Leaving the cave, going into the unknown

I called Kate and told her what had happened, she told me just to stay home and relax. I protested telling her that I wanted to see her but she said the baby comes first and I needed to relax and not stress the baby out. She’s super protective of the baby and how I am and I didn’t want to make anything harder on her so I just went with it and told her I’d come to see her when we got back.

I woke up the next morning to Alan rubbing my belly softly and my little girl kicking at his touch. It was hard to say who truly woke me up but I was in no mood to complain, these were good problems to have right now.

“Morning, did you sleep ok?” I asked as I rolled over to look at him.

“I always sleep better when I’m next to you, plus it’s a lot easier to sleep in a full bed and not a small bunk. I can feel her kicking, it’s crazy.” He said while looking down at my tummy, you could see his hand slightly moving, as she would kick.

“It’s awesome until you want to sleep and she feels like dancing in there, but I guess I should get used to no sleep now.” I chuckled.

“We should get ready, I wanna get away from here as soon as possible” I said and he nodded. Huntington Beach was full of fresh wounds right now and I wanted a week off from all the drama and stress. It may seem childish to want to leave it all behind and not think of problems but I needed to feel better for when the baby came. The last thing I wanted was for her to think that this world is only a bad place. I got up and jumped in the shower, I was just in there to wash my hair quickly and get out. I put some clothes on and made breakfast while Alan showered and got ready. Just as I finished putting milk in my tea Alan came down and toasted some bread. We sat in silence while we ate, I feel like that is the best way to know if something is meant to last. A lot of people hate the sound of silence and all the mystery it holds, but if you can find someone to just sit and do nothing with then that’s who you should be with. I washed the dishes until I felt someone come up behind me and I jumped, I was still pretty shaky. I looked over to shoulder to see Alan behind me and relaxed, he put his arms around my belly and his head on my shoulder. I smiled at him and continued to wash the dishes while he rubbed my tummy and hummed in my ear. After I finished I grabbed my last bag and got in the car, Alan locked the door and joined me before we took off. I put the seat back and closed my eyes while Alan put his hand on my leg and traced the thigh tattoo that he knew so well he didn’t have to look, just feel the slightly raised skin.

I fell asleep and was woken by Alan cooing to me that we were there meaning I had slept for at least 2 hours. He carried in our stuff, refusing to let me helped and led up inside. It was a cute little family cottage with two bedrooms, a kitchen, bathroom and a small family room. It was nice and quiet and just what we needed right now. We got settled into the larger of the two bedrooms before sitting down on the couch in the family room.

“One week just you and me, no worrying about me leaving to tour, Jason, or Kate. We should probably go and get some food so we don’t starve though, also because I’m kinda hungry.” I laughed at his words; his first thoughts were always about food.

“Sure we can go into town, it looked really cute and I need to get a bathing suit anyway. All the ones I have don’t fit because of the baby.” I was nervous about wearing a swimsuit, I wasn’t confident about my body before and it was slightly worse now.

“Swimsuit? I was hopping you’d swim naked for the week?” He looked at me with a shocked expression. I lightly hit him and laughed.

“You wish… now let’s go.” With that we got in the car and headed into town. I could tell this was going to be one of the nicest week’s I’ve had in a really long time.

Notes

Super short chapter cause i've been really busy.
Got another job interview for a music store where i'd be working in the print music section! Really want this one! Also volunteering this weekend at an all weekend event so there won't be any chapters posted until monday, i'm hoping to post one tomorrow but i'll just see how it goes. Sorry this is so shitty, i'm going to try and do better from now on!
Have a lovely weekend everyone