"I'm so very sure! Adele told me that you should only give this gift to someone that you loved very much and that until you met that person no one else would do. That's the way she feels about my father, and that is the way I feel about you..."
"Oh, Julianna, my love how did I ever get so lucky to find you? Are you taking the pill?" he asked, lifting her in his arms to carrying her to her bedroom.
"No, there has been no need...that is a problem isn't it?"
Letting her slide down his body, he said, "Yes, it is, Darlin'. I wasn't prepared to make love to any one so I brought no protection with me," sighed AJ. Taking her hand he needed to know how sure she was about this decision. "Julianna, I can make love to you with my hands and mouth or I can go back out and find a drugstore and get some condoms, then we can make love. The choice is yours."
"I wanted to give myself to you completely, AJ, but if you don't want to go back out tonight then it can wait. After all, I have waited thirty four years for this, what is one or two more nights?" she sighed sadly, not wanting him to know how disappointed she really was.
"You get yourself ready for bed and I'll be right back. You might want to put Shakey in a different room tonight. I don't want a bite taken out of my ass," he laughed. "Be waiting for me, darling, and when I get back we'll make love all night long.'
"AJ, you don't have to if you don't want to! I mean just because I want you, I know that doesn't mean that you have to want me too..."
Taking her hand he placed it on his erection and replied, "Does this convince you that I want you too, Julianna?"
Blushing she nodded and gently rubbed him through the cloth of his jeans.
"Oh, Darling, you'd better let me go to the drugstore before I can't make it," he moaned.
"But I thought you said we would make love all night? If I do this why will you not make it?" she teased a little as she rubbed just a bit harder.
"Julianna, unless you want to risk a pregnancy you had best stop teasing me about now," he gasped.
Her eyes grew round as she thought about what he just said. To carry AJ's child...to have a baby with him...oh how she wanted that! With a slight smile she rubbed even more firmly.
"Julianna, I think we should be married before you get pregnant," he said, covering his hand over hers. "If you want a child, I'm more than willing, because I want a little girl that looks just like her mother, but be sure, please."
"Married?" she squeaked.
"You don't love me enough to marry me, Julianna?" he asked as he watched her facial expressions.
"But we just met!" she exclaimed, still in shock.
"Yes, but, sweetheart, making love is not something one does lightly. Or at least I don't. I love you and want to marry you. I thought you felt the same. Of course well have a courtship before we marry," replied AJ.
"What will Auntie Adele and Father think?"
"What do you mean what will they think?" asked AJ. "What should they think?"
"If we should tell them that we are thinking about marriage this soon?"
"Are they the ones getting married and loving each other until death do us part? Are they going to raise a family together? Will they go to bed and sleep in each other arm each night and wake up still holding each other the next morning? Will it be them, Julianna, or will it be us?"
"I think that they would like to do those things, AJ. But that is not what you meant. No it would not be them, but they are our family, the only ones I have, and I would like to be considerate of their feelings too. I love you and would like nothing more than to be your wife and have your children, but facing Adele's death, should we flaunt that we have a future and they don't?"
To be continued…