My name is Danny, and I am a 40-year-old man, enjoying the life of a bachelor, living for myself and no others. I had moved from Ireland to the US just out of high school to go to university here and become a successful civil engineer, moving around the country whenever I wanted to see a change of scenery.
For a couple of years now, I have enjoyed living in the Florida keys, at a newly renovated apartment complex. I knew it was a good place because the firm I worked for, had gotten the contract to do the work on it. Once completed, I took a semi-retirement, choosing to do consulting work from home mostly, bought one of the units in the building, and really enjoyed all that the Keys had to offer.
I kept in great shape, too. Hitting the middle ages was not going to take me down like it had to others that I had seen. I was not about to let myself get fat, sloppy and lazy by any means, so I worked out at a local gym at least 5 days a week and did plenty of walking and biking around the islands.
Now it had been a year since a young married couple, in their early 20's, moved in next door from me, in the building, and since then, I had become particularly good friends with them. Their names were, Julio and Selena, I was so happy for them when they announced to me that they were going to have a baby.
Even though, I never had the desire to get married or have children of my own, I was genuinely excited for them, because they had been trying for a couple of years and were not having much luck up until this point.
Now, as Selena was entering her eighth month of pregnancy, I could not help but be completely enamored by her glowing beauty. Even before she got pregnant, she was gorgeous, standing at most, 5' tall, petite frame body, smallish B-cup breasts, and a tight little ass.
She had light latte colored skin, midnight black hair, and piercing deep brown eyes, but now, her pregnancy just made all her beautiful Latina features come out that much more, and I began to feel the pangs of desire for her as her belly swelled from motherhood.
One morning as I was beginning to wake up, I could hear what sounded like a growing argument coming from next door, or I should say that I could hear Selena yelling at Julio. I could not make out exactly what she was yelling, but I heard her call him a "cabrรณn bastardo" and a whole slew of other Spanish profanities that I had not yet learned.
It was not long after that, I heard their front door slam and someone hurriedly going down the steps, to the apartment exit. I got up an looked out of my bedroom window to see Julio, getting into his car, and making a hasty exit out of the complex parking lot.
I sat back down for a moment, wondering what in the Hell could have happened between them that would cause Selena to go off on Julio like that as I had never heard them say a cross word to each other in the time that I had known them. In fact, I used to tease them about being so lovey dovey towards each other all the time.
I did not have much time to think about it when I heard a loud knock on my door. As I jumped up to grab my robe, I could hear Selena yelling for me to open up. I quickly ran to the door and opened it to a very hysterical, very pregnant, Selena.
Before I could even tell her to come in, she threw herself into me, wailing and sobbing like I had never seen. Her body was shaking as she fell apart and I really began to fear the worst. I did not have to ask her what happened because my instinct already told me.
"DANNY! HE CHEATED ON ME! HOW COULD HE DO THIS TO US? HOW COULD HE CHEAT WHILE I AM CARRYING HIS CHILD," she wailed as I managed to close the door behind her.
I pried Selena away from me and moved her over to the sofa. I sat down beside her and got a good look at just how much of a mess she was. Her eyes were bloodshot, and her face was swollen from crying. I shook my head and pulled her into another hug and rocked her back and forth for comfort as best as I could, while she continued to let loose.
I held her there for nearly thirty minutes before I felt her begin to let up. I pulled back and looked at her, but she could only look down towards her swollen belly and softly rub it.
Selena then looked at me and said, "She knows I am upset, because I can really feel her kicking hard."
I nodded and said, "Do you want some tea? I'll make us some right away."
She nodded through the tears still flowing down her cheeks, and managed a soft, "Yeah" before leaning against the back of the sofa.
As I quickly brewed some water for our tea, I realized what Selena had said, "Her."
The two of them had gone for another ultrasound the day before, and they were going to find out the sex of the baby. I was not home when they came back, so we had not had a chance to talk about it before now.
I finished making the tea and took the two cups back into the living room and set them on the coffee table. Selena sat up, picked up her tea and took a sip. I could tell that she had stopped crying but was still in deep thought. I took a drink from my tea and just waited for her to open up.
After what seemed like an eternity of silence, Selena finally looked up at me and asked, "Danny, do you think I am an ugly fat cow?"
I nearly choked on my tea and said quickly drawing out some lingering Irish accent, "For fuck's sake, Selena? Why would you ever say that?"
She just shrugged her shoulders and said with her big brown eyes filling with tears again, "Then why would Julio cheat on me with that whore that he works with?"
"I don't know, Selena. I cannot explain what goes through another man's head like that, but one thing I do know is that you are absolutely gorgeous and if anything, pregnancy, NOT FAT, has only made you more beautiful!"
Selena looked at me and smiled a little, as a tear fell down her cheek. "You really think I'm beautiful, looking like this? All five feet of rolly polly pregnant chica?"
I chuckled a little while nodding my head, emphatically, saying, "Yes, I really do, and if I were a younger man and had met you...... well let's just say, you would not have your heart broken right now. I do not understand how in God's name, Julio could have done that to you, for fucks sake!"
Selena put down her cup of tea and threw her arms around me, burying her head in my shoulder, saying as she started to sob again, "Thank you, Danny. You just made me feel so much better."
I held her close once again, the top of her head just below my head as I instinctively kissed her on the forehead while still offering my comfort to her, but no sooner had I done that, and something else kicked in, and I could feel those pangs of desire warming up through my body once more as I caught the scent of her while breathing in.