Like a natural woman
I slowly awoke to Danny trailing small kisses up my left arm. I opened my eyes and smiled at him.
"What did I ever do to deserve you?"; I whispered just before tears made it impossible to speak. He instantly reached up and caught my lips in a smoldering kiss.
As the kiss ended he withdrew and saw the tears in my eyes.
"I've loved you ever since I saw you for the first time and all you ever have to do is just to let me love you", he said as he drew me into his arms.
He lay behind my in the bed that was now ours and his right hand slowly settled on my lower abdomen. My right hand joined his and our fingers entwined over the tiny life we had created.
"Tell me again", he said with happiness all evident in his voice.
"Tell you what again", I said in a teasing voice. I had never felt as happy as I did right now.
"You know… tell me again", he said again a little more persistent.
"I don't know what you're talking about", I said in a voice similar to the one I used to take on in the pressroom when a reporter was prying into something I didn't really what him to know.
"Just tell me", the honesty and love in his voice did me in.
"We're pregnant", I told him as I turned around to face him. His eyes were burning into my soul. We hugged each other for what seemed like an eternity. I felt herself drifting off to sleep.
"Danny, we should get up…", I tried to untangle myself from the sheets and him.
"Go back to sleep CJ, we barely slept last night and you need more sleep now", he said in a soothing and already caring father voice. I smiled at him and moved back into his arms. The hint to last night made me blush. He still did that to me. When I finally let my guard down after Leo passed away, life had really never been better. As I drifted off, I thought of how happy I was now. I just wished I'd never wasted so much time keeping him at arms length.
"Lookin' out on the mornin' rain
I used to feel uninspired
And when I knew I had to face another day
Oh it made me feel so tired
Before the day I met you
Life was so unkind
But your love was the key to my peace of mind
Cause you make me feel
You make me feel
You make me feel
Like a natural woman
When my soul was in the lost and found
You came along to claim it
And didn't know just what was wrong with me
Oh till your kiss helped me name it
Now I'm no longer doubtful
Of what I'm livin' for
Cause if I make you happy
I don't need to do more
Cause you make me feel
You make me feel
You make me feel
Like a natural woman
Oh baby what you've done to me
You make me feel so good inside
Good inside
And i, I just wanna be close to you
Because you make me feel so alive
Oh what you've done to me
Close to you because you make me feel so alive
You make me feel
You make me feel
You make me feel
Like a natural woman
Woman
You make me feel
You make me feel
You make me feel
Like a natural woman
You make me feel
Oh baby what you do to me
Can make me feel so good inside
I just wanna be, I just wanna be
Oh what you've done
Natural woman "