Our Love Goes On and On

Conditioning

Dean and Renee had finally arrived to the restaurant they were supposed to be meeting their friends at.

They had had a small tiff in the car, but they were here now and had to suck it up and deal with it another time.

"Please, Renee, don't come in here and embarrass me in front of my friends." Dean pleaded.

"Our friends, and trust me, I won't even talk to you, no need to worry about any embarrassment."

She started to walk in when he grabbed her arm and pulled her back, "Hey, wait."

"What?"

"I didn't mean it like that, I'm just saying can we not bring up anything while we're here?"

"Why? You don't want our friends to know you don't want to have kids with me or marry me?"

He rolled his eyes, "It's hard for me, okay? I've been down that road already."

"It wasn't with me, Dean."

Renee shook her head and went into the restaurant.

Dean soon followed and only saw Roman and Renee there when he got to the table.

"Where's your wife?" he asked.

"She's on her way from the studio." Roman told him.

"She seems happy there, huh?"

"She's been dreaming of it her whole life. I think she loves it more than me sometimes." he laughed.

"I love what more than you, Ro?" She kissed his cheek and sat down beside them. "Hi, guys."

"We were just talking about the studio."

"Oh?"

"Aren't you getting too far in your pregnancy to be teaching classes and running it by yourself?" Dean asked.

"I'm not teaching right now, unfortunately."

"Isn't it too far to be working in general?"

"I may look like a whale, but I have a little while until they get here."

"Babe, you're only a month and a half away."

"I can count, Roman." She looked at the menu, "I'm starving."

"How've you guys been?" Renee asked.

"Great." Roman answered, "The girls love it on the road and I love having them."

"They've grown up so much in the last few months." She said in awe, "I'm not used to seeing them almost everyday, you know?"

"Yeah, they love seeing you guys too."

Chase winced in pain and grabbed the lower part of her stomach. "Roman, it hurts."

She grabbed his arm and dug her nails into his skin. "Breathe, babe."

"It hurts." she said again.

"Do you want to go?"

"No, no, it's okay."

"You look like you're in a lot of pain." she made eye contact with him and he saw it all over her face. "I'm sorry, guys, we'll catch up with you in the next city, okay?"