by Shelly Jones
“Katie Tanner,” the nurse says. My skin crawls whenever someone calls her by Tanner. I want to change that last name of hers so bad and I will. She doesn’t know this but that night I went to go get Ava from her dad’s when Dean pulled all that shit, there were two other reasons why I offered. One was to get permission to marry his baby girl and two was to get one carat cushion cut diamond that her dad was holding on to. It was from her mom’s ring and she has no idea her dad has it. With the help of my mom, we took that diamond and had it put into a halo setting with seven diamonds along each side.
“Eric, are you coming,” Katie snaps me out of my thoughts.
“Yeah, I’m coming.” I grab her hand and we walk back to the room.
The nurse takes her blood pressure and asks about her period and all kinds of other shit. “Ok, well the doctor will be in in just a few minutes. You will need to undress fully and put the gown on with the opening in the back,” the nurse says.
Alright, I get to see my woman naked twice today and it’s only ten AM. The nurse looks at me and smiles and walks out of the door.
“What the fuck are you smirking for,” Katie says.
“Why not, it’s not even ten AM and I get to see you naked again! I’d call this a good day,” I say wiggling my eyebrows at her.
She laughs and turns a shade of red, “Yeah keep it up and you won’t be seeing me naked for the rest of the weekend,” she says and she sticks her tongue out.
I grab a hold of my heart and pout, “Ouch!”
She laughs even harder, “You’re such a dork!”
“But you love me,” I wink at her.
We hear a knock on the door and this older woman who looks to be in her fifties comes in, “Oh Katie, it’s so nice to see you again. How’s Ava?” Katie gives her a smile and talks about Ava.
“And you must be daddy,” the doctor says as she holds out her hand.
“Yes I am. I’m Eric Reed,” I state my name. What the fuck idiot? She didn’t ask for your name. For whatever reason I’m scared shitless all of a sudden.
“As in Daniel’s son?”
“That’s me.”
“Oh, how’s your mom?”
“She has her good days and bad, but she’s good and I’m sure she’s about to get better when she finds out we’re having a baby.”
“Well let me do my exam on Katie and then let’s see if we can get you a picture to show her,” she says and winks at me.
She does her thing with Katie and my girl looks uncomfortable and I don’t like it. A couple of times she grabbed my hand kind of hard.
“Ok, well since it’s too soon to do a normal ultra sound, we’ll have to do a Transvaginal one if that’s alright.” Katie smiles as if she knows what’s she talking about and nods her head. What she puts inside Katie makes me want to puke, but I didn’t have much time to process it when the screen came on and we got to see our “lil bit” as Katie calls it. “Well this is interesting,” I hear the doctor say.
“What?” I ask looking at the screen.
“Well, you see this black hole with a dot in it?”
“Yeah?”
“And you see this other black hole with a dot in it?”
“Yeah, ok, what does that mean?” I ask and I look down at Katie. She’s crying. Why is she crying?
“Congratulations, you’re having twins.”
What the bloody fucking hell? Twins? No! I had to sit down. I was honestly going to pass out.
“Everything looks right on track. I am going to want to see you in two weeks and then we’ll go from there,” the doctor continues to talk but I have no idea what she’s saying.
“Eric,” Katie asks and squeezes my hand.
“Hey.”
“You have any questions?”
“Um, no, um, I think I’m um good,” I stutter.
“It’s ok Eric, you’ll be fine. Just make sure she rests and she eats,” the doctor pats me on the shoulder, “and we’ll see you guys in two weeks.”
“OK, thank you Dr. Westbourne,” Katie says.
Katie and I finally make it out to the truck and we have said nothing to one another. “Eric. Are you ok?”
I realize I’ve kind of have been a dick. I haven’t showed my excitement at all.
“Yeah, I’m just shocked as hell right now. But yes, I’m ok. Are you ok?”
She lets out a breath “Yeah I think so. Just holy fucking shit,” she says and we both laugh.
“Let’s go get some lunch,” I tell her.
“Yeah, let’s do that.” Yep life is about to get real fun and real interesting right now.
