Chapter 22
About a week has passed, and Sebastian is still feeling like utter shit, and Anthony is still staying with them and helping out around the house. Though Sebastian won't lie and say that having Anthony stay with them hasn't been useful, cause the guy has been extremely useful.
With Anthony staying and helping out, Sebastian has gotten a lot more rest than he thought he would, and he's not having to run around after the girls by himself. Unfortunately, the morning sickness is still there, and seems as though it's making no move to piss off any time soon.
Thankfully Anthony hasn't gone ahead and told Chris about the pregnancy before Sebastian is able to do so himself. At least, as far as he's aware of anyway. Well, if Anthony has gone ahead and told Chris about it, he's certain Chris would've called about it by now, or he would have returned home from work early.
Speaking of Chris... Sebastian hasn't actually heard from him for a couple days now. He's assuming he's just too preoccupied with work right now though, and it's not unusual for Chris to not contact him for a couple days while he's away for work. Even so, it still puts Sebastian a little on edge.
"Anthony? Do you mind taking the girls out for a few hours?" Sebastian asks, walking into the living room after just having exited the bathroom to throw up.
"Sure." Anthony says, getting up to round up the girls. "Anywhere specific you want me to take them?"
"The park will do I guess." Sebastian shrugs. "Maybe take them out to get ice-cream or something."
Anthony nods. "Alright, sounds good. I'll see you in a couple hours or so then." He says, before following Taissa and Emma upstairs and carrying Sabrina in his arms. "You just get some rest." He stops in the doorway. "I mean it, man."
"Yeah, I know." Sebastian nods. "All I plan on doing right now is sleep anyway." He says. "By the way, can you stop off at the store and get me some chocolate and some potato chips?"
He's not so sure how easy it is going to be for him to get some sleep right now, but right now is better than nothing. Granted the cats don't all come along hounding him for more food, which he honestly believes is exactly what's going to happen....
Those cats seem to want to be fed every hour of the day, and having three of them now? Not exactly very cheap to buy food for. At least Sooty isn't really one to come meowing at him for food unless he's really hungry. Muffy and Nala though? Those two will no matter what, with Nala even sprinting up and down the hall and stairs just to get his attention. He's surprised she hasn't fallen down the stairs doing that yet, and he seriously hopes that she never does. That's the last thing that they need.
"Alright." Anthony nods. "We'll see you in a couple hours, and you better be resting."
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"Alright, don't wander off too far you two, okay?" Anthony warns, as soon as he and the girls get to the park. "Your mother will have a fit if I lost either of you."
Both Taissa and Emma nod, promising that they're not going to run off too far, before they're racing each other towards the playground, and thankfully the playground is in full view from where Anthony is sitting with Sabrina so he can easily keep an eye on them, granted they don't wander off out of his line of sight.
"Guess it's just us two for now, aye, Bina?" Anthony says, trying to get Sabrina's attention as she sat in her pushchair staring off towards the sky, seemingly making no move to acknowledge that Anthony is trying to get her attention.
Frowning, Anthony waves a hand in front of Sabrina's face, seeing if that will get her attention. "Hello? You hear me, kid?" Sighing, he sits back on the park bench he's sitting at as Sabrina doesn't turn her attention to him, just stares off towards the sky and the clouds. "Damn... it's like I'm invisible to you right now."
Looking out towards where Taissa and Emma are both playing on the playground, he keeps a close eye on them as he grabs his phone out of his jacket pocket. He doesn't have an texts or missed calls, so he's hoping that means that Sebastian is okay right now and getting some rest, he's not going to call him to check or anything, as he trusts that the guy is getting some well needed rest. Well... he sort of trusts him to be doing that right now, there's no telling with that guy, considering how stubborn he can be.
Slipping his phone back into his pocket, he looks out across the park. There doesn't appear to be a lot of people out at the park today, which he is a little surprised by. It's a nice day today, and he would've thought that more people would be out taking their kids to the park. He supposes that there not being very many people here makes it easier for him to keep an eye on Taissa and Emma though. Then again, those two may still wander off out of his line of sight, it's happened before, but they didn't go too far thankfully, and he was able to find them quick enough.
As he sits back on the park bench, keeping an eye on Taissa, Emma, and Sabrina - who still doesn't seem willing to acknowledge his presence yet - so they don't get into any trouble and he doesn't lose them, as Sebastian will kick his ass if he loses any of the girls, he notices a coffee truck stand not far from where he's sitting. He could definitely go for a coffee right now while the girls are occupied.
Getting up, he pushes Sabrina's pushchair over towards the coffee truck stand to get himself a coffee, keeping an eye on Taissa and Emma as he does so, and as soon as he's returning back over to the park bench with Sabrina and a coffee, Taissa and Emma are running over to him.
"Anthony!" Taissa calls as she runs over to him with Emma trailing along behind her. "Can we get ice-cream?"
Anthony looks over towards the ice-cream truck that's just pulled into the parking lot closest to the park. "Soon, okay?" He says. "Just play for a bit longer, and I'll take you to get some ice-cream as soon as I've finished my coffee."
They both nod, before running back over to the playground. Anthony has always found it quite scary how well behaved they are a large majority of the time, but at least it makes watching them a whole lot easier. He supposes it's because they're both omegas, but that wouldn't explain their mother, Sebastian. If he remembers correctly, back in high school, Sebastian wasn't very well behaved, and never really followed instructions, and he still doesn't really do that now.
