13.Jul.19, 07:45 PM
“I’m just being a worry-wart,” Logan said with a smile. Ever since she had told him about the pregnancy he had been by turns elated and petrified. He still felt like a kid, despite his journeyman status; how could he possibly raise one?
He looked up when Sariel mentioned the baby moved more with him there, surprised. “Really?” The flutters were still tiny now, hardly visible against her belly, though he knew from his mom’s pregnancies with his younger siblings that eventually they would be able to see limbs straining against their confines as the baby stretched and kicked. He had only felt the movement twice since she first started to feel it move and he was always excited when it happened.
“I suppose she just prefers my company to yours,” he teased, dodging a playful cuff aimed his way with a laugh. “She’s with you all day long and you never rest so she needs a chance to get her own point across.” They had no way of knowing if the child would be a boy or a girl, but Logan had taken to referring to “her” rather than the sterile and clinical “it” or worse, “the fetus.” That felt too impersonal, and honestly he hoped for a little girl.
He looked up when Sariel mentioned the baby moved more with him there, surprised. “Really?” The flutters were still tiny now, hardly visible against her belly, though he knew from his mom’s pregnancies with his younger siblings that eventually they would be able to see limbs straining against their confines as the baby stretched and kicked. He had only felt the movement twice since she first started to feel it move and he was always excited when it happened.
“I suppose she just prefers my company to yours,” he teased, dodging a playful cuff aimed his way with a laugh. “She’s with you all day long and you never rest so she needs a chance to get her own point across.” They had no way of knowing if the child would be a boy or a girl, but Logan had taken to referring to “her” rather than the sterile and clinical “it” or worse, “the fetus.” That felt too impersonal, and honestly he hoped for a little girl.