Jennie's getting closer and closer to her delivery date, so she starts buying things like a crib and unisex baby clothes, since she doesn't know the sex of the baby yet. Lisa helps to set up the crib while Jennie folds the clothes.

"Look at how small these are," she says, holding up a pair of socks. "How is it possible that a human can be that small?"

Lisa's lips twitch into a smile, holding back from laughing. "You were that small too once, baby."

Jennie only seems distressed by this. "How?"

"I guess you'll find out when it happens," Lisa says.

Jennie puts both hands on her belly. "Yeah." she sighs. "I want this baby. But I know it's going to be tough."

Her eyes are sorrowful where she looks down, and Lisa can't bear to see her like this. "Jen. You know I'm going to help, right?" She asks gently.

Jennie tries to roll her eyes, but Lisa can see how she's fighting tears. "I wouldn't... I can't ask you to do that."

Lisa drops the instruction manual she's holding and goes to Jennie's side. "Jen... remember what I said a long time ago, when I started to give you rides? That I want to help?"

"Yeah, but... that was..." Jennie sniffs. "That's not the same."

Lisa tries to find the right words, stopping for a minute before she thinks of something Jennie said around that time a few months ago. "Jennie. Why do you feel... like you have to go through life with no help?"

Jennie meets her gaze suddenly, glassy eyes wide.

"I'm... we haven't really talked about it, but... I hope I'm your girlfriend," Lisa says. "So I can help."

For reasons Lisa can't fathom, Jennie looks shocked at this. "Won't we end this... once I have the baby?"

Now Lisa probably looks just as baffled. "What? No, of course not."

When Jennie remains frozen, Lisa goes on. "Jennie... I knew what I was getting into. When I met you. It wasn't exactly a secret." She looks down pointedly at the bump.

"And you're okay with... a baby?" Jennie whispers, looking down at her belly as well.

"Jennie," Lisa says, firmly. She cups her jaw, making her look up at her. "I want you, all of you. This baby is a part of you. And if you'll let me... I could be a father, too."

Jennie squeezes her eyes shut, letting a few tears out. "Yes," she nods. "Yes, yes, I want you, I want us." She wraps her arms around Lisa's neck, and Lisa circles her arms around her body.

"We're going to do this together, okay, love?"

Jennie nods. She pulls back and looks at Lisa, then breaks out into a smile. There's a brightness on her face Lisa's never seen before. Jennie looks free.

They're kind of a mess, because to accommodate for baby things, Lisa moved some of Jennie's stuff into her own apartment, and because she stays over at Jennie's so often, some her stuff is in there. Essentially they share two apartments. And Lisa's secretly been looking at places to buy for the past two weeks.

Usually, Lisa is over at Jennie's place, but tonight, Lisa is doing house hunting in secret, and taking care of bills and things. It's a rainy night, and she's thinking that once she finishes up, she'll try her best to make a hot cocoa for Jennie and bring it over.

She's busy with her bill pay on her laptop so she doesn't quite notice when the wind starts to howl outside. But she does take note of it when the lights start to flicker overhead. She looks over at her lamp.

Off, On, Off, On... Off.

Her apartment is plunged into darkness, and there's the eerie silence of all the appliances losing power.

Her chair scrapes on the floor as she stands up before rushing to her front door. The locks are battery operated luckily so she can exit and knock on Jennie's door.

After a second without an answer, she punches in the code herself, thinking Jennie's fallen in the dark or something and needs help.

When she opens the door, Jennie's standing in the kitchen, phone flashlight illuminating the area around her.

"Lisa," Jennie breathes.

"You alright?" Lisa asks, quickly closing the door and coming over to her.

"Yeah, I'm fine," Jennie nods. She tucks herself into Lisa's chest and Lisa wraps her arms around her and gives her a kiss on her head.

"Just got scared for a second," Jennie muffles into her shirt. "What should we do?"

"Do you want to go to bed early?" Lisa asks. "I feel like it's safer than walking around in the dark."

"That sounds nice," Jennie sighs out. Lisa gets her phone and an extra flashlight from her own apartment while Jennie lights a lone tea light in the corner of the bedroom.

Lisa strips down to her T-Shirt and boxers and stands at the foot of Jennie's bed. "Can I come in, love?"

"Of course," Jennie says. She's already halfway under the blankets and clutching one of her stuffed animals close. Lisa thinks it's cute, that soon she'll have a baby that likes stuffed animals, too.

