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Y/N’s POV:

Calum stopping by was a kind of unexpected surprise, but it has been two weeks since that seemingly awkward encounter and you are swiftly nesting away at Luke’s place and Calum’s. You are grateful for the fact that neither of them seems to mind too much, although you know what a hassle two cribs and two nurseries have already been before the baby is even here. You are very fortunate to have RM/N support you with your nesting at Calum’s place. In fact, she stayed out of the nursery completely the last couple times I have been over at their place, but I believe that was more on the premise of her latest binge watch of New Girl over anything else.

Calum has been in and out of the studio a lot lately with Luke, so it has mainly just been you and RM/N at the house. It is surprisingly quiet in the house without Calum there, not that he usually is one to make a lot of noise. It seems like the only sounds throughout the entire house are coming from the television in the living room and the soft shuffle of your feet throughout the nursery. Your movement has become more of a waddle within the past couple of weeks. And you are slowly but surely becoming more impatient with waiting for your little bundle of joy to make her way into the world.

With your efforts, your little girl’s nurseries are as complete as they can be. The only thing missing in both cribs in both houses are your baby sleeping within them. You have washed and folded every article of clothing you already have for her between your many shopping sprees and all the gifts you received from your baby shower. Her crib is all put together, the proudest factor of the whole ensemble being the pink and purple dinosaur sheets you found last week. You are as prepared as you are ever going to be for your firstborn child, you just hope that things won’t become too overwhelming with the fact that she basically has four adults willing to take care of her at any given moment.

Calum’s POV:

You have been in the studio tirelessly for the past several weeks. You understand why there are deadlines in the music industry, but at the same time you truly believe it somewhat stunts your creative abilities. You and Luke have been trying your best to get the melody right on your latest song, but you have been failing miserably. It doesn’t help that the studio is the last place the two of you want to be. You know that if anything happened that RM/N would call you right away and get Y/N to the hospital, but you still feel like you should be the one with her in these remaining days before the baby arrives.

-------------2 hours later---------------

You just parked in your driveway after a long day at the studio. You offered to take Luke home because the two of you carpooled there anyway, but was it really a bad thing that you hoped Y/N would still be at your place nesting by the time you got back? You know RM/N texted you twenty minutes prior that she was going to her three-hour lecture on campus and that she would be gone for most of the night. You know it would be the healthy thing to do if you talk out your issues with Y/N. She is usually a very understanding person and the only other person you usually bring up your issues to is RM/N. You don’t want RM/N to know that Luke and Y/N’s relationship is making you jealous. It would ultimately harm your current relationship with RM/N.

To your relief and simultaneously to your surprise, Y/N is sitting in the rocking chair in the nursery of your home. She is humming to herself quietly while rocking slowly back and forth, one hand on top of her very prominent baby bump. This is the kind of moment when you wished you were good at photography. You do your best to take a mental picture of this precious moment and find yourself daydreaming about all the precious moments to come with your daughter. It didn’t take long before Y/N noticed your presence and pulled you out of your own headspace.

“Calum, you’re home sooner than I thought you would be…you just missed RM/N. She had her night class tonight if I’m not mistaken,” Y/N states as she slowly makes her way up and out of the rocking chair in the corner of the room.

“Yeah, our producer let us out of the studio early since Luke and I can’t focus for the life of us haha,” you respond lightly, hoping you didn’t startle Y/N as much as you think you have.

“Well I can go home if you want to be alone and decompress, I’ve spent most of my day here anyway. I should probably get home soon,” Y/N replies with a gentle smile spread across her face.

“Actually, there was something I was hoping we could discuss before I take you home,” you start, silently hoping that she will agree to this conversation that won’t be easy for either of you.

“Yeah that’s fine, but can we talk on the couch? I have been on my feet way too much today already…” Y/N trails off as she heads to the couch, not waiting for your reply on the matter.

You join her on the couch, keeping an appropriate distance due to your want to respect her privacy and space. She is growing an entire human inside of her and that is no easy job. You don’t want to make her any more uncomfortable than she already is.

“I just wanted to talk about our current situation. Like obviously we are both in separate solid relationships with other people and I don’t want any confusion between us. Obviously, we are going to be parents soon…. I don’t know I guess what I’m trying to say is I’m happy for you and Luke, I’m glad the two of you are finally together. I mean we all saw it coming…just the timing of it all was a little concerning. And I guess you could turn that around on me as well considering how quickly I fell for RM/N… I don’t know I just feel very overwhelmed with it all ad I want to be as transparent with you as possible before the baby comes. I’m not a very open person and I know that is one of my flaws and I am trying for everyone else’s sake to get better at that, but I just wanted to let you know where I am at with all if this… I don’t want to end up resenting you or Luke or anyone in this situation. I just wanted to let you know where I’m at with all of this so you are in the loop, if that makes sense…” you trail off recognizing that you just rambled off the problem to Y/N in possibly the worst way.

She takes a while to comprehend all of what you just said, you know that you dumped a lot of information on her all at once and you do not expect a response from her right away. You hope she understands where you are coming from though with all else considered. You hear her take a deep breath in before she says the words you were anxious to hear come out of her mouth.

“I believe we will find a way to work everything out once she is here. The two of us will always be her parents, it would take a heck of a lot to change that, but you also have to understand that Luke and RM/N are going to be a big part of her life as well. As much as I hate to admit this, we made a mistake. A beautiful mistake and I would not change it for the world, but a mistake, nonetheless. We have to act like the adults we are here and evaluate our situation with where we currently are and where we want to be as parents. I am willing to coparent with you and do everything that is necessary for our daughter and I need to know that you are on board with me on all of this as well. Our days are numbered in the sense that she will be here before either of us know it and I want to make sure we, for the lack of a better phrase, have our shit together before that time comes,” Y/N concludes, which leaves you in awe with how much she has grown throughout the past eight months.

