*Contains implied Supernova Spoilers*
This one is also dedicated to Adrian_nova_forever and a continuation of the last chapter.
"Nova? Are you well enough for our anniversary dinner?" Adrian asked on his way home.
Shucks. Nova forgot that today marked their first marriage anniversary.
Adrian had reserved a table at a fancy restaurant three weeks in advance.
Her hands shook. The test was still in her hands.
Adrian had called a few minutes after she saw the test and she was still trying to wrap her head around the whole life growing inside of her thing.
"Um, yeah. It's still on," Nova said.
She hung up and went to get Adrian's gift.
She put the cap back on the part of the stick that she peed on and put it in the box.
Then, quickly, she wrapped the box in wrapping paper and decided that she wanted Adrian to find out that way.
She was scared, and she knew that Adrian probably would be, too. But she knew Adrian, and she knew that underneath the fear and panic, or, perhaps over the fear and panic, he'd be elated. He'd be absolutely ecstatic.
Nova got into a nice blue sweater dress with black leggings. She wore the diamond necklace that Adrian had got her years ago on their first dating anniversary, and a pair of earrings that Simon and Hugh had given to her as an engagement gift.
She waited for Adrian to get home. He only had thirty minutes to get into a suit before they had to get there. Adrian decided to just schedule that reservation because it was the only spot available for that day and it was hard enough getting a reservation there in that week.
Adrian came in, making quite a ruckus, and quickly changed and put some cologne on.
Nova grabbed her satchel (that she claimed passed as a purse) and Adrian made sure he had his wallet, they both grabbed the gifts they got for one another, and HE drove to the restaurant.
He wanted them to get there in one piece.
Adrian went up to the hostess and announced his name and that he had reserved a table.
"There's no reservation here for Adrian Everhart," The woman said.
"Um, ok. Try Nova Everhart. I might have used her name or something."
"There's no Everhart. Let me look at the schedule."
The woman looked at the schedule.
"There's a reservation for Adrian Everhart for next month at this time."
"Oh, I must have said May second instead of April. I'm sorry, Nova," Adrian stated.
"It's ok, Adrian," Nova said as the couple walked out of the restaurant.
"I'm still hungry," Nova said.
"Yeah, me too. We can go somewhere else. It just won't be as fancy," Adrian said.
"I'm fine with that," Nova said.
"What sounds good?" He asked.
"A burger. And tator tots. And ice cream." Nova replied.
"Ok. We can go to a burger place and then afterwards, we can go to Sweet Treats," Adrian said.
"Sounds good," Nova said as Adrian started to drive to one of Gatlon's best burger places.
Nova was shaking. Her insides were squirming, and something told her it wasn't the baby. Can babies even start moving this early?
Hmm. Nova needs a book about pregnancy.
As they got nearer, her insides start to squirm more.
"Are you ok, Nova? You look pale."
"I'm fine," Nova replied, her hands tightened around the wrapped pregnancy test box.
"Well, we're here," Adrian said, parking the car.
"Nova, dear, I don't want you to ruin your desert, so do you think you can refrain from putting ice cream on your burger?" Adrian asked as they walked to the restaurant's entrance.
"Why would I put ice cream on my burger?" Nova asked.
"Well, you did for steak." Adrian pointed out.
"Steak is different." Nova stated, as if it was obvious.
"How?" Adrian asked.
"It just is." Nova replied.
Adrian just shrugged and held the door open for his wife.
This place wasn't as fancy as the other place, but it was a sit-down restaurant and it was nice.
They were seated and the waitress came to get their drinks orders.
"Hi! My name is Teresa and I'll be your server tonight. Can I start you off with drinks?" The young girl asked.
"A bottle of your nicest merlot, please." Adrian requested. (Despite being 21, I'm not a big drinker, so I don't know a whole bunch of wines, this is the first one I thought of).
"Um, actually, Adrian, let's not do wine," Nova said.
"Why? Do you want cocktails instead?" Adrian asked. "Because we can get cocktails. I just know how much..."
"Sweet tea, please," Nova interrupted her husband.
"Sweet tea?" He asked.
"And you?" Teresa asked, turning to him.
"Oh, um, water is fine," Adrian said, a bit confused.
The waitress left and Adrian stared at Nova.
"You always get pop or wine or something. You love wine," Adrian said.
"I'm just in the mood for some nice tea," Nova said, looking at the menu. She mentally crossed out all of the items with beer cheese or foods that are harmful to fetuses. Luckily she was able to scribble out a quick list before Adrian picked her up, and she was discreetly checking it, hoping that Adrian wouldn't notice and ask why she had random food items written on paper.
No seafood, no soft cheeses, no foods containing alcohol (like beer cheese or pastas with an alcoholic sauce), no deli meat sandwiches. Avoiding these foods wasn't hard, considering the place specialized in burgers. Nova just couldn't order the fish sandwich or the steakhouse burger, because it contained beer cheese.
Nova knew that alcohol usually is cooked out on dishes where it's used, but she wanted to be safe, so she didn't take the risk. She was caught by surprise earlier, but as she thought about it, she imagined a life with Adrian and their baby and she was determined to do what she could to avoid anything that could harm the fetus, even if the risk was low.
That reminded Nova to ask the waitress for her burger to be well done.
Theresa came back holding the beverages and set them down in front of Nova and Adrian.
"Are you ready to order?" Teresa asked.
"I am. Adrian?" Nova said.
"Me, too." He said.
"Great! Ladies first," Teresa said.
"I'll have the Gatlon classic," Nova said. "And I want it well done. No pink."
