Your maternity leave ends in a long two weeks, then it's work again with a babysitter watching over the kid, and getting home early from work for the rest of your life. You'll miss the kid, the one who's fresh in this ungodly world, who's the blessed concoction of you and Simon, and who's gonna have both of your loves aimed solely to them.

Si's at work now. Paternity leave is a lot shorter so he started work about a week after the birth, though he's sure to keep communication open for you at all times.

Done with tucking baby in, you pull up your messages and start texting him.

"u'll be home soon? 𖹭" you type, and he replies within thirty seconds.

"couple hrs" he types back.

"hv u eaten bb?" he texts, and it makes you raise a brow.

" *hv u eaten, bb?" he corrects himself, in a follow up text.

"srry. had to find out commas r important the hard way huh"