This Love

Home Again

Ian's POV
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Nina and I arrive back home at 4 in the morning. I unlock the front door and we step in quietly. Not waking Paul and Phoebe. I sit are suit cases on the side.

"Let's prank Paul." Nina whispers.

I look over at her.

"How?" I ask quietly.

"Let's walk upstairs and into the guest room and just scream as loud as we can." Nina try's not to laugh.

I roll my eyes and take her hand as we walk up the steps slowly.

We get to the guest room and the doors wide open. I look at Nina who gives me the look to keep going.

We step in near the bed. Nina stands on Phoebe's side and I stand over Paul.

She holds up her hand and counts down with her fingers.

When she gets to one we scream.

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!"

Paul sits up fast throwing his arms out and Phoebe rolls off into the floor landing on Nina's feet.

I fall to the floor laughing.

"You son of a bitch!" Paul yells out.

I hear Nina laughing and trying to speak but not being able to control herself.

"I'm sorry!" I keep laughing.

Paul stands up and walks over to Phoebe and helps her up.

"You guys are assholes." Phoebe says and then starts laughing.

Nina walks back over to me high fiving me.

"Nina your belly got big!" Phoebe puts her hands on Nina's belly.

Paul sits back down on the bed.

"Did you shit yourself brother?" I laugh.

"Almost." Paul says and starts laughing.

"You guys got me good." Paul shakes his head.

"It's only 4:16? I'm going back to sleep." Paul lays back down.

"Well Nina and I are going to go back to sleep. How about we wake for breakfast around 9?" I grab Nina's hand and head out into the hall.

"Goodnight Paula." I say over my shoulder.

"Goodnight baby." Paul says and I hear him laugh with Phoebe.

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Nina's POV
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"I can't believe we scared them!" I say to Ian as we walk into our bedroom.

I shut the door behind us and lock it.

"Why are you locking the door?" Ian sits down on the bed and kicks his shoes off.

"So they don't come in here and scare us, me, into labor." I take my hair out of the bun it was in and shake it out.

"Right, we don't need that happening." Ian pulls me into the bed.

"Well let's get some rest." I kiss his forehead and lay down.

He turns the lamp off and I move into his arms.

"Sleep tight." Ian whispers.

"Don't let the bed bugs bite." I say back.

A few hours later Paul, Phoebe, Ian and I are sitting in the kitchen eating breakfast.

"So how did everything go here?" Ian asks Paul.

"Good good. As you can see we didn't burn the place down. Oh, but a few fans found the place and literally stood at the end of the drive way screaming for you two. So I walked down there with a print out of your face over mine. They laughed and didn't realize it was me. So I went back to grab Phoebe and she put one of Nina's over her face and then we took them off and they flipped out. But yeah you might wanna get a gate guard or a dog guard." Paul says and smiles.

Ian and I shake our heads and laugh.

"Phoebe do you want to come to my doctor appointment in the morning? Ian has a meeting and can't. And Jules is in New York." I grab my glass and drink some orange juice.

"Sure! I'd love too!" Phoebe smiles.

"Great! I get the 3d scan of her tomorrow. And we get to see how much she weighs now. And according to how big I am, she's probably up to 4 pounds." I place my hand on my belly.

"No that's just all the pancakes you eat." Paul says.

I roll my eyes at him and he sticks his tongue out.

"So what all did you do in Rome!" Phoebe asks.

"A little bit of shopping, eating, and just exploring." I say.

"We brought you guys back something." Ian stands up and walks over to our bags.

He comes back in and hands the gifts to them.

"Wow this is pretty!" Phoebe holds up the dress I picked out.

"I hope I got the matching dress." Paul jokes before opening his.

He opens his gift and holds it up.

"This is nice!" He looks at the shirt we got him.

"This old man, so talented, was making these. I got one too." Ian says to Paul.

"I like it, thanks guys." He stands up and wraps his arms around me for a hug.

"Well my feet hurt so I'm going to lay down on the couch." I walk into the living room.

"We gotta get back to Atlanta anyway, I have a photo shoot with the originals cast." Phoebe stands up and grabs her bag.

"I'll see you in the morning Nina." She blows me a kiss before heading out the front door.

Paul follows behind her.

"Bye Paula, see you later." Ian laughs.

"Bye baby, I'll miss your face." Paul winks at Ian.

"You guys are so gay." I put my hand over my eyes.

"If you weren't engaged to him, he'd be all mine." Paul says and shuts the door.

Ian laughs and walks over to the couch. He sits down and puts my legs in his lap.

Lynx jumps up and lays down beside me.

"Hi sweet girl. Mama missed you." I say and scratch her head.

Ian pets her back.

"Gosh I feel like I could sleep for 10 days straight." I stretch my arms out.

"But, I wanna go swimming." I stand up from the couch and start walking to the stairs.

"Wait I wanna swim too." I hear Ian say and he runs behind me.

After we change it our swimsuits we walk out to the back yard.

"They did such a good job." I say as I lay my towel down.

"I think I like the water fall and the slide the best." Ian runs over and up to the water fall.

"Cannonball!" Ian shouts and jumps into the water.

"Come in, it's warm!" He says as he comes back up.

"I'm coming." I walk over to the steps and walk down into the water.

"You lied!" I shout and puts my arms around me.

"It's freezing!" I turn around to head back up the steps but Ian grabs me and pulls me into his chest.

"You will get used to it." He smiles.

"Fine." I agree and stay in with him.

I walk over to the side and lean up against it.

Ian stands in front of me and I wrap my arms around him.

"6 days." He says.

"6 days." I say back and look into his eyes. He leans down and kisses me softly on the lips.