Love You Too: PART 103

"We're back, no luck I'm afraid" Joe called, sitting on an empty couch as Tiffany sunk down beside him. "Let me have a hold" he said, holding out his arms towards Ellie and flicking his fingers.
"She's so gorgeous, isn't she?" Ellie cooed, laying the baby carefully down in his arms before squeezing into the seat alongside him, so she could put her arms around his shoulder and kiss the side of his face. "Don't you just wish she was ours?"
"She is absolutely gorgeous" Joe replied, not satisfying Ellie with an answer to the next question.
"I should go and make up the bed in your room, I'll be back in a minute" Nate said, jumping up and beckoning for Tiffany to follow.
"You'll be alright with her?"
"Of course" Ellie replied to Tiffany, beaming.
"Okay, we'll be back in a few minutes" but Nate was already hurrying her out by picking up two out of three of their cases.
"What's going on?" Tiffany said as she finally hauled the last case up the final stair.
"Give that to me" Nate said, taking it off her as he'd dumped the other two at the top of the staircase with such ease "I don't want you to damage the baby"
"Nate come on, I did a lot more... How do you know there's a baby anyway?"
"I can just feel it. I know I'm a father already, but I feel different today"
"Darling please don't talk like that"
"I managed to dig this out" he said, slipping a pregnancy tester out of his pocket.
"What? Right now?"
"Please" he said, eagerly darting his eye contact from one of her eyes to the other.
"We don't know what we're going to do yet, I don't want the actual result to change our plans"
"Let's decide now then. If you're not pregnant, do we try for another?"
"Not on purpose. I want to focus on this baby, not another"
"Do we just forget about having another child?"
"For a few years, yes"
"And if you are pregnant?"
"Then I either keep it or get an abortion"
"You'd really consider an abortion?"
"Yes I would. For two reasons: I don't want to go through what I did with you again, and I want to go to university. They won't take me if I have much more time off"
"I understand all that" Nate replied, brushing it off "But don't you want to be a mother again?"
"I do. But at the moment, I want to be a mother to the first child, and I want to be your wife again. We're finally back on track, so do you really want to complicate all that?"
"No, but being a father has given me real purpose in life. I never knew I could feel so important to someone" he said, smiling as he thought of his child.
"You're that important to me" Tiffany whispered, putting her arms around him "If you want me to take the test then I will, but we need to have a really good think about what we're going to do"
"Thank you baby" he said, tilting her chin up with his index finger and kissing her softly and passionately, taking her feet from underneath her.
She took the test from his hand, and told him to make the bed whilst he was waiting, before he kissed her one more time.
"This could change everything between us" he said softly.