"Ok. Fries ok for the side?"
"Actually, can I have the steamed broccoli?"
"Of course."
"The vegetables are washed before cooking, right?"
"Yep. They're soaked in vegetable wash for ten minutes." Teresa replied.
"Ok. Thank you," Nova said.
Adrian was kind of confused. Nova usually never asked so many strange questions, and she loved fries. Heck, she just said she was craving tator tots!
"And you?" Teresa said, turning to Adrian.
"I'll have the Steakhouse burger. Can I have the cheese on the side? With tator tots. I like to dip the tator tots in the cheese."
"Sure can. It will be out shortly, Just flag me down if you need anything else," Teresa said.
Adrian turned to Nova again.
"Nova? What's going on? You usually never ask so many questions," Adrian said. "And you said you were craving tator tots."
Nova was craving tator tots, but greasy foods weren't healthy for the life inside of her.
"Broccoli sounded really good," Nova replied.
"You like your burger to have a little pink," Adrian stated.
"I was in the mood for a well-done burger. Stop arguing, Adrian," Nova said, taking a sip of her tea.
She knew that she would run out of excuses if he kept asking and she wanted to save the announcement until they opened their gifts at Sweet Treats. Over the years, all their important dates happened at that ice cream shop. Nova and Adrian were planning to go there after the fancy restaurant to open gifts, and that part of the plan still hadn't changed, even though the first restaurant changed.
Adrian dropped the subject.
"So, how was your day after I left?" Nova questioned.
"It was good. I'm just glad Ruby and Oscar are back from their honeymoon. We needed them." Adrian said.
Ruby and Oscar got married a month prior and just got back a week ago, after two weeks in Rome.
"I remember our honeymoon," Nova said dreamily.
"Those beaches were so nice. I wish we could go back. Maybe this summer."Adrien suggested.
"Yeah..." Nova said.
But she was only saying that. Going to the beach with a newborn was a disaster just waiting to happen.
Their food was brought to them and Nova scarfed it down. She was starving.
The broccoli didn't exactly hit the spot, but she stole about half of Adrian's tots.
"In the mood for broccoli, huh?"
"I'm your wife. I'm supposed to steal your food," Nova replied.
They finished their dinner, paid, and headed to the ice cream shop.
When they got into the building, the owner looked up.
"Nodrian!" She exclaimed, using their couple name to address them.
Her daughter, who also worked there, waved to the couple. She knew them well, but not as well as Ambrosia.
"The usual?" Ambrosia asked.
Adrian nodded as Ambrosia started to assemble the sundae.
Adrian paid and took the sundae to their usual table, where Nova was patiently waiting.
Nova ended up eating most of the sundae.
She was pregnant, and soon enough, Adrian would understand.
"Time for gifts?" Adrian asked.
He put his gift on the table, and Nova put her two on the table.
"Nova, two? We agreed..."
"Just wait," Nova said.
As per tradition, Nova opened hers first.
"You got me a portrait of our cat? I love it!" Nova exclaimed.
Adrian had painted a portrait of the cat Nova loved so much.
Nova smiled as Adrian opened the first one. It was an expensive art set that Adrian had his eye on for awhile but couldn't afford. Nova had saved up some of her money to buy it for him.
"Nova! This was expensive!" Adrian said.
"I saved up money," Nova replied.
"You're the best," Adrian said, grabbing her hand.
"Open the other one," Nova said.
He did so.
He saw the box and was confused.
"Nova, I hate to break it to you, but I'm a guy." Adrian said. His face changed to that of shock. "Unless..."
He opened the box, took the test out, and noticed the pink plus sign.
"Nova, you're... pregnant?"
She nodded.
"I've been having symptoms for awhile but just confirmed it today I could no longer chalk it up to PMS or illness." Nova replied.
"Nova, I... I'm so happy. We're going to have a baby!"
He got out of the booth, pulled Nova up, and embraced her. Then, he picked her up, twirled her around, and set her back down.
Ambrosia had heard what Adrian and raced over.
"You're having a baby?" She asked Nova, who nodded.
"Can you take a picture of us?" Adrian asked.
Ambrosia nodded. Nova held the test up to her stomach and Adrian put his arm around her and they smiled. Ambrosia took the perfect shot.
"This is definitely the most interesting thing to happen at this shop. When I was pregnant, I told my husband at home. Actually, the most interesting thing to happen here was when my water broke, but this is a close second," Ambrosia said. She knew Nova and Adrian well enough now to hug them.
"Congratulations! I need to tell Tara and Jesse to get busy. They've been married a week now and still no news on grandchildren!"
The scary part was that Ambrosia was only half-joking.
"Well, it took us a year. Give them time," Adrian said.
"A year is too long," Ambrosia stated.
Adrian and Nova chuckled and left the store, heading back home.
When they got home and into the living room, Adrian kissed Nova passionately.
"I love our baby already," He said.
"I do, too."
The cat stared at them. and sniffed the portrait Nova had set down.
Then, she plopped on the couch and curled up.
"We're going to need parenting books." Nova said.
"I'll order them right away." Adrian said. "But I'm sure we'll be just fine."
"We will. Together."
"Together," Adrian nodded, and hugged his wife.
This was so fun to write, and, it gave me several ideas for future chapters!
Yay!
Anyway, I'm either going to write more or play sims.
Either way, I hope you enjoyed reading this as much as I enjoyed writing this.
My laptop thinks I'm regnant because I'm already getting ads for baby stuff. Not very useful to me, but whatever.
Until next update,
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