Calum’s POV:

As you inch closer and closer to the arrival of your first-born daughter you find yourself filled with both excitement and fear as you aren’t sure what fatherhood will look like on you. You and Y/N aren’t in the best situation, but you are trying your hardest to make things run smoothly as you don’t want to add extra stress on anyone’s life. You spend a lot of your time these days looking through baby name books and annoying RM/N. She’s nearing the end of her semester of school and you find that her studies are taking up more of her time than either of you would like to admit.

Today in particular RM/N’s head is three feet deep in her textbooks. After bugging her to the point where she seemed completely annoyed with you, you decide to head over to Y/N’s house in the hopes that she will cook you something or at least want to order take out with you. The two of you haven’t spent much time together lately as she is nesting in her apartment and you and RM/N have been spending most of your time together. You know that there was a time where Y/n and Luke were getting closer with one another, but they’ve been best friends for as long as you can remember and you really doubt that Luke had the balls to anything more than give her a peck on the cheek every now and then.

-20 minutes later-

You pull into the parking lot of Y/N’s apartment complex, your stomach already grumbling in anticipation of one of her infamous grilled cheeses. There is a small thought in the back of your mind that is worried that you might be catching Y/N at a bad time, but your hunger gets the best of you and before you know it you are parking your car and walking the all too familiar path to her apartment.

You knock on the door twice and wait for her to answer, the weight of the spare key she gave you weighing down the keyring you are currently holding. After standing awkwardly outside her door for about five minutes, you take it upon yourself to let yourself in. Normally you would’ve just assumed that she wasn’t home, but you saw her car in the parking lot, so you know she has to be inside. You feel a little bit of guilt using the spare key that she gave you, but she gave it to you for a reason. Whether this reason was similar to the reason you’re about to use it is not something you are willing to think about right now as all you’re focused on doing is seeing Y/N and eating something…and soon.

The next minute and forty-two seconds are something you wish you could forget. Moments after walking into Y/N’s apartment you realize why she wasn’t answering her front door. The bedroom door cracked open was the only indicator that someone was home. Her apartment always had this kind of chaotic nature to it. The furniture was mismatched, and the decorations jumbled, but nothing could describe Y/N more. You didn’t want to walk into her room as she was probably taking a nap, but once you heard her squealing from behind the almost closed door you decided to investigate further.

The moment you opened the door you regretted your actions. You expected to see Y/N sleeping peacefully in her bed or watching another telenovela considering her mild obsession with them, but what you actually saw was something you wish you could erase from your memory entirely. The reality of the situation is that you saw Y/N and Luke in the process of taking off each other’s pants, something you never wanted to see…ever.

The minute Y/N saw you she shrieked causing Luke to jump back and nearly give himself a concussion by knocking his head on the wall. You gave them the space and privacy they needed to compose themselves and firmly planted yourself on the couch with your head in your hands. The most alarming part of it all is that Y/N and Luke seemed so comfortable around one another. And you feel absolutely stupid for not noticing it sooner. Luke has always had a thing for Y/N and Y/N has always had a thing for Luke, you just truly didn’t think they would act on their feelings. Or at least not this soon given the circumstances.

About fourteen minutes later both Y/N and Luke come out of Y/N’s bedroom, both looking as mortified as ever. You can feel your cheeks still burning and Y/N gives you a small smile before sitting next to you on her couch. Luke excuses himself to the kitchen where you see him pouring glasses of water for the three of you. You try to break the awkward silence, but you don’t know just where exactly to begin. Luckily Y/N jumps in and starts the conversation first.

“I know I shouldn’t have given you that spare key,” Y/N laughs much to your surprise. You thought she would be as mortified as you are, and maybe she is but she definitely isn’t showing it.

“Oh, come on, you know I didn’t come here with the intention of walking in on you and curly over here…” you start, knowing that statement was way more awkward out loud than it was in your head.

“No we know Calum I’m just messing with you…from the looks of it you didn’t even know Luke and I are dating which is hilarious because everyone else we’ve told said it was way too easy to tell,” Y/N responds, smiling wider at the mention of her and Luke being together.

You were happy for her, happy for them. You know how long the both of them wanted a relationship with the other, but you can’t help but feeling a little betrayed by the whole situation. Obviously, you don’t have those kinds of feelings for Y/N, but a little part of you wanted her to have those kinds of feelings for you. And you know it is selfish you have a loving girlfriend who is supportive of everything you do an almost too cool with the whole soon to be a parent with another woman thing. But some selfish part of you wanted Y/N to have feelings for you because of the whole situation that you are in with her at the moment.

“I’m just a little surprised, that’s all. I can’t believe Luke finally grew some balls and asked you out,” you reply, unable to hold back the snarky nature of your tone.

Luke scoffs at your comment and the blush in your cheeks only seems to grow, but you try your best to not let it get to you. The three of you change the conversation to the baby and how her arrival is getting nearer with each day that passes. You can see the excitement in both Luke and Y/N’s eyes, and you would be lying to yourself if you didn’t find it kind of cute that they were tackling this together. It is actually kind of a relief. You have RM/N on your side, but you worried how Y/N was going to do on her own with your daughter.

You spend about three hours at Y/N’s place before you decide to call it a night and go home to your girlfriend who is probably still studying away. You are happy for her and Luke, truly, but the uneasy feeling is still in the pit of your stomach. Luke had so many years to make his move on Y/N, but of course he had to wait until she was kind of unavailable to actually do something about it. You know you don’t really have the room to be upset, but you can’t help it. You are jealous. Not that you want to be romantically involved with Y/N, both of you are kind of occupied in that sense, but you still are jealous.

