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“True. Thank you for adding pineapples by the way, it tastes real good.” I smile.
“How’s peanut?” He asks looking down to my stomach. I’m not showing by any means, but he still looks.
“She’s great. Giving me quite a lot of indigestion, but she’s great.”
“She?” He asks.
“I don’t like the sound of it. I alternate, today is she.” I smile.
“I like that. Hopefully though, that doesn’t give her a complex.” He smiles.
I laugh and take a deep breath. Time for me to pull out the big guns.
“So, I put in a notice at my apartment complex.” I spill.
“What? Really? When?” He almost choked on the last bit of his shake.
“Two weeks ago.”
“And you’re just now telling me? I’ve been stressing for two weeks about how I was going to get you to change your mind.” He’s not angry, but he almost looks frustrated that I kept the information to myself. I immediately feel guilty of robbing him of the excitement of the news.
“Listen, I’m sorry. I needed to be 100% sure before I told you. I didn’t want to tell you and then pull back and not do it.”
“Okay then, what changed your mind?”
“There was a gunshot that I had heard, it sounded like it was close. Then I was doing my laundry and I noticed that the machine had bullet holes in it. Along with the neighbors and their every other night parties, I figured that moving would be a smart move. And then when I started thinking of it, I had to do a pros and cons list of moving in with you.” I explain. Damnit, why did I need to mention my list.
“Pros and Cons list?” He asks.
“Well, since we don’t know one another too well, I thought that that outweighed everything and if we’re going to have a baby that would come in handy. You know, actually knowing the father, on more than a ‘I’ve seen him naked’ level.” I smirk.
“I can see where that would be a beneficial thing. So, when can you move in?” He looks like a happy puppy now.
“Anytime, really. You’ve seen my apartment, I don’t have a lot of furniture, but I think that I don’t want to get rid of everything, but most can go, especially if it’s a double of something that you have. Maybe I should get storage, ugh I didn’t think this through all the way.” I scratch the top of my head.
“I have a shed out back. I bought it when I bought this place, thinking that I would put like tools or something manly out in it. It’s only got a rake, broom and maybe a box or two in it. It’s pretty big, you can put whatever back there, if you want to store anything. No need to rent a storage unit, when we have all the space here.”
He said we. My stomach just got a whole bunch of butterflies fluttering in it.
“Okay.”
“We can move you in today?” He looks like he’s going to start wagging his imaginary tail.
“I would need to pack and probably go through things some more, I already kinda started but I’ve got a lot to go through.”
Max jumps up and heads down to hallway and disappears into one of the bedrooms. He comes out wearing a hoodie and shoes.
“Let’s go.” He says, grabbing his keys and wallet.
“Where are we going?” I ask him. He can’t really want to start this today, but I’m dead wrong as he hands me my bag and is ushering me out of the house.
“I’ll meet you at your place, I’ll grab some boxes. And then later, I’ll call Lukas and he’ll bring his truck.”
“Lukas?” I ask trying to stall.
“He’s one of the partners, at my company, one of my best friends. You’ll like him. Come on, let’s go. We’re losing daylight here just standing around.”
“You’re excited.” I smile walking past him.
“It’s not every day that the soon to be mother of your child says she’ll move in with you.” He smiles as he locks the door.
Those damn butterflies!
