Saturday 7th December

8am
Zosia quietly closed the front door and tiptoed through to the living room where her father was fast asleep in the arm chair that had been declared Jac Naylor's for their two week stay at the lodge- she could only hope that Jac didn't wake up before he moved. She crept through into the kitchen and made two cups of black coffee and two bowls of granola with almond milk, strawberries and sliced banana.
"Dad... Dad." She whispered and nudged him. He stirred and then rubbed his sleepy eyes.
"What? Oh um, what time did you get home?" He asked as he took a sip of the coffee, and then picked up the bowl containing his breakfast. Zosia knew better than to use a precise time because she didn't know what time he fell asleep.
"A few hours ago." Zosia lied.
"Mm, so I didn't just hear you come in then?" Guy lied. He didn't hear her come in but it was worth a try.
"Okay fine, but I was staying at a friend's from uni." Zosia explained as she began to eat her breakfast.
"I knew it." Guy smirked and Zosia elbowed him in annoyance. "Thank you for the notice last night by the way. I came out of the toilets and you had gone."
"Well I just, met my friend and she invited me to her party." Zosia lied.
"Right, so who's the lucky guy?" Guy asked.
"Dad!" Zosia protested.
"What?"
"I didn't do anything like that, I slept on her sofa."
"Oh 'her' sofa, sure, it was a she." Guy said sarcastically.
"One, I didn't sleep with anyone, two, if I did, it wouldn't be any if your business anyway and three, if you have forgotten, I'm on my period." Zosia stated before she disappeared off into their bedroom to eat by herself.

"Breakfast is served!" Mr T sang as he entered their bedroom with a tray. Mo rubbed her eyes before she sat up and leant against the headboard.
"Now that it what I like to hear first thing in the morning." Mo smiled as she happily took the plate of egg, bacon and toast off of her partner, and she also took a sip from the glass of orange juice he served too.
"And a happy Mo is what I like to see first thing in the morning." Mr T smiled as he got into bed besides her and began eating. "What are we going to do today?" He asked to make conversation.
"I was thinking of going for a walk around the lake, and maybe go for a swim in the pool later." Mo replied.
"Sounds good to me." Mr T concluded.

9am
Jonny had only just woken up because he hadn't been able to get to sleep for a few hours after Jac for he was worrying about meeting his sisters. He just hoped that they wouldn't all have amazing, hi-tech jobs when he was -in some people's opinion- just a nurse. He turned over to find that the lump that was usually besides him demanding more room on the double bed wasn't there. He then heard a slosh of water through the ensuite bathroom which had been left slightly ajar so he got up to investigate. He opened the door to find Jac enjoying a nice, relaxing bubble bath but unfortunately, her long wet, wavy hair was covering two of the best parts of Jac's body.

"Morning." He smiled as he knelt down besides the bath, he was only in his boxers so he didn't had a problem with slipping his hand under the water -which wasn't very warm so she must've been in there a while- and entwining his fingers with her own as they held hands. "I didn't think you'd be up this early." He stated.
"Yeah well, my back was playing up a little and the fissure was making me a bit uncomfortable." Jac explained quietly as she self consciously wrapped her spare arm around her bump.

"You know, that anal fissure has brought a whole new meaning to the phrase 'arse crack'." Jonny joked.
"Sorry but your baby is wrecking havoc with my bowels." Jac said defensively.
"I know." He admitted quietly. "So, you do realise that if my sisters are anything like I remember, they're gonna wanna feel your bump right?" Jonny queried.
"Can't we just pretend I'm fat?" Jac moaned.
"And how are you gonna explain the constant toilet breaks? And what're you gonna do if she kicks?" Jonny smirked.
"I can pretend it's indigestion." Jac replied. "Anyway, gimme a hand out, the water's getting cold." Jac ordered. Jonny pulled the plug out by her feet and waited for the water to drain a little before he helped her to her feet and safely out onto the bath mat after he'd wrapped a warm towel around her frame.

"Wow, have you shaved your legs for once?" Jonny asked sarcastically.
"It's a special occasion." Jac replied jokily. Pregnancy had rendered Jac almost useless when it came to shaving because it was impossible, she could barely manage below the knees because she couldn't bend over that far -both because of her bump and her painful back- but anywhere above her knees was guess work really, because she couldn't see what she was doing. But Jonny had been very understanding in their few intimate moments and he had ignored it. "Now leave me alone, I need to get changed." She ordered.
"Oh, and I didn't just see everything then, no?" Jonny protested.
"And I need the toilet because I think the stool softeners have worked, so sod off." Jac ordered awkwardly.
"Right, I'll be in the kitchen making us breakfast then." Jonny replied.

