I am in love with my roommate. Or in other words boyfriend aka Heath aka the Big Boss Man. I like to call him that. Today I finally get to say that I live with Heath. How fun does that sound? It's perfect.

Dad cried a few tears this morning but it's only a couple blocks away, it's not like I'm moving to Canada or something. Plus it's not like he'll be completely alone. Apparently dad has been seeing someone for some time. I have no idea how I didn't notice.

She's five years younger than him and has a thirteen year old son. Dad says he loves her already but he can't love anyone until I meet them first. She's coming over today with her son, along with Sarah and CJ.

I pretty much invited everyone I knew to help me move my things out of the house so that I wouldn't have to do any of the heavily lifting work myself. Mom said she would drop off the kids but then be on her way.

My relationship with mom has went downhill ever since I told her I wouldn't be attending college. She blames my dad for not giving me discipline but at this point I just tell her to shut her trap up.

Lola and Mateo are coming over too and Duke, apparently Lola has something very important to tell me. Must be so important that she couldn't just tell me over the phone. My guess is that she robbed a bank and can't hold in the big secret to herself so she's deciding to break and tell me. But that's just a guess.

I've just been sitting on the kitchen stool drooling over Heath as he lifted the heavy boxes and put them into his car. He looks good doing anything. His muscles were bulging out even in his long sleeved shirt. He's so dreamy.

"Who are we staring at?" I turn around and see Duke right there. He's eating a bag of chips like usual as he looks in the direction I was just staring at.

"Heath, who else?"

"I didn't know if you were dreaming about the other dude." He nods his head over to my dad.

"Duke, that other dude is my dad. Don't be weird." I furrow my brows and bring my gaze to the bag of potato chips in his hands.

"Where'd you get this?" I ask him, looking at him skeptically.

"The pantry. It was wide open. Well after I opened it but still. I just helped myself." He points to the pantry.

"All this moving makes me hungry." He jokes, I snatch the bag away from him.

"It's basically still my house so I can have some." I get some chips from the bag and put them into my mouth.

"Thanks for fucking helping." Heath glares at the both of us as he aggressively puts a box down.

"No problem, princess. It's much more convenient to just sit back and admire you do it all." Duke says making me laugh.

"You missed a few boxes." I point to one behind him but he just gives me a death stare.

"Y'know don't worry about it, I'll get it." I hop off my stool and attempt to pick up the damn box. Gosh, what did I put in here.

I was struggling to pick up the damn box even with two hands before Heath comes over and picks it up for me. Show off.

"See? This is why I leave it all to you. You do it best" I tell him and pat him on the back before going outside.

Just as I walk out, I notice moms van coming in the drive way. Immediately Sarah and CJ get out the car and run up to me. Sarah's blonde hair is up in a pony tail and CJ looks like he didn't even bother to brush his.

"Thalia! Mom said that she wanted to talk to you." They both spoke at the same time.

"I was gonna say it, you du-"

I walk away from them before I got stuck in the middle of it all. I walk over to the van where mom had the window rolled down. Her dark hair was in a messy bun and she had that same exhausted look on her face.

"What's all this?" She asks, looking around to everyone moving stuff. I literally told her but like always she wasn't listening.

"I'm moving out. I'm living with my boyfriend." I explain again and she looks around the yard for someone.

"Well when were you going to introduce me to him?" She surprised me by asking. I didn't think she would even care to meet Heath.

"Really? Okay. I'll go get him." I run back inside the house where Heath was talking to CJ about something. I push CJ out the way and get his attention.

"My mom wants to meet you. So come on, she doesn't like to wait." I take a hold of his hand and it feels sweaty. Poor Heath was moving things all on his own.

"I thought we don't like her" He lets me drag him even though he looked a bit sweaty, I think mom would like him.

"She's still my mom though. Act cool." I walk up to the van where mom was now looking in my direction.

Her eyes widen the second they went on Heath. She's just like me. She got out of the car and started patting her shirt down, and touching up her hair.

"Hi, I'm Thalia's mother. Sorry I look a mess." She puts the front strands of hair behind her ears and holds out a hand for him to shake. Well.

Heath looks at it but doesn't move to shake it. I nudge him and gesture for him to shake it in which he rolls his eyes and quickly shakes her hand before crossing his arms.

"This is Heath. We met at a coffee shop and fell in love at first sight." I hold onto his arms. If I told her how we actually met she'd be concerned.

I guess even Heath had an affect on her, he's making her forget she has a husband. A baby daddy.

"It's very nice to meet you Heath. Feel free to come over our house anytime for dinner. We have the space." She chuckles and I realize this is the first time I've heard her laugh.

She's giggling too much for my liking. Why is she flirting with my boyfriend? She's my mom. That's weird.

"Don't you have dishes to clean and other mouths to feed mom? Get to it now. Wouldn't want to keep you from your very busy schedule." I practically push her back into the car.

"Right. I'll be on my way now. So good to meet you Heath. Buh bye, the kids and I have missed you Thalia." She waves goodbye as she finally drives away.

"Why do you have to be so pretty for? Got my mom giggling and twirling her hair." I scoff and shake my head.

Heath smiles and wraps an arm around my waist.

It's just his charm I guess.

"She doesn't even act like that around her own husband." I speak as I walk back in the house.

"I still don't like her." Heath whispers to me. He knows how bad she's treated me in the past, and even now when she was kind to him he still doesn't like her. That's a keeper.

"You're not the only one. Now get back to work." I clap my hands together. Looking around Duke and my dad are chatting together which I'm curious to know what the two of them would talk about.

Sarah and CJ were out in the yard for now, checking my new bike. Something Their dirty little paws shouldn't touch.