Calum’s POV:

Firstly, you are really confused. I mean obviously it wasn’t a coincidence that RM/N was sitting at the table with Y/N, but you are still caught off guard. If you didn’t immediately lock eyes with RM/N you could have just backed out of the café and gone back out to your car, but to your demise you lock eyes with her the moment you saw her. You hoped that she didn’t see you, which was the only thought on your mind when you saw her stand up to greet you from across the room. You slowly made your way over to the table, watching the mother of your unborn child turn around and give you a warm smile.

It was almost comical in the sense that you felt so out of place sitting at a table with two of your favorite people sitting near you. You order your coffee black a few moments after sitting down and notice the giant glazed donut on the plate in front of Y/N, half eaten already which makes you wonder how long she and RM/N were there talking before you arrived. Of course, you can’t really gage how long Y/N has been anywhere based on how long it takes her to eat food, especially with the intense cravings she has had lately with the baby. It’s moments like these when you are so lost in your own thoughts about Y/N and the pregnancy where you can’t help but think about how different things are going to be between the two of you once the baby arrives and the pregnancy is over.

Quickly, you are pulled out of your emotional thought-provoking trance when you hear RM/N say your name a few times and rub her hand on top of your own. You are surprised at the sudden act of PDA which makes you almost pull your hand back. She laughs a little at how jumpy you are, and you know she can tell how nervous you are for the conversation that is about to unfold. You are glad she is here even though you are unsure of her intentions. She always seems to be a calming force whenever you are worried.

“So, we should probably get to the reason we are all sitting at this rather small table huh?” RM/N starts, obviously trying to get you and Y/N to talk things out before the three of you are just awkwardly sitting at the café for hours on end.

Y/N nods and clears her throat before speaking, “I invited RM/N to meet me here about an hour before I told you to meet me here because there were some things we needed to discuss, girl to girl. Lucky for us you showed up right as we were finishing our talk, which ultimately saved us from sitting together awkwardly until you showed up. Basically, since our discussion, RM/N and I are on the same page when it comes to life once the baby is born. I think she is a wonderful person and I am so glad that you have brought her into not only my life but yours and the baby’s as well. I know it isn’t going to be easy and that all of us will get a little overbearing at times but I think that me, you, RM/N and Luke can all effectively take care of our little bundle of joy together even though the two of us will not be living together.”

You focus on your breath for the majority of the time that Y/N talks. You don’t know exactly what you were expecting from this conversation, but it definitely was not what just came out of her mouth. You try to quickly comprehend everything that she just unloaded on you, but for some reason only one thing is sticking out in your head.

“Wait…Luke? What did I miss?” you inquire, although you are fairly certain that you know the answer Y/N is about to give you. A blush creeps up on her cheeks and you can tell she is about to confirm the suspicions you had about the situation.

“Yeah I mean it’s not official or whatever but that is definitely something that is happening,” Y/N states with a smile. And you know exactly how she feels. I mean you are barely dating RM/N, yet you feel like she is someone you could spend the rest of your life with. Obviously, Y/N and the baby are going to be a big part of your life, but it is refreshing to know that you are going to have someone to spend the rest of your life with, even if they don’t know it yet. And you are nothing but happy for Y/N. Luke is one of your best friends and was going to be a part of your child’s life regardless. It is almost refreshing to know that he is going to be there for your daughter even if you’re not around for whatever reason. Not that you are planning to not be around for her, but even you can’t plan that far ahead into your unpredictable life.

Y/N’s POV:

You are pleasantly surprised with how this whole café meeting is going. You knew that RM/N would be down for anything as you could tell she was more nervous than you when you both arrived at the café. You were caught off guard with how susceptible Calum was to your mention of things progressing with you and Luke. I mean it’s not like the two of you were ever truly romantically interested in one another, but you still felt like Calum might be a little possessive over you. Then again, he probably would’ve been if he didn’t already have RM/N in his life. You aren’t mad or upset though. You know your daughter will have a lot of people who love and support her and at the end of the day that is all that matters. She will spend her time evenly with you and Luke and Calum and RM/N as long as things go as planned.

Y/N’s POV:

After the chaos of baby shower season, you finally had some time to yourself. You have spent the past couple of days working on what you can to prepare and organize for your daughter’s arrival, even though you still have a few weeks to go. When you can be on your feet you are working towards making your place baby proofed with the help of Luke and Calum when they aren’t in the studio. Although the entire situation is still a bit hard to maneuver around, the three of you are making things work, which is a good sign for the future.

You were folding the last of your laundry when you got a text message. You finish folding your last shirt before checking your phone to see what the message reads. As soon as you read the message a smile grows across your face. You and RM/N haven’t spent a lot of time together since the baby shower madness, so you are particularly excited to hang out with her. You quickly respond to her invitation of hanging out by offering up your place and a large pizza for the two of you to share.

Within twenty minutes RM/N is at your doorstep with a bottle of juice in hand. For whatever reason the two of you have been on some weird juice kick, but neither of you are complaining. The two of you turn on some music once RM/N gets settled, pouring both of you a glass of juice while you scroll through your music library looking for the right song for the two of you to listen to. Suddenly one song comes on your screen catching your eye. You don’t exactly know how RM/N feels about One Direction, but you figured that she must at least know them due to Calum opening for them so many years ago.

As soon as the starting sounds of Why Don’t We Go There by One Direction starts to fill the quiet space of your apartment RM/N is singing along. A smile spreads across your face once you realize this because if she likes One Direction then this is the start to a beautiful friendship. Soon enough the two of you are dancing around the living room of your apartment, singing along to a multitude of One Direction songs at the top of your lungs. You can’t move as easily as you would like to know that you are several months pregnant, but you can’t help but dance along to the familiar beats of the songs that molded part of your childhood.

