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I wanted Hazel close to me.
“I must be drunk,” Hazel said.
“You better not be,” I whispered. “You’re pregnant.”
Hazel curled her lip.“Thanks for the reminder.”
There wasa slight moment in my bedroom, when Hazel stood next to my bed, fully dressed.
I stood next to her, fully dressed.
We both looked at each other.
Last time we were in this room…
That was the first time it occurred to me that we had conceived our baby in this very bed.
“I guess I don’t have to give you the tour,” I said.
“That’s not funny,” she said. “And I guess I’m sleeping in these clothes?”
“Or nothing at all,” I said. “I won’t bother you.”
“Or maybe you can give me a shirt or something to wear? You know, be a gentleman?”
“Now why in the world would I change my ways now?”
As Hazel turned just a little and began to rub her stomach, I realized just how weak in the knees I suddenly felt. How the pregnancy thing made me feel…
I walked away from Hazel and tore open my closet and found a t-shirt for Hazel.
“Hope you don’t mind,” I said to her. “It’s an Arizona shirt.”
“Oh, the enemy, huh?”
“Sure,” I said. “But they did pay me for three years.”
“How much?”
“You really want me to tell you that, love?”
“No,” she said. “It’ll just make me hate you more.”
“Want me to stand here and watch you get changed?”
“No. You can leave now.”
“Goodnight, Hazel,” I said.
My eyes dipped down to her stomach again.
“Go ahead,” she said. “Say goodnight to the baby.”
I swallowed hard.
I was actually nervous.
Nervous to touch and talk to a woman’s stomach.
