Chapter 31 Starting Over
Mother
Catherine's POV
"What about your mother," I ask Jackie.
She just sits there and stares at me. Like I've asked the million dollar question.
"Look I'm only asking because she's going to pop up eventually and of course we're in our own little bubble here but we going through the press conference. She was bound to come up. Especially if Wade has anything to say about it."
Jackie sighs and takes my hand, and makes small motions over my knuckles. "I get where you're coming from. Umm, she doesn't know I'm pregnant. I only have ever spoken to her over the phone like twice since I left Bloomington and really started to focus on Neptune. I'm an adult and she cannot do anything to me or you. We are already. Learning the air sure there's some picture of me coming to your house when I got into the fight at school. Someone is bound to have those copies. But you're right we should tell her or at least I should. I don't want to lose you because of her. I'm hoping she'll be happy that I'm happy here with you."
I just look at Jackie and smile. "I don't know if I told you this or not it when you called me on Thanksgiving to come and get you she saw us holding each other outside. She was looking through the window. Did she ever say anything to you about it?" I ask Jackie.
"No, she didn't. Which doesn't really surprise me. She told me she gave me my space during Neptune because she didn't want to be one of the helicopter parents. And then she told me when I went back to LA, that I could always move home if I needed. But that was the last thing in my mind when I left Bloomington. I was running and I thought I was running to something that would make me finally happy but it was just a bandaid. I guess I'll have to call her because I don't really want to face her all that stress won't be good for me or our babies."
Jackie looks over at me with a unexplainable expression and I can tell she's worried.
I grab her hand and pull her closer to me and I kiss her lips. I kiss her so passionately that it leaves me breathless. Then I kiss down her neck and whisper to her "I love you and nothing is going to change that. Not your mom, not the press, nothing. I lost you once and I will not lose you again." Jackie's hands are in my hair and she pulls me to her and kisses me, her left hand stays in my hair where her right one starts to travel down the side of my body and gets to my right breast. I moan out into her mouth and she smirks. I grab her hand and tell her "As much as I would love to continue this we need to finish prepping for the press conference and then we will call your mother together. We'll put her on speakerphone. But when we are done. You are mine, Porcupine. I am going to make love to you, that's a promise. All you have to do is remember to breathe." I chuckle as I see her grinning. She remembers, when we first started this I had to remind her to breathe.