“Good. Isn’t {that a} mediocre phrase? Shouldn’t you be saying that is magnificent?”

I chortle, a full-on stomach chortle. “I wouldn’t need you getting an enormous head.”

“I at all times have an enormous head whenever you’re round.” He pushes me to my again and kisses me evenly. “Get a bathe. I’ll go prepare dinner us breakfast.”

“Okay.” I pout like a toddler.

“Take your time.”

He locations the softest of kisses on my lips and will get off the bed. I watch him pull on his t-shirt and depart the bed room.

I obtained the that means of him having an enormous head round me, however I’m undecided how I really feel about him conserving our relationship utterly PG pleasant. I really like his kisses and tender touches. I even love his flirting with me. However that’s so far as it at all times goes.

I shake my immature ideas away and sit up. At present is Christmas. It’s a day I used to like. A day I cherished with my family members. A day I wish to get pleasure from. A day that I can look again on and keep in mind with fondness.

I rub my hand over my tummy and say, “Merry Christmas, child.”

***

Contemporary snow is mendacity on the bottom. The chilly temperatures at all times really feel magnificent right here within the winter. Some may say that I sound loopy, however I really like a Chicago winter. It’s snowy. It’s chilly. It’s a time to wrap up heat and really feel comforted by the various layers we put on.

“You good?” asks Caleb the second I seem on his porch.

“I’m. Let’s go.”

He takes my hand with one hand and wraps his arm round my shoulders. His heat makes me really feel cosy.

“It’s so stunning out right here.”

“Come on. We’ll take a stroll out the again by means of the bushes that you simply appear to like watching from the patio.”

I’m excited that I’m getting to do that. I do know that makes me sound pathetic, but it surely’s the little issues in life that I missed. I’ve sat at Caleb’s patio doorways and regarded out at this forest space, imagining myself operating free, listening to the birds chirping, feeling the air on my pores and skin.

“I guess that is attractive within the spring.”

“You solely have to attend one other three or 4 months to seek out out.”

“We have to have a picnic out right here.”

“Sounds good. I’ll keep in mind you stated that.”

I break free from Caleb and make a snowball in my palms. I’m glad I’ve thick leather-based gloves on, as a result of I hate getting chilly, moist palms.

“You wouldn’t dare, missy.”

I giggle and throw the snowball straight at Caleb’s head. He laughs and bends over, selecting up his personal snow and forming a small ball.

“You wouldn’t dare hit a pregnant lady?”

He throws the snowball, intentionally lacking me. This may sound foolish, however I really feel euphoric, performing like a toddler within the snow. I decide up a bigger quantity of snow and goal it at Caleb, and it hits his chest. I’m taking nice pleasure in hitting him, understanding tremendous effectively that he gained’t be too tough with me. Years in the past, he would have thrown me down within the snow and lined me with it relentlessly. Possibly this time subsequent yr once I’m not pregnant he’ll do the identical.

“Aria, woman, we have to train you find out how to goal,” says Chris as he jogs in the direction of me, throwing a snowball proper at Caleb’s head.

I chortle. “He shoots, he scores!”

It’s good to see this aspect of Chris as effectively, as a result of he’s normally the intense one.

Caleb straightens himself out and rubs his palms collectively. “You’re going to pay for that, bro.”

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