Ok, I finally got a new chapter up! I would like to thank 2Dreamer on Wattpad for all of her help!
Spencer was packing up everybody's suitcase getting ready for her and Toby's weekend away. Amelia would be staying with her parents again. Spencer was sure she spent more time at her parents' house than she did at her own. Spencer was hopeful that maybe the weekend getaway would give Toby the perfect opportunity to propose. Toby was just walking into the bedroom as Spencer was packing the new lingerie she had bought for the trip.
"You bought new lingerie?" he asked teasingly.
"It's part of your Christmas present" she said.
"Oh ok" he said. "I can't wait to see you in it"
He wrapped his arms around her waist and kissed the back of her neck.
"Thank you for this, we need this trip" he said. He could feel that Spencer was becoming distant but he didn't know why.
"I'm looking forward to it" she said as she continued to pack. They were leaving first thing in the morning and dropping Amelia off to Spencer's parents. When everyone was all packed Spencer finally relaxed and sat on the couch with Toby. They cuddled up on the couch while Amelia played on the floor with her toys. Amelia still hadn't crawled and Spencer was almost positive she was refusing to crawl on purpose. When it had gotten a little later Toby and Spencer went to put Amelia to bed and then went to go to bed themselves. The following morning, Spencer and Toby bustled around their house as they prepared Amelia and loaded luggage into their car. They each held their daughter in a tight embrace before kissing her on the cheek and handing her off to Spencer's mother. The drive to the airport and flight to New York was mostly spent in a comfortable silence. Spencer instantly flopped onto the king sized bed when they arrived at their large hotel suite in New York. There was a chilled bottle of champagne in the suite that Spencer had ordered Toby was busy with the bags so Spencer grabbed the card that said "Congratulations on the engagement" and tucked it in her pocket. They had a reservation at an exclusive and expensive restaurant that evening. It would give Toby a perfect opportunity to propose to her. Toby climbed over her letting himself relax.
"I love you baby so much" he said caressing her cheek.
"I love you too" she mumbled in between kisses.
He pulled her shirt over her head and began kissing down her body. She pulled his shirt over his head running her hands down his abs. They both reached to undo each other's pants. They spent the afternoon rolling around in bed.
"I love this bed" Spencer said nuzzling his chest.
"I could find out where they got it and buy us one" he teased.
"No" Spencer said "we wouldn't enjoy vacations if we had all this at home"
"We should get ready to go to dinner" he said kissing her.
"Yeah" she said stretching "I have the perfect dress"
"The perfect dress for my perfect woman," Toby said, grinning.
She snorted, hitting his brawny arm with her hand playfully. .
"Okay, I really need to get ready." Spencer kissed him on the cheek before removing herself from their disheveled bed and covering herself in a lacy black robe.
It took Spencer hours to get ready, as she had to curl her hair, apply makeup, shave her legs, and dress in the sexy new dress that she'd bought specifically for this night.
Toby took a brief nap before dressing and styling his hair.
His eyes widened when his beautiful girlfriend exited the hotel bathroom hours later, clad in a lacy navy blue dress that didn't quite reach her knees.
"You look so gorgeous." He mumbled hoarsely.
"You look handsome." She smiled, her palm finding his cheek as she leaned in for a kiss. The kiss deepened and soon Toby's hands were grabbing her ass. He pulled away.
"If you keep kissing me like that we won't make it to dinner." he said the lust evident in his voice. "I want you"
"Down boy" she said putting a quick kiss on his lips. "I've been looking forward to this dinner"
"Me too" he said ushering her out of the room.
Two hours later, after three glasses of wine Spencer was feeling warm and tipsy. Toby kept caressing her hand as they stared lovingly into each other's eyes. Spencer was waiting for him to propose. She was almost positive that he was going to propose to her.
"What do you say we go back to the room and get naked" he asked with a smile on his face. "We can order dessert and eat it in bed."
Spencer didn't want another naked romp. She had given him multiple rounds of sex this afternoon, she wanted her ring"
"Yeah, let's go back to the room" she said curtly.
Toby couldn't keep his hands off of her in the elevator.
"I can't wait to have you" he whispered in her ear and kissed her cheek.
He guided her to the bed, unzipping her dress and kissing her back.
"Toby stop" she said wiggling away from him. "I want to call my mom and see how the baby is doing." He suddenly released her, rolling off the bed and heading to their shared bathroom. "Fine. Call your mom."
"Spencer" her mom said answering the phone "what are you doing calling, you should be enjoying your weekend and doing things your mother doesn't need to know about."
"I was just calling to check on the baby" she said.
