“Nathan, tomorrow is Friday, where the hell are you?” Steven complained over the phone.
Nathan sighed, glancing around the chicken barn where he was helping Ruth collect the eggs like he has been doing since he got there. He ran his fingers through his hair and licked his lips, “Tracy is not ready to go back yet and I don’t want to force her.”
“Shit Nathan, this is serious, Coach Harrison is not going to buy this. For goodness sake, you are the captain and the Point Guard, this game won’t hold without you, we need you man. Come on, we need this game, you need this game.”
Nathan ran his fingers through his hair and kicked the bucket that was sitting next to his foot in frustration. “I-I can’t come back Steve, I can’t leave her, she needs me.”
Steven sighed, “this is your future Nathan, I have never been against you being in love with her but that doesn’t mean you have to throw away every other thing including your future. Listen, if you don’t get your high school diploma, you are not getting a good job and if you don’t get a good job, you can’t take care of her. Think about your child on the way, how are you going to provide for him or are you going to depend on Tracy to take care of everything?”
Nathan groaned in frustration, “ah, damn it.”
“Exactly,” Steven concurred, “you missed a quiz yesterday and you really shouldn’t be missing any quiz this time dude, it’s not paving a good way for you. We have quiz throughout next week, are you going to miss them too? Let’s not even talk about prom.”
“I don’t care about prom.”
“Yeah, that’s why I said let’s not talk about it.”
“Can’t you talk to coach Harrison for me?”
“Nathan, supervisors would be here tomorrow, don’t you understand? You are going to ruin everything you have worked all your years in school for. Come on dude, please, you need this. We need this, remember all our plans?”
Nathan sucked in a deep breath and let it out slowly, “I-I will plan on it. I will see what I can do.”
Steven sighed and ended the call. Nathan sighed once more and stared at the chickens clucking around and pecking on the grains he had fed them having no worries in the world, and he found himself wondering why human life can’t be like that?
“You okay Nathan?” Ruth asked and he turned around to see her standing in front of the barn with a big basket in hand.
“Yeah, yeah, of course, I’m okay,” he nodded and forced a smile.
Ruth looked around, “I don’t see any eggs.”
“Oh shit,” Nathan immediately rushed to the chicken cages to pick them out, “sorry Granny, I was on call earlier so I forgot to pick the eggs.”
“Nah, it’s okay,” Ruth replied and went to help him. “I trust the call was good then?”
“Yeah, yeah,” Nathan replied and looked down at the chicken eggs, trying not to think of what Steven said.
“Okay, than. Well, you think you can go deliver the eggs when you are done? I need to milk the cows.”
“Sure I can. The same buyers?” he asked.
“Yes. Maybe if you come back on time, we can finish that horse ride training,” she winked.
Nathan grinned and tried not to remember his experience the first time he climbed a horse. He was knocked off without a second thought and he fell like a bag of grains. Tracy had to look after him the whole night and thankfully, the damage wasn’t much. Just a few scratches here and there and Ruth told him he was lucky he didn’t break any bones.
After loading the crates of eggs inside Ruth’s truck, Nathan walked around the car to the driver’s side with keys in hand. He got in and started the car, ready to go make his deliveries when Tracy ran out of the house shouting for him to stop. She got in and grinned at him, “going somewhere?” he asked and she nodded.
“Yes, I need to pick something in town,” she replied.
“I thought you said you won’t be going anywhere today that you are having your morning sickness.”
“Well, I didn’t think I would be going anywhere until later. It just came up.”
“Do you need me to come with you?”
Tracy turned to him and pinched his cheek, “Nathan, stop babying me.”
“You are my baby; it’s what I should do.”
“Aw,” Tracy leaned over and kissed his cheek, “thank you, but I will be fine. I won’t take time though. Might even be back before you are done with your deliveries; just drop me off in front of Mrs. Thorne’s, I will find my way from there.”
“Okay then,” he said and leaned forward, placing a chaste kiss on her lips before driving off. When getting to where she would be going down, he said to her, “take care of yourself, okay, and don’t try to run, you always throw up when you do.”
