Author's Note : I would like to thank the patient editing help of Todger65.
I can remember the day Kristen found out she was pregnant. She came running into our house smiling and bouncing for joy for a hug with her best friend, my wife Tania. She and her husband, Rick, had been trying for months to get pregnant and they were becoming concerned it was something that would never happen for them.
I smiled at their joy, knowing what it was to be a parent and what it meant to know you were going to be having a child; I was happy for them. Our own two kids were only three years old and one year old and so they would be good playmates for Kristen & Rick's child.
I'm almost certain Kristen told Tania before she told her own husband but I'm not too sure of that as I'm not nearly as close with Rick as the two women are to each other. Rick and I only know each other through our wives and while we get along okay when we hang out, we don't really share the same interests.
The girls on the other hand have been best friends since grade school and I've actually known Tania and Kristen almost the same amount of time as I'd been introduced to both of them by a mutual friend at the same party in high school. Before I'd worked up the courage to ask my future wife out on our first date, I'd also been considering asking Kristen out, and in the end chose to ask Tania because I felt Kristen was perhaps a little shier (both were pretty shy and quiet). I also got the impression that Kristen may have been a touch scared of me. I'd only admitted this fact to my wife a couple years after we'd been dating, and she'd smiled and simply said 'I'm glad it was me you decided on' and that was it.
During High school and college I went out with both Kristen and Tania together almost as frequently as I went on dates with just Tania, and I'm pretty sure Kristen spent more time with Tania overall than I did until after we were engaged. After Kristen started dating Rick, we did a couple of double dates but not too many and still about half the time it was Kristen, Tania & I hanging out together so I guess at this point I have gotten to be closer to Kristen than anyone but my wife.
Around about the 4
th
or 5
th
month I noticed Kristen was coming over more frequently than usual, before this my wife and her would go out shopping or some other girls only activity a couple times a month, but I wouldn't see her actually come over to our house more than once a month. Now she was coming over at least once a week and I finally asked Tania if I was imagining things.
"No you're not, Rick keeps upsetting her and she feels better just hanging out with us so she doesn't rip his throat out or something."
"Oh the 'no guy can get it all right all the time', thing especially with a pregnant woman?" I asked.
"A little of that I'm sure but..."
"What Hun?"
"I dunno, it's like he's being extra insensitive, I know you pissed me off a couple times while I was pregnant, both with cause and without but he's doing it a lot and I don't think it's all her."
"What do you mean?"
"He keeps saying, 'I sure hope you lose all that weight when the baby's out'..."
"What the fuck?!" I asked in shock, "and she hasn't killed him yet? She's a goddamn saint!"
"He doesn't want to have sex with her while she's pregnant, it grosses him out she says." My wife continued with a small smile.
"He's fucking nuts. Kristen looks hot pregnant."
"Oh really?" My wife asked with arched eyebrows.
"Oh come off it!" I said as I gave my wife's ass a quick pinch that made her giggle. "You know she does, you've said it yourself. Like you, she's got all the preggo in her boobs and belly. She should be wearing serious cleavage shirts and show off those girls a little more."
"You'll get no argument from me; I think she just needs some support and maybe a little show of affection."
"She should already know, but be sure she does that she is always welcome in our house." I said firmly, feeling strangely protective, as if it were Tania being brought to tears.
"I've told her as much, and in fact she's coming over tonight. Think you can squeeze her in for dinner?"
"I'm making pasta and meatballs, you could invite all our friends over and I'd have enough." I said with a crooked smile.
"Great!" Tania says with a matching smile, "Oh, mom and dad want to have a day with the boys tomorrow so they are picking them up before dinner, around 6:30."
"The house to ourselves tonight? Sounds like fun." I said, knowing Kristen wasn't one to stay out late she'd probably leave by 10 or 11.
"Oh do you have some ideas?" Tania asked with a raised eyebrow and a shake of her hips.
"You know I always do; hot stuff."
Tania laughed as she leaned in closer to give me a hug, and a quick ear nibble, "You're still my little horn dog aren't you?" She whispered.
"Always." I said with a laugh and then turned into her and gave her a deep kiss.
The kiss was then interrupted with the crash of some children's toy or another and immediate crying from the youngest.
"Parenting begins again," My wife said with a smile.
Another hour later and Tania's folks were loading the boys into the car seats in the back of their car; after hugs and kisses good-bye, the house was quiet. Another half-hour later and Kristen was coming in our front door, "hello?"
"Come on in! Dinner's almost ready." I announced from the kitchen.
Dinner passed with pleasant conversation and then we moved to the living room and popped in a movie, tonight was girl's choice so they picked a romantic comedy.
We, all three of us, sat on the couch, I sat in the corner of where the chaise lounge met the main couch, my wife on the chaise, leaning her back against me, and Kristen sitting one cushion over from me, putting her feet up on the foot stool. We weren't five minutes into the movie before Tania and I simultaneously asked if Kristen was alright as she kept shifting her position on the couch.
"I should have brought my back support pillow; my back is killing me." She said.
"Screw some dumb back support pillow. Come over here, lean your back against Dave. He's better than any pillow, just the right amount of cushion and yet firm, plus he's heated."
"I dunno, that seems a little weird; I mean he's your husband."
"That's right, he's my husband and I'm telling you to use him." Tania says.
"I'm right here, can you not talk about me..." I start, before I'm cut off.