Movie Night

"No, you have the body of a 33 year old." She smirked.

"Aka ninety."

"Stop it." She snorted. "You're in great shape."

"Meh, I'm slacking. I've got to hit the gym some more."

"You've been saying that for as long as I've known you." She shook her head. "I think you've gotten in great shape after the accident."

"I don't feel like I have." he chuckled. "Soooo, I will continue to work on it."

"Everytime you say you're out of shape with all of your muscles and your fucking abs, and then I look at my post-four kids body, I always wanna slap you." She smirked.

"Welp, I'll just have to drag you to work out with me then." he smirked. "...that's if you can handle it."

"Hey, I work out." she pouted.

"Like the kind of work outs I do?"

"Your work outs are not workouts. They're forms of torture." She snorted.

"I'll take it easy on you." he chuckled.

"Last time you said that, I got pregnant with Brandon." She smirked.

He chuckled. "I won't let that happen again."

She leaned back, suddenly looking serious and deep in thought. "Do you... ever wonder what would have happened with the other two?"

"Sometimes I do." he said. "I wonder who they would have looked like and who they would have acted like. Like, would they be jerks like me...or stubborn like you." he chuckled.

"Probably both." She laughed a little. "The one that Mike got... was a boy."

"Probably would have been a Momma's boy." he said. "You know...sometimes I think that the twins were meant to happen for us. Like maybe it was a way of telling us that even though we lost the other two....we still would get them back in a way."

"Yeah, maybe you're right." She nodded. She'd never really thought about it like that. "Typical me, but I still kind of think losing them was my fault."

"I probably can't change your mind, but for what it's worth...I know it's not your fault and you shouldn't blame yourself for it."

"But I do." She sighed lightly. "The first time around, I knew that I was late. Really late, but I was switching to new birth control and then I started working out harder and I just assumed that it would come back when everything got back to normal. Then I started gaining a little more weight, but I thought it was just my new birth control and..." She looked down at her hands. "I was wrestling while I was two months pregnant Phil, how careless is that? And then Mike, I..." It still really bothered her to even think about it, let alone talk about it. "I thought it was you. I thought you forgot something so you came to the front door instead of going through the old garage. I didn't check to see who it was, and I... I'm just so stupid," she shook her head and covered her face.

He looked at her and removed her hands from her face. "The first time around, it was not your fault. Like you said, you were changing your pills around and everything and you thought that because of that, you were really late and it changed your body around. Unfortunately, things happen for a reason. The second time, you know damn well that you are not to blame. That one was me."

"It's not," she said quietly. "I was the one that asked you to go out for me, I was the one that didn't look before answering... I could have done so much more to protect myself, Phil."

"Lace...if it wasn't for me being with you...you never would have dealt with my brother."

"Baby, even when we were just friends, Mike was... not the greatest guy to be around. So we don't know that for sure." She shook her head.