𝐀/𝐍: 𝐇𝐢 𝐲'𝐚𝐥𝐥! 𝐈'𝐦 𝐟𝐞𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐥𝐲 𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫! 𝐈 𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝𝐧'𝐭 𝐝𝐨 𝐚𝐧𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐬𝐥𝐞𝐞𝐩 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐞 𝐈 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐬𝐢𝐜𝐤 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐬𝐨 𝐠𝐥𝐚𝐝 𝐈'𝐦 𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤. 𝐁𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐭𝐨 𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐬𝐨𝐨𝐧 𝐥𝐨𝐥 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐞𝐧𝐣𝐨𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫!

𝐕𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐧𝐞𝐱𝐭 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐧𝐞𝐱𝐭 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲!

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I paced my living room waiting for Y/n to get here. I was nervous. Anxious, really. We've had no contact, I've missed her more than you could possibly imagine, yet, I don't know what kind of mood she'll be in. What her reaction would be.

Every possible celebrity news station has our pictures plastered on the screen. I passed the store today and saw magazine covers with Y/n and I kissing on Christmas.

How did I forget those pictures? How was I so stupid and careless? I told Naomi to take them with her to LA.

They would've been safer with Y/n, in her home. Now my mind is scrambled. I'd just gotten Cosmo to take a nap, things have been a bit out of hand with him. He keeps asking where his dad is but of course, I don't even know. Colin hasn't returned a single call of mine but you would think he'd at least pick up the phone since I have our son.

Hunter has been calling and checking in. My mother lost it on me. I didn't give her much time to talk though because I was on the edge of a nervous breakdown and I need to keep myself together for my kids. I currently feel like I'm drowning. I can't sleep, I've barely had any food- I'm out of my depths here.

After pacing the room for what felt like an eternity, I went to the door to see Y/n standing there. I wanted to smile at the sight of her but I knew I shouldn't. She's always like a breath of fresh air for me. I wanted to rush into her arms immediately. She came in, closing and locking the door behind her as she turned to face me.

I stood in the middle of the living room as neither of us said a single word. Y/n finally looked at me, no expression on her face before it seemed to rush with worry. Her eyes softened as she took a step towards me and for whatever reason I took a step back. She reached her hand up to cup cheek. Her thumb lightly smoothed over my cheek as she searched my green eyes. "Scarlett." she spoke barely above a whisper.

As my name left her lips, my eyes let out every tear they'd been holding in as I crumbled at her touch. Y/n quickly wrapped her arms around me, more so holding me up because I felt like I was about to collapse.

She picked me up as we went over to the couch. I couldn't help the uncontrollable sobs. She waited for me to calm down before she got up, grabbing me some water and tissues.

"Scarlett-"
"I'm sorry- I'm so sorry this is all-"

"Scarlett- no, stop. We're going to figure everything out, together."

Y/n nodded her head and came to wrap her arms around me again. "Y/n/n, I really didn't mean for any of this to happen I-"

"This is my fault too, okay? You're not handling this alone." She whispered. I looked up at her as our lips brushed against one another.

Neither of us wanting to make the first move seeing as we're in a weird predicament and don't know what to do yet. Without another second lapsing, Y/n captured my lips, giving me the feeling I'd been craving before that was quickly interrupted by a knock on my door.

I pulled away from Y/n, checking my camera before heading to the door to make sure it wasn't a journalist. It was my lawyers and my PR team. "We need to talk." They all said at once. I moved to the side and let everyone inside and they all quickly stopped their chatter as they saw Y/n sitting in my living room as they started placing their folders and computers on my dining room table.

"What's she doing here?!" My publicist asks as she looked over at Y/n. I'd expanded my team over the past week to try and handle the brute of everything. "I asked her to come over- I needed to see her."

"You do realize you two being together is going to do more harm than good? Your husband literally plastered you two as the enemy and people are going with it. Speaking of which, we didn't come for a regular meeting, it might be a good thing Y/n is here. Can you get your publicist on the phone?"

"She lives around the corner, I'm sure I can get her here." Y/n replied as she walked off to make a phone call. I turned my attention back to my team, more specifically to my lawyer Phil.

