Kissed (32 page)
“This is going to be a girl, do you understand?” Jessa commented as we walked back downstairs.
I nodded. “Yeah. I’m all over it.”
We stopped at the foot of the stairs.
“I’m serious, Keegan. Girls rule, and boys drool. Everyone knows that.”
I kept nodding. “I know,” I agreed. “I was just hating myself the other day for being a man.”
“See? You understand.” She smiled, looking up the stairs. But her brow creased, and she looked back at me. “But she’s okay, right?”
“She’s fine. Almost through the first trimester, so the morning sickness should ease up soon.”
“Okay. Yeah…” She glanced upstairs one last time.
“Get out of here. You’re going to be late.”
She gave me a quick hug, grabbed her bag on the floor, and ran outside.
I ran to the kitchen and made Gabe some peppermint tea. We’d discovered that peppermint was literally the only thing that staved off the nausea. I grabbed my newspaper and coffee and her tea and walked back upstairs. I found her curled up against the headboard of our bed, watching the morning newscast.
She held her hands out, taking her mug from me.
“Careful. It’s still hot.”
She nodded, holding it under her mouth and blowing on it.
I rounded the bed and crawled in next to her, setting my coffee cup on the nightstand and scooting closer. I rested my hand on her lower belly, touching my lips to her shoulder.
“This baby is kicking your ass, G-Dog,” I murmured.
She laughed quietly. “Can I tell you something?”
I sat up straighter. “You know you can.”
She glanced at me. Her cheeks were blushing. “I used to not be very excited about this life.”
I nodded. “I know.”
“I thought I’d made too many mistakes to find happiness, to deserve it, to keep it.”
I caressed slowly across her belly, slipping my hand under the bottom of her T-shirt and splaying my fingers over her still-flat belly. “I know you did.”
“But I found it with you,” she whispered.
I smiled at her. “And you’ll keep it with me.”
The End
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