In Drummer Heaven

Naming Godparents

Tommy

It's the end of November and we're finally home from tour. I got in earlier than I thought I would so that was exciting because I really didn't want to miss the birth of my daughter.

Both Darcy and I decided after trying to shop for Dani's baby when we didn't know what she was having that we were going to find out and tell everybody. It's just a pain in the ass to shop when you can't buy blue or pink. We didn't really care if we were going to have a boy or a girl, we were just happy that we were having a baby but I was really happy when I found out we were going to have a daughter then I was worried. All of Darcy's band mates have little boys and that fine until our daughter turns fifteen and those boys are fifteen or sixteen. I don't know how I feel about their sons looking at my daughter and getting a hard on.

I really hope that our daughter looks like Darcy, she's be completely stunning that way. Darcy wants the baby to look like me though, she wants the baby to have dark hair and dark eyes. We like to bicker about that in the same sense that we like to run each other's cars off the road when we play video games.

Darcy is fast asleep in bed beside me, it's weird because since she's gotten pregnant she sleeps a lot better at night. She doesn't look eight months pregnant maybe four or five months pregnant if that. Darcy is carrying our baby close to her rib cage and says that the baby likes to kick her ribs or play soccer with her organs.

Darcy rolls over and bumps into me but that wakes her up and she sits up. I smile as she rubs her eyes and looks at me.

"Hey baby." I say.

"Hey Tommy." She says sleepily and looks down at her stomach. "She's restless."

"Really?" I ask and Darcy nods and takes my hand.

Darcy put my hand on her stomach and I feel the baby moving around and kicking. I smile and look back at Darcy.

"She's going to be a partial insomniac like you, babe." I tell her and her eyes grow.

"Don't say that if she wakes up one of us are going to have to get up and check on her." My wife reminds me. "And if she screams all night than neither of us sleep."

"Maybe it's just a one time thing." I laugh and she smiles.

"Hopefully." Darcy says quietly. "I can't wait for her to be here." She admits.

"I know, I can't wait to see how much she looks like you." I say and Darcy looks at me.

"She's going to look like you." Darcy tells me and I shake my head.

"She's going to be pretty like you." I tell her and she knocks her head into my shoulder.

"She's going to be perfect like you." She tells me quietly and I smile.

"Lay down, I want to talk to my baby." I kiss her temple.

Darcy lays back and I move down so I'm beside her stomach. I moves her shirt so I can see her stomach and Darcy's hand tangles through my hair and she smiles at me. I kiss her stomach.

"Hey baby girl, I'm daddy." I tell her stomach. "Did I ever tell you how I met your mommy? She was a stripper and--"

"Tommy!" Darcy nearly yells and I laugh.

"I'm kidding, she was a hooker." I say and Darcy flips me off. "Okay I met her at this bar and her one friend was going to beat up Vince but she got her to stop. Then I saw mommy at the bar after they played it. She was sitting at the bar and her shirt got wet, in turn she said 'fuck me' and I said 'at least let me buy you dinner first'."

"That is how we got together, isn't it?" She asks and I nod. "I love that story."

"Me too." I admit and kiss her stomach again. "I love you, little one. I can't wait to see you."

I move back so I'm beside my wife and I kiss her lips. She pulls back and I leave my forehead on hers.

"I love you." I say quietly and she smiles.

"I love you so much." Darcy tells me. "We're ready for her, right?"

"Of course we are." I promise her. "We're going to be great parents."

"We are going to be pretty awesome parents." She laughs and I smile. "She gets to say that both her parents are badass drummers."

"That's true." I laugh. "We're going to love her so so much."

"Are we going to name godparents?" Darcy asks. "Like if something were to happen to us?"

Darcy didn't have official godparents that's they she bounced around New York and Chicago, that's why she's asking this. My wife knows that life is fragile and can be taken in an instant. My wife wants to have a plan.

"Who are you thinking?" I ask. "Darcy, I know you've already thought about this."

"Dani and Nikki." She says. "Like they'd each have partial custody of her."

"Yeah?" I ask and she nods.

"What do you think? I mean Nikki is like my brother and--"

"I completely agree with you." I admit and she smiles. "Dani and Nikki are great choices if something happens to us."

"They'd treat her good." Darcy smiles. "They'd keep her out of trouble."

"I don't know if I want her to date any of the girls sons." I admit and she laughs. "I'm serious, she's going to be the only little girl and--"

"Tommy, it's a little early to be telling her that she can't date." Darcy tells me quietly and kisses my cheek. "Let her get out of the womb first."

"Okay, okay." I laugh.

"You're going to be a great daddy." She promises me.

"You're going to be a great mommy, Darc." I say and kiss her lips.