Baby Makes 3
One week Later.
Tawni Hart squinted her bright blue eyes in the early morning son followed by a groan. She'd been wrapped up in her pink Ralph Lauren sheets all day relaxing on her day off. Most her Saturdays she woke up around 1 or 2, when she looked at her alarm clock it read 11:30 am.
"What the?" she accused no one in particular yanking the sheets off her fit physique. She was in a simple baby doll nightie and silk shorts. The doorbell that had been ringing for the last minute just wouldn't stop. Irritation was etched across her face as she jogged down her sleek steps marching toward her door.
"What!", she screamed once the door was swung open. Tawni slightly softened when she saw James standing in the doorway.
"Hey", he smiled casually glowing in the morning sun that now filled her whole house.
"James", Tawni subconsciously touched her wild blond curls smoothing them back to normal. Since Travis declared they were on a "break" she didn't spend much time prettying herself around the house. But in James opinion she'd never looked better. Her skin looked clearer without any makeup.
"Come in", she told him as he shrugged past her casually. They'd become somewhat close after the airport fiasco with Sonny and Chad. For once she didn't mind James company, from what she was noticing he wasn't as cold-hearted as she thought.
"I didn't mean to wake you", he ruffled his chocolate hair with a sly smile. " I was just in the neighborhood", James lied following her into the kitchen where she prepared coffee.
"Sleeping?" she laughed. " A lady never sleeps past seven", Tawni proclaimed boiling hot water with her back facing James.
"Liar", James stated with a smirk.
"I know", Tawni giggled pouring the piping hot coffee in mugs from her cabinet. She awkwardly sat next to James in the glossy wood chairs handing him the green mug.
"Are you okay?" he asked after a few minutes of casual conversation.
"What?" Tawni laughed absent mindedly. " My new romantic comedy was a blockbuster hit, I have a contract with Cover girl and-
"Not professionally", he nudged her with a playful smile. " Personally".
Tawni frowned seriously with a exaggerated sigh. " Horrible. I miss my best friend, Travis and I are on a break, my mother annoys me, and I'm worried about Chad", she confessed.
James reached forward and tightly pulled her into a hug wrapping his arms around her body inhaling her fruity shampoo. " Everything's going to be fine", he told her confidently and stroked her blond hair. They embraced for awhile longer until Tawni pulled away to gaze into his green eyes.
They both inched forward and was about to kiss when footsteps appeared, both heads turned in surprised when Chad stood in the middle of the kitchen. He looked great actually. His blond hair was nice and shiny, he was sporting a yellow Armani polo and white jeans with gold aviators framing his face.
Chad cleared his throat looking left to right at the two. " Am I interrupting something?"
"No!", Tawni exclaimed running over to tightly squeeze her best friend, as James followed to playfully punched Chad in the arm.
"Looking good, bud".
"What?" Chad laughed nonchalant as his two friends watched him ready for him to explode at any moment.
"Nothing", Tawni admitted shaking her head and squinted her eyes looking for the right word to say. " But-".
"You look great dude", James shook his head in disbelief. Just the other day when he saw him he looked sketchy.
"You sound surprised", Chad smiled walking over to pour him a cup of coffee and leaning against the breakfast island.
"I'm proud of you, when Sonny left I thought you took it pretty hard".
"I did", Chad nodded then shrugged. " But I thought what's me sulking around going to do. I've decided I'll give her a few weeks to clear her head".
"That's really mature of you dude", James added proudly.
Tawni nodded kicking her feet back and forth . " I wish I was that mature".
Chad smirked shaking his head changing the subject. " Now, have you two finally decided to admit your feelings for each other?"
"What are you talking about Chad?" Tawni accused crinkling her eyebrows. "We're just friends".
"Right, right", Chad stated sarcastically. " This is a room full of actors, and you expect me to believe that?" he laughed inching out the door.
"Wait. Where you going?" James asked.
"Walk, lunch, jog? Who knows", he winked across his shoulder before disappearing.
"Can you believe him?" Tawni laughed shaking out her blonde hair. " He thinks there's something going on between us".
James didn't laugh.
"There isn't, is it?" she asked.
"No", Sonny answered with a warm smile when her mother came to sit outside with her in the warm and relaxed Wisconsin air. She briefly looked down at her phone as watched another missed call from Chad.
"How's the baby?" Connie asked walking over to where Sonny lounged to rub her swollen stomach like any proud mother would.
"Very aggressive", she sighed running her fingers through her long chestnut hair and pulled her legs underneath her.
Connie nodded understandingly. She was elated that her daughter had decided to come back but she was disappointed in the way Sonny decided to leave things with her husband. Monroe women didn't give up on their marriages.
"Want to go for a walk sweetie?"
Sonny agreed, after changing into blue jean shorts, simple gray tank top and flip flops. She looked thin besides the baby bulge in the middle of her stomach, her mother noticed.
"We're going to have to put some meat on them bones", she joked patting Sonny's cheek as they strolled through town side by side until they stopped for ice cream.
"Whoa", Sonny smiled holding her stomach when the baby kicked . " The babies restless like her father".
"Speaking of the father", Connie pointed with a smile after licking her chocolate ice cream.
Sonny stopped frozen and followed her mother's direction as her heart beat raced at the thought of seeing Chad. Chad?
Sonny squinted her eyes to get a better view and felt her heart flop when she saw a life size picture of Chad in a black leather jacket cradling a weapon. The Rebel- Coming this Sumer, it read on a passing by bus.
"It's okay if you miss him", Connie smiled wrapping her arm around Sonny's shoulder as they began walking in unison again.
"Well", Sonny shrugged. " I don't, can we just leave it alone?" she lied.
"Fine", Connie agreed, because she decided she had a plan for later.
Sonny looked across her shoulder one more time as the picture of Chad drifted further and further away from her.
"I just wonder what he's doing".
Chad felt exhilarated without his phone constantly buzzing at his hip, for once he actually had time to enjoy running. Other than movies and the treadmill he never had time to actually exercise outside. It felt great, he even stripped down to basketball shorts and a T shirt to go jogging.
He'd stopped momentarily to catch his breath and exhaled snatching out his iPod headphones casually before jogging again. On his stride he bumped into a moving figure who nearly stumbled, he quickly jumped to prevent the woman from falling when he realized she was pregnant.
"Sorry", he apologized steadying the girl up absently before he moved to continue his jog.
"Chad", a familiar raspy voice called making him turn around frozen.
It was Portlyn in Pink sweats with her hair in a loose ponytail, she was utterly surprised to see him. And from the look on Chad's face the feeling was mutual. He hadn't seen her in over a month.
"Portlyn?" he asked in disbelief while shaking his head.
Portlyn nodded her head unfazed, he half expected her to swarm him with her over bearing attitude as always, or call him baby daddy.
"Look", she sighed sincerely. " I didn't know you'd be here, sorry", Portlyn apologized before continuing on her stride through the bike trail.
Chad was confused for a moment, he didn't understand Portlyn actually being considerate. Then suddenly felt bad for treating her the way he did, if he learned anything from his fallout with Sonny was to consider other people's feelings.
"It's okay, I mean we're already here. There's no reason to avoid each other".
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