push everything Kim said away for now, it doesn't matter what she thinks, I am having a baby and I couldn't be happier. I am now more than just Detective Amanda Rollins, I'm somebody's mom.
Hey guys, I really want to apologize for the lack of updates, I have had a lot going on in my personal life recently and I feel really bad for not posting but so much was going on that I just needed a break but I can promise you that this fanfic should be over before I return to school in the fall, I will not let you guys down anymore. If you liked this chapter I would really appreciate a review, I love you all so much and am so thankful you have been so patient with me, and until next time-Izzy