Chapter 23
Chris stares down at Sebastian. As much as he had already guessed what was wrong, actually hearing those words come out of Sebastian's mouth... it's a much different feeling than having guessed it.
"Oh, god...." He trails off, setting the puppy down on the bathroom floor, and making his way over to Sebastian. "You should have called me as soon as you found out, Seb." He says, sitting down next to him and pulling him onto his lap. "You know I don't like you having to go through this when I'm not here to help out."
Sebastian sighs, shrugging, not really fancying telling him that the reason that he didn't call him about the pregnancy as soon as he found out about it, was that he wasn't sure if he even wanted to go through this again or not. He's still not completely sure, but he feels as though he may very well be leaning a little more towards keeping it, but terminating the pregnancy is still an option... one that he's not too sure if Chris would agree with.
"I'm sorry, Chris." He sighs. "I just didn't want you to worry about me is all." It's not necessarily a lie, but it's also not the whole truth. "Besides, I've had Anthony here to help out around the house while you were away. He's taken the girls to the park right now, and should be back in an hour or two."
"Well, I'm still disappointed that you didn't call me about it." Chris says, before stopping. "Wait, Anthony?" He asks. "Does that mean he knew about this before I did?" He's not so sure how he feels about Anthony knowing about Sebastian's pregnancy before he himself found out.
Sebastian looks up at him. "Relax, big guy. He practically forced me to tell him." He says. "And, I've really only known about the pregnancy for a week or so now."
"A week?" Chris asks. "Sebastian!" He sighs, finding himself getting a little frustrated and hurt that Sebastian didn't call him as soon as he found out about the pregnancy and that Anthony knew before he did. "Okay.... now I'm hurt that Anthony knew about this before me, but what matters is that I'm here now."
"Sorry." Sebastian says sheepishly, leaning his head on Chris's shoulder. He knows that he should've called Chris as soon as he found out about the pregnancy, and he had a feeling that Chris would be a little hurt that Anthony knew about this before he did. Though Anthony did basically force him to tell him about it, he didn't mean for him to know about it before Chris.
Looking over towards the puppy sitting on the floor staring at them, Sebastian sighs. He's not very pleased about Chris bringing home a dog, but he's not going to make him get rid of it. Really, he's only not pleased about the timing of them now having a dog, otherwise he'd be fine with it. But puppy plus pregnancy? This is going to be a lot tougher than it already seems to be... not to mention the three kids they have already....
"Come on, let's get you cleaned up." Chris says, after a few minutes of the two of them just sitting there on the bathroom floor.
Sebastian just nods as he lets Chris help him up and get himself cleaned up, and into some cleaner clothes. There may be a bit of vomit on his shirt that he never noticed, so a change of shirt is a good idea. Besides, the clothes he's wearing right now haven't even been washed for a couple days as he's just been too worn out to do any washing, and put any clothes out to be washed. Well... actually he hasn't even changed his clothes in like, two days.
Chris sighs, shaking his head, as they make their way upstairs to their bedroom slowly, the puppy following along behind them. Sebastian's previous pregnancies were never this rough on him. Sure, Sabrina was a bit rough at times, but nothing compared to this.
"How hard has the morning sickness been hitting you while I was away?" Chris asks, getting Sebastian to sit down on the bed while he grabs him some clean clothes.
"Bad." Sebastian sighs, looking down at the floor. "I did get Anthony to go out and get me some of those nausea pills, but they don't seen to be working as well as I'd like them to." He says, laying back on the bed. "I mean, they have been working, but not as well as I had hoped."
Chris sighs, setting some clean clothes down on the bed next to Sebastian, before sitting down. He hates having to see him like this, and the fact that he was like this while he was gone for a week and possibly a bit longer? That doesn't set well with him. Chris wants to be here with Sebastian while he's going through this, and help him out as much as he can.
"I'm sure it will go away soon, and this pregnancy will fly by as smoothly as the others." Chris tries to assure him. "We just need to ride this out, and eventually I'm sure it'll get better."
Sebastian huffs out a laugh at that. "Wouldn't that be nice." He shakes his head. "I never got hit with the morning sickness this bad with the girls. With Emma I had barely any morning sickness and we didn't even know I was pregnant with her until I was five, nearly six months along." He looks up at Chris. "I'm beginning to feel as though this one isn't going to go by as smoothly as the others."
He looks away from Chris, resting a hand on his stomach, that is still mostly flat, but he knows that in a few months time, it won't be so flat anymore. Though he isn't exactly as skinny as he used to be anymore, which he is a little bummed about, but that's just the side effects from having kids, and it's not quite as easy to shed the unwanted weight gain after having kids.
"So..." Chris starts, kind of wanting to talk about something that's not how bad Sebastian is being hit with the morning sickness. "What do you hope it is?" He asks. "I know, it doesn't matter, and as long as it's happy and healthy, but come on. What do you hope it is?" Personally Chris doesn't care what it is, but he's definitely hoping it'll be a boy. He may love his daughters very much, but he really wants at least one son.
Sebastian sits up at that, scratching at the back of his neck a little. "Well..." He starts, trailing off. He is very much hoping for a boy this time around, but with their luck, it's most likely going to be yet another girl. "A boy would be very nice, but with our luck it'll be another girl."
"Well, just maybe four is our lucky number." Chris says, giving SEbastian a quick kiss on the cheek, before helping him get changed into some clean clothes.
"Chris, I can get changed on my own." Sebastian says, as Chris helps him get into a clean pair of sweatpants.
