Baby Deyes: A Zalfie Fanfiction

Week Twenty One: Names and Numbers (again!)

"ALFIEEEEEEEEE!"
It was a week after my scan and I was sitting up in bed, trying desperately to wake up Alfie.
"Wha... What? Is it the baby?"
"No. But I've realised we don't have a new name for the baby!"
"Oh, Zoe..."
I pushed him gently and hit him a bit harder around the head with a names book.
"I've picked out mine. One from each letter. Autumn, Becca, Carlie, Dahlia, Ebony, Fearne, Grace, Hazel, Ivory, Janelle, Kelsey, Lotta, Matilda, Noelle, Olivia, Pandora, Ruth, Sinead, Tessa, Una, Viola, Willow, Xanthia, Jasmine and Zoe."
"I see you left out Q."
"Well it was either Queenie or Quisha."
"Relax, Zoe." Alfie sat up and picked at a gluey eye. "Come down in twenty minutes. I'll make breakfast."
I put on some music and danced happily, cradling my bump as I flipped pancakes and obliterated fruit in the blender. Just as I lay out the glasses Alfie jumped into the kitchen, scaring me.
"Alfieeee! Have you got the names?"
"Yup. Do you want them now?"
"After breakfast."
We chattered to the camera as Alfie vlogged, and ate. When the plates were in the dishwasher we sat down with the list.
"Abby, Beatrice, Cecilia, Daisy, Elizabeth, Felicity, Giselle, Haidee, Ivy, Jade, Kayleigh, Laurelle, Maggie, Natalia, Oriole, Pearl, Rosanna, Samantha, Tabitha, Unity, Violet, Willow, Xavia, Yasmine and Zoe." I read. Over the next hour we debated and disagreed until we had a shortlist each.
"Becca, Ebony, Grace, Ivory, Kelsey, Lotta, Pandora, Willow, Yasmine, Zoe." I insisted.
"Cecilia, Felicity, Ivy, Jade, Natalia, Rosanna, Samantha, Willow, Yasmine, Zoe." Alfie sat back and circled his tired wrist.
We made a shortened shortlist, amalgamating our decisions. Felicity, Jade, Natalia, Willow. Grace, Kelsey, Lotta, Willow.
"Willow, definitely. I quite like Felicity, Grace, Kelsey and Willow." I mused.
"Why not Jade?"
"Jade Deyes - too many D's."
Seeing Alfie's grin, I tutted and slapped his hand from my belly. "Shut up."
"Lotta?"
"Mm... Sounds like 'a whole lotta days'."
"Natalia."
"Too Christmassy. She's due late July."
"Felicity, Grace, Kelsey and Willow." Alfie wrote them down. "I quite like Felicity Willow."
"I'm going Kelsey Willow. Wait! I always wanted my children to have three names. Kelsey... Willow Grace?"
"Felicity Willow Jade?" Alfie wiggled a coin under my nose. "Heads or Tails?"
"We're deciding our daughter's name on the flip of a coin?"
"Might as well. Heads or Tails?"
"Tails."
Alfie flipped the coin and was rewarded with Tails.
"Oh yes!" I squealed. "Kelsey Willow Grace here you come!"
There's a fluttering movement from my left hip, as though Kelsey is clapping in agreement.
"Kelsey Willow Grace Deyes." Alfie tested it out.
"Kelsey Willow Grace."
"Kelsey Deyes."
"It feels even more real."
"I know."

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