"Narvel hurry up!"
"Reba we're five minutes away, relax!"
Reba rolled her eyes and tapped her foot nervously. They were running late, she hated being late. "This all your fault."
Narvel scoffed. "You're the one who came onto me!"
"You could've been responsible and said 'No Reba, we have to work' !" She tried imitating his texan accent.
"Do you really expect me to say no to this!" He gestured towards her body.
Reba rolled her eyes and crossed her arms. "Have some control Narvel."
"Stop doing Pilates and having a hot body."
Reba shook her head. "Look i'm sorry! I'm just cranky and we're running late, and i don't wanna mess up anybody's schedules!"
"Reba, we'll be ten minutes late at the most, the first thing everyone does anyways is just chill out for a little bit."
"I know, I just don't like being late!"
"I know that, but honey you need to calm down, all this stressing can't be good for the baby."
"Are you just gonna start usin the baby as an excuse every time I yell at you?"
Narvel laughed and shook his head. "No, i'm worried about you and our baby. Stress isn't good for anyone, let alone when you're pregnant. Also why are you so stressed over this? You never stress."
"I'm pregnant and running late!"
"You being pregnant has nothing to do with us being late."
"Yes it does."
"How?"
"I don't know yet." Narvel laughed and Reba fumed. "But when I find a reason you'll be sorry!"
He laughed again and nodded. "Ok darlin" He pulled into their parking spot and turned off the car. "Look we're here."
"Shoulda been here ten minutes ago." Reba mumbled as she got out of the car and headed for the building.
Narvel ran to catch up with her and took her hand. "Thanks for waitin." Reba shrugged and slowed her pace to walk with him.
They reached the entrance to the studio and Narvel pulled Reba to the side. "What are you doin?" she asked him confused.
Narvel took her hands in his. "I don't want to go in there with either one of us angry, cause we'll just ignore each other and i don't like that, and I know you don't either."
"I'm not mad at you, i'm just annoyed."
"With me."
Reba sighed. "Well not exactly, just..i'm really annoyed right now and you unfortunately happen to be married to a ticking time bomb."
"I would not say unfortunately, you happen to be a very cute ticking time bomb."
She raised her eyebrow and crossed her arms. "So you like it when i yell at you?"
"No, i don't like it when you're any kind of angry or tense. But I can't deny that you look very cute doing pretty much anything."
Reba blushed and she nudged Narvel with her elbow. "We should get inside, it's getting cold and i don't want to be too late." She headed for the door and Narvel gently grabbed her wrist before she passed him.
"Are we good?"
Reba looked up into his eyes. How more amazing could this man get? They had a teeny weeny little argument in the car and he made sure that they were ok. She smiled up at him and nodded. "Yeah, we're ok." She stretched on her toes and kissed him softly before intertwining their fingers and heading for the entrance.
Narvel pulled his hand away to open the door for her and placed his other hand on the small of her back, leading her inside. "I have to go talk to Jerry, you good?"
Reba nodded and Narvel kissed her cheek before wandering off to find one of the executive producers. "Reba!"
Reba looked up to see Lily rushing towards her. "Hi."
"Hey, how was Oklahoma?" Lily asked.
"It was nice, it felt good to be back home."
"I bet." Lily smiled as they turned and walked down the hall leading to the dressing rooms.
Before she knew it Lily had grabbed Reba's arm and pulled her into her dressing room. "Oh!"
Lily shut the door and looked around the room then back at Reba. "So Narvel knows now?...or knows that you know that he knows."
Reba looked at Lily confused. "I'm not really sure what you're sayin, but yes. Narvel knows. We went up to Oklahoma and Texas to tell our parents.
"How'd that go?"
"Pretty good, for the most part. I'm just glad we got the chance to tell them before anyone else did."
"Yeah, you have been very popular with the media lately. A new tv show and baby, lots of excitement for the public." Lily teased. Reba frowned and Lily patter her shoulder. "Relax, they're just rumors."
