Tony loved the name, which was really good, because I would have named our son that anyway. That was almost 2 months ago, and today is our 15th anniversary. Tony and I have a nice romantic dinner planned, just the two of us. Unfortunately, I have to go out a buy a new dress. The one I bought when we planned this 6 months ago won't fit anymore. I think the most part of our time planning was spent trying to find a good babysitter. Abby volunteered, but I'm afraid of what she would teach them, she's already trying to get Lexi interested in forensics. We finally settled on Gibbs and Jen, the NCIS director and his new wife. She's number four I think, who knows, maybe this one will last. Anyway, we're going to the same restaurant that he proposed to me at, and then it was supposed to be a night of dancing and romantic rest of the night at the same hotel we spent our first married night at. But dancing is out of the question, so it's going to be a nice movie and we're keeping the hotel thing. My being pregnant has not slowed down our love life one bit. Abby is here to take me out dress shopping, she's convinced that there is at least one sexy maternity dress out there.
"Abby, I know what maternity clothes looks like; I've been pregnant 3 times before this. It's all baggy and ugly. I hate maternity clothes."
"I saw a cute little maternity shop at the mall, trust me, you will definitely find something there to knock Tony's socks off."
"All I have to do to knock his socks off is smile. But fine, if you say there is good stuff there, I will look."
I love being around Abby, just at the sound of her voice Alec settles down. He has ever since that day she told him to stop kicking. The ride to the mall is short, but on a normal day, Alec can get in at least 30 kicks, but now he's only given me maybe 8. Once we get to the mall, it takes me forever to get to the store. I definitely have the pregnant waddle. The store actually has some pretty cool clothes. A lot of it is everyday wear; I'm tempted to buy some of it for work or just hanging around the house. Ah, the dresses, lets see if there's anything that will fit.
"I don't think any of this will fit, it's all for women with smaller bellies. I look like someone shoved a beach ball up my shirt, and I'm talking one of the huge ones they throw around at baseball games."
"Wait, I think I found one, try it on."
"It won't fit, just like the rest."
"Just try it on Kate."
She hands me this beautiful shimmery blue floor length gown. I guess I should try it on, but it looks too small to fit my huge stomach. I look at my stomach in the dressing room mirror, I'm huge, I have stretch marks and my belly button is sticking out. How can anyone find this sexy? I pull the dress on, and, wow, it fits. It's got two ribbons on either side, they tie in the back. This is pretty cute.
"Alright Abs, I'm coming out."
"Does it fit?"
"See for yourself." I open the door and she gasps. She's never been speechless before, usually she starts squealing and hugging people when they tell her anything.
"Do you like it?"
"I love it; you are going to look great. Tony won't be able to keep his hands off of you."
"How do you think I got this way in the first place?"
We buy the dress and head home, I still have hair and makeup to do before the dinner. Abby is helping me with the hair and I'm doing my own makeup. I don't trust anyone else to, especially not Abby. She'll put black eyeliner on me. Tony's spent the day off with the kids, at a baseball game, then the park. When he got home I locked my self in our bedroom, I didn't want him to see me all dressed up until right before we left.
"Kate, let me into my bedroom, I need to get stuff."
"Send in one of the kids then. I don't want you to see me until we leave."
"Fine, I'm sending in Lexi, with a list of things I need to get ready."
I open the door and let her in. She knows what I look like she helped Abby with my hair after they got home. I know she won't tell her father about what I look like.
"Ok mom, dad needs his jacket, his shirt, shoes and aftershave."
I run as fast as I can around the room getting everything he needs. I hand it all to Lexi and usher her out of the room. I hang around in our room watching TV, until finally Tony is ready and Gibbs and Jen arrive, so we can go.
"Tony, don't make a big deal out of it, I'm coming out." I open the door and step out. I hear gasps from all the kids, Gibbs, Jen and Tony. I can't help but blush.
"Kate, you are……beautiful. Wow." Tony manages to get out after staring at me for what feels like forever.
"Have fun you two. We'll see you in the morning." Gibbs says, kissing me on the cheek.
Tony and I leave, and have a wonderful dinner. It was so romantic, candlelight and champagne. I know that you aren't supposed to have alcohol when you're pregnant, but I figured that only one glass will be fine, plus I'm pretty far along. We did a little slow dancing at the restaurant, but we can barely even do that. After dinner, we went to see a cute chick-flick as Tony calls them. It was definitely romantic, and we missed most of it. We're like teenagers; we sit there at movies in the back row making out most of the time. At the hotel, he carries me over the threshold of the room, making jokes all the while about how heavy I am. He's still romantic, after all these years. He places me down on the floor and kisses me.
"Hey, don't you think we did enough of this at the movies?"
"Never Kate, I'll never get enough of kissing you."
This is the perfect ending to my perfect day. A romantic dinner, a romantic movie, and a night, alone, with my husband.
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