Lost ... For Love and Phone

“Will you just fucking stop?” Brian pushed Matt on a chair.“Don’t touch me!” Matt fumed, shoving Brian’s hand off his arm. Matt stood up again and continued pacing up and down.
“I can’t stop until I have her with me again, safe and all”
“You are being stupid. Izzie can take care of herself”
Matt only grunted in response.

Zack chuckled from one of the other chairs “I can’t believe you still try Brian. He’s always like this when Izzie goes to Europe without him” Brian shrugged, indicating he too had no idea why he still tried.
“It gets worse every time. He is driving me crazy.”

It had been three years since Izzie moved to Cali. Making Izzie and Matt close to their 5 year anniversary. Once in a while she flew back to see her family and friends. Matt joined her as often as he could. But like this time, when Izzie was planning on visiting all her friends, Matt opted to stay home. The couple hated to be apart, but their friends probably hated it more. Matt was driving them all completely mad when Izzie wasn’t there to put a stop to it.

“Where the hell is she? She should have been here half an hour ago”
“You lost your hearing? They just announced her flight having a delay. Now sit the fuck down!”

Their bickering caught the attention of the other travellers in the arrival hall. Most of them were laughing about it, others were looking just as annoyed as Brian was. Zack tied to distract Matt “Which friends were coming back with her again?”

In the years Izzie lived in the US, several of her friends had come to visit her. Mia was there the most. After complaining and fighting about it, Mia finally accepted Matt buying her a plane ticket every 3 months. Izzie just missed her too much when they didn’t see each other regularly and Matt just couldn’t bare seeing Izzie unhappy.

“Oh, Only Mia is coming. I told you”
“No you didn’t asshole! Why the fuck are we here then?” Brian looked at him angry “You could have easily taken one person extra in your car”
“Must’ve forgot to tell you. But you are here anyway. So you can take Mia. I take Izzie”
“You sure will take Izzie on the way home, huh?” Zack muttered under his breath.

Matt shot him a pissed off look and then looked at his watch. “Is everything arranged for the party tonight?”
Zack and Brian both rolled their eyes. Everything had been arranged, every tiny little detail. Matt had been a pain in their ass the last few months and they were happy tonight it would finally be over. As Matt went on and on, shooting questions about the party, Brian and Zack noticed something behind him.

Matt noticed his friends losing their attention and looking at something over his shoulder “What?!”
“Is that-” Brian started and Zack only nodded, a knowing smile on his face. Matt turned around to see what they were looking at. When he finally laid eyes on the situation before him, he almost saw red, his jealousy spiking to an unhealthy high.
“Is she fucking kidding me?”

A few feet away from where the guys were, Izzie and Mia were not at all looking at Matt or the other two. They were too busy talking and laughing with a broad shouldered blonde with a killer smile. Even Matt would admit to that. He knew exactly who the man was and he wasn’t at all happy that Izzie was happily talking to him. Or talking to him at all. Especially because she always joked with her friends about him being husband no 1, opposing to Matt being husband no 2. Long before Matt had even come into the picture for real.

Izzie was not aware of the man impatiently waiting for her until she felt his presence next to her and the arm over her shoulder.
“Hey baby”
The deep voice se loved so much pulled her out of her conversation and made her look at Matt. Before she could even utter a reply Matt’s lips were already on ers, pulling her into a soultaking kiss.

She forgot the world around her and melted into Matt’s body, completely forgetting about the dreamy guy she was talking to. When she finally came back to earth, she blushed heavily turning to the other man “Chris, this is my boyfriend Matt”
“I heard so much about you, mate. Or should I say husband no 2?” The smirk was obvious and the aussie accent thick. Matt heard Izzie giggle next to him, before he shook the other man’s hand. Squeezing it just a little to hard. Chris seemed unfazed by Matt’s actions and released the hand. He turned to Izzie “It was nice to meet you, Izzie” he kissed her cheek “Call me if you ever get to Australia. You can meet my wife. My absolute no 1” He winked at her “Same goes for you, Mia” He said goodbye to both the women and left the men to gape after him.

Izzie wrapped her arms around Matt’s neck to say a proper hello, but he wasn’t having any of it “What the hell was that?!” he folded his arms over his chest, his face tight. Izzie couldn’t read his eyes because of the aviators, but she knew better than to start THAT discussion again.
“That was Chris Hemsworth”
The guys looked at her in a ‘duh’- look.
“Well, he was the only one with us in business class and since I started addressing my idols a few years ago, I thought I would just start a conversation.” She looked at Matt with a twinkle in her eyes “You know. I actually have you to thank for that” Izzie giggled about Matt’s posture that became more and more angry.

“He was just being friendly”
“You told him about the husband thing?!”
“Ah, that’s what’s bothering you?” She smiled at the jealous man looking down at her “You are being ridiculous. I’m with you, remember? I moved my life for you. I live in the US now, not Australia”
“Just because you didn’t meet him first!” Matt shot back, leaving Izzie baffled. Now his jealousy wasn’t cute anymore. “You are being an ass! I missed you too”
Izzie stormed off to where Brian and Zack were already talking to Mia. She kissed both of them on the cheek and mixed herself in the conversation.

“Iz-”

She ignored Matt completely and let Brian take her suitcase, while they made way to the cars. Matt caught up with them and took a hold of her hand, but she pulled it away from his. “No.”

When they reached the cars, Izzie made her way to Brian’s. She was about to hop into the back when Brian stopped her “You know I can’t take you with me, Iz.” He knew better to facilitate her in her anger against Matt.
“Lend me your phone to call a cab, because there is no way I’m getting in the car with that asshole”
“Come on Izzie, you will regret it if you don’t make it up to him now.”
“MAKE IT UP TO HIM?! I did nothing wrong, Brian!”
“He just missed you”
“Funny way to show it” Izzie stubbornly leaned against the car, her arms folded over her chest.

