I Need You, Baby -Anthony-

[Pixel Ann Conner]

Pixel sat on the bathroom floor, by the sink, trying to read, but her eyes kept going to her phone, waiting on the timer. Longest three minutes of her life. Finally Pixel just stared at the book, promising herself she wouldn't look at her phone anymore. That lasted about five seconds. She picked up her phone, glaring at it. "Come on!" It was time had completely stopped or something. Part of her wished Anthony was with her, but she had no idea how she would tell Anthony she might be pregnant. This whole thing of scaring her. If she was, what then? At least she was married, and 20, with a job. So she would do okay, but.. she didn't know how to raise a baby.

Then, the front door opened. The door had been locked, so that meant it could only be the only other person with a key. Anthony Price. Pixel scrambled off the floor, leaving the pregnancy test, her book and her phone on the floor as she ran out of the bathroom, shutting the door behind her. She ran to the living room, tackling her husband, burying her face in his chest and wrapping her arms around him. "Anthony.." It sounded like she was sighing in relief while saying his name. "I missed you."

[Anthony Matthew Price]

Anthony had been out doing his usual work. He wished he could just stay home all the time with Pixel, but neither of them could really do that. She insisted on keeping her job at the restaurant and she had classes. And he did have a business to run or lots of things would be bad. And lots of people would be out of work. Anthony had chosen to walk today. He thought it was good for him. Every now and then he liked getting the fresh air. So it took him a little longer to get home then usual.

When he got in the door, he had just enough time to close it and set his keys down before Pixel had him on the floor and was on top of him. His eyes moved to hers and he gave her a smile. "Hi wife. I missed you too." He put his arms around her she was so beautiful. She just got more and more beautiful everyday.

[Pixel Ann Conner]

Pixel gently kissed his lips. "I gotta tell you something. It's kinda important, I mean, maybe kinda important. I don't know if it actually is important yet, that's what I'm trying to figure out. I was just going to wait until I found to tell you but now you're home and I don't wanna do this on my own, Anthony. I need you here with me, because I'm scared. My hands are shaking, look." Pixel lifted her hand up to show him that is was,in fact, shaking.

Pixel let her hand fall and she buried her face in Anthony's neck. She tugged at his shirts until his pants released the hold they had on them then she slipped her hands under them. She didn't realize just how freaked out she was until Anthony showed up and she could touch him, and smell him, again. It's like all the emotions came crashing down on top of her all at once, but it was okay because Anthony was there with her. "Anyway, I just need to tell you. Anthony, I think-" Then her phone started beeping, and she could faintly hear from inside the bathroom. The alarm on her phone was finally going off to tell her the test was ready to be read. "The test." Pixel scrambled off of Anthony and ran back to the bathroom door, turning back to Anthony once she was there, her hand hovering above the door handle. "I can't do this without you..."

[Anthony Matthew Price]

Anthony slowly got up when she moved off him. He didn't really understand what she was saying. It didn't make sense to him. It was like she was speaking in code or something but if she needed him he would be there for her. He moved up the stairs after her. Once he got to the bathroom door his eyes looked over Pixel. "What test .. Are you ok? You're not sick are you?"

He moved to her and put his hand on her forehead. No fever, she felt fine. It was even more confusing now that she didn't seem sick. "What's going on Pixel .. None of this is making any sense. I'm not good at guessing games. And you're starting to worry me" His eyes looked to hers. You could see the worry in them. He loved her and if something was wrong then she needed to spit it out.

[Pixel Ann Conner]

Pixel let him feel her head. It was comforting that he was worried about her, it showed that he really did care about her. It made all of this a lot easier. Plus, she knew who the father would be, and she loved him. Not that she could bring herself to say that to him, but she did. "I'm sorry, I'm just.. I don't know how to handle this.. Nothing is wrong.. At least I hope not.." What if Anthony didn't want the kid? Then there would be something very, very wrong.

She opened the door to the bathroom, picking everything off the floor without looking at the test. Her hands were shaking, so shutting off the alarm her phone proved to be a pain in the ass. Once she got it off she threw it into the sink, tired of dealing with it. The book soon followed it. Then she stared at the test in confusion. She'd threw the box away without reading it, so she had no idea what she was reading. "Holy hell, I can't even read it." She grabbed the box, but she shoved it at Anthony. "You do it."

