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23. White Light
Rows upon rows of night lights glowed along the department store's walls, each with a distinct color and shape. Will and Elizabeth hadn't even known such variety in lighting existed. The all-too-smiley clerk had directed them to the aisle, informed them that if they had any questions they had but to ask, and had swiftly disappeared.
"I like the blue one." Will gestured to a slender, curling night light in the shape of a rocket ship.
"But what if it's a girl?"
"She'll be an astronaut?"
"If we have a girl, I like this one." Elizabeth lifted a round, daisy light that glowed a brilliant pink.
"And what if it's a boy? He can't have a flower in his bedroom."
The flower light was replaced on the shelf, and Elizabeth brushed back a tendril of hair, sighing. "No rockets, no flowers."
"There's always the puppy." He motioned to a golden head with brilliant blue eyes.
"Yes, but he does look a little…" Elizabeth trailed off, rubbing her round belly and the restless child within.
"Right." Will agreed, eyeing the bright orbs of color in the canine's face.
They sighed in tandem. Such choices… "Perhaps we shouldn't have a night light at all. Perhaps, we'll just…leave the hall light on instead."
He shrugged. "Perhaps."
Their bleary gazes focused on the endless choices, drifting over shiny plastic packaging to yet more plastic packaging. Elizabeth broke the silence with a soft intake of breath. "Will?"
She reached out a pulled a small box hidden behind a long, flame-red dragon. "A star."
Will took the package in his larger hands. The image on the front showed a star with comforting white light illuminating into the darkness. "Perfect." And another sigh filled the aisle. Yet, this time it was not a sigh of dismay, it was a sigh of utter relief. "That was the longest hour of my life."
A slow smile broke out across her face, and then she broke out into giggles, laughing still when they purchased the little star and exited the store.