"I'll have two eggs." Jac stated.
"I was planning on some chopped up fruit, but okay." Jonny smirked.
"And three slices of toast, and just do all of the bacon."
"Jac, there's 6 slices in a pack." Jonny laughed.
"Exactly, there's 2 for you, 2 for me and 2 for the baby." Jac explained. "And don't forget the mushrooms." She shouted.
"Yes your frostiness." Jonny sighed as he left the bedroom.

3pm
"Mo." Jonny said as he poked his head around Mo and Mr T's bedroom where they were on their phones.
"Yep."
"You know you owe me a few favours?"
"No, but carry on."
"Would you mind straightening Jac's hair? And painting her nails for her?" Jonny queried.
"What?!" Mo laughed.
"Well she wants her hair straight but her back hurts, and I just thought it'd be nice for her to have some help." Jonny explained.
"When you say nails, you mean fingernails yeah? I don't do feet." Mo stated.
"Yeah yeah, thanks Mo, you're a life saver." Jonny smiled as he pulled Mo off of the bed and then shuffled her into his and Jac's bedroom where Jac's GHD straighteners were warming up.

4pm
"I'm telling you now, one of them is gonna come home from that meal crying and I'm honestly not sure which one it'll be." Mo stated. She and Mr T were messing about in the pool but they were mainly just sitting by the steps where the pool pumps were sending out warm water into the pool.
"I reckon Jac'll be fuming." Mr T stated. "Whenever she's had her scans, she makes sure that I don't touch her at all, I have to have my hand on the scanner, I can't even rest my wrist on her for a second without being glared at." He explained.
"Pft, good luck when she's in labour." Mo laughed.
"Trust me, I'm going to do my upmost best to make sure that I'm off duty when she does go into labour. I'll leave it to the poor midwives." He laughed.

4:50pm
Jac and Jonny were in a taxi and they were just seconds away from the pub that they were meeting his sisters at.
"Right, it would be great if you didn't insult anyone." Jonny stated.
"Got it." Jac agreed but she had no intention of holding her tongue if anyone annoyed her.
"And if they want to feel your bump, just let them yeah?" He pleaded as he took her hand in his.
"Whatever." Jac rolled her eyes as they pulled up in the pub car park. Jonny paid the driver and then the couple got out of the taxi. Jac was wearing black leggings and her usual boots, along with a light blue buttoned, long sleeved shirt with a hoodie to keep her warm outside. Jonny just had a pair of casual jeans and a shirt. "Shouldn't you have worn a kilt?" Jac queried.
"Haha, very funny." Jonny said sarcastically as the taxi drove away and Jonny saw a group of people standing by the entrance. "I think that's them." He mumbled as he took Jac's hand in his and then walked over. Jac huffed because if it was them, there was a lot of them, including kids.

"Trust Jonny to be the last one to show up." A woman joked. She looked a few years older than Jac but not too old.
"Lorraine? Wow, you look so different!" Jonny smiled as he hugged her.
"Well I was a kid the last time you saw me." She smirked. "Who's this?" She asked. Jonny turned to see Jac who had wrapped her arms around herself as the wind blew her straightened hair, she was obviously getting chilly.
"Um, shall we do introductions inside? Don't want the wee ones getting cold." He smiled at the children.
"Sure." Everyone agreed so Jonny took the lead still with his hand in Jac's into the pub where he would have to ask for a table for eleven!

Once everyone was seated -in an area away from the football fans and the bar- Jonny took Jac's dark blue hoodie off for her and put it on the back of her chair because now she was getting quite warm. He sat besides her and everyone else took a seat at the large round table except a young child who was behaving rather anxiously.
"Sorry, she's a bit shy." The mother who was also heavily pregnant said as she tried to seat the fidgety 10 month old. Eventually, she said once she was reunited with her favourite plush teddy.
"Right, shall we do introductions?" Jonny suggested. "I'm Jonny Maconie, and this is my partner Jac, who's 35 weeks pregnant with our first baby." Jonny smiled.

"I'm Dawn," the heavily pregnant woman began in a slight Scottish accent, "and I'm 31 weeks pregnant with my second daughter, this is my first daughter, Amy, and she's 10 months old. Unfortunately, my husband couldn't be with us today because he's finishing his tour of Afghanistan, but he's coming back in a month's time for the birth of our baby." She smiled as she rubbed her large bump.

"Hi, I'm Eleanor," a women began in a thick Scottish accent, "this is my husband George, our twin daughters, Charlotte and Anne, they're 12 years old, and this," she said as she gestured the young baby cradled in her arms in a bundle of blankets, "is our two month old daughter, Bonnie." She smiled.

"And I'm Lorraine, this is my 15 year old daughter, Shannon, I have another daughter but she couldn't be with us because she's studying law at Oxford."

