Chapter 25

"Pot kettle black" Lauren murmured. She finally turned to see her Friends standing there. She guessed they'd been on a night out and this was their sobering trip. It's what they always did, not like Lauren used to join them much though, but on the occasions she had been with them, she remembered this was the part she was pretty good at and they failed epically at.

"Excuse me?" Lucy's voice proclaimed

"I didn't get into trouble thank you, I'm more than happy to be a Mum and I love my son very much" she glanced at Whitney who seemed to be caught in the middle.

"So what you just hid the fact you were pregnant did you ? is that why we haven't seen you in like 5 months?" Lauren flinched at Lucy's bitter tone, she'd say it didn't suit her but it kind of did, she was definitely the bitchy one among them.

"Don't be so harsh Luce, she explained she's been busy with work and stuff, we know what it's like. You did it when you with Miles, or mike or whatever that months target was called." Whit looked at Lauren noticing the untold story in her eyes, she didn't want to pry but something told her Laure wanted to be asked or at least listen to. "so you still with Joey then?"

"hum hmm," her eyes drifted to the counter where Joey was only just still in eyesight, waiting for their order. He really was something to look at, something highly sexy and extremely yummy!

"Wow didn't think that would last" Both Lauren and Whitney looked at Lucy "What ? don't look at me like that they hooked up in a club and spoke a bit after…my club guys never last"

"Ever thought why that is Lucy?" Whitney smirked and then sat on the table at the side of Lauren, receiving a killer look from Lucy. "How old is he?"

"eight days old aren't you baby boy?" she smiled

"He's so small Lauren…" Already it was easy to see Whitney was in awe of Harry, even at that age he was a little heart breaker just like his Daddy, accept breaking hearts was something his Dad wasn't planning on doing again, he had a heart belonging to a beautiful girl and he was intending on damaging it in the slightest. "Is…He erm…" Whit stumbled over her words and stopped deciding it was a little inappropriate to ask.

"Joey's ?" Whit smiled weakly "Ye he is"

"I shouldn't have asked that" Whit dismissed suddenly realizing how rue that actually was. ,

Lauren shook her head, she understood her not getting the situation fully, why would she ? "It's fine, I didn't know I was pregnant, I know your probably thinking how the hell didn't she know, but I didn't. Me and Joe went away on holiday nearly two weeks ago and to cut a long story short, three days into the holiday I was in a lot of pain and essentially I was in labor. I had Harry the same day and that was it. We worked it out and discovered he was you know…. created" She took a deep breath and look at Harry "very stupidly and drunkenly on that first night in the club toilets" .

There was a silence for a couple of seconds but it could have been a hour, to Lauren that's what it felt like. Whitney was the first to break the silence. She laughed. Not the reaction Lauren was expecting but at least it was something, as opposed to Lucy who was just sitting there staring.

"I can't believe, that miss "I'm not coming out tonight and don't let me drink" actually got pregnant from a one night stand. I'm actually quite proud" she smiled pretending to wipe tears from her eyes.

"Erm… it wasn't a one night stand thank you very much Whitney Dean ! I'm still with him" she frowned and nodded her head towards Joey who was finally making his way back to the table.

"Honestly… all I asked them for was hot water to heat this , you'd think I'd asked them to kill someone… so much for good customer service" He dried the bottle off and handed it to Lauren after testing it. Only once Lauren was feeding Harry did he notice the other two girls. "Lo?"

"Oh sorry ! Joey, this is Whit and Miss sour face over there is Lucy, My best mates, ladies this is Joey" she moved her hand indicating to joey, but removed the bottle from Harry's mouth in the process; something she definitely wouldn't be making the same mistake In doing again. As Harry let her know with an almightily cry the he most certainly wasn't finished. "Oh oh… I'm sorry"

"Meanie Mummy" Joey smiled to her. "Nice to meet you girls"

"You too" Whitney said smiling, she gave Lucy a nudge to which she shrugged off and forced a smile in Joey's direction. "We'll leave you to it, Lo. Make sure you call me ok, and we can arrange a day to meet up?"

"I'd really like that, Lucy?"

"Whatever. See you around" she walked out the Café followed by Whit who shot an apology over her shoulder to Lauren. Lauren released a huge breath and visibly relaxed in her seat.

"Wow!" Joey said taking a sip of his drink "And they're your friends?"

"Supposed to be… me and Luce have our differences." She rolled her eyes at herself more than anything, it was more than clear they had few similarities.

"Can see that babe… Whitney seems nice though"

"They both are really… anyway you cant dislike them. If it wasn't for them, well mainly Lucy I wouldn't have gone out the night we met and I definitely wouldn't have gone for the job interview the next day soo…" her voice trail off hoping Joey had sensed what she meant.

"Hmm I like her more already" he smirked leaning across the table and kissing her lips. "only a little bit though"

So happy I still have readers haha ! Thank you all for sticking with this...Do you think Lucy's going to be trouble she definitely doesn't seem too happy about the situation does she ?

I have time off this week so updates should be in full swing from Monday :) Also plan to get Damages goods back up and running if people are still wanting to read it ? xxx