What is Love

Chapter 18:

"The beach?" Dez asks as I park.

"Yup."

"We don't even have swim clothes on." He said.

"We don't need them. Remember when I was pregnant with Zain, this was our spot. We'd always come here just to walk. Joke, laugh, and talk stuff."

He smiled nodding, "Yeah, I remember."

"Come on Zain." I said opening the back door for him. He was sleepy now I guess laser tag wore him out.

"You gotta stay up for the surprise remember?" I said to him as he grabbed my hand.

"Okay." He said yawning stretching.

We all removed our shoes before we begin walking the beach.

"You can't be stealing my ideas." Dez said throwing his arm over my shoulder pulling me into him.

"What I steal?" I ask.

"My redoing dates idea."

"Oh whatever." I smiled slapping his chest.

Zain let my hand go running up ahead of us. "Don't to far or near the water!" I called after him.

He called back okay stopping up ahead.

"Mommy!" He called from where he sat on sand.

"Yes, Zain."

"Big is b.i.g and brother is what again? B.r.o-" My eyes got big realizing what he was writing in the sand.

I knew he'd ruin it before we were suppose to really be telling Dez, he did it in a cute way tho.

"Why the hell would he be writing big brother when he's not a big brother yet?" Dez asks.

"Keyword, yet." I said.

"What-" He paused looking at me then sucking his teeth. "You ain't pregnant. Are you? No, you ain't."

"I am tho. He basically told you, too soon tho. We had a whole set up done up ahead to tell you."

"Yeah, right." Dez said.

"Forreal," I said digging through my bag to get the sonogram pictures out so I could show him.

"That's probably Zain." He said looking at me with one side of his mouth turned up not believing me.

I rolled my eyes. "We didn't have a sonogram of Zain this early."

"Oh yeah." He said staring at the sonogram for what felt like forever.

"That's fuckin crazy." He said.

I yelp laughing as he scooped me up hugging me while spinning around.

"You're gonna make me sick." I shouted laughing.

"Oh shit, my bad." He said putting me back down.

"You told him?" Zain asks coming in between us.

"Yes, you did by saying big brother."

"Oh," He smiled and ran back up ahead of us.

"What?" I ask when Dez just stares at me.

He shook his head. "I should have guessed it."

"You really should have because I was doing a horrible job hiding it."

"How far along?" He asks.

"10 weeks."

"That's crazy." He said looking down at my stomach. "I knew there was a reason you shouldn't have wore that shirt. You're pregnant so trash it when we get home."