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announced.
    “Yeah, we did,” Trina happily agreed. “That little tyke of yours is going to love it. It’s like being outside in the middle of nature.”
    “That was the idea,” Madeline said, nodding her head, looking around the room in awe of just how well it had turned out. “What do you think about painting her name in the middle of that far wall in big purple letters?” she asked, looking at the large blank spot in question just over where the crib sat.
    “Shouldn’t you wait until you’ve got confirmation that you’re having a girl? Undoing that sort of decision would be next to impossible without painting over the whole wall… As it is, if this turns out to be a boy, he’s going to feel awfully uncomfortable in this room once he gets older.”
    “Oh, it’ll be fine. It’s not a boy,” Madeline assured her friend as she contemplated the placement for the lettering of her daughter’s name on the wall.
    “What, they have tests now to determine the sex of the baby this early on in pregnancy? When did they develop that little gem, and why is this, the first I’ve heard of it?” Trina asked, looking at her friend with wide eyes.
    “No, they haven’t developed any scientific tests… I just know. I can feel it. Call it a sixth sense… I know it doesn’t make a lick of sense for a woman who deals in scientific facts to believe in something as lame as a gut instinct, but there is something in me that is so sure of this, that I’d be willing to wager an entire year’s salary that I’m right… This baby is a girl.”
    “You’re right… It doesn’t make any sense,” Trina said, shaking her head in disbelief. “You of all people, Maddie… You forget ; I know you. You don’t believe anything unless you have scientific proof in front of your face. And sometimes, only if you have more than one opinion, telling you that the fact is indeed a true fact. But, hey… I’ve never been pregnant, so I’m going to have to take your word on it. Somehow, pregnancy has short circuited your brain,” she said, chuckling. “Listen, hon… as excited as I am for you, I have to get going. My husband will be home soon, and I need to get dinner on the table before he walks through the door. I’m still trying to convince him that the time has come for us to become parents… In order for that to happen, I have to butter him up first. I’m fixing his favorite tonight,” she said, grinning from ear to ear. “With any luck, our children can grow up together and be best buds.”
    The two friends hugged and Madeline watched as Trina walked out the door. She sighed heavily and walked into her bedroom. It had been a long day and she knew she had to work the following morning. The sooner she got to sleep, the better. That was one thing she’d found about growing a baby… it was tiring work.
     

Chapter 5

 
    Several hours had gone by and Madeline was sound asleep when a loud pounding sounded at her front door, followed by someone practically lying on the doorbell. She moaned, and squinted at the bedside alarm clock, waiting for her eyesight to come into focus.
    “ Eleven fifteen? Who in their right mind would be so insistently knocking on my door at this time of night? Especially in the middle of the week?” she asked as she climbed out of bed and slipped her feet into her fuzzy slippers. She ignored her robe, figuring it must be one of her friends and stumbled towards the front door, yawning widely, wondering what was so important to bring any of them to her door in the middle of the night.
    Standing on her doorstep, looking huge and threatening was a tall muscular cowboy. He was wearing old worn out cowboy boots, tight skin hugging blue jeans, a leather belt with a large belt buckle and a tucked in red and blue plaid button up shirt. On his head, a black Stetson covered dark brown hair. His eyes were a bright blue with tiny little dark blue specks. Ridiculously long eyelashes framed his eyes, drawing hers to