"...Mmnn mmm" Mikal insists, shaking her head. "No way"
"What? It's a name?"
"I still don't like it. And with a Y?" she sighs. "Are we really gonna be those parents?"
I roll my eyes. "Fourth one you've shot down, but alright. Myles is out."
"It was never even in." she claims, standing up off the couch.
"Gonna see if there's a better name in the kitchen?" I tease, when she walks in that direction.
"Ha haaa" she says. "I'm grabbing some juice, want something?"
"Well, some names you agree on would be great, but I'll settle for a coke" I smirk, even though she can't see it.
"Coke sounds more likely!" she calls back.
"Coke, it is, then!" I chuckle.
She returns with her juice and my coke can, which she hands to me before sitting back down.
"...so you seriously won't even consider Ryder?" I attempt again, from earlier, only half serious.
"No, Zia." She sighs.
"Why not? It's close enough to Ryker, which you said you liked."
She rolls her eyes. "Alright, if it means that much to you, fine. We'll put it on the list, wherever it goes from there is out of my control though."
"I'll take it."
"I mean it" she says, a little more firmly.
"Gotcha." I reiterate. "And who knows, next week, you might change your mind. The other day, you hated the name Jocelyn, but today it made near the top of the list."
"Don't count on it." She smirks.
"Yes, Ma'am" I tease. She swings another, small, pillow at me in response.
"Alright! Alright!" I laugh, putting my hands in front of my face. "I give, I give."
She snickers, proudly, and puts the pillow back down. "So, names." She says, returning back to the original subject.
"Yes...names" I chuckle. "Would you care to offer some acceptable ones?"
She laughs and then thinks about it for another minute. "...Zack." She finally suggests.
"You have a weird fascination with the first letter of my name." I tease, given this is about the fifth suggestion...including naming it after me, that she's raised since this discussion started.
"Jocelyn wasn't a Z name." She reminds me.
"Jocelyn barely made the cut, and J is starting to become a pattern too. The other two you suggested were Jamie and Julien."
"I just like the names." she tries to claim.
"If you say so." I snicker. "Zack's good, make a mental note of that one."
She smiles. "Noted."
She scoots a little closer to me on the couch and I put my arm around her, as she rests her head on me.
"You know, we still have a few more months." I remind her. "We don't have to come to a decision right this second."
That gets another laugh out of her.
"It's good to start talking about it though."
"Well, it could be, if you would quit threatening me with your pillow stash." I tease.
"I should hit you with another one, just for that comment, but I can't reach them and I'm too comfy." she teases back.
"I'll take that as a win." I snicker.
She tries to keep herself from smiling at that. "You're the worst."
"I know. How do you even put up with me?"
"I'm still trying to figure that out." she giggles.
