My alarm sounded beside me, telling me it was time to get up, and by that I mean Nikki and climbed into my bed beside me five minutes ago and was beeping loudly in my ear, if I patted her on the head she would stop, wait five minutes and then start beeping again.
“Come on preggers, we’re going to Vegas!” She yelled excitedly, forcing me out of my bed and into the bathroom “Your pregnant ass can wash first, you take longer,” She said, walking out and closing the door behind her.
After showering, drying and straightening my hair and applying my usual makeup, I slipped into my extra support maternity undies, a navy blue tank top and another pair of light grey sweats. I threw my PJ’s in the laundry basket and left the bathroom, walking past Nikki who was rushing to get ready, screaming excitedly about leaving within the hour.
I grabbed my bag filled with things I may need easy access to on the drive, put my red converse on and walked down the stairs. I filled my travel cup with tea since I wasn’t allowed to drink coffee anymore.
“Are you ready to go?” Nikki asked, slightly out of breath from running around, her bag slung over her shoulder, she was also dressed in comfy clothes; it was going to be a long drive after all.
“Riley wake up!” Nikki yelled, shaking me slightly, I jumped in my seat and stretched, it was getting dark out “You were having another nightmare,” She told me and I sighed, she was right, I’d had another one “We’re almost in the city, we gotta get gas and I was thinking KFC would go down nicely and diffuse any situation on the bus,” I agreed with her, baby Shads and myself were starving after this long drive.
Matt’s P.O.V
We had a show to do tonight, but it was only 5.30 and we weren’t on until 9.30 so we were all just hanging around on the bus. Zacky was in an extremely good mood today but he wouldn’t tell anybody why, but I was sure we’d find out soon enough.
“Shads, fancy a game?” Jimmy asked from in front of the TV, holding out an Xbox controller to me.
“Sure, why not?” I closed my laptop and plopped myself down beside him and started up the game. About ten minutes into the game I heard the bus door open up, I thought it was just Val coming back from the store, oh how I was wrong.
“I bring chicken and a pregnant woman!” I heard Nikki, Zacky’s girlfriend announce from behind me. We both paused the game and whipped around to see everyone staring at Nikki who was standing with three large buckets from KFC, wait, no, they weren’t looking at her, they were looking at… Riley?
“Holy shit…” Brian breathed, and then I remembered what Nikki had just said, I looked at Riley and rose to my feet, walking over to her slowly, she was round, very round, pregnant round. Oh fuck.
“Riley…” I breathed, a smile spreading on my face.
“Hey Matt,” She smiled a small smile, but it made me warm inside, my heart beat faster and my stomach flipped.
“You’re…” I looked at her stomach.
“Pregnant?” She finished for me, I nodded, unable to speak. I looked back into her gorgeous blue eyes.
“Is it… mine?” I struggled.
“Yes Matt, the night before you guys left, after we… broke up,” She sounded heartbroken saying it, but I was heartbroken anyway. I dropped to my knees in front of her so my face was at level with her stomach, I placed a hand on either side and rubbed, I felt three little kicks, shocked, my head snapped up to Riley who had burst out crying.
“Riley, what’s wrong?” Nikki asked, wrapping an arm around her shoulders and rubbing.
“That was the first time…” She bubbled “The baby kicked,” She was sobbing now and Nikki started crying too, pulling Riley to her, I watched with a smile on my face and tears in my eyes as I watched the two girls swaying from side to side crying to each other with happiness.
“Congrats man,” Brian said with a huge smile on his face as he pulled me in for a hug, the other three joined in immediately, congratulating the two of us.
“What the fuck is going on in here?!” I heard that all too familiar voice shriek from the door of the bus.