Forever and Always

Chapter thirty-eight

***Luke's POV***

"Lukey I made an appointment with the best prenatal doctor in Cali for four o'clock today, alright?" Ashley asked as he were cuddling on my bed watching Keeping up with the Kardashians. With a simple 'Uhm' as a response she started to talk to me about our baby plans and honestly I couldn't care less. I just wanted the baby to be healthy, so conversation on hypnotic birth plans were completely irrelevant in my mind.

We continued to lay there, her body molded to my stiff and awkward one in the most uncomfortable way possible while my mind wandered and she kept talking.

I was miserable. It's been two days since Nikki showed up at the house, with the news that she still loved me and wanted to be mine again. And ever since then I've been in hell. Ashley had a complete hold on me, and not in the good way. I did everything she said and had no choice. And to make it all even worse, Nikki was only a wall away.

After Tyler hitting her and my rejection, she hasn't been comfortable enough to go home. At least that's what Gemma has told me.

There's another thing that has been really hard. Having the girl I love so close to me, hurting, and not being able to just hold her and comfort her. I wanted her to be in the place Ashley was at the moment, I wanted to kiss her tears away.

It was crazy, the way life has turned out. Here I was unwillingly cuddling with a girl - who's pregnant with my child, as the girl I've been fighting for for so long is meters away, wanting me.

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Ashley and I were sat in the fancy waiting room of the prenatal clinic, her ignorantly typing away at her phone. And me? Yeah well I was slumped over in my chair, looking around at the office. I swear this place was fancier than my whole house back home. It sort of made me sick.

Why did a place that specializes in taking care of pregnancies have to be so fancy? Then again I had to remember that Ashley had said this was the best doctor in all of California. The thought made my wallet want to scream.

I wonder what type of clinic Nikki was going to? Was it as nice as this one? Or did it look more like a regular clinic?

With the thoughts running through my brain I continued to look around the room, and as my eyes scanned the front desk I noticed that the young receptionist had her eyebrows raised and eyes glued to me. She look as though she was seeing a ghost. I gave her a small stiff wave causing her eyes to widen even more. I was becoming afraid that her eyes were going to fall out of their sockets.

"Y-you're L-luke Hemm-mings." She stuttered out.

My only response was a small nod.

The woman who was sat in a corner chair reading a magazine - that of course had my face on the cover - lowered the thin reading material, before looking at me from the top of her glasses, "You're Luke Hemmings? As in the Luke Hemmings from the band 5 seconds of summer who goes around luring in innocent girls, having sex with them and breaking their hearts?"

The women's words were harsh, and I didn't know how to respond. How do you respond to something like that?

"A-a no?"

"Young lady, is Luke the father of your baby? Or is he just your boyfriend?" The women asked Ashley in a concerned tone. All I could do at this was scoff, people were trying to help her, when in reality I was the one needing help because of her.

"Yeah, Luke's the father of my child. And we happen to be in a very happy relationship." Ashley sassed, trying to put the lady in her place. I wanted to vomit the second my ears heard Ashley saying that we were in a happy relationship. I hated this. I didn't want to be with her, which was making me miserable, then you add the fact that me being with her hurts my angle. It just makes this all so much worse.

Before anymore drama could take place in the waiting room, the doctor finally came out into the waiting room and prompted Ashley to follow him down the hall. I had originally planned on staying out in the waiting room, but after what had just gone down I decided that that would be a poor idea.

The doctor lead us down the hall, into a spacious room that had a fancy lounge chair in the center of it, surrounded by a whole bunch of high end equipment.

"Here's a dressing gown, I will need you to slip this on and then get settled on the chair. Basic procedure. When you're all ready just give me a shout." The doctor said, handing over a pink piece of cloth to Ashley, before awkwardly smiling and leaving the room.

As soon as the door to the room was closed, Ashley went right to undressing. Awkwardly my eyes travelled around the floor, small coughs escaping my lips as I found myself feeling extremely uncomfortable.

Ashley took notice of my behaviour, and turned around to face me, one hand perched on her side. "What the hell is wrong Luke," She laughed, "Have you never been in a prenatal clinic before?"

I looked up at her out of respected when she talked to me, but quickly had to tightly shut my eyes when I noticed that she was not only just in a bra, but her baby bump was out on full display. "Oh my god, you've seen me naked before - obviously. So are you being squeamish because of my stomach or something?"

"Y-yeah. I've saw Nikki's bump a while ago, but she was underwater, and it wasn't that big. But ah... seeing one is weird. Isn't your stomach supposed to be a really sensitive thing while you're pregnant or something? And no I've never been to the baby clinic, Nikki never asked me to be there."

All Ashley did was smirk, before she walked over to me a little bit more, "She's so fucking weird I swear. Good thing you have me back," She said as she wrapped her arms around my neck, her fingertips instantly going to play with the hair at the back of my neck."Luckily I actually want you here and to be apart of the process from now on, and also I have nothing to be ashamed of when it comes to you." She purred into my ear.

The next thing that happened took me by complete surprise as Ashley roughly cupped my crotch, causing my to let out a quick moany yelp, "I-i think y-you should put your gown on. I... We don't want to keep the doctor waiting."

"Okay, we'll continue this later." She ended with a wink before getting ready and calling the doctor in.

As he walked in, he look at me and joked, "And you must be the bloke who calls himself the father. Having a baby is like marriage, you lose all independence. Let's cross our fingers Ashley here gives you a long leash." At his words they both laugh similarly.

But all I could do was swallow some spit, because the truth behind his words were frightening.