Jax exited the shop a happy man as he looked at his small purchase. He could not wait to tell Lidia but he knew he would have to. There was a time and place for such things. No sooner than he took another step, his phone rang. Lidia, he could already tell from the ring tone.
“Hello love,” he said.
Even without seeing his smile Lidia heard it, “I take it you got the job than?”
“How can you tell?” he said furrowing his eyebrows.
“You sound too excited.”
“Awe, you got me. Yes, I got it. A local route, I’ll be home much more from here on. That’s assuming we got the apartment?”
“Well done and yes, as matter of fact we did,” answered Lidia her turn for excitement. “We can move in by the end of the month, no more tiptoeing around my roommate.”
“Nice, I’ll be in later tonight, should we pick up the cradle?”
Lidia sighed, “I can’t. I have classes.”
“Oh right. Still strange to me that you have a schedule when it is all online.”
“Can’t be helped,” she said followed by an, “Oooff!” as she placed her hand on her round belly.
“What is it?” some concern in his voice.
“Nothing, the tiny human is just kicking again.” She patted her belly and spoke in a soothing voice, “calm down little one, you’ll be out soon enough.”
Jax smiled remembering the little kicks last time he had seen Lidia, then his smile faded for a moment and he cleared his throat remembering something else, “by the way…did you tell your parents yet?”
“Yaaaa…they were not happy,” answered Lidia taking her hand off her belly. “Still better than I had expected. They want to meet you.”
“I’ll bet they do.”
“They might even be over tonight, so fair warning.”
“That’s alright,” answered Jax as he fiddled with the small velvet box. “I have my own surprise for you.”
“Oh, what sort of surprise?” raising her voice with much more chip.
“What? Oh, uhh nothing. I was talking to myself.” He hit his forehead thinking to himself, “keep your mouth shut you dunce.” Thankfully he had managed to keep that one in his head.
Lidia laughed, “right, I look forward to it but I’ve got to go for now. Class starts soon but wanted to talk before then. Bye bye.”
“Bye, I’ll see ya tonight.”
After hanging up Jax smiled to himself. He had not given too much away he hoped. He walked away from the small jewelry store holding the shiny purchase with pride, “now I just need the perfect time to ask her.”
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