Jameson’t POV
I cannot wait for this shift to be over so I can get home to my doll. I swear I’ve never been with a woman that I don’t mind being around all the time. She’s sweet, funny, gorgeous, smart, loving, caring, kind, and did I mention gorgeous. My woman isn’t just physically gorgeous but her inside matches her outside. I love her personality and everything about her. I know that I’ve probably said all of this before, but that’s just where my mind seems to go when it wanders. Today is a particularly slow day in the warehouse and right now we’re kind of just walking around waiting for the trucks to come so we can unload them. I work with one of my best friends, Daniel. Ethan works in a psychiatrist office as an intern since he’s in school to become one himself. He will be graduating soon though. Micah works at a law firm as a paralegal and Alicia owns a hair salon.
We’re just sitting at a table talking and all of a sudden something flies near us and lands on one of the rafters. We look at each other and then both move closer and see that it’s a bat. A damn bat is in the warehouse! When we get closer it swoops down and then up into the rafters farther away. Daniel then gets the brilliant idea to chase it while I get a different idea. I pull out my phone and call Renee but she doesn’t answer so I text her.
Me: Doll, there’s a bat in the warehouse and I’m going to try to catch it.
Doll: Okay batman. Don’t bring it home though.
Me: Aww doll. Why not?
Doll: If you bring that thing home you’ll be living alone. Seriously though can you do me a favor on your way home?
Me: Sure.
Doll: Bring me some rocky road ice cream and hot cheetos please? I don’t feel like getting back out.
Me: Sure doll. Are you feeling okay?
Doll: I’m not sure yet. I’ll let you know after my appointment tomorrow. It may just be a bug or the flu or something. Nothing to worry about, baby.
Me: Okay doll. I’ll see you in a few hours. I love you.
Doll: Okay love. I love you too.
After we finish texting I’m a little worried because she didn’t seem like herself at all so I know that she is keeping something from me. I think about faking that something is wrong with my arm so that I can go home and check on her but she said that there isn’t anything to worry about and I don’t want her to think I don’t trust her. I can wait a few hours to check on her. If it was something serious then she would have told me.
Two hours later the next trucks arrive and we’re busy unloading them. Oh I did catch that bat by the way, and I let it go outside. Hopefully it doesn’t get stuck in here again. Six hours pass and we are all dead tired. Honestly I don’t feel like stopping at the store because I just want to hop in the shower and then in bed and cuddle with her until I fall asleep. She did ask me to go and I did say that I would so I stopped at the nearest grocery store to the house and purchased the items then quickly headed home. I was so thankful that the store didn’t have plenty of people inside so I was in and out quick.
Once I get inside the house I put the food up and look for her in the bedroom but she isn’t there. I head to the bathroom and turn the knob but the door is locked.
“Doll? Why are you locked in the bathroom? Let me in.” I turn the knob again then knock on the door. All sorts of bad thoughts start going through my head. Did she pass out? Did someone break in and she locked herself in the bathroom and is too afraid to come out now?
“Doll it’s me, Jameson. Open the door please.” It’s quiet but then I hear the door unlock and she’s standing in front of me in a t-shirt and shorts with her cheeks wet from crying and she looks tired.
“Hey baby. Sorry I guess I was a little out of it and didn’t hear you.” She wipes her face and picks up her purse pushing something down into it and walks past me heading to the bedroom. I follow her and she sits on the bed, still not quite here. It’s like her mind is a million miles away from here and her body is on autopilot. I kneel between her legs and look up into her eyes.
“Doll what’s wrong? You’re starting to scare me now.” She looks down at me and the tears start to flow again as she picks up her purse and pulls something out. When I realize what it is my heart beat speeds up and I think I even stop breathing for a few minutes. She holds it to where I can see the results.
“We’re pregnant. You’re going to be a father.” My heart begins to swell with happiness as I take in this information. I pick her up and spin her around.
“That’s great news doll!” Then I looked at her and put her down. She looks like she’s about to throw up and I don’t know if it’s from me spinning her or the news.
“It wasn’t supposed to happen like this baby. We were supposed to get married first and be farther along in our careers. We were supposed to sit down and have a conversation and say okay it’s time to start a family, but not like this baby. I’ve been drinking. I don’t know how far along I am but I do know that I’ve had some wine the other night with dinner. Baby what if I hurt our child?” She’s hysterical and I need to calm her down.
“Doll, why don’t we just take things one step at a time. Tomorrow I’ll go with you to the doctor and we’ll get you checked out. Lets not worry until there’s something to worry about okay?” I pull her close and rub her back. After a few minutes I feel her body start to relax.
“I don’t know what I’d do without you. So you aren’t mad at me for being pregnant?”
“Of course I’m not mad at you doll. I told you that whenever we have children is fine with me. I love you and I love our child. No, we may not be married and things haven’t gone the way we planned but that’s okay. We’ll deal with everything together. We don’t have to be married to be a family.” She gives me a look that could melt ice at that last part. “ I’m not saying that I don’t want to marry you Doll, just that we’re going to be doing things differently.”
“You’re the best boyfriend ever and I love you so much.” She reaches up and kisses me then pulls away and gets out of her clothes and into a nightgown before climbing into bed.
“Hey doll?”
“Yes?”
“Is sex out for tonight? I mean it isn’t like I can get you pregnant or anything.” I give her a cute smile. She glares at me and throws a pillow at my head and I dodge it before jumping into the bed and grabbing her pulling her on top of me. She stays glaring at me until I start tickling her and she laughs begging me to stop. When I finally stop, she kisses my lips gently.
“You’re so lucky that I love you.” Then she lays on my chest and I hear her breathing change. She must have really been tired. Today probably did take a lot out of her. First finding out she’s pregnant then not knowing how I was going to react plus the hormones she’s probably dealing with too.
I pull the covers over us and rub her back while I slowly start to fall asleep. This has been one exciting day.
End of Jameson’s POV
CHAPTER ELEVEN
The next day I woke up to an alarm blaring that wasn’t mine and it was very irritating. I looked at the time and realized it was entirely too early for him to be getting up for work and I didn’t have to go in to work until next Monday. Why in the hell is that alarm going off? I’m way too tired for this. I need more sleep and he has alarms going off. I roll over to push him so he can wake up and turn that damn noise maker off but there’s nobody there. Where is he? I reach for his phone and turn off the alarm then roll back over and fall asleep. Minutes later I’m being shaken by him and told to wake up and come eat breakfast. Is he serious right now? I just want to sleep. I don’t want to eat or get out of this bed.
“Come on doll you have to get up and eat.”
“Baby I don’t want to eat or get up. I’m sleepy. Why can’t you get back in bed with me and just sleep? I’m really tired.” I roll over and again try to fall asleep.
“Doll, you have to eat for the baby’s sake. We have to eat so we’re not late for the doctor appointment. You did remember that we have an appointment today, right?” I jump up as the day before comes flooding back to me and subconsciously I put a hand on my stomach.
“That wasn’t a dream. I’m really pregnant.” I look up at him. “Are we really going to have a baby?”
“Well according to the test you took Doll, we are so we need to go to the doctor and make sure.”