Epilogue 1/2 - New Year, New Life

"Jen, you need to eat something." Her mother looked at Jen with a stern face. It was the first morning in the new year and Jen refused to eat her breakfast again.

"I am not hungry mom." Jen complained, but the grumbling of her stomach revealed her lie. The look on her mother's face turned into worry.

"Tell me what really the reason is." She requested and Jen shot a glance to her father, that also looked at her.

"I have gained weight over the last week, okay? I don't want to get fat." Both her parents looked surprised.

It all started three days ago, when Jen stood on the scale, realizing that she added two pounds to her weight.

First, she thought it was the ring, that she wore wherever she walked or stood now, but even after temporary removing it, the scale did not budge.

Since then, Jen had refused most of the food, just drinking a bit and something small, when she was really hungry. But the affords had been in vain. She gained another pound in the last three days, and she even felt like her belly was pushing out more.

She tried to convince herself, that she just imagined it, but even her clothes felt a bit tighter around her midsection. This had even forced her to skip using her favorite, extreme tight, shirts and wear more baggy ones.

"I hardly believe that dear. You have eaten nothing than a yoghurt in the last three days." The look of her mother turned into real concern.

Usually, Jen was a big eater, but suddenly her daughter turned into over conscious eating habits. She also seemed to step on the scale more often, twice a day, now.

Not that the girl did not weight herself regularly in the past, usually once a month, but not this often.

Marie Scallivan linked it to the boyfriend her daughter had. Her daughter seemed to think, that she had to keep a slim figure to impress him, even though she did not meet him but just talked over the phone every day.

The older dragoness sighed. "And how much did you gain over the last week?" she asked, and her eyebrow raised.

"Over 2 kilos." The girl replied in a nearly crying tone. "My favorite shirts to not even fit anymore. I am getting fat."

Her mother sighed again. She was sure, that her daughter was exaggerating.

"I can't believe that. You hardly have eaten anything." She replied. "Come with me, we will check. Maybe you looked wrong.

Marie took her daughter and pulled her to the bathroom to use the scale. She had the girl strip to her underwear, to not add any more weight and make the girl panic even more and had her stand on the scale.

"Oh no, I gained another few pounds." Jen groaned. Her mother looked at the scale. 120 pounds was on the scale and she had to look twice. She knew for a fact, that the girl had been 110 pounds when she got to the camp.

"Maybe the scale is broken." She said, pulling the girl from the scale and stepping on it herself. 160 pounds, nothing out of the ordinary. She had kept a slim figure and as a dragon she had extra weight with he wings. In the past she had been much heavier.

"Hmm..." she said, wondering why the numbers changed so much with her daughter. She took a look at the naked belly of her daughter. The pink scales peeked out of her underwear and her tail hung limb in the depression her daughter felt over her own weight.

For a reason, the belly really looked a bit bigger than before. But it did not only poke out a bit, something she had never seen for her daughter, but it seemed a bit deformed as well.

"You really seem to have gained weight." Her mother said and crouched down to run her hand over the belly of her daughter.

"See? I told you." Jen said piqued. "But I still can't believe it." Her mother added. "Did you feel any different the last days?"

"Hungry." Said Jen just shortly, admitting the major agony of her last week. "And because of that my stomach was feeling funny all the time." She added.

Marie continued to run her hand over the belly of her daughter. There was a slight bulge in the middle of the belly. Sure, there was a bit of fat, but it did not feel like her daughter gained more fat, because the stomach still was not flappy but the muscles were clear noticeable under the scales.

"We will see the doctor." Her mother said and picked up the clothes of her daughter. "Just to make sure. This does not seem normal for me and if you do not start eating soon, you will collapse."

Jen put on her clothes and got frightened by her mother's words. Was she ill? She did feel a bit funny the last days, so maybe she had caught a cold or such. But she never heard from a cold making someone gain weight.

Her parents talked with each other when she got into the living room, fully clothed again, and her mother was already in her mantle and ready to depart.

Over the last week, her father had used the advise of Jake and got them all some clothes with the wing protectors, so they did not have to restrict their wings with the baggy mantles. Her mother spread her wings under the mantle, clearly happy that she could stretch them and the clothes were not so restrictive.

"Off we go!" her mother said, handing Jen the mantle that Jake bought her at the camp. Jen, still frightened, followed her mother, while her father stayed home.

