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Alex walked out of the bathroom, seeing Kelly smiling over to her from the edge of the bed where she was sitting. She had her sunglasses sitting on top of her head and her hair was tied back in a sleek ponytail. “Sorry about that.” Alex put her hand on her chest, swallowing away the nauseous feeling.
“It’s alright,” Kelly pushed herself up off the bed. “You feeling okay? We don’t need to go out. We can just chill out in the room if you’d prefer.” Kelly walked over to her wife, her hand reaching out to rub her arm.
“No, no,” Alex shook her head. “We are going to enjoy this time away from the kids.” Alex and Kelly were away for a couple days to celebrate their 5th wedding anniversary. They were at a small beachside town, only a couple hours’ drive from National City, but it was nice to get some time away just the two of them. Eliza was down from Midvale to look after the girls and was going to stay a few days longer once they’d got home to spend some time with Alex and Kelly.
“Well away from two of them.” Kelly murmured, her hand going onto Alex’s stomach. Alex was currently 10 weeks pregnant. They’d started trying again when Maya was 14 months old, and they were overjoyed to find that after 3 tries, they’d gotten a positive result, but just 8 weeks into the pregnancy, Alex sadly miscarried. After taking some time to grieve and heal from the loss, they tried again, and again, unlike with Skyler and Maya where it worked on the first try, this time took 4 attempts before they got a positive result.
“Kel,” Alex sighed lightly as she shook her head, pushing Kelly’s hand from her stomach. Alex wasn’t letting herself get excited for this pregnancy, the fear of another miscarriage plaguing her mind. “Please don’t.”
“Don’t what?” Kelly questioned. “Don’t get excited at the fact we are having another baby?” Kelly looked into her wife’s eyes. They looked filled with fear.
“It’s still early. I…I don’t want to jinx anything.” Alex told her. She had this horrible feeling in the pit of her stomach. She knew a lot of it would be to do with morning sickness, but she was sure some of it was also worry for losing the baby. Now it had happened once for her, she couldn’t shake the feeling of something happening again.
“Fine,” Kelly sighed, feeling defeated. She didn’t want to have this conversation that had become so familiar to them again. Or at least, not now. Not when they were supposed to be having a nice few days away celebrating. Kelly felt like she wasn’t allowed to be excited or even mention the baby around Alex. Alex would just shut down and refuse to acknowledge her pregnancy. She’d tried to talk through it with her, but Alex accused her of treating her like a patient, so Kelly was always wary about trying to bring it up again. “Let’s just go into town and find somewhere to get lunch.” Kelly said. They’d arrived at the hotel around mid-morning, having left National City around 9am. They’d been able to check into the room right away, and they’d not taken long to unpack their clothes. Kelly was looking at the information folder on the area when Alex ran to the bathroom, a wave of nausea hitting her. Kelly almost followed her in to show her support and comfort her, but the last time she did that Alex yelled at her, so she decided for now to stay away and let Alex have the space she was clearly seeking. She knew this wasn’t like her wife, Alex always talked through her feelings and never shut her out, so she knew soon enough Alex would open up about her fears and Kelly hoped she’d be able to say the right thing and ease Alex of some of her worries.
“I’m not really sure I feel like eating but I guess I should try something small.” Alex murmured, picking up her sunglasses and phone from the dresser. She put her phone into her back pocket, then put on her sunglasses. She picked her wallet up that was also sitting on the dresser and handed it to Kelly, giving her a soft smile, like she wanted her to carry it for her. Kelly exhaled lightly as she took it from her and put it into her beach bag before picking it up from the bed.
“I thought after lunch we could go to the wartime Museum,” Kelly said. “I think it’s a pretty small one but part of it is on an old warship. Would be pretty cool to see,” Kelly said, looking to her wife to see her reaction to the suggestion. When Alex didn’t respond, she spoke again. “Or there’s a craft beer brewery about 40 minutes’ drive from here,” Kelly told her. “You get to see the brewing process and can even taste a few of them.” Kelly knew this was a silly thing to say. Of course Alex couldn’t taste the beers, but they didn’t need to and it could still have been a nice little visit around the brewery.