As the night progresses the two of you have made two dozen apple turnovers, worked on decorating your daughter’s nursery, and built a fort in your living room out of pillows and blankets. RM/N thumbs through your stack of movies and decides on Tangled, since it is the ninth anniversary of the movie. Once RM/N tells you that, you are certain that the universe brought her into your life for a reason. Not only is Tangled your favorite Disney princess movie, but you have had a strong love for the movie since it was released.

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RM/N’s POV:

Once the movie ends, you and Y/N find yourselves sitting in a comfortable silence. You are pleasantly surprised with how seemingly normal your day with Y/N has been. The two of you haven’t spent a lot of time together besides planning the baby shower and you thought today would be a good day to start. You did not know what to exactly expect from this day together but as the day went on you two actually found out that you share a lot of common interests. As you find yourself lost in your own thoughts, you hear Y/N clear her throat like she has something to say.

“I don’t mean to sound accusatory at all, and as I say this it will probably come off that way, but why do you feel the need to make such a good impression?” Y/N inquires, which immediately pulls you out of your current train of thought.

“Oh…well I don’t know…I didn’t really realize that was what I was doing…” you trail off, trying to gather your thoughts with the question that was just thrown at you. You know you shouldn’t really take it to heart. Technically, you were trying to make a good impression with Y/N. She was the only one of Calum’s friends that you felt like you could spend time with. You have tried to have conversations with the guys in the band, but they don’t really seem to give you the time of day. And of course, there was the factor of Y/N having Calum’s kid. If you don’t get along with her now, you’re afraid you never will. She is going to be a part of Calum’s life forever and you hope you stick around that long too, meaning getting along with Y/N and making a good impression is all you really have going for yourself right now.

“Sorry,” you continue, “I guess I just feel like I have to make a good impression because Calum really cares about you, obviously, and I just want you to like me or at least tolerate me because I’m hoping to stick around for a while and-“ Y/N cuts you off before you could continue your rambling.

“Woah, woah, woah” Y/N starts, laughing a little, “I wasn’t trying to accuse you of anything, I was just curious. I don’t see a lot of people being genuine about good impressions when it comes to the band and this crowd, so it is much appreciated that you are being sincere with it all. Wanting to make a good impression is usually the first sign of a good person, so if you are worried about Calum and his friends liking you, don’t be.”

Her words set your mind at ease. Although you weren’t consciously trying to make a good impression, you can see where Y/N is coming from. You wanted to have everyone like you, or at least tolerate you, so being kind to everyone you met lately seemed like the way to go.

“And while we are somewhat on the topic, why Calum? Like of all people…” Y/N starts, before her own thoughts distracted her.

“I could ask you the same thing…I mean you are having his kid,” you retaliated playfully.

Y/N laughs at this, knowing that you know the story of how that all went down. You are glad that the two of you could laugh about this because the situation is kind of awkward in nature.

Your conversation continues with this back and forth banter until Y/N hits you with one more pressing question.

“So, I have a serious question…do you think dinosaur is a good name for the kid? Because as crazy as it sounds, I am seriously considering it…” Y/N states, causing you to laugh a bit.

“You cannot be serious,” you reply, trying to hold back a fit of giggles.

“I’m being serious,” Y/N starts, “I mean we call her dinosaur already…and if we don’t name her that, then maybe something based off dinosaur? Like Dina?”

“Y/N, you cannot be serious. You want to name your first born…dinosaur? Like after a fucking prehistoric animal. Do you realize how ridiculous that sounds?” You ask, being completely serious.

“No…No I know it sounds ridiculous, but I am really at a loss for names these days” she responds.

“Now if it was you and Luke’s kid, dinosaur would make sense, but it’s not. I mean you don’t have to decide on anything right away…you still have some time before the baby comes,” you remind her.

“You’re right…I don’t know what I was thinking. I guess I’m already getting mommy brain or whatever it is called…” Y/N says.

Y/N’s POV:

It took you a minute, but you finally pried RM/N’s number out of Luke. You needed her number because you wanted to get on the same page with her before Calum got to the place the three of you were having lunch. You mentioned inviting RM/N to Calum, but you knew him too well to think he would have actually invited her for a decent portion of the meal. Luke was hesitant to give you her number, and honestly you didn’t expect anything less. He has always been a little protective over you and looked out for you and your best intentions for years. Once you explained your intentions for this early meeting with her, Luke seemed to find it necessary to give you her number.

You thank him, quickly typing RM/N’s digits into your contact book. You find a quiet place in your now seemingly small apartment away from Luke so you can call her. You really don’t have any hard feelings, you never liked Calum like that and he is obviously crazy about her. You just wanted to make sure that the two of you were on the same page with everything before Calum got to lunch. Besides, you wanted her to know that she was invited and welcomed to this meal. You could probably put money on Calum telling her to just come for dessert or to sit this one out so you and him could talk things out without RM/N in the picture.

The three of you were going to have lunch at a quaint little café that was equidistant from your place and Calum’s. You knew that having RM/N there before Calum was in everyone’s best interest, but you had to admit that it was stressing you out a little bit. The two of you really didn’t get off on the right foot the last (and only) time you spoke, but you were determined to make things right and let RM/N know that if she’s in this for the long haul with Calum, then you were in it for the long haul with her too. You liked the idea of someone else to help out when your little dinosaur finally came into the world, especially when you were in a bind and needed Calum to watch her.

Before you could overthink anymore, you clicked on RM/N’s contact and hit the call button. The phone only rang twice before she answered, catching you a little off guard.

“Hello?” she answered, a little confused at the unknown number.

“Um hi, RM/N. It’s Y/N,” you start, hoping that you are not calling her at a bad time.

“Oh hi,” she exclaims.

You quickly explain to her how you got her number and the plan you have been putting together, and you are relieved to hear that she is totally on board with all of it. You have decided that you would not have to meet RM/N at the restaurant for another few hours, which gives you some time to sit down and relax before you have to get ready.

