Chapter 5

Part one

(They've been married for a mouth)

Lucy walked into her and Kevin's apartment and threw herself onto the couch. She rubbed at the headache that was coming and slipped her shoes off. Lucy sighed and closed her eyes.

A strangled noise entered the room and Lucy's eyes flashed open and looked at Kevin who laughed and plopped is briefcase down on the floor. Her mouth fell open and she stared at him.

"Did you just burp?" Lucy asked stunned and he shrugged.

"Yeah, excuse me," Kevin replied and she raised an eyebrow.

"That's disgusting, Kevin," She told him and he smirked.

"I'm a guy, its okay to burp," He playfully argued with her and then burped again. She made a face at him and groaned. "Why what's wrong?"

"Nothing."

Kevin sat on top of her on the couch and she immediately tried to push him off.

"Get off; I'm not in the mood for your immaturity."

"I'm not being immature."

"Yes you are, go away."

He frown and then turned so that he was facing her while still on top of her. "What's wrong?"

"Nothing's wrong, just because I don't want to play with you right now doesn't mean that something's wrong," She argued and he stared at her blankly.

"Fine." He stood up and walked into the closet to change.

Later, when he walked out he found Lucy asleep on the couch. He sighed and took the blanket that was on the back of the couch and covered her up with it.

After that he walked down the stairs and went next store to the Camden house. When he walked in Annie smiled at him from the kitchen sink.

"Hello, Kevin," She greeted and he forced a smile back.

"Hi, Mrs. Camden," he said and she could see the glumness in his voice.

"Is something wrong Kevin?"

"No, nothings wrong." She angled her head and studied him with narrow eyes; he cracked a smile and nodded slowly. "Well, it's just that Lucy's been acting kind of weird these last few weeks, and I don't know what's going on. I mean today she shut me out and today wasn't the only time this week."

Annie smiled sympathetically and nodded.

"Maybe you should talk to her?" She suggested and he shrugged and grabbed a soda out of the fridge.

"Maybe," he replied and left through the back door.

Part two

After Kevin walked out of the Camden's kitchen, he drove to the pool hall and shot some pool with some of the guys from the office.

"Didn't you leave work early to get home and be with your wife?" Mike, a fellow police officer asked. Kevin shrugged.

"That was the plan," Kevin told the guys quietly.

"So what are you doing here?" Ron, another officer asked. Kevin shot and missed the balls completely.

"We just aren't getting along," He murmured and the guys' eyebrows shot up.

"What'd ya do Kinkirk?" Mike asked and the guys chuckled.

"I didn't do anything...I don't think, I don't know she's just acting funny and pushing me away."

The guys exchanged looks. "Did you say that your wife was pregnant?" Mike asked and Kevin whipped his head away from his shot and looked at Mike.

"No! Lucy's not pregnant; I don't know where you got a dumb idea like that." Kevin shook his head at the thought, Lucy, pregnant? Yeah right.

"That's how my wife acted when she got pregnant, all 5 times," Randy commented and all the guys laughed.

"She isn't."

"Ok, buddy, but when she starts the mood swings, then you know you've got a problem." Pregnant? Uhh...wow, what a thought. Could Lucy be pregnant? Kevin nearly shuddered as he drove home from the pool hall, Lucy being pregnant wasn't possible...well he didn't think so at least...well...he'd talk to her.

When Kevin pulled up to the apartment and made his way up the stairs and saw that Lucy was no longer asleep. She was sitting at the table surrounded by books.

"Hey Luce," Kevin greeted in an unsteady voice. She glanced up and then looked back down at the book in front of her. "We should talk," He continued and Lucy looked up when she heard his unusually shaky voice.

Oh god, Lucy thought, was that his voice cracking? Damn, why don't I ever have a video camera when I need one?

"Actually Kevin, now's really not the time." She told him and went back to writing notes.

"Luce," he practically croaked and she barely stifled the laugh that bubbled in her throat.

"Yeah," She turned around and looked at him.

"Can we please talk?"

"Honey, I need to study, is this important?"

"Yes..." He told her hesitantly. Of course it is, Lucy forced a smile.

"Okay, then lets talk about it later." She turned and rolled her eyes, what was wrong with him?

Part three

Kevin walked back over to the couch and picked up a book, he groaned and then put it down again and picked up the newspaper, he skimmed through it and then tossed it to the other side of the couch.

He finally stood up and started for the stairs.

"I'm going out," He announced, but didn't get a reply back. "Okay?" He said again and thought he heard a mumble from Lucy. "Right, not like you'd care," he bit out in frustration and walked out of the apartment slamming the door as he left.

Lucy sat staring at the book not even noticing the commotion.

Several hours later, Kevin walked back into the apartment and threw his keys onto the table. He frowned when he didn't see Lucy sitting there with a pile of books. His eyes wandered over to the bed and saw her sleeping.

"I see how it is," he whispered to himself and stripped to his boxers and climbed into bed on the opposite side of his wife.

Kevin lay staring at the ceiling for at least an hour before he got frustrated and turned onto his side taking the covers with him. He then felt a sudden jerk of the covers and they were pulled from him.

Abruptly, he turned over and glared at Lucy. He pulled them back and closed his eyes stubbornly. He felt another jerk of the covers and finally sat up.

"I'm cold," he declared and pulled the blanket over towards him. "You're a cover hog."

"Oh, good one."

He turned back around and looked at his wife.

"What did you say?" Kevin waited a minute and finally after no hearing another word from her he grumbled something and lay on his pillow facing away from her.

It was hours later that Lucy woke freezing and sat up. She looked to see that Kevin was snuggled up with all of the covers. She frown and pulled them from him and onto her.

"Share," she hissed and lay back down. Again she felt the covers slowly slip away when Kevin turned to his side.

"For the love of god, Kevin."

She sat up and pushed her sleeping husband off of the bed. He hit the floor with thud and then sat up immediately.

"What happened??" He asked in a panic and Lucy smirked as she lay back down. Still confused, he sat on the bed and slowly lay back down again.

It was silent for another minute until Lucy broke it.

"Stop kicking me." Her voice was mumbled against the comforter and Kevin grinned. He moved so that he was facing her and he pulled her closer to him by wrapping his arms around her waist.

"This was nice, Lucy. I'm glad we got a good night sleep," he commented and she snorted a laugh.

"Oh, yeah, real nice." She snuggled into his chest.

"You know we still have to talk in the morning."

"Yeah, Yeah."

It was silent again and then Lucy smiled into the dark.

"Cover hog."

Okay! So, I'm kind of running out of ideas, so unless someone has any other good ones, I'll be ending this story in like umm...maybe 3 or 4 more chapters....Plus an epilogue.

That was just some adjusting to newly wed life, let me know if ya like it!