Chapter 24 Jessica P.O.V.

Lucas came home later in the day, barreling through the door like a mad man and talking on the phone.

"I want you to fix this do you understand? I will not have this going around about my wife, child, and unborn children! I don't care how, just get it done and over with! While you're at it figure out who relayed this and if we can get it taken down for a serious invasion of privacy." Lucas ended the call with a huff and turned towards me and Jake with a solemn look on his face.

"Wife, huh?" I asked as he walked towards me, taking his suit jacket off.

"Oh yeah, wife." he kisses Jake's cheek and my engagement ring before sitting down on the couch and laying his head on my shoulder. Jake leaned towards his father making a grabbing motion with his hands and Lucas gladly obliged taking in his baby smell.

"Who is this wife you speak of? Because last I heard I wasn't actually proposed to." I say jokingly remembering the moment he knocked on my apartment door with the ring I'm wearing today, the same moment that started this whole thing.

"If I remember correctly, you asked me to marry you so that isn't even my fault." he replies with sass.

"Who's the sassy pants now huh?" I laugh running on hand through his hair.

"Yeah, yeah, laugh it up while you can." Lucas smiles

We're both quiet before I decide to speak again.

"Lucas?"

"Yeah, Jess?"

"What're we going to do? About this whole thing, it's just one big mess."

He sighs before responding. "I'm not completely sure to be quite honest. I'm trying to get the media off this story as soon as possible, but I really want to know who the hell told them this?"

"The only people who know other than the two of us are Adri and Maggie. I really doubt either of them told the press because some of it wasn't even true. Maybe someone overheard us talking about it one day?" I proposed.

"For now let's worry about doing family damage control. I know for sure that my mom and John do because they get a google notification anytime my name is in the news, do you think that either of your parents know?"

"My dad probably does because of Isabelle and I'm not to sure about my mom but if Jasmine knows then so does my mom."

"So what you're saying is that it is more than likely that both of our families know about this whole thing."

"Yes."

"Shit." he lets out a big breath of air before sinking into the couch taking Jake with him.

I lean my head on his shoulder and start playing with his hair with on hand and let the other rest on my enlarged stomach.

After a while of just sitting there enjoying each others company Jake decides to let out a wail more than likely because it's almost dinner time and he's hungry. I attempt to get up so I could get his dinner, but the key word here being attempt seeing that I couldn't even lift myself off the couch due to my stomach.

Lucas sees my problem and gets up to help me, leaving Jake on the couch, chuckling to himself a little.

"So you think this is funny huh? I'd like to see try and get from the couch with a stomach so big you haven't seen your own two feet in months. Once you have then and only then are you allowed to laugh." by the end of my little spew I was already standing.

I let out a hard sigh, pick up Jake, and make my way to the kitchen to get his dinner and some for myself. I hear his footsteps follow behind me, pretending I don't hear him I put Jake in his high chair and give him a sippy cup of water until his food it ready.

"Hey, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to make you upset, okay? I'm sorry for laughing at you." he wraps his arms around me, his chin resting on the top of my head as I mix Jacobs food together.

"I'm sorry too. I didn't mean to snap at you like that, it's just that everything going on right now I'm pretty stressed and agitated. I just snapped I guess, and I'm sorry."

He doesn't say anything just gives me a kiss on the top of my head and brings Jake his food to start feeding him.

"We're going to get through this okay, together."

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Some odd days later there was a knock on the door  little while before Lucas was supposed to be home. I open the door only to find a nervous Lisa standing at the door. It was a surprise to see her because Lucas and I still haven't spoken to them about everything that's happened, Lucas has been busy at work and trying to get  the media away from us.

"Lisa, hi. Um, what are you doing here?" I let her inside and walk to the living room where I left Jake in his jumper.

"I've been wanting to come by for a while and John told me to wait but I just couldn't anymore." she sits down next to me."

"Well would you like something to drink?"

"No thank you dear I'm fine." she smiles at me.

"Obviously you heard what the media has been saying about Lucas and I and how we starting seeing each other, they even talked about Jake."

"Yeah I heard. Look dear, I know by now not to trust everything that the media says but every story has to come from somewhere. You have a become like another daughter to me; family, and families are supposed stick together through thick and thin. So whether what the media has been saying is true or not I won't judge you I still need to know."

"Alright. Well most of what they said is true but believe me, Lucas and I never wished for you guys to find out this way." I say feeling the tears coming.

"Well how much is true?" she asks me handing me a tissue.

So I explained everything that has happened from us meeting in a bar until now. By the time I'm done Lucas is walking through the door and Jake is sucking on a bottle, being fed by Lisa.

"Mom! What are you doing here?"

"Don't worry, Jessica already told me everything and I'm not mad, just disappointed."

"Mom we were going to tell you I swear."

"I know. Since I am here we are having Easter at our house this year and I don't want either of you feeling unwelcome." she starts to burp Jake as he finishes his bottle.

"Thanks mom, that really means a lot."

"Have you guys figured out who told the press yet?" she asks.

"No idea. Maggie was telling me the whole thing like it was a story one day, but nobody else was there but us and Jake and I highly doubt he went and called up the press."

I take out my phone to call Adri. Going to my recent calls I search for her number but stop when I see a name. I don't remember calling her but apparently we spoke for quite some time which is unlikely seeing that she hates me. I look at the date of the call and start to feel sick.

"Jess are you okay?" Lucas walks up to me noticing my distress.

"I think I know who called the press."

"Who!?"

"Your sister. God, I must have butt-dialed her while Maggie was saying everything that day."

"I can't believe it, I need to call her and hear it from her."

There's a knock at the door and Lisa put Jake in his bouncer and goes to open it. To my surprise it's Jasmine and my mother at the door.

"What are you guys doing here?"

"We heard about what the media has been saying and decided to hear it from you."

"How did you know I lived here?"

"We called your friend Adrianne or something like that."

I can feel my stress levels rising when there's another knock at the door. Lisa opens it again and there stands my father and his wife. In the corner of the room I can hear Lucas yelling at a very loud Liz. With the support of the couch I walk over to him and that is when Jas and my mom notice my stomach.

"Oh my Lord!" my mother screams, that's one of the few times I've heard her use the Lord's name in vain.

"What she never told you?" my dad asks making everything so much worse.

"You told him, but you never told me. Your mother, the one who raised you and didn't abandon you for some, some floozy!"

I feel like it's getting hard to breath, so much going on around me right now.

"How could you Liz? I thought you were my sister? Family doesn't do this to each other!"

"What are you even doing here last I heard you were busy getting her knocked while still married to me."

"He's just trying to be supportive for his daughter since they reunited at Christmas."

"She spent Christmas with you instead of me!?"

Suddenly there's a sharp pain in my lower abdomen the just keeps getting worse. I grip onto Lucas' arm for support when suddenly I get the feeling you have when you get your period. I look in the mirror on the wall and see droplets of blood staining my pants.

"Lucas!" I shake his arm to get his attention. After a few shakes he looks down at me.

"What's wrong?" he asks seeing my weakened state.

"I'm bleeding." I am able to mutter out before the world goes dark.

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Cliffhanger, I'm sorry. Please don't hate me. Comment what you think will happen and don't forget to vote.

I think the next chapter is the last of the book but no worries I have a lot more in my drafts. Sorry about any mistakes this hasn't been edited.

I think this is my longest chapter.

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