We get to the restaurant and are seated right away. We talked all through lunch. We cannot believe its twins. Twins don’t run on any sides of our families. Katie’s mind is going a million miles right now, trying to come up with ideas on how to tell our families. I don’t care either way. Everyone is going to be shocked as hell.
“Shit, we have dinner with both of our parent’s tomorrow night,” she says after a moment.
“I know. Are we going to tell them then?”
She starts to smile, “Yeah, we’ll tell them then. I need to go to the hobby store before you take me home. I have an idea,” she says with a smile. I can tell she’s up to something.
After lunch we go to the hobby store, and we buy picture frames, some paints and sidewalk chalk. Then she takes me clothes shopping and buys me a white button down polo shirt, Ava a pink and white zebra print dress and she buys a long pink cotton dress for herself. “What are you doing babe?” I ask her confused.
“Trust me,” she says.
“Ok, sure.”
We get in the truck and head for home. She calls Ronnie and asks if he can come by around three. Ok I guess we’re having pictures taken today.
When we get home, I’m thinking she’s going to relax, but she’s not. She goes into her office and blows up the ultra sound pictures to a larger size. I come up behind her, “What are you planning?”
“Well I don’t know yet, but it’s going to be something where Ava is going to hold up this chalk board that says “I’m going to be a big sister X’s two,” and I will be holding the ultra sound picture while your hands are on my belly, OR we’ll do, “You + Ava + Me+ babies= 5.” Not sure yet. Then I’ll frame them in the bigger frames and wrap them up, and have our parent’s open them up together.”
Ok, I got to hand it to her, she’s talented as hell and how quickly she came up with this idea is crazy to me.
“Sounds like fun. What time should I go get Ava from my parents then?”
“Before three.”
I nuzzle her neck she melts into my body and moans. “So we have three hours then,” I ask and she turns around
“Yes we do. What shall we do,” she says pulling my face down to hers.
“I can think of something,” I say before I start to kiss her. I can’t get enough of her. I pick her up and she wraps her legs around my waist. I walk us back to the bedroom and place her on the bed. She takes off her clothes faster than I can get mine off. “You’re slow,” she growls and helps me get out of my shorts
“You’re eager!”
“Sorry, but a girl wants what a girl wants,” she says as she’s sliding to the middle of the bed. The sun is hitting her body and I’ve never seen her look more beautiful. Looking at her pussy, I can see she’s wet already. I lick my lips staring at her.
She bites her bottom lip, “Are you going to make love to me or stare at me all day?”
I don’t say a word as I slid down a little, attacking her wet lips. Fuck she tastes good. Pushing back the skin around her clit, I expose her nub. It’s swollen and I tease the shit out of it, flicking my tongue, nibbling it and sucking it. I stick one finger inside her. She is soaked. I slide another and motion back and forth. She moans and shouts my name, pulling my hair. I let her come on my hand and then stop. I kiss her pubic area, up to her naval, up her stomach and reach her breast. Her nipples are hard and swollen. I tease th
e one breast with my hand and the other one I take in my mouth, flicking, licking and sucking. I nibble on her nipple and she almost comes right there. I stop and go to the next breast, doing the same as I did the other.
“Eric I need you inside me now. Please,” she begs me. I slide myself inside her and fill her up. She wraps her legs around me and we’re in sync. In no time she shouts my name and we come together.
I roll over on my back and Katie comes and lays her head on my chest.
“I love you,” she sighs.
“I love you too. This is going to be a very stupid question I’m sure, but I have to ask,” I say.
“Ok?”
“It’s ok to have sex right? I mean, I can’t hurt the babies, right?”
She’s trying hard not to laugh I can tell, but she holds it back, “No babe, we’re good. Actually from what I’m told, pregnant sex is amazing. A lot of women crave it.”
“Didn’t you crave it while you were pregnant with Ava?”
“My whole pregnancy was fucked up. I got pregnant in September, found out in October, then we got married in December and then he died in January. I didn’t have time to feel horny or anything. After he died, I pretty much didn’t do anything, and I sure as hell didn’t feel anything. It wasn’t until Ava was born, that I started to live again,” she explains to me.
