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Month 5

Five months down, four to go I thought to myself as I patted my extremely noticeable baby bump. It was already Friday and third period. School was so tiring now. And the worst thing was that I didn't have third period with my soon to be husband, Eli. I sat in my desk waiting for the bell to ring and once it did I smiled, I could see Eli waiting outside of the classroom to hold my books and walk me to my next class, no matter how many times I told him one book isn't going to kill me he would never let me carry anything.

I walked out of the classroom.

"Hey beautiful" he said grabbing my books.

I smiled up at him. "Hey."

We started walking towards my locker.

"How are you feeling?"

"Exhausted."

"Do you want to go home?"

"I don't know. I already missed part of school yesterday when I went to the ultra sound."

I smiled. My mom, Eli and I went to the ultra sound yesterday. It was good, Isabelle is doing wonderful and is healthy. Then after, my mom and I went to have lunch and Eli decided to just go home to apparently give us some privacy. But I had fun talking to her. I really missed her and I'm happy she's going to be a part of her granddaughters life. And to my disappointment her and my father got a divorce. I wasn't mad or sad even, I knew it was going to happen. And he moved out and wants nothing to do with anyone.

"I'm taking you home, I don't want you to be here when you feel tired."

"Eli, I'm fine. I don't need to go home."

"Please Mrs. Goldsworthy?"

Dammit, he got me and he knew it. Whenever he called me that I melted fast.

"Fine." I glared at him.

"Good, Besides I have something I have to show you and I don't think I can wait until school is over."

I turned to look at him. "What do you have to show me?"

He smirked. "It's a surprise."

We were now at my locker.

"Okay" I smiled. And Isabelle kicked. Every time Eli talked or touched me it was like she knew who it was and she would move around. "Maybe you will be the favorite parent" I said grabbing Eli's hand and putting on my belly.

He smiled when he felt her kick. "Lets go" he said grabbing my bag with one hand and grabbing my hand with the other.

When we got inside Morty I decided to ask him for a hint.

"Can you at least tell me what this surprise is for?"

"No. but its something you and I can do together."

"Ugh,fine." I said confused.

Once we got to Eli's house he lead me up stairs. At first I thought we were going to go into his room but he stopped me in front of a closed door, I had passed this door hundreds of times but I never opened it because I didn't see a reason to.

I turned to him with a confused expression.

He laughed. "the surprise is in the room."

"Oh." I said still confused.

He put his hands over my eyes. "Eli, I could just close my eyes you know."

"And risk you peeking? Never."

"Fine." I mumbled.

I heard him open the door and flick on the light.

We walked into the room a little more when I felt Eli's hands be removed from my face.

I looked around. There were boxes, clearly labeled. One said crib, changing table, dresser, and rocking chair. There was also multiple cans of paint sitting on a plastic cover that was all around the room.

My eyes started to well up with tears. I couldn't believe he did all of this. And without me knowing. It was amazing. And I understood what he meant when he said we could work on it together, we were going to decorate Isabelle's room.

I turned to him and smiled.

"I thought it would be fun to decorate her room together." He said.

"I love it. How did you get all of this in here without me knowing?" I asked hugging him.

His arms wrapped around me. "Remember when I told you I was going to give you and your mom some time to talk, and you guys had lunch after the ultra sound?"

"Yeah. I was wondering why you didn't want to have lunch with her."

He laughed. "Now you know."

I looked around the room the walls were an ugly mint green color.

I turned to face Eli again. "I think we should paint the walls white. What do you think?"

"I like it."

"Okay, lets paint!" I said enthusiastically.

"Your wish, my command" He said grabbing two paint brushes and handing one to me.

We painted in silence for a while until I got an idea.

"What about a red border?" I asked him as I went over to the pain bucket to get more paint.

"that's a good idea."

"okay, so this side is done drying from the coat of white" I said gesturing to the left wall." Lets start on the border."

"Okay" He said before opening the can of red paint and pouring it into the paint tray.

I dipped my brush in the red paint and started working on the border. Eli walked by me and "accidentally" brushed his paint brush on my arm. I turned to him and glared." Seriously Eli?"

