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✾ The Delicious Tomato Lullaby ✾
✾ Grey ✾
It seemed like years had passed since Spain had first announced her pregnancy. In reality, it had only been three months, but Romano felt like he had aged a thousand years. Constantly worrying over her and trying to keep her healthy had taken a toll on him. Just yesterday, he had found a grey hair atop his head.
He feared that it would be the first of many.
"Romano! Romano, come look at this!" groaning inwardly, Romano set down the sponge he had been using to wash up the dinner dishes and made his way to the sitting room, where Spain was curled up on the couch with a laptop on her lap and a purring kitten beside her. "Come look at what I found, it's so interesting!"
"What? I was kind of doing dishes, you know." he grumbled, but when she beckoned him closer, he peered at the screen of the computer. "What?"
"Look! See, it's all about the baby! I mean, not ours exactly, but it tells about what they look like and how they're growing and what's happening to them right now! Isn't it exciting? Look, it says that their heart is beating!" she choked, covering her mouth with her hand. Romano glanced down at her, not at all surprised to see tears in her eyes.
She had been more than just a little emotional these past few weeks. He dreaded to think how she would react when the baby was actually born; she would probably dehydrate herself from crying so much. But at the same time...their baby had a beating heart. That was a little, living person in there!
"Wow..." it had hit him a little harder than he had expected. He sunk onto the couch beside her, the tiny kitten (named Chile by Spain when they had first found her lurking near the chile pepper plants in the garden) clambering into his lap. Spain placed a hand over his, squeezing gently.
Until now, it had just been a few cells and the prospect of Spain being all puffed out and moody and sick and strange, but now...now there was an actual little boy or girl with a beating heart and a brain and dreams and thoughts and wishes...he wondered what else this baby had. Did it have feelings? Did it love them yet? Did it love him?
"So it's really alive, huh?" was finally all he had managed to spit out. Spain stared at him for a moment before chuckling.
"Of course it's alive! What else would it be?" she giggled and kissed his cheek, swirling a lock of his chocolate hair around her finger. "It's a baby, Romano! Not an animal!" Chile looked a bit indignant upon hearing this, but after a quick scratch behind the ears, everything was right in the world again. "It also says that the baby's gender has been determined! I wonder which kind it is?"
"I think it's a boy," Romano muttered, playing absentmindedly with the cat's tail.
"Oh? What makes you say that?" Spain asked, looking up from the article. Romano shrugged, blushing ever so slightly.
"I dunno...I just do. I have a feeling..."
"Are you sure you aren't just hoping for a boy because you don't know how to deal with girls?" she teased. Romano flared up at once, poor Chile's ears flattening against her head.
"What's that supposed to mean?! Of course I know how to deal with girls, don't be ridiculous!" Spain laughed, patting his leg in a fruitless attempt to calm him down. "I mean, I could deal with either one! Girls aren't that different from boys, to be honest!"
"What, you mean you'd be just fine we she started growing breasts?"
"My daughter would not grow breasts! I'm not gonna let filthy boys touch her there!"
"Romano, all girls grow breasts! You can't stop her from doing that! What, are you gonna stop her from having her period too?" Romano clamped his hands down over his ears, screwing his eyes shut.
"Stop! She's not going to get that either, I won't let her!"
"What about when she gets pregnant too, huh? What are you gonna do then?"
"That's—" he snapped, suddenly looking much more dangerous than he had a second ago, "—not going to happen, I can assure you. Especially not before she's married! Or before she's thirty! When she's thirty and married...maybe not even then, I have to like the guy! And he has to treat her like a princess, and—" he shot a look a Spain, who was struggling to contain her giggles. "You were just teasing me, weren't you?"
"Romano, you are so silly sometimes!" she giggled, throwing her arms around him and pulling him close. She snuggled her nose into his neck, ignoring his noises of protest. "See? You love them already! You're going to be the best daddy ever! But heaven forbid it is a girl, because then she won't be allowed to do anything!"
"Just things that involve boys, that's all..." Romano muttered. "Trust me, I know how they act around girls. I'm not letting those creeps lay a single finger on my little girl."
"Are you saying you want a girl now?" Spain asked, goofy smile still firmly in place.
"Hell no! I found a grey hair just the other day, can you imagine what I'd look like when she was a teenager?!" Spain laughed, pressing a gentle kiss to the bridge of his nose.
"Ah, you'll be fine...you've gotta let them live a little, Lovi."
"Yeah, I know. At least she'll be my little girl for a while."
Aww, Romano is such a good daddy already!
Also, someone asked if this is the same universe as the Schwanger and Somewhat Schwanger universe, and I have to say...eh, I don't know! |/(=v= )\| Possibly? I'll have an answer next update!
Which reminds me, you guys are awesome! Thank you so much for reading and favoriting and stuff! :D I love you all!
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