Jenny (Babysitter's Club 5)

I shook my head as I looked at her in amazement. “Take a wild guess.” She ran her hands down my chest.

“I have no idea, why didn’t you tell me all of this before?” She shrugged her shoulders and looked down at her hands as they moved over me.

“It wasn’t time, I guess. But the reason I fought to stay here even though I could’ve been gone a long time ago is because I was waiting for you.”

I was kissing her before she got the words out. The old me probably would’ve cried like a bitch, but the new me, the me I was becoming with her, did a mental fist pump and pulled my woman in closer. I don’t know why or what I ever did to deserve this kind of love, but I’ll be forever grateful.

“Thank you, baby, for not giving up on me.” When she smiled, I saw that same little girl I’d seen when I looked at that picture of her on her family’s wall. “You’re having a girl.” She shook her head because she’s my little pain in the ass, and of course, she couldn’t let me have this one.

“Nope, it’s a boy, and you’re gonna need him.”

“How you figure?”

“Because there are already three of us to one of you. In a few years, things are going to be hopping around here, so you’re going to need all the reinforcements you can get.”

I let her think she won that one, why argue? It didn’t matter to me, one-way, or the other… “Wait, if you’ve been taking college classes that long, how come you’re still signing up for classes?”

“It’s for the graduate program.

“Oh shit, are you serious?” What the hell kind of mind am I dealing with here? She nodded her head and pulled my lips back to hers. “It’s not important kiss me; we have to celebrate the baby.”

Her idea of celebrating was to get her ass pounded into the mattress for the next few hours.

I found that knowing my child was in her kept me hard all night and then some. By the time I rolled away from her, I had barely enough strength left to drag her into my arms, where we both fell asleep. I dreamt of a little angel with her mother’s face and that smile that owns my heart.

Epilogue

JENNY

“Jennifer, I said no, don’t ask me again because the answer’s still going to be the same. Fuck!” Remember Jenny; you wanted this. You pushed and probed and prodded to get your old Derrick back. How could I have so easily forgotten what a pigheaded ass he used to be?

“It won’t be dangerous, I promise.” Since having the twins a few months ago, something has switched on in my brain, and I’ve become an adrenaline junky. Things that I once found pleasure in no longer give me the same rush they once did, except for sex with my amazing hubby, of course.

But sitting in front of the computer all day writing papers on the new developments in mental illnesses and the many cures that are being researched isn’t my idea of fun any longer, though I haven’t lost my interest. Last week Paul and I snuck and did a sky jump. Derrick almost lost his shit when he found out.

At least he no longer glares at my dear friend when he comes over, mostly because Paul has his own girlfriend who comes with him, but I thought he was going to kill him that day. Poor Paul almost pissed himself on the spot when Derrick cornered him and threatened to strangle him the next time he takes me along on one of his adrenaline jaunts.

“You want to climb something; I have about ten and a half inches for you to climb.”

“Eww, I don’t want to climb your dick, not right this second anyway, please can I go?”

“No, and if you get your dad to pull one of his stunts behind my back, it will not end well for you. Take your ass upstairs and see what your kids are doing.”

“The kids are asleep, all four of them.” I put on my pouty face, but he just ignored me and went back to the blueprint he was working on while I looked at my watch. Paul was due here in about half an hour. I know I should’ve been more careful, but who knew the great Derrick Masters would stoop to eavesdropping on other people’s conversations?

I’d just called Paul on the sly because I’d found a new adventure for us to try. There are some cliffs not far from the house, maybe an hour away that I’ve been dying to climb. I just know that the view at sunset is going to be phenomenal, and I would get to fulfill my other new passion, photography. Ever since the kids were born, I’ve become an expert. It’s just science after all, and it’s fun.