Bob and Linda were lying in bed. Linda was reading and Bob was just staring at the ceiling, thinking.

"Lin, I've been thinking..."

"Never a good sign." She laughed at her own joke.

Bob chuckled. "Well, I've been thinking... I love our kids. They're great kids. But uh... They're so perfect... I can't imagine having any other. So I think I should get a vasectomy"

"Wh-what? Bobby that's a little drastic... We can just use condoms, and I can go on birth control"

"But Lin, what if there's an accident? We can't afford another kid."

"B-but what if we want another kid?"

"Linda we can't have another one. We just can't. It's better to get this surgery and never have to worry about it."

Linda started to cry.

"Lin no..." He put his hand on her shoulder. "Don't cry... Look, the procedure is reversible, so if someday, we somehow get enough money to afford another kid, we can have another one. It's not like you're getting your tubes tied."

"O-ok..." Linda said quietly, swallowing her tears.

"So I'll get it...?"

"Y-yeah..."

~a few months later~

It was the day after the surgery. Bob had recovered well and they had just finished up closing the restaurant for the day. Tina and Gene were colouring in one of the booths, and Louise was scribbling on paper with crayons while sitting in her high chair, so as to stay out of the way.

Linda was putting away the mop. She was very sullen and quiet, unusual for her. She had been like this the whole week leading up to the surgery.

"So you know how Teddy drove me home so that you could be with the kids yesterday?" Bob asked Linda.

"Yeah..." She sighed.

"Well... I asked him to stop at the porcelain store afterwards..."

"What were you doing at the porcelain store?"

"Well I know how sad you've been recently... You want more kids and I get that... Well... Since we can't get any real ones, I picked up this..." Bob pulled out a small porcelain baby from a drawer in the kitchen. "For you"

Linda's face lit up.

"I know it's kind of ugly... But it was the cheapest one there so..." Bob smiled a little.

"Oh Bobby..." She took it from him, and looked at it up close. "It's so sweet and cute! I just wanna eat him up!" She gave it kisses on its tiny face.

Bob chuckled.

"Bobby where did you get him?"

"Uhhh... It was at the porcelain store, Great Mall of China."

"Hmm. I'll have to go there... I think this little guy needs siblings!"

Bob rolled his eyes, chuckling. "Oh God..."