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Anyway, the mail.
I open the metal box and pull out a stack of letters and flyers. Some days, I don’t even think mail should be allowed to exist when there are so many ads in your face all the time.
I shuffle through the stack. Bill, ad, ad, dental cleaning postcard.
I spy Drew’s Tesla pulling down the street. Our street. He pulls up to where I stand on the sidewalk and hops out. “Hey, beautiful.” He greets me with a kiss to the cheek that makes my insides tighten wondrously.
“Hey.”
“How are you doing?”
Drew is home early from work for a very, very special occasion. “I’m great,” I say with a smile, taking his hand. “Let me grab my purse and we can head out.”
“Sounds good. I’ll wait here.”
I start down the walk.
“D!”
“What?”
“You look amazing.”
I glance down at the outfit I’ve picked; a springy blouse and sleek skirt that really accentuates my bump. “I don’t think I’ve ever dressed up this much to lay on an examination table.”
Drew snorts and leans back on the Tesla. “You know that’s not why you’re dressed up.”
I grin. When Drew told me last night he was going to take me out for a nice dinner after the appointment, I didn’t think anything of it until he told me the place he chose was a very fancy fine dining establishment in Santa Monica. I had to dress the part. “I know, just giving you shit.”
“Wouldn’t have it any other way.”
I head back inside quickly, dropping the mail into the mail slot on the counter to be sorted later. Today is my sixteen week checkup for the baby. I can’t help the celebration that is getting to know how my little one is doing.
* * *
We werelucky to be able to get an ultrasound with radiology scheduled for just after the appointment with my OB. Sure, I love having my blood drawn and giving urine samples as much as the next person, but the ultrasound is what we have both been really looking forward to.
“How’ve you been feeling, mama? Better now that you’re out of the first, huh?” the young, springy-haired technician asks. She speaks as if she’s been in my shoes.
“Much,” I say as I shuffle back on the table and roll my skirt down over my belly for her before laying back.
“Here, honey,” she says, pulling a stool up for Drew. “You don’t need to stand there like Slender Man.”
Drew laughs, an embarrassed flush on his face.
“He never knows what to do with himself during these things,” I say, holding out my hand to him.
Drew takes it. “Listen, I’ve already imposed on your womb, I don’t want to be an imposition elsewhere.”
The technician giggles now. “Sounds like you’ve found a keeper.”
“Definitely,” I say.
“Cold.” She squeezes the clear gel on my stomach. “So, when’s the big day?”
I smile sheepishly. “Oh, the ring isn’t–we’re not–”
“Engaged to be engaged.”
