"Why am I doing this again?" Danny asked, as they lay in bed that night, her night gown pulled over her belly. Danny was massaging cocoa butter into her skin, amazed by the new contours of her body. As his hand passed over her flesh, he felt the baby flutter under his touch.
"It helps with the stretch marks," she clarified as she flipped through the magazine she had propped up on her chest, "And you're bonding with the baby."
He smiled, and gently kissed her belly, "Daddy loves you and your mommy". He definitely had some bonding to do. If rubbing cream on her belly would help her and he was close to his baby, who was he to complain.
Lindsay sighed almost contented, this is what she always wished would happen, this is how she pictured their life to be when she found out she was pregnant, before she told him. This was how she had wanted him to react.
"We'll find out tomorrow if it's a boy or girl, right?" he asked. His mind's eye created visions of a little girl with pig tails skipping down the sidewalk as he held her hand. Then of a little boy with sandy blond hair, with a baseball hat on and a ball bat resting on his shoulder as they walked down the sidewalk.
"Yeah," she affirmed, and stopped reading the magazine she was glancing through, "Dan, can I ask you something?"
"Sure," he said his mind focused on the task at hand.
"Did you see anyone after you left?" she asked quietly, not really sure if she wants to hear the answer.
He stopped what he was doing, dropped his head and sighed heavily, "Does it really matter?"
"Is that a yes?"
"I went out on a date or two," he admitted, "But something was missing."
"What?" she asked quietly.
"You," he said simply.
"Did you…?" she couldn't even say the words. She dropped her head forward.
He crawled up the bed, and lifted her chin with his finger, "I've been with exactly one person in the last three years, and I'm lying in bed with her now."
She sighed long and hard, not even realizing she was holding it in.
"You," he said and poked her nose to make his point, "have completely ruined other woman for me."
A smile slowly broke across her face, "Good."