You walk back into the living room, smiling when you see Luke laying comfortably on your all too small couch. You sit down next to him, easily fitting into his side as you lay your head on his chest and he lays his head on top of yours. These past couple of months haven’t been easy, but you’re glad that things have started to work out between you and Luke despite all of the obstacles. He lazily drapes his arm over top of your protruding baby bump, so absentminded that you’re positive he didn’t even realize what he has done.

“Do you see us having a future together?” you ask to break the silence.

“What do you mean?” Luke inquires, obviously a little taken aback by your out of the blue question.

“Like, do you see us being together after a few years? I know we have been friends forever, but a lot has changed over the past couple months and I have more than just myself to worry about now..” you conclude, hoping he got the gist of what you were trying to say to him.

“Babe, you’ve got nothing to worry about on my end. I’m in it for the long haul, have been since I first laid my eyes on you. You’re stuck with me and all my mushy gushy lovey dovey bullshit for as long as you’ll have me,” Luke replied, not blinking an eye while practically ensuring that he will be by your side through thick and thin.

“God Luke don’t say babe like that,” you mutter, unaware of the exact power he actually has on you now that you are allowing your feelings for him to be out in the open. Being truthful about your feelings for Luke is a very new and foreign concept to both of you, but you would take this over how you two used to be any day.

“Or what?” he responds cockily, making you want to kiss that dumb smirk right off his stupid face.

“I don’t have the time for the answer you want,” you reply coolly, stating a fact the two of you know all too well.

You want to ask him about his view on kids, as you are several months pregnant with Calum’s child, but you already know his answer. You have been with him in the grocery store when the two of you pass a cart with a baby in it. You have seen him play peekaboo with kids in lines, make funny faces at them when their parents aren’t looking.

You find yourself quickly getting lost in your own thoughts, vaguely aware of the fact that Luke is currently looking at you with admirable eyes.

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Calum’s POV:

You get in your car thirty minutes before you are supposed to meet Y/N at the café. You know it’s irrational, but you can’t stop thinking about how awkward this could potentially be between you and Y/N. You know she is a fairly forgiving person, but you have a bad track record with messing things up before they even start. You can already count down the days to when your daughter will be brought into this world, and the thought honestly terrifies you. But you know that you have to work out all the details with Y/N, which is exactly why the two of you are meeting today to figure things out.

You start the car, knowing that you need to leave soon if you want to arrive a little before you said you would be there. You haven’t talked to RM/N all day. Something that seems a bit peculiar, yet you don’t question it because you both have a lot going on right now. You plug your phone into the power cord that doubles as an auxiliary cord in your car, allowing the soft sounds of Arctic Monkey’s AM album to fill the space around you. You didn’t hit shuffle, so Do I Wanna Know? Is the first song that plays. You particularly enjoy listening to music when driving, especially when you need to get your mind off of things for a moment.

Before you know it, you find yourself pulling into a parking spot outside the café. You take a deep breath, feeling like a broken record since you are hoping for the best but also expecting the worst. You remember to lock your car as you reach your hand out to grab the door handle. Your mind seems to be anywhere but the present moment, but you try your hardest to focus on everything that is about to unfold right before your own two eyes. You walk into the café and quickly scan the room for Y/N. You look from one corner of the room to the next, Y/N seemingly nowhere in sight. You are about to give up, but then something rather odd happens.

Y/N’s POV:

Everything within the past couple of weeks has been really hectic. You were really thankful for all the help that RM/N was giving you throughout the process of planning your baby shower, but you still couldn’t help but think that someone else should be helping you with all of this. You always thought that you would have your best friend help you with all of this, but at the moment your best friend is Luke and you know for a fact that he would be absolutely awful at planning a baby shower.

You are currently sitting in Calum’s living room adding things to your baby shower registry while RM/N finalizes the details by triple checking that the catering and venue are in order for tomorrow. Both Calum and Luke are in the studio working on a couple songs that the band is supposed to release this year. You are getting used to spending more time with RM/N, which is good because the two of you are ultimately becoming closer. You know Calum would love to hear that. The more time you spend with RM/N the more of Calum you see in her. They spend all of their free time with each other, so you can’t necessarily be surprised that they are rubbing off on each other.

You suddenly are pulled from your current train of thought by the soft ringing of your phone. You quickly look at the caller ID and smile a little as you excuse yourself from the living room.

“Hello?” you say as you answer the phone quickly, a little quicker than you anticipated which left you worried that you now are coming off a little desperate.

“Hi Y/N” you hear Luke’s soft voice reply on the other end. Just simply hearing his voice immediately makes most of your worries disappear.

“What’s up?” you inquire, curious to why he is calling you when he is supposed to be working hard in the studio considering that there is a deadline that he and the band must meet that is quickly approaching.

“Just missed you…” he starts, leaving you to wonder if he is actually going to complete his thought process for once or if he is just going to leave his statement at that.

“I hardly think that constitutes a phone call…you are busy with work! A simple text could have conveyed that message for you, and you wouldn’t have had to step out of the studio to call me,” you respond with a smile very evident in your tone.

“I guess you’re right…I just thought you might need a break from all the baby shower stuff. Calum was telling me how invested RM/N has gotten with the party and from the sound of it I was getting exhausted. And then I thought about how you could be dealing with all of that with a baby added to the equation and the next thing I knew I was dialing your number” Luke states, the concern he has for you and your wellbeing explicitly stated through his word choice.

“I was actually doing okay. RM/N is just triple checking some things and making a few phone calls but all I was doing before you called was laying down on the couch and adding some final things to me and Calum’s registry,” you tell Luke, still dancing around the fact that tomorrow is going to be all about you and Calum and not you and Luke.

“That’s good,” Luke says, “Have you felt her kicking much today? I swear last night she wouldn’t stop kicking me in the back. It’s like she’s out to get me Y/N, I fucking swear on it.”

