endearment (Jesse Lingard & Marcus Rashford)

The sequel | part 18

Jesse pov
"Jesse!"
"Jesse!"
"Jesse!"
My eyes flutter open to be met with a worried looking Delilah next to me.
I look around and realise I'm in a hospital bed.
"Where's Ellis? Is he okay?" I ask worriedly
"Who?" Delilah asks
"Ellis!" I yell
"Who's ellis Jesse?" She asks confused
She squeezes my hand.
"Our child" I say hurt
"Jesse..." she starts
"You had a knock on the pitch and have been unconscious for a while.I don't know what you're talking about." She says stroking my hand with her thumb.
"No I remember I picked you up from the airport and helped you move into your house and you revealed we have a child together" I say feeling my eyes start to well up
"I flew back yesterday when I saw you get knocked out on tv during the match. You never picked me up jesse" she says smiling lightly
"No no this can't be true" I say rubbing my forehead with my fingers.
"I'm just glad you're okay" she says happily
"I'm not okay. Where is Ellis?" I say annoyed
"Jesse I don't know who ellis is!" She says sadly
"He's our son Lils! Where is he?" I demand
"I'm going to go get you a doctor" she says standing up slowly
"No!" I say grabbing her arm stopping her from leaving
She turns around and looks straight at me
"I want to know where ellis is!" I shout
She looks at me blankly and I feel my face flood with tears.

Delilah pov
I am woken up by Jesse making noises beside me on the couch.
We fell asleep watching Netflix together in his cinema room in his house.
I look closer at him and he's shaking, crying and sweating.
I gently shake him whilst whispering "Jesse"
Each time I say his name it gets louder until he responds.
His eyelids quickly open and he starts panting for breathe.
He looks around the room looking petrified
"Jesse Jesse I'm here what's wrong?" I ask cupping his tear soaked face with my hands.
He's still panting
He takes a deep breathe before he begins to talk
"Where is Ellis?" He asks frantically
"He's behind you in his cot, look" I say smiling gently still cupping his face
He turns around and sees Ellis stirring in his cot.
He looks so relieved and starts to smile.
"I had a nightmare where I woke up in a hospital and you never came back and Ellis didn't exist" he says looking at me, panic in his eyes
"It's okay Jesse. It was just a nightmare, it all did really happen and Ellis is definitely here" I say reassuringly
He nods into my hands that are still holding his face.
He slowly stands up and walks over to Ellis' cot.
"I know I haven't known him as long as you and might sound ridiculous that I'm already so attached but I really don't know what I would do without him now" he says sniffling lifting Ellis out of his cot.
"It's not ridiculous Jesse. You are the father after all" I say smiling watching him cradle Ellis
"I know but I really don't want to lose him" he says looking up from ellis and at me.
"You won't ever lose him" I say smiling.
Jesse brings Ellis over to the couch we are on and carefully sits down holding onto him.
Ellis is quick to snuggle into Jesse and fall asleep.
"He looks so peaceful and adorable" I say in awe.
Jesse looks at me and smiles, he holds his spare arm out for me to rest my head on him as his other arm has hold of Ellis.
I take him up on his offer and I wrap my arms around his waist and rest my head on his chest, his arm snakes around me.
"My little family" he says softly
I know Jesse and I are parents but I still don't know where we are at? like are we actually together or just parenting together?

I'm in the gym in Jesse's house doing some leg presses with my AirPods in listening to Drake.
I feel a presence of someone behind me and I look over to the mirror wall and notice it's Jesse smirking at me.
I step off the leg press and remove an earphone
"Hmm?" I ask tilting my head
He moves closer to me placing his hands on my waist and smirks down at me.
"You know the day Ellis arrived here with the babysitter?" He asks
"Yeah what about it?" I ask confused
"Well just before Marcus interrupted and you kicked me out you never actually answered my question" he says smirking
"You'll have to refresh my memory" I say laughing
He rolls his eyes jokingly
"I asked Would you want us to try again?" He asks biting his lip
Shit.
That's thrown me off, the lip bite gets me every time.
"Who's looking after Ellis? You can't just leave him" I say worriedly
I try to move away from him to check on Ellis.
"It's fine, Louie is with him upstairs whilst I came to see you" he says pulling me back
I smile up at him
"So are you gonna answer my question or not?" He asks smirking
"What would you like me to say lingard?" I ask smirking back tracing shapes on his chest with my finger
"Quit playing games and just commit to an answer" he says laughing
"Fine" I say
He raises his eyebrows
"I mean if you wanna give us another go that's cool but if you don't want that's cool also but I would be willing to try again with you, preferably as soon as possible as I've been waiting for-" I ramble before he interrupts me
He interrupts me by placing his lips on mine and pulls me closer by my waist.
We eventually pull out of our kiss panting for breath.
I smile at his face as he looks so smug and pleased.
"We're back on then" he winks
"We sure are" I say before he picks me up and swings me around causing me to giggle.
Jesse pov
We hear Ellis cry from upstairs.
"Feeding time" Delilah says and quickly runs out the room upstairs.
I'm left in my gym alone and I fist pump the air and jump up saying "yes!" Over and over.
I'm very happy we are back together.
This time I will never let her go.