Nightmare

Brutus sat bolt upright gasping for breath. He picked up his phone and glasses. He slipped them onto his muzzle and lit up the screen to see the time. 3am. Damnit, stupid dream had to wake him up two hours before he had to get up. The thought made him nervous for a moment and he looked at his beautiful bed companion. Still the same as she always was. Her red back fur shimmering in the light of his phone. His relieved sigh was a tad too loud and she stirred in her sleep and sat up blinking the sleep out of her eyes.

"Brute? What time is it?" Sandy asked tiredly.

"Three." he answered and kissed her forehead.

She looked at him and tilted her head in curiosity, "What's up?"

"Oh, just a bad dream that can't happen." he said trying to deflect her question.

"Tell me what it was. Maybe once it's out of your head we can get back to sleep," she said with a little smirk pleased that something could get under his pelt bad enough to bug him.

"I don't know. Maybe I should just keep this one to myself." he said, "It's kinda disturbing."

She reached up and flicked his ear. He flinched and decided he'd just give in to protect his ears.

"Fine, but don't say I didn't warn you, Dove." he chastised lightly.

"So I was sitting with you at the table and we were having a cake with Lilly to celebrate her graduation and moving out. Well at that time you get up to get the cake…." he paused unsure if he should say it or how. She began to reach for his pointed ears again so he just spit it out quickly. "You were pregnant and I'm not talking normal baby bump type thing but like you had an elephant size beach ball in there."

Her eyes as he went on with the sentence became huge. She looked at her own stomach as though to reassure herself it wasn't true then back at him.

"You know what? You were right that is disturbing." she got up after speaking and snatched her sweat pants and a shirt that was his. "Since there's no way we are getting back to sleep tonight, I think I'm going to go make some coffee."

"My turn for making the eggs," he said quickly as he got up and tossed on the pants he left on the floor the night before.