"What?" He asked with an innocent expression.

"You got paint on my arm." I said gesturing to my left sleeve that was now stained with red paint.

"I did no such thing." He said smirking.

I dipped my hands in the red paint and looked at him. "You asked for it."

He backed up and put his hands up in defense. "Clare, lets be rational."

"No, I don't think I will." I said walking towards him.

"Okay then." He said bending down and dipping his hands in paint.

He started to walk towards me. Crap! This wasn't in my plan now he was going to get paint all over me instead of the other way around. He kept walking towards me and backed me up into one of the dried walls.

He put both his paint covered hands on the wall so they were on either side of my head.

"Now" he said leaning down so his lips were barely an inch from mine "What were you going to do with the paint on your hands?"

I could barely form a coherent thought with him so close to me. "Uhm,nothing." I replied.

He pressed his lips to mine."Good." he said before removing his hands from the wall."Oh no!"

"What?" I asked, confused.

"Your soft lips distracted me and I forgot I had paint on my hands now there is red handprints on the wall."

I smiled. "Stop trying to blame this on my lips, and I have an idea"

"What?"

"This" I said pressing my hands on to the wall then I proceeded to put handprints in random order on the white walls, Eli caught on and did the same. Once we got all of the walls covered in hand prints I dipped my hands in the red paint one last time and turned to Eli with a devilish grin, before he had time to react I smeared red paint all over his T-shirt.

"Hey!" he exclaimed looking down at his T-shirt.

"Well, I do like you in red." I said smiling.

He laughed. "We need to clean up before I decide to throw a bucket of paint on you."

After cleaning up and letting the paint dry Eli set up the crib, rocking chair, changing table, and dresser. every time I offered to help he would say something along the lines of it being to risky for me or the baby so I had to sit back and watch him work his butt of building all of the furniture.

Eli moved all of the furniture to the places they belonged and turned to me.

"So what do you think?" He asked.

"Well, first of all I think you should take a nap because all you've done for the past five months is wait hand and foot on me and then you build everything for a baby's room in one day." I said walking over to the crib where he was standing. "And as for the baby's room. I've never seen one more beautiful. I love it, She is going to love it. And there isn't even a black crib."

He smiled. We then stood in front of the crib for a couple of minutes in silence, imagining our perfect baby sleeping in it with soft warm blankets.

"Oh" Eli said. "I almost forgot."

"What?" I asked looking up at him.

"There's something else I forgot to add to the crib, I'll be right back."

"Uh, okay?" I said before I watched him walk out of the room.

After a minute or two he walked back in with a box. He walked over to the crib and opened it, inside was a mobile to hang above the crib. It was white with little skulls hanging off the sides, he put it above the crib and turned to me with a smirk on his face.

"Well,what do you think?" he asked spinning it around.

"Uhm."

He errupted into a fit of laughter. "You should see your face."

I started laughing too.

"its okay, I was just kidding. I wanted to see your reaction."

"Actually" I said reaching up to spin it lightly. "I kind of like it, it makes it more real. like the way our baby's room should be."

"You like it?" he turned to me confused.

"Yes, I think we should keep it."

"Hm." he said as he looked at it once more. "It kind of does bring the room together doesn't it?"

"Yes." I said as I reached up to put my arms around his neck.

He smiled and put rested both of his hands on my stomach "The magazine said that at twenty weeks babys are now practicing their breathing and swallowing, and can most definitely hear now."

"Really?" I asked playing along and pretending I had no idea what he was talking about.

"Yes, maybe we should read to her." he said with a lopsided smirk.

I smiled. "You reading? That would be something fun to watch."

"who said I wasn't going to buy an audio tape?"

"Whatever, lets go read a book to our baby and wait for your parents to get home so we can show them the room."

"Alright." He said before kissing me and letting me go. "I'll go see if we have Nemo."

My degrassi sister helped me with the idea about adding a skull mobile somewhere in the story, so thank you.

Soooo, did this chapter satisfy you Eclare needs?