Monday 8th July 2019, Midday

Sam, who was 18 weeks pregnant, was happily sunbathing in a black bikini on the sun lounger in Spain when she jumped at sudden movement; Tom was moving her chair again and he dragged her into the shade.

"Will you stop doing this every day!" Sam moaned as she sat up and then stretched her arms out.

"Well you've been out in the sun for hours, I just don't want you to fall asleep in the sun." Tom stated as he sat on his sun lounger with Daniel on the end of it as he rubbed in some sun cream. "Plus Daniel made me do it." Tom added.

"No I didn't!"

"Did he now?"

"Mummy I didn't!"

"I know you didn't. I'll get my own back later."

"I look forward to it." Tom winked but as Sam glared at him, she was thankful that Daniel had not noticed what Tom was hinting towards.

"What's for lunch?" Sam asked.

"There are burgers on the BBQ right now, and I've made a salad to go with it."

"I helped!" Daniel stated.

"And Daniel helped." Tom added.

9pm

"So, are you going to get your own back on me then from earlier?" Tom asked as he closed the bedroom door behind him after Daniel had been out to bed an hour ago.

"Only if we can have a shower together afterwards." Sam replied.

"We can do, whatever you want." Tom said softly as he took her hand in his and he gave her a deep, passionate kiss.

"Well then can we skip what you had in mind and just go for a shower together and talk? I really don't have the energy to do anything." Sam admitted.

"Yeah, of course we can. I'll wash everything for you." Tom said softly as he took Sam's hand and lead her into the ensuite bathroom. He closed and locked the door behind them before he switched the shower on to get it running. "Have you decided when we're going to tell Daniel that you're carrying a baby girl?" Tom asked as he pulled his shirt and swimming trunks off so that he was completely naked.

"Yeah. I want to wait until we go to my 20 week scan and then he can find out from the sonographer and we can pretend to find out then too." Sam replied whilst Tom untied her bikini top, then he let it drop on the floor.

"Sounds good." Tom nodded as Sam pulled her bikini bottom down and then they both stepped into the shower under the stream of water. "Have you thought about names yet?" Tom asked.

"Kind of... I haven't really got any favourites yet though. What about you?"

"No, me neither. But I do know that her middle name is going to be Samantha." Tom smiled as he wrapped his arms around her bump.

"No. I appreciate the thought but you know I hate that name because my dad called me it. I just want to forget about my parents and I don't want anything reminding me of them."

"Okay, no Samantha then." Tom nodded as he rested his chin on her shoulder. "Your body is definitely getting ready to feed a baby." Tom smiled as he smoothed his hands over her bump and then cupped her chest in his hands.

"I know... I just can't wait to have her against my chest for the first time. I still remember when I had Daniel and I started crying because I didn't know what to do, but you helped me."

"Mm. Y'know every one says when they hold their baby that they're so light and tiny. But I thought Daniel was a lot heavier than I was expecting. And he was only 6lbs 3 ozs."

"I thought he was heavy at first too." Sam admitted. "But I still don't understand now he was more than a week overdue and he still came out that small."

"Why? Would you rather push out a 9 lb baby?" Tom joked.

"Ouch." Sam grimaced at the thought of doing such a thing.

"Anyway, let's get you squeaky clean because you've been sweating all day." Tom smirked as he bent down and picked up the shower gel bottle.

"I would protest but who am I kidding? I've been sweating like a pig." Sam admitted proudly and Tom lathered some of the shower gel in his hands before he began rubbing it on her back. Slowly, he massaged the refreshing lather all over Sam's back, then her bump and chest before his hand slipped between Sam's legs and she squinted her disapproving eyes at him.

"What? I said I'd wash everything for you." Tom grinned and Sam rolled her eyes as Tom bent down and then began washing her legs for her. "Your legs are so smooth."

"I know, I waxed them."

"Really?"

"Yeah, I couldn't be bothered to bend down shave them every other day or so, so I just waxed them for the holiday and then after that I'm going to leave my legs to look like a gorilla and then I'll wax again sometime near when our daughter is due."

"So you're not going to shave your legs for about 20 weeks?" Tom laughed.

"Why not? The only person that sees them is you and you've seen me at my worst."

"Fair point." Tom said as he stood up properly and then he slowly leant in and kissed Sam on the lips. "I can't tell you enough how beautiful you are." Tom whispered and Sam awkwardly looked down at the floor before her eyes met with her husband's. "I mean it."

"Yeah, I know you do." Sam said gratefully and she shared eye contact with her husband for a few more moments until he spoke.

"Come on, you look tired. Let's rinse off."

Saturday 13th July 2019, 5pm

It was the day that the Kent Family arrived home in England and Tom was just driving down their road after they had gone to the kennels to pick their dogs up, but found that the kennel had closed and that they would have to pay for another night for three dogs in the kennel unnecessarily, just because their bags had taken longer to arrive than they had expected.

"I'll go and get the keys from Fletch." Tom stated as he pulled up on their driveway and then he walked across the road whilst Sam got out of the car and opened the back door.

"Daniel... Daniel come on wake up, we're home." Sam said softly as she gave him a little nudge. She was now 19 weeks pregnant.

