Never Have A Baller's Baby

Naomi stared at him as the clerk rung it all up and smiled lightly at him as she asked for an obscene amount of money. He handed her his card and asked her to have it all delivered to his house. After he gave her the address, he looked back at Naomi and smiled happily, and Naomi shook her head at him.

“Do you think you got enough?” she asked coolly, meaning for her question to be sarcastic.

He gave his head an adamant shake. “Oh not at all. No… absolutely not. We’re just getting started. We’ve got so much more to get! You have to decorate the nursery! There wasn’t a nursery when you started on the house. Now we need to redo one of the guest bedrooms. I was thinking the green one right next to my room; it’s close but not too close. Right? Don’t you think?” he asked in a giddy voice.

She just laughed at him and shook her head, and as they walked out of the store, he took her hand in his and kissed the back of it. “I’m happy about this. I want you to know that. I am really happy about this.”

Naomi felt a lot more happiness moving through her too, and it was a nice change for her. She had been so stressed out and upset for so many weeks up to that point and hadn’t even realized it. The difference between the low that she had been feeling, and the happy high that she was experiencing with Scott just then, were incomparable, and it made her joy all that much sweeter.

He took her back to his house with him to drop off a few of the things that they had taken with them, including the little teddy bear, and he walked with her into the green guest room that she had just finished, and which he was talking about turning into a nursery.

He turned in a circle in the middle of the room, looking around it. “What do you think? Do you think this will be a good nursery? Should we put the crib in that corner by the window, or over here by the door? Maybe not the window. What if it gets too hot or too cold? What if there’s a draft in the window? What if—”

She laughed at him and cut him off, laying her finger softly against his lips. “The crib can go by the door. It’s probably the best place for it.” She shook her head and laughed at him. “This is such a change from where you were with this before… it’s so… different.” She smiled, wrapping her arms around his neck.

He let out a long slow breath. “Well… I hadn’t really… comprehended it before. I mean… we heard the heartbeat today. It’s just… more real to me now,” he admitted, wishing it had felt that way the whole time, and pushing away the feeling of guilt that gripped him when he admitted to himself that he hadn’t felt that way the whole time.

“Oh, it’s real all right.” She chuckled. “I like this change in you. It’s sweet.” She smiled and drew herself up against him. Tipping her face up to his, she kissed him softly, and he closed his arms around her and kissed her in return, deeply.

“I like this change in me, too…” he mumbled as his lips moved over hers. The fires of need began to burn in them both and he subtly closed his hands around her hips, moving his fingers and gathering her sundress upward slowly until he could touch her skin. He curved his hands over her fleshy backside, sliding his fingers beneath the back of her panties and she gasped and a soft moan escaped her.

“What do you think you’re up to?” she asked him in a whisper in between kisses.

“I think I’m going to pull these panties off and make love to you right here and now…” he replied with a hint of a smile on his hungry lips.

She gasped at his forwardness, and didn’t stop him from doing exactly what he said he was going to do. Losing herself in the passion of the moment with him, she went with him to his bedroom as he pulled her along the hallway, carefully peeling off her clothes as they made their way slowly.

By the time they got to his bed, they were both nude. He laid down and she moved above him, running her tongue over his chest and stomach, biting gently at his flesh and making him gasp as she brought her mouth to his hardened groin.

Moving her fingers over him deftly, she began to stroke him, teasing the tip of him with her tongue and teeth, sliding the width of her tongue down the full length of him before taking him into her mouth fully, and sucking at him hard as he lost all of his breath and grasped the pillow beside him, clenching it in his iron grip.

She tasted him; sucking and taunting him until he nearly came in her mouth, before she pushed herself up and straddled him, lowering her body down onto his and taking him into the depths of her, squeezing him, moving against him as they began their love wrestling. They moved in unison, their bodies rocking against one another until the burning pleasure of their passion ignited into a bonfire that set them both ablaze with ecstasy, and they came together, long and hard, before they both collapsed back into his bed.

She had not felt so happy or contented with him as she did in that moment, and she was glad to tell him so. “This… this is all I have wanted from you. It’s all I ever wanted. You and me together as a couple; loving each other, being here and being out together… and you’re finally okay with it. We’re finally a real couple, and that means the world to me.” She sighed blissfully, and he pulled back and looked at her with a serious and grim expression.

“Naomi… I know we went shopping today, and we were at the doctor’s office, but we aren’t a couple,” he said quietly.

She stared at him. “What?” she asked in total disbelief.

“I mean… I want to be there for you, and be there for the baby always, but… we can’t go public with this.” He shook her head a little, searching her eyes, hoping that she would finally get it.

“What are you talking about? It’s already public! Everyone knows about this… about us! Everyone knows! It’s in the papers and magazines… it’s everywhere! It’s not a secret anymore!” She frowned at him and a cold ball of regret began to turn in her stomach.

“I know that… I do, but what I don’t know is if we can be a real couple in the public. Right now it’s just perception. There aren’t any photos of us together in public, there isn

’t any video of us, there isn’t any real proof of us out there in public as a couple; there’s just the article that hit the Times. That’s it. So all the rest of it is speculation. For all the rest of the world knows, I am still with Jennifer as a celebrity couple, and my sponsors and her sponsors love that. It means a lot of money for us both, and that’s huge.

I make three times as much money from my sponsors as I do from my football contract. It’s the biggest part of my income. I told you; it’s my career. I can’t take anything to chance with that. I can’t risk losing it. I don’t know how the sponsors are going to feel about me having a pregnant girlfriend who isn’t a celebrity, and especially on top of the news of Cora being pregnant too… and the fling with her… it’s just bad press.

I have to rise above that, and I don’t know if I can with you as a girlfriend. We have to move carefully. We have to think about these things and see what’s going to happen. I can’t take any chances,” he pleaded with her, hoping that she would see things his way.

Naomi could not believe what she was hearing him say, and she could not believe that she had fallen for it all over again with him. It seemed like everything that he said to her always wound up in the same place; like a cycle that could not be broken.

She pushed herself up from the bed and silently gathered her clothes.

“Naomi… I do want to be with you, and I want to be with the baby… but I just have to be careful; that’s all. I have to—o” he began, but she cut him off.

“I know,” she said, turning and looking at him with a stone cold gaze. “You have to put your career first.”