For now, before he has to take the girls home, Anthony just sits at the bench drinking his coffee, keeping an eye on Taissa and Emma, and trying to get Sabrina to acknowledge his presence - which still doesn't work even before she falls asleep - before he's calling Taissa and Emma over so they can finally get some ice-cream. Then they're having go to the store to buy a few bits and pieces for Sebastian.
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Waking up to the sound of a car horn honking repeatedly outside isn't exactly the way that Sebastian would like to be awoken from his much needed rest, but unfortunately that's exactly how he's woken up. He also doesn't fancy going outside to see what the fuck is going on out there, but he has a very strong feeling that if he doesn't, that whoever is making all that noise out there won't stop. That is... if it's someone for him, it's sounding like it's coming from his driveway anyway.
Grumbling to himself, he makes his way to the front door tiredly, not exactly wanting to deal with anything right now. He has an urge to just yell at whoever it is and tell them to fuck off, that he doesn't want any visitors right now, but he stops himself from doing so as he opens the front door.
"Chris?" He calls, surprised to find the big idiot in his car parked in the driveway trying to get his attention.
"Hey, honey!" Chris calls, getting out of the car, and running up to Sebastian, who stares at him, dumbfounded at what he's doing back here right now.
Chris wasn't supposed to be home for another week, so Sebastian is understandably confused to see him here.
"The fuck are you doing home right now?" Sebastian asks, walking down the steps slowly.
A thought crosses his mind that Anthony most likely went behind his back and called Chris, telling him about the pregnancy and that it would be best that he's to come home early. If that's the case, then someone is getting their ass kicked as soon as he gets back with the girls. Unless if course the job got finished earlier than expected.
"We kinda finished early." Chris says, pulling Sebastian in for a tight hug.
Sebastian nods, as they pull out of the hug. "So... Anthony didn't call you then?" He questions, just needing to make sure that Anthony didn't call Chris, though it's sounding like he didn't call him.
Chris looks at him in confusion. "Why would Anthony call me?" He asks, shaking his head. "No, Seb. We finished early." He says. "Well... that, and Steve had to go back home early due to Bucky being in the hospital, so whatever is left to do has been postponed a couple month or so."
"What?" Sebastian asks, alarmed at the fact that Bucky's in the hospital. "Is Bucky okay?"
"I honestly don't know." Chris shakes his head, he too looking a little worried. "Steve didn't really say much on the matter. He got a call from one of his kids a couple days ago, and all he said was that Bucky's been taken to the hospital, he didn't say why."
Sebastian nods, growing worried that something bad has happened to Bucky. "I hope he's..." He trails off, noticing what appears to be a white and tan puppy sitting in Chris's car. Pushing past Chris, he walk over to the car to get a better look, before opening the passenger's door, causing the puppy to jump out and run over to Chris.
Looking over as Chris, who doesn't meet his eye as he picks the puppy up, Sebastian raises an eyebrow at him as he shuts the car door. It seems that Chris has adopted a puppy without consulting him first.
"Chris...." Sebastian sighs, shaking his head in frustration. They had talked about no dogs just yet, and now Chris has gone and adopted one. Though Sebastian supposes that he can't really complain as such, as he adopted another cat behind Chris's back last year. "You're kidding, right?"
"Hey, you got Nala without consulting me first, and you kind of caught Sooty." Chris points out. "And, technically I didn't adopt him as such." He adds. "I found him on the side of the road in the middle of nowhere last week, and obviously I couldn't just leave him there." He tries to reason, knowing that Sebastian would understand that he couldn't just leave the puppy alone on the side of the road. "I've named him Dodger by the way."
Sebastian of course, understands exactly what Chris is saying, but... right now is probably not the best time to even have a puppy. Sebastian doesn't fancy having to deal with a puppy as well as being pregnant, especially when this pregnancy is being rather terrible to him right now, and he doesn't expect this horrible feeling to go away any time soon. Luckily he still has those nausea pills that he got Anthony to go out and buy for him, but they don't really seem to be working very well.
"I understand that, Chris." He sighs, folding his arms across his chest. "It's just that...." He trails off, feeling a sudden urge to throw up.
"Seb, you okay?" Chris asks, growing concerned as Sebastian all of a sudden doesn't look so good.
Pushing past Chris, Sebastian runs back inside to the bathroom to throw up, only just managing to making it to the toilet. Once he feels as though he's finished throwing up for the most part, he leans up against the wall, not really wanting to get up right now, but he knows that he has to, and that he really needs to tell Chris about the pregnancy. He has a feeling that Chris has probably already guessed it right now though.
"Sebastian?" Chris asks, leaning against the door frame. "Is there something you need to tell me?" He doesn't sound mad, just concerned. He can already guess what it is, as he's watched Sebastian go through this already, but he'd still like to hear the words actually come out of Sebastian's mouth.
Sighing, Sebastian looks up at Chris, who is still for some reason holding the puppy in his arms. "Yeah, there is." He says, knowing that now he really has no choice but to tell Chris about the pregnancy right now. If he doesn't then Chris more than likely won't stop pressing him to tell him what's wrong. Then when Anthony gets back with the girls, then either Chris will get Anthony to tell him what's wrong, or Anthony will just go ahead and tell Chris without being asked.
"We're a bit ahead of schedule, Chris." He tries to laugh, but all that manages to come out is a huff. "I'm pregnant."