One day a few weeks later I was upstairs putting away the clean laundry when I heard Kurt yelling for me to come downstairs so I immediately dropped the bundle of clothes and ran down the stairs, I could feel my heart pounding in my chest.

"Kurt? Where are you?" I called.

"The living room, hurry!"

When I got to the living room I saw Maria sitting on the couch and Kurt kneeling in front of her with his hands on her stomach.

"Kurt?" I asked softly.

"She's kicking! I can feel her kicking!"

Instantly all the dread I had been feeling vanished.

"Come here." Kurt told me.

I walked over and then kneeled next to him, letting him take my hands and place them on Maria's stomach.

"Isn't it amazing?" He asked.

"I don't feel any....oh! Oh my god! That's so cool!"

"I know!" He giggled placing his hand next to mine.

"Does it hurt?" I asked Maria.

She shook her head.

"Is this normally when babies start kicking? Is bean some sort of genius?" I asked.

"Twenty two weeks is perfectly normal baby."

"So she's not genius?"

"She probably is but this isn't proof of her genius."

The three of us sat in silence for a few minutes waiting to see if she was going to kick some more.

"We should set up the nursery." Kurt said softly.

"Ok." I smiled. Kurt and I had been going to see the grief counsellor for a few weeks now and it had really been helping, all of our loved ones now knew about bean's existence but we still needed to prepare the nursery, talk about names and get more baby clothes so I was really glad to hear that he was now ready to work on the nursery.

"Do you want me to help or do you want to do it yourself?" I asked him.

"I want to do it but you can set up the crib and changing table."

"Deal. Just promise me you aren't going to paint it that god awful shade of pink Rachel made Finn paint their nursery."

"Oh god! I'd never paint anything that color; it looked like a Pepto Bismol factory exploded in there."

"I'll never understand why she decided on pink when they didn't even know the baby's gender."

"At the time she just knew it was going to be a girl, a mother knows these things." He said imitating Rachel's voice during the last part.

I laughed and shook my head thinking of Finn and Rachel's son who had been born two weeks previously.

"I love that girl but I swear she has the world's worse intuition." I told Kurt.

"I don't know about that she claims to have known you and I would be perfect together when she asked you to move in."

"Hmm...she did get that one right."

"Yes she did." He smiled kissing me.

"Do you know what they did with all the clothes they bought when she 'knew 'it was going to be a girl?" I asked.

"They returned them and bought boy clothes."

"Damn, I was hoping we could steal them."

He shook his head. "No way I'd let Rachel or Finn pick out my child's clothes."

"Rachel doesn't dress badly."

"Not any more, not since I taught her the proper way to dress but you should see the photos of her from high school...animal sweaters Blaine like every day."

"No."

He nodded his head his eyes wide.

"Why?"

"She thought they were cute."

"I assume you told her otherwise."

"Constantly. I burned them senior year...although I'm not sure she knows that, I don't know what she thinks happened to them."

I laughed and gave him a kiss.

"What's that for?"

"For being so fucking adorable."

"I was thinking we should offer to take Steven for a night once our crib is set up, that way we can get some experience taking care of a baby and Finn and Rachel can take a night off." He told me.

"That's a great idea Sexy."

The next day Kurt kicked Maria and I out of the house while he painted the nursery claiming he didn't want to expose Maria and the baby to the paint fumes although I think that was only part of it I'm pretty sure he was worried that I would peek before he was done, which ok I totally would have but I still don't think I needed to be kicked out of my own house for an entire day...yeah ok maybe I did.

Maria and I decided to go for coffee and then see what movies were playing and then maybe go shopping for a few maternity clothes for her she has some but she'll need more soon when the bump gets bigger.

"Blaine?" A voice asked coming up behind me, I vaguely recognized it and cringed hoping it wasn't one of the one night stands from my former life I've ran into them before and it's never a pleasant experience despite how amusing Kurt finds it especially when he gets to tell them we're married. I turned my head.

"Oh Adam hi." I said with fake niceness, I had always hated that guy mostly because he was Kurt's ex.

"Is this your sister?" he asked in his obnoxiously accented voice.

"No this is Maria, she's mine and Kurt's surrogate." I told him smugly.

"Oh! So you and Kurt are still..." he trailed off.

"Together? Yup. In fact we're married now and as you can tell we're expecting a baby."

"That's great, really."

"What ever happened with that guy you were seeing the last time we saw you?" I asked.

"Drew. Yeah we're still together but I don't know, it's been almost five years and have never made a real commitment or anything."

"Hmm...have you asked him for a commitment?"

"Well no but I don't want to pressure him, I've learned my lesson."

"I don't think asking him would be pressuring him, maybe he's waiting for you to be the one to ask him."

"God who would ever thought we'd be sitting here with you giving me relationship advice, I always thought you'd punch me if I ever saw you again."

"So did I."

He paled.

"Don't worry I won't marriage has mellowed me out, I haven't hit anyone in years."

"Good. Listen I should go but tell Kurt I said hi, yeah?"

"I will. Take care Adam."