Chapter 9
"It's your child too, Tom don't you have a preference?" Krystal asked.
"Well, I had thought that if we are just to have this one, it might be nice to know ahead of time what it was going to be so everything could be perfect, and we could have just the right name picked out. But if you want to wait and be surprised then that is fine with me."
"What names did you have on your mind, darling?" smiled Krystal getting up and walking over sitting in his lap. "Tell me if you had any name in particular on your mind."
"Since AJ and Krista are doing this wonderful thing for us, what about Kristopher Albert?"
"Now wait a minute, good buddy, I appreciate the thought and all, but I'd just as soon you didn't stick a child with the name Albert!" AJ laughed, shaking his hands and looking to Krystal for help.
"That is a wonderful thought, darling, but I had intended on naming a son after his father, Thomas William Boone, Jr.," said Krystal, pressing herself next to Tom and rubbing their noses together. "I thought it would be a way to carry on a wonderful name."
Tom laughed at her antics and kissed the tip of her nose, "Okay then, how about if we combine the thoughts? AJ doesn't want us to use Albert, and I have always disliked forcing a child to be a Junior. So, what about Kristopher Thomas?"
"How about Thomas Kristopher," she came back with a grin. "Thomas Kristopher Boone, son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas William Boone. Now what if it's a girl?"
Looking at his best buddy, Tom snickered and offered the suggestion, "Alberta Kristina?"
"Honestly, Tom, would you do that to your own precious daughter. Just stop and think of what it would do to the little thing," AJ chastised Tom for the very thought.
"No, he wouldn't. Sorry, Albert, but he is not naming our daughter Alberta. Jethrine, maybe but not Alberta," laughed Krystal, until the tears ran down her cheeks and her sides hurt.
"We will not let Lilac and Rose play with her if you name her Jethrine!" Krista declared and then started giggling too.
"And I wouldn't blame you one bit!" Tom reassured her.
"If you think you can do better naming our daughter then give it a shot, darling," Krystal in a teasing mood tickled him. "Come on surely you can think of something appropriate."
"Diana, because it means Goddess," he said looking deeply into Krystal's eyes. "And maybe Kristine for her middle name?"
"Oh, Tom, you're so sweet. I never would have thought of anything so beautiful or special. Now, I can't make up my mind to hope the baby is a girl or a boy," Krystal replied, hugging Tom and raining kissing on his face and neck. "Yes, lets find out what the baby is so we can start calling the little darling by its name."
"Only if you are sure, Krystal," Tom assured her. "If you want to wait I am fine with that too."
"No, I want to know now, well actually I'm anxious to know so we can start on the nursery. I wonder when our child will be born, you know what season?" she asked, glancing around the table, wishing that Kris were pregnant right now.
"Well, it seems we are agreed that we want to know, so are we going to use the traditional test, or do you have some magical way to tell Krista?" Tom teased his sister-in-law who he was still amazed by her dabbling in all the unusual methods for things that she did.
"No, magic, unless you want me to do a tarot reading for you. But you could peel an apple and throw the peel over your shoulder...no that is for the name of the man that you are going to marry...now, what was it for babies?" she teased back.
"I know, it determines how much sex you have with your husband before the baby is born. You can tell that Krista and I got carried away and our son turned into twin girls," chucked AJ dodging his wife hand as it swung at his head. "Well, it is as good a way as any."
To be continued…