“Don’t really feel like going to a brewery if I can’t taste the beer,” Alex murmured. “What would the point be in that?” Alex questioned. “I can’t let you have all the fun this weekend,” Alex said, walking closer to her wife, and wrapping her arms around her waist. “Although, I’m sure we could think of other things we could do which would be fun for the both of us.” Alex raised her eyebrows suggestively as she leaned down and placed kiss on Kelly’s soft lips.
“Oh yeah?” Kelly murmured, pulling back from the kiss to look into Alex’s eyes. “Can I get a little preview of what that could be?” Kelly said, a glint in her eye.
“I thought you wanted to go get lunch?” Alex said, her hand slowly moving down and slipping under Kelly’s red sundress, slowly going back up her thigh, stopping at the rim of her panties.
“Well maybe you could be my lunch.” Kelly spoke in a seductive whisper.
Alex gave a little chuckle. “Baby, I’m not a lunch. I’m a three-course meal.” Alex retorted, this time Kelly giving a chuckle.
“You sure are.” Kelly mumbled before kissing her wife again, Alex stopping as she heard Kelly’s stomach grumble.
Alex raised her eyebrows, looking down to her wife’s stomach. “As much of a great time we’d have, I don’t think it would cure that grumbling, so, how about we go for lunch then go to the museum, maybe have a little walk along the beach then come back and get ready to head out for dinner then after dinner uh…” Alex paused for a moment, looking her wife up and down. “After dinner we can be each other’s dessert?”
“Sure are thinking of a lot of ways to postpone sex.” Kelly muttered.
“I’m sure you know by now that it’s worth the wait,” Alex mumbled, a cheeky glint in her eye. “Now, c’mon Mrs Danvers-Olsen, let’s go enjoy a nice kid-free restaurant meal.” Alex said, taking Kelly’s hand in hers and leading her out of the hotel room, the both of them going to enjoy a few kid free days.
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“And at last I see the light, it’s like the fog has lifted,” Maya was dancing around the living room as she sang. She was dressed in a Rapunzel dress – Rapunzel currently her favourite Disney Princess. “And at last I see the light,” Maya continued with her song, the three-year-old clearly having fun.
“Maya,” Skyler groaned. “Stop singing.”
“No, it’s my favourite,” Maya frowned as she folded her arms across her chest and put a big pout on her face. “We is going to watch it.”
“Popcorn is ready, did you two pick a movie?” Kara questioned as she walked into the living room with the big bowl full of freshly popped popcorn. Eliza followed behind her with a tray of drinks. She and Kara were having a glass of wine, while Skyler was having a fruit punch Capri Sun and Maya had some water in her Disney Princess cup with the swirly straw that went around it.
“Rapunzel, Rapunzel, Rapunzel.” Maya screeched as she jumped up and down.
“I wanted to watch Harry Potter.” Skyler frowned, clearly not impressed with her little sister’s choice. She liked the movie, but her tastes were branching out to other movies than Disney or other animations.
“Harry Potter isn’t really the best choice for Maya,” Eliza said, handing Skyler her Capri Sun as Skyler sat up from laying across the armchair. “Rapunzel is a movie we can all watch together.”
“I know,” Skyler sighed lightly as she stuck the straw into her juice. “I put the DVD in the machine already.”
“Good, thank you.” Eliza smiled at her eldest granddaughter.
“I’m all for watching Harry Potter after Rapunzel,” Kara said, Skyler grinning at her. “Granny can put Maya to bed and then we can watch it.”
“No, no,” Maya widened her eyes, waving her arms out in front of her. “It’s not time for bed yet.”
“No sweetie it’s not,” Eliza assured her. “Kara means after Rapunzel it’s your bedtime.”
“Oh yes after Rapunzel.” Maya climbed up onto the couch, getting herself comfy in between her auntie and granny.