You laugh at his statement, mainly because it was true. You have mostly gotten used to your little bundle of joy kicking every now and then, but as you get closer to the shower you swear, she is getting excited too. And her excitement leads to her kicking you every chance she gets.

“Only a few kicks here and there. When I was making RM/N and I lunch earlier she was kicking really hard to one of your songs. So hard in fact that I had to sit down for a little bit and RM/N actually helped me finish making us sandwiches,” you explain to Luke, hoping that this information that you just shared with him won’t stress him out.

“Well I’m glad RM/N is there to help you when I can’t be there,” Luke says softly.

“Me too,” you reply and for once you truly are thankful for RM/N being around in order to help you when the boys are busy with their hectic musical careers.

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Calum’s POV:

You get into your car and turn on the ignition as you simultaneously buckle your seatbelt. Today wasn’t necessarily a bad day in the studio, but it was obvious to everyone in the room that your head wasn’t in it today. How could it? You had been working frantically to help RM/N plan this baby shower so everything would be perfect for Y/N and your unborn daughter. You don’t want Y/N to lift a finger, and with that comes the expectation that you would help RM/N with planning the perfect baby shower. Dinosaur themed everything was something that both you and RM/N decided needed to happen, which definitely led you to ordering dinosaur tablecloths on your break from recording today.

It seemed like the rest of the band was getting frustrated with every little thing you ended up doing wrong today, which ultimately led you to be sent home early from the studio. You didn’t mind being sent home early, as you had a lot on your plate and you need to get your shit together, but it did kind of upset you that the guys weren’t as understanding of your current situation as you thought they’d be. Luke seems to get it, mainly because he has also been experiencing this pregnancy first hand, but Michael and Ashton seem to get frustrated easily with you and the plans that you seem to always have with either Y/N about the baby or just hanging out with RM/N.

You try to not let this get under your skin because you know at the end of the day that the four of you are like brothers and will support each other until the end. Still it sucks to have those looming thoughts in the back of your mind like you said or did something wrong that made a lot of people upset with you. This drive home was supposed to be an excuse to clear your head of all of the bad thoughts before you pulled into your driveway and immersed yourself in the world that is RM/N and Y/N putting the finishing touches on the baby shower you are having tomorrow afternoon. Sadly, the drive has done quite the opposite allowing you to only obsess over these negative thoughts and suspicions more than is really necessary.

Calum’s POV:

You just got off the phone with your sister for what seemed like four hours but only ended up being two at best. You didn’t realize how long it had been since the two of you had an actual conversation, and there was a lot for you to catch each other up on. Once you were both caught up on each other’s personal and professional lives, you finally asked Mali for the advice you were searching for. As always, she knew exactly what to do. You were glad you had her in your life at this moment, as she seemed to know step by step what needed to be done in order for you to keep your two favorite girls together.

Moments after you got off the phone with your sister, you decide you should probably head to bed. You wanted to reach out to Y/N as soon as possible, but Mali told you she probably needed some space. You know she probably wouldn’t respond at this hour anyway. RM/N decided to stay at a friend’s house tonight because of all of the commotion, but you really know she just wanted to give you space as well. It has been a while since you had the house all to yourself and you wish you could actually enjoy it instead of wasting the night away by sleeping. The sooner you fall asleep the sooner you could contact both of your girls though, so you quietly made your way to your bedroom in order to change into your pajamas and head to bed.

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~the next day~

Y/N’s POV:

You woke up to Luke’s arm lazily draped across your chest. You can’t say you haven’t pictured a morning like this before, but you never really thought it would be a reality. At least not this soon. You felt yourself have a brief moment of panic, wondering if you and Luke went any farther than kissing last night until you remember you were five and a half months pregnant with Calum’s child. Of course, as soon as you thought about the little angel growing inside of you, she started to kick. You smiled, knowing that somehow some way she knew you were thinking about her. Once you finally got Luke’s heavy arm shimmied off of your body, you walked into your kitchen to find something to eat. It only took you walking out of your bedroom door to remember the shitty situation that brought you and Luke back to your apartment where you shared your first kiss.

You let yourself sleep in a little bit, probably because you were comfortable in someone else’s arms, and it was now almost eleven in the morning. You find some things to make peanut butter toast, something you normally wouldn’t eat for breakfast, but you can tell your baby wants some protein and this is all you can muster since making eggs now makes you nauseous. Making yourself breakfast takes all of five minutes and before you know it you have cleaned your plate as Luke walks into the kitchen.

You smile at him as he returns one to you sheepishly, scratching the back of his head before he joins you at your small island which doubles as a kitchen table. The air is still between the two of you, an awkward silence falling over your heads as you get up to put your plate in the dishwasher. You expected things to be a little weird between the two of you considering everything that went down last night, but the silence was agonizing. You sit back down next to him and whip out your phone. What you were about to do seemed a little too high school for your current age and situation, but it was the only solution your mind could come up with after being awake for not even an hour.

“So are we just gonna give each other the silent treatment after what happened last night…” you text Luke. You try to sneak a look at him as he is reading your text, hoping that he will communicate with you at least over text, making the entire situation a little less awkward for the both of you. You feel a twinge of guilt in the back of your throat because you are communicating with Luke before you even attempt to reach out to Calum, but you think it would be easier to figure things out with the tall boy in your kitchen before you deal with the father of your child who royally fucked up the night before. You see Luke smile a little before he quickly types a response back to you.

“That would be a pretty shitty plan on our end, wouldn’t it?” he adds a couple of silly emojis at the end of this message, trying to lighten the mood. You laugh at your poor attempt at communicating with the boy who could easily be the love of your life, your soulmate forever, but it is way too early to know such a thing as that, so you don’t allow your brain to travel into that seemingly unknown realm of love with him. Not yet at least.

