Late Night Secret Searches

One-Shot

He sits in the dark room, the only light coming from the computer screen. If he turns on any other lights, he knows he will for sure wake up his wife and that is the last thing he wants to do right now. He knows that she needs all the sleep she can get. She never stops moving, never stops working, even if she is pregnant she is going to keep moving. Nothing, absolutely nothing is going to stop her from moving, from working.

Ben pauses as he listens to his wife's light snores, she will never admit that she snores, but he loves listening to her snores. He lived a lonely, quiet life for far too long, when he met his wife, she brought all the life back into his life and now he never wants to go back to his previous life. His wife would kill him if he even thought about going back to his previous life.

After listening to his wife for a few more minutes, he returns to his computer, continuing what he was doing before. He has always been a night person, finding it hard to stay asleep or even fall asleep. He knows his wife understands, she has always understood him, when other people didn't, when his parents didn't understand him, she did. She has changed his whole world. She is his world.

"Ben?"

His thoughts are quickly interrupted by his wife's voice. He doesn't know why but he quickly slams his laptop shut. Part of him, he guesses, doesn't want her to see what he is looking at.

"Rey? Sweetheart, what are you doing up?" He asks, getting up and making his way over to his wife. "You were just sleeping, I could hear you snoring from here."

"I just had to go to the bathroom," Rey says, as she rubs her eyes, he can't help but chuckle. He can tell that she is still in a state of sleep. "What are you doing on your laptop? And more importantly, what don't you want me to see?"

"Oh, it's nothing, believe me, just surfing the web. Come on, let's get you back to bed," Ben says as he starts to lead Rey away and back to the bedroom.

Rey being Rey manages to escape from his arms and before he can get a single word out, she has his laptop open. Busted. He one hundred percent busted. Well, he managed to keep it a secret for as long as he could but now it's all out in the open.

"I can explain," He rushes out.

"Well, this definitely explains the grocery list."

"You're not mad?"

"Why would I be mad at this?" Rey questions. "This is the cutest, sweetest thing I have seen you do in a long time."

Ben feels the heat on the back of his neck and his cheeks heat up. Yep, he is definitely embarrassed. He never expected for her to see this.

"I just… I just wanted to be prepared. You know, I just wanted to make sure you had all you needed especially if I was at work, you would have what you wanted without having to go out."

"And that," Rey says, making her way to stand in front of Ben and placing her hands on his cheeks. "Is absolutely the sweetest thing ever."

"Really?"

"Yes! Plus you know, I was starting to crave pickles."

"I know," Ben smiles, wrapping his arms around his wife. "You ate an entire jar of pickles and peanut butter in two days."

"So is that why you were looking up what pregnant women crave?"

"Yes, like I said I wanted to be prepared," Ben says. "Now what do you say that we get you back to bed?"

"Yes, back to bed please."

"As you wish," Ben smiles, picking his wife up and carrying her back to bed.

This is what he does when his wife is asleep. Ever since they found out she was pregnant, he has found himself looking what is going to happen during pregnancy. Something, according to his mother, his father also did when they found out they were pregnant with him. Late-night pregnancy searches are something that first-time solo fathers do.