During the drive, the panic in Jen raced. A tear ran down her cheek because she did not understand what was wrong with her and if it was anything serious.

She wanted to get her phone out of her pocked to look at the picture of Jake to gain some comfort, but she noticed that she forgot the phone in her room from all the panic of her mother's words.

Her mother did not say anything during the ride. She only threw worried gazes at the girl every now and then.

The drive was long, but finally her mother pulled on the parking lot of the hospital and opened the door for Jen, when they came to a stop.

"Are you alright?" she asked, and Jen nodded. She felt weak and her legs shivered but she was not sure if this was from her condition or from the shock that her mother's words had kindled in her.

Before, she just thought that for some reason she gained weight from overeating at the camp and had imagined it being some delayed effect that made her gain weight now, but the words of her mother told her, that something was wrong with her body.

She had thought that it was normal, and she just needed to cut down on her favorite food, but now she realized, that what her body did was not normal.

"Mrs. Marie Scallivan?" a nurse, a white weasel, was waiting for them at the entrance and her mother nodded. "Your husband called us already. If you would please follow us here?"

Jen followed her mother with her head hanging down. They passed all the waiting furs in the waiting room and directly went for one of the treatment rooms.

Jen only had to go to the hospital once before, because she had hurt herself while playing. She realized back then, that even though it was just a minor injury, they had treated her with the highest priority and her mother explained to her later, that as dragons they would get priority treatment at the hospitals.

As an endangered species, dragons were valuable and therefore any illness or injury was taken more seriously and got the highest priority for any hospital.

Even though this was good, because Jen did not have to wait now, she still felt weird with the gaze of all the waiting people on her, while she skipped the line directly to the doctors.

She only had to wait for a short while before the doctor joined them. He was a cheetah with a yellow coat and black markings. The gray fur in his face showed, that he was already quite old.

"Good morning." He greeted them and her mother gave him her hand and greeted him, while Jen felt even worst now. "What is the problem?" the doctor asked with a serious face, looking at Jen.

"She gained a bit of weight in the last week even though she had been eating very badly." Her mother explained in short. "And her stomach seemed deformed. I fear it is a..." the voice of her mother got very silent, as if she wanted to hide the next word from Jen but she heard it anyways. "... tumor."

The girl panicked inside. This sounded more serious than she thought. She did not completely understand what the doctor and her mother talked about afterwards. The doctor asked a few questions and finally, after what seemed to have been hours for Jen, the doctor bent down to Jen and talked to her.

"Can you take off your clothes, just leave the underwear on, and lay down on the bed there?" he asked and pointed at a plank bed at the walls. Jen nodded. Her stomach cramped up and she felt like throwing up from the fear of this being something serious.

She even forgot to be shy about showing her pink scales, when she disrobed, with the help of her mother, and climbed on the plank bed with shivering legs.

The doctor first used his paws to feel Jen's belly and check for any irregularities. He asked a few more questions to Jen's mother and then used a stethoscope to check the heartbeat of Jen.

"Breath deep and slowly." Asked the doctor, when he put the metal part of his tool, that he warmed up by rubbing it at his paw before, on different locations of her upper body.

The next thing he did, was calling in a nurse, this time it was a sheep with black wool, to measure the blood pressure of Jen. She knew the process from a health checkup in school.

They attached three bands with sensors to her. One at her arm, one at her the base of her left wing and one at her tail, and then air was pumped into the bands to pressure her scales.

When it nearly hurt, the air was released, and Jen sighed when the pressure let up. This method was special for dragons, like she got explained in school when she asked why the other kids did only get checked at their arms.

The blood pressure could be different for dragons at the wings, if certain blood vessels were not okay, therefore it was all checked at once to make sure, that there was no issue.

The nurse nodded and noted down the values. "A bit low, but not critical." She explained to Jen's mother, who peeked at the note pad.

The doctor came back with a big device with monitors on it and Jen panicked a bit, seeing the strange device.

"Don't worry. This is just a medical ultrasound." He explained. "It will not hurt. It will just feel a bit cold and wet."

He took a sub device from a retainer of the big device and put some clear paste on it. It looked like a roll-on deodorant and he put it on Jen's belly, smearing the gel all over her scales, before he aimed the small device at a straight angle to her body and started to slowly slide over the scales.

