Chapter Seven – Where Siblings Reunite
Bailey's Pov
The weeks went by and I admit I was struggling with him shooting this with his ex whatever she was. The hours he spent there made me uneasy and I know he's working but my mind kept going to that tape and I just kept thinking how I needed a life, I couldn't just sit cooped up all day.
Kylie and Caleb were great, they did everything they could to include me and honestly with the wedding there was always something I could be doing since I was now her maid of honor.
Her previous one, well let's just say that Caleb is faithful to Kylie and she's a bitch.
Now Janet has been booted and I'm in her place while Danielle has been added last minute which meant I was with her for everything, I did the final walkthrough and final appointments with her and which also meant I was pulled into the lingerie store with her too.
I was actually surprisingly not too uncomfortable about it, she tried on lingerie for their wedding night and I gave her my opinion and she ended up with a few of them for the honeymoon and decided to go classic and use the blue one for her wedding night.
I know she was nervous and excited about that aspect of it.
"And I'll be right here with you giving my opinion on what would make Julian swallow his tongue when you two get married. You're going to have absolutely beautiful babies." She said and my face flushed
"And who says we're getting married?" I asked her and she rolled her eyes
"That ring won't be a promise ring for long babe; I give him six months before
he's popping the question for real." She said and I played with the ring on my finger, I liked it. I remembered his promises and I knew he would keep them and I also knew we had a long way to go before we get to all the things Kylie's talking about.
Next we went to get some lunch and then I was going to be headed to the airport with Julian to pick up my brother, we didn't go out in public together but Drew would be here soon, Christmas was a week away, Julia's trailer went out in two and a half and buzz about Julian was already starting up, a tiny bit but it would spread.
I went with her to make the hair and make-up appointments for the run through and then she dropped me off at home, Julian arranged his schedule to go with me and he was waiting for me when I got home.
"Hey pretty girl, how was your day?" He asked and I walked right into his arms, I felt like I never saw him since we were sleeping in different apartments, he was gone early and back late and I missed him.
"When do I get to spend time with you?" I asked
"Tomorrow's our last day of filming until the New Year, see your brother and I'm kidnapping you some nights because I miss my baby in my arms at night." He sighed and I did too.
"I miss waking up in your arms." I really did and it sucked knowing that we could be together and no one could tell us not to but we stayed apart because it was the right thing to do.
"Move in with me, in April, please." he tilted my chin up and I looked into his eyes.
"I think we should decide that in a couple months." I said, I don't know how we're going to deal with all the bullshit.
"No. I know how I feel now and in four and a half months I'm only going to love you more. I want you to move in with me in April Bailey, I don't want to let them dictate our life. I want you to move in, I want to love you and give you
everything, I want to marry you, tell me you don't feel the same way." His eyes looked into mine challengingly; he knew I couldn't say that.
"Okay, April." I agreed and he kissed me and as soon as I kissed him back we knew it wasn't going to be a short one. He ended up sitting on the couch with me in his lap and I felt the spike of something that I shouldn't be feeling right now.
His fingers were tangled in my hair and as soon as the low moan escaped he pulled his lips from mine like I burned him, like he always did.
"Please go to your apartment and get ready." He said pained and I nodded and left. I know it was like torture and I didn't want to make it worse but the longer I was with him, the more I felt, the more I wanted to be with him in that way.
I've given him everything and it was hard to keep strong on why I hadn't given him all that I had; heart, body and soul. Marriage Bailey, with my brother coming home it shouldn't be too hard to remember that, Marriage. We could wait. Hopefully.
It was bad when Julian was forced to be the one to stop things instead of me.
I took a shower and Julian knocked on my door, he was driving us to the airport and suddenly I couldn't sit still. I was so excited to have him home and with Christmas next week, I had done a lot of Christmas shopping, my parents haven't cut off my accounts yet and so it was all on their dime.
We parked and I grabbed his hand pulling him inside but he easily kept pace with me as I weaved through the crowded airport and to the gate, we were a little early but I guess so was their flight. I saw him coming out and he was signing a few autographs but as soon as he was done and faced forward I ran over to him and nearly tackled him in a huge hug.
He would have fallen over if he wasn't so abnormally tall for me being so annoyingly short.
"Hey Bailey." He said and he hugged me tight. I looked over at who I was assuming to be Kenna and she smiled at me with a wiggling baby in her arms.
"Nice to meet you." she said and Drew took Micah and she pulled me in for a hug and I didn't feel awkward about this one, she was my sister-in-law now and I looked at the adorable little boy. Kenna had darker skin that her and Micah shared but he had mine and Drew's green eyes and dark hair oppose to Kenna's brown eyes and light brown hair.
