And the Envelope, Please...

Rated M for safety.

"So are you and Ryan going to find out the sex of the baby next time?" Selena asked her friend.

The two friends had managed to arrange to have a spa day together while her in-laws took care of the twins and Lance had Mason taken to a children's museum.

Emily shook her head.

"We're trying to wait. But we'll see if we can hold out till the end though. I doubt that will be, though."

The couple were warned that they shouldn't pick out names for their baby too soon but they had already picked out a name for a girl, Arabella Jasmine Wolfe or "Bella." The comments would flow in they were sure about naming the baby "Bella" after the Twilight Craze. They weren't too sure about a boy's name yet but it was not going to be Ryan Wolfe Junior. They were thinking of maybe Brandon, Zachary or Nicholas, but not Jacob or Edward. The joke that Bella picked Jacob was going to be popular , the two thought.

"That's a nice name," Selena told her friend of the unborn baby girl's name. "God, I wish I could have been a fly on the wall when you two laid eyes on each other again!"

Oh yes, Emily thought. And that reunion kiss had been indescribable.

"It must have been a struggle for you not to break down bawlin' in the middle of the restaurant," Selena said.

"Oh yeah!" Emily said.

Selena hadn't seen this light in her friend's eyes and glow on her face in eleven years, pregnancy was likely a factor but a small one but how having a life with Ryan was the cause.

"I'd hate to see that poor bed in your apartment after that night," Selena grinned.

Emily giggled.

"Well, it wasn't new and let's just say I had new mattress very soon after!"

Emily knew there wasn't any harm in telling her friend the name she had picked for the baby. Selena wouldn't give any gift with a name or initials in case the parents were to change their minds. She knew that was possible because she and her husband had changed their minds with their oldest child. Till they had saw and held him Mason Andrew Curtis was supposed to be Maxwell Adam.

As she suspected, Emily and Ryan couldn't wait to find the gender of the baby she was carrying. Two weeks later his wife was grateful when Ryan was able to leave the job to be with her during an ultrasound in the late afternoon. If it happened that he couldn't make it he would have waited for the following appointment. As it was they waited two more weeks, Emily was now eighteen weeks pregnant.

"All right. Are you guys ready?" The technician said after placing gel on Emily's belly and moved around the instrument. The image of their baby appeared.

"Yeah," they both breathed with a smile.

"You guys are gonna have a little girl," the woman smiled, pointed at the screen.

A baby girl.

Arabella Jasmine Wolfe. "Bella"

The couple weren't embarrassed to share a kiss.

"I love you so much," Ryan whispered to Emily.

She felt his happy tears touch her skin.

"I love you, too," Emily replied.

Ryan had to return to the lab for a few hours after meeting with his wife and hearing the wonderful news.

"Hey Wolfe," Walter said. "How's Emily and the baby?"

"Wonderful," Ryan said. "We found out the sex today."

"And you look happy," Walter observed.

"It's a girl," Ryan grinned.

Earlier that morning the father-to-be had thought that the day couldn't get any better when his wife had yelled out to him immediately after he got out of the shower. The baby was kicking. He was quick enough to get the chance to feel it.

"Red letter day for you, man," Eric said.

"You guys pick out any names, yet?" Natalia asked.

"Yeah, but nothin' concrete, yet. I think we're going to try harder to keep this a secret. We might change our minds when we see her and it would be a waste to have a bunch of stuff with the wrong name or initials on it."

Natalia agreed.

She and Ryan had dated briefly years ago and the relationship had ended on a positive note, realizing they were better as good friends. Natalia knew from the first time Ryan casually mentioned his childhood sweetheart that the two belonged together, even if she hadn't met this Emily.

Meeting her only proved Natalia's thoughts.

Emily blushed slightly as she and Ryan both breathed heavily, both sweating. She was glad he got home when he did; for the past hour or more she felt so horny. Toys or any other method of self-gratification was useless since she got pregnant. Ryan couldn't deny that being pulled through the front door and straight to the bedroom for sex, even after a hard day on the job wasn't every man's ream. And he was relishing every bit of it. His wife had been like this a lot lately and he was the only one who brought her release.

Did Ryan mind?

Hell, no!

"I'm sorry, babe," Emily said grinning, sheepishly.

She was apologizing for the same reason she blushed.

The long red marks she left on her husband's back and shoulders. She had nearly made the man bleed this time.

"Geez, hon. Don't apologize," he replied, turning his head and kissing her. Getting scratches from his wife during sex was actually turn-on for Ryan. "You know I don't mind. This is a great way to end the day." he grinned.

They knew sex was safe during pregnancy, even if they had to be more "creative" about it. Both thought it was beyond foolish to be uncomfortable having sex because "the baby was right there." An unborn child didn't knew anything besides maybe mom felt good. Ryan said that if their daughter started to tell them of memories of them having sex while she was inside Emily then they would grovel for forgiveness.

Not before.

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