“Do you want any breakfast? I don’t have much at my place, but I’m sure I can find something for you to eat along with the coffee that I know you’ll ask for,” you tell Luke, digging through your pantry for something easy to make him in case he takes you up for something more than his coffee.

“No, I can find something and make it myself. You act like I haven’t been over breakfast before, don’t worry about me… Have you talked to Calum since the whole debacle last night?” Luke questions as he finds the jar of Nutella, he has kept in your pantry for the past couple months. He moves around your kitchen with ease, obviously comfortable with your place and the current situation that the two of you experimented with the night prior. You smile at how comfortable he is around you, especially after the heated night the two of you shared in your living room. You finally gathered up the courage to kiss your best friend and you were so afraid that it was going to ruin everything the two of you had with your wonderful friendship, but so far you were in the clear for any mishaps between the two of you.

“Not yet…I was actually gonna give him a call sometime today to ask him if he wanted to meet up for lunch and talk this whole situation out a little more. I obviously can’t just ignore him until the baby comes, so I thought I better work this out now. I might even invite RM/N to tag along so I can talk to her about everything too. It seems like she is gonna stick around for a while whether or not she’s “the one” so we have to be on the same page about everything as well. Is it okay if I go into my room now and call him now so I don’t forget anything?” you ramble in response to Luke, hoping he respects that you need some privacy in order to talk to Calum.

“I’m so proud of you,” Luke states bluntly, barely looking up from his plate of breakfast as he says the rather shocking statement that caught you slightly off guard.

“What?” you reply, obviously confused by both his bluntness and the nature of this statement.

“I’m proud of you,” Luke responds, “This time last year you wouldn’t have been half as logical and forgiving in this kind of a situation. Not to mention the fact that you are reaching out to him first even though he is the one obviously in the wrong AND you are making an effort to mend things with RM/N even if she won’t be around by the time the baby is born. If I didn’t know any better, I would say you being a mom has already made you mature by like ten years.”

“Are you saying that mentally I am almost 40 years old?” you retort, goofily smiling at the man you so desperately want to be yours. But that is a hoop you have to jump through another day considering the amount of shit that is currently on your plate with Calum and RM/N. Luke smiles back at you and tells you to go call Calum while he cleans up after himself in the kitchen and jumps in the shower. And that is exactly what the two of you do.

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Calum’s POV:

You just got off the phone with Y/N and to your surprise she wants to meet up with you to talk things out like the adults you are. You were to meet her at a local bistro about twenty minutes from your house and she even invited you to bring RM/N along. You were a little caught off guard with how quickly she reached out to you, but her idea for the two of you to talk things out is exactly the thing Mali told you to do when you asked her for advice. You were actually gonna call her up a little later in the day and ask if she wanted to meet you for dinner so you two could talk, but the sooner all of this is cleared up the better.

You were also surprised that she wanted RM/N to be involved in the conversation. You know that RM/N is going to be around for a long time, if not forever, but you really couldn’t tell if the guys and Y/N caught on to that yet or not considering they have all only known about each other for a few days. Obviously, Y/N caught on because she was inviting RM/N along with the two of you to seriously talk things out. You know this conversation will be centered around the baby and how she is due in the coming months and you’re sure that Y/N wants to work out all the details about how involved RM/N wants to be in her life versus how much you want her to be involved and considering how much Y/N wants her to be involved in your daughter’s life. You also mentioned to Y/N that RM/N had helped you with the specifics of her baby shower so you should probably update Y/N on that as well and see who all she wants to be invited to the party and if RM/N should even plan on attending or not. A lot of things are currently up in the air so this lunch should clear a lot of details up.

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Y/N’s POV:

Not even an hour after your daughter oh so lovingly kicked you a total of three times, twice for you and once for her father, you were back on the subject that was stressing you out in the first place. You knew that you probably should not be freaking out as much as you currently were regarding Calum having a female roommate, but you also know Calum just a little too well to think that she was just a roommate. The fact that he was waiting to introduce her to you and Luke, and the guys obviously means he cares about her and did not want to fuck anything up. You admired how much he already seemed to care about her, but you can’t help but think that she will take away from your little family. It’s not that you care for Calum in a romantic way, but you are worried about how present he will be with all the baby stuff if he is more worried about fucking his roommate.

Luke and Calum are still bickering over the subject in hushed tones down the hall thinking that you won’t hear them because of their attempted secrecy. You can practically hear every word that is coming out of their angry whispers. You now know that Luke is advocating for Calum to be there for you and the baby by any means necessary considering he is the reason the three of us are in this current situation today and he warns Calum not to cause another “mistake” as he put it with regards to his roommate and the romantic involvement he most likely has with her.

You decide to walk even further away from that hostile environment by going into the guest bedroom and looking through some of the baby stuff you have already purchased for your daughter. You know you still have a few months until she is here, but you got started on the nursery and some other baby stuff out of pure excitement. As you organize the items in the room, your mind starts to wander. You wonder if Calum’s roommate is nice, if she is skinnier than you (which she is…considering you are four going on five months pregnant), what she is doing in LA, amongst other things. You really want to meet her just to see what she is about, but if your conversation with Calum earlier is any indication of how that conversation is going to go, you might not get the option of meeting her. You shake your head, hoping the thought you just had would get out of your head quicker that way, and you continue to sort through the pile of baby things you have accumulated throughout this pregnancy thus far.

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Luke’s POV:

“Well, are you at least going to let them meet each other?” you ask Calum blatantly. You already know what he is going to say, but you want to hear it come from his mouth again for shits and giggles.

“I don’t know yet,” Calum replies, “it’s a lot to figure out and I don’t necessarily need an angry pregnant lady on my hands.”

