Friends Apart

Chapter 15

Peter was laying on his bed when he felt something small on his shoulder, then Wendy's button nose in his neck. He chuckled and turned his head to where his lips brushed against her teeny body. Peter then saw something in her hands. It looked like a makeshift baby rattle. "Wendy is there something I should know?" Wendy smiled up at him, and gently took his thumb to her stomach. "Peter, you're going to be a father." That calm element he exuded was quickly drained, replaced by stark astonishment. "You...You're sure?" He stuttered, taken aback by the suddenness of the news. But he could see the certainty on her face.  "I just... wow... Wendy.. That's... That's wonderful." Peter swiftly kissed her lips again, then delicately pressed them to her belly. 'I'm going to be a father?' The fact hit him like a sledgehammer. "Just think, soon it won't be me, you, and the boys anymore." Wendy cradled her middle with her arms reverently for the start of a life budding within her own body and kept her eyes on Peter's face. "I want to settle down with you. I want to have everything with you. Everything that we should have." She stepped forward and reached for his face, hands touched either side of his mouth before she leaned against him. "Let's do this together." "We will." He murmured. "I promise." Failing wasn't an option this time. Not anymore. As Peter held her, a newfound sense of responsibility quietly sank into his bones. It was beautiful and frightening. A happy shudder ran through and he pressed her tiny body against his with a calculated pressure. After all this time, feeling a guilty pang every kiss, knowing he could never give her whatever she so deeply yearned for... That was a worry of the past, soon to be proven wrong. "God, do I ever love you," Wendy spread her arms and hugged what she could of Peter's chest, cheek pressed against him. “You know that, don't you?" "Oh, I do," Peter stroked her back, taking a deep breath to set his body at ease with his spirit. "But I never get tired of hearing it. Oh, the cleverness of me." Wendy snuggled closer into the chest of her husband. Her gentle giant.