Ok. Heeds for a sequel have been heard. And here is my attempt. Drop a line if it is any good. This might even turn into a threequel (I realise this is not a REAL word, but it amused me so much when I saw it typed)
Sorry I haven't updated ANY of my stories in like forever! I've been worked almost to death by the evil people who apparently own my life – my bosses.
Kunzite looked at his wife and sighed deeply. "So that was chocolate ice-cream with banana cream and plum jam?"
Mina looked thoughtful for a while and then suddenly firm. "Yes. That is definitely the food that will satisfy." She licked her lips.
"And you're not going to change your mind once I get downstairs and fix the food?"
Mina frowned. "That happened once."
"It's happened every night for the past two weeks," Kunzite said flatly. "You tell me yes I want the pickles and cheese sandwich, and then you get all grumpy when I give it to you. Apparently I need to have my hearing checked," he added wryly remembering last night and the turkey/meatball incident.
"Well……….."
"Look, at risk of my own death, I'll just get the disgusting ice cream combo. Ok?"
As he turned away, Mina yelled "WITH SPRINKLES!!!!"
Did he think he had made a mistake by almost begging for a child? Yes. Yes he did. The whole child thing on a whole was burning a hole in his pocket the size of China, and was turning his beloved wife into some sort of beast. He was almost frightened to come home at night. He looked forward to the period when they baby was born, and the nightmare would end. It wasn't even the fact that it was 2 am and he was fixing some sort of ice-cream disaster, that didn't bother him. It was the fact that the ice-cream disaster he was making, would, inevitably, be the wrong ice-cream disaster.
So much of what he did was wrong. For instance, the other night, she had said she needed him to buy a cot. So he did. Top of the line. Very expensive and even matched the colours of the nursery (purple and yellow). He had made sure to take Darien and Zoi to help him choose the blasted thing AND a matching mobile! When he had brought it home, however, she said that it was the ugliest thing she had ever seen and locked herself in the bathroom crying hysterically over the cot.
Which had some how turned into a debate about how 'you don't love me anymore now that I'm fat with YOUR child!!!'
Mina was NO fun pregnant.
Kunzite kept his cool. He didn't lose it. He had calmly told her the he did love her, and she wasn't fat even when she was pregnant, and that the cot was fine and was actually very pretty when you held the receipt next to it. Something that expensive was not going back to the shop where he had harassed the sales assistant into making sure he was getting the best.
Going back upstairs with the ice cream was easy. Watching her gleefully tuck into it without changing her mind was even better. He got back into bed, closed his eyes and settled down.
"What do you think of the name Aoife?"
Kunzite groaned. Never a moment's peace! "What?"
"If it's a girl. Aoife."
"Eeefa?"
"Yes. It's pretty. A-O-I-F-E. It's cute."
"Veto. No one will know how to pronounce it unless they're welsh."
"So?"
"Mina!" he turned over facing away from her. "It's 2:15 in the morning. I am tired."
"And I'm carrying your child, so if you ever want to sleep with me again, you will bloody well think of a name to name your child!"
Swallowing half a dozen retorts that would ultimately land him on the couch for the next three months.
Finally he said, "What happened to 'I must name my child Daniela'?"
Mina shrugged, put the empty bowl on the bedside table and snuggled down beside her husband. Mood changes. Now was the cuddly time. She yawned. "I got bored of it. Aoife is much more exciting, don't you think?"
"She'll hate you at school you know? With a teacher trying to call her 'A-OFF', and her having to say "EEE-FAH"."
"I'm so going to love the parenting thing," she giggled. "The day she yells at me 'I HATE YOU' is the day I know I'm doing something right."
"You have weird logic." And he realised that it was moments like these, that made him realise that everything was fine. Nothing could ever be a mistake with her.
One-shot that went no-where really. Lol.
