Chapter 40, enjoy! Wow 40 chapters already! Thank you all for your constant support, from the detailed reviews to the favs/follows and even you silent readers!
That night Julie couldn't get comfortable, and whenever she did get comfortable, Miss Riggins made it know that she was wide awake. Tim had fallen asleep easily, but Julie's tossing and turning eventually woke him up.
"Jules," Tim groaned reaching over her to turn on the lamp.
"What," She mumbled in response.
"Oh, you're awake," He groggily responded, having thought she was tossing and turning due to a nightmare.
"Yep, haven't slept a wink," She replied with a tired voice.
"I thought you were having a bad dream or something," He explained.
"Nope. I can't get comfortable. And when I do your daughter kicks me,"
"Last time I checked, it took both of us to make her," Tim replied sarcastically.
"Not in the mood!" She responded shooting a fist into his muscular shoulder, not finding the humor in his comment.
"Hope that didn't hurt your hand," He teased. Julie shot him a glare. "Is there anything I can do to help you go to sleep?"
"Maybe if we lay here and talk long enough I'll just get completely exhausted and fall asleep."
"So what do you wanna talk about?" Tim asked her.
"Why don't you show me those baby pictures we found at your house," Julie suggested. Tim climbed out of her bed and dug around in the bag he had brought his stuff home from Billy's in. He found the photo album and climbed back in bed. He opened up the cover, revealing pictures from one of his younger birthdays.
"Awww is that you and Billy?" She asked, seeing a picture where an older, short haired child that looked a lot like Billy was holding a younger, longer haired boy who looked to be Tim.
"Yeah," Tim responded. He flipped the page to reveal pictures of himself as a 4 or 5 year-old dressed up as a football player for Halloween. "I actually remember this, I had just started school. Smash, Jason, and I all dressed up as football players," He explained with a smile.
"Is that you and Jason?" She asked, pointing to a picture from the same Halloween, where Tim was next to a boy the same size as him, but a little bit older.
"Yeah, everyone made fun of him because he was in 1st grade and I was in Pre-K and I was as big as him," Tim chuckled. He turned the page, and on the next page were pictures of Tim as a newborn. One of Billy holding him and one of each of his parents holding him.
"Aww you were such a cute baby," Julie gushed. He was wrapped in a pale blue blanket, with big hazel eyes and soft strands of brown hair.
"I think I should get to see your baby pictures now," Tim stated.
"Um no," Julie quickly responded. "I was not a cute baby," She added.
"Come on please, I showed you mine," Tim begged. Julie caved and snuck into the living room to retrieve her baby photo album.
"See, not cute," She states, opening the album.
"Such a liar!" Tim teased. "You were a cute baby," he added as she turned the page to show pictures of the day when Tami and Eric brought her home from the hospital.
"But I was bald!" Julie exclaimed referring to her newborn pictures where she had little to no hair.
"It looks like you had a little bit of hair, it's just really blonde."
"What do you think she will look like?" Julie curiously asked.
"I don't know," Tim replied. "I hope she looks like her momma," He added sweetly wrapping his arm around Julie's shoulders.
"I love you Tim," Julie quietly stated, laying her head on the soft t-shirt material that covered his chest.
"I love you too Jules," He responded placing a kiss on her head. "I hope she has your pretty blue eyes," He added. When he got no response, he looked down to see Julie had finally fallen asleep. He reached over her to turn the lamp out, careful not to wake her. Tim snuggled up next to her and was fast asleep in a matter of minutes.
The next morning, Tim was woken by the light flooding in her room from the open blinds. Julie had rolled over onto his arm, where she was currently still asleep, sometime in the night. The smell of bacon and eggs flowed down the hall and into her room, causing Tim's stomach to growl. Tim carefully pulled his arm out from under her and made his way into the living room.
"Good morning," Eric greeted when a sleepy Tim walked into the kitchen.
"Morning Tim," Tami also greeted, taking the bacon off the stove.
"Morning," Tim mumbled with a yawn, sitting down at the bar. Shelley who was standing in the kitchen got the orange juice from the fridge and a cup from the cabinet which she sat in front of Tim.
"Julie still asleep?" Eric asked as Tim poured his glass of orange juice.
"Yeah," Tim responded with another yawn.
"Did ya'll stay up late or something?" Tami asked.
"She couldn't go to sleep, she was tossing and turning all night," Tim explained.
Back in her room, Julie slowly woke up. She rolled over to find the other side of the bed vacant. She sat up and stretched to wake herself up. She saw the photo album they had looked though the night before on her nightstand and picked it up. She began flipping though the album, smiling at the pictures of young Tim. As sweet as it was that Tim wanted their daughter to look like her, Julie hoped that Raylee, Rylan, Rylie, or whatever they decided to name their daughter would at least have some of her dad's traits. She focused on one picture in particular, it was of Tim and his mom, who she now noticed he strongly resembled. She closed the album and ventured into the kitchen.
"Good morning sleepy head," Tim greeted her with a big smile, that she now knew he got from his mom.
"Morning hun, you want some bacon?" Tami asked.
"No thanks, too greasy," She answered with disgust. She looked into Tami's eyes, which she now noticed resembled her own. She found some cereal in the cabinet and poured herself a bowl, caught up day dreaming about what her and Tim's daughter would look like.
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