As much as she would love to spend the day with Aidan, she couldn’t do that to her best friend. They’d planned this months ago, set it as a goal to look forward to during those times when she didn’t think that she’d be able to pull through. It had given her something to look forward to. For a moment, just a brief moment, she considered asking Rebecca if they could reschedule, but she couldn’t do that, not after they’d waited this long.
“I’m sorry, Aidan,” Melanie said, worrying her bottom lip.
“Don’t worry about it. We’ll do something tomorrow,” Aidan promised her with a warm smile as he climbed off the bed and headed to the door.
“Okay,” she mumbled, biting back a disappointed sigh.
“Go pretty yourself up for me, bitch,” Rebecca said, making her lips twitch as her best friend gestured for her to move her ass.
“Yes, dear,” Melanie said mockingly as she grabbed some clothes and headed to the bathroom, hoping to see Aidan on the way there so that she could at least get a goodbye kiss before she left.
Yes, she was apparently that pathetic, but she didn’t care.
When she didn’t spot him on the way to the bathroom, Melanie bit back another disappointed sigh and forced herself to focus on having a good time today. She’d been looking forward to going baby shopping and today was the day. For the past seven months, she’d had her eyes on a few things, debated between several themes, and had been toying with the idea of saying the hell with it and ordering everything from Amazon, but somehow, she’d resisted the urge.
She was probably going to end up ordering most of it online, but she still wanted to go and see all that baby cuteness. With that in mind, Melanie quickly showered, got dressed in record time, and made her way back to the bedroom so that she could wonder where Rebecca was when she spotted Aidan lounging on the bed, waiting for her.
“Where’s my bitch?” she couldn’t help but wonder.
“She had to leave. Something came up at the Fire & Brimstone,” Aidan said, shrugging it off as he climbed off the bed.
“Oh,” Melanie mumbled, unable to hide her disappointment because she’d been looking forward to looking at baby onesies and-
“Ready to go?” Aidan asked as he took her hand in his and gave it a gentle squeeze before heading towards the door.
“Where are we going?” she asked even as she told herself to look on the bright side, at least she got to spend the day with Aidan after all. Determined to have a good day, she grabbed her bag and-
“I thought we’d go baby shopping. Unless you wanted to do something else?” he asked, throwing her a questioning look.
“We could do that, I suppose,” Melanie said, smiling as she headed for the door, waddling as fast as her sore feet could take her and leaving him with no other choice but to come with her or risk being dragged.
It was baby shopping day!
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“It’s not fair,” came the saddest fucking mumble that he’d ever heard.
“I know,” Aidan murmured sympathetically as he did his best not to smile mostly because he didn’t think that it was a good idea to piss off the heavily pregnant woman sniffling sadly as she lovingly caressed a pink onesie.
“It’s so cute,” Melanie mumbled sadly.
“I know it is, baby,” Aidan agreed as he leaned down and kissed her cheek.
Sniffle.
“I love it so,” Melanie said, glancing from the pink onesie that he was going to have to buy for her to the selection of adorable baby girl items that had caught her attention twenty minutes ago when they’d walked into the store.
“The baby stuff for boys will be just as cute,” Aidan promised her as he tried to figure out how to use the scanner that the sales associate gave them.
“Why are you lying to me?” Melanie asked with another sniffle as she plucked the scanner out of his hand and began working her magic.
“It seemed like the best option at the time,” he said, relieved when she finally waddled out of the girl’s section that even he had to admit was just an overabundance of cuteness.
“Why are we making a wish list?” Melanie asked as she handed the scanner back to him.
“Because my mother somehow found out that we were going baby shopping,” he said, which of course, meant that Rebecca had somehow managed to escape the closet in the basement that he’d locked her in.
“We don’t get to buy anything today?” Melanie mumbled sadly, drawing his attention to find her lovingly caressing an emerald baby blanket.
“You can get whatever you want,” Aidan promised her as he reached over and picked up the blanket and placed it in an abandoned carriage.