Chris laughs a little. "I know you can, hun." He says. "But since you didn't tell me about the pregnancy as soon as you found out, you're going to unfortunately going to have me keeping a close eye on you, and helping you out maybe a bit too much to your liking."
"Great. First Anthony, and now you." Sebastian rolls his eyes, and tries not to laugh, but a smile does break it's way out across his face. He's not entirely sure if Chris is serious with that or not, but he wouldn't put it passed him to do exactly that.
"You know, I'm surprised Anthony didn't call me about this." Chris says.
Sebastian looks at him after getting his shirt over his head. "What?"
"About the pregnancy." He explains. "I would've thought he'd call me as soon as you told him."
"Well, I made him promise not to tell you. I told him I didn't want to disrupt you from your work." Sebastian shrugs. "Honestly wasn't expecting for him to keep to his word." He admits, before looking down at the puppy who's sitting there staring at him. "A puppy plus pregnancy..." He mutters. "This is going to go very well...."
Chris, who had only just managed to hear what Sebastian has said, looks down at the puppy. Having a puppy around the house while Sebastian is pregnant certainly won't be very easy. With the cats it's fine, as they mostly do their own thing, but a puppy, now that's going to end up being a little difficult. But he couldn't just leave the poor little guy on the side of the road, and he doesn't fancy getting rid of him either.
"In my defence, I couldn't just leave him on the side of the road. And I wasn't aware that you're pregnant when I found him." He says. "Even so, I wouldn't have left him there even if I knew about it."
"I know that, Chris." Sebastian sighs, shaking his head. "I just don't fancy looking after a puppy while pregnant."
"Yeah well, the girls and I can look after him." He suggests. "Leave you to looking after the cats. They're easy enough to look after while pregnant. All they do all day is sleep."
Sebastian raises an eyebrow at Chris at that. He doesn't bother answering either, but Chris isn't necessarily wrong with what he's saying. Cats are much easier to look after other than puppies.
"Come on, let's go downstairs." Chris says, helping Sebastian up. "I'll make you some lunch, how about that? You hungry?"
Sebastian shrugs, walking alongside Chris downstairs into the living room with the puppy trailing along behind them. "I feel like whatever I eat, I'm just gonna throw it up afterwards." He says. "But thanks anyway, Chris."
"Alright." Chris nods. "Well, I'm gonna go make something anyway. You just go sit down on the couch, and get to know Dodger." He says, before walking off into the kitchen.
"What's there to know about him?" Sebastian calls, sitting down on the couch. "He's a puppy who you found abandoned on the side of the road." Sighing, he turns to look at the puppy who's sitting at his feet staring up at him. "Well, I guess you're kinda cute, aren't you boy?"
The puppy barks up at him, before attempting to jump up onto the couch next to him, though Sebastian puts a hand out to stop him. He doesn't fancy having dogs sitting up on the couch, cats are fine, but dogs? Not so much....
"No, you're not allowed on the couch." He says, pushing the puppy back down to the floor gently, which causes the puppy to whine. "Sorry, Dodger, but dogs aren't allowed on the furniture. But I'm sure Chris will be going out to the store at some point to buy you your own dog bed." He doubts that the puppy even understands what he's saying, but even so, he's gotta tell the puppy that he can't get up on the couch anyway.
The puppy barks up at him, before he's laying down on the floor next to the couch. Though as soon as one of the cats walk into the room, he's up once more to investigate, and Sebastian's just glad that it's Nala who has walked in and not Muffy. He's almost certain that Muffy will not be happy at all to see a puppy here, he's not so sure about Sooty though. Luckily, Nala seems to be okay with the puppy.
As Sebastian watches Nala interact with Dodger, surprisingly the two of them already seeming to like each other and look as though they've instantly become like best friends, he feels as though having a puppy now won't be too bad. The puppy isn't so bad after all, and at least one of the cats is friendly towards the puppy, the other two might not be very friendly to the puppy though, or at least Muffy won't be very friendly to him.
Though the timing to have a puppy in the house isn't exactly very good timing. At least Chris is home now to help out around the house once more, and like Chris had said, he's going to be the one to care for the puppy.
Sebastian still isn't very pleased that Chris didn't contact him about the puppy before he got home, but he can't really talk. He got Nala without contacting Chris first, and he didn't call him about the pregnancy as soon as he found out about it.
"Well, at least someone likes the puppy." Chris says, as he walks into the living room with two plates of food, distracting Sebastian from what he's doing, which really wasn't much to begin with.
"Hey, I never said I don't like the puppy." Sebastian says, moving over on the couch a little so Chris can sit down. "I just said that right now isn't the best time to have a puppy."
"Yeah well..." Chris trails off, handing one of the plates to Sebastian. "Now I know you said you weren't hungry, but I made you something to eat anyway."
"Thanks, Chris." He says, taking the plate from him, and looking down at the tuna pasta. "I might be able to keep something down." He picks at the food a little, not so sure if he can keep anything down without feeling like he's going to throw up.
"So, when did you say Anthony will be back with the girls?" Chris asks.
Sebastian shrugs. "Maybe about an hour or two." He says. "So we've got some peace and quiet until then."
"You referring to the peace and quiet being broken by the girls or by Anthony?" Chris questions.
"Who do you think?" He laughs a little.
Chris laughs at that, shaking his head. "Of course." He says. "Well, let's enjoy this peace and quiet until they get back then."
Sebastian smiles at him, shaking his head. "Sorry to break it to you, Chris, if you mean sex, I'm not in the mood for that right now."