A/n: I'm really excited for my new story. I have a lot of ideas and really hope to get some good critism. I only got a few reviews on the last chapter, and really hope for some more. It inspires me to write more. So please, if you read my story and like it, REVIEW!
I am pregnant.
Those are words that she would have loved to say to him. She could imagine the look on his face, ecstatic that she was carrying his child. She could imagine the baby growing inside of her. She could imagine them preparing their baby's nursery and picking out a name. Mostly, she could imagine how happy they would be. Together.
But this was a less than ideal situation, to say the least.
"I'm sorry." He said to her. Like he had chosen this.
"I just can't believe this. How could this happen? Now, after we finally are going to get married and have a life together, this happens? It just doe-" He put his fingers to her lips. Those beautiful lips that he had fallen in love with years ago. She looked away, not wanting to face the truth at that moment. He couldn't stand looking at the stressful story her eyes told.
"Peyton." He said, still in close proximity to her. "I love you." He kissed the area between her eyes as he watched he shoulders fall. This couldn't break them, he wouldn't let it. They had gone through too much to let her go now. But he couldn't just ignore that, and she knew that. He wasn't going to be like his father was. He needed to be there.
She sighed. "I just can't believe she's pregnant." Lindsey. The one person she thought would never come between them again. And here they were. She looked at him and knew she loved him no less. She would just have to deal with a husband that was also a father, but not to their baby. To his ex-fiancée's baby. Knowing his history, she knew that he would be there as much as could, as much as Keith was for him. She would expect no less out of this wonderful man.
He could tell that she was having trouble with this. He was too, in all honesty. The idea of being a father scared the living hell out of him. But the idea of doing it without Peyton was more than he could handle.
"I know." He touched her soft cheek. "Is this something you can handle?" He asked, hoping that he already knew the answer. There wasn't a chance that she was going to leave him, was there?
She laughed a little, shaking her head. "You think this is going to scare me away?" She put her hand on his shoulder. "You'll have to do much more than that to get rid of me now." She smiled for the first time since he had broken the news to her.
"What about the wedding?" She asked him. He had a lot more things to worry about now. He was going to be a father. And if that meant that he couldn't be her husband until things settled down, so be it. She just hoped that he didn't have time to change his mind.
He looked at her confused. She was his partner. He couldn't do this without her.
She picked up on his look. "It's just that you have a lot more responsibilities now and I don't want to get into the way of that."
It was his turn to laugh. "Nothing could keep me from marrying you."
She nodded, not completely convinced. She wasn't the type of girl to just let things happen. Would their love be strong enough to last through this trying time? Would he still look at her the same way? It was like he could read her thoughts, read her doubts. The way he took her in his arms and make her feel the way that only he could make her feel.
"Let's get married." He said, in all seriousness.
She looked at him, and then gestured to the pretty ring on her finger. "See this ring here? This kind of means you already asked me that."
"I mean tonight, let's get married tonight."
She shot him a look. "We don't have to. We have everything planned already and I know you are just asking me to make me feel bet-"He cut her off again.
"That's not why." He entangled their fingers together. "I need you."
She looked at him. She knew he was serious. They were to stay together through it all. Nothing could tear them apart again.
She grinned at the idea. "Let's do it."
"Good." He kissed her before finally letting her go. "Now go pack. I'll find a place." He said, smacking her butt playfully.
"So bossy." She laughed excited, jogging to get the suitcases.