While he went over her belly, he looked at the screen and sometimes adjusted his angle and pushed a button, which made the device beep and then eh changed to another location on her belly and continued the treatment.

The serious look on his face relaxed after a few photos and he even smiled, which made Jen feel a bit better because it felt like her condition was not as serious as she thought.

After a few minutes of taking photos with the ultrasound device, the doctor pulled back and cleaned the device, leaving space for the nurse to take some paper and clean the belly of Jen.

"You can put on your clothes." The doctor said, clicking a few more buttons on the device, before he had the nurse take the device out and walking over to his desk.

Jen's mother helped her to get dressed and then they sat down in the chairs in front of the doctor's desk and waited for him to pay attention to the dragons and look away from his computer.

The nurse came back five minutes later, when the doctor was just finished with writing his report and handed him a big envelope.

"Well, I do have a few more questions." The doctor said and turned to Jen's mother. "When did this start?" he asked.

Her mother answered the doctor and told him that it started after Jen came back from the camp. The doctor asked a few more questions to her mother and then ask Jen about the camp. He was curious about all the kids that were there and their caretaker.

When Jen told him about Jake, the eyebrows of the doctor rose a bit and he nodded. Naturally, Jen did not tell anything about the special activity they had there, but just about the daily fun activities.

"Okay, I think that I got all now." The doctor said and typed the last sentence into his computer. "It is NOT a tumor." He said and Jen could hear her mother sigh in relieve.

"Actually, nothing is wrong with the girl. She has a low blood pressure, most likely from not eating in the last days. I recommend making her eat properly, I would even say more than usual, in the next days. Make sure, that she gets a lot of nutrition. I will prescribe a few vitamins for her as well to strengthen her circulation and immune system.

"So, what is the reason that she gained weight and that her stomach is so deformed?" her mother asked, still seeming concerned.

"An egg." Said the doctor with a smile and Jen looked at the doctor confused. She did not eat any eggs in the past week. Her mother also looked puzzled.

"Your daughter is pregnant." The doctor continued with a warm smile and put a paw on the hand of Jen. "You got some special activity with that black dragon you told me about, right?" Jen felt the blood rush into her head and looked down at the table.

"Did he force you?" the doctor said, and Jen shook her head. She was not about to tell him anything about how Jake forced himself on her at first. "So you did it willingly?" the doctor asked, and Jen nodded after looking at her hand for a while. "Do you love him?" he inquired further and this time Jen took over a minute to just show one short nod. "Then I think there will be no problem." The doctor squeezed her hand a bit.

"I am sure you will need some time to digest this and talk with your daughter." Said the doctor, while still focusing his gaze on Jen. "But if the girl eats properly and is making sure not to overexert herself, she will be fine."

The doctor let go of Jen's hand and turned to her mother again. "She is a bit young, but I think there will be no complications if she is at full energy. I recommend though to see a dragon specialist to make sure. There is a science lab specialized on dragons an hour from here..." her mother nodded. "Yes, I know. My husband works there." She replied and the doctor smiled even wider.

"Oh, then I guess there will not be any problem. Mrs. Scallivan, I am happy that it turned out to be something harmless and that we could confirm that Jen is healthy. I congratulate you."

He shook hands with Jen's mother and then he took the hand of Jen again and shook it as well. "Congratulation Jen." He said in a soft tone. "I am sure there will be a lot to think about for you in the next days, but I am sure you will be fine. Just make sure to eat properly, okay? Don't look at your weight. It is actually good if it goes up, you understand?" Jen nodded, looking at the hands, unable to look up into the smiling face of the doctor.

"Have a safe trip home." The words followed Jen and her mother into the corridor and Jen walked next to her mother, feeling her head throb and feeling hot.

When Jen sat in the car, the blood in her head was buzzing. She was not able to take in all that yet. The doctor said that she was pregnant with an egg. But she did not completely understand jet what that meant.

"So, you had sex with Jake?" Her mother asked, when the car pulled out of the parking lot. "How..." asked Jen but did not look up. Her cheeks became extremely hot.

"Sweet pie, it was obvious that it was him. First, only another dragon could have got you pregnant. And I noticed your look when you talked about him." Jen risked a peek up and saw that her mother looked at her through the back mirror.

"Don't worry Jen. I will not scold you. Rather I should scold him, for taking advantage of you and..." - "It was not like that..." Jen interrupted her mother. "At least not at the end." She added, but bit on her lip right after.

