Friends With... A Daughter 1 "Brian will you sort her out?" Jillian called from their bedroom. "She's in the room next door to you!" Brian called back from down the stairs. "Yeah but I'm writing. I'm under a lot of pressure from my editor to get this story done ready for publishing." "And you can't take 5 minutes to sort our daughter out?" Brian called back, knowing he was fighting a losing battle. "You know as well as I do that if I take 5 minutes out that I won't go back to it for the rest of the day." "Fine. I'll take her out to the pool." "Okay but don't let her get cold." **************************************** "Hello baby girl." Brian cooed as he lifted his little girl out of her Moses basket. At 3 weeks old she still didn't have a name because her parents couldn't agree on one, so until they could decide they were sticking with pet names. "That's a loud noise from someone so small. Is that better? Did you just want a little bit of attention?" The baby had stopped crying. "Is she okay Brian?" Jillian called through. "Yeah she's fine, she just wanted a little bit of attention. Jill, we really need to pick a name for her, I hate just referring to her as her or baby or baby girl." "Well we'll discuss it later." "Okay, well we're going outside now." "Remember to put suncream on her if it's hot and waterproof suncream if you're going in the pool." The next thing she knew Brian and the baby entered Brian and her baby entered the room. "You're seriously going to sit here with the curtains closed all day Jill?" Brian asked as he lay the baby on the bed next to her mummy and opened the curtains. "I can't concentrate if I can see what's going on outside. Close them please." Jillian begged. "Fine, I'll call you again at lunch time. That's if you want to eat." Brian told her bluntly as he walked off with the baby. "Wait. Brian come back." "What?" "Come here." Jillian pushed her laptop aside for a moment, clearing a space for Brian to sit down next to her. "I'm sorry for being grumpy, I'm just stressed. I gave birth three weeks ago so my hormones are everywhere and my editor is pressuring me for a new best seller." "Surely he understands that you just had a baby?" "He knows that but he thinks I can write when she's asleep." "He's even more of an idiot than I first thought." "Yeah but it needs to be done before the end of the week and I'm only 300 pages in." "I understand baby, I'll be out at the pool. You get on and I'll bring your lunch up later." He said as he leaned over and briefly kissed her before picking the baby up and leaving for the pool.