Life after Loss
Chapter 29: Nursery building
A week later and Tobias and I are going to be decorating the spare room and turning it into a nursery for Taylor. I'm twenty one weeks pregnant and Tobias doesn't want me doing much but I begged him and he's allowing me to do some of it. We went shopping for a load of stuff earlier this week and managed to get nearly everything we need for the baby. Which is great because it means it's mostly done now and we don't have to do it when I'm too heavily pregnant.
Right now we are painting the walls of the room in a pale yellow colour. We decided on yellow because we think that it's neutral, pink and purple are too girly and our daughter might not be into those kinds of colours. So we will have yellow until Taylor decides what colour she wants her room to be. I am painting the bottom half of the walls so I don't have to stretch too much, Tobias is doing the top half since he doesn't want me using the step ladder.
In about an hour and a half of good teamwork we are done and waiting for the paint to dry so we can build the white furniture and add the finishing touches. We decided that on one wall we were going to have the words 'Be Brave' written on it in black curly writing. Tori has agreed to come and do that for us.
It's dry within another hour and Tori comes to do the writing for us. When she's done we thank her and she leaves us to do what we have to do.
Tobias builds the crib as I sort out the mattress, blanket, pillow and toys that are going to go in there. We put everything in and make it look pretty before moving it so it lays under the writing on the wall. Then he builds the wardrobe, chest of drawers and changing table whilst I make us some food for lunch and get us some more drinks. When I'm done with the pasta I call Tobias into the kitchen and he's sweating when he comes in.
We talk about the baby as we eat. And a few other things, but mostly the baby.
"So, we're not letting her have a boyfriend until she's at least thirty, right?" This makes me laugh. "What? I'm serious. She is not having a boyfriend until she is thirty."
"Tobias, you do realise I'm only seventeen right, and I'm having a baby, and you're only nineteen. She's going to want to have a boyfriend when she's young. She's going to want to live."
"Fine, how about twenty five?"
"Tobias. I'm not saying that she can have boyfriends at a young age, but I'm saying that we should let her live, have a life, learn from whatever mistakes she might make, you know. But I will allow you to give whoever she dates the 'if you ever hurt her I will kill you' talk because I will be doing the same thing. But don't give her an age where she can or cannot do something, that way she's just going to not listen to you and probably get hurt because of it."
"Okay. But with me it's going to be the 'if you ever hurt my daughter I will hunt you down and kill you slowly so you feel more pain than you have ever felt or imagined in your life' talk."
"That's fine with me."
We go back to talking and eating, then we go back to decorating the nursery. And when we're done I have to say that it's a masterpiece. There's an arm chair in the corner of the room as well, and a bookshelf that is already nearly full with children's books, and a toy chest filled with toys and stuffed animals, not just the white furniture, the yellow paint and the black writing on the wall.
"I think we've done a good job, Miss Pedrad."
"I think we have too, Mr Eaton. Our daughter will love this room."
"I bet she will. And I bet she will love Dauntless cake, and just everything about Dauntless."
"Or she might not."
"Come on, no child of mine could never not love Dauntless cake."
"You know not everyone has the same kinda taste buds. I mean, my dad loved mashed potato and I hate it. I love roasted potato and he hated that."
"But, come on, who cannot like Dauntless cake? I plan on giving her some as soon as she's born."
"Really? You know babies can't eat solid food for a while, right? Not until they are between four and six months old. She won't be able to eat cake for a while because you tend to start them on pureed foods like fruit and veg. She won't be able to have cake until she's at least eight months old."
"Well, as soon as she's allowed cake I'm going to give her some."
"Yeah, right. Come on. Let's get something to eat and go to bed. I'm tired."
"Okay. Go relax, I'll make some dinner for us."
He plants a kiss on my lips and goes to the kitchen whilst I go to the living room. I must have fallen asleep because I wake up to Tobias saying my name softly and his face right in front of mine as I lay on the sofa.
"Dinner's ready. Come and eat something then you can go back to sleep, okay?"
"Okay."
He helps me up and we eat dinner together. Then we go to bed without even getting changed.
"Goodnight, Tris, I love you."
I would reply but I'm too far gone.
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