Her mother talked calm with her and eventually Jen told her how this all happened. She told her about her feelings for Jake and about his promise.

"What does it mean, that I am pregnant?" asked Jen. She knew the basic things about pregnancy, even though she had only learned it for mammals and was not sure if dragons had the same circle.

"Well, first this means that the egg in your belly will grow and your belly will become big and round in about a month." Her mother explained. "And shortly after you will lay the egg. This can be a bit... exhausting." Said her mother. "But then the egg needs to be held warm and safe for about 4 month and a little whelp will hatch.

Her mother told her about the time she lay the egg of Jen and how she checked it every day, excited about the day that Jen would hatch.

Jen listened to her mother talking about caring for the egg and how she cared for Jen in the first year of her life and she realized that a lot of work waited for her. She was not sure if she was prepared for this.

Sure, deep inside her, a happiness lingered. A happiness about soon having a child with Jake. It was like this made it official, that he was her boyfriend.

But in addition, she still felt embarrassed about her mother hearing about their relationship and when she thought about her father getting the news when they got back, she got even more nervous.

She went very silent on the second half of the trip, letting her mother talk about the joy of her when she cared for Jen and softly caressed over the still very small bulge off her stomach.

Her mother stopped by a fast food restaurant that had a drive through and got a few burgers for Jen. Feeling her nagging hunger and the commanding words of her mother to eat, she obediently ate the burgers and soon after, she fell asleep, feeling satisfied and full for the first time in days.

She woke up laying on her bed. The exhaustion of all her anxiousness had made her sleep through half the day, as she noticed when she looked at the clock.

Her hand moved to her belly and she caressed the small bulge with a smile. Slowly it started to sink in that she was pregnant and where she had been worried and a bit afraid before, when she heard about it and her mother told her what waited for her, the happiness slowly found its way into her heart.

She was carrying the egg of Jake. This was something that linked them together even more than the ring did. Inside her was a part of Jake and she knew that she would love the egg, and the hatchling later, as much as she did love Jake.

While she lay there, smiling and caressing her belly, the realization came to her that she had to tell Jake about it. She started to fish for her mobile phone, that she always had on her night table, but she could not find it.

She rolled around and looked at the table, but it was not there. She lay on her belly to look on the ground and under her bed, but it seemed to not have fallen as well.

Jen rubbed her eyes and tried to remember where she put it, but she could not remember. The whole morning was still a mush of emotions and thoughts that made her unsure if she even had picked up her phone when they went to the hospital.

With a sigh, she got up put her feet on the ground. She wore her warm pajama, apparently her mother had changed her into this, and therefore she did not bother to put on her house slippers. There was a warm layer around her feet from the one-piece pajama.

When Jen opened the door, she already heard her father and her mother arguing in the dining room. She slowly descended the stairs, but they talked too silently for her to listen in to their conversation.

When she opened the door, they stopped and looked at her. "Hello Jen." Her mother greeted her with a warm smile. "Did you sleep well?" Jen nodded. The smile of her father looked a bit forced and from a wrinkle at the corner of his eye she knew, that he had made a stern face before she came in. This wrinkle always took a while to go away after her father had been angry.

"How are you feeling?" asked her father, with a little worried undertone. "Much better after I ate." Jen admitted and smiled. It seemed, that her father was not angry at her, or he at least did not openly show it.

"Have you seen my phone?" Jen asked and looked at her parents. "Oh, yes." Said her father and picked up her phone from the table. "I am sorry dear, but I had to get the number of that black dragon, so I could give it to Murray."

"Jack." Said her mother with a warning tone and put a hand on the arm of her father, but he pulled away his arm and just shot her an angry gaze. "My name is Victor." He said, but his eyes showed that he knew what his wife wanted to tell him.

Jen winced. For one, she understood that her parents had a fight, even though she did not know why, and in addition, she wondered why her father would give Jack's number to this bulldog.

Merridith Murray was a former police officer, that worked as a security officer of the science lab where her father was employed. At least that was what he told her when the bulldog visited them once, shortly after they moved here.

"Why did you give him Jack's number?" Jen asked, still standing at the door and looked at her parents sharing a long gaze. Her question made her father relax his face and look at her again, bringing this fake smile back to his muzzle.