"Well I think it's fair to say that girls run in the family eh?" Jonny joked. "Not a single son from our lot. Not yet anyway."
"Yeah, you were just an odd one out." Lorraine joked and everyone including Jac smirked.
"Speaking of odd ones out, I seem to remember you being the shortest out of us lot which was a bit odd considering you're the oldest." Jonny stated.
"Well I'm taller than you now." She stated.
"No you're not." Jonny protested.

"Did they always argue like this?" Jac asked.
"Aye." Eleanor and Dawn replied simultaneously.

Once everyone had their drinks -which were all nonalcoholic because of the kids ands the pregnant women at the table- they ordered their meals and began talking. Jac was grateful that Dawn's baby was kicking rather frequently so everyone was feeling her bump instead, and thankfully, Jonny had made Jac an excuse: that their baby only kicked at night. Which was sort of true, she did kick more at night, though when Jac was nervous or scared and her heart rate increased, her daughter did kick she just didn't tell the others that.
"Baabba." The 10 month old babbled as she reached her arms out to use the furniture for support so that she could walk towards Jac and Jonny chuckled in response. The toddler that had been nervous and anxious around everyone except her mum, was -funnily enough- comfortable with Jac.

"I think it's the bump she's comforted by." Jonny concluded as Amy put her hand on Jac's thigh to attempt to climb her chair. "And you're not supposed to do that are you?" Jonny cooed as he picked Amy up and put her on his lap facing Jac. The toddler babbled and was clearly distressed at being on his lap as she held her arms out and leant towards Jac. "Go on, she won't bite." Jonny said softly to Jac who appeared mesmerised by the little girl. Hesitantly, Jac took her and put her on the edge of her lap facing her bump with her legs either side of it. Amy seemed content with stroking with Jac's long, straight hair whilst she leant slightly on the bump.

"Are you okay with her doing that?" Dawn asked.
"Um, yeah no it's fine." Jac replied eventually.
"It's just, she's at that point where she doesn't trust many people and when she does like someone, I want her to see that there's nothing to be scared of." Dawn explained and Jonny was so, so happy to see Jac interacting with the small child like that. Jac seemed a little overwhelmed, but she was still managing well and Amy was clearly enjoying the company.

"So where did you go when we were split up?" Jonny asked curiously.
"I got fostered straight away by a really nice family who loved on he he outskirts of Aberdeen. They already had a girl my age and an older boy and we all got on really well. You?" Dawn queried. Jac was idly playing with Amy as she clenched her small hands and then opened them all the way out, but she was listening in to Jonny's conversation too in the hope that she would learn a little more about his past.

"I got taken to a massive care home in Edinburgh. There was about 40 of us so it wasn't really a friendly place but I got thrown around from place to place and is moved out and lived with a friend and her family when I was 16." Jonny concluded.
"Was that the Mo that you were talking about on the phone?" She asked.
"Yeah. She's my best friend." Jonny smiled and Jac then understood how the two of them had such a close bond.

Everyone had finished their meal a while ago whilst they watched Amy make an spectacular mess with small cubes of chicken, potatoes, carrots and a pot of yogurt for pudding.
"Let's hope ours doesn't get your eating habits eh?" Jac joked as she wiped a bit of sauce from Jonny's chin with a napkin.
"Well let's hope she doesn't get your mood swings." Jonny retorted which received a glare in return. "Right, shall we have a look at desserts?" Jonny suggested to stop the glare as he picked up a menu and put it between him and Jac.
"Do you remember we came here for your 13th birthday?" Eleanor asked Jonny. "Mum and Dad organised a cake with sparklers and it ended up being put out with a fire extinguisher!" She asked.
"Funnily enough, I do remember that." Jonny smirked. "It tasted good though, once you picked off the crusty bits." He joked.
"Same old Jonny." Lorraine stated. "He thinks his jokes are funny but people are actually laughing at him not with him."

"Same old lorraine, she thinks she can embarrass me when I know a few secrets about your childhood, big sis, and I don't think you'd like them shared." Jonny stated smugly.
"You wouldn't dare." She threatened.
"You wanna bet?!" Jonny laughed.
"Oi, stop it." Jac ordered. Jonny huffed like a child for being told what to do before he looked back down at the menu.
"The desserts are pretty big here, you wanna share one?" Jonny asked kindly after he watched a waitress walk last with a tray filled with large dessert bowls. "By the way, I recommend the rocky road ice cream sundae." He whispered. "It's so big, even I can't finish it alone."
"Of course you'd pick the dessert on the menu with the most calories." Jac stated.
"Is that a no?" Jonny queried.
"No, it's a fact. Go on then, we'll share it." Jac replied and Jonny shook his head at her as he smirked at her behaviour.

After dessert, Jac was well and truly stuffed, as we most people on the table. Well everyone except two month old Bonnie who was beginning to cry because she was hungry. At first, her mother Eleanor tried settling her down by rocking her but Bonnie wasn't having any of it so Eleanor gave in.
"No one minds if I feed her here do you?" She queried as she undone the top button of her shirt. Everyone shook their heads or replied with a no so she -without a hitch- got her daughter latched onto her breast and let her suckle whilst she covered almost everything with a muslin cloth that Bonnie was scrunching up in her fist.