“I have no reason to run,” she replied, kissed him softly on the lips and climbed down from the car. “Bye,” she waved at him and he nodded while she walked around the car to the other side of the street. Nathan watched her hail down a taxi and wondered where she could be going that she would need a taxi but at the end, he just shrugged it off, trusting that she would be okay. He changed the car gear to drive and continued with his deliveries.
***
After dinner and chatting with everyone, Nathan retired to his bedroom to relax his body, it had been difficult handling the horse this evening but he made progress, he remained on its back throughout everything, that’s a good start. He slumped on the bed and sighed in content with his eyes closed. Steven’s words earlier that morning came back to his mind but he refused to think about it and just tried to get himself to sleep but his effort stopped when he heard someone open his door. He snapped his eyes open and his gaze went to the door and he had to sit up when he saw who entered. “Is everything okay?”
“Of course,” Tracy smiled, “why won’t everything be okay?”
“Well, I just left you in the living room,” he chuckled.
“Oh, granny turned in immediately you left,” she replied and went straight to his wardrobe; she opened it, brought out his backpack and started packing his few clothes into it.
“What are you doing?” Nathan climbed out of the bed immediately and went to her. “Trace, we have talked about this, you are not pushing me away again, are you?” the fear was evident in his voice and eyes as he grabbed her hand to still her action.
“Push you away?” Tracy appeared shocked, “Nathan-Boo, I will die before I do that again. I have not been at peace with myself in months like I have been in this past few days.” She cupped his cheek, “I am never taking myself away from you again. I love you.”
As much as Nathan wanted to rejoice at her words, his eyes still went to his bag in her hand, “then…”
“Oh this?” Tracy smiled, “so it happens, this morning Steven called me.”
Nathan opened his mouth to speak but no words came out, at the end, he just sighed and after a while said, “I told him I will see what I can do.”
“Yeah, and knowing you Nathan, you are not going to do anything. Nathan I can’t believe you were willing to throw away your future like that.”
“I can’t leave you here.”
“Nathan, I will be fine, in fact, I am more better now knowing that I have you.” She sighed, freed her hand from his and dropped his bag in the wardrobe then she turned to him and cupped his cheeks, “you going back don’t mean it is over. You are almost done with school, Nathan, and I will want you to carry on with your studies. I am done with mine and I would want you to be done with yours. I can’t have you be a school dropout Nathan, I am not taking that.”
“But…”
“No buts. I will be fine, I promise. And besides, we will talk always, every single time that you are free, I promise. Listen, you need to go for that game, you need to impress those supervisors, you need that scholarship, if not for anyone, then for Lucy, put a smile on her face, will you? The only thing I am not in support of anymore is you going to London.”
Nathan chuckled and placed his hands on her waist to pull her close as he touched her forehead with his, “of course I am not going anywhere again.”
Tracy smiled, “I booked your flight ticket already, you are leaving first thing in the morning so that you will be able to meet up with your morning classes and then have some time to prepare for the game with your teammates.”
“Let me guess, that’s the stuff you had to go do in the morning.”
“Of course,” She smiled and stood on her tiptoes to place a kiss on his lips, her arms wrapping on his neck, “I wish I could watch you play, it’s been so long I did.”
“Then come with me.”
“Nathan, I need to stay away from Midville for some time, if not for any reason but to give Lucy time to accept us. Please understand.”
Nathan nodded, “I do,” he sighed, “if I finish with my quizzes, I am free to come visit, right?”
“What about prom?”
“Why will I be going to prom when my date is here?”
Tracy chuckled, “you are one sweet talker, Nathaniel Wood,” she traced his cheek with her index finger.
“I’m not, I say everything I know it’s the truth.”
Tracy smiled, “I will give you my house key, feel free to go over when you need break from everything.”
Nathan chuckled and leaned down, claiming her lips with his, she was short when standing next to him. “You need to add extra foot or something,” he teased.
