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The sunlight coming through the window woke Chris up before he was ready to be woken up. But none of that mattered as he looked over at the woman that was sleeping very peacefully next to him, he loved to watch her chest rise and fall with each breath that she took. He enjoyed the simple moments in life, sometimes with all the dark stuff he saw, it was hard to just enjoy the little things. Speaking of little things, Chris thought about one little thing in particular, the little person now growing inside her. He pushed the bed sheet down and let pool around the edge of her abdomen, he took in the sight of her very necked body, his eyes wondered down to her rounded breasts, noting that they seemed to be getting larger. He cupped his hand around them, they seemed heaver as well, and he guessed that was natural. After all she is close to 3 months pregnant; before too much longer baby LaSalle would be making his or her presence know.

Chris couldn't wait till he could see and feel the baby, but for now he would just have to be happy with the knowledge that the baby is safe in its mamma's womb. He ran his hand down her chest to her abdomen. Rubbing it across the taught skin, he then lowered his head so he could place his lips on her womb. He placed feather light kisses all across, and then he just rested his head on her. In the meantime, Mere had woken up and was watching her sweet, loving Chris. Just watching him made her fall more in love with him, this made her think. If she was so in love with Chris, why was she so scared about telling their friends and co-workers about everything going on? About the change in their relationship; the baby and their life together, Chris had been through so much in his life he deserved the chance to be happy.

"Good Morning.."

Chris looked up when he heard his Mere's voice…. "Morn' beautiful.." He pushed himself up so he was face to face with her, and placed small light kisses on her lips… Mere placed her arms around his waist, coxing him to lay down on her chest..

"Chris, I want you to know that I've made a decision about us."

Chris started to lift up his head, but Mere stopped him. "I want to tell everyone, everything, I want the whole world to know, that I'm madly in love with Christopher LaSalle and that he's giving me a little LaSalle.."

Chris jumped up off the bed taking Mere with him; he started swinging her around the room. When he was done he sat back down on the bed, and placed Mere on his lap, wrapping his arms around her and pulling her tight to chest. He started placing light kisses on her lips, than he stopped to look deep into her brown eyes. All he saw in there was love, and happiness. This filled Chris's heart with pure joy. He took Mere's left hand and placed a kiss on her ring finger.

"A kiss will have ta do, till I can get ta the bank, ta get your ring."

"RING! Chris are you? Really Chris?"

"Ya do want ta right?"

"YES! With all my heart, but are you sure?"

"Merri Brody, I've never been more sure of anything in my whole dang life…I wanna marry ya, and have a whole basketball team of little LaSalle's!"

"I like the sound of that…"

"Good I'm gonna get my clothes on and make a run to the bank, be back in a jiffy..."

Chris placed Mere on the bed, gathered up his cloths and put them on. He walked back over to the bed and kissed Mere, as he darted out of the room and headed out of the house. Mere stood up an went over to her dresser, she pulled out her saturday comfy cloths. After all she had no real reason to dress up. She had no idea how long Chris would be gone, or when he would be back. So she went into her kitchen and made her some tea and toast, she took it outside and sat down at her small table and chairs.

She just kept thinking about Chris and their baby, she knew she needed to put them first from here on out. No more chasing down suspects, or putting herself in a interrogation room. She would need to talk to Pride about this, and she wanted to do this with Chris at her side. As she sat there thinking, she never saw Loretta walk up..

"Good Morning Merri.."

"Oh good morning, sorry I didn't see you walk up."

"I'm not surprised, you looked like you are a million miles away."

"Well...I...guess I am... Just have allot on my mind..."

"Oh! I see...Does this have anything to do with Christopher running out of here earlier?"

Mere blushed.. "You saw him leave?"

"To clarify... I saw him dart out of here, like a bat out of hell.."

Both women laughed at Loretta choice of words...

"I...guess he was in a bit of a hurry..."

"The way that boy was running, I thought his britches where on fire..Any reason he was in such a hurry?"

Mere put her head down and started to blush even more..

" Ok..spill it...I know something is up..."

"We've been seeing each other for months now, it just kina happened. We both decided to keep it out of the office, and to maintain a professional work relationship. But now that's starting to get harder, things are changing…."

"Is this a good or a bad change Merri?"

"It's a very good change, one that I want, one that I never really thought I would have. I came close to it once, but now I know… It wasn't the right time or the guy, Chris is the right man, I love him Loretta, I never thought I would find a love like this, but now that I've got him, I'm not letting him go…"

"From where I'm sitting, I see no reason why you should. I know this will complicate matters at work, but if your both are working fine now, I can't see why DeWayne would have an issue with you guys."

"There's more that I haven't told you, we haven't told anyone this." Mere took a long deep breath… "I'm 3 months pregnant.."

"Oh Merri, that's wonderful news, I'm sure knowing Christopher he's over joyed. He loves kids so much; I know he's always wanted to be a father, now he gets the chance."

"Your right he's on cloud 9 right now."

"But you still haven't explained why, he left in such a hurry?"

"Well…he sort of asked me without asking me, to marry him. I told him yes, then he said he needed to go to the bank."

"OH Merri, this is wonderful…A new baby and a wedding… I'm overjoyed for both of you."

"Thank you Loretta, that means the world to me. I'm not really sure how my mom will take all this news. She can be a…very challenging woman.. I love her, but sometimes she's just the mother of the year. I don't want to be like that, and that worries me. Does that make any sense?"

"Why of course it does, every woman views children in a different way. Some don't want them, others have no clue how to handle them, and some just love them no matter what. I think you are going to be that special one, that loves her children in the same way she loves their father, cause when she sees them, she will see him."

Mere smiled, she hoped that Loretta was right, but there was still a part of her that is worried. But she knew as long as she has Chris, everything would be ok. Meanwhile across town Chris was at the bank, getting Mere's ring out of his safe deposit box. But he had no idea that someone had followed him…..

Ok guys, I'm just going to leave you there…for now anyway…But I will give you guys a list of 3 possible people that could have followed Chris.

1. Percy– –3. Sam…