The Baby Plan

Carl & Ellie

"You seriously are a crazy woman." Elliot held onto his seat belt tightly, a scared look on his face.

Olivia rolled her eyes, they were at a stop light and she swore that she was driving as slow as she could go.

"You're pregnant plus crazy." He continued as she pushed on the gas pedal. "That's the worst possible combination."

"You need to relax, Elliot. I'm not even going that fast." She slowly caught on his exaggerated sarcasm.

"Crazy pregnant lady." He muttered under her breath.

That's when Olivia pushed onto the gas harder, making the car screech as she turned a corner. She giggled as Elliot let out a quiet scream. She continued to drive quickly, in a couple of seconds they arrived at Robin's Diner.

"You can open your eyes now." Olivia rolled her eyes as she unbuckled herself, she got out of the car and made her way to the diner not bothering to wait for Elliot.

After a couple of seconds, Elliot was behind her. "I'm driving back home." He pulled the door open to the restaurant, letting Olivia go before him. "Whatever." She replied, making her way to their usual spot.

This place was like home to them, they've been going here ever since they were in elementary. Everyone that worked there knew exactly who they were. Robin's Diner had a retro theme, all the waiters and waitresses skated around on roller blades with their corny costumes.

Olivia sat down on the soft booth that was beside the window, Elliot followed after her and sat across from her.

"Are those my two favorite people in the world?" A familiar voice gushed.

They both looked up and smile brightly at the elderly couple approaching them, they were the owners of Robin's Diner. It was named after the old lady that was clinging onto her husband, George.

"It's good to see you two." George smiled, throwing an arm over Elliot as he shook him lightly.

Olivia stood up and hugged Robin who looked like she was getting weaker and weaker each time they saw one another.

Robin hugged her back as tight as she could, her smile was wide. "Oh goodness, you two are getting so big now."

Olivia pulled away but let her arm rest over Robin's shoulder.

The best way to describe George and Robin was to compare them to the couple from the movie Up, Carl and Ellie. They loved each other immensely and looked exactly like the cartoon characters.

"I've heard some good news about you two." Robin brought up as her eyes quickly glanced at Olivia's stomach.

George chuckled lightly and pat Elliot's back. "Congratulations."

Olivia smiled slowly faded but she stopped herself from frowning as she forced a grin on her face, Elliot did the same thing. They were still new to the fact that they were known as a couple.

"Thank you." Olivia replied, resting her palm on her stomach.

Robin put her hand over Olivia's and looked lovingly at her stomach as if she could see the baby in front of her. "We knew it all along."

Elliot raised an eyebrow. "Knew what?"

"That you and Ms. Olivia would fall in love." George answered, he nodded towards Olivia.

"It was a surprise for sure." He nervously nodded.

George walked over to Robin and held her hand that was no longer on Olivia's growing stomach.

"I remember the moment I knew that Robin was the one for me." He looked at her with a loving gaze.

Robin giggled and held George's hand tighter.

Olivia sat back down and watched them with admiration, whenever they went here George was always gawking over Robin.

"It was a cold night when my friends and I decided to go to the carnival that was in town. He tapped my shoulder, startling me so I punched him." Robin brought up, a light laugh leaving her lips as she remembered that moment.

"I just wanted to return her handkerchief that she had dropped onto the ground, there was no intention of asking her on a date until I looked at her right after she punched me." George pulled her closer as he looked lovingly down at her. "It was the best night of my life."

Robin smiled back at him. They continued to look at each other in immense admiration and it couldn't a sweeter moment.

***

After a couple of minutes of more conversation with George and Robin, they ordered their food.

"You're not getting your usual?" Elliot questioned as he cocked his eyebrow.

Olivia shook her head in disgust. "Im so hungry, a bowl of fries isnt going to fill me up."

He put his hands up in defense. "Sorry, preggo. Im not really used to the whole pregnant thing."

She rolled her eyes at the nickname.

"Alright, Elliot. We have to put some rules in this relationship." She brought up after a couple of quiet moments.

He didn't understand what she was talking about as he raised his eyebrow, his hands began to play with the salt container that was on their table.

"If we're going to be like a couple we have to act like it." She told her, taking away the salt container so he could just listen to her. "But we also need rules too."

Elliot let out a sigh. "This is such a bad idea, Liv."

Olivia knew it was a bad idea but she couldn't risk having her family be disappointed in her. She bite down on her lip, feeling like she was going to cry just thinking about it.

He noticed the sadness that rushed over her face and knew exactly what she was thinking about. "Would you stop thinking like that?"

A tear had already ran down her cheek, Olivia was not the girl to be crying in public but she couldn't help it. "It's hard not to." She sat up straight and tried to push away those thoughts.

Elliot was caught off guard once he saw that tear run down her cheek. "Dude, why are you crying?"

She glared at him. "Shut up, I'm not crying."

"Well, I'm pretty sure when tears come out of your eyes you're crying."

That only made her want to cry more, tears suddenly ran down her face.

"Crap." Elliot mumbled under his breath, he knew that Olivia never cried in public and that the only reason she was crying now was because she was pregnant.

"I don't know why I'm crying!" She sniffled, wiping away her tears.

Elliot reached for her hand and held it. "Just think about the food you're going to eat in a couple of minutes." He instructed her to do.

She breathed out heavily and closed her eyes, her cries becoming quieter and quieter until she stopped entirely. She slowly opened he eyes and looked at Elliot who had a nervous look on his face.

"I'm sorry." She croaked.

Suddenly he felt a smile form on his face seeing her embarrassed look. "Why are you saying sorry?"

Olivia removed her hand from his grip and shrugged, wiping her tears away.

"I've dealt with your crying before, Liv."

"I know but never in public." She frowned, feeling extremely embarrassed.

Suddenly food was brought to their table. A grin now plastered on Olivia's face, no trace of sadness left in her.