"She's still a baby, she's sleeping so stop worrying and enjoy your weekend."
"Yeah" she said sarcastically.
"Is everything alright?" she asked sounding concerned.
"Yeah we just got back from dinner so I should probably go." Spencer said hanging up.
She began removing her makeup and undressing, slipping into one of the nightgowns she'd bought for this trip.
She then crawled into their bed and buried herself under the blankets, trying to prevent any more tears from escaping her eyes.
Their final day in New York was spent shopping and sightseeing. They caught the plane back to Philadelphia early Monday morning.
"How was your trip?" her mom asked as she packed Amelia's things up.
"It was good" she lied. They hadn't made love the rest of the weekend and they were barely speaking.
Spencer was at a stop light when Amelia's baby babbles emitted a "mama"
"Mama" Spencer said as she turned and pointed to herself. "I'm mama"
A car horn indicated that the light was green and she drove the rest of the way to the house
"Toby!" she called excitedly as she entered the house forgetting that they were fighting.
"What?" Toby asked coming into the kitchen.
"Amelia said 'Mama', I know all the books say that she probably doesn't know what it means yet but she said it. She said 'Mama"
"I told you" he said putting an arm around her shoulders and kissing her temple.
"Can you say "dada"?" Spencer said in a baby voice. "Say dada"
"That's okay" Toby told Spencer "she'll get it when she gets it, I just want her to crawl"
"Well, she'll get it when she gets it" she said mimicking him and they both laughed. Spencer leaned in and kissed him lightly.
"I'm sorry about New York" she said.
"Me too" he said.
They took Amelia out of the car seat and they curled up on the couch.
"The Radley is having a New Year's Party and if you want to we can go to it. Im sure you can get Melissa or your parents to babysit"
"Ok" she said "sounds like fun"
On New Year's Eve, Spencer and Toby got all dressed up to go to the NYE party. Melissa being pregnant and husbandless had agreed to watch the ball drop from the comfort of the barn with her infant niece. She still hadn't told anyone she was pregnant besides Spencer. By the time the ball dropped Spencer and Toby were both a little more than tipsy. They poured themselves into a cab and went home.
Spencer woke up the next morning, naked in bed. Toby was passed out in the bed next to her. She could feel the hangover coming on already. She knew that they had come home and had hot drunken sex but she couldn't remember exactly what had happened. Spencer got up and made coffee. Toby padded down to the kitchen a few minutes later. He put his arms around her and she turned in them so she could put her arms around him and rest her head on his chest.
"I love you" she mumbled into his chest.
"I love you too baby" he said back. It felt good to be in his arms, safe and warm. His hands rubbed up and down her back.
"I start school in a few days" she said whining.
"Yeah" he said "you know you can always take the semester off, if that's what is making you this upset"
"What?!" She asked confused. Her head was starting to pound now, she reached for the aspirin.
"You've been upset lately and if it's school you don't have to go" he said.
"No, I should go, even if it means I won't be spending as much time with my baby" she grumbled.
Amelia was in her car seat watching as Spencer flitted around the kitchen. She had decided that she wasn't going to worry about Toby proposing they had a daughter and they were in love. For now that was enough.
"We're going to take Dada some lunch." Spencer told Amelia. She put Amelia into the car and drove over to the police station. As she was getting Amelia out of the car she turned to see Toby and the girl he'd been on a date with when they ran into each other at the grocery store. They were laughing and looking like they were flirting. Yvonne handed him a folded up piece of paper. Did she just give Toby her number?! Did Toby just take her number?!
Spencer buckled Amelia back in and followed Yvonne to the school. She followed Yvonne into the school and into the classroom.
"Hey" she said walking into the room.
"Spencer!" she exclaimed with a big fake smile on her face. "Can I help you? Are you lost?"
"I just wanted to let you know that Toby is taken. You want a man, find one that's available, and stay away from my husband" she said angrily.
Yvonne gave a cold smile.
"He isn't your husband sweetie, you two aren't even engaged" she said coolly "You're just his girlfriend, he could leave you tomorrow."
"No he loves me and Amelia" she said sounding less than certain. "He's planning to propose soon actually"
"That's not what he told me" she said calmly. "Do you want to know what he told me?"
Spencer just scowled in response.
"He said he wasn't going to propose to you because he doesn't think you're the one"
Spencer's heart sped up. She was lying. She had to be. Toby wouldn't do this to her.
Yvonne smirked when she saw Spencer's appalled expression.
"You're lying," Spencer whispered.
Yvonne raised an eyebrow. "Am I, sweetie?" With that, Yvonne sat down and Spencer had to force her legs to walk out of the classroom.
