taking her hand and kissing it. “It took both of us to make the baby. We just have to advance the launch date that’s all.” She tried to get angry with him for making light of her pregnancy, but she couldn’t. Jada hadn’t wanted to go back on the pill, trusting their observation of the calendar and using condoms whenever they had to. But they had been making love constantly and sooner or later one of those eggs was bound to get fertilized. It was the law of averages, one that could not be beat. “ Do you know when our baby was conceived?” he asked her. “I want to think the night I braided your hair. At least, it was the night I felt very special with you.” “ David,” she told him, “It could have been any one of the times we were together. Tell me, has there been a day we haven’t made love since I moved in with you?” She had him there. David had given up trying to do much work from his condominium since Jada had come back into his life. All he had to do was bring her home in those dancer leotards and he was trying to pull them off her in seconds. One night they hadn’t made it past the landing of the stairs when she bent over to pick up something. Jada had stayed in that position for another half hour as David discovered the stairs made a good substitute for a couch back. But now he was awake watching the morning light trace over her ebony body. David gently pulled the sheet off her and watched her naked form as she slept. He stared at her tummy and reflected on the life which was growing inside her. What would they name the child? They’d talked about that one before, one night after making love. They had decided the child would be named after her family if a girl and his if a boy. Or they might create a new name out of the parents’ name, which might make the name “Jaded” if a boy and “Davada” if a girl. He had almost suggested “Dada” as a girl’s name, but had wanted to make love at least one more time that night. He tilted in the direction of a new name for the personal name and something more conventional for the middle. Jada woke to him looking at her. She held up the ring in the air to look at it again. Jada rose up on her knees and raised the ring to catch the sunlight again so she could watch the rays reflect off the wall. Jada leaned back to David and cuddled, telling him how much in love she was. “ I wonder what she or he will look like,” she said to him. “ It doesn’t matter,” he told her. “Any baby from you will be beautiful.” “ We’re going to have to make sure you’ll see the doctor every week,” he told her. “My mother had all kinds of problems when she had me.” “ But you came out alright,” she smiled. “ Yes, but I don’t want to take any chances,” he replied. “You’re going to be my wife and I want to take care of you.” The engagement pictures went out to everyone they could think about. Jada had congratulations from her brothers and wanted to know when the wedding would take place. Her older brother Randal wanted to make sure it wasn’t a case of her having to get married and she assured him David had popped the question without her prompting him. David’s mother told her she wanted to meet her future daughter-in-law and his dad told him Jada looked like a fine woman from the picture. His sister wanted to know when the baby was coming and he told her not to worry, they had that angle take care of. There was a big card attached to the door of his office when he went to work, signed by all the staff. His marketing manager wanted to know if they had met using the company matching service as it would be an excellent selling point. David had to disappoint him by telling the man no, he had known Jada years ago and had accidentally ran into her. However, it was a good idea and they should offer a bonus for any employee who met a prospective spouse using the company services. Jada nearly caused the day’s classes to be