Benefits.

Chapter Nine.

~~Jack's POV~~

I drove home safely, as Sarah slept in the passenger seat. It was quiet on the road, and she was peaceful. And I watched as some lights were turned on, in some windows, people started waking and beginning their morning routines with their children. I kept glancing every chance I could at Sarah. She has my child. My morning routine. Once I arrived at Sarah's I helped her out of my car and into her home. She really kept asking for a shower but I said she had to sleep some. We got in bed and I hummed her to sleep. After she fell asleep, I got out of bed and went out to her pile of papers. I started reading though them. All the ones that weren't had written had different color pen scribbles in Sarah's hand writing all over them, her own writing on notebook paper was the same but they were different color schemes. She had one whole binder dedicated to baby names of both genders and neutral genders. I read through the boys first, written in light blue ink, "Jackson, Jae, James..." I found a red pen and crossed out James and Jamie, "No and no." I paused reading down the list, "Edison, no, William, Wade, no, Weston, god no, Westley," Please no West's. Mumbling I said, "Alister, Atticus, nope. Tate, that's nice. Theo, please no." I flipped though the pages of light blue ink and came to the girls names. "Nadine? No. Nadia, Jacklyn, Rose, Flower, Odelia, Odessa, Rae, Teagan, Thalia, Karissa, Karolina, Gail, no, Gillian, Ginger, Ariel," I flipped through the whole book just hitting on a few names "Reagan, Kayla, Lily, Brady, Ross, Christopher, Anthony." I liked most of the names but then I got to the very last page where Sarah had written her favorites:

1. Odelia Flower Gilinsky

2. Anthony Christopher Gilinsky

3. Reagan Rose Gilinsky

4. Tate Anthony Gilinsky

5. Nadia Rae Gilinsky

6. Jackson Atticus Gilinsky

7. Lily Odessa Gilinsky

8. William Jack Gilinsky (Jack after Johnson)

She wrote that note next to the last one that made me smile. I looked at the time on my phone, it was almost 7:30 AM. I got up from her little circle and made my way into the kitchen. I began to make she and I some toast, and cereal because cooking wasn't always my thing. After everything was set on the table and the toast was buttered I went into her room. I woke her up with a slight kiss to her eye lids. She rolled into me and whispered, "I don't wanna."

I smiled down at her, "Your cereal is going to get soggy, come on lil mama."

She smirked up at me, her eyes looked straight into mine, "Don't call me that, that's weird."

I started to leave her room, "I guess I'll eat breakfast alone." I heard her rustling around to get out of bed quickly. She ran up behind me and hugged me around my back to my front. She stretched a little to sit her chin on my shoulder.

Sarah said, "You made me breakfast?"

I started to walk slowly to make her follow me, "Yeah just cereal and toast though."

She followed behind me, hanging onto me the entire way to her usual seat. "I'll have to teach you some basics before baby gets here." I pulled out her seat for her and then sat in the seat across from hers.

As she scooped her first bit of honey nut cheerios I said, "I kinda like the name Tate, or even William Jack." Sarah's eyes were wide as they landed on my lips and she spooned a huge bit of cereal in her mouth. She started to laugh a little while trying to chew with her mouth closed so she covered her mouth. As I waited for her to be done laughing and chewing, I bit off pieces of toast.