"Yeah, but it's a true rumor. Me and Narvel can't even go anywhere without being bombarded with people and questions!"
"Why don't you guys announce it?"
Reba sighed and shrugged her shoulders. "We're not ready to tell everyone yet, just our close friends and family. For pete's sake I only found out myself about a month ago!"
Lily frowned and rubbed Reba's arm. "I'm sorry baby, but you can't just keep ignoring people on the subject."
Reba groaned and flopped down on the couch. "I don't know what to do, I need to talk to Narvel about all this and see what he wants to do."
Lily snorted. "Your uterus, your rules."
Reba put her hands on her stomach and sighed. "I already played that card. Oh!" Reba quickly stood up and headed for the door.
"What are you doin?"
"I need to find Brett!" With that she left the dressing room, leaving Lily confused.
...
"Brett!" Reba yelled out as she spotted him.
"Hey there red, I was just gonna go look for you and get started on your hair."
"Awesome, I have somethin to tell you."
"Let's walk and talk hun, we're running a little behind schedule." Reba nodded and they fast walked to hair and make up. He gently pushed her down in the make up chair and pulled out make up and hair products from drawers and laid them out on the counter. He grabbed a brush and began brushing out her hair. "What'd you want to tell me?"
"Well I have some news."
"So you've said." He focused on parting her hair.
Reba smiled at Brett through the mirror, he was focusing more on her hair then the conversation. "I'm pregnant."
Brett stopped messing with her hair and looked at her through the mirror. "What did you just say?"
"I'm pregnant." She repeated with a big smile.
Brett spun her chair around to face him."You're pregnant?" Reba nodded with a big smile. "Oh my gosh!" He pulled Reba into a big hug. He pulled away and held her by her shoulders. "You're having a baby!"
"I know!" She laughed when he pulled her into another hug. He let go and wiped at his eyes. "Are you cryin?"
"I'm just so happy for you!" He took Reba's hands in his. "Honey this is wonderful, how far are you?"
"About eleven weeks."
Brett grinned and clapped his hands together in excitement. "I am going to find you the hottest maternity clothes there are!" Reba laughed as he rambled on. "And there is no doubt we are gonna go clothes shopping for your baby."
"I'm surprised you didn't ask me yourself, it's all over the internet and what not."
Brett waved his hand. "When have I ever followed all the gossip."
Reba scoffed. "Oh please! You're my main source!" They both giggled and Brett went back to doing her hair.
Narvel came into the room and smiled at Reba. "Hey."
"Hi daddy." Brett cooed as he walked across the room to get some hairspray.
Narvel looked after Brett confused and concerned before leaning over to his wife and whispering. "Reba why did he just call me daddy?"
She laughed and put her hand on his shoulder. "I told him about the baby."
"Oh." Narvel nodded understandingly.
Brett came up behind Reba and began clipping her hair up in certain places so he could curl it. "Don't worry big boy, i ain't coming on to you." Reba laughed and Narvel looked at his shoes embarrassed. "Shoot, I'm out of hairspray. Reba i'll be right back." and with that Brett left the room.
"So, what's up?" She turned to Narvel smiling.
"Reba, honey we need to figure out what were gonna do about all this."
"All what?"
Narvel nodded his head towards Reba's stomach. "The baby."
Reba placed a hand on her stomach. "What about the baby?"
"We need to figure out what we're gonna say when someone asks us if you're pregnant. Three people asked me just on the way over here."
"What'd you say?"
"I said 'Sorry i'm in a hurry.' and just rushed off." Reba sighed and Narvel ran a hand through his hair. "We gotta figure this out hun."
"I know, I know. I just don't want anymore people to know yet."
"Why not? They'll find out eventually."
Reba rolled her eyes. "That's why I said not yet. I'm not ready to tell people yet." she stressed the word yet.
"Well what do we tell people when they ask?"
She sighed. "I don't know."
"Why would it be so bad if we told people now?"
"Narvel I already told you, i'm not ready for that."
