"Baby, are you getting up? We're all gonna go down to the beach." I faintly hear Ace's voice.

"I will later, I'm really tired A." I replied while turning over. I'm starting to not get much sleep because my bump is getting bigger and it's getting a bit uncomfortable now.

"Alright, baby. Yell if you need anything." He said, while leaning down, placing a kiss on my forehead, then rubbing my belly and lifting my shirt up just above my belly.

"What are you doing Ace?" I asked while shivering a bit at the cool air on my belly.

"Good morning baby, its daddy. I hope your being good for mummy in there and not causing her too much trouble. I love you baby, be good for daddy while I'm gone." He was laying across the bed with his head in front of my belly. He does this all the time and I love when he does it, I always get these little weird feelings in my belly, but I'm not sure what it is.

"Ace bro c'mon! Let's go!" I hear Jackson from downstairs calling out to Ace.

"Coming man!" Ace calls out while quickly kissing my belly and my lips before saying goodbye and running out of the room shutting the door. 2 minutes later I hear the front door close letting me know that they've all gone to the beach.

I try to fall back asleep for the next 10 minutes, but I lay wide awake in Ace & I's bed. Eventually I decide to get up and just put on my bikini that I have in the walk in closet and head down to the beach with everyone else.

Walking into my closet I picked out a neon pink bikini and I also got out my nice hat that goes with my bikini because of the pink ribbon around the hat. I left my hair down, since I couldn't be bothered putting it up and if I did my hat would be all weird.

Going into the bathroom, I sat down on the edge of the bath and started putting sunscreen on my legs, arms, belly, chest, shoulders, neck and face. I was gonna get Ace to do my back for me since I can't reach it. Grabbing a towel and the sunscreen, I walked out of the room and down each set of stairs and into the kitchen, grabbing myself a drink of orange juice, two granola bars and a small ball of Teriyaki Beef Stir-Fry.

What I'm a pregnant girl and I'm hungry, don't judge.

After finishing my food and drink, I left my towel and sunscreen in the kitchen on the bench while I quietly ran to the toilet that's down the hall, as well as the bathroom and laundry. I literally sprinted to the toilet because I was gonna pee my pants any second, no joke. I didn't go too fast tho cause of the baby.

After 5 minutes, I went back to the kitchen, grabbed the towel and sunscreen and started walking towards the front door. Before closing it, I make sure it was unlocked, so we can come in whenever we need too. No one is gonna break in, since the house is on a private part of the beach the Alex's parents own.

Heading down to the beach, I see all of my friends playing around in the water enjoying themselves and having so much fun together. That's probably the best thing about my friends, we're all so close it's not funny. I just hope that once this baby comes nothing will change and we'll always be together and hang out and come here every holidays and over the summer holidays we do every year.

"Autumn! Glad you could make it!" I snapped out of my daze and saw that it was Connor who was talking to me.

"Hey Connor, yeah well I didn't want to miss out on all the fun!" I replied while walking over to Connor and giving him a hug.

"C'mon shorty. Let's go over to where all our stuff is." He nodded his head over to the beach and then we both started walking side by side towards the beach, where everyone was yelling, screaming and running around enjoying themselves.

"So are you enjoying yourself?" I asked while we were walking, it's a long walk to the beach, but it's not like one path full of bushes. It's actually open fully. So just a few grass bits and then full sand everyone, so the house is just in front of the beach but a fair bit away because of when the tide comes in.

"Hell yeah. It's amazing! These are like my favourite times of the year, I get to just have a peace and quiet holidays with all of my best friends." He smiled while he was talking and I just chuckled at him.

"That's good, I'm the same. I love these holidays." I replied while smiling so big talking about them.

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"Ace! Can you put sunscreen on my back please?" I asked sweetly while smiling up at him. God he should put a short on, I'm having a lot of trouble keep my eyes off of his body! I mean, he has an 8 pack and I bloody love abs, no joke. He knows how much I love them and how much they're my weakness and he uses it against me.

"Sure baby. Stand up because I don't want you laying on your belly." He explained while grabbing my hand and helping me stand up, turning me around once I was up with my back facing the beach.

"Why are you guys so freaking cute? I mean isn't that unfair!" I heard Madelyn's voice from behind Ace & I.

"I don't know, maybe because we just have a special talent of being cute together?" Ace questioned while looking over at her while rubbing sunscreen into my back.

"Well, you need to stop! Because I'm getting really jelly that I don't have what you guys have." She pouted in a funny way while she was talking.

"Well, you could always have that with Nicholas, Mad." I spoke while winking and grubby cheekily at her. As soon as I mention Nic's name her whole face turned into a bloody tomato!

"W-wh-what are you o-on ab-out? Pfft, no! I don't even l-l-like him." She stuttered. Huh yeah right she didn't like him.

"Are you sure about that? Cause your a little red Mads." I teased while smiling evilly at her. She turned even more redder at my comment which proved my point.

"Okay, so maybe a little! But that doesn't mean anything! I mean it's not like he likes me-" Ace cut her off halfway through her sentence by snorting at her comment. We both looked at him in confusion on why he did that.

"Oh Mads, you really have no idea." He commented sarcastically and then took off running towards the water and started goofing around with the boys. Typical boys they are.

"What was that about?" Madelyn asked confused while looking at me hoping I would know, which I don't!

