Don't Let Go
A Beautiful Thing
***BRIDGET’S POV***
We came home from dinner around 11:30 at night and I don’t think I’ve ever been happier than I was that night. I was going to move in with my boyfriend, and also he didn’t care that I was carrying someone else’s baby and that I lied to someone saying it that it was his. Today was basically when I finally realized that if I was with Eric things would’ve been WAY different, I would’ve been kicked out on the streets and Eric wouldn’t have helped raise the child even though it wasn’t his.
I remember when Eric made my heart skip a beat or go pitter patter, but now a hockey player has skated into my life and left #88 on my heart. I couldn’t believe that this was actually happening to me. A couple months ago my life was a complete disaster and both my parents were deceased, and I had never met Patrick Kane even though I was best friends with his sister. But now I’m living with him and my best friend and I’m dating him, oh and I can’t forget about the new part! I’M MOVING IN WITH HIM AHHHHHH!!!!! Ok, I’m good now I finally got that out of my system…
So today I’m packing up to go to Chicago, I’ve got all the important things like basic necessities, clothing even though he says were going shopping after we get settled in. I also have to buy maternity clothing ugh, whatever I’ll enjoy it anyway Pat will make me smile and laugh and giggle and we’ll have a good time! I had at least 3 suitcases to fill and the funny thing was some of my clothes didn’t fit anymore because my belly is getting larger. So I only filled 2 of the 3 which isn’t that bad but still. I decided to wear my jersey the day were leaving just cause it doesn’t show my baby bump as much as my usual clothing I’d wear. I was trying to stuff the last bit of clothing in when…
“Hey babe, how’s the packing going.”
“Oh, just great,” I said practically sitting on the black and silver suitcase.
“Do you need any help?” He said with a giggle.
“Nah, I’ve got it, I’m gonna be a pain in your ass for the next 6 months anyway so I don’t want to push it.”
He shook his head, “You would never.” My heart stopped as he pushed back my blonde bangs and revealed the open skin where his lips pressed on to my forehead.
I bit my bottom lip and gave him a smile as I saw the cute smirk I’d fallen in love with a month or two before.
“Oh, Bridge we need to be on the road by 11 tomorrow to catch our flight k?”
“Yeah that sounds good, just if I’m not up by 9:30 you need to wake me up, or at least send one of your sisters in and I betcha they could do it.”
“Alright 9:30 got it. Ok Bridget have a good night sleep, prince charming will wake you in the morning.”
**
8:00 rolled around and I couldn’t go back to sleep, I’d like to but my body won’t let me. I sat in my bed for awhile thinking about Chicago. I had actually never been there. I thought about the lights, the big buildings, the United Center, the new apartment I will be living in, my future…my baby girl, and maybe even my future husband. I small smile came to my face, ‘Mrs. Patrick Kane’ I said to myself. I managed to finally get my ass out of bed around 8:30 I got dressed in my jersey just because it wouldn’t show my baby bump as much or give that much attention to Patrick.
Not realizing it was only 8:30 I blasted my music basically as far as the volume dial would go, dancing around the room listening to Taylor Swift’s cute love songs. I was in front of my mirror and from the corner of my eye I saw a shirtless boy with bags under his eyes, and his blonde curls were everywhere they shouldn’t be. An instant smile came to my face.
“Excited much?” he said with a small yawn.
“Whatever gave you that idea?” I skipped over to him and kissed his cheek, “Good morning baby.”
“Good morning. I guess we’ll be out the door faster than I thought; maybe we can go shopping before we go. I betcha Erica, Jess, and Jackie would be up for it.”
Suddenly 3 girls came in the room; they must have overheard him because their smiles had never been bigger. They were already dressed with their purses in hand. “Patty! Go get dressed!” They all screamed simultaneously. It caught him by surprise and he jumped and ran out the door to his room before they could beat him up. I was laughing the entire time, and they didn’t seem to notice. They were too focused on the strawberry blonde sprinting for his life out of my room almost running into the wall.
**
“We’re here!” Jackie screamed, even though everyone already knew that. The three girls sprinted into the maternity store and Pat pulled me with him. The store was huge and the sleep that I had wanted earlier finally came so I thought it would be best if, “Okay, you guys find a lot of clothes and bring them to me and I’ll try them on. I’m too lazy to be running around right now.” They nodded their heads and were off in a flash.
Jackie and Jess were over by dresses, Erica was over by shirts and pants, and Pat was well he was wondering around. “Pat!” I called, well of course he’d come on first command. “What? Is something wrong?” I shook my head, “No, I just think it would be best if the girls did the shopping and you stay here with me.” “Okay,” He grabbed my hand and softly squeezed it and a smile came to his face.
“You know I love you right?”
“Of course I know that, and I love you too, and you love a little someone else too, you just don’t know it yet, and something else you don’t know is that they’ll love you back, forever and ever.”
“I already knew that,” He lifted up my shirt so the skin was shown and he softly kissed it.
The girls started coming back to the dressing room where I was sitting which mountains of clothes. “Where do you want to start?” “How about dresses,” Pat suggested. “Okay then dresses it is. Gimme a good one to start on Jess”
Jess went into the big pile of colorful fabric, styles and found an adorable red semi-casual dress that would be perfect for any casual party. I hopped up as fast as possible and hobbled to the dressing room. It was a perfect fit with the little pillow and I thought that it would work out fine. I came out of the room and showed everyone. I had to hold the pillow or else it would fall.
“So, what do you think about the fully pregnant me?” I said turning in a circle.
“Aw that’s so adorable on you Bridge!” Jackie said.
“Well, not to toot my own horn but I picked it out.” Jess said, “So of course it’s going to be adorable.”
“Alright Jackie your turn the next dress please.” Jackie jumped up and grabbed a black evening gown for more formal occasions.
“I know right now you usually don’t go to many formal events but, since you’re with my brother now that means you need a formal gown, and I know how much you love basic black dresses.”
I tried it on and it was gorgeous, I guess when I hang around Erica and her sisters so much that they are like family now. Erica ended up showing me all of the cute casual shirts and I got to wear some of the stretchy jeans with the big elastic. We were about to go pay, and so he gave Erica his credit card and told his sisters to go join her. So it was just me and Pat. He told me he had one last dress to show me. “Now close your eyes.” I did what I was told and I heard footsteps walking away from me, they faded away and then reappeared, “Open them,” I opened my eyes, “Patrick Timothy Kane!”
We came home from dinner around 11:30 at night and I don’t think I’ve ever been happier than I was that night. I was going to move in with my boyfriend, and also he didn’t care that I was carrying someone else’s baby and that I lied to someone saying it that it was his. Today was basically when I finally realized that if I was with Eric things would’ve been WAY different, I would’ve been kicked out on the streets and Eric wouldn’t have helped raise the child even though it wasn’t his.
I remember when Eric made my heart skip a beat or go pitter patter, but now a hockey player has skated into my life and left #88 on my heart. I couldn’t believe that this was actually happening to me. A couple months ago my life was a complete disaster and both my parents were deceased, and I had never met Patrick Kane even though I was best friends with his sister. But now I’m living with him and my best friend and I’m dating him, oh and I can’t forget about the new part! I’M MOVING IN WITH HIM AHHHHHH!!!!! Ok, I’m good now I finally got that out of my system…
So today I’m packing up to go to Chicago, I’ve got all the important things like basic necessities, clothing even though he says were going shopping after we get settled in. I also have to buy maternity clothing ugh, whatever I’ll enjoy it anyway Pat will make me smile and laugh and giggle and we’ll have a good time! I had at least 3 suitcases to fill and the funny thing was some of my clothes didn’t fit anymore because my belly is getting larger. So I only filled 2 of the 3 which isn’t that bad but still. I decided to wear my jersey the day were leaving just cause it doesn’t show my baby bump as much as my usual clothing I’d wear. I was trying to stuff the last bit of clothing in when…
“Hey babe, how’s the packing going.”
“Oh, just great,” I said practically sitting on the black and silver suitcase.
“Do you need any help?” He said with a giggle.
“Nah, I’ve got it, I’m gonna be a pain in your ass for the next 6 months anyway so I don’t want to push it.”
He shook his head, “You would never.” My heart stopped as he pushed back my blonde bangs and revealed the open skin where his lips pressed on to my forehead.
I bit my bottom lip and gave him a smile as I saw the cute smirk I’d fallen in love with a month or two before.
“Oh, Bridge we need to be on the road by 11 tomorrow to catch our flight k?”
“Yeah that sounds good, just if I’m not up by 9:30 you need to wake me up, or at least send one of your sisters in and I betcha they could do it.”
“Alright 9:30 got it. Ok Bridget have a good night sleep, prince charming will wake you in the morning.”
**
8:00 rolled around and I couldn’t go back to sleep, I’d like to but my body won’t let me. I sat in my bed for awhile thinking about Chicago. I had actually never been there. I thought about the lights, the big buildings, the United Center, the new apartment I will be living in, my future…my baby girl, and maybe even my future husband. I small smile came to my face, ‘Mrs. Patrick Kane’ I said to myself. I managed to finally get my ass out of bed around 8:30 I got dressed in my jersey just because it wouldn’t show my baby bump as much or give that much attention to Patrick.
Not realizing it was only 8:30 I blasted my music basically as far as the volume dial would go, dancing around the room listening to Taylor Swift’s cute love songs. I was in front of my mirror and from the corner of my eye I saw a shirtless boy with bags under his eyes, and his blonde curls were everywhere they shouldn’t be. An instant smile came to my face.
“Excited much?” he said with a small yawn.
“Whatever gave you that idea?” I skipped over to him and kissed his cheek, “Good morning baby.”
“Good morning. I guess we’ll be out the door faster than I thought; maybe we can go shopping before we go. I betcha Erica, Jess, and Jackie would be up for it.”
Suddenly 3 girls came in the room; they must have overheard him because their smiles had never been bigger. They were already dressed with their purses in hand. “Patty! Go get dressed!” They all screamed simultaneously. It caught him by surprise and he jumped and ran out the door to his room before they could beat him up. I was laughing the entire time, and they didn’t seem to notice. They were too focused on the strawberry blonde sprinting for his life out of my room almost running into the wall.
**
“We’re here!” Jackie screamed, even though everyone already knew that. The three girls sprinted into the maternity store and Pat pulled me with him. The store was huge and the sleep that I had wanted earlier finally came so I thought it would be best if, “Okay, you guys find a lot of clothes and bring them to me and I’ll try them on. I’m too lazy to be running around right now.” They nodded their heads and were off in a flash.
Jackie and Jess were over by dresses, Erica was over by shirts and pants, and Pat was well he was wondering around. “Pat!” I called, well of course he’d come on first command. “What? Is something wrong?” I shook my head, “No, I just think it would be best if the girls did the shopping and you stay here with me.” “Okay,” He grabbed my hand and softly squeezed it and a smile came to his face.
“You know I love you right?”
“Of course I know that, and I love you too, and you love a little someone else too, you just don’t know it yet, and something else you don’t know is that they’ll love you back, forever and ever.”
“I already knew that,” He lifted up my shirt so the skin was shown and he softly kissed it.
The girls started coming back to the dressing room where I was sitting which mountains of clothes. “Where do you want to start?” “How about dresses,” Pat suggested. “Okay then dresses it is. Gimme a good one to start on Jess”
Jess went into the big pile of colorful fabric, styles and found an adorable red semi-casual dress that would be perfect for any casual party. I hopped up as fast as possible and hobbled to the dressing room. It was a perfect fit with the little pillow and I thought that it would work out fine. I came out of the room and showed everyone. I had to hold the pillow or else it would fall.
“So, what do you think about the fully pregnant me?” I said turning in a circle.
“Aw that’s so adorable on you Bridge!” Jackie said.
“Well, not to toot my own horn but I picked it out.” Jess said, “So of course it’s going to be adorable.”
“Alright Jackie your turn the next dress please.” Jackie jumped up and grabbed a black evening gown for more formal occasions.
“I know right now you usually don’t go to many formal events but, since you’re with my brother now that means you need a formal gown, and I know how much you love basic black dresses.”
I tried it on and it was gorgeous, I guess when I hang around Erica and her sisters so much that they are like family now. Erica ended up showing me all of the cute casual shirts and I got to wear some of the stretchy jeans with the big elastic. We were about to go pay, and so he gave Erica his credit card and told his sisters to go join her. So it was just me and Pat. He told me he had one last dress to show me. “Now close your eyes.” I did what I was told and I heard footsteps walking away from me, they faded away and then reappeared, “Open them,” I opened my eyes, “Patrick Timothy Kane!”
Please keep writing!!!!!!!!!
7/16/14