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Chapter 12
The next morning I awoke to the soreness coming from between my legs. Only then did I realize what had happened the night before between me and Remus. We'd slept together, which would explain why we were both crammed into the little twin-sized bed that was placed in my original room. My bare chest was rested against his and our arms were wrapped around each other not wanting to let the other go. I yawned and nuzzled my head into his neck again and tried to get some more sleep.
"Good morning," he said, startling me slightly, "how are you feeling? Was I too rough on you last night?"
"No, I'm a little sore but that will go away within the next hour or so. How are you this morning? And might I ask, are all our fights going to end like that from now on? If so, then I say we fight more often," I said smirking.
"Well, now that's up to you luv," he smirked right back at me. "I actually feel pretty good this morning, after our little escapade last night, I'm much more relaxed."
"I kind of am too…"
We sat there in silence for a few minutes, reluctant to get up, just listening to the faint sound of each others' breathing. Eventually, I broke the silence between us, "I'm kind of hungry, are you?"
"Yeah, what do you want? I mean you never had dinner last night and we don't want you to get unhealthy, especially when you have my child in your stomach," he leaned down and kissed my stomach gently.
"Some scrambled eggs with Tobasco sauce sounds really good…would it be too much trouble?" I looked at him with pleading eyes.
"No, no…it's no trouble at all," he said sitting up and covering himself with the sheets. "Do you want me to bring it up to you when it's done, or do you want to come downstairs with me?"
"I'll come downstairs with you, that way you don't have to be completely alone while you're cooking," I said, smiling at him. He nodded in understanding and I turned my back to him and stood up to put some clothes on. Apparently he did the same, because from behind me, I heard the squeak of the floorboards as weight was put on them. Fortunately, we both were finished dressing around the same time, so there was no awkward moments of one of us being naked.
We walked down the stairs and I looked at Remus longingly. How was I lucky enough to be with this man right now? Granted, I wasn't lucky to be with him four months ago when I got pregnant, but now, this was sheer bliss when I was with him. I'd been trying really hard to keep my hormones under control lately, but occasionally a few would slip out and cause me to be a major bitch.
I sat down on the chair at the kitchen table as he headed over to the refrigerator to get some eggs and milk. "I really appreciate you pampering me like this…" I started, looking down at my nails so as to not make eye-contact with him.
"Oh…" he said, beating the eggs with a whisk, "it's no problem at all, I mean it's the least that I could do right? You have to carry the baby for the next what…five months? So don't worry about it really…"
"Well…still I do really appreciate it," I looked up at him and smiled, his back was to me so he never saw me check-out his backside.
"It's fine," he turned and started riffling through the cupboard near the stove, then moving around the kitchen looking through all the cupboards.
"Do you want some help looking for something?" I watched him as he slowly moved his way around the room.
"Yeah…if you wouldn't mind; I'm looking for the Tabasco sauce and the canned spray butter."
"Alright, I'll start along this side of the room," I said getting up from the table and walking to the wall of cabinets on the opposite side of the room.
"I think I found both of them over here…" I started, grabbing both of them out of the cabinet and starting toward the stove. Unfortunately for me, there was a puddle of water on the floor in front of me that I hadn't seen. Needless to say, I, being my clumsy self, slipped on it. I closed my eyes and braced myself for the pain of hitting the hard tile floor, but before I had the chance to hit it, I felt myself fall into a pair of strong arms. When I opened my eyes, I saw Remus' face looking down at me.
"Is this a habit of yours? I mean, really you fall a lot around here," he said, chuckling and standing me back up. "I'm gonna really get my exercise running to catch you aren't I?"
"Well it's not like I can really help it…I mean it's me remember? Plus you're gonna have to exercise eventually right? Because you're gonna have to help me with the baby at three o' clock in the morning remember?" I replied, sitting back down at the table and rubbing my eyes.
"Yea, yea, yea I know," he smiled and went back over to the stove and put the eggs in. "So what do you think it's gonna be? The baby I mean," he asked, watching the eggs intently.
"I don't know, I mean I haven't really thought about it but I hope that it's a girl. I honestly don't care though, as long as it's healthy. Why? What do you think it will be?"
"Well, I can't help but wish that it's a boy, but I think that's just a normal reaction from the daddy isn't it?"
I smiled, "Yea I guess so. My dad always told me that he really hoped that I was a boy, we just never really had anything in common and now I see why. But I do understand why he was so protective over me though now. And you're gonna be the exact same way if we have a little girl."
"Well yea! It's the dad's job to make sure that nothing ever happens to our little girls! Especially when they see that they're with boys that were just like us when we were teenagers, that's gonna be terrifying if we have a girl."
"What's so wrong if we have a girl and she ends up with a man like you? You're a great person, you just don't give yourself enough credit. I for one would be really proud if we have a girl and she ends up with a guy like you."
"Oh no, if we have a girl all boys have to keep at least eight feet away from her! I don't want her to be in the same situation that you're in…it just wouldn't be fair for her and it really isn't fair for you. I really still hate seeing you like this when you should be worrying about skin blemishes or whatever you teenage girls worry about; not worrying about having babies."
"Oh stop," I replied jokingly, I went over behind him as he cooked the eggs and reached my arms around him and rubbed my hands on his chest. "How's it coming though with the food?"
"If you don't stop, we're not gonna have any food this morning," he said with a smile in his voice. "You are still hungry though right?" he turned around and smile at me, already knowing the answer. All it took was one look from me and I confirmed his assumption. "I thought so; okay go sit down the food's almost done."
He grabbed two plates and put half the eggs on one plate and put the other half of the eggs on the other plate. He took the plates over to the table, along with the Tobasco sauce, and sat on of them down in front of me. My mouth started salivating and I quickly grabbed the Tobasco sauce and put a large glob onto the top of my eggs.
While we sat and ate, we comfortably talked about everything that we could think of. From Quidditch to the wedding plans and from the latest movies to our favorite books. When we were done eating we went and decided to watch a movie together.
"What all movies do we have here?" I asked, walking to the television room across the hallway from the kitchen.
"I'm not really sure but we could always look…" he started, getting down on the floor and looking through the section under the TV that was full of videos and DVDs. "Let's see here…Prom Night, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory…the new one ya know? There's quite a few horror movies down here actually, are you a fan of the genre?"
I made my way down to the floor and sat down next to him, "I guess you could say that. What other ones are down there?" I asked leaning back on my hands.
"Well there's one called Hard Candy," he said taking out a DVD from underneath the TV and looked at the back of the case, "you ever heard of it?" he asked looking up at my just enough to steal a glance from me.
I sat and thought about it, I remembered my mom saying something about it. She had said the title but I couldn't remember anything about it. "I've heard the title before but I couldn't tell you anything about it. Can I see the case?" I asked, holding my hand out to him.
"Oh yea, sure," he handed me the case gently. I examined the back of the case and saw that it looked very intriguing. A would-be pedophile gets his life shaken up by a fourteen year old girl that he brings home…sounded very empowering for the feminists anywhere in the wizarding world or the muggle world.
"Sounds good, wanna watch it?" I asked, looking up at him with my eyebrows raised in consideration. Not gonna lie, I really thought that the guy on the front cover, Patrick Wilson, was a very, very attractive man.
"Sure…whatever you want," he replied, smiling at me.
"Okay," I smiled and put the DVD in the DVD player then sat down on the couch, where Remus was already sitting, and placed my head on his shoulder, then the movie started…
