Chapter twenty two- April 8th- (16 weeks pregnant)

Chapter twenty two plot- Jo and Alex have a serious talk about the future of their relationship and what they both want.

I did it. I can't believe that I did it. All the kids are finally asleep and I get some me time. I never thought they'd go down, well at least not after Eloise raided the lolly jar. But now it's me time. What should I watch? The Bachelor? The bachelorette? The bachelor, yep, definitely the bachelor. Crap, was that the doorbell? Why do people come by this late a night! It's 8:45pm... Okay, so maybe it's not that late...

"Who is it?" Jo asks as she gets up of the couch in the front living room a don heads over to the door.

"It's Alex," the voice replies.

Okay, so the silver lining is that it's Alex.

"Hey," she smiles as she answers the door.

"Can I come in?" Alex asks.

"Of course. The kids have all finally gone to bed," Jo replies as she lets Alex into the house.

"Can we talk?" He asks.

Oh no. That sounded serious. He isn't breaking up with me is he? He fought so hard for this relationship and now he just wants to throw it away. Woah, Jo, put the breaks on. You're getting too far ahead of yourself. Why don't you just ask him?

"Are you breaking up with me?" Jo blurts out.

Woah Jo, I said ask, not blurt

"What, no, what makes you think that?" He asks as they sit on the lounge.

"Sorry, You sounded serious. I didn't know what else to think," Jo replies awkwardly.

Phew, thank goodness he's not breaking up.

"I do want to talk about some pretty serious things though," Alex replies

It's a bit late for serious things isn't it. Wait... no it's not... it's only 8:45... I'm getting old...

"What kind of things?" Jo asks

"Us," he replies.

"O...okay," Jo replies. "What is it?" She continues.

"I want to know when you're going to introduce the kids to me as your boyfriend. I don't want you to rush, I know it's going to be a sensitive thing for them," Alex asks.

"It's just not the right time yet. Don't worry, it will happen," Jo replies.

"I know it's only early, but do you want to get married some where down the track? Is that something that you want?" Alex asks.

Jo smiles, "of course it is Alex. I love you," she replies.

Alex gives Jo a kiss on the cheek. "After I have the twins I think I only want to go back to work part time. It'd just be impossible for me to go back full time and to be honest I don't want to either," Jo says.

"Okay," Alex replies nodding his head. "I want us to move in together," he says.

"When the babies are born you can move in here," Jo says.

"Agreed," Alex replies coming to a quick compromise.

"We are very good at this relationship thing aren't we?" Jo laughs.

"It's almost as if we've done it before," Alex laughs.

"That's because we have," Jo laughs back.

"After the twins I want to have another baby," he says.

What? What the hell did he just say? Did he say what I think he said? That he wanted to have another baby after the twins?

"Okay, sorry, what?" Jo asks shocked.

"After our little girl and our little boy are born I want to have another baby. Just one more," he replies.

Yep, he said what I thought he said.

"You want to have another baby? With me?" She asks in shock.

"Yes, with you," Alex replies confused.

Oh god, how do I crush his hopes and dreams gently?

"Are you thirsty? I'm all of a sudden so thirsty. I'm going to grab a drink," Jo replies quickly as she gets up from the lounge and heads Into the kitchen to grab a cup of water.

Avoidance, I don't think that's the right way to go. But whatever, I'll roll with it for now.

Jo returns with her glass of water. "Jo?" Alex questions.

"Gee, all this water has made me need to pee," Jo says.

"You had one sip," Alex says confused.

"It must be the babies. They must be pressing on my bladder," Jo laughs as she gets up of the lounge and runs to the bathroom.

I've brought myself five minutes max. But then want do I do? Keep avoiding the baby question forever? Because that'll be soooo easy.

After a few minutes Jo returns to the lounge, "are you all good?" He asks.

"I'm actually not too sure," she replies.

"You're avoiding Jo. I know what you're doing. I said I wanted to have one more baby and you got all squeamish," he says.

"I thought you might say that," Jo says sadly, "but I don't think I want to have anymore children after the twins. All my pregnancies have taken a toll on my body and I'm feeling this pregnancy so much more then I thought I would. It's just not what I want. I'm sorry because you sounded so hopeful," Jo replies.

"It's not a deal breaker Jo. I'm having two babies with you. I'm just so blessed for that," he replies.

"We should talk about baby names," Jo suggests. "I have a list of girls names that I love. But I don't have any boys names because I didn't think I'd ever have a boy," she laughs.

"Well, Why don't we start with girls names. What's on your list?" Alex asks.

Jo pulls up the notes on her iPhone and heads to her list of baby names. "Okay, get ready, it's a long one," Jo says.

"I'm ready," Alex replies.

"Okay; Bella, Charlotte, Ebony, Isabelle or Isabella, Sabrina, Jasmine, Eden, Alora, Phoebe, Ava, Lucy, Madeleine, Nina, Emerson, Serayah, Zoe, Abigail, Jessica, Allison and Olivia," Jo says.

"Wow, there are a lot of names," Alex states. "But I don't want a name that's too common," Alex replies.

"What do you class as common?" Jo asks.

"Like inside the top 100," Alex says. Jo quickly googles the Names to find the ones that were outside the top 100.

"So, according to nameberry that leaves us with Ebony, Jasmine, Sabrina, Alora, Madeleine, Nina, Emerson and Serayah," Jo says.

"I love Sabrina. It's unique but I don't think that it is that out there either," Alex replies.

"What's on your list?" Jo asks.

Alex goes through his list of girls names and then the pair group together the names that thy liked.

"I love Sabrina the best," Alex replies.

"Me too. I love Sabrina," Jo smiles.

"Me too. But what should her middle name be?" Alex asks.

"I think Madelyn goes well. What do you think?" She asks.

"Sabrina Madelyn. I love it," Alex replies.

"We have our daughters name," Jo smiles.

"Now, what about my Linebacker?" Alex asks.

"That ones going to prove a lot more difficult," Jo replies.