Forever and always

Chapter fifty-eight

After a few hours everyone had arrived and the whole apartment smelled wonderful of Christmas food. Penelope, Luka and Lio were playing with some of their gifts they got earlier just to keep them entertained, they looked so cute and I couldn't stop thinking about the fact I'm gonna have one like them soon.

"Why aren't you in the kitchen sis?" Max laughed and made fun of my terrible cooking skills. "Why aren't you? you are just as terrible" I asked with a laugh, which made Kelly laugh as well. "Oh yes, you are the worst Max! I'm sure Oli is better" Kelly answered. "I'm not sure about that, we're both really bad" I said, and Max strongly agreed. Dad, Pascale and Charles were in the kitchen cooking the last few bits until it was dinner time, and I was getting really hungry. Meanwhile the rest of us just talked about everything, it was really nice.

A short time later it was dinner time, it looked amazing. We sat down around the table and I was so lucky to sit next to Vic and Arthur, and then Charles sat in front of me. We poured food on our plates and then Charles raised his glass. "Cheers to family, and a wonderful Christmas" he said and winked at me, which made me smile. "Cheers, and merry Christmas!" We all said and cheered our glasses. Of course I didn't drink wine, which most of the other people did, but I don't think they thought more about it to be honest.

The food was fantastic, even Penelope and Luka ate so much food. "Thanks for dinner uncle Char and Aunt Oli" Penelope said as she was done eating. "You are very welcome sweetheart" I said and smiled, so did Charles. "Yeah, thank you for the food" Luka said and then went to join Penelope on the floor where they kept playing with their toys. Eventually Lio joined as well.

"So guys, do you have more wedding planning updates for us? We're really excited!" Pascale said with a big smile. We looked at each other for a moment because something obviously had just gotten in the way of the wedding. "Nah not really" I simply answered. "Why, I thought you said you would spend all the time from now on to plan it" dad asked suspiciously. "We will, after new years. Christmas has been quite busy for Oli so we're gonna wait until past new years when both of us don't have much work" Charles answered and smiled. "That's understandable, you two are such a busy couple!" Lorenzo said. "Are we?" I asked and Charles shrugged. "I guess?" He answered. "Come on, if you're not at a racetrack you're in another place working on your social media or working out, take a break guys" Max answered with a little laugh. He might be right to be honest, but little do they know, soon I especially will take everything way more chilled than now..

After we all had been talking way too much about Charles and I, and we had been eating it was time to clean up just a bit. Vic, Kelly and I cleaned up because we volunteered to do so. Meanwhile the others could entertain the three little kids. Before it was time to open all the gifts.

The entire night went fantastic, we had a great day with our lovely families. It was really nice having both of them together, and I really think they enjoyed it too. Everyone got so many great gifts and had a blast, so nothing to complain about.. When everyone had left really late it was only Charles and I left in our apartment.

"Let's go to bed love, I'm really tired. We can clean up the apartment tomorrow" Charles said as I was just cleaning up a bit. "Alright then, I'm so exhausted" I said while letting out a laugh. And then we went to change clothes, brush our teeth and then we hopped into bed. It felt nothing but wonderful to be laying down after a long, but perfect day. - "goodnight, thanks for a wonderful day" I smiled as we were laying there, Charles had his one arm wrapped around me as always, so I was laying really close to him. "Goodnight love, it's been a great day. Still can't believe we're actually having a baby" he smiled, and so did I. "Me either, I'm so excited! It's the best Christmas gift this year" I answered. "Definitely, that baby is our Christmas miracle" he smiled and pulled me closer in a goodnight kiss.. we feel asleep really fast afterwards..
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A few days later we were scheduled to go to our first ultrasound. Today is one of the days between Christmas and New Year's, those days are always so weird in some way.. "ready to see our baby?" Charles asked and smiled. "I'm so ready, how long do we guess I am?" I asked, we were still a hundred percent sure I was pregnant, because I had been feeling really bad the past few days, and all the signs are pregnancy symptoms. "My guess is not more four weeks" he said and I agreed, that would make most sense, but I literally have no idea..

We drove to the private clinic, and got checked in. The doctor walked out and it was the same as last time, which made me happy but also nervous because she was the one to break the awful news to us, about our miscarriage.. "Olivia Verstappen?" She said and walked towards us, since we were the only ones in the waiting room. "Yeah that's me, hi" I said and shook hands with her. "Hi, good to see you two again" she smiled and also greeted Charles.

We got into the room and I laid down, while she poured some of the cold gel on my stomach, Charles was sitting right next to me, holding my hand. "So I'm just gonna search around a bit" she said and looked for the fetus. And after a few minutes she said something with a smile. "So you are definitely pregnant, and it turns out you are actually six weeks along" she smiled. "Wait what! Six weeks? That's almost two months" I laughed. I was really surprised by her comment. "Yeah six weeks, if you take a look on the screen you can see some of your baby" she said and pointed out a few things on the screen. "Wow, this is so cool," Charles said and looked at me. "It really is" I answered with a big smile..
We got some ultrasound pictures with us and then we were done for today, so we just drove home. The whole way back to our apartment, we couldn't stop talking about it. It felt so unreal that we really are expecting a little baby, and that this time we want nothing else but this little baby to be ours forever.. I wanted to tell everyone now, but we agreed on waiting until after the twelve week scan, just to be sure, because if last time taught us anything, that is everything can happen out of nowhere. And your world can flip upside down in a matter of seconds.
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