Convincing her

"Babe I'm hot," Jen complained as she pulled away from Lucas. The wine had warmed her body up, so sitting next to a furnace-like Lucas was not helping her case. Lucas looked at her before turning down the temperature and pulled her back so she was leaning against him.

"Are you better now?" Lucas asked after a few minutes. The house was cooler since he turned down the temperature, and he felt Jen nod against his chest. Lucas was sitting on the chaise longue while Jen had settled herself between his legs and leaned back against him.

She was deep in thought as she watched the rain pelt against the floor to ceiling windows that were just next to them. Lucas' face was buried in her hair as his hand was gently stroking her stomach. Jen was feeling very comfortable, so she relaxed, even more, letting her guard down.

Lucas asked her about her day and the two of them chatted about what they did for a while before the comfortable silence from before was restored.

"Are you disappointed?" Jen asked after ten minutes of being quiet.

"Mmh?" Lucas asked as he put down his wineglass and slipped his other hand under the t-shirt she was wearing.

"About this, are you disappointed?" Jen asked and gestured to her stomach.

"This?" Lucas asked as he continued to feign ignorance.

"Lucas!" Jen half-shouted as she turned her head to glare at him, only to receive an innocent smile from him. When she looked at his face, she couldn't find it in herself to be angry or annoyed. In fact, she ended up smiling back at him.

"A bit," Lucas said as he kissed the side of her face and tightly wrapped his hands around her to pull her closer to him.

"Just a bit?" Jen asked as she rested her head on his shoulder.

"Mmh," Lucas replied but did not elaborate. The two of them grew quiet once more, and they were both watching the raindrops sliding down the windows.

"I was very disappointed," Jen confessed suddenly. Lucas closed his eyes as he leaned down to bury his face in her neck, but said nothing.

"I was so disappointed I thought I was going to cry," Jen continued and Lucas only silently listened to her.

"Is something wrong with me?" Jen asked, her eyes still looking outside.

"Nothing is wrong with you," Lucas answered.

Jen bit her lower lip as she sipped on her wine once more as she continued to think. She had been surprised by how disappointed she became, so she had been trying to rationalize her feelings the whole day, but she couldn't come up with a reason for it.

Lucas was satisfied enough knowing that Jen was disappointed and that she was not averse to the idea of having a child. He was completely unaware of how Jen's thoughts were running a mile a minute.

"I'm sure I was not planning on having children now. I hadn't even thought about them until recently." Jen said to herself in a low voice, so Lucas could not discern what she was saying.

"What was that?" Lucas asked when he heard her mumbling to herself.

"Is it because of you?" Jen asked as she turned her head to look at Lucas. Lucas looked at her in confusion. He was wondering what had just happened and why it was his fault.

"Eh?" Lucas responded while still feeling confused. His expression was so cute that Jen felt the urge to laugh.

"I think I'm disappointed because it would have been ours," Jen said and brought up one of her hands to stroke his cheek. Lucas' eyes widened in surprise and he felt like someone had just set off a bomb in his brain.

He was still processing the words that Jen had said to him when he felt a soft hand stroke his cheek. Lucas speechlessly looked at Jen and she smiled at him with her eyes slightly watery.

He felt like his heart was about to beat out of his chest, what he was feeling went beyond happiness. It was a feeling that he found difficult to put into words, and all he did was hug her tighter and pulled her closer to him.

"Jen," Lucas said with a rough, shaky voice next to her hair. Jen was clueless about just how much she had stirred Lucas' feelings.

"Mmh?" Jen responded in question.

"Oh Jen," Lucas said and hugged her even closer as if he wanted to swallow her into his own body. This time Jen said nothing and just let him hug her. She was tipsy, so her lips became loose. The two of them stayed that way for a few minutes before Lucas pulled back from her.

"Now I feel very, very disappointed," Lucas said as he looked at her. Jen momentarily blinked in confusion before she understood his meaning, making her face flush in shyness.

"Do you mean that?" Lucas asked as he adjusted their positions so she was sitting on his lap while facing him.

"Mmh?" Jen asked with raised eyebrows. She wasn't sure what he was asking her.

"Would you keep it if you were pregnant?" Lucas asked straightforwardly. Jen briefly thought about it and nodded in agreement.

"Really?" Lucas asked as he used his index finger to lift her face so she would look at him.

"I would keep it," Jen said as she held his arm. Lucas asked again because Jen had asked him before whether he would support her decision if she didn't want to keep the child. Lucas was so happy that he gave her a passionate kiss.

"You don't know how happy you've made me, Jen," Lucas said once they separated. Jen looked at him with her heavy-lidded eyes and a smile on her face.

"I didn't mean that we should try for one though," Jen said jokingly as she combed her fingers through Lucas' hair.

"I just wanted to kiss you," Lucas said and smiled, his dimples making their appearance. It dazed Jen when she saw him smile, and he took advantage of that to kiss her again. Jen did not push him away but enjoyed his kisses.

The kiss wasn't urgent, nor was it casual. It was a kiss that spoke for them and their feelings for each other. Lucas was not fondling her or teasing her like he usually was, and the kiss did not get heated like it normally did whenever they started their kisses innocently.

They kissed each other because they were enjoying it. After all, Jen was enjoying the taste of Lucas' lips and he enjoyed her subtle gasp she let out whenever his tongue stroked a sensitive area in her mouth. Jen wrapped her arms around his neck while Lucas held her slim waist and the two of them lost track of time as they continued to kiss each other.

When they finally released each other, they were both breathing deeply as if they were trying to catch their breath. Lucas looked at Jen, his eyes searching her face before lifting his hand from her waist to push away a stray hair from her face.

"Marry me, Jen," Lucas said, and Jen was immediately sobered up by his proposal.

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