| Chapter 7
Bo's smile quickly fades from his face as he spins her around. "What did you just say?" "Please don't look at me like that." Getting upset. "How do you want me to look at you Hope, when you say something like that?" Jenn walks over and gives her a hug. "I'm going to go and leave you two alone to talk." "Thanks Jenn I'll call you later." Bo takes Hope's hand and they walk back to the bench. "Fancy Face don't you know how much I love you." "Yes Brady I do and I want it to stay that way." "I will always love you Fancy Face and if these past months have taught us anything is just that....that our love will prevail." "Bo you can't honestly sit there and tell me that you're going to be able to look at me, or even touch me, when my stomach gets bigger and bigger." "Hope you know I love you more then that so what's this really about? Why do you really want to end this pregnancy?" Hope doesn't say anything for a moment but she knows Bo won't let this go so she tells him what's really bothering her. "I don't want to lose you Brady." "You're not going to lose me Fancy Face." "I'm afraid if I have this baby you'll end up killing Patrick.....and I don't want to raise this baby by myself with you behind bars." �That isn�t going to happen Hope. I�m not going to kill him and with any luck he�ll screw up and be behind bars way before this child of yours is ever born.� �Bo.� �Promise me that there will be no more talk about you getting rid of this child?� Bo insists. �I can�t promise you that Brady. But I will promise you I won�t do anything without seriously talking to you about it first.� He doesn�t like the fact that she wouldn�t promise him and the look on his face tells her just that. �Can we please just go home?� He stands up and without saying a word holds out his hand to her. She takes his hand and he pulls her to her feet. He then kisses her lips slightly before placing his arm around her waist and walking her back to her car. ~*~*~*~**~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~**~*~*~*~*~*~*~~**~*~*~*~*~*~~**~*~*~*~ ~ BRADY HOME (the next morning)~ Hope comes walking out of the kitchen with a cup of coffee as Bo comes walking down the stairs. "Good Morning sunshine." He takes her coffee from her and takes a sip then gives it back. She gives him a kinda hey look. "So what are your plans for today?" He then asked sitting on the couch putting on his sneakers. "And just what's put you in such a good mood this morning? If you don't mind me asking,?" He looks out the window. "What's not to be in a good mood about? The sun is shinning, it�s almost 80 degrees outside. All's quite on the home front and..." He looks up at Hope. "For the first time in a long time I woke up next to the most beautiful woman in the world." "Only cause you snuck in, in the middle of the night." He gets off the couch and again steals a sip of her coffee. "What can I say I didn't want to take any chances that you'd make me sleep in the guestroom?" He kisses the top of her head. "Besides you could have kicked me out if you didn't want me there." "Yes I could have." She slightly laughed as she walked past him. "But what can I say? I like waking up next to you." He walks behind her and places his arms around her waist. "I've missed you so much Fancy Face." She leans her head against his shoulder. "I've missed you too Brady." He kisses her cheek. "You never answered my question before." "What question was that?" She asked as he took her coffee cup from her one more time." "You know there's coffee in the kitchen I'd be more then happy to get you some." Laughing.� No thanks I'll just drink yours." He walks across the room and picks up his keys. "Since you shouldn't be drinking coffee anyhow." She gives him a don't start with me Brady look. "I asked you what you were doing today." "Jenn's on her way over and we're just going to hang out." "Sounds like fun." He replied putting his gun in his holster. "I take it your off to the station." "Ya Roman called. He's getting on my case for not getting things done. So I figured I'd head down there and finish a few things up." "Bo, please tell me this has nothing to do with Patrick?" He smiles as he walks over to her and again takes her in his arms. "It has nothing to do with Patrick. But while we're on the subject, I don't want you anywhere near that man. He's lucky he's still alive after taking advantage of you like he has." She's about to say something but he won't let her cut him off.� And I will not go after him unless he gives me a reason." He kisses her lips lightly. "Other then the ones he's already given me." She kisses him back. "Thank you." There's a knock on the door and they both yell "Come in" at the same time. "Good Morning Jennifer." Bo says giving Hope one last kiss then making his way for the door. "Yes it is a good morning seeing the two of you together." Jenn replies happily. "So Hope are you ready to go?" "To go?" Bo asked as Hope tried desperately to stop Jenn from saying anything. "Ya Hope has an appointment down at the hospital.........." Jenn trails off noticing that Hope didn't want Bo to know about it. "We're going to find out about maternity classes." She walks towards Hope. "That is if Bo managed to talk you out of giving up this baby." "Yes he has Jenn and I totally forgot about the maternity class thing." Bo walked over to the two of them. "Jenn there's coffee in the kitchen. Why don't you go get yourself a cup?" Jen looked over at Bo, knowing darn well he didn't buy that. "You know I think I just might." She replied walking into the kitchen. "I think I'll join you." Hope replied before giving Bo a kiss good bye. "I'll call you later Brady." Bo quickly grabbed Hope's arm stopping her dead in her tracks. "Nice try Fancy Face. What are you up to?" She gives him a strange look.� Other then going into the kitchen and having a cup of coffee with my cousin?" She tries to throw him off track. "I know I'm sorry I shouldn't be drinking coffee. But I promise Brady I'll only........." "Hope what are you up to?" He asked in a demanding tone while cutting her off. She hated lying to him anyway. "I have an appointment at the hospital with Dr. Coleman. She's the new gynecologist they just hired." He let go of her arm. "Why didn't you tell me? I would have taken you?" "Bo its fine, Jenn can take me." She kisses his cheek and tries again to walk away. "I'll call you later." "Hope stop." Bo said clearly upset. "Turn around and look at me." She slowly turned around. "I said look at me." She looks up at him. "I told you I was okay with this pregnancy and I would be there for you and I meant it." "I know you did Bo, it's just I don't want you to feel obligated to take care of me." "I've felt that way ever since you were 17 and sure as heck aren't going to stop now." She laughed slightly. "You know what I mean Brady." Bo's cell phone rings. "Darn it, it's Roman I have to go." He gives her one last kiss. "But this conversation isn't over and I'm going to your next appointment with you. So you better call me later and let me know how everything went and when it is." With a sad look in her eyes. "Okay I will, I promise." |