"When will you be ready?"
"After my first trimester."
"Why then?"
"Because I don't want sympathy from people Narvel!"
He stared at his wife confused. "Honey what are you talking about?"
"There's a chance I could lose the baby."
Narvel sighed. "Reba, the doctor said you're healthy and-"
She cut him off. "No, listen to me Narvel. I know what the doctor said. But even with healthy women there's a chance of a miscarriage. And those chances increase when your older. I'm praying every second to God that it won't happen, but if under some unfortunate circumstance it does happen, i don't want people to look at me and say 'Poor Reba.' After the first trimester's over the chances are slim. Then we can tell people."
"Honey why didn't you tell me this?"
She sighed and looked down at her lap. "Because, i know how stressed you are, and you don't need anythin else to worry about right now."
"Come here." He pulled Reba up and leaned back against the counter, pulling her onto his lap. "I've told you before, and i'm going to keep telling you until you get it. You and this baby are my main concern. Sure it gets a little hectic being 'Reba McEntire's' manager, but i'd drop everything just to help you. Reba you need to tell me these kind of things. I'm just as scared as you are that we might lose our baby. But we can be scared together, and help each other through it."
"I'm a bad wife."
Narvel shook his head. "No you're not." he kissed the top of her head. "I love you."
Reba looked up at him. She ran her fingers through his hair and kissed him. She wrapped her arm around his neck and gripped his shirt collar, pulling him closer to her. Narvel ran his hands up and down her back. As the kiss deepened Narvel moved one hand behind her neck, pulling her closer, and the other behind her knee. She moved her hands to his chest, gripping at his shirt. "Are you two trying to get pregnant again? Yeesh!" Brett teased after walking in on them.
Reba and Narvel pulled apart abruptly and both blushed. "I was just leaving." Narvel helped Reba stand up straight and quickly kissed her cheek before heading for the door.
"I bet you were." Brett smirked as Narvel quickly left the room.
He smirked at Reba and she rolled her eyes. "Oh hush up!" She flopped back down in the make up chair and crossed her arms. Brett began doing her hair again. "I'm sorry..about that."
"You're only sorry you got caught." He continued to tease. She stuck her tongue out at him through the mirror. He laughed and he curled her hair while they talked about clothes and what not.
...
Reba sighed as she walked into the house and tossed her keys on the counter. She walked into the main room and flopped down on the couch, throwing her arms over head and closing her eyes. It'd been a busy week, with lots of questions. People continually asked if the rumors were true, and she and Narvel were both being hounded by the paparazzi. They didn't get a break! Plus Shelby's big race was tomorrow, thank the Lord they didn't have to travel any where. But with all the craziness Reba and Narvel barely got a second alone. Which is what she desperately wanted.
Speaking of Narvel. Reba sat up, looking around, wondering where her husband could be. When she left this morning he said he had some paper work to do today. She got up off the couch and climbed the stairs, quietly opening the door to their office and stepping in. She smiled when she saw him hunched over the desk studying papers. She came up behind him and wrapped her arms around his neck, making him jump. "Hi."
"Hey, when'd you get home?"
"Just now." She leaned her body closer to his and put her chin on his shoulder and looked down at the papers on the desk. "What chya up to?"
"I'm going through our schedule and sorting out the performance dates you have."
"That sounds boring." She pulled away from him and hopped up on the desk in front of him. "You should do me instead."
Narvel looked up at his wife surprised and chuckled. "What?"
"You should put down those papers and have sex with me."
"Well aren't you forward."
She raised her eyebrow. "I thought you loved my forwardness."
"I do."
"Then have sex with me."
Narvel chuckled and stood up, placing his hands on either side of her, leaning into her. "Right here?"
Their lips were centimeters away from each other, she could feel his warm breathe as he talked. "Darlin' as long as it happens I don't care where."
Narvel smirked and slowly leaned into her until their lips met. He kissed her softly and Reba brought her hands up to hold his face. He put his hands on her hips and she pulled away the tiniest bit. "I love you."
