I watched as the crowd cheered. The last show of the tour was so bittersweet watching the boys and the girls too, putting all their energy into the last show of tour. When the boys walked offstage, Ryan and T were joined at the hip, and I grinned seeing a little familiar face running toward Justin. "Daddy!" she yelled, and Justin bent down slightly to pick her up, carrying her off stage with him. I smiled at the interaction and watched as Vinny was last to leave his kit, running over to me and engulfing me in a hug. I kept my arms around him, smiling at Justin and his daughter being reunited. I knew he missed her like crazy. He would talk about it all the time, so seeing the smile on both of their faces warmed my heart. Vinny took me out of my trance by planting a kiss to my cheek. "I love you. Thank you for sticking by us," he hummed, and I looked to him. "I will always be here for you guys. Even if it can't be physically, I'll always be on your side." I then saw Chris walk off with his girlfriend and smiled again. 

We decided that we would all go out for dinner once everything was set away and everything we needed to do was done. I walked alongside Vinny, holding his hand in one of mine and Mia's in the other as she walked holding Justin's hand with her other one. Eventually, I reached down, picking her up and walking with her on my hip and grinned. "Your dad looked super cool up there huh?" I asked and she nodded. "A little scary though," Vinny and I both laughed when she said that, "Yeah, he does look scary sometimes, huh? You know he's a teddy bear though. It's just makeup. Like the rest wear," She nodded after that, "Can I do Vin's makeup?" she asked, and Vinny looked over and shrugged, "Why not, kid. When we all get settled and home, you can do my makeup and my hair if you want to." She grinned widely at that, and I shot Vinny a soft smile as we walked to the car to go to the restaurant. 

 - - - 

Weeks passed and Vinny and I have been spending a lot of our time in my apartment. We've been looking into houses together to hopefully build a family together and have people over. That's one of the things I really did adore about him, he loved having people around. Even now, he was hosting one of his annual game events at his house with all his friends. I knew he was streaming the whole thing, so every once in a while, I would pop in and say hi. 

I was laying on my couch, drawing up design after design. Ever since the tour ended, my books have been flooded at the shop, which I've been extremely thankful for. It didn't just give me more clients, but my other artists in the shop as well were booked out for months. I finished the one I was working on before logging into my Twitch account to say hi to Vinny again. He was talking about how he was hungry but didn't want to leave the game he was playing. Priorities, right? I laughed and looked for the donation screen. I tried to think of something funny to put in the chat, but just settled. 

NEW DONATION $150

emorrow: You better be feeding yourself and my brother (and I guess the others too)

I saw Vinny's face immediately turn to shock when he saw it and rubbed the back of his neck with a laugh. "Okay, well, looks like I've been caught, so hold on, I'm going to go order food, but Eden, I'm sending that back," He shook his head and I let out a small laugh, sending into the chat that he better not. 

While I watched, the doorbell rang and I almost forgot, Lex was coming over to discuss me doing a tattoo for her. She's always been super into the metal scene, so she wanted me to design a Bad Omens one for her, which I was obviously super happy to do. When I opened the door, I was greeted with a bright smile. I stepped aside to let her in. "Eden! How have you been?" I laughed at that and shrugged, "I've been pretty sick, honestly, but I've been okay. Just getting through it." "Sick? What do you mean?" "Well, I feel tired all the time. I feel bad because I want to do all these things with Vin, but I'm just far too tired. I feel like I'm cramping too quite a bit. And my boobs? They're really sor-" "Eden-" I looked to Lex when she said that and she started again, "When was your last period?" I tried to think for a moment "I um- I don't remember actually. They're not very regular." 

Lex held her finger out and went back to her car coming back with a box of pregnancy tests. I looked at her in shock, "You think I might be?" She nodded and handed me the box, "I had them for my sister after this, but I'll just go buy a new one, I need to know if you are." I took the box and read the instructions. "Stay with me?" "Of course!" I looked at her and sighed. I hadn't thought of the possibility before, but now I was terrified. I put the tests in the cup to let them get the sample and set them on the counter when they were done, flipped over so I couldn't see. I didn't know if I could be the first to see the results as I was feeling every fear imaginable. "Okay, Eden...they should be done," I hesitated, but picked one it up, thinking 'what if he leaves me?' 'What if I'm not pregnant and he finds it and thinks the worse?' I shook away the thoughts and slowly, with Lex, turned the test around.