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*******I know this title has nothing to do with the chapter, but I didn't have any good ideas for the title, and it was the Avril Lavigne song that I happened to be listening to at the time. ^_^.*******

Chapter 3: My World

The next week was very hectic, between clearing out the storage room down the hall (it was a bedroom, but we used it for a storage room since nobody used it) and moving everything into the garage or the attic. That took just one day in itself, moving boxes of old junk from place to place. Otto and Twister stopped by and helped us, and Twister offered to paint the room when we found out the gender of the baby.

But when Monday morning rolled around, I was surprised at work. I flicked the light switch in my office to see a banner across the front of my desk reading, "Congratulations, Lars!" I saw my boss walking down the hall, so I asked him what was with the banner. He said that Pi had set it up (Pi worked at the office as a lawyer as well.) when he the news about my baby on the way.

My boss continued to ask me questions about Reggie and me, then went back to his work. Pi all of the sudden popped up out of nowhere. "Hey man, heard about your big news!"

"From who?"

"Twister and Otto told me when I went over there to give Chance some free-sample dog treats that were at the grocery store, and Twister had just gotten off of the phone with you."

"Well, thanks for the banner," I said as he smiled, then wished me luck with my "little one".

After work that day, I went home like any normal man would. Reggie was asleep on the couch, so I quietly went to my room to put up my briefcase and get into some casual clothes. When I was dressed, I sat down on the couch and turned on the TV, just like a typical man. Of course, I had the volume down low so that Reggie could sleep. She must have been tired because she slept for a few hours. I looked at the clock, which read six o'clock, so I ordered a pizza.

After the pizza came, she woke up. "It's about time you woke up," I told her as she smiled up at me and stood up, followed by stretching. I paid the pizza man and set the pizza on the kitchen table. We ate it and talked about the day's events. I told her about my surprise in my office and the normal stuff that happened in the office, and she told me about her day. She had sent in her article to the magazine, and then started her new one. The magazine actually wanted her to write a journal to be published about her pregnancy. She had to think about it, since this was a first-time experience for her, and she wasn't sure that she wanted millions reading about it.

For the next month or so, everything was the same. We bought furniture and the necessities for the baby, and she decided to write the journal. After a month her stomach started to swell up, but it still wasn't enough to find out the gender of the baby. So the empty room just sat there for a while, without Twister's art covering the walls. But we got together with Twister, who had drawn some little cartoon characters, such as lambs, tigers, giraffes, etc., and we picked out which ones would be painted in the room.

We told my parents the news, and they were overjoyed. My mother started to cry as she threw her arms around me and wailing, "Oh, I'm gonna be a grandma!" You know, the normal mother stuff that they pull when they find out that you have a baby on the way. I wondered if Reggie would pull that when our time came to be grandparents. I doubted it, because she looked kinda weirded-out when we told Ray. He started to cry and threw his bulky arms around the both of us. But at least they were supportive; I guess Ray figured that if anyone got Reggie pregnant, it should be one of the Rodriguez brothers or Sam.

It's still kinda shocking, even to this day that we were having a baby. When I looked back at all of the days of torment I had caused her and everybody else, it seemed as if I had had an evil twin or something like that. But the past was past, and now was now. Reggie was going to have my baby, and I wouldn't want it any other way.
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