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“You don’t think we could do it?” he asks “Be parents”

“I’ for my shorts that lie on the floor “But I think we could be better parents down the road Like … when I’m thirty”

He chuckles “So, you prorabs me by the waist and pulls me to him

“Nuative—no if about it—and nuether I’d like kids one day … far, far, into the future”

He lowers his head and nipsthe if word”

I shrug “Hey, the surow sick of me”

He chuckles “I haven’t in the last nineteen years so I think you’re safe” He winks at“Shall we?”

“We?” I echo “Last I checked you don’t have to pee on the stick” I snatch the bag from his hand and head for the bathroom

He follows, of course

I try to push hiroan “Go away”

“Nuh-uh” He shakes his head “You can’t get rid of me that easily”

“Obviously,” I uy is as solid as a brick wall

I take the box out of the bag and air whooshes out of s My hands shake and Xander notices He doesn’t say anything as he takes the box from my hands and opens it He reads the directions out loud and hands me the slender white stick

He takesme to look at hi to be okay”

I nod once and then go to pee