A birthday surprise

Back In The Blind

Jason's pov

Me and Luke were in the deer stand. Luke glances over at me. "What's with the watch man? It doesn't even work." He whispers, pointing. "Long story. I'll tell ya when we get back to the lodge." I whisper back. I look down at it. I wonder who's watch this was anyway. He leans back in his chair, getting bored. We haven't caught anything this whole trip so far. We have two days left. I sit up quickly when I see a huge twelve point. "I got this one." I whisper, loading my bow. He mans the camera. Sweat breaks out. I wanna get this thing! I wanna have something under my belt! Then suddenly rain is a good thing starts playing! "Shit! Luke turn that off!" I gasp, frustrated. He quickly swipes ignore and turns the volume down. "I forgot to turn it back down!" "No shit!" I mutter annoyed. The damn thing ran away. I slump in my seat, really pissed. "Sorry, Jay." I sigh. "I guess that can be payback for that redneck rat prank the other day. It's already flying through YouTube." I say, shrugging. "I hate you." He mutters, making me laugh. A few minutes of waiting with nothing to show for it, I'm shocked to see Miranda walk up. I poke my head out. "Babe! What ya doin'?" I gasp, caught off guard. "Shush! When you hunt you're supposed to be quiet!" She says, climbing. She's in full camo with black face paint on. "The guys didn't recruit you to prank us did they?" Luke asks, glancing out the window. She shakes her head. "I wanna hunt with you, Jay." Oh. I smile. "Ok. It's been a bust today though. I only saw one but it ran off before I could nail it." "I've never been hunting before so you'll have to help me." She says sitting on my lap since there's only two chairs. Luke stifles a laugh. I flip him off and hold her in my lap. Did he have something to do with it? Was it a prank set up by him? Which is why he asked that! To throw me off! I hear a twig snap. I look out the window and ready my bow. "Ooh Jason, can I do it pretty please!!" She begs in a hushed whisper. I don't know. I really wanna bag something! "I don't know darlin'. I really wanna try to get this thing. "I can do it!" I sigh. "Oh fine." She loads my bow with precision. I'm surprised she knew how. I thought she said she's never been hunting! She nails it right on target!! "Whoa! Babe ya got it!" I gasp, shocked. She smiles at me. "I thought you've never hunted." "I haven't but I know how to shoot a bow. I do that a lot." We go down to where her deer is. "Say first kill!" I say, holding up my phone to take a picture. She grabs the deer's antlers and I snap the picture. "Nice shot baby girl." I say, hugging her. We get back to the lodge and Luke checks his phone from when it rang earlier. "Oh damn that was Caroline. She's probably pissed off that I ran off." I sit down with a beer and set my bow in it's slot. "In my opinion, she's being a controlling bitch. This is the first time we have hung out since the wedding!" I gasp, annoyed. "Yeah I know. She has me on a tight leash." "Why is she acting like that?" He sighs. He glances around. "Ok don't tell no one we're keeping it a secret til the CMT awards. But she's pregnant again." My eyes go wide and I choke on my beer. So much Luke has to pat my back. "You're kidding!" I gasp. He shakes his head. "Damn man I didn't see that coming!" "Just don't tell anyone. Not even your wife!" I laugh. "She'd probably go all baby fever on me."

Miranda's pov

Wow Caroline's pregnant. Too bad for Luke I heard. I don't know what Jason's talking about baby fever. I'm not wanting a kid anytime soon! Jason walks out of the room and stops short seeing me. "Oh hey hun, didn't know you were standing here. Great catch today." I smile. "It was fun. But I doubt I'll ever get that lucky again." He laughs. "Luck has nothing to do with it. Aim, accuracy, and a good bow is all ya need to hunt." I nod and yawn. He laughs again. "Someone is tired." I roll my eyes. "I'm tired of standing around and all this talk about baby fever!" I snap, glaring jokingly at him. His eyes go wide. "You heard us?" I laugh and nod. He sighs. "Luke's gonna be ticked." I shrug and walk to our room. "I don't want to have a kid anytime soon so you don't have to worry about baby fever." He lays down beside me. "That's good. Cause I feel the same way."

Jason's pov

"But if we ever did, I'd love to have a girl and name her Anna Grace." I look up at her from my laying down position. "You're doing it." I say. She glances down at me. "Doing what?" "Baby fevering me." "Huh? How?" I laugh and sit up. "Baby do you even know what baby fever is?" She looks like she's thinking. "I thought it meant the person wanted to have a baby." I shake my head, my hands on her shoulders. "No. They talk nonstop about what they'd do if they were gonna have a kid." She laughs. "I didn't even realize." I laugh too and drop one of my hands to her chest. I push her back against the pillows and kiss her.

*the next day*

I notice Luke left in the middle of the night. Probably because of Caroline. That sucks. "Oh well looks like it's you and me in the deer stand baby." She smiles. "I'm fine with that." She whispers, kissing me and backing me up against the wall. My eyes go wide in surprise then gently flutter closed as I wrap my arms around her.