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For Kourtney, the plane ride passed rather quickly and soon landed at the airport near Clinton. As soon as she stepped into the lobby, she instantly began looking for Ted. The airport terminal was relatively slow, so at first she didn't find him, and was hurt that he would forget about her.
"Excuse me miss, you look like my incredibly beautiful girlfriend."
Kourtney giggled as she turned around, and instantly jumped into Ted's arms. "I was beginning to think you had forgotten about me."
"I would never do that," he replied, wrapping his arms tighter. "I'll admit I'm running a few minutes behind because I couldn't find a decent parking spot, but I wouldn't forget about you."
Ted then pulled his girlfriend closer and softly kissed her. "Are you ready to get out of here?"
"Absolutely!"
The drive was semi-quiet, but Ted just figured it was because of Kourtney being tired from the flight. Once the couple got into Clinton, Ted didn't make the usual turn to go to his apartment building. And Kourtney noticed.
"Teddy, where are we going?"
"To the house. I have a surprise for you there."
"Oh, can't this wait until this afternoon or something? I'm very tired and just need a little nap," Kourtney whined.
Ted giggled as he grabbed her hand. "Don't worry baby, it won't take too long I promise. And after you see your surprise, you can take as long a nap as you want."
She sighed, fully knowing there was no arguing with him. "Ok."
About 10 minutes later, Ted and Kourtney were walking up their sidewalk, standing in front of the front door. "Ok, you need to close your eyes," he instructed.
"Are you serious?"
He nodded. "Yep," he simply said as he covered her brown eyes with his hand. Ted then un-locked the door and helped Kourtney walk inside. They walked through the front entrance, and he made sure she was standing in front of the staircase. "Ok, you can open them," he said, lifting his hand.
Kourtney opened her eyes, and literally gasped out loud, her jaw dropping. Originally, she had expected to see boxes all over. But instead, she saw everything un-packed and furniture in it's place.
"Oh my God," she exclaimed, walking from room to room.
"Come on, there is one more thing to see," Ted announced as he grabbed Kourtney's hand. He then led her to the bedroom across from the master bedroom, the room intended to be the nursery. Simply smiling, he opened the door to expose his work.
The tears really began flowing from Kourtney's eyes. Inside the changing table and dresser were put together and put against the same wall. The room was painted soft pink with ivory curtains. She then saw the crib against the wall closest to the door, and it was put together perfectly. Kourtney then glanced toward Ted, who was leaning against the open door frame. She walked up to him, kissing him passionately.
"Not that I'm complaining, but what was that for?" he asked, rubbing the small of her back.
"For the baby's room, for the house…no one has ever done something so nice for me in my life. You are amazing," Kourtney said as she pecked Ted's lips again. "I love you."
"I love you," Ted replied as he kissed her forehead. "The truck got here by early evening, and that's when I got the idea in my head. I wanted you to have one less thing to worry about when you got into town. So I called my parents, Brett and Leah and a couple of my friends to help out. Everyone basically stayed all night and helped re-arrange furniture, un-pack boxes or helped in the baby's room. That was another reason I was a few minutes behind-that damn crib didn't want to be put together."
"So you haven't slept at all?"
Ted shook his head. "Nope, like I said I wanted to make sure everything was done when you arrived. Now the only thing we didn't touch was your clothes and shoes. I didn't know if you wanted them in the closet in a particular order or something, so they are still in the suitcases by the bedroom door."
She nodded. "I-I still can't believe you did this," she said as a thought came back into her head. The thought she kept thinking about the whole plane ride. "But you know, there is something missing."
"What is it babe?" Ted asked, scrunching his eyebrows together.
"Your stuff," Kourtney smiled.
"My stuff?" he repeated.
Kourtney nodded. "Yeah, your stuff. Listen, I know that we agreed to live apart for awhile, but I may be starting to re-think things."
"Are you sure baby? I mean, I know we haven't been together all that long, and there is the whole issue of John not leaving you alone-"
"There is no issue with John," Kourtney interrupted. "My relationship with him was done along time ago, I was just too blind to see it. I am over him, and don't want anything else to do with him. What I do know is that I love you and you moving in here with me and our daughter is what I want. Creating new memories here in Clinton is important, and I don't want it to be just me and the baby. I want it to be you, me and the baby. What do you say?"
Ted then leaned down and hungrily kissed Kourtney, wrapping his arms tightly around her waist but at the same time being careful not to hurt her. "I say…I want all of that too. I want to be here with you and the baby, the memories, everything. I say…after a quick nap we should go pack up my stuff."
Kourtney giggled. "I like that idea."
That afternoon, once again with the help of Ted's parents and Brett and Leah, everyone headed over to Ted's apartment and re-used the boxes from Kourtney, and began packing.
"Don't even think about lifting that heavy box," Ted said as he watched Kourtney crouch down.
She then stood back up. "You know, I am capable of lifting things," she smiled.
"I know you are, but you are also five months pregnant, almost six. I don't want to risk you hurting yourself or the baby."
"Well what do you expect me to do then because I am not going to sit on my ass all night."
"I don't want you to. You could pack boxes or go through the empty rooms and make sure nothing is getting left behind. I'm not trying to sound like a dick or anything, but I don't want to see you getting hurt and being on bed rest or something. I'm asking nicely, please don't lift any heavy boxes."
Kourtney could see the concern in his eyes and knew he was right. "Ok, I won't lift anything heavy. I promise!"
"Thank you," Ted replied as they quickly kissed.
Everyone once again pulled an all nighter, and by late in the evening all of Ted's things were in the house. Because his furniture was older and less nice looking than Kourtney's, Ted Sr. and Melanie were happy to put the furniture in storage for now until a final decision was made as to what to do with it.
After everyone left, Ted and Kourtney collapsed on the couch. They both were so tired they could barely move.
"I don't even think I could get up the stairs to go to bed," she whispered.
Ted wrapped an arm tighter around Kourtney's shoulders. "I have an idea," he said. He pulled the blanket from behind them, and the both of them put their feet up on the coffee table. He then wrapped the blanket securely around them.
"How's this?" he asked.
Kourtney snuggled closer to Ted. "Absolutely perfect," she replied as he kissed the top of her head.
Within moments, Ted heard his girlfriend contently sigh and smirked as he watched her sleep. After kissing her once more, he also leaned his head back and fell asleep as well.