This was a really short chapter but it covered everything I wanted to get in. The next chapter shouldn't take as long to post. Thank you so much for all of the encouraging reviews on the first chapter! I hope you all enjoy this one and let me know what you think!
The sun was just starting to fall when Jackson sank into his new Lexus RX 350 Sport Hybrid. As stressed as he was, he felt relieved to get into his new car and make the drive home. Something about driving through the back streets of Washington washed away all of his stress. It was made even better seeing as he finally had his new car and it had that startling new car smell. He pushed the button in the center counsel that opened the moon roof and he felt the crisp air fill the car.
He was winding around the twists and turns of the narrow road, taking everything in. Washington was nothing like Boston. The fresh air was rejuvenating, none of the smog he grew up in. The huge trees and mountains filled out the open land. It was winter but there wasn't any snow on the ground at the moment and it somehow smelled and felt like the middle of autumn outside. The houses were few and far between which is exactly what him and his new wife looked for in their first home. They bought a house in Edmonds which was about twenty minutes north of Seattle. Their house is secluded, not unlike the dream house the Shepherds built. Puget Sound is in their back yard and they can see the Cascades and Olympic Mountains out the front. The house has room for them to grow into it with four bedrooms, a modern kitchen like April wanted and an open floor plan.
The rest of his drive was spent admiring his life like he did every night driving home. This new life with April was more than he could have ever imagined for himself. He's married to his best friend, who is the sexiest woman he's ever seen by the way. They have a brand new house together that they're making their own. They both got new cars that actually run after they became attending's and they were at the perfect point in their careers. They're both board certified surgeons and employed at the hospital their closest friends work at. The best part of it all was that they're still in their honeymoon phase, which means sex nearly whenever and wherever.
Their life seemed too good to be true and that's what worried him. The rest of his shift was filled with doubts and anxiety over what his wife needed to talk to him about. Who does that? Who drops something like that and then leaves a guy hanging?
When he pulled into their driveway he saw her Lexus in the garage with the door open still so he knew she must have just gotten home. It wasn't like her to leave the garage door open or to leave anything disheveled for that matter. He sat in his car, in the garage for several minutes before he had the courage to go inside. He was the happiest he'd ever been, but what if she wasn't?
She was facing away from him, putting together the last layer of her spinach lasagna she knew he loved. It smelled amazing and his stomach growled on instinct. She was playing Van Morrison over the stereo. She preferred to have some kind of music on when she cooked. Some of her favorites were Van Morrison, Jack Johnson and Joshua Radin. He recognized the current song instantly as Into the Mystic because she sang it a lot and sometimes requested it in the OR.
The music she listened to constantly surprised him though. Growing up on a farm like she did he accepted her typical love for country music. Her taste branched out though into classic rock, 80's hair bands and 90's grunge, to folk and jazz and even hip-hop and r&b when the mood struck her. Before they lived alone he had no idea how often she listened to music. It seemed like she always had her iPod playing in the kitchen so he installed a stereo where she could play her music in any room she wanted throughout their house. He really liked this song, but probably any song where her hips were swaying just a little bit to the rhythm and he got an amazing view of her ass would work for him. It was what he would call "plump" for lack of a better term and that was just one of the many curves she had in all the right places.
April was sporting one of his old college t-shirts that ended halfway to her knees and her hair was pulled back into a high pony tail that showed her long neck he couldn't get enough of. He walked up behind her like he loved to do and wrapped his arms around her tiny waist. She sprang up just a tad at his touch, unaware that he was even home at first. When he leaned in to kiss her neck she tilted her head to the side to give him better access.
"Mmm, hi." Escaped her, shivering from the touch of his cold hands that had somehow managed to slide up the front of her shirt.
"You smell sensational." Jackson groaned while he continued dropping kisses over every inch of her neck he could find. April let a few giggles escape her as he continued to grope her. "And your giggling is adorable" He panted. She wasn't stopping him by any means even though she was anxious to tell him the news. She couldn't ever resist a frisky Jackson.
Before he came into the house he decided he didn't want to know whatever it was she had to tell him. To him there was no way their life could get any better so why ruin it? Operation distraction was full underway when he picked her up one handedly and set her on the kitchen island behind him.
"I love you so much it hurts." April said in between their kisses. Her hands found the collar of his jacket and she pulled him towards her before she wrapped her arms around the back of his neck. Jackson moved in closer between her legs and his hands found her auburn hair and got twisted in the midst of it.
His hands had fell down under the sides of her cotton panties and he tried to pull them off. Instead of angling her hips so he could, she let it all hang out.
"I'm pregnant." She admitted and his forehead dropped against hers and they locked eyes. She bit her bottom lip nervously while she tried to wait for him to respond.
"We're pregnant. I-I know this is a surprise and we weren't ready to try yet Jacks-" she babbled off nonstop until he had to let her know he felt about it.
As if the tears filling his eyes weren't enough, he tried to put what he was feeling into words but they weren't forming. "April…"
"You aren't ready. This baby's a surprise, I know…" April went out and on before he cut her off again.
"Aren't ready? How could I ever not want this with you?" Jackson started to tell her when he noticed her eyes fill with tears too and he could tell she was trying to blink them away.
"You're giving me a baby! A BABY!" He picked her up and pulled her bare legs around his waist. She was grinning from ear to ear and he twirled her around the kitchen in circles.
"I'm going to be a dad!" He hollered to their empty house and carried her with him to their back patio overlooking Puget Sound and screamed "We're having a baby!" again. She giggled at him uncontrollably while they listened to their news echo across the open water as far as they could see.
A baby! Shonda are you listening?!