Here is to love

Here is to love


Two and a half months had past and Vicky was six months pregnant. She was glowing and finally starting to enjoy being pregnant after her morning sickness stopped completely in her fifth month.

Peter was so excited that he was going to be a father. He was less nervous and had mellowed out. Catcher secretly thought that Vicky’s pregnancy had been a miracle in disguise. Life was easier at the office for Catcher now that he didn’t have to deal with Peter’s hysterics so often.

Barbara on the other hand was not feeling so good. She was constantly tiered and she found herself lacking any form of apatite. And she had a shorter leash on her temper and other such emotions, as Catcher had unfortunately discovered, after being on the receiving end of her emotions.

It was one evening in the McManus house hold, whilst Vicky and Peter were getting ready for bed that Vicky mentioned to her husband. “Peter has Catch said anything to you about Barbara. She has been so off lately?”

Peter stuck his head around the bathroom door and replied “Yes. He’s worried about her, just as I was about you when you were feeling off, before you informed me of your pregnancy.” He paused for a moment before he beamed.

Vicky frowned and asked “What could you find possible to smile a about in a situation like this? This our friends were talking about here. One of them could be seriously sick Peter.”

Peter quickly soothed her ruffled features and simply commented “Yes there is that. Or maybe she could just be pregnant. Did it ever occur to you that she is suffering and showing symptoms almost identical to your own?”

Vicky’s eyes widened as she placed a hand over her rounded stomach. She suddenly let out a laugh of delight. Peter nodded and said “See what I mean. Now that you’re truly thinking about it, you can see the possibility there can’t you?”

Vicky asked excitedly “Do you think she is even aware of the possibility?” Peter shrugged and replied “Well, she is a woman; I figured all women had some way of knowing whether there was a possibility that there was a new life growing inside of them.”

Vicky shook her head and told him “No Peter it isn’t like that, it doesn’t work that way. Most women don’t know how to recognise the signs in less they’ve been pregnant before or they have medical training of their own. I had no idea until the Doctor told me, when I had just reached my three and a half month mark. Most first time mothers don’t know.”

Peter asked “And if Barbara isn’t aware are you going to confront her, so she can go and see a Doctor? Because let me tell you this, I almost drove Catch to the point of wanting to hit me when I’d been worried about you and said nothing about it. Now he’s retuning the favour and in spades.”

Vicky chuckled and commented sympathetically “Oh poor Catch. He isn’t accustomed to worrying about someone he loves like he does Barbara. He had no reason to when he didn’t do relationships or fall in love, when all he was interested in was sex on a casual basis.”

Peter smiled and said “Yes I know. Catch loves and adores Barbara, more then adores her. I never thought I would see Catcher Block fall in love and settle down. He had one crazy reputation, as you know.”

Vicky moaned and replied “Oh tell me about it. He was a true ladies man if ever there was one. He was the kind of man I would have dated and probably more then half of the women in the city. And the fact he was a well known and handsome journalist tended to added to that reputation.”

Peter chuckled and added “Oh and that infamous little black book of his. I hated that book. Every woman he saw fit to add to his regular rotating schedule was in that thing. He was the type of man that every man like me loved to hate.”

Vicky added “Every woman who took her cues from Barbara and decided to follow a life like a man, casual sex with no feelings, must hate her. Not only did she tame the famous ladies man Catcher Block, she married him, taking him off the market. And the fact he is also faithful to her and has no intentions of taking a mistress really must rile those single women.”

Peter grinned and nodded as she said “Of course. And now with the possibility of Catch becoming a father, well, I’d say the final nail as well and truly been knocked into the proverbial coffin; Catcher Block truly one hundred percent belongs to Barbara Novak-Block.”

Vicky grinned and said “Well, I’m going to confront her tomorrow at lunch. First I’m going to call her and arrange to go to lunch. Just because I am now on maternity leave does not mean I can’t go out to lunch with my best friend.”

Peter nodded and replied “Good. Because if you can convince her to see a Doctor, that’s if she hasn’t already seen one, it will most likely put Catch’s mind at rest, and I can have my best journalist back stress free.”