“Shut up,” Tracy warned as she kissed him back. Nathan chuckled and deepened the kiss, his tongue caressing her lips, seeking for entrance which she willingly gave. His hand caressed her back and slowly came up to trace her lips as he looked deep into her eyes. He gulped and without a second thought, picked her up and walked towards the bed. He gently placed her on the bed, lying on top of her and tried not to release all his weight on her. Long hidden desires were slowly making their way to the surface and he could see it in her eyes that she wants him too; just as much he wants her.
He buried his face at the crook of her neck, softly inhaling her scent that was adding to his frustration of not being able to take her immediately. He touched her skin with his lips and felt her shiver as her fingers went up and tangle with his hair.
“Nathan,” Tracy moaned.
“Shh,” he shushed her as he trailed kisses from her neck to her cleavage, making her wriggle beneath him as passion consumed her.
“Th-the door, gr-granny…” she whispered in between moans as he bit her hard nipple through her cloth.
Nathan glanced at the door, it was properly shut and he knew Granny won’t enter his room without knocking, so he forgot about locking it and went back to attacking her with his kisses.
“Nathan,” Tracy called when she noticed he wasn’t heeding to her words.
“Don’t worry, she won’t come,” he said as he claimed her lips with his to stop her from talking as he slipped his hand under top to fondle her breast with already hard nipple.
Tracy closed her eyes and accepted all his advances. Her hands fell on his broad chest and she loved the feel of his muscles beneath her palms, he had such good body that just looking at him turns her on.
Nathan let her go for a second just to help her pull off her top, he made her sit up a bit and unclasped her bra hooks, removing the cups and feasting his eyes with her now bigger and rounder boobs, they looked so much bigger than the last time he saw them and it was obviously because of her pregnancy. He reached down and kissed her tummy that was now showing a little bit more than the first time she showed him. He really couldn’t wait to see his child, it scares and mesmerizes him at the fact that he is going to be a father, but in all, he knew he loves his child already just as much as he loves her mother. He still believes it’s going to be a girl.
He trailed kisses from her tummy to her chest where he claimed a nipple in his mouth and caressed the other with his thumb and index fingers. Tracy moaned and buried her fingers in his hair and she wriggled with the excess passion he was arousing in her. It wasn’t helping with the fact that her pregnancy seemed to have heightened her libido.
Nathan helped her take off her jeans and panties and in a matter of seconds, he was out of his clothes as well, and he joined her on the bed once more, tangling their bodies and relishing on the fact of having her in arms like that again. He claimed her lips once more, savoring every taste of her with his tongue as he joined their bodies. Pleasure surged through both of them at that contact and they moaned, each wanting more of the other as he began to thrust slowly, afraid to hurt their child if he takes her as fast as his body wants.
“Nathan, a little faster,” Tracy whispered when she couldn’t take his slow torture anymore.
“But, the baby…”
“She is fine,” she whispered, “and she will understand that I need her father now.”
Nathan chuckled and kissed her, increasing his thrust only but a little bit, not yet fully convinced that he won’t be hurting his child before he could even see her. But along the line, pleasure started taking over rationality and he tried his best to be in control as much as he could but at the end, pleasure won and he took her just as much as both of them wanted. In a while, they both climaxed with both panting heavily and trying to recover from their orgasms.
“You are okay?” Nathan asked when he saw that she had her eyes closed.
Tracy nodded, “I’m perfect,” she whispered.
He smiled and slipped out of her, lying beside her on the bed and scooping her in his arms, “want to take a shower?”
“In a minute,” she murmured, her eyes closed and Nathan knew she would be asleep in a minute.
He chuckled and kissed her sweaty temple, “I love you.”
Tracy smiled but fell asleep right before she could reply, she was that tired.
Nathan watched her sleep with a sweet smile, he couldn’t believe it; after all said and done, after all the pains and heartbreaks; he had her in the end. He kissed her hair once more with his eyes closed, his heart swelling in happiness. Finally, everything has fallen into place and he couldn’t be happier. He sighed and hugged her tightly to himself, never going to let her go, ever again.