Chapter 17

Pictures of You

"I'm, I have to go." Haley said as she scurried around the room looking for her shoes. She couldn't be here, not with him, not now. The nerve of him! The only word he could come up with is oh! She was just about to place her small hand on the cold hard door knob, she felt the larger hand of her husband come up and inter lace their fingers. When Haley turned to look at him she could see his eyes glazed in over in tears with a huge goofy grin on his face.

"I'm going to be a daddy?" She couldn't help but laugh at his antics.

"Yea." She whispered to him. "I mean…if you want to." She shouldn't have said that. She knew it, she regretted it.

"Baby, what are you talking about?" Nathan asked getting truly nervous as he watched her fiddle with her fingers and stare and her fidgeting feet.

"I guess, after everything that's happened over the past year- I don't know I thought maybe you wouldn't want to keep it…none of this is supposed to be happening." Haley exasperatedly cried out as she broke down in tears for the first time.

"Of course I want to keep it, Haley." Nathan spoke to his wife softly, rubbing soothing circles on her back. "That's our son or our daughter Haley. Our child; and I know that right now things are still a little…off between us. But I want to be with you Haley; I want to be your husband again." Nathan paused, collecting his thoughts. "Ya know, before everything happened, I would lie in bed with you in my arms and just think about a few years from then, out life. I always knew we would have kids. Hell, I always wanted to have kids with you Haley. I love you, you don't even know how much." Nathan held her delicate hands in his own, as he, with his callused thumb, over the skin between her index finger and thumb.

"I do." She mumbled into his chest, some of the fabric from his tee shirt coming into her mouth as she spoke.

"What?" Nathan pulled away slightly so he could look into her eyes

"I do know. I know because it's the same way I feel about you." She smiled, although it faded…again. So Nathan again got nervous. "I'm going to be a mom." 'oh boy, she's talking to herself.' "I'm going to get morning sickness and throw up 24/7 and I'm going to have massive beck aches, and I'm going to have to pee all the time, and I'm going to have swollen ankles, and I- I- I love you." She screeched as she lunged in to his arms.