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Chapter 10: The Morning Sickness Blues
Kim and Tommy's House, Reefside
August 28, 2007
10 am
Tommy came out of his office after working on his teaching plans for the upcoming school year when he heard Kim in the bathroom, throwing up the contents of her stomach. He went to the kitchen, poured her a cup of lemon-lime soda, grabbed a pack of saltine crackers, and went to the bathroom.
"May I come in?" Tommy said as he knocked softly.
"Sure, come on in. I'm not going anywhere anytime soon," Kim said weakly as he came in.
"I brought you some soda and saltine crackers, to settle your stomach."
"Thank you," Kim said as she took the soda and crackers from him.
"Is this supposed to be normal? The throwing up I mean?"
"You weren't listening to the doctor, were you? Morning sickness, as they call it, is perfectly normal. It happens during the first few months of pregnancy, and it doesn't just happen during the morning, either."
"I heard that part of it. I just hate seeing you sick, that's all," Tommy said.
"I know, but it'll be over in a month, and I'll be back to normal, just not skinny normal."
"Yeah, I know, and I don't care if you're skinny or not. You're carrying our child, and you'll be beautiful no matter what."
"Even cussing and swearing while pushing out a baby the size of a watermelon?"
"Even then."
"You're so sweet. Let me clean up in here and I'll be out in a few minutes," Kim said giving Tommy a kiss.
Tommy went out to the living room and turned on the TV.
A few minutes later Kim came out and joined him on the couch.
"Are you sure we told everyone about the baby? I feel like we forgot someone," Kim said.
"And who's forgetful now? No, we told everyone, twice," Tommy said.
"Yeah, I didn't expect your grandfather to react the way he did."
"Yeah, whooping and hollering is not his style, but he did it anyway."
"Our ranger friends reacted the same way, which I expected, along with Rocky starting the bet of what sex the baby is. I put 20 bucks in that it's going to be a girl."
"You can't bet! You're the mother! We're going to find out beforehand, right?"
"Nope. Remember the pact we made that we were not going to find out the sex of our first child and keep it a surprise from our family and friends and ourselves?"
"You're asking me? Mr. Forgetful? I probably forgot!"
"It was right after our first time together. We were lying there coming down from the euphoria, and we were talking about how we like surprises and we got talking about if we ever would get married and have children."
"And I promised I would marry you and have children with you," Tommy said.
"Then that led to us promising about keeping the sex of our baby a secret until it was born."
"And we discussed names."
"Layla Trini for a girl, and Braden Jason for a boy."
"We picked out good names."
"So, let's keep that pact and surprise everyone, including us."
"Sounds like a plan. Remember how your mother reacted when she found out about our first time?" Tommy asked.
"I really don't want to remember that. You're just lucky Jason was there to keep her from killing you, and from cutting your manhood off," Kim said.
"Yeah, if that happened we wouldn't be having a baby after all," Tommy said.
"Let's stop talking about it, okay?" Kim said as they watched TV together.