Jonny glanced around when he realised that the crying of the baby had done more than just distress the mother, it had made Jac's breasts leak. He saw the two dark blue patches on her light blue shirt, one slightly bigger than the other but it wasn't until Jac caught Jonny staring that she elbowed him.
"Stop staring you perv." She whispered.
"No, Jac look." Jonny whispered, though it came out louder than he anticipated and Dawn and Eleanor heard- thankfully everyone else was deep in a conversation. Jac looked down and quickly looked up to see that thankfully, it was only her and three other people had noticed but nevertheless she got up and waddled towards the toilet after flushing red from embarrassment.

Whilst juggling Bonnie in her arms, Eleanor reached down into her bag and took out two breast pads which she handed to Dawn.
"Go and give her these, and take her hoodie too." Eleanor ordered. Dawn did so and found Jac in the toilets in an open cubicle trying to dry her shirt using a paper towel from the dispenser by the sinks.
"Eleanor's got these, if you want them." Dawn said as she handed Jac the two breast pads which were basically adhesive cotton wool pads. "And here's your hoodie."
"Um.. Thanks." Jac forced a smile as she gratefully received the items before Jonny's sister left to give her some privacy.

A few minutes later, Jac came out and joined the table once again with her dark blue hoodie zipped up all the way.
"Thanks." Jac said quietly to Eleanor who was still feeding her daughter.
"No worries, it was this one's fault anyway, mine leak when she cries as well." She explained comfortingly and Jac sat slightly more at ease in her seat.
"Thank you, for convincing me to do this." Jonny said sincerely as he took Jac's hand in his.
"No worries." Jac smiled. A few minutes later, her baby was kicking so Jac pulled Jonny's hand and placed it underneath her bump under the table.

7:15pm
Jac and Jonny returned to the lodge where they found the other four sitting on the sofa watching TV.
"Did you kill anyone?" Mo asked loudly.
"No and Jac even tolerated a ten month old baby playing with her hair and leaning on her bump." Jonny said happily as he hung his coat up.
"I'm just gonna go and get changed." Jac said quietly and Jonny nodded after giving her a peck on the forehead. Her shirt and bra were still slightly damp so she just wanted to change into her pyjamas and another hoodie.
"Any arguments?" Mo queried as Jonny sat next to her on the sofa.
"Only with me and Lorraine, Jac was well behaved." Jonny smirked. "Dawn's 31 weeks pregnant so thankfully, people touched her bump instead. And I am an uncle to seven girls. And one of them is studying law at Oxford." Jonny explained proudly.

"Smug git." Jac muttered as she came in wearing her pyjamas and a large hoodie.
"Oi, that's my jumper!" He protested as Jac made herself comfortable in her armchair and then pulled a blanket over her.
"Ooh, how do you feel? Your hoodie is so big that it comfortably fits a heavily pregnant woman." Mo smirked.
"Are you calling me fat?" Jac raised an eyebrow.
"No no no no no, I meant that... I mean-" Mo stuttered.
"I was joking." Jac stated and Mo threw a pillow at Jac which she then threw back.
"Children, calm down please." Guy ordered.

"Zosia, you alright?" Mr T asked. "You've barely said a word all day."
"Fine thanks, I'm just tired." Zosia replied as she fidgeted to get comfortable again; it was menstrual cramps but it was bad enough having her father know, let alone her colleagues including her mentor.

They sat there for almost ten minutes watching TV when Jonny noticed that Jac's eyelids were getting heavy.

"Jac, you're falling asleep, just go to bed." Jonny ordered. Jac lifted her head from the arm of the sofa and propped it up on her elbow.
"I'm fine." She muttered.
"I'll carry you." He threatened.
"I'd like to see you try without pulling a muscle or breaking your back." Jac replied smugly before she got comfortable again and closed her eyes after resting her head on the side. She had her eyes closed for a few minutes before she was suddenly hoisted up into the air by both Jonny and Mr T. "Put me down now." Jac ordered as she tried hitting them but they both had control of an arm and a leg to prevent her from injuring them.
"Not until you're in bed." Jonny stated as they carefully manoeuvred her into the bedroom and then placed her on the bed. Mr T left whilst Jonny tucked a grumpy Jac into bed and he even put a pair of thick socks onto her feet for her. "Night night." He whispered after pecking her on the forehead. He turned the bedroom light off and closed the door so Jac just gave in and let herself fall into a deep sleep after the long day had sucked all of what little energy she had in the first place.

A/N I know that this chapter is mainly Janny but there's more Mo, Mr T, Zosia and Guy coming up in the next chapter :) Thanks for reading, please review x