The Boy Next Door

No?

Blake POV

Did she really just say no to me?

She's not going to marry me? After everything we've been through?

I get up off the ground and wipe my hands over me jeans, "well...um lets go."

"Blake you're an idiot!" Her voice says behind me.

Yes I know I'm an idiot. I just asked you to marry me and you said no. Can you not rub it in?

I turn sideways and look at her over my shoulder. She comes up and grabs my face between her hands.

"You're such an idiot!" She says again. My eyes wonder her face trying to figure out what she's getting at.

"Of course I will marry you!"

My heart beat speeds up and I don't think I've ever been happier then I am at this moment.

"Momma, Daddy!" Valentine comes through the trees and runs to us.

"Is momma going to be my real mommy now?" Valentine asks me.

The smile in my face grows, "yes. She's going to be your real mommy.

*******

6 months later

Casey POV

"This can't be real" I say to myself as I look at the thing in my hands in front of me.

8 tests. All of them say the same thing.

Plus. Plus. Plus. Plus. Plus. Plus. Plus. Plus.

Each one says the same thing.

I feel the tears brim my eyes. I can't decide what emotion they hold.

"Blake.." I say walking into my bedroom felling the tears go down my cheeks. 8 sticks in my hand. All with a plus on them.

"What's up babe?" Blake asks me. "Hey why are you crying?"

I look down at my hands and back to his eyes. Then we both look at my hands together.

"You're - you're -"

"Pregnant" I finish for him.

I look back at Blake to see a smile as big as it can get stretched across his face.

"You're pregnant!" He repeats.

"YOU'RE PREGNANT!" Blake screams.

I laugh as I watch him dance around the room.

"I'm going to be a dad!"

"Blake!" I giggle getting his attention. "You're already a dad!"

"But now I get to be there the whole time. I get to be with you through the whole thing. I don't know anyone else I'd rather have a baby with." He smiles as he talks softly.

"Mommy! you're going to have a baby!" I turn to see Valentine in the doorway of our bedroom.

"Yes babydoll, I'm going to have a baby!"

"Wow the bad boy got me pregnant.." I say to Blake.

"Bad boys do it better." Blake says winking to me."

"Oh my god ewe!" I laugh as I through a pillow at him.

My own little family.

Realization hits me.

I already have my own little family. But now, we're going to be complete. A whole family. We will be a perfect family.

And I think about everything I've been through since Blake came back to my life.

I was kidnapped.

I was shot.

I found out Blake had a kid.

I was in the hospital.

I sat with Blake while he was in the hospital.

But I don't regret any of it.

And now my little girl and my fiancé sit on the bed with me while we all look at the little sticks in my hands that each hold a little pink plus sign.