God's Plan (formerly fake love) SM

Forty-Nine

July 18th, 2018

Shawn's been acting weird, to say the least, the past couple of weeks. He's always on his phone but when I look at it, there's never any messages.

I grabbed my phone off the charger before walking down stairs. I found Shawn in the kitchen eating a bowl of cereal. I sat down on the bar stool in front of him and stared.

"Good morning love." He said with a mouth full of fruit loops.

"Are you sleeping with someone else?" I asked, causing him to spit his food out all of the counter in front of him.

"Am I what now?" He asked standing up the grab a paper towel.

"You know, cheating. Having sex with someone that's not me. Homewrecking?" I said, grabbing a banana out of the bowl and opening it.

"Why would you ask that? You know I'm not." He said walking over to me and grabbing my shoulders.

"Well you've been acting weird. And you have literally no text messages in your phone besides family."

"I don't have texts in my phone so that means I'm cheating? Love, you make no sense."

"But you've been ac-" I started but he cut me off.

"Why on earth would I cheat on you? I have everything I could ever want in life sitting right here in front of me." He said reaching and putting and hand on my stomach. "You And little Essie are all I need."

"And if you must know, I've been planning something for your birthday and that's why there's no messages in my phone."

"You could have just started with that instead of making me cry." I said wiping my eyes.

"I know. But you need to know how much my two girls mean to me." He said kissing my forehead. "What would my two favorite people like for breakfast?"

"We want French toast. But we'll settle for fruit since someone does want us eating sugar." I said laughing.

"I think we can make a compromise, French toast now but no more sugar the rest of the day?" He suggested, but it was more of a question.

"I guess that could work. What do you think little miss?" She kicked in response so I guess that worked for her.

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"I don't know why you always insist on going out and doing something," I said struggling to keep up with Ali and Lino at the mall. "I have a perfectly good pool at my house."

"We always go swimming." Ali said, "we want to do something else with our older sister."

Okay, odd.

"Plus, you need exercise." Lino said. Me and Ali both slapping him in the back of his head.

"What? It's good for the baby." He said rubbing the spot where we smacked him.

"Whatever. What store are we going to first?" I asked, grabbing my phone out of my pocket as we walked.

Me: everything alright at the studio love?

I waited but Shawn didn't reply. He probably didn't have it in the booth with him.

Me: text me when you can, love ❤️

"How many band tees do you need Lino?" I asked as he grabbed another shirt off the shelf of hot topic.

We'd been at the mall for a while now and Shawn still hadn't messaged me back.

Me: have you heard from Shawn? I texted him a while ago and haven't heard anything.

I sighed when I didn't get a reply from Ally either.