"So, we're still in the dark about the case about Rose. Since this story dropped about your infidelity, the judge is taking a closer look at everything, even digging into your files about your divorce and settlement with Romain. Scarlett, I hate to say this but, Colin might've just lost this case for you." Phil says sadly.

My heart sunk at the thought of losing custody of my daughter. "My marriage has nothing to do with-"

"And I understand that but, how things are panning out on the other end of things, the judge probably thinks you can't even handle a marriage and seeing as your life is falling apart, you look unorganized and unable to handle having a child especially with your schedule and how involved the media is trying to be- things aren't looking great." Phil continued.

"Which is why we're here, if we can clean up the public image, sit you down with some reporters for a one on one in depth interview, a tell all, we may be able to swing things back in your favor." My publicist says as she lays everything out for me.

Y/n walked back into the room, standing behind me as she rested her hand on the small of my back which made me feel a bit more at ease than I had been in recent days. "Okay that- that's the first topic of discussion." My publicist says as she waves her finger between Y/n and I. Before she could continue, my doorbell sounded through the house and I knew it was Y/n's publicist, Josie.

Y/n went and greeted her as she came in introducing herself to the group. "So, like I was saying, you two- I'm sorry to pry but in order for us to help both of you, we need to know exactly what's going on between you two and how much of Colin and Madison's stories are true."

I sat down, pulling out the chair next to me for Y/n to sit as we began to dive into everything.

"Well I don't know fully what either of them have said because I don't want to watch the interview but, Y/n and I have been together since late last year. We hooked up years ago in the past, we just never pursued anything because she was leaving overseas and- look, what matters is yes, we had an affair and we're still together." I said the last part with a hint of confusion not necessarily knowing what we're doing right now.

Our teams looked at each other and sighed. "And are you- you know?" Josie asked. "Pregnant? Yes." I answered truthfully. "Jesus." Phil muttered.

"There's a few avenues you can take- well first- I'd advise you to get a divorce if thats what you want, Scar." My publicist Kate spoke.

"The first avenue you can take is coming out with your side of the story- you can do your own interview or you and Y/n can do one together. Confirm your relationship- frame the story of a love that had to thrive- a love you couldn't ignore. That may take a little more for people to side with you but- we'll do it up nice enough that people fall in love with your story and relationship. I know you like privacy but, in that case, you two would need to be more in the public eye about your relationship. Let people in, let people see you two out together, hang out with friends, preferably those with a huge following and presence in the media, someone people love, so Chris would be perfect- Tom Holland would be perfect."

I nodded before she continued. "Next option is denounce the relationship. Confess your love for Colin and your family, admit that you did wrong and try to win Colin back in public. Let things ride out, file for divorce under irreconcilable differences in a few months or so after giving things a shot. You'll also have to announce your distaste for Y/n we could even spin it that she forced you-"

"Hold on- you want to publicly shame and humiliate Y/n?! Their relationship was and is consensual! How is that going to help anyone other than Scarlett?!" Josie exclaimed before I could get a word in.

"I work for Scarlett, not Y/n. Collateral damage. The public wants and will need a bad guy- Scarlett's worked too hard to get here, she has more to lose than Y/n. Not to mention she has kids to feed- the clear option is saving her career over Y/n. She won't get blackballed in sports due to her achievements this season- there's no risk, and if anything she can always go back to England to play. Once Scarlett loses things- thats it."

Josie chuckled as she looked over at Y/n who sat there surprisingly holding back her words. "Scarlett could retire and still be set for life- Y/n's career is young! And not to mention, that child in Scarlett's belly is Y/n's child too so don't feed the child bullshit." Josie said offended at Kate's comment.

"I'm not doing that Kate. I'm not damaging her career or painting her as the bad guy at any cost because she isn't the bad guy here. We both knew what we were doing." I spoke.

"Okay fine, well the other option is to serve Colin divorce papers but- drop Y/n as well and focus on being a mother and throw yourself into more work. You'll need to publicly address the relationship as well. Maybe even throw in that Y/n cheated on you and that led to your demise." I sighed as I ran a hand through my hair.

"Are there any options where I'm not trashing her? I'm not doing anything like that- she's not some serial cheater- it was one time."

