"Emma, are you finished with your homework?"
"Yeah!"
"Will you take out the trash please?"
"Yes mama."
I heard Shayne walk through the front door.
"I'm home!"
"In the kitchen."
He walked into the kitchen and gave me a kiss on the cheek.
"Dinner smells wonderful." He said.
"Thank you."
He looked at me.
"Everything okay?" He asked.
"Yeah." I said shrugging.
"Honey?"
I bit my lip but stopped chopping up lettuce.
"I think I may be pregnant." I whispered.
He looked at me for a moment.
"And that's a bad thing?" Hinting at the fact that I as on the verge of tears.
"We agreed after Emma was born, that she was going to be the only child because of the craziness of our jobs and the store."
"Life has other plans then, but this doesn't have to be a bad thing." He said.
"I know."
So after dinner there I sat on the bathroom floor with Shayne next to me staring at a white stick as we waited for an answer.
"It would be neat to have a boy." Shayne said.
I smiled.
"It would, a boy and a girl. Then we could really stop." I said.
"Shayne Jr."
I laughed.
"What?"
"Sorry, but we aren't naming our son Shayne Jr.!"
"Fine, but I'll resent you for the rest of my life."
I smacked him playfully, "Shut up."
He smiled.
"I want it." He said out of no where.
I knew what he meant and I smiled.
"Me too." I whispered.
The timer went off just then and we took a deep breath and looked at the test.
Negative.
I blinked a few times.
"Well, that answers the question."
"Yeah." I said.
He looked at me and smiled.
"Guess I won't have to resent you."
I smiled a little bit.
"We should go check on Emma." I said.
"Bed time in a few minutes sweetie."
"Okay mama."
I smiled and stood in the door frame and watched her read for a few minutes.
The next day I had to crack down on writing books for my daily job I needed to complete. Emma decided that she was going to join me and work on her drawing skills.
"I'm off to work." Shayne said.
"Have a good day!"
"My girls are beautiful." He said.
"Thank you daddy." Emma said.
"Yeah, thank you daddy." I giggled.
"MAMA!"
I dropped the glass in my hand and it shattered to the ground. I ran outside and gasped when I saw that the grill was engulfed in flames.
"Emma! Get back!" I screamed.
She ran over to me.
"Shayne!"
"I'm right here." He said rushing out with the extinguisher.
I held Emma who was crying while Shayne put out the flames. He rushed over to us and hugged us both to him.
"We're safe." He said, more to Emma then to me.
The insurance covered some of the payment, but it took a chunk from us to replace it. I didn't want to replace it, we hardly used it, but Shayne wanted to keep it in case we had a cook out. I didn't foresee that happening, the only friends we had were co-workers and we weren't really close to them.
It was hard to believe that in a few days Shayne and I would be adults, and Emma was getting close to being a teenager.
Sorry I haven't posted in a while! I got my first tattoo so I've been busy taking care of that, and then work has been crazy. It's not much of an update, but wanted to get something out!