She was incredibly beautiful and I could see why my brother as drawn to her.
"And this must be Micah." I said and he looked shyly at me
"Hi." His voice was so sweet I smiled at him and he smiled at me a little. My first smile from my nephew.
"He's so cute." I looked at him
"Jealous?" Drew asked and it was a sweet site seeing them together.
"Maybe." I didn't like people but I was in love with this baby already.
"You want kids?" Julian put his arm around my waist and I jumped forgetting he was there.
"Yup." Micah held his arms out to me and I eagerly snatched him away and held him on my hip and smiled at him.
"Bailey." Kenna said slowly and put her hand on my shoulder and he frowned slightly and then babbled about in whatever baby language he had. He was almost a year and a half now and he could talk more than I thought babies did.
He definitely knew who mommy and daddy were.
"We'll work on Auntie." Kenna smiled at me and I felt Julian's lips graze my temple.
"Ready to go home?" I asked them and they both looked tired
"Yes." We'd been working on getting their place set up, I had their bed together and made and Micah's crib set up and made as well. I had basic things up but they had to finish it how they wanted later, I didn't want to cause more work.
We left the airport, Drew put the car seat in the back and I put Micah in not ready to give him back, I've known him five minutes and I already wanted to steal him. Julian drove us to their place and handed them their keys we had.
Drew had the money for a huge house but he didn't show it, their house was nice but not overly fancy though it did have a nice yard and the pool was gated for obvious safety reasons.
When we went in Kenna put Micah down for a nap and then Julian and I helped him unpack and get everything all settled in, the boys did all the heavy lifting while Kenna and I did the things like pillows and curtains and the kitchen.
Drew ordered pizza and we stayed late, I got to play with the baby more and it was surreal having him here. It was weird that I was helping him unpack his house and that he would be staying, that he would be here tomorrow and the next day.
Julian and I went home and I curled up in bed with him, we've spent so many nights apart I just wanted a night with him. He kissed me goodnight and held me but when I woke up he was gone. I sighed, but this was the last day for three weeks and so I got dressed and went over to Drew's house to see them.
"Hey Bailey." Kenna opened the door in a pair of shorts and one of Drew's soccer shirts.
"Sorry if it's early." I said a little nervously, I mean they just got back.
"Not at all, Drew's in the shower, Micah's up playing and breakfast is being made. Coffee?" she asked as she let me in and I nodded. She poured me a cup and handed it over and I helped her make breakfast, this was how I always kind of imagined a normal family to be.
Drew came down shirtless but didn't seem to care, well at least Kenna wasn't shirtless I guess.
"My house." He shrugged and pulled me into a hug.
"How did you guys sleep?" I asked
"Great, we crashed as soon as we got to bed, care to stay around and help today?" Drew asked
"I can stay a few hours, I have my supposed final fitting today for the wedding and Kylie will probably keep me the rest of the day but if not, I'll come back." I offered and so we ate and I helped them get a little more of the house together. Drew hung some pictures of us as kids and them some of the three of them on the walls and it made it feel even homier.
The place was almost finished, I didn't realize just how much work we had gotten done last night. I declined lunch since I was meeting Kylie at a café and we got food there before heading to my fitting. I should probably eat after it but if it doesn't fit after the simple act of eating then there was a problem and I wasn't going to starve myself the day of the wedding.
The purple fabric clung nicely to my body and Kylie approved though she had to meet Caleb for dance lessons so I went back to Drew's to help until Julian joined us there later.
"We have a problem." Julian said as soon as he got there, we were all sitting around the living room drinking some hot chocolate and we all stopped.
"What happened?" I asked and Julian put a magazine down in front of us and I wanted to laugh and cry at the same time.
Someone took a picture of us at the airport, Julian had his arm around me and his lips were barley a breath from mine and I was holding Micah.
"Julian Cole Love Child?" it said and I did end up laughing.
"Well that wasn't how I expected her to take it." Drew said
"I can't help it, I mean Drew and I have the same skin tone and Julian and Kenna obviously do not, Micah's a darker child and they're thinking it's a love child, that and if I don't laugh I'm going to lose my mind because it only gets worse from here." I took a drink of hot chocolate; well the normalcy was nice while it lasted.
Kenna and Drew are in the picture too and they're not strangers to it all but I'm going to be caught in the middle of my boyfriend and my brother and I sighed and bounced Micah on my lap because right now, the people here were what mattered, the rest could wait.