That night when Toby came home he expected to be greeted with the scent of dinner cooking or maybe the sound of Spencer cooing to the baby. As he opened the door and the house was pitch black. Spencer was nowhere to be found. Toby figured she may be at her parents or getting take out for them. He dialed her cell to see where she was at.
"Hello?" said a semi strange female voice.
"Spencer?" he asked unsure.
"No, it's Melissa" she said.
"Can I talk to Spencer?"
"She doesn't want to talk to you" Melissa said. "She wants her space, give her a few days"
She hung up before he could respond.
She had left him. Spencer had left him. She had taken his daughter with her.
What had he done wrong?
Toby went to bed without bothering to eat or get undressed. He opened the nightstand and pulled out the blue velvet ring box. He had been planning to propose on Valentine's Day. He held it tight as he cried himself to sleep.
Melissa had an OB appointment and since Spencer was still the only one who knew she had agreed to go with her. The doctor had said that Melissa was doing well and that she needed to not get stressed out. As they were leaving Spencer pulled Melissa into a walk in clinic.
"What are we doing here?" she asked curiously.
"I threw up this morning" she said averting her eyes.
"Ok, and" Melissa prodded.
"I think I'm pregnant ok?" she huffed. "Toby and I didn't use protection on New Year's Eve"
"Spencer!" she chastised.
"I know Melissa, ok I know" she sighed.
Melissa had gone to the bathroom when a young woman about the same age as her sat down next to Spencer. She had a newborn that looked to only be a couple weeks old, a toddler that looked to be about two and a four year old.
"Hi, I'm Madison" said introducing herself.
"Spencer" she replied.
"Marcus you sit down!" she said to the four year old boy that was running all around the office. He quickly obeyed but looked disgruntled.
"Is daddy taking us this weekend?" The little boy asked and the little girl also looked up at her.
"I don't know honey daddy said he would try but he's very busy." she said.
"Fucking deadbeat" she whispered to Spencer when the kids became engrossed in their toys. He hasn't taken the kids in a year, I can't get him to pay child support and I'm stuck living with my mom and working two jobs.
"Are you a single mom?" she asked.
"No" she said defensively. "My boyfriend is great with Amelia"
"Oh they all are in the beginning" she scoffed "they're like freaking dad of the year at first then they get you knocked up again and then you come home from work early finding them screwing some hoe from the bar then moving in with her because she's pregnant and he needs to be there for her."
Spencer said nothing.
"Don't mind me I'm just bitter"
Spencer tried not to think about how if this test was positive and she didn't get back together with him that she could be this girl in a few years.
"Well Miss Hastings, you're not pregnant although I am concerned you've had two pregnancy scares since your daughter was born and I recommend that you go on a contraceptive of some sort."
"Ok" she said and she wrote her a prescription.
Toby woke up late that morning.
It was a Friday, which was his day off.
He sprung out of bed and walked into the living room, half expecting to find Spencer asleep on the couch and Amelia bouncing around in her playpen.
When he saw that the house was just as empty as it'd been the previous night he found himself crying all over again.
About a half an hour later three brief knocks resounded from the front door.
Every bone in his body didn't want to move from his spot on the couch but whatever it was in him that hoped Spencer was the one knocking forced him to answer the door.
His heart sank when it was Alison who greeted him instead of Spencer.
He didn't have a chance to fully register her presence before she began practically yelling at him.
"What the fuck is wrong with you?"
She didn't wait for a response before continuing.
"You have an amazing girlfriend and beautiful daughter who both adore you. Why would you go behind both of their backs and tell some random whore that Spencer isn't the one?"
Toby's eyebrows furrowed and he pinched the bridge of his nose. "Alison, what are you talking about? Do you know why Spencer left me?"
"Stop acting like a dumbass, Toby. Yvonne told Spencer what you said about her."
"I don't know what's going on. I never told Yvonne that Spencer wasn't the one. I love her, so much, I would never say anything like that to anybody. Especially not Yvonne," he insisted.
Ali took a deep breath, considerably calmer, before she spoke.
"Toby, if what you're saying to me is true, and it better be, you need to tell Spencer."
Spencer lay curled up on the couch, watching some chick flick on the television. Amelia was sleeping and Melissa was out shopping with a friend from New York.
She had almost dozed off when a knock on the front door woke her. Spencer wasn't surprised to find Toby in the doorstep to the barn. She had to stop herself from wrapping him in her arms when noticed his puffy red eyes and disheveled appearance.
"Hi," she mumbled, looking down at her bare feet. Her stomach was killing her. It had been all day.
