Past:

Tom had not been as excited as Michelle imagined he would be when she told him about the baby.

“Tom, don´t you want to be a father?”

“Of course, I want to be a father, sugar. It is just that I didn´t expect it to happen so soon.”

Tom had gone back to calling her ‘sugar’, after their trip. She really didn´t mind it that much, it is just that Michelle missed hearing him call her ‘his love’. Tom h