"I don't know, don't look at me. C'mon let's just forget about it and go into the water." I replied while looping my arms through hers as we started walking over near the water and sat down on the sand. The water would go all the way past where we we're sitting so we were in the water still.

Eventually the rest of the girls came and sat with us and we all started talking, laughing and just being our crazy selves.

"Honey, your bump is the cutest thing in the world!" Riley coos while leaning over Abigail and Lilianna and touching my belly.

"Thank you." I spoke while smiling down at my baby bump where my little baby peanut was growing.

"So when do you find out what your having Bub?" Lili asked while looking over at me smiling. All the girls turned to look at me interested on hearing the answer.

"We don't find out until I'm 4 months, so another 2 and a half weeks." I explained while rubbing my belly a little at the thought of finding out if my baby is a boy or a girl.

"Oooo, I'm so excited! What do you think it's gonna be Hun?" Bethany asked.

"I'm happy with either to be honest Beth. As long as my baby is healthy then that's all that matters." I spoke the truth, but left off a little bit not wanting to say just yet.

"That sounds pretty good. Well I want you to have a girl!" Abigail spoke up with a huge smile on he face.

"No way, she's gonna have a boy." Riley speaks up.

"Girl." Madelyn put in. Of course she'll pick girl.

"Girl." Bethany also jumped in.

"Boy." Lili pops in. Well so fair its 3 people who want me to have a girl and 2 people who want me to have a boy.

"Hey boys! Come here for a second yeah?" Madelyn calls out to the boys who are all playing the game chicken. Ace, Jackson and AJ hop down off of Alex, Conner and Nicholas and then they all ran over to us. They all sat down in front of us.

"What's up?" AJ asked while running his fingers through his knotty hair.

"Oh nothing. Ace what do you want your baby to be?" Bethany asked while looking at him.

"Well I wouldn't mind either way. I mean I would like a girl, so then I'll have a little princess and I can protect her from all of those boys that break her heart, but I would also like a boy, so I can play football with him, teach him how to respect girls and then he can always look after his little sister. So I guess you could say that I'm happy with whichever one we get as long as our baby is healthy." He explained while looking at my belly for a second, then moving over to me, bending his head down and kissing my belly, to which all the girls awwwed at.

"You're so sweet Ace." All the girls cooed at the same time to which the boys all groaned and Ace just chuckled shaking his head a little.

"So Jackson, what do you want Ace and Autumn to have?" Bethany asked while looking at Jackson for his answer.

"Boy." He answered straight away, well that way quick. Now it's a tie.

"AJ how bout you?" Beth asked turning to AJ.

"Girl." He spoke up while smiling at Ace.

"Alex?" Beth turned to Alex.

"Girl." He answered and chuckled at how this was going.

"Nicholas?" Beth directed her attention to him.

"Girl." He answered. Well this is uneven completely!

"Connor?" Beth asked while looking at him.

"Boy." He spoke while smiling over at us. Well now the results is 6 for a girl and 4 for a boy.

"Most of us want you to have a girl!" Madelyn squealed while clapping her hands together and everyone laughed.

"Alright! Here's the deal! If it's a girl: Lili, Riley, Connor and Jackson. You all have to.... buy us all a new phone!" Nicholas spoke up with an evil grin looking at Lilianna, Riley, Connor and Jackson.

"Alright deal. If it's a boy: Nicholas, Alex, AJ, Bethany, Madelyn and Abigail. You all have to.... buy each of us a huge flat screen tv." Jackson put in while looking at the six of them.

"Why are they betting on what our baby is gonna be?" Ace whispered in my ear while leaning over and resting his head on my shoulder.

"I honestly don't know, but just let them go. This is obviously fun for them." I replied while kissing his head and the running my hands through his hair.

"Deal!" All of them screamed at each other. God help us, which whatever our baby is gonna be.

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"Truth or Dare Alex?" Riley called while looking at him cheekily. It's now night time and we are all still on the beach sitting around a camp fire and roasting marshmallows while playing truth or dare. I'm sitting in between Ace's legs which his arms around me and both of his hand resting on my baby bump rubbing his thumb up and down against my belly.

"Ahh truth." He spoke while taking a sip of his Coke. We don't have alcohol, cause 1) were underage. 2) I can't handle being around alcohol, I get nauseous just talking about it.

"Is it true that you like Madelyn?" Riley asked while smiling innocently like she hadn't just let out a secret on purpose.

"U-uh... maybe." He spoke nervously looking down and fiddling with his thumbs, he was even blushing!

"Anyway, Autumn, Truth or Dare?" Alex turned to me after a few minutes of looking down. I guess he was calming his nerves down.

"Truth." I answered. I'm hardly ever one to pick Dare, if I do it's very rare.

"How long have you been in love with Ace for?" He question and as soon as the words left his mouth, everyone's eyes were on me waiting for an answer. Ace looked the most interested in the answer it was pretty funny.

"7 years, so since I was 9." I answered while blushing about revealing that's how long I've been in love with him for.

"Wow...that's so adorable Bub!" Madelyn cooed while smiling at me in awe.

"Baby, you've been in love with me that long?" Ace asked while smiling at me so big I swear his mouth was gonna fall off.

"Yeah I have, I've never stopped." I spoke while looking up at him.

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