"Wh... I thought you said we were going to the kennels first." Daniel stated confusedly.

"We went there but they'd closed so we'll have to go and pick them up in the morning I'm afraid." Sam sighed as she lifted Daniel out of the car and onto his own two feet.

"Sam, watch it!" Tom warned loudly and Sam looked up to see that there were three dogs sprinting across the road straight towards her and immediately sat at her feet.

"What? I don't understand." Sam stated confusedly as she she patted Shadow, Alex and Panda on their heads.

"I thought you were running a bit late so I went and picked the dogs up for you and I was going to ring you to tell you not to bother going to the kennels but I couldn't get through to either of you." Fletch explained as he and Tom came across the road.

"Oh yeah, sorry. I put our hand luggage bags in the boot because I just wanted to get home when we were at the airport." Tom stated.

"So, how was your holiday?" Fletch asked as Tom unlocked their front door.

"Brilliant! We had our own pool! And I had my own room and I got the window seat on the way home on the plane and there was turbulence and the plane was shaking lots and lots!" Daniel proclaimed.

"Yeah and the turbulence scared the hell out of Sam because she was worried about the baby." Tom said quietly as the two men grabbed the suitcases from the boot whilst Sam ushered her son and the three dogs inside.

"Turbulence can't harm a baby." Fletch stated confusedly.

"Yeah, we both know that but when she was actually in the situation, she was petrified." Tom replied quietly so that Sam didn't hear him.

"So other than the flight home, you had a good time yeah?" Fletch asked.

"Yep. And it was all thanks to you." Sam smiled as her husband dropped the suitcases on the floor and bent down to give her a passionate kiss.

"Oi, keep it PG." Fletch warned and Sam and Tom pulled apart to see Daniel was standing there with his hands over his eyes.

"How about we order pizza for dinner tonight?" Tom suggested.

"Good idea but I'm warning you, I will eat an entire large pizza to myself." Sam stated as she walked into the bathroom and shut the door behind her.

"Right, I'll leave you to it." Fletch concluded.

"Yeah, thanks for collecting the dogs. Sam looked like she was going to cry when she found out that the kennels was shut." Tom smirked.

"I did not!" Sam protested from inside the bathroom.

"No problem, I'll see you at work on Monday." Fletch said goodbye to Daniel whilst Tom carried the rest of the bags in, before he left and Tom got the pizza menu out. Then he sat with Daniel on his lap and Sam besides him on the sofa as they decided what to have for dinner.

"Daniel, on a scale of one to ten, how hungry are you?" Tom asked.

"Ten! I'm starving!" Daniel replied - thankfully he wasn't old enough yet to reply with something sarcastic.

"And you?" Tom questioned.

"Off the scale hungry." Sam stated.

"Alright. How about we get two medium pizzas, two sides and two desserts to share between us?" Tom suggested.

"Make that two large pizzas and you'll have a deal." Sam smirked.

"Sam, we're not going to eat that much pizza!" Tom laughed.

"We will and if we don't, we can have it cold tomorrow. Besides, look there's a deal for two large pizzas, two sides, two desserts and one bottle of drink and it works out about the same price as if you had two medium pizzas."

"Well we both know that money isn't a problem." Tom smirked.

"Mm. We still need to sort out our money though and organise how much of it we're going to spend on their new rooms." Sam stated - they had decided that for now, they were better off saving their people's postcode lottery winnings because they didn't want anything like new cars or new houses; they simply didn't need them. Instead, they had agreed on saving the money until they found something useful that they would spend the money on such as a Disney holiday or money for their children to go to university. Besides, the longer it was in their bank, the more interest that they would earn on it. "But anyway, let's get back to food."

"Go on then, which two large pizzas do you guys want?" Tom asked.

"I'm perfectly happy with a Texas BBQ pizza. Chicken, bacon and BBQ sauce on a pizza, how could you go wrong?" Sam stated.

"Alright, I think I might be in trouble if I don't get that one, so you can chose the other pizza Daniel. Which one do you want?" Tom asked. "You want the tuna sweetcorn melt?" Tom suggested jokily as they both knew how much their son hated anything to do with fish or seafood.

"Ugh, no!" Daniel protested. Sam was looking down the menu when she noticed the new pizza: BBQ pulled pork feast. Now she wanted that one too because she had a real craving for sweet BBQ sauce, all she had to do was convince her son to want it.

"Daniel, do you like BBQ sauce?" Sam asked.

"Yeah, why?"

"Why don't you get the BBQ pulled pork feast? It's got BBQ sauce, pulled pork, spicy minced pork and spicy minced beef."

"But-" Tom was about to argue that Daniel wouldn't like it because it could've been spicy but they both knew that Daniel could take the heat when they had taken him to nandos with them and he had had some extra hot sauce with his chips and he had asked for more after.

"But what?" Sam asked innocently.

"Nothing." Tom muttered. "Is that what you want Daniel?" Tom asked.

"Yes please." Daniel smiled.

"Okay. That's the pizzas chosen, now which two sides do you want?"

"How about... Breaded chicken strips and potato wedges?"