With only a few more things to pack, we were half way done. And that's on Heath who's basically been doing it all himself. Apparently dad said he was turning my room into his art gallery, whatever that means.

The door bell rings and in comes more guests, my move in day was a celebration everyone needed to come to. Lola and Mateo stand there, I hadn't seen the both of them in some time although Lola and I texted frequently.

"Lola! Have you come to tell me your very important secret? What's so important you couldn't text me it?" I let her come in and Mateo greets me before walking over to Duke and my dad.

"Okay, this is serious. Promise you won't say anything?" She sits on the couch and sits criss cross apple sauce.

I sit right across from her and nod my head.

"You don't even have to worry. Now spit it out already" I was eager to know. I loved secrets, but I'm not the best at keeping them.

" You know how I've been telling you how I haven't gotten my period? Well my mom made me get a pregnancy test and it came back positive." She explains quietly.

"Pregnant?!?!?!" My jaw? Dropped. And I might have shouted that out louder than I intended.

"Pregnant? Who's pregnant?" Duke butts in and walks over here. Mateo tries to stop him but Duke beats him to it.

"Heath, get in here. Someone's pregnant!" He shouts and I slap my self on my forehead. Stupid.

Me and my big mouth.

"No, Duke. Don't call Hea-"

"What is this about someone being pregnant? Thalia?" Dad now interferes and I don't know what to say.

"You had one job Thalia." Lola slaps me on the knee, lightly. Oops. The way I see it, This was not my fault.

"What happened?" Heath comes down the stairs and looks at me, scanning my whole self.

"Thalia's pregnant." Duke points fingers and I give up on this.

"Woah, I didn't say that." I shake my head and look at Heath to see him staring at me.

"Thalia's pregnant? Already?" CJ walks in the room with Sarah right behind him.

Everyone was now in the living room, staring at me. I look at Lola who was looking at the ground, I look at Mateo to see him looking at Lola. So I'm kind of in a difficult situation right now. What do they want me to say?

"The rumors are true." I stand up and hear a dramatic gasp come from Duke.

"Thalia, it's o-" Lola gets interrupted by my dad.

"How did this happened?" My dad sits on the couch and looks shocked. Does he really not know?

"Well when two people love each other very much, they-"

"That's not what I meant." He stops me and I bite my lip.

"Yup. It's true. I am very pregnant. I got a baby in the oven." I point to my stomach but the room has fell silent.

In the silent room, a break of laughter breaks and it wasn't a laugh I've heard before. This one was deep and one I could listen to forever. Heath just laughed.

"You're not fucking pregnant." Heath shakes his head at me and smirks.

"I'm not?" I question, how does he know that. So what we've never had sex? What does that matter.

"I thought you guys said you haven't done it?" Duke blurts out of the blue.

"She's not the one who's pregnant. I am. Shit." Lola admits and sighs.

"Surprise." Mateo purses his lips and sits by her.

"I'm so glad you admitted it. Pretending to be pregnant is hard. I was about to stuff a pillow under here." I flick my shirt and smoothen the ends.

"So you're not pregnant?" Dad asks, looking more cheerful.

"No. At least not that I know of. I could be. But I'm not but I always could be." I point a finger at him.

"Yes or no?" He asks again.

"Maybe."

"She isn't." Heath puts his hand on my shoulder. But what does he know.

"You guys are having a baby? Good mother fucking luck." Duke pats Mateo on the back before returning to the kitchen.

"Where do babies come from?" Sarah asks and I look away so that I'm not obligated to answer her.

"Dad! Your girlfriends here." I shout to change the subject and I open the door.

The lady was short, she had the darkest hair I've ever seen and wore clothes that fell loosely on her. She was pretty, I'll give her that. Her hand was on a boy, short yet taller than her. He looked like an exact copy of his mother except he had brown eyes instead of blue.

"Thalia, this is Ciara. And this is my daughter Thalia. And all her friends." Dad introduced me, should I go in for a hand shake?

"It's nice to finally meet you, you're even more beautiful than he mentioned." She smiles politely at me. I like her.

"Thanks, I get that a lot." I brush it off and make eye contact Heath who just smirks at me.

"This is my son, Dylan." She tells him to say hi and he does with a forced tone.

"Hello, I'm Duke. I'm 25 and I love kids. They really hold a special place in my heart." Duke pushes me out of the way and shakes Ciara's hand.

"That's amazing." She smiles at him before moving over to be with my dad.

"Stop flirting with her. My dad loves her so don't ruin this, he needs love in his life." I spoke sternly and with a bit of feistiness in me.

"Damn, okay. I'll back off. She has a kid anyways. Hate those things" He crosses his arms.

I spot Heath in the back of the room, observing everything and walk over to him. I wrap my arms around his torso and look up at him.

"Should we get out of here already?" I ask him, I couldn't help but want to be alone with just him.

"And do what?" He trails his finger along my jaw.

"I don't know, sleep, watch movies, other stuff." I shrug. I'm slowly convincing him.

"Let's do other stuff." He nudges me and I get the hint. Those mischievous dark blue eyes never fail to get me all horned up.

"Or you can help me unpack! I wanna fit my clothes right next to yours." I was mostly excited for the huge closet space. I'm basically living in a mansion.

He kisses my temple and wraps his arms around him, squeezing tightly. I return his hug and rub his back.

"Let's go home." He tells me before pulling away.

My heart flutters at the thought that his own home had now become our home.

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A\N

They're finally moving in together.🤧😍

I believe we're coming to the end soon 🥲

Thank you guys for reading🫶🏼🫶🏼🫶🏼

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