Chapter 14

Gary's POV

I grab a t shirt and pair of shorts before going downstairs. Yasmin is sat at the table with Eleanor her head bowed away from me a little Eleanor makes soft cooing noises to her Mum. "Morning." Painting on a smile i walk straight to the coffee maker. Right now i fancy something a lot stronger than a coffee, but it's not ideal at 10:30 in the morning.
"Morning..." She mutters quietly, but audible. Whilst turning on the coffee maker i tilt my head over my right shoulder.
"Nervous for this evening?" I ask trying to make conversation. Clearly nerves isn't anything to do with the fact she's much quieter than usual.
"Erm...y..yeah a little...you?"
I pour myself a strong black coffee in my mug whilst pulling back a chair opposite Yasmin at the table. "Same, but excited at the same time..." I sip my coffee peering over the rim at her. "'ello princess." Grinning and making baby noises i smile at Eleanor. Instantly her faces lightens up and does one of those adorable baby giggles at me. "She's a cutie."
"T...Thank you... you'll make a great Dad, Gary... you both will." She brushes her hand against mine a little. Clearing my throat i place my mug onto the table looking her in the eyes. "He didn't mean it... i mean... it was a shock..." I release a giggle, but also trying to be serious. "I've just been...erm... over thinking these past few days..he's probably been sensing that and it's stressed him out a little."
"Is everything ok? I know it's none of my business... but you've been there for me... the least i could do is offer it back... and this morning... i just... didn't think..." A shade of red appears on her cheeks dropping her gaze from mine again.
"Don't worry about it honest.. easy mistake being somewhere different an all... well... the other day...erm the postman... he er...-" The sound of footsteps walking down the stairs stops the conversation.
"Gary?" Yasmin places her hand over mine with a confused look spreading over her face. Mark walks into the kitchen quickly i move my hand from under Yasmin's, but he already saw. Without saying a word he goes straight to the worktop to make himself a coffee.

"Morning babe." Wrapping my arms around his waist i rest my head against his shoulder. Nudging me away a little he continues making his coffee. "Mark?"
"Looks cosy in here." He mumbles under his breath pouring the hot water into his mug. Choosing to ignore what he said i sit back down downing my coffee.
"Excited for today?"
He nods a little. "Yeah... maybe we can start sorting our lives out after today... maybe move away or something."
Feeling surprised by his response i look at him. "Woah when was this discussed?!"
Sipping from his mug he slowly turns around to face me. "You need to go and get dressed. I'll drive." Yasmin doesn't say a word she just continues to watch Eleanor eat her breakfast.
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We arrive at the hospital a little later than expected. A car had a crash, so we was left waiting for an extra half an hour. Once we finally arrived we got straight into our appointment luckily they hadn't given our spot up! "Is Robbie coming down?" Mark asks whilst slumping into the chair beside the bed with Eleanor sat on his lap.
"Erm... i texted him... and he knows the times, but he didn't text back..." Yasmin sits on the bed trying to relax.
A short brown haired chubby lady walks into the room. "Evening Mrs Williams." She smiles picking up the notes from beside Yasmin's bed. "Mr Williams." She shakes my hand whilst reaching for a scan at the side of the room.
"Oh...er...i'm not...erm..."
"I see...many woman come in here with partners who aren't the child's father."
Yasmin looks at me trying not to smile even Mark releases a little giggle looking at my nervous face. "I'm not Yasmin's partner...i...erm... this is my partner... Yasmin's our surrogate." Nervously i reply. The nerves are really kicking in now... this is all real.

The lady smiles at each of us. "Ooooh that's right. Sorry about that." Carefully she lifts Yasmin's t- shirt up tucking it under her bra. Mark looks down a little bouncing Eleanor on his knee. A clear gel type substance is squirted onto Yasmin's stomach. "Right let's see if this has all planned out. If you are pregnant you'll only be a couple of weeks or so, so you might not see anything other than a tiny blob. She starts moving around Yasmin's stomach switching on the small tv screen next to her. Feeling incredibly nervous now my hand tightly grips to Mark's not taking my eyes away from the screen. "It's hard looking for something so small. It's not a usual thing at this age we do, but seeing as it's IVF it's better to check earlier." Using a pen she searches on the screen for anything which could represent a baby.

After about 20 minutes she's just about to give up. Mark sighs softly i can feel his disappointment in the room i know how much he wants to be a father, so do i. It feels like a led weight just fell to the bottom of my stomach. I'm gutted it hasn't worked. "Oh... here we go." The nurse smiles tapping the pen onto the top left of the screen. All of our heads shoot up to where the nurse is pointing. It's hard to see everything is just grey, but a very very tiny little light grey blob sits just under Yasmin's ribs.
"I...Is...that?" Asking with a shaky breath a few tears roll down my cheeks.
"Meet your Daddies..." Taking a few snapshots of area the nurse looks at us all. Wiping away my tears grinning hugely i look down at Mark who's face is almost dripping with tears.
"G..G...Gaz... that's....that's...our..." Breathing faster from his tears he can't get his words out instead he falls into my arms. Nuzzling my lips into his hair i plant a few kisses onto his head.
"Our baby....we're going to be parents Mark...It's official..." I whisper against his ear stroking his hair. Eleanor pouts a little seeing us crying she hands Mark a piece of her cookie causing us all to laugh.
"Well done boys..." Yasmin smiles congratulating us both whilst slowly sitting back up. The nurse takes the prints and goes to make us all some copies. Gently i let go of Mark walking to Yasmin's bed.
"We can't thank you enough! You've made our dreams come true." I sling my arms tightly around her giving her a big kiss on the forehead. "I could kiss you Yasmin Williams!"

"Excuse me?" A voice speaks behind me. My stomach flips recognising the voice causing my heart to almost bounce out of my chest. Slowly i let go of Yasmin peering over my shoulder. I knew exactly who it was. Robbie walks into the room.
"Someone going to fucking tell me or what?"
"R...Rob... you knew i was going to carry their baby... why are you acting like this?!" Yasmin mutters adjusting herself. Mark doesn't say a word he continues wiping away his tears.
"So.. it worked? It actually worked??" He sounds surprised. Did he not want it to work? Did he actually want her to fail at the IVF?! Anger builds at the pit of my stomach.