"I love you too." She smiled and tilted her head, pulling his face back to hers for a deeper kiss. She slowly wrapped her arms around his neck as his hands roamed her back. The kiss had just started to heat up when Narvel slightly pulled away. "The kids are gonna be over here for dinner tonight."
"It's only five we have time." She breathed out while kissing along his jaw line and down to his neck.
Narvel half closed his eyes and sighed in content. "You sure?"
"Mhmm." She kissed her way back up his jaw. Narvel placed his hand on the back of her neck, and pulled her face up, crashing his lips onto hers. He pulled away and Reba laughed as he quickly pushed everything off the desk onto the floor. He pulled her into another kiss and leaned into her until her back hit the desk and she was laying down. He quickly climbed on top of her, not breaking the kiss. Reba moved her hands in between them and started unbuttoning his shirt. She had just gotten the first three buttons undone when the doorbell rang.
Reba groaned when Narvel pulled away. She wrapped her arms around his neck and pulled her back to him. "Stay."
"Honey someone's at the door."
"They'll go away."
"I guarantee you it's one of the kids." Reba pouted and Narvel shook his head. "Sorry babe." He got up and re buttoned his shirt before helping her up. "Tonight. I promise."
"Yeah, yeah." She smiled as he gave her a peck on the lips. She glanced down at the floor and patted his shoulder. "You're gonna have to pick all that up." She laughed referring to all the paper and desk items on the floor.
"Yeah, yeah." He waved it off and Reba laughed and followed him out the door and down stairs.
...
Narvel laughed seeing his wife passed out on the couch. He had walked Brandon and Kelly to their car and came back to find Reba fast asleep. He gently picked her up and headed for the stairs. He was surprised she didn't wake up, she must've been super tired, she was usually a light sleeper. He carried her up the stairs and gently laid her down on the bed and tucked her in. He leaned down and kissed her forehead. "Goodnight Red, I love you."
...
Reba woke up to find the other side of the bed empty. She looked at the clock. Shelby's race was today, they had to leave the house at 10:00 it was only 8:30. She sat up and stretched, grinning when Narvel came out of the bathroom. "Good morning sleeping beauty."
"Morning." He gave her a kiss before sitting down on the bed.
"You were passed out last night, I had to carry you to bed."
Reba laughed. "I was pretty tired last night. Shelby's race is today."
"I know, are you excited?"
"Mhmm." She looked Narvel over and grinned. He looked very...hot, with his bed head hair and his white v-neck t-shirt.
"Are you checkin me out?" Reba blushed and nodded. Narvel chuckled. "What is goin on in that redhead of yours?"
"Well, i'm thinking that we don't have to start gettin ready for another hour."
Narvel raised his eyebrows suggestively and grinned. "And what did you have in mind?"
Reba bit her lip and shrugged. "I can show you better then I can tell you." She laughed as Narvel quickly rolled her onto her back and kissed her.
...
"Mom? Dad? Hellooo." Shelby called out while he entered his parents house. He stopped by to see if they wanted to go out to breakfast with him, Brandon, and Kelly before they had to be at the race tracks. He walked into the kitchen and around the dining room. He rolled his eyes when he didn't find them. Knowing his parents, his dad was probably down by the pond reading his paper and his mom was probably still asleep. He went back to the main room and walked up the stairs. He walked down the hall and to his parents bedroom. Without knocking he opened the door and walked in. "MoOh my god!"
"Oh!" Narvel quickly rolled off of Reba and she pulled the covers up over her chest. "Shelby! What are you doin here?!"
Shelby had put his hands over his eyes and turned around. "I-and-came over...i'm leaving!" He stuttered out, he headed for what he thought was the door but ended up walking head first into the wall. He moved his hands from his eyes but kept his eyes clenched shut and felt the wall until he reached the door and ran out.
Narvel stared at the door in shock and Reba flopped back against the pillow groaning, throwing her arms across her face. "Crapppppp."
