"So, tell me girl!" Leah nudged Grace side, while she just looked back at her in question.
"Tell you what?"
Grace was sat beside a beaming Leah in Harvey's parent's garden, watching on as a group of the family played football. Leah had been minding her own business, bouncing her youngest son, Bryson, on her knee however, that had very quickly changed. Now, her attention was fully on Grace and she looked like she was fully up to something.
"Tell me when you and Harv are gonna have a baby!" Leah announced so casually. "El and I usually get pregnant at the same time as I absolutely hate being pregnant alone, but considering she seems to be done for a while, I need a partner for my next attempt at getting a girl."
Grace couldn't help but break into laughter at Leah's comment. If it had have been any other girlfriend of Harvey's sat here, they probably would have run a mile. However, as Grace had got to know Leah, she had grown to love her too. She was absolutely crazy but in the best way!
"Er..." Grace chuckled, glimpsing from Leah to Harvey in the distance. "That's not something we have spoken about..."
"Fuck! What are you hanging about for? You guys need to get a move on!" Leah grinned. "It's a Lawrence tradition to have lots of kids so you need to start early or you'll be in your 50's and still popping them out. I couldn't be dealing with that."
"Oh my God, Leah!" Grace's laughs grew louder and although they were genuine, they were also giving her some time to stall while she thought of how to respond.
"Well? Look, Harvey Lawrence is totally ready! He loves it."
Grace's gaze followed the direction Leah was pointing to where Harvey was currently chasing Leah and Kian's son, Brooks, and Ellie's daughter Macie. As he reached them, he swept them both off their feet before being pounced on by the rest of his nieces and nephews, causing him to come tumbling to the floor. Kian was in fits of laughter and then Grace caught the huge grin across Harvey's face, showing how just how happy he was.
"He does love kids..." Grace trailed off, more to herself than anything else but Leah had heard and she was very excited about it.
"Exactly! To be honest, he should be pestering you for kids now but I guess he's scared you'll say no." Leah began talking really fast once again, something that made Grace have to listen incredibly intently to know what she was saying. "Their dad was always the one pestering Jess for more kids, Ellie was the same with James and yeah, Kian was just the odd one out, so I always have to pester him buuut you're lucky with Harv, you won't even have to beg, he's told me how much he wants kids...."
"Leah!" Grace attempted to encourage her to pause for breath but it clearly wasn't going to work.
"God how fun would it be to have even more babies around! We'd all help you out too. Jess and Jack are amazing for that, they always have our babies if Harvey or Mia can't."
"Leah, breathe girl, breathe!" Grace laughed as she watched even Bryson looking a little dazed by his mum's rambling as he pulled on her t-shirt.
"Sorry, sorry... I just get really excited, you know?"
"I know! But I don't even know if I want more kids... having Brinley had been enough hard work."
The expression that crossed Leah's face in that moment was as though she had just seen an alien walk into the garden. She was in utter shock that Grace could possibly be against the idea of creating a football team-sized collection of children. It would be against the 'Lawrence tradition'.
"I would totally give you a lecture of why you need lots of kids right now but I will leave that to Harvey Lawrence. He has one job and I know that he'll convince you." Leah grinned as she pressed her lips to Bryson's head.
Although Grace absolutely loved Leah and found her over-enthusiasm quite amusing, the talk of babies was a little terrifying. She knew that being with a Lawrence did come with one huge expectation and that was that you would have lots of kids.
They had all done it, without fail. If you didn't do it, you would be the couple that stood out like a sore thumb in the family.
Grace knew that Harvey wanted kids, he absolutely adored his nieces and nephews. However, Grace hadn't really thought about whether building a large family was what she was prepared to do. It was definitely a conversation she knew would come up at some point and considering Leah had already been the one to kickstart that, it was very likely it would only continue from here...