[Anthony Matthew Price]

Anthony followed her into the bathroom. His eyes scanning around at all the stuff. He watched Pixel with her alarm. She seemed really nervous. He wasn't sure he had ever seen her this way. Even on her first day of work she wasn't this shaky. He stood there silently just watching until she shoved a box into his hands. His eyes moved down to the box. He read over the title for a second. Then his eyes moved to her.

"A pregnancy test?" Was she going to have a baby? Were they ready for a baby? He would love a family with her of course but were they ready. He did love her and maybe that was all they needed to have before starting a family. He flipped the box over reading the directions. Then he looked at her. "How many bars do you have on the test?" He waited for her to look at the test in her hands. It would decide whether they were having a family or not.

[Pixel Ann Conner]

Pixel nodded to his first question. She moved a little closer to him, still slightly shaky but the fact that Anthony would be telling her if she was pregnant made it easier somehow. At his second question she looked down at the test, just to recheck it. "Two.." She flipped it backwards, so that thhe front was facing him and held it up for him to check. What happened if someone was colored blind to the colors on the stick, would they even be able to see the bars on the test? That would suck.

Pixel didn't know what she was hoping for. Would she be angry if the test was positive? Would she be upset if it wasn't? Did she even want a kid? Well, of course she wanted them, but did she want them while she was still in college? That could get hard. Studies and taking care of a baby? And she wasn't dropping out, that just wasn't an option. But if she was pregnant, getting rid of the baby was out of the picture too. So she'd be a pregnant girl in college, while working. But she was married, to a guy she loved. And to hell with it, he was reading her pregnantcy test, he deserved to know that. "I love you." She stared into his eyes, hers were feeled with nervousness, love and a little bit of surprise. She didn't really think that the words would've came out.

[Anthony Matthew Price]

Anthony heard her say two. Then he looked to see the test just to double check, not that he didn't believe her or anything. Two stripes meant it was positive. He was quiet for a moment. Then he heard her say she loved him. His eyes moved to hers. "You're pregnant" He swallowed some. He was a tad bit shocked. How did they do this. Well he knew like how but he never thought she'd get pregnant.

He did love her. And he knew he should tell her. He was just so shocked. Shocked because she said it and because they were having a baby and all he could do at the moment is stand there. And stare. He never thought about having kids. At the moment the thought was scaring him. Would he be a good parent? He didn't have parents of his own to raise him so he didn't have an example to go off of. So he didn't know if he'd be a good parent or not.

[Pixel Ann Conner]

Pixel stared at him for a moment, then slowly took the box from his hands. She put the test in the box, then tossed the box in the trash before washing her hands. Her hands were already clean, but she needed to time to think. It kinda hurt that she'd spilled her heart out to Anthony after weeks of holding it in, and the only thing he could think of to say was "You're pregnant"? Really? And why was it surprising him so much? Was he not there for the ten times a day they had sex? It's not like she went off and did this on her own. Maybe... Maybe he thought she cheated. Pixel shut off the water and wiped off her hands, turning to Anthony. "I've only ever been with you... You know for a fact I was a virgin before that day in your office."

Pixel walked over to Anthony, and started playing with one of the buttons on the front of his shirt. Pixel liked when he wore button up shirts. For a lot of reasons. One, they were easy to remove without having to stop kissing him. Two, they looked hot on him, then again everything did. Three, when she had no idea what to do or say, she could play with the buttons. It was calming. After a moment Pixel looked back up. "... Are you happy?"

[Anthony Matthew Price]

Anthony watched her. She played with his buttons on his shirt when she was nervous or didn't know what to say. In this case she was probably both. And he could understand why. She was pregnant and told him that she loved him and he hadn't said it back. He was really just in shock. And he wasn't sure what to think. He did love her though. And there was no question as to whom this baby belonged to.

"I'm ah .. Shocked .. is all. I ah .. I don't know if I'll be a good dad or not. And I wasn't expecting you to say you loved me with all of this. I mean .. I love you too I have from the second I laid eyes on you I was just always to scared to say it to you. But this baby .. Its a huge shock. I mean we did have sex a lot and it really isn't surprising. But I don't have any examples of what parents are and aren't supposed to do" He was nervous. He had stuttered a lot in his words to her.

