the kissing gate | simanda ✓

34. older

Simon and Amanda laid, cuddling in bed after making love for a couple of rounds, talking to each other. Christmas was coming up in two weeks and Simon and Amanda had brought their children to Barbados for the week and they were going to go back in the morning. The conversation had started on Christmas plans for them and the kids and had steered in the direction of them possibly having a baby that was theirs.

"I want to have a baby with you, 'Manda," Simon insisted. "I want to put something in there."

He touched her stomach, above her pubic bone underneath the blankets on the bed, where her uterus was located. His fingers rested on that spot and Amanda put her hand over Simon's.

"I know that you want children with me, Simon, but I'm not allowed to carry any more babies because I could die giving birth," Amanda replied. "In a heartbeat I would carry at least one of your children, Simon."

"Isn't there the loophole of you giving birth naturally instead of a c-section like when you gave birth to Hollie and Lexi?" Simon asked her in reply. He moved his hand from her stomach and brought it to her waist. Amanda was laying on her side, cuddled in Simon's arms with her head on his shoulder, and he was laying on his back, his fingers tracing patterns on Amanda's bare back.

"There is that loophole but I'm older than what I was when I had Hollie. I'm forty seven, Simon. I'll be forty eight in January. I don't know if it's safe enough for me to have a baby because of my age," Amanda responded. "I mean we could at least try to get pregnant."

"If we get pregnant now, then you would be forty eight when you have the baby," Simon said.

"But what if we don't get pregnant right away and never get pregnant because of my age?" Amanda asked him in reply, worry creasing her forehead. "It's a gamble if I get pregnant, Simon."

"I got my previous girlfriend pregnant pretty quickly though," Simon interjected. "I know it's a gamble and I know that I'm still fertile so maybe we can get a baby in you by the time you're forty eight, Amanda."

"Should we at least get treatments done so we have a better chance of having a baby?" Amanda asked him. "If I could get pregnant right away with your child, Simon, I would but it's impossible that I would get pregnant that quickly."

"If we don't conceive naturally by the end of six months time, we'll do fertility treatment and see if we get pregnant that way," Simon replied.

"What if we don't get pregnant right away using treatment?" Amanda shot at him, worriedly.

"Then we can use a surrogate and use my sperm but your egg if it's possible. If we can't use your egg, then we can find someone that looks like you and we can use my sperm to get her pregnant so we can have a baby," Simon assured her.

"Then I suppose we can start trying to have a baby together. I want to carry your baby, Simon, and I would love for us to have a child that was made by us," Amanda replied. "Do you want to start trying for a baby tonight?"

"Aren't you on birth control though, love?" Simon asked her in reply.

Amanda shook her head and said, "I won't take it tomorrow or ever again because I know we will end up married either way if I end up pregnant or not."

"Then we are going to start trying for our baby tonight, love," Simon responded, his hand going down towards Amanda's arse and his lips kissed hers lovingly.

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Amanda, Simon, Eric, Hollie, and Lexi were on the plane heading home to England to spend Christmas with Amanda's family and do Amanda's Christmas traditions. Simon and Amanda decided that they would tell Lexi and Hollie first that they were going to be trying for a baby and tell Eric last so they could figure out a more child appropriate way of telling him. They could give Hollie some details of how a baby was made but not many as she was too young for it.

Hollie sat in Amanda's lap, looking out the window of the airplane and looking at the sunset.

"Mummy, when are you and Simon gonna get married and have a baby?" Hollie asked suddenly. She turned her head and looked at Amanda, expecting an answer to come out of her mouth.

"Well, Simon and I are going to start trying for a little brother or sister for you, Eric, and Lexi when we get back to England and the baby is probably going to happen first before Simon and I get married because of my age," Amanda replied. "Does that answer the question?"

"Yeah but how are you and Daddy going to start trying for a baby? What does that mean?" Hollie asked. She had been calling Simon Daddy lately as she had been told by Simon that he was planning on proposing to Amanda. It was sweet that she was now thinking of Simon as her father and Lexi was slowly starting to call Simon Dad now.

"Well, it means that Simon's going to try to get me pregnant so we can have a baby," Amanda replied. Simon heard the answer and he blushed when he looked up at Amanda from his phone.

"How do you get pregnant, Mummy?" Hollie asked.

"Don't ask that because you don't want the answer at your age, Hollie," Lexi warned when she heard Hollie ask the question.

"How is a baby made?" Eric interjected into the conversation.

Simon started to laugh and so did Amanda, with Lexi joining in because she knew exactly how a child was made.

"Should we explain it to them, love?" Amanda asked Simon.

"We have to make it child friendly first, 'Manda. We'll do it when we get back home to London," Simon replied.

"But we wanna know now!" Hollie and Eric chorused to Simon and Amanda.

[] hey guys! Simanda has decided to have a child together finally. Does anyone think that Amanda will get pregnant or not? What do you think is going to happen next and what did you love about this chapter? Bye until the next chapter!