“What Harry Potter movie do you want to watch?” Kara said, looking over to Skyler.
“The first one,” Skyler answered. She was currently reading the books, and was only on the second one, so she didn’t want to spoil them by watching the movies, so would only watch the first one since she’d read that book already. “I’m still reading chamber of secrets, so I don’t want to watch the movie yet.”
“Well the first one is good.” Kara said.
“Yes, I’ve seen it with Mum and Mama.” Skyler replied, reaching over to grab to a handful of popcorn.
“Mama is here?” Maya sounded excited as she looked over to the door, the excitement soon draining from her face at seeing she wasn’t in the house.
“No darling, remember Mama and Mummy went away for a couple of days. You are staying here with me and Skye.” Eliza told her.
Maya frowned, not looking impressed. “I want to see Mama and Mummy.”
“How about we phone them after we’ve watched Rapunzel?” Kara suggested. “You can have a little chat with them and say goodnight.”
“Yes,” Maya smiled, liking the sounds of this. “I will talk to Mummy and my Mama. I miss them.”
“I know you will but you’re going to have lots of fun with me, and Granny and Skye.” Kara said, Maya nodding as she cuddled into her. Kara wrapped her arm around her niece, loving that she was getting some Maya cuddles. They didn’t happen as often as she’d like, as when they’d hang out when Kelly and Alex were around, Maya would often be glued to Kelly. She was very much going through a Mama’s girl phase, Maya preferring to be with her, unlike when Skyler was her age, as she loved being with her auntie any chance she got.
“But not Arlo,” Maya frowned, looking over to the now empty area of the living room where Arlo’s bed used to be. “He went to doggy heaven.”
“Yeah,” Eliza spoke softly. It was the first time she’d been in the house since Arlo had passed, about 5 weeks previous and she was finding it a little strange. She kept looking around for him, expecting him to be nearby.
“Why did he go?” Maya asked.
“Well, he was getting quite old for a Dalmatian and he got sick.” Eliza explained.
“I want another doggy.” Maya frowned.
“Mums said no,” Skyler frowned. She too would like another dog. “At least not yet, they said,” Skyler said, looking between Kara and Eliza as she spoke. “I think Mum is pregnant again so that’s why, but I don’t really know. I’m just guessing.” Skyler said, giving a little shrug.
Kara and Eliza exchanged a quick glance. “What makes you think that?” Kara questioned. She and Eliza were both aware of the pregnancy, and Alex and Kelly had told James, but right now, no one else knew. Alex wanted to leave it longer before telling people because of her previous miscarriage. Their friends knew about that pregnancy and having to tell them she’d miscarried was difficult.
“Well she’s been sick a lot and doesn’t eat as much proper food and keeps eating Jello,” Skyler pointed out. “So, I dunno, I Googled it and I think she’s pregnant.”
“You can Google?” Eliza questioned.
“Granny, I’m 9,” Skyler sounded offended that Eliza would question she knew how to Google. “I used Mama’s laptop,” Skyler informed them. “So, do you know? Is she?”
“Well I don’t know about that,” Kara hoped to sound convincing. “But how would you feel about it if she were?” Kara wondered, remembering how Skyler felt about Maya’s arrival.
“Well, it would be okay I guess,” Skyler shrugged. “They did speak to me a long time ago about them maybe having another baby then they lost one,” Skyler said. “But Maya is pretty cool most of the time so it would be fine if they did have more. But just one more then that would be enough.”
Eliza opened her mouth to reply, but Maya spoke over her. “Rapunzel. Please play Rapunzel.” Maya said, sounding rather impatient as she was still cuddled against Kara.
“Sorry sweetie, I’ll put it on now.” Kara leaned forward and pressed play on the remote, Maya grinning as her favourite movie started. Eliza reached forward to pick up her wine glass and grabbed a handful of popcorn before getting herself comfy, happy to back in National City to spend some time with her family.