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I check in and it isn’t long until they take lucose drink Xander sits down in the extra chair beside me while I brace myself for the super sweet liquid

It’s not as bad as I thought it’d be, but it’s still not pleasant The orange liquid is slightly thick and flat tasting, like old Sunkist

I ust at the end

Thankfully, the test only takes an hour and they take a few vials of blood throughout

Afterward, we ood, and I have no questions, so we’re free to leave

Xander doesn’t bother asking ht up pizza earlier Instead, he heads straight to a local pizza place that wood fire grills their pizzas My ht of food

We head inside and are seated quickly in a booth that overlooks the city streets It’s a bleak day, overcast, with a misty rain

“Thank you for painting the nursery today”

He fights a grin, his lips twitching at the corners “Even though you wanted to killyou look?”

I glance down at theto be holding our daughter in that room and it’ll mean more that you did all the work and not someone else”

He inhales a soft gasp “I keep forgetting that she’s going to be here soon”

“Only about twelve more weeks or so”

He rubs his jaw “That’s the blink of an eye”

It really is

Once upon a time, three months felt like a lifetime, now it’s a minute