"You don't even need to ask," Jennie adds once Lisa crawls in.

"No?" Lisa asks. She gets under the covers, finding Jennie's still wearing her sweatpants and sweater. No electricity means no heat and she's been complaining of the cold for the past 20 minutes.

"No, you don't," Jennie assures her. "But it's nice that you do. Now, come here, I'm cold."

Lisa scoots closer to her in bed. Jennie's due date is about five weeks away, so her stomach protrudes between them but Lisa loves how soft she is. "Warm me up, Lisa," Jennie whines again.

"Hmmm. I think we need skin-to-skin contact for that," Lisa decides.

Jennie laughs but indulges her. "Okay. Take off your shirt."

Lisa does so.

"Mm. I love that."

Lisa's face splits into a grin even though Jennie can't really see it in the dark. The rain continues to pound outside, and now thunder has joined it too, flashing the sky with lightning.

Lisa holds Jennie's chin and tilts her head up for a kiss, and Jennie pillows her lips on hers, slick and tasting of her sweet mint toothpaste.

Jennie chucks her stuffed animal behind her to close the distance between them, pressing up against Lisa from shoulder to belly. Lisa runs a hand down her back, slips it under her clothes while Jennie gives her the kind of nips on her bottom lip that Lisa knows mean she's horny.

The skin on her lower back is hot and smooth, and she runs the hand around to her stomach, gently smoothing over the soft skin. She trails the hand down, about to hold her hip, but Jennie shifts and begins tugging on her sweater instead.

They break apart and Lisa helps her out of it. Now Jennie's left in her short sleep shirt, ridden up from their activities. Lately her little heat tits have grown more and more, til now when they're swollen and full of milk. It's enough to make her hard when she thinks about her at work but Jennie seems hesitant to let her touch.

Lisa connects their mouths again, and their kisses turn slow and sloppy, and Liaa flicks her tongue on the back of Jennie's teeth which makes her let out a moan.

Jennie takes ahold of her wrist and leads it down to her pants, and Lisa greedily slips her hand inside.

"Fuck, baby... you're so wet," she breathes, a little taken aback by just how wet Jennie is after just a little making out.

"I'm just reallyㅡ really horny right now," Jennie tells her, and Lisa laughs.

She fingers her open, and Jennie lays on her back once she starts pumping her fingers in and out.

"Help me," Jennie says, a little breathless. She bends her knees on either side of her belly and Lisa helps her out of her sweats and underwear until she's bare on her lower half.

Lisa kneels wide over her and leans down until they're kissing again, in that heated, desperate way. Her cock's hard in her boxers, straining upward against the fabric. It's an accident that she pushes her hips right over where Jennie's wet and leaking, but it feels good and Jennie gasps so she does it again.

She spreads her knees wider until their hips are level with each other and she presses forward, pushing her clothed cock into the wetness. The broken sound Jennie makes into her mouth makes her keep going, rolling the line of her back and hips to press their sexes together, like she's showing her how good she would fuck her for real.

Jennie gets a hand between their bodies and takes a hold of her, until her cock is poking through the hole in her boxers, throbbing in the cool air. Now when she grinds forward it's her bare cock against all that slick and heat, and she's feeling delirious with it, grinding her hips forward more harshly than she means to.

"Sorryㅡ sorry, baby," she says, trying to clear her foggy head.

Yet Jennie just says, "Take them off," tugging at her underwear, and Lisa doesn't think she's ever moved so fast.

Now completely bare where she lies over Jennie, she cups her jaw gently and kisses her slowly, deliberately, like she wants to show Jennie just how much she means to her.

The next time she opens her eyes, it's to the overhead bedroom light coming on, and the microwave beeping to life in the kitchen.

Jennie stirs and turns over to face her. "Power's back on," Lisa tells her while she runs one hand down her bare back.

Jennie hums. She lifts herself up and peers over Lisa at the clock on the nightstand, and Lisa turns to look, too. Lisa doesn't know if it's accurate, but the numbers 9:23:17 blink at them before moving on to the next second, forward in time.

But they look back at each other, frozen in this surreal moment, 9:23:17 ㅡ with the fridge humming back to life, when it's dark outside but the bedroom light is on, and they're completely naked, and Jennie just says, for the first time ever,

"I love you."