Imagine Me and You

Soft clicking could be heard against the hard wood floor, the heels on her knee high boots hitting softly against the wood and it was the only thing distracting Leila in that moment. Her pale blonde hair with the purple lowlights was messy from her playing with it out of nervousness and yet it still looked good. Light brown eyes that were deeply shadowed in pale blue darted around the hallway as she flicked the stick in her hands and hoped that her results would come up soon. Jake, her fiancé of three years, was currently sitting in his small studio down in the basement, working on something for the coming album that his band, Black Veil Brides, was currently working on. Finally there was some movement on the stick and Leila sighed heavily as she looked down.

Two light blue lines were in the small window and she could feel her heart start to pound. This was it-this was the answer she had been waiting twenty fucking minutes for and finally it was here. She was scared shitless and as Leila walked down the hall, her gauzy skirt flowing around her knees, she felt like crying. Leila had felt for the past month like something wasn’t right, but she had just brushed it off as her not feeling well with all of the chaos that had surrounded their life.

Jake had been away, touring in Australia, and while she had felt sick, Leila just thought it was because she missed him. Nope-this was something else entirely and as she walked down the hall and turned the corner, she saw that Jake was in the kitchen, taking a break.

He was at the counter, making a sandwich and Leila only smiled as she took him in. His black hair was down around his shoulders, straight and messy from wearing a beanie all morning. He was clad in a pair of jeans and a t-shirt, his usual attire for when they were just hanging out at home. Quietly Leila walked up to him, wrapping her arms around his waist as her tight corset top rubbed against his back.

Jake smiled, pressing a kiss to her cheek before turning back to the sandwich that he was currently fixing. The couple were in a comfy spot in their relationship-they laughed together, played together and overall were just happy, but lately Jake had felt somewhat depressed. He felt like something was missing from their lives.

“So I was just in the bathroom…” Leila said in his ear and Jake only smirked as he placed the top back on his sandwich and moved to sit at the table.

“Spare me the gory details.” He joked as Jake took a bite of his sandwich. Leila only stuck her tongue out at him as she sat down across from her fiancé and looked at him. His eyes, those gorgeous brown eyes that she missed when he was gone, looked tired and she knew it was because he wasn’t sleeping much these days.

“Oh stop-you are so much worse in the bathroom than I am!” Leila laughed, but she still held the stick in her hands. Slowly and without looking at Jake, she placed the stick on to the table top and scooted it across the table towards him.

“Lee. Wh-what is that?” He asked, the sandwich half way up to his mouth but Jake had stopped as soon as he saw what she was doing. He set his food down on the plate in front of him and slowly reached out to take the stick from the middle of the table.

“The reason why I haven’t been feeling well…” She said softly and suddenly Jake was shaking, the stick held in his hands as he looked down at it. Two lines-what did that mean exactly?

“Um-does this mean what I think it means?” He asked as he finally looked up from the stick and met her eyes. She was crying and just nodding her head and Jake sucked in a breath. This small stick-this simple piece of plastic meant everything to him and as he dropped it to the table and moved to grab for his fiancé, Jake Pitts couldn’t help but let the tears fall down his cheeks.

This is what had been missing from his life-a family. He had loved his family growing up, had loved how close they all were and yet that closeness had been broken this past winter. His mother, his beloved mother and the one person who had always believed in him, had passed away and it left Jake feeling like nothing would ever be right. Now here he was, holding Leila as they both processed what this meant for them. They would be a family-they would finally have something to watch grow and to love and nourish as it grew up in to whatever person he or she was going to be. Leila was crying, he was crying and as Jake pulled away from her, he realized that he was crying for two reasons.

“Babe-are you okay? Is…is this okay?” She asked and Jake only nodded but he couldn’t keep the tears from streaming down his cheeks. It was more than okay, but it was also incredibly sad.

“It’s perfect Lee…I-I just can’t help but feel kind of sad. Sh-she would have love to have seen her grandchild…” He was sobbing now, having fallen to his knees in front of her and Leila said nothing as she just held his head in her lap.

“I know Jake…I know it’s hard and I know you miss her, but she’s in a better place.” She was trying to comfort him, but all Jake could do was continue to cry and rub the sides of her small stomach gently. Leila held him for a while, her blonde hair mixing with his black and soon enough Jake seemed to become calm.

“I love you…more than anything in the world right now.” He said as he looked up at her and then she watched as his eyes trailed down to her stomach and focused there. Soon enough he was kissing her cloth covered skin lightly, his hands rubbing at her sides and Leila only smiled as she wove her fingers through his soft hair.

“I know…I love you too Jake.” She said as she pressed her lips to his head and they just sat there for a while.

There was a lot going on right now-a lot that neither one of them had expected or planned, but they knew as they sat at that kitchen table that it would be okay. They had lost someone really special to them this past year, but with a new year came new beginnings and now something else…new life.

A baby.

Notes