If you play with fire.. you get burned

Chapter 88

There was only a week left until the weekend with the other stations in the country and everyone was working hard to make sure everything was organized as best as possible. Things were going well for everyone except Andy and Robert who had argued several times in the last two weeks. Ever since Andy had told Robert that maybe it was time to have another baby, in the moments when she and Robert were alone, all she thought about was how to get pregnant again. In these last two weeks it was as if Andy had become obsessed with this thing and Robert, even though he was a really patient person, had started to lose his patience a little. This was not how Robert wanted to be with his wife, but he didn't know how to make her understand that anymore. That evening, after they had returned home from the end of their shift and after putting the children to sleep, Andy and Robert went to their room.

Andy: "Maybe this will be the right time to conceive a child" she said while undressing.

Robert: "I'm tired tonight" he answered calmly.

Andy: "It won't take long. Just come inside me once and then you can sleep"

Robert: "No" he answered looking into her eyes.

Andy: "No? Don't you want to have another child?"

Robert: "I didn't say that. I just said that tonight I'm tired to have sex"

Andy: "We don't have to do it all night, it doesn't take much"

Robert: "This is not how I want to do it. I don't want to have sex with you just to conceive a child. If I want to have sex it's because we both really want it. I want to take it slow and love you like I always have. I don't want to have sex like this"

Andy: "But what if this is the right time for me to get pregnant?"

Robert: "Honey.." he said moving closer to her. "If it doesn't happen tonight, it will happen another time. What's the problem?"

Andy: "What if we miss this chance and then I never get pregnant again? What if something happens and we can't have another baby? What if we keep trying and then we find out that I can't get pregnant because it's been, I don't know, too long? What if.." she was still talking when Robert abruptly stopped her.

Robert: "No, that's enough. Tonight I'm sleeping on the couch" he said, taking his pillow and then a blanket from the closet. "And I'll take care of the kids since Mila just started crying and so Marcus will wake up soon too" he said and then left the room, closing the door.

Robert left the pillow and blanket on the floor in the hallway and went to the twins' room because Mila was crying. The little girl had a bad dream and that's why she was crying and just as Robert thought, Marcus woke up too.

Robert: "Hey, princess, don't cry, everything is okay now" he said giving a tender kiss to his daughter while Marcus took his sister's hand. "It was just a little bad dream, but it will pass now" he said trying to reassure the little girl who in the meantime had stopped crying. "Now we go to the living room, I'll prepare the bottle with warm milk and then we'll try to sleep, okay?" he said while picking up both children who nodded.

Marcus: "I also want cookies" Robert gave a very small laugh.

Mila: "Me too" she said, snuggling up to her father as they went into the living room.

Robert: "Milk and cookies in the bottle coming soon" he replied, placing the children on the couch.

While Robert was in the kitchen heating up the milk for the kids, Andy was curled up on the bed and was thinking about what had just happened between her and Robert earlier. A few tears had started to run down Andy's face, but despite that, she still believed every word he had said at the moment. In the meantime Robert had finished preparing the bottles for his children, he sat down on the couch, picked up both children and both Mila and Marcus started taking the bottles.