"See Jen, sugar cube, why don't you sit down, and we talk about it?" Jen slowly closed in toward the table and felt insecure all the sudden. Her father usually talked to her like that, when she was in trouble for doing something, she was not supposed to.

Her mother snorted through her nose and went towards the kitchen. "I will make you some warm cocoa, okay?" she asked Jen and the girl just nodded, sitting down and looking at her father with hanging ears. Her hand pushed against the small bulge at her belly and she wondered what she had done wrong.

"See, Jen, Mr. Murray will need the phone number to track down where Jack lives." He explained and Jen looked up to him, still unsure what he meant by that.

"He will ask one of his old comrades at the police department to check his address." "Why do you need his address? You could have called him and asked." She looked at her father, unsure what he was after.

The face of her father went soft and the smile he now showed did not look forced but genuinely caring and concerned about his daughter.

"Look, what this dragon did was wrong." Her father explained her. "It is against the law. Even if he is not completely adult yet, he took advantage of you and even got you pregnant. You are too young for this yet and..." - "He did not take advantage of me!" Jen shot and tears came out of her eyes.

She understood, that her father wanted to get Jack arrested. Sure, she had not agreed to it at first, but after that it had felt so good. She had to admit, that Jack did not explain her that she would get pregnant from this and did not ask her. Now, in hindsight, she remembered that using condoms, which she heard about in school, would have been the right choice and sure enough, Jack was quite a bit older, but she could not stand the fact, that he would go to jail for that.

"Jen..." her mother came back with a cup of steaming cocoa and put it in front of her daughter, before she sat down next to her and put her arm around her shoulders. "... I know this sounds hard, but your father really just wants the best for you."

Jen pulled away from her mother and the tears ran down her cheeks. The words of her mother did not feel real because she knew that her parents had fought before and she was sure it was about Jake.

"You have to understand..." started her father but Jen jumped up from her chair, which send the cocoa tilting over and spill over the table. "You do not understand a thing." She screamed at her father and grabbed her phone that lay in front of her father, just before the cocoa reached it.

"You didn't even ask me." She glared at her father with a blurry vision from her tears. "I hate you." She threw at him and turned around to storm out of the room. In the floor she nearly slipped with the attached socks of her pajama. Slippers would have been better, but Jen did not care about any of this.

She felt betrayed by her father and afraid about what was to happen with Jake. She slammed her door and threw herself on the bed, crying her eyes out.

All this was too much for her. The sudden realization of being pregnant from Jake, the shock, the confusion, and then, when she just got content with it, her father was after Jake and wanted to get him locked away.

The phone in one hand, the other hand clawed into the pillow under her, she screamed into the pillow and pushed her face into it, while her wings flapped in anger and pushed down all the stuff on her night table. Jen did not regard the pain in her wing, that hit the edge of her chair and kicked it over.

Her heart hurt much more than her wing at this moment, and she felt like the whole world was falling down on her. Jen did not realize how her body exhausted and how she drifted off to sleep while crying into the pillow. She also did not notice her mother entering her room, after her tantrum died down, and picking up all the stuff she threw on the ground with her wings and put them back on the night table.

Mrs. Scallivan looked at her daughter with empathy and softly pet her head, before she took the cover and put it over her sleeping daughter and left the room again.

Jen did not talk to her father for the rest of the week. Her mother was sensitive enough to leave the topic alone and not make Jen think about Jake and what happened to him.

She had tried to call him and sent a lot of messages, but he never picked up or responded. Jen was afraid, that he was caught already.

Her mother tried to distract Jen and took her shopping or to a café to eat some cake. It helped a bit, but when Jen was at home and in her bed alone, she still cried and wondered in her mind where Jake was.

It was the end of the week when her father came back home with company. Jen heard them enter the living room downstairs and shortly after her mother came into her room.

"Jen, can you please come down? Your father wants to talk with you." - "I don't want to talk to him." She said pouting, getting angry at him again.

"Please!" her mother insisted but Jen just turned on her belly on the bed and ignored her mother.

"Enough of that." Her mother sounded a bit annoyed and angry. "You will now come down." She decided and pulled Jen up by her arm. Jen tried to get free, but her mother locked her arms and wings and carried her out of the room and down the stairs.

Jen, knowing she could not get free, just let her carry her down, but she pouted. Her Skirt, she had not changed into her pajamas yet, was wrinkled up and she groaned when her mother straightened it and also flattened her blouse a bit so that she was presentable.