"Kate, I think you don't like me at this point." Y/n laughed. "I don't have a problem with you- you're just making my job a living hell."

"No- my dad and my ex girlfriend are, no one told them to open their big ass mouths." Y/n shrugged. "Josie- any ideas?" Y/n asked as she turned to her publicist. "Well, I kind of had some talks already with someone who could help this whole situation." Y/n nodded for Josie to continue.

"Many fans were speculating that you and Scarlett only had a one night stand type of thing, she got pregnant and are believing you are actually involved with Phoebe Dynevor. So, I think we use that to our advantage. You confirm that Scarlett is pregnant, state the uncertainty of the situation, admit you are at fault- you can either take the brunt of it and said you led the whole affair or call it a joint thing- we won't be damaging someone else in this case. Phoebe has agreed to help if need be- but that would also mean you two would have to really ice the cake if we go with this. You and Scarlett can figure out what you two will do in the mean time, she can focus on keeping her kids and sorting out the divorce and things of that nature- you and Phoebe date for at least 6 months, break it off and you can come back to Scarlett publicly once things die down. Now, Phoebe didn't ask for this but her camp would like you to at least pay her for this as well because her reputation would be on the line."

"See- that's a better plan." Y/n smiled as she looked over at Kate. "You're not serious." I spoke as I looked over at Y/n who still wore a smile on her face. "What?"

"You can't fake a relationship with Phoebe. Y/n this is literally our chance to be together for real now and you're on board to pause things with us to put on a charade with a girl you used to screw?! For 6 months at that! Did you forget the part about us having a child or?"

"Well we haven't exactly had a conversation about the baby since- look, Scar I understand the hesitation but if I can take the heat off of you somehow and lessen the blow for you then I will. We don't have many options here."

"Yes we do, as much as I know this will do damage, I'd much rather just admit our faults and publicly come out together." I said honestly.

The more we try to cover things up, the harder it'll be to contain everything that'll come once we actually get together in the future. What's the point in delaying things anymore?

My career is in turmoil, quite honestly all I care about right now are my kids. I have enough money to take care of myself and my kids, I have investments, I don't make money from acting alone. It's not like I'll be struggling to put food on the table and keep a roof over my kids heads.

Y/n sat there not knowing what to say next before she spoke again. "So what do you want to do?"

"Y/n what are we running for? At this point, the truth is out- we had an affair, the world knows it. I'm not comfortable spinning this and telling the world that you forced me or anything like that because I'm not okay dragging you down just so I don't get blackballed from Hollywood. We're having a baby- there's no way we just leave this situation alone. Colin wanted to break us down because of my actions towards him- we can handle this but, I'm tired of being in the shadows about being in love with you- I'm not doing that anymore and you're damn sure not faking a relationship with Phoebe. Think about it, this is exactly what Madison and Colin want. They want us to run and hide and you all are playing right into it." I said before getting up and excusing myself from the table as I headed to my bedroom.

It wasn't long before Y/n came up. "I told everyone we could talk again tomorrow. You're already stressed out- that's not a conversation that needs to be had right now."

"Y/n/n, I'm sorry- I know you just want to protect me but- at this point, I just want to love you- I want to be with you." Y/n smiled softly at me as she got in bed beside me. She put her hand on my belly that was beginning to show. "So?" Y/n asked as she looked at me. "Let's sit down with someone, admit our faults, and see where that takes us. I don't want to hide anymore."

"And the baby?" Y/n questioned. "I can't go through with an abortion- as we saw- I just, it didn't feel right." I admitted making Y/n smile as she brought me more into her body.

I'd been thinking about the baby a lot and as much drama and confusion will come from having this child, it's my child. I would never want to not bring a child with the woman I love into the world. Being a mother is my greatest achievement, I'm not shying away from that.

𝐀/𝐍: 𝐒𝐨... 𝐒𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐭 𝐦𝐮𝐜𝐡 𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐛𝐞 𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐟𝐟𝐚𝐢𝐫. 𝐀 𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥-𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐞𝐞... 𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐤𝐞𝐞𝐩 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐚𝐛𝐲! 𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐲'𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐟𝐞𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐥𝐨𝐥? 𝐖𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐌𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐨𝐧 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐫𝐮𝐢𝐧 𝐘/𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐒𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐭?