Stealin' Bases

Let's Go Home

Evelyn hung up the phone quickly and slid it into her pocket, her cheeks puffed out and her eyes wide.

"Everything ok?" Quinn asked, while patting the spot next to him on the bed where they were cuddling before she took Rose's phone call.

Evelyn nodded without even thinking, her face vacant of any emotions while worries spun like thin spiderwebs in her brain.

"Ev?" Quinn threw his legs quickly over the edge of the bed and hopped off. "Are you ok?"

She turned her blue eyes on him, the fear in them as clear as glass.

"I think I screwed up" She whispered as a chill overtook her entire body.

"What? How?" He gently rubbed his hand over her back, making sure to go as slowly as possible. "What did Rose say?"

Evelyn dropped her eyes so she could focus on her breathing. She counted to ten in her head, working through the anxiety the best she could. Quinn took her hands in his and squeezed them, running a thumb softly along the pad of her palm. He slowed his breathing to match hers, and tapped his pointer finger against the back of her hand as if he was counting with her.

Evelyn's eyes slowly opened and focused on his face, a smile curving at the corner of her mouth as she stared at his bowed head. "I really love you, you know that?"

He peeked at her with one eye open, and smirked. "Shh, I'm concentrating" he teased, "You're breaking the mood"

Evelyn rolled her eyes and huffed loudly. "Are you kidding me right now?"

He laughed and pulled her to his chest, wrapping his arms around her and hugging her tightly.

"I love you too" He mouthed into her neck as he laid his lips against her exposed skin.

He trailed light kisses along her neckline, and over her jaw, until finally he reached her lips.

"Now," he said pulling away, "Talk to me"

Evelyn pinched her lips together as she sucked in a tight breath. "So--you know how I spilled the secret about the sex of the baby to Rose? Well--- Oliver may have overheard us talking about it..."

"Babe, I'm sure everything is fine.." Quinn tried to console her but she just shook her head.

"No-- maybe--maybe I should text him? Apologize?"

Evelyn frantically pulled her phone out before Quinn stopped her and plucked it from her hands.

He tossed it on the bed and fixed his dark eyes on hers. "Oliver will be fine. He will not be upset with you. I know him--You know him-- you did nothing wrong.. ok?"

Evelyn sniffled but nodded her head slightly. "Ok" She mumbled, as her lips dropped into a pout.

She sighed and looked away, sagging her shoulders along with her head. "Guess I did ruin the mood, didn't I?"

Mg tucked a finger under her chin to lift her head up to look at him. "We have forever, remember? How about we make some popcorn, snuggle under a blanket and watch whatever you want?"

Evelyn pursed her lips in thought, her eyes flicking from her phone back to her fiance, until she finally smiled and tilted her chin in agreement. "Yeah, ok"

He planted one more kiss on her lips and then left to go get the snacks. Evelyn quickly grabbed her phone and fired off an apology text to Oliver, before turning it off and grabbing a blanket from the bed to join Quinn in the other room.

Rose just wanted to go home, rather than back to the hotel, so she sent Oliver to go get all the stuff there, while she got her discharge papers and made the arrangements for the flights.