Sam and Tom were sitting on the sofa whilst Daniel sat in between them as they ate away without plates to save on washing up.

"Daniel, I've got my 20 week scan next week and we'll hopefully be able to find out the gender of the baby. Do you want to come with us?" Sam asked. She felt bad that she knew and he didn't but she didn't want to get into trouble for doing a scan at work already and it wasn't fair to ask Daniel to keep such a secret.

"Will we see the baby in black and white again?" Daniel asked.

"Yeah. And this time, the baby will be much bigger." Sam smiled.

"Okay." He nodded.

Saturday 20th July 2019, 11:30am

At 20 weeks pregnant, Sam laid on the examination bed as the sonographer ran the transducer over her bump whilst Tom and Daniel sat besides her on the other side of the bed to the machine.

"Okay, so I've checked for an atrial septal defect. And, though there is always a risk of it being undetected at this stage, unless your baby has a very, very small ASD, they don't have one because I can't see anything wrong with their heart." She explained.

"And if he or she does have a small ASD?" Sam asked impatiently.

"Well then, if it's that small then it's probably not worth operating on to fix because a small ASD wouldn't cause any problems." The sonographer replied. "Okay, so you want to know your baby's gender yes?"

"Yes." Sam, Tom and Daniel replied at the same time.

"Okay. It looks like... You are carrying a beautiful baby girl Mrs Kent. Congratulations!"

"That's wonderful." Sam smiled as she tired to pretend that she was surprised before both she and Tom looked at Daniel for his response.

"So I'm going to have a sister?" Daniel asked.

"Yep." Sam nodded. "How do you feel about that?" Sam asked curiously as she held his hand, but Daniel just hung his head and shrugged. "Hey, just because your little sister might not kick a ball around with you, doesn't mean that you still won't be friends. Imagine all the games that you can play together, and all the things that you can teach her like playing snap. Or you could help me and daddy to teach her words and numbers when she's old enough. You and her could be best friends when she's here."

"I already have a best friend from the crèche." Daniel pouted.

"Yeah, and you can have more than one best friend." Tom stated. "Hey, you should be happy that it's a girl because this way, we have to decorate your old playroom in pink, and that means that I'm going to need an assistant painted to help me."

"I can do it!" Daniel said as he eagerly put his hand up.

"There we go. See if you were having a brother, then we would just leave the room blue. So there are advantages of having a sister." Tom said whilst Sam wiped the gel off of her bump because the sonographer had finished.

"Alright. Here are your pictures of the scan, and you're ready to go." The sonographer smiled.

After the scan, the Kent Family went home and Sam and Daniel sat on the sofa whilst Tom made lunch in the kitchen.

"Y'know, if you speak to your baby sister, she can hear you." Sam stated.

"Really?"

"Yeah. Her ears are already developed so, even though your voice might be a bit muffled, she can still hear your voice and recognise it. Why don't you say hello? She might give you a little kick back to say that she's there." Sam said as she took her son's hand and put it on her bump to the left of her navel where she knew her daugter's restless feet were laying.

"What do I say?" Daniel asked confusedly.

"It's up to you. You can talk to her about anything you want to. I'll tell you a secret, I was speaking to her the other day and I was telling her hoped I hoped that she didn't inherit her father's intelligence." Sam whispered and Daniel giggled to himself. "See? You can say anything." Sam said encouragingly.

"Hello... Um, can you stop making mummy so hungry please? Because she eats everything in the house at the moment." Daniel asked jokily and Sam couldn't help but smile as her unborn daughter, who had been rather active that night, decided that that was the moment to kick about and Daniel could feel taps against his hand from inside of his mother's womb. "Does it hurt when she kicks?" Daniel asked curiously.

"No. In fact I quite like the feeling, it let's me know that everything's alright." Sam replied softly.

"How did the baby get in there? Did you just wish for a baby?" Daniel asked and Sam frowned as she tried to work out how to explain it to him. She didn't just want to patronise her son by saying something silly like the stalks brought her or that they'd tell him when he was older. But she didn't want to go into the gory detail either.

"Basically, me and daddy love each other so much, that we decided to have another baby. And to make this baby, me and daddy needed to make love to each other." Sam explained slowly and she knew she could've done far better but she couldn't take it back now.

"What do you mean make 'love'? Like, kissing or hugging?" Daniel asked.

"No, me and your daddy had to have intercourse, in order to make you, and your sister." Sam replied and once again, she regretted what she said.

"What's intercourse?"

"Well you know that we've talked about how boys like you and daddy have a penis and girls like me have a vagina?" Sam asked as she and Tom had used the correct terminology during potty training rather than saying something stupid like 'willies'.

"Yeah."

"Well to make a baby, a man has to put his-"

"Lunch is ready." Tom announced and thankfully, Daniel jumped up and ran out into the kitchen. Sam let out a huge sigh of relief before she got up and went out into the kitchen too.

Coming up: The Kent Family go out for a meal for Sam's 33rd birthday (I know, time had flown by!) but when Sam is rather adventurous with food in the new Chinese buffet restaurant, she is struck with a severe case of food poisoning.

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