Just Friends?

Chapter 43

A few weeks later, December 10th 1991

"Ready to paint?" Veronica asked Michael who carried the paint rollers, various paint brushes and the big bucket of paint

"Are you sure we are doing this? I mean I can still call some professionals to do it for us" Michael replied putting everything on the concreat floor since the old floor was removed and once they would be done painting the new floor would be placed by the professionals

"Yes" Veronica nodded and carefully took off the lid from the bucket of mint green paint they picked out earlier "This will look so cute on the walls" she smiled

"And the ceiling too, right?" Michael asked

"Yes, I bought this thing for the ceiling it's basically this long stick thing you can click on to the paint roller thing so you don't need to use a stepping stool or a chair or something you can fall off" Veronica replied

"I have to paint the ceiling?" Michael asked, just to be sure

"Yes, it requires a lot of strength and I've to be careful not to hurt the baby" Veronica replied rubbing her nearly five month old baby bump

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A few hours later,

They were halfway done painting the room when Veronica gasped, snapping Michael out of his concentration

"Are you ok?" he asked, dropping the paint roller and made his way to Veronica

"Yes, feel" Veronica smiled placing his hand on her baby bump

"I don't feel anyth-" Michael began "Babies first kick?" he asked

"Yes, the first thing I felt was some fluttering but that was deffently a kick just now" Veronica smiled at him

"He or she just said hi to us" Michael smiled

"Or approved or disapproved our idea for his or her room, maybe he or she doesn't like mint green?" Veronica mentioned

"I'm sure the baby will like it" Michael told her

"Do we have to finish this room today? I'm actually tired and craving some chocolate cookies dipped in ketchup all of a sudden" Veronica mentioned

"Chocolate cookies with ketchup? Last week you wanted muffins with pickles" Michael replied

"I know, but I really crave chocolate cookies and ketchup right now" Veronica answered and made her way to the kitchen

"Chocolate cookies and ketchup, pregnancy food combinations, they're something else" Michael shook his head and went back to painting the room in the hopes to finish with the first layer of paint today

--- Meanwhile,

Bailey went on a blind date, one of her friends arranged for her, she only agreed to go on the blind date because she truly misses to share her life with someone and maybe the guy on the blind date is really sweet and handsome too she thought

She finished getting dressed in her new black jeans and white top underneath her red leather jacket

"Pumps or sneakers?" She wondered looking at a pair of high heeled red pumps and her nearly worn out black sneakers "I guess pumps it is" She sighed and put them on to finish her look before she grabbed her car keys and drove towards the restaurant she'd supposed to meet her blind date

"You must be Bailey, I'm Marc, your blind date" A tall blonde man introduced himself to her

"Yes, I'm Bailey, you know Hailey right?" She asked