"Spencer. Alison came to my apartment earlier and told me about what Yvonne said," he paused when he saw her tense visibly "I would never say that. I love you so fucking much, and know you are the one. You always have been."
"Well then why won't you just propose to me already?" She muttered under her breath, meeting his eyes for the first time that day.
"Baby. I love you. Please come back home with Amelia." His palm found her cheek, but he recoiled when his hand was met with feverishly hot skin.
"Spencer. You're burning up,"
She looked back down at her feet. "It's just a little fever. I'll be fine,"
"I don't think you should be in the same house as Amelia, just so that she doesn't catch your fever. Let me take you home."
Spencer was in no position to complain, so she simply nodded.
"I'm going to take care of you, baby. Just relax and I'll go get your bags and call your mother."
The first thing Toby did once getting Spencer home was to carry her upstairs and run her a cool bath. He knew the thing she liked more than anything when she was sick was a nice cool bath. He washed her hair and then her body. When the heat and sweat had been washed off of her Toby gently dried her off and put on a small nightie. He then carried her to the couch and made her some tea and some soup. He cradled her in his lap and spoon-fed her.
"I hate seeing you like this" he said rubbing her back.
"Thank you for taking care of me" she said weakly.
"Always, you are the love of my life, you are the mother of my child." he said
"Before I got sick sick, I thought I was pregnant" she told him. "I went to a walk in clinic with Amelia and Melissa"
"Why didn't you call me, I would have dropped whatever I was doing to be there for you"
"I was just too upset over what Yvonne said to me, and part of me thought I don't know that you might be tempted to cheat" she admitted.
"I would never cheat on you" he assured her. He knew it was a bad idea but he leaned in and gave her a kiss.
"I love you" he said breathless when he pulled away.
"I love you too" she replied.
Toby held her close as they slept in their bed. She kept waking up and moving so finally they just laid there in each other's arms and looked at each other.
"What are you thinking about?" Spencer asked when she saw a smile brush across Toby's lips.
"I was thinking about how in the future we'll look back on this and laugh and we'll tell Amelia and our other kids how I nursed you back to health." he said.
"I'm sorry but 'other kids' how many children are you planning on us having?" she asked.
He furrowed his brow as if he were thinking intently.
"I don't know…..maybe five?" he said
"Five?...Five?!...I'm sorry you weren't there the first time but giving birth was atrocious and you want me to do that four more times?!"
Toby began to pout and Spencer realized she had inadvertently stepped on a landmine.
"I'm sorry" she said wondering if their relationship would ever completely get over the fact that she had kept Amelia a secret for so long.
"It's okay" he said with half a smile "even if we don't have any more kids I will be happy with just you and Amelia."
Toby took care of Spencer until she was getting better and he was getting worse. Then she was taking care of him. It was a week and a half until they were both healthy enough to bring Amelia home.
It was a snowy and cold day in Rosewood. Toby was working and Spencer was on the couch studying trying to catch up on the reading she had missed the few days she had been absent. She looked up when she heard Amelia making a grunting sound.
"No, don't crawl daddy's not here" she complained. She quickly pulled her phone out and recorded as Amelia started slowly dragging her body across the floor.
When Toby came home he saw Peter Hastings on his knees working something.
"What are you doing?" he asked.
"I'm baby proofing the house." he said.
"Oh I was going to do that when I got free time." he said.
"Well, there was no more time to waste, you have a mobile baby now"
"What?" he said.
"She was crawling up a storm this afternoon" Spencer said.
"I missed it?!" he asked disappointed.
"Don't worry. I recorded it for you" she said pulling her phone out and playing the video. He smiled as he watched it.
"Thank you for recording it for me" he said kissing her.
The next few weeks were hard as Spencer was on campus five days a week. Toby had been working overtime hours as well. One night Toby came home and Spencer was asleep on the couch. He carried her to bed. After a week of her sleeping on the couch he stopped carrying her to bed. Once, Spencer woke up in the morning to find Toby hadn't come home. She was panicked and about to call him when he trudged through the door.
"Hey baby" he said tiredly.
"Hey" she said walking up to him and wrapping her arms around him.
"Want to take a shower together" he said raising his eyebrow suggestively.
"No, i have to get changed and drop off Amelia at my moms and go to school." she sighed.
"Spencer, if I ask you a question will you give me an honest answer?" he asked.
"Yes" she said.
"Have you been sleeping on the couch on purpose?" he asked.
"What?!" she said "of course not"
"So it's just a coincidence we haven't had sex in over 3 weeks?"
"Yes" she said kissing him "I got to go get ready"
I hope you all liked it. Please review and let me know what you think will happen next!