As promised, here's chapter three and it's longer than the first two. Sorry it's taken me so long to get it up, I'm possibly the laziest person in the world when it comes to getting my chapters typed up. I'm currently working on chapter seven and I think I'm having too much fun with that to be motivated to type up chapter four(which is about three times longer than this one). I'll try really hard to get it up tomorrow, but if I'm not able to don't get worried, just know that I have four more chapters written so far, and I'm nowhere near finished yet!

Oh yea, if you didn't already notice, I don't own Maureen or Joanne or any other character from Rent.

Just lying there with Maureen in my arms made my life feel complete. Her legs entwined with mine and her soft, warm body pressed up against mine just felt so natural. I storked my hands through her soft, dark curls as we gazed into each other's eyes. She was beautiful. What did I ever do to deserve her?

"I love you." I whispered as I kissed the tip of her nose. She giggled. "Mommabear" I decided to add in.

"Mommybear" she quickly corrected me. "How can we expect our kid to get that right if you can't?" she said, kissing the tip of my nose. I pulled her closer.

"Well, after I'm done with you tonight I won't be forgetting again I said as I started to nibble on her ear. "Assuming you'll be as vocal as you usually are."

The next morning I woke up with Maureen in my arms mumbling something about chickens and frying pans in her sleep. She was so cute when she slept. I glanced over at the clock and realized that I should probably start getting ready for work. As much as I hated to leave her today, I knew that I had to. I managed to untangle myself and get out of our bed without waking her up. I stood there for a minute just watching her sleep before turning towards the bathroom to take a shower.

I was in the kitchen getting my coffee when I heard her stumble out of bed. I laughed to myself as I thought about what I'll have to go through with her for the next nine months. I couldn't imagine anything with her getting crazier than it already was, but this is Maureen I'm talking about, so I could never really prepare myself for her. I was quickly brought back to reality by the sound of her whining as she walked down the hallway.

"Pookie, I woke up and you were gone," she said, crossing her arms across her chest as she stuck out her bottom lip in an attempt to pout. "I was cold."

"Well, that's something I'd certainly expect from going to bed naked," I said with a smile, not being able to resist her child-like expression.

"I know, but..." she started, walking over to the refrigerator. As she opened it, she continued. "I just thought you'd be there." There was a small hint of disappointment in her voice that sounded almost genuine, so I walked over and put my arms around her wait. Looking her in the eye I said "Aw, don't get upset honeybear. Tomorrow's saturday, so I'll be there when you wake up, but right now I need to get going or I'm going to be late for work." I kissed her forhead and as I pulled away I noticed that her bottom lip was sticking out again. "What?"

"It's just that I thought, maybe, you'd stay home today, you know, since celebrating was iyour/i idea." As she said that she arched her right eyebrow at me. "Pookie, can't you call you office and tell them that you need the day off?"

I stood there and thought about that for a minute before answering. "What am I supposed to tell them? I can't come in today because my wife's pregnant and I need to take this chance to be with her while I'm still able to go down on her?" I asked her.

"Sure. Who wouldn't understand that?"

Was she serious?

"Well, I really don't have anything important that needs to get done today..." I said, although more to myself than to her. "I'll call Julia and tell her to reschedule my lunch meeting for Monday and then I'm all your's." I stepped away from her, smiling. I needed to get out of these workclothes if I was going to have any fun at all with her today.

"Shopping?" she asked me suddenly, with a quizical look on her face. For a minute I was confused, but then I understood.

"Sure thing, honeybear. Just let me change out of these clothes." I gave her a smile as I let go of her hands. "And you'd better put on something else if you don't want to freeze out there."

"Okay, Pookie!" she chirped as she skipped down the hall to our bedroom. I smiled as I thought about how lucky I was to have such a wonderful wife and how lucky our child was going to be to have Maureen as her mother.