Be careful

Ack!" One of the kids said as a plate slipped from their hands.

Ray tried catching it but his hands were full.

"I've got it!" Emma said as she dove in and caught it, landing on her stomach. "Oof! Ouch, that hurt.

"Emma!" Ray shouted.

"Its ok I've got it! Look it didn't break!"

"Are you ok? What if Norman saw you!?"

"He didn't! He's busy working in his office! There's no way he heard it!"

"To late." Ray said backing up

"What. Happend. Here."

Emma slowly turned around and saw Norman towering over her.

"Eh? N-Norman! Hi love! Um w-what are you doing here? I thought you were working..."

Norman helped Emma up. Emma rubbed her stomach. Norman rested his hands on Emmas stomach.

"I was until I heard all this commotion. Now what happened?"

"One of the kids dropped a plate and Emma dove in and caught it. But she landed on her stomach." Ray snitched.

"RAY!"

"What?"

*sigh* "Emma, darling what have I said about doing dangerous stunts like this? If you do something like this again I'm gonna have to punish you."

"Ughhh fineeee.".

"Good, now if you excuse me, I have work to do."

"Nice going idiot, why'd you get me in trouble huh!?" Emma asked Ray flicking his forehead.

"Becasue I care about you."

"Thats no excuse! Now if you excuse me I'm gonna go play!"

"What are you 5?"

"Huh! Hey! I'm 24 just like you and Norman!"

"Whatever. Come on Lily, let's finish cleaning." Ray said to the little girl from earlier.

"Okay! Bye bye Emma!"

"Bye Lily!"

A few hours later

Emma was humming and walking around the field, watching the kids.

"Emma, Emma!" One of the kids called out.

"Hm? Oh! What is it Angela?"

"Wanna climb a tree with me?"

Ray, who was nearby reading, overheard the conversation.

"Yea sure! Sounds like fun!" Emma said picking her up.

"Emma, you shouldn't." Ray said not looking up from his book.

"Eh? Ray! Why not?"

"Remember what Norman said."

"Its fine! Theres no way he'll see us. Plus its just for a second. I use to climb trees all the time when I was younger, remember? I'm basically the tree climbing queen!"

"Whatever, but if you get in trouble don't blame me."

"Yea yea. Come one Angela lets go!"

"Yay!"

Emma and Angela climbed up the tree and got pretty high up. When they were about to climb down, one of the thinner branches started making a snapping noise.

"Uh oh."

"Emma? I'm scared."

"Its ok Angela just hold onto me, we'll be ok i promise. The most well get hurt is a scratch. And just be sore in the morning. But its ok!"

"O-ok."

Emma slowly climbed down, while still tightly holding onto Angela.

Then suddenly the branch broke, and they fell from the tree.

"AHHHHH!" They both screamed.

They both shut their eyes, ready for the impact until Emma felt someone catch her. Her and Angela slowly opened their eyes and saw Norman holding them.

Angela jumped out of Emmas hold and landed on the grass.

"Thanks for catching us Norman!" Angela hugged him then ran off to go keep playing with the other kids.

Meanwhile. Norman was still holding Emma, bridal style.

"Heh heh, this brings back memories huh?" Emma said nervously.

"Bringing up our wedding day will not ignore the fact that you ignored me and put yourself in danger. *sigh* We'll talk about this more in my office."

Norman put her down. "Ray, go get Gilda and have her watch the kids, with you, yea?"

"Yea sure whatever."

In his office

Emma was sitting on the couch with her hands on her lap, as Norman paced around his office, until finally leaning against his desk and sighing.

"Are you mad?"

"No I'm not mad, just upset that you didn't listen to me."

"I'm sorry! I just wanted to play with Angela! Thats all! I never tried to get us hurt!"

"Emma you're 3 months pregnant, you can't be putting yourself in harms way like this!"

"I'm sorry I just-"

"What would've happened if something happened to the baby. They could've gotten seriously hurt or worse."

"You mean I-I could've...killed our baby?" Emma placed her hands on her stomach and tears dripped down her face. "I'm sorry. I'm so so sorry. I never intended on hurting you. I was being selfish and just wanted to have fun." She whispered to her stomach.

Norman sighed and walked over to her. He sat down next to her and comforted her.

"I'm sorry. I know how hard it was for me to get pregnant and with me just messing around I threw away all our hard work."

"Its ok. I know you never meant to put yourself in danger. You're adventurous and I love that about you. But you need to remember that over time you need to he more careful. Ok?"

"Ok. I'll be more careful from now on."

Norman hugged her and kissed her top of her head.

"Now about that punishment..."

"Eh!? I'm already pregnant! We can't do anything like that!"

"Not that kind of punishment. Jeez what happened to the innocent kid you use to be?"

"I married you."

"Rude."

"And we're friends with Ray."

Emma laughed. Norman tied a cloth rope to her wrist, then tied the other side to his wrist.

"Huh? Norman whats this for!?"

"Its your punishment! Now you can't go run off and get hurt without me knowing!"

"Boo. But I wanna go play with the other kids!"

"You need to rest."

"Hpm."

"I love you." He kissed her on the cheek.

"I love you too." She mumbled angrily.