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baby (solinh)

"LINH, BE HONEST WITH ME."

Linh stared down at her girlfriend who was laying on the bed with her. Linh was sat up, leaning against headboard with a added pillow for support, Sophie's head laying on her tiny chest. Sophie was positioned in between Linh's legs, leaning back and nestling against her torso as Linh gazed down at her, twirling a few strands of her golden hair in thought.

"What is it?" she asked, giving a curt nod to encourage Sophie to continue.

Sophie blew out a sigh. "I just. . ." Her cheeks tinted pink as she thought about the question she was about to ask. She was curious as to what Linh thought about it, but it was also extremely tempting to just chicken out a forget it all. Especially when she saw the way Linh's focus was entirely on her.

But then all those little cute thoughts began to plague her imagination all over again. And she'd start to daydream about it - about them - and just. . .

"Did you ever want a kid when you were little?" she blurted.

Linh blinked her blue eyes steadily, a bit surprised at the question. "Like. . ." She swallowed, her voice going hushed as she finished, "A baby?"

Sophie nodded as best she could with her head leaned back against Linh's chest. She peered up at her girlfriend, silently awaiting her reaction.

Linh blew out a breath. She seemed to squirm under Sophie's gaze. Sophie could feel that the fingers that were twined in her hair were shaking a little as they combed through the light locks. "Um, I don't know, Soph. Why do you ask?"

Sophie blushed harder, taking a hold of the one hand that Linh had off to the side. She brought it up to her chest, nuzzling it with her face and kissing her knuckles. "Mm, I. . . I've just been thinking about that a lot, lately."

She was really hoping Linh was getting where she was going with this. Because if she wasn't and it was too vague or cryptic, she was going to have to outright say it - and that made her nervous.

Linh's eyebrows were lifted high on her face. "So, like, do you. . . Want a baby?"

Sophie flushed a deep scarlet at how forward Linh was being. "I. . . Always imagined having a baby, when I was younger. I mean, not having a baby at a young age, but I thought about babies when I was younger. Or, I thought about a baby in my future." Sophie managed to fumble over the word baby every single time and she was sure she sounded like a babbling mess. And the colour of her face probably rivaled a fire truck.

When Linh didn't comment on what her girlfriend had already stated, Sophie continued, "I've always wanted a kid. But I knew I didn't want to have sex with a guy. That was the funny thing. I didn't want to have a dick inside me, but I wanted a baby."

Linh chuckled a little at that, brushing some hair off her forehead. It steadied her nerves a little and her shoulders relaxed.

"And when I came here and started figuring everything out about myself. . . I told myself I was never going to have a kid."

Linh's eyebrows furrowed together and she frowned. She opened her mouth to speak but Sophie squeezed her girlfriend's hand lightly, asking for her own permission to speak and continue going.

Linh looked unhappy but clamped her jaw shut, dipping her chin.

Sophie let out a shaky breath as she tried to turn a little to her side to allow herself to face Linh more. Linh helped her readjust, still holding Sophie in her arms.