“Dude, you are sooooo past that,” you respond, knowing Y/N fairly well yourself and easily identifying what makes her tick, “it would be easier on your part to just let Y/N meet RM/N. That way she will know who may be a part of your daughter’s life, if things are really getting as serious as you claim they are.”

“I know…but I just don’t want her to barge into my house and ask to meet RM/N right then and there. I know I have kind of kept her from you guys for some time, but it wasn’t for nothing. I really do care about her…probably way more than is healthy for a normal human being but whatever. I just don’t want Y/N to feel abandoned on replaced or anything like that. I am going to be here for her and the baby and anything the two of them ever need or desire…” Calum trails off after rambling on for a while.

You understand where he is coming from, but you also could not relate entirely to his situation. You have had feelings for Y/N for a while, but she was never a secret from the other guys. In fact, the first time you met Y/N was when you were with the other three, grabbing coffee from a nearby coffee and bookshop that Calum insisted all four of you check out because it was going to be his new hang out as he was moving into his newly purchased house. But you surely know what it feels like to love someone with every inch of your being and you could tell Calum felt this way about RM/N just by the way he was talking about her and the worry he had on his face when he found you sitting in his living room talking to her the night before.

“Just promise me you won’t fuck with Y/N’s emotions any more than you already have with this baby hormone shit she is currently dealing with…and please allow them to meet soon if not tonight because if you make her wait any longer she is going to go crazy imaging the worst things possible,” you explain to Calum, hoping he understand the severity of the problem he has created and how it will impact Y/N and the stress she is inevitably going to put on the baby because of this peculiar situation.

He nods in response as the two of you have finally completed your conversation that consisted mainly of hushed angry whispers and a lot of disapproving glances that the two of you exchanged in the past few minutes. You head back into the living room, assuming that Calum was going to take the reins on this next conversation the three of you were about to share regarding the predicament at hand.

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Calum’ POV:

You really got yourself into quite a jam now. Obviously, you expected that Y/N and RM/N would meet one day, but you weren’t necessarily expecting it to be today. You shoot your roommate a quick text to warn her that some friends were coming over before you explain the game plan to Luke and Y/N. This was not a soccer match with plays and positions, but you went about it the same way since there were a lot of obstacles and touchy subjects you had to dance around once you reached your house and those who are inside of it. There will have to be a delicate balance between both the timeline of things and the whole “oh yeah, she’s pregnant” type of thing. You are worried about the outcome of your two worlds colliding, but you also know it is now or never.

“How about we head to my house so everyone can meet everyone else?” you suggest, hoping that Luke and Y/N will comply and follow you to your house to let this all unfold.

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Y/N’s POV:

Luke is driving the two of you to Calum’s house as you mess with the aux cord and what songs you were going to play for your short drive. It took maybe 15 minutes to get from your place to Calum’s which gave you enough time to play three or four songs. You spent a while picking which songs you were going to que up, wanting to get your point across about your current back and forth romantic situation with Luke. You did not want to come off as desperate, but now that you know that Luke knows that you and Calum are not romantically invested in one another maybe that means that he will finally make a move. After some careful consideration, you decide on playing If I’m Lucky by State Champs. You felt a little awkward playing a song by a band that Luke and the guys have toured with before, but you hope that Luke just appreciated you filling the silence of his car with some decent music and did not waste his mental capacity on something as minute as who is singing the words you were yearning to tell him yourself but could not find the right words to articulate your message in the correct fashion.

“If you stay or if you go I’m right there with you but you know that I’m looking for more than just a pretty smile and if I’m lucky you could stay for a while but…” the song sings softly through the speakers of his car, the words as melodic as you remembered.

You did not want to force anything between the two of you, nothing works out in your favor if it was forced and you are a strong believer in everything happening for a reason, so you decide to leave the situation up to fate itself. As cheesy as it sounds, you really do not want to ultimately ruin the good friendship that you and Luke share for this whole romantic thing to not work out the way you want to. You would rather be alone forever than lose a friendship as important as Luke’s. You glance over at him a few times as the song plays to see if he is looking your way or if he is thinking intently.

You could always tell when he was thinking intently because he would unintentionally scrunch up his nose as he concentrated on whatever was on his mind and it was one of your favorite things about him. You could see a slight flicker in his eye, like he wanted to say something, but did not think it was the right time to get into whatever was on his mind at the time. You let it slide this time, hoping that the time will come when the two of you could stop dancing around your feelings and just embrace them instead. You wanted nothing more than to be in Luke’s strong arms in this moment with him whispering into your ear that everything is okay and everything is going to work out for the best, but you know that neither of you are in a position to be that way currently. You inhale and exhale slowly, accepting the fact that nothing is going to happen between the two of you right now. Maybe soon, but not quite yet.

Before you knew it the two of you were pulling into the familiar driveway of Calum’s house, where you saw the grey car that must belong to his roommate parked inside of his garage. You inhale sharply, trying to prepare yourself in any way that you could before meeting someone that could easily be the wicked witch of LA based on the information you have about Calum and his exes. Luke is by your side quicker than when he left it, slightly lacing his hand in yours as the three of you enter Calum’s place.

You haven’t been here since the night at the club, but everything seemed to be exactly where you left it, which surprised you slightly because you thought the roommate would make the place look a little less like a twenty something year old male threw some decorations here and there and called it a home. Nevertheless, you walked into the living room, gripping Luke’s hand the moment the two of you took a seat on the couch, waiting for Calum to come back from getting his roommate in order for him to introduce everyone. This all felt more awkward and forced than the Dinner Party episode of the Office and you wished for nothing more than some dumb song to distract you from the weird air that seemed to be surrounding this entire situation that Calum has put you all in.

She walks into the room with an awkward smile plastered across her face as she sits in the love seat adjacent to where you and Luke have settled for the moment, extending her hand to shake yours and formally introduce herself. She opens her mouth to speak and she allows the words to slip off her tongue with ease.