Jen was not sure why her mother wanted her to look good. She heard that her father had company, but she did not care, even if she would make him ashamed.

Her mother opened the door and pushed Jen in. Jen angry shot a gaze towards her father, but she was left with an open muzzle, freezing at the spot. On the one side of her father sat Mr. Murray, the security officer at her father's workplace.

On the other side sat... "I would close the mouth, or a fly will get in." her father grinned. "Jake..." she whipered, still not sure if her eyes were betraying her like her father did.

"Why? How?" her father grinned. "Well, we will explain that. But first sit down."

Jen forgot to be angry at her father. She wanted to storm to Jake and hug him, get hugged by him... but in this atmosphere she could not bring herself to do it. She just obediently let her mother push her to the couch and sat down in front of the three men, with her mother sitting next to her and putting an arm around her shoulders.

"I had a long talk with Jake." Her father said and Jen noticed, that he used the name of her boyfriend now. "And we came to an agreement." Jake nodded. He seemed a bit flustered next to her father.

"Jake here will sign up at our science lab and sign a contract today, and if you do the same, and help us with our studies, then I will not report him to the police."

Jen shot a quick look at Mr. Murray who sat next to her father and just nodded.

"And I will also approve you two to be engage, that means if you want to." He looked at his daughter and even though she did not fully understand yet, she nodded.

"Jake will live here with us." Her father continued and Jen's heart skipped a beat and made a jump of joy. Her face naturally showed a smile.

"But first..." her father took two big stacks of paper and put one in front of Jen and one in front of Jake. "... you have to sign the contract."

Jen did not even start to read anything. She took the pen and browsed through the documents until she found the dotted line and put her name under it.

When she looked up, she saw that Jake apparently did the same, not hesitating for a second.

"Fine." Said her father, and he looked serious and a sighed escaped his muzzle. "I think that is it for the formalities." He put the stacks of paper into a folder and gave it to Mr. Murray.

"Will you bring it to the office Murray?" he asked, and the bulldog nodded, throwing a look to Jen and Jake as if he wanted to say something. But then he just grumbled something and took the documents to get up.

"I will take my leave then." He said, shaking the hand of Jen's father and mother. With a last look towards Jake, he left the living room and Jen heard the door close behind him.

Jen still couldn't believe what just happened. Jake was safe and he was here with her. She shot a shy look up to Jake and their eyes met. A smile crept over their faces, while they just stared at each other.

"I think you have quite a lot to share." Her father said after a rustle and got up. Jake also got up and Jen's mother helped her to stand as well, because Jen felt weak in the knees.

"Maybe not everything." Her father said and slapped the back of Jake, who threw a worried look at Mr. Scallivan.

Jen stepped forward and first hugged her father. "Thank you." She whispered and her father stroked her head.

Then her father stepped aside and Jen fell into the hug of Jake, who wrapped his arms around her and pulled her into a soft kiss, that lasted for a few minutes, before they part and Jen pushed her head against his chest, quite embarrassed when she noticed that her parents were still standing next to them and were watching.

After a dinner, that they took all together and Jen spent holding hands with Jake and looked towards him after each bite, they finally could flee the eyes of her parents.

Jen led Jake into her room. Her mother had prepared the guest room for him, but Jen wanted to be with Jake.

She listened to him whispering what happened into her ear. How the police suddenly appeared at his house and took him away. How he was interrogated and then Jen's father joined them and first just shouted at him.

But then her father had asked Jake a lot of questions about what he intended to do, if he really loved Jen and if he would care for Jen for the rest of his life and stuff.

Jake hinted towards much more, because he told her that they talked for hours, but he did not go into all the details.

At the end, they had come to an agreement and Jen's father had told Jake, that there was a way for him to not get into Jail. The agreement with the science lab, which apparently had quite some influence, saved him from any prosecution and he did not even get a note in his file about that.

Jen only listened and smiled, while Jake lay behind her and had his arm around her body, softly brushing over her slightly bulged belly with his fingers.

"I will always be therefore you." He promised Jen at the end. "And for you as well." He chuckled and he pushed up his upper body to curl it around Jen and kiss her belly. Jen giggled.

"I love you." He whispered and now kissed Jen. "I love you too." She breathed back after he let go of the kiss.

They lay like this in the bed for hours, until both fell asleep, snuggled up with each other and with a smile on their faces.