Chapter 1: March.

I called in my husband. Hoping he would pause his Halo championship game for a minute. I mean, is a game bigger than a positive pregnancy test? Again and Again, but yet he still didn't come out of that damn gaming world.
I walked into his man-cave to find him, with the bulkiest black headphones on, almost strangling the controller to death the way he was handling it.
He violently paused the game and shouted at someone down the mic, and he turned around on the huge swivelly chair, placed so close to the giant T.V.
"Yes?" He asked as he placed the headphones on the bookshelf, full of X-Box games. Like he would use it for actual books!

I told him over and over again to come and look at something, but he kept persisting that if he left the game, that Sheldon would take over his land or something.
I finally gave in and let him continue with his game. The championship wouldn't last long. I would tell him when it was over.

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I really didn't think that the Championship would last four weeks, so a few days after the Halo thing was over, I called him downstairs. You could hear him running down the stairs, and he pushed his way into the kitchen. He asked why I called him down. I pulled out the pregnancy test out of my back left pocket and held it up. He slowly walked closer and took it out of my hand. He stood still for a moment, looking closely. He then lifted his head up and smiled. We shared a long passionate kiss and an even longer hug. I could feel a tear roll down my cheek, and his too.
This had been a long time coming for us. After our friends got married, we decided to start trying, cause we had been together for Nine years and married Five. That was two-years-ago.
Last year, we found out we were pregnant, and we went in for our twelve-week appointment and we found out that we had lost the baby a week before. We got a call about two weeks later, telling us that it was a boy.
So this time around, we decided to keep it a secret till we got positive from our doctor at twelve-weeks. We just didn't want to jinx it and tell them. Then we receive bad news and we have to break it to them.

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We were on our way to our ten-week appointment. And we were just mainly hoping to hear the heartbeat. I didn't care about the rest of that crap!
I had a few mild problems on the way there. Luckily Leonard was completely fine with it. Usually, he flips out, but he didn't this time. Which I think helped me through it.
So, three shirts, one pair of pants, two-litres of water and a quick stop at Right-Aid later. We were there.

They did about thirty minutes of testing until they got to the good part. They quickly dimmed the lights and seated me on the large moveable chair. They also gave me a warning about it being cold, but it wasn't that cold. It was fricken freezing! So after the pain of the ultrasound gel, he put the little wand thing on the lower part of my abdomen. On the very left was a little grey alien looking creature. But we couldn't hear anything...
We both shared a look of pure horror until the sound of thumping caused us to turn and look. We both sighed in relief. We couldn't take our eyes off the screen. I grabbed Leonard's hand and cupped it in mine. He kissed the end of my ring finger as he looked over.
"Nice job daddy," I said, wiping a tear from the side of my face.
"You too, mommy."

As we sat in the car, he asked to see it again. I pulled out the picture and handed it to him. He stared at it, smiling. But I did all the way home. Just seeing the picture just made it seem real to me. I mean, I knew I was pregnant, but it just wasn't feeling right. It was mainly overwhelming. But now I had that appointment, I really wrapped my head around it.

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