Sniffle. “I love that blanket,” she said, grabbing onto the carriage and pushed it towards the boy’s section.
“I know you do, baby,” Aidan said, unable to help but smile as he watched her as she made her way through the boy’s section, lovingly caressing this, sniffling as she picked up a teddy bear onesie, and shaking her head with a heavy sigh when she spotted the neon green onesie with red sparkles.
For the next half hour, he dutifully followed behind her, placing her selections in the carriage for her and searching through piles of clothes looking for the color and sizes that she wanted. He’d added a few selections of his own along the way. An hour later, they were standing in the stroller aisle and he had to admit that it was seriously fucking overwhelming.
“But I don’t run unless someone’s chasing me,” Melanie mumbled sadly as she took in the first ten strollers that had been designed with the athletic mom in mind before adding, “or unless I see Ronald McDonald.”
“Ronald McDonald?” Aidan asked, wrapping his arms around her.
There was sniffle, and then, “I really don’t want to talk about it.”
“That goes against the rules,” Aidan pointed out as he placed his hands on her belly so that their son could say push against his hands.
“I’m not talking.”
“Then I’m afraid that I’m going to have to punish you,” Aidan said as he pressed a kiss against her neck.
“Do what you must,” Melanie said with a sniffle that had his lips twitching.
“Fine. Then no more pie,” he said, loving her little gasp of outrage.
“He freaks me out!” Melanie blurted out not even a second later.
“Is that it?”
“Isn’t that enough?” she countered.
“I suppose,” Aidan murmured, sounding thoughtful as he glanced around them, taking in all the strollers and wondered how they were supposed to figure out which one they needed when the epitome of evil joined them.
“You,” was all Rebecca said when she spotted them.
“Is everything okay at the Fire & Brimstone?” Melanie asked as Aidan locked eyes with the woman that was in over her head as he pressed one last kiss against Melanie’s neck.
“It’s fine,” Rebecca said as a smile that could only be described as evil graced her adorable face before she glanced over her shoulder, drawing Aidan’s attention to his brother, who looked rea
lly fucking pissed for some reason.
“You locked my wife in a closet in the fucking basement?” Lucifer demanded, getting in his face.
“Oh, my god, you locked her in a closet?” Melanie asked, sounding shocked for some reason as she stepped out of his arms.
“Yes!” Rebecca hissed as Aidan stood there, shaking his head sadly.
“I didn’t have a choice. Not after I found out that she planned on having a beige color scheme for the baby,” Aidan said with a helpless shrug and a sigh, pleased when Melanie was forced to turn her head when a noise that sounded suspiciously like a snort of laughter escaped her.
“What?” Lucifer demanded, immediately forgetting about him to focus on his wife. “You were going to subject my godson to beige?”
“No, wait, I-” Rebecca began, but sadly, she was in way over her head on this one.
“And she said that we should just pick out the cheapest crap for the baby since he would just outgrow it anyway,” Aidan added, mostly to ensure that his brother took over for them since it would just make this easier.
With a glare aimed at his wife, Lucifer reached over and snatched the scanner out of Aidan’s hand. “We are going to have a very long talk, woman,” Lucifer bit out, narrowing his eyes on his wife before his attention shifted to the scanner in his hands and-
“This just isn’t going to work for me,” his brother said, sighing heavily at their selections before clearing everything, grabbing the carriage, and heading down the aisle as he carefully considered the stroller options.
“You’re going to pay for that,” the epitome of evil said, drawing his attention back to find Rebecca standing in front of him, glaring up at him.
“Am I though?” Aidan asked, reaching over to pat her on the head, mostly to piss her off.
She slapped his hand away as she nodded, “Yes, you will. I held back last time, but now,” she said, slowly shaking her head, “you’ve asked for it.”
“Interesting,” Aidan murmured, nodding thoughtfully before asking, “Have you ever wondered why my brother was never able to fire you?”
“Oh, he tried, but he couldn’t do it,” Rebecca said with a smug little smile that was too fucking adorable for words.