[Pixel Ann Conner]

Pixel shook her head. "I didn't plan to get pregnant, and I didn't plan to drop the L word on you either. I'm sorry you're shocked but.. I need you Anthony. I'm going to be a mother. For the next nine months I'm going to be carrying another human being in my body.. And I don't know.. I don't know what to do either. I mean.. I've been around a pregnant woman. My aunt had Sam before my parents even got together. And my mother split after I was born so even if she does in fact have more children, I've never met them let alone been around when she was pregnant." She stared at the button she was playing with the whole time she talked, pretty sure she'd never told Anthony any of that.

Pixel began unbuttoning and rebuttoning the first three buttons from the bottom of his shirt. "And.. You'll be a great dad. Did you know if you were gonna be a good husband before you married me? Because you are. You give me everything I need. You love me, you go out of your way to make me smile, and you just.. You're amazing, okay? So I don't want to hear that you don't think you'll be a good dad. You'll be amazing, you always are. At everything." She finally look back up at Anthony, gently twisted the fabric of his shirt in her hand and pulling him down to kiss her.

[Anthony Matthew Price]

Anthony listened to her speak. He know she was just as scared as he was. Possibly even more so. And he could understand why, she had the hard part of this, carrying the kid and giving birth to it. And she needed him. And he wasn't going anywhere. As scared as he might be, as long as he was with Pixel it would all be ok. Pixel was like his rock, without her he wouldn't make it through any of this. She was the one that started melting his stone cold heart. It was all hers.

When she pulled him closer to her for a kiss he let his lips touch hers. He was completely in love with her. And hopefully she could tell by the way he was kissing her. His arms wrapped around her waist pulling her closer to him. He liked feeling her close to him. That's how this happened to begin with, him liking the way it felt to be close to her. After a few moments he pulled away but kept her close to him. "We'll get through this together"

[Pixel Ann Conner]

Pixel nodded. She wrapped her arms around Anthony and nuzzled into his neck. Why did his neck smell good? How was that even possible? But it did smell good, and it was soft and it was surprisingly fun to bite. She would bite it right now but she didn't want to leave anymore marks, and he had enough on his body at the moment. She lifted up his shirt on the oppisite shoulder from the one she was leaning against, checking out the mark she'd given him last night. It was faded, because she never really bit down that hard. She switched shoulders, and gently kissed the mark, then rested her head back on his other shoulder.

She wondered how long they would standing in the bathroom, holding each other. She really didn't mind, she'd always have her arms around Anthony if that were at all possible. She slowly sat down, pulling Anthony down with her,then she climbed onto his lap, facing him. She began playing with the buttons on his shirt again. ".... We should have sex."

[Anthony Matthew Price]

Anthony watched her check the marked she had given him a few days earlier. He didn't mind so much when he could cover them up with a shirt. No one but her needed to know they were there. And no one but her and him knew they were there. When she sat he sat down with her. He liked how she liked to sit in his lap. He liked feeling her close. to him. So he didn't mind her sitting in his lap like she did.

His blue eyes watched her hands play with the buttons on his shirt. He knew she was probably still nervous or awkward. "You wanna have sex? I mean is that safe?" He put his arms around her to hold her close to him. He loved her a lot and if she wanted to have sex and thought it was ok then he would. Because he loved her.

[Pixel Ann Conner]

"Yes, it's safe." She knew because when she watched The Waitress the doctor had said it was fine to have sex while pregnant. But she didn't tell Anthony all that because she knew he wouldn't take it as the truth as much as she did. Pixel shoved the button up shirt off his shoulders then took the hem of the tank top and pulled it off. So much.. hotness. She ran her hands over his chest and abs. She wanted to make it impossible for him to say no to having sex with her.

She pulled off her shirt, which was a short sleeved white undershirt, and under she wore a lacy purple bra. She started kissing his neck, her tongue tailing circles on his skin. He tasted so good. He smelled good. He looked good. He was just so fricking hot. Pixel unclipped her bra and threw it aside, pressing her chest to his, then began working on his belt. "Get off, get off, get off." She yanked the belt out of it's loops. She'd like to try to see him say no now.