Baby Blankets And Bestest Friends

Josh had made good on his word, he was shifting the blame of the kiss from me and working on his issues with trust and my friendship with Jordan. Since that morning he had made it a weekly ritual to spend Saturday mornings with Jordan while Jess and Jenna played together. Some mornings I got to go along with them, other mornings I was working so I got the run down on their day when I met up with Josh after work.

Everything seemed to be going wonderful in my life once again as June was coming to an end. I was looking forward to the next month, not only would I have more time with Josh because he wouldn’t be working but I also was starting my new position at work so my nights and weekends would be available for us to go out and do ‘couple’ things together – the first real ‘couple’ time we had since we started dating.

“You took your holidays for this coming week right?” Josh asked one night as we strolled hand in hand around the lake, we had just finished a delicious meal at Oasis, a ‘down home, home cooking’ ma and pa restaurant that was quickly becoming ‘our’ place.

“That’s right,” I nodded, “I’m not sure what I’m doing, I just had to take them now or lose them.” My anniversary date at work was the middle of July.

“Oh ok,” he smiled.

I waited a few minutes but he didn’t say anything else about it. “Josh?” I slowed down as I looked up at him. He raised a brow, still smiling. “Was there a reason you asked? Or were you just curious?”

“I was just curious,” he said and I, according to him, pouted. “Hey now,” he released my hand to curl his arm around my waist. “No pouting honey.”

“I didn’t realize I was,” I flashed him a smile.

“That’s better.” He nudged me forward as he changed the subject. “So how far along are you with the blanket you were making for Nick and Amy’s baby?”

“Oh I finished that one the other day, I was so excited, I wanted to run over and give it to them right away!”

Josh laughed, “Did you?”

I shook my head, “No, instead I called Jordan and talked for about forty minutes about how cute it was!”

“Better him than me,” he joked before asking me if he could see the finished product after our walk.

“Of course,” I told him. “But it’s at Zack’s; we’ll have to go there.”

“No problem,” he gave me a gentle squeeze. “There’s something I need to speak with Zack about anyway.”

“Ok,” I grinned. “Then I can show you the blanket I started for Chad’s baby!”

Josh thought for a moment before nodding. “Did they find out what they were having after? You said they have been flip flopping on that for a while now.”

“No they haven’t. Chad wants to know but Susan wants to wait until she can see with her own eyes, their son or daughter.” I chuckled, “Zack told Chad if he had another boy, he would kick him.”

“Oh God,” Josh laughed.

“Personally,” I continued. “I hope they have a boy, Conner can’t be the only boy in our family, he’s lonely enough as it is!”

“But he’s not the only boy,” Josh jumped in as soon as I finished. “Don’t forget about Jess, he’s a boy – the last time I checked anyway.”

“You check often, do you?” I poked him in the ribs. “I don’t believe it’ll change just like that Josh.”

“Ha ha,” Josh rolled his eyes as he chuckled. “You know what I meant!”

I did know what he meant but it kind of threw me a little when he said it, or at least it threw my heart for moment – it leapt at the thought that he thinks of my family as his. “Conner is excited about this weekend,” I told him. “He just can’t wait to have a ‘sleepover’ with Jess! He asked me just this morning how many sleeps it was before Jess would play with him – he said it was almost more fun than Christmas!”

“Jess is the same way,” Josh informed me. “Last night when I was one the phone with him, all he wanted to talk about was playing cars with his ‘bestest friend in the whole wide world’.” I snickered as Josh glanced at me from the corner of his eye, his lip twitched as he tried not to smile. “He said you said ‘bestest’ was the only way to describe friends, that it’s what you called Jordy and ‘if Baby’s daddy is Ama’s bestest friend, Conner can be Jesse’s bestest friend’.”

I rested my head back against his shoulder as I gazed up at him. “I’m so happy that Jesse has bestest friends,” I giggled.

Josh chuckled and shook his head, “What am I going to do with you?” He pressed his lips against my temple for a moment. “Ok,” he nudged me forward again. “Let’s head back to the car while we still have daylight.”

A half hour later Josh helped me into his car before running around the front and jumping in his side, “I love you,” he said quickly as he leaned over to plant a kiss on my cheek.

“I love you too,” I turned to him hoping to get a little more kissing in but he had already moved back into his seat and started the car.

He shifted the car into drive and stepped on the gas, spinning the tires in the dirt for a second before they took hold and propelled us forward.

“What’s the hurry?” I asked him as we jerked onto the road.

“I really want to see those blankets,” he said with a laugh.