Brian knew she should go with Matt and talk things out. So he opened the door to Matt’s passenger side and slowly pushed her the right way, handing her her handbag when she sat down. He closed the door and shot Zack and Mia a look “This is going to be fun.”
Zack just nodded, but Mia looked at them confused
“Tonight was planned to be an engagement party” Zack cleared.
“OH!” Mia shook her head while she stepped into the car. She hoped Izzie and Matt would use the drive home to talk to each other, because she wasn’t planning on intervening again. It almost cost her her friendship with Izzie the last time she did and now it was more important than ever they would make up.

In the other car silence had fallen over the couple. And in contrary to so many silences they had shared, this one was highly uncomfortable.

“Izzie...”
“I’m not talking to you, Sanders”

For a few minutes the silence was back. But the quiet did nothing to calm the couple down. If so, it only fueled their anger more. Both of them were boiling inside, slowly, but certainly coming to a cooking point.

“I can’t believe you got so friendly with Chris Hemsworth” he seethed through his teeth.
“You can’t believe? What the hell are you saying? I was just talking to the guy.”
“Really? That was all you did? You like mighty friendly from where I was standing”
“Well. Maybe you should have taken those jealousy glasses off before you looked at us, because there was nothing going on.” Izzie emphasised the last few words “Nothing, Matt. You are being ridiculous”

Matt’s face told Izzie he didn’t agree at all.
“I’m not being ridiculous! I’m right!”
“Oh, get a life! You are not right, you are not seeing things straight. You are being an ass.” Izzie lowered her voice and muttered “I should have stayed in Europe”.

“YOU SHOULD HAVE STAYED IN EUROPE?! YOU MEET CHRIS HEMSWORTH AND NOW YOU WANT TO LEAVE ME!?” Matt yelled, his gaze going back and forth between the road and Izzie.
“Stop the car” Izzie’s voice was quiet but icy. That changed when Matt didn’t honor her request “STOP THE FUCKING CAR!!!”

“Iz, I can’t just-”
“Oh yes you can. You stop the car now or I will jump right out of it while you are driving” Izzie put her hand on the handle. Matt knew his girlfriend well enough to know she wasn’t bluffing and he steered the car to the side. Before the car even came to a stop, Izzie was already out and on her way.
Matt quickly got out of the car and took the few large steps to catch up with her. He grabbed her hand and pulled her back to him.

“Let go of me!”
“Why are you being so difficult?”
“I’m being difficult?! You make a problem out of nothing and I”M BEING DIFFICULT?!” Izzie pushed herself away from Matt, way too angry to stay even in a few feet distance of him. She started pacing next to the car.
“You told him the husband story!”

“Get the fuck over it! I told him the story, because it was funny. We were talking about the people we loved the most. He told me about his wife. I told him about you-”
“You better remember that you are mine!”

Izzie got right in Matt’s face “I’m yours? I’M yours? I’M YOURS?!!?! I’m nobody’s fucking property. I’m not yours! I’m mine!” she turned away from him her anger getting the best of her.

Unconsciously she put a hand on her stomach. She was so happy when she found out. Today should have been a good day. No, it should have been a great day and now it was all ruined. She didn’t know what to do. There was no reasoning with Matt when he was like this. How could she have let it come this far, they were far from ready for this new phase in their relationship. She looked down and whispered to herself “I can’t believe I let you knock me up”, right at the same moment she heard Matt say something behind her “I was a fool for wanting you to marry me”.

They both snapped around, glaring at each other “What?! What did you say?”

Izzie blushed under Matt’s compelling stare, all the anger immediately forgotten. Did he hear her correctly? They spoke at exactly the same time.

“You are pregnant?”
“You want to marry me?”

Izzie just nodded and Matt copied her, right before he scooped her in his arms and swung her around.

“You are going to make me a dad again!”
“Yes! Yes! Yes! I want to marry you!”

Matt stopped and put his hand on her cheek “I love you so much Izzie, I had this whole proposal planned, but it’s just important that you said yes. You are making me so happy” he kissed her softly and Izzie had a hard time standing up.
“When did you find out you were pregnant?” Matt asked when they parted again.

“At my mom’s” Izzie blushed “I was feeling a little queasy and threw up a few days in a row. Then the next morning my mom came into the bathroom when I was hugging the toilet again and held my hair back. When I was done she handed me 3 tests. She thought I might need them. I took all of them and the results were unanimous.” Izzie suddenly realized she could show Matt “Wait! I got them in my handbag” Izzie rushed to the car and got the little plastic bag that was containing the proof of her pregnancy.
“I know I did this 2 times before, but this is special every time” he said with tears in his eyes. For a moment they just stared at the tests. “We are marrying soon, before the baby comes. We will be a real family, you, me, the baby and the boys. They are going to love being a big brother!”

Izzie nodded with a smile, there was nothing she wanted more than everything that Matt just pictured. But she couldn’t help tease Matt a little. “A quickie wedding? Are you serious?! I’m marrying a rockstar and you want to give me a quickie wedding?!”
“Iz, I’m sorry, I didn’t mean it like that, I just… I just want to make it official” He almost begged, hoping his enthusiasm wouldn’t set off the next fight.
“You want to make it official, but you didn’t even give me a ring” Izzie tried to keep her face angry, but she couldn’t help the smile that was breaking through. She couldn’t stop smiling.

Matt knowing this crisis was averted realized she was right “Shit! Brian has it, because of the proposal tonight. Come on, let’s get your ring!”

Notes

WHAT?! I wrote another chapter on this story?! And in 2 months... I applaud myself ;-) :')
Apparently not quite ready with this story yet. There will be one more chapter I think. For real this time.

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