It was a week since Louise and Darren got engaged, nobody knew about it, not even Katie. Darren was covering the front desk at work, while his assistant was at lunch. Then he heard someone coming in, so he looked up and saw it was Louise.
"Hi, what are you doing here?" he said pleased to see her, he had hardly saw her in the past week.
"What aren't I allowed to come and visit a friend at work?"
"A friend?" he said raising an eyebrow at her.
"What, aren't we friends?"
"Lou seriously is everything okay?"
"Yeah, I'm just pathetic I waited till Eugene went to lunch and all the drivers were out so I could come and see you," she admitted.
"Awww did you miss me?" he teased
"Yup," said Louise leaning over the counter and gave him a quick peck on the lips.
"Hi, boss sorry I'm a little late," said Eugene coming back from lunch.
"That's fine, you really didn't need to rush back," said Darren through gritted teeth.
"So, how can I help you?" Eugene said to Louise, blushing from head to foot.
"Actually I was here to talk to your boss, the package I picked up last week was in a shocking condition and I want to know why," said Louise pretending to be annoyed.
"Yes and as I was saying if you would just like to come through to the office I can find out who handled the package and find out what happened," said Darren lifting the counter up and letting Louise through.
"Wow, you're acting has improved a lot," said Louise as Darren closed to office door.
"I hate this, I hate not being able to kiss you whenever I see you, and being able to tell everyone about us and…"
"Sweetie you're babbling," said Louise cutting him off.
"Sorry," he said, "anyway I wanted to tell you that the divorce should be through in a week, all we have to do is wait for the papers to be drawn up and sign them"
"Wow how did that happen, last I heard Cindi was holding everything up by trying to get custody and half of everything"
"I have my ways of persuading her," said Darren mysteriously.
"Okay, either you slept with her or you paid her off. How much did she take for custody of her son?"
"$5000"
"That's shocking, I won't sell my baby for anything less than $15000"
"Well I was going to offer 20 but she got in there first and demanded 5, so I wasn't going to argue. But she does get joint custody"
"What does that mean?"
"It means she takes him 2 weekends a month, and the rest of the time he's with us"
"Oh okay that's not so bad"
"Anyway I want to talk about more pleasant subjects," said Darren taking a step closer to Louise.
"Oh no you don't I know that look, no sex until…"
"I know, I know, I don't see why though"
"Because if someone catches us we can't really deny anything if we're in the middle of… But since we're just talking…"
"Fine, fine but I can't last much longer, maybe if I give her $10000 it'll go faster"
"No you just have to be patient," said Louise, "and you said you wanted to talk about a more pleasant subject. I booked an appointment with the doctor, to check everything is okay with the baby."
"Really when?"
"2 weeks tomorrow"
"What time?"
"Noon"
"That's great, we'll get to see it, we'll get a picture of our little baby," said Darren emotionally, as he placed his hand over Louise's stomach, "I still can't believe it sometimes"
"You better, cause I seriously think I'm gonna get morning sickness soon, I was feeling nauseas when I woke up"
"But you're okay?"
"Yes I'm fine. And by the time we go to the doctor, the divorce should be through and then we can tell our families, and tell everyone else when I'm 3 months"
"I can't wait," he said then he kissed the top of her forehead, "but we have another thing to worry about"
"We do," said Louise confused, "the baby, Jack, the divorce nope I think that's it"
"The wedding"
"We don't have to think about that right now, we have enough to deal with"
"I know but…"
"You're not even divorced yet"
"I will be in a week"
"You shouldn't be rushing into another marriage"
"Rushing? Lou are you kidding, it's taken 7 years to get us this far. I want to marry you before you come to your senses"
"Awww you're sweet"
"Come on don't you want to be married before the baby comes?"
"Well… yeah but it's not something I need…"
"But it's something you want?"
"Yeah"
"Then let's do it," said Darren twirling her round to face him, "We could, anything you want I don't care how it looks or how much it costs or anything like that"
"Yeah why should we put the wedding on hold?"
"We shouldn't"