Everything Has Changed

A Girl Like Her

"I know you are thinking Tay. I can positively hear it from here." Travis spoke softly, whispering against her right ear.

"I was just thinking that, after today this all becomes real." Taylor sighed and Travis chuckled at his girlfriend's sudden philosophical realisation.

"It has been real since the day we had sex" Travis spoke truthfully, earning himself a light slap on his shoulder causing him to wince.

"I just mean that, before, when we didn't know the gender, the baby was an it. Just a thing. But now, it feels like they will be so much more of a real person and that scares me Trav."

Travis pulled Taylor back into him, resting her head on his chest as he rubbed gentle circles around and around on the small of her back.

"It scares me too Tay." Travis admitted. "It scares me how we are going to have a baby in just a few months. A whole human being, a person who is going to be relying on us for the rest of our lives."

"I know. But I don't want it to change us Trav. I have seen it happen with so many other couples before us."

"It won't" Travis reassured her. They stayed stood in the bathroom together before a distinct meow and hiss comes from their bedroom followed by a cry that could only be Bennett. Whilst Taylor would have gone with Travis to help him diffuse the situation, she found herself overcome with severe vertigo and another wave of nausea, finding herself back exactly where she had been before: hunched over the toilet bowl puking her guts up. Clearly not everything had come up like she previously thought in vain. 

Both Taylor and Travis had decided on neutral colours for the party as to remain unbiased as to what sex they thought the baby would be. Taylor in a white maxi dress and matching fluffy cardigan and Travis in a white button down blouse and beige trousers.

"Wow." Travis said coming up behind Taylor who was putting the finishing touches of lipstick to her makeup. He wrapped his arms around her, stroking her bump lovingly. Being twenty weeks pregnant, Taylor had already started to feel the baby move around and kick but Travis was yet to feel them too as they weren't strong enough to feel from the outside just yet. "That is one hot baby mama."

"Stop Trav." Taylor giggled, almost smudging her makeup as she felt Travis kiss her neck with passion. "This is how we ended up in this state remember."

"Oh I remember" He growled. However before things could get any further, Kylie came in.

"Ok you two love birds, everything is set up downstairs for you guys to come down. Some people are still arriving so quit the kissing and come entertain your guests." Kylie swatted Travis on the back before laughing as she exited the room.

"I guess that is our cue to enter." Taylor giggled, kissing Travis one last time before making her way downstairs where pretty much everyone was gathering. She spotted her dad stood outside by the BBQ with Travis' dad Ed and his brother Jason, all three of them drinking beer and grilling meat for lunch. Typical dad territory. 

"Oh Taylor, you look absolutley radiant." Donna gushed, coming over to hug her. 

"Told you pregnancy suits ya Tay. It's got this glow." Blake laughed.

"Thanks guys. I deffo don't feel this way when I am puking my guts up at three in the morning all of the time, or just any time really. Whoever called it morning sickness has got to be the world's biggest liar." All of the women in the room nodded and giggled.

"Mine was the worst with Bennett. I don't know what it was but just nothing stayed down until the third trimester hit and by then I felt so big that I thought I would burst if I placed another piece of food into my body."