chapter twenty-six
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Chapter Twenty-Seven
The whole wedding day went by so quickly that I don't remember most of it. The thing I remember most was the look on Kevin's face as he waited at the end of the aisle in the small chapel for me. He actually looked happy. Not nervous or scared but truly happy. I had to smile at the thought.
"What are you thinking about, Mrs. Richardson?" I was standing in the extra hotel room that the guys had rented to use for our small wedding reception. Kevin had walked behind me and wrapped his arms around my waist.
"You." I kissed his lips and held him. He began to hum our wedding song, "I Could Not Ask For More" by Edwin McCain.
"Mommy, Mommy, Mommy, I sleep." Hailey had run over to Kevin and I and was tugging on my dress.
Brian walked over to us and picked up Hailey. "I got you. Let's go put you to bed." He winked at us.
"Yeah. I'm knocked out. I think I'll go too. Congratulations you two." AJ came over and gave us both hugs. "My baby sister." Howie followed AJ and also went to bed
"Well, that just leaves you and I. You have to love their subtlety."
“So what do you think we should do? Watch some TV, maybe a movie. This day was pretty tiring. Maybe we should go right to sleep." Kevin looked at me awkwardly. "I was just kidding. I know what you're supposed to do on your wedding night."
"Thank God." He swept me up in his arms and carried me to the bed. He laid down next to me. "I can't believe we're married. When we met about four years ago I never would have imagined it. You were only 17. I was 26. I saw you more as a little sister. Now you're 21, and I'm 30. I'm so happy we ended up together."
"I wouldn't want it any other way." I kissed him and he returned it passionately.
"Nikki, I want a baby. I know you have Hailey. I know that she's only a few years old, but I want another one. I want to go through the baby stage. I want to go through the pregnancy."
"Kev, are you sure about that? I got to be quite a bitch at times during my pregnancy with Hailey." I looked at him questioningly.
"Yes, I'm sure. I want to go through it with you."
"Are you positive? It would mean sleepless nights? It would also be during a tour."
“Yes, Nikki. I am absolutely positively sure. I want to make a baby tonight. If it doesn't happen tonight, I want to keep trying until it does."
"Ok, baby. Let's do it." For those next two weeks of our honeymoon we didn't do any sightseeing. Kevin wanted to have a baby, so we tried.
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"Damn. You two look exhausted. How was your trip?" AJ smirked.
"Get that look off your face, AJ. We are tired and going home to bed. Tour rehearsals start soon. Nikki and I need some rest."
"Isn't that what made you exhausted in the first place?" Kevin glared at AJ and he knew to stop.
Kevin turned back to me. "Are you ready to go to OUR home?"
"Definitely." We walked to Kevin's truck and got home as quickly as possible.
As soon as we walked in the door Kevin turned to me. "Baby, do you think we're pregnant?"
"Isn't it a little soon to tell?"
"Don't you think we could get one of those home pregnancy tests? I don't think I can wait to find out."
"Yeah, I guess. Are you talking about going right now?"
He had an anxious smile. "If you wouldn't mind."
"Ok, hon. Let's go."
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I bought the test and walked back out to the truck. Kevin couldn't come in, because if people recognized him and saw us buying pregnancy tests it would be all over TV and the internet immediately.
"This is the kind I used when I was pregnant with Hailey. It worked then, it should now."
"Sounds reasonable enough to me." He was silent for a minute, but I could tell he was thinking about something.
"What is it, Kev? I can tell you have something to say."
“You could have come to me when you found out about Hailey. I know I'm not her father, but I thought we were good friends. What about Brian too? You were and still are best friends. We could have helped you. You don't know how bad it hurt when you left us without any explanation. You were a part of us."
“You don't understand what I went through. It's hard enough to be pregnant at that age. Then, there's the fact that it could have ruined everything. What would people have thought of Nick being a father? That would have been a great role model. Especially since we were broken up by then. You had also just completely rejected me, so I wasn't feeling like I could really come to you." By this time, we were in our garage and I was crying.
Kevin put his arms around me and rocked me gently. "You don't know how much I regretted everything I said to you that night. I felt as if it was my fault that you left. I never meant to hurt you. I loved you too much to do that." I looked up into his bright green eyes. "Yes, you heard me right. I was in love with you but sure that you didn't feel the same. I didn't know what to do. I panicked."
I didn't even let him finish talking I had to kiss him. He carried me into the house and into our bedroom.
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It had already been a week since we returned home. Kevin was already at tour rehearsals. We were considering whether or not to announce or marriage.
We decided not to hide it but not to come right out and say it. If someone saw us together or asked us if we were together, we wouldn't lie, but we wouldn't volunteer the information either.
I was looking around the house unpacking and cleaning when I came across the bag from the drug store when Kevin and I went there a week ago. We had misplaced it and hadn't bothered to buy a new one. I decided it wouldn't hurt to try, so I took the test.
The two minutes that it took for the results to show were two of the longest minutes ever.
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