A few months later
She was dozing on his shoulder when Sasha's Mama Alena shouted her name, so forcefully it woke her up.
"Summer!"
She lifted her head abruptly, blinking sleepily in the direction of the noise and humming.
"Mama," Sasha scolded. "She was sleeping."
He put his arms around his wife and brought her back into him.
"I know," Mama stated exasperatedly. "I had to wake her up. That's why I shouted."
"Why'd you have to wake her up?" Sasha's brother Alexander mumbled in confusion, sitting next to Summer and Sasha on the couch, staring blandly at some college football game.
"I just wanted to ask how far along she was."
Summer 's head shot up from where it had gone back to resting on Sasha's shoulder. In fact, the whole room was now focused on Alena Belov.
Far along?" Summer whispered, staring at Mama in shock. "As in pregnant?"
Sasha could only gape at his mother.
"Well, you ate enough food for two people, you've had to pee four times so far, and you're too sleepy to hold a conversation. What else could it be?"
Now Summer was gaping with her husband.
Alexander turned to the two of them, an excited smile on his face, his eyes bright.
"Well, is it true? Is there going to be another Mama Belov in the house?"
One emergency trip to the24 hour drugstore and clumsy trip to the bathroom later, they stared at the positive pregnancy test, in shock.
"Is your mother a baby whisperer?" she murmured, in shock.
"Summer," he whispered.
"I mean, who need a doctor when you have Alena Belov ?"
"Summer," he urged, and she turned to look at him, saw the tears in his eyes.
"What, Sasha?" she asked, immediately concerned. "Are you upset?"
"Upset? How could I be upset?"
He picked her up, buried his face in her hair.
"We're going to be parents, Summer .I told you when the time is right it will happen"
She cried, breathlessly, as his words, and the results of the test, began to sink in.
"We're going to be parents," she repeated.
"Congratulations, Mama Belov," he whispered sweetly.
And she melted.