Calum's PoV

The moment I'd woken up and noticed Poppy wasn't in the bed, I instantly panicked. Rushing around, I finally found her in the front room, just ending a phone call. When I'd asked if everything was okay there was hesitation on her face, but then that smile was back and she'd told me Sam and her were discussing times and dates that were suitable. I smiled back, nodding as I walked over and enveloped her into a hug, kissing her on the head as she wrapped her arms around me.

"I'm glad he is able to try and fit me in too." I said softly, "I don't want to miss it all like I did last time." My hands slid down to the baby bump which I stroked as we stood there. It was a content moment which made us both chill before she broke away reluctantly.

"Cal..." she sighed, "as much as I'd love to stay like this forever, you're going to be late for the car." She nodded towards the clock which was showing me I only had twenty minutes to get ready. Dammit. I sighed heavily as I nodded, kissing her once more as I headed to the bathroom to get ready. I wish I could be more like her - a morning person who was up and alert way before I could even dream of it. She didn't even need coffee to get her through the morning which was the opposite of how I survived early wake ups. Today we were doing an interview at ABC so we were heading out early for hair and makeup, soundcheck and then the interview promoting our newest song which we were then going to play on the show live. This album felt perfect, like everything we'd worked towards was finally achieved. We'd been experimenting along the way, with every album having a new sound that we were testing and they were always well received so this one made us a little nervous despite how proud we felt. The album was completely different to how our first couple of albums sounded, the third leaning us in the right direction to get to this. This interview was going to change everything. This finally meant that our hard work was going to be out for the world to hear, one song first and the album later. We were ecstatic.

By the time I'd got ready, Poppy was ready too and sitting watching tv. I took in the sight in front of me for a moment, proud of everything she'd gone through and achieved and now we were just a few months from having our baby with us. She was a warrior and I tried to make sure I told her everyday.

"There's my heroine." I said, startling her as she quickly whipped her head round towards me. She let out a stupid smile and pouted at me.

"You know you don't have to keep saying it, Cal." She swatted my arm with her hand gently.  I let out a goofy smile.

"I'm still waiting on my heroic nickname." I tried and she let out a laugh.

"I'll think about it today." She grinned, pulling me forward by my shirt as she quickly kissed me. "Good luck today baby, I know you'll do amazingly." With that, I kissed her once more and headed for the door, knowing that this show was about to change everything for us. Once again we'd be back in the limelight, back in the press and on the news. I really hoped we could handle it.
As soon as I got into the car, my hands longed for her touch. I missed her being around us, travelling with us and holding my hand every car journey. We'd done it since the beginning so not having her here felt weird, like I was missing a piece of me. The car stopped at Ashton's next, then Michael's and finally Luke's before we started the long journey to the studio. Ash was quick to hand out some travel cups of coffee that he had brought along with a thermos flask.

"Thanks man. I can't tell you how much this is needed!" I said, the exhaustion obvious in my voice. Ashton gave me a sympathetic smile knowing just what I'd been going through since I'd last seen him. Luke and Mike were none the wiser though, so they let out laughs and began to joke.

"What, Poppy making you paint the nursery?" Luke chuckled.

"Nah, probably started nesting. Crystal was cleaning the place like three times a day!" Michael giggled. We all smiled as he got his phone out, ready to gush about his baby girl. Through all the problems we'd been having over the last few weeks I'd barely managed to talk to Michael or ask him how he, Crystal and India were doing.

"Is it any better now?" I laughed, sipping my coffee with a smile. Michael shook his head.

"It's funny, now we just discover random baby vomit on us we didn't even know about!" Luke pointed at Mike's shoulder and he instantly looked, swatting Luke's hand when he realised he was messing around. After the laughter settled, Mike passed his phone to me. "You've got all this to prepare for."
Placing the cup between my knees I grabbed his phone, looking at the photos of him, Crystal and India together. She looked so tiny and fragile, her skin a porcelain while whilst her hair was dark and messy like Michael's. She had big dark eyes and was dressed in a cute pair of pink leggings and a tiny band tee with a hairband taming her hair. Crystal looked great; happy, healthy and content. Michael looked over the moon, cradling India and looking at her like he'd never be any happier. It looked picture perfect.

"I'm so happy for you Mike. These photos are beautiful, India is beautiful." I handed the phone back. "Congratulations again! Sorry we haven't been able to come round and visit yet, it's been hectic with the honeymoon, pregnancy and now-" Both mine and Ashton's eyes widened as I stopped myself from saying the end of that sentence. Luke and Michael's attentions were on me in full, waiting for me to tell them what I meant. I gulped down nervously as I looked at them, knowing there was no way I could hide this from my brothers for much longer - yet I also knew Poppy probably wouldn't be happy if I told them. She knew Ashton knew because I'd forced him into the room with me, but was it fair to keep the others out of the loop? I glanced over at Ash, hoping he'd offer me some sort of help but all he did was look away. He knew I needed to make this decision and I needed to do it now.