“That makes sense. Well with this pregnancy you can experience everything, and if you get any weird cravings, I’ll go get them for you.”
“And this is why I’m the luckiest girl,” she sighs and kisses me.
“Nope I’m the lucky one.”
“Are you going to go get Ava or do you want me to?”
“No, I got her. You finish getting ready.”
“Do not say anything to my father,” she snaps at me.
“Would I do that?”
“Yeah I think you would.”
“I want to wait to see all of their expressions, so I will wait until tomorrow.”
“Good,” she says and smiles at me.
“You finish and I’ll go get her,” I tell her as I walk over to her where she’s standing there in nothing but a towel.
“Ok, thanks baby.”
“No thanking is needed baby,” I say pulling her close to me and kissing her.
“What was that for?”
“You’re beautiful and because I can.” I leave her breathless and walk away.
I get in the truck and head for Katie’s dad’s house to get our Ava. I turn on the radio and listen to random songs until this one song comes on and it makes me pull into a parking lot to finish listening to it. “Holy shit! This is it, this is the song,” I say and punch in the info in my phone so I can look it up later. “I know exactly how I’m going to propose to Katie and I’m going to need the help of a few people,” I say out loud hitting my steering wheel in excitement. “This is going to be perfect and she won’t even know what’s happening until it happens.” I pull out of the parking lot and go get Ava.
Chapter 22
Katie
Eric has gone to get Ava, so I have a few moments alone. I look in the mirror and turn sideways. “I can’t believe there are two babies in here,” I say rubbing my belly. Being pregnant with Ava I was never able to fully enjoy the pregnancy with all the crap that went on, but this pregnancy is a new ticket to life and I’m going to enjoy every second of it. I decide to grab my phone and hit Voxer. I dial in Maddie, Rachel, Jenny, Nikki, Morgan and Alexis,
“Hey girls...anyone there?” I say into my phone as everyone gets on.
“Are you ok,” Rachel asks.
I take a picture of the ultra sound picture. “Hey I’m going to send you a picture,” I say and send the picture.
“What the hell am I looking at,” Nikki says.
“It’s a god damn ultra sound picture. HOLY SHIT! You’re pregnant,” Rachel shouts.
I start giggling, “Yes Ma’am I sure am, but count the black holes.”
“NO,” Maddie says.
“Yep,” I reply back.
I wait a few minutes for the other girls to catch on.
“There are two black holes,” Rachel says.
“Yes there are....”I trail off. Oh come on you have got to get this. “You guys give up,” I ask.
“What do two black holes mean,” Morgan asks.
I’m laughing hard, “Hun, we’re having TWINS,” I shout.
“Holy shit, oh my god. Holy shit,” Rachel is shouting.
I’m laughing so hard I’m crying. “That was kind of my reaction too”
“How far along are you?”
“Six weeks! Please don’t say anything. We are telling our parents tomorrow.”
The girls all tell me congratulations. “Hey I gotta go. Ronnie will be here soon and Eric should be home soon with Ava, but I just wanted to tell my girls.”
“Why is Ronnie coming over,” Rachel asks.
“Photo shoot for our parents. I’ll show you the pictures tomorrow or Sunday.”
“Ok! Oh my god! I love you,” Rachel says.
“I love you girls too,” I whisper and I wipe a tear from my eye. “I’ll talk to you guys later,” I say quickly and shut down the App. “Ok well they know now,” I say out loud, now to get ready.
I slip on my new pink maxi sundress, style my hair in loose curling waves and apply some minimal makeup. I think a bare foot shoot will look good, especially outside. I head out to the back porch to scout the perfect spot. While I’m doing this, I decide to do Eric + Ava + me, holding my belly with the ultra sound picture, = 5.
I’ve always wanted to do a picture like this but never had any pregnant clients. I get the step ladder for Ronnie, set it up and grab Ava’s chalk board in case Ronnie wants to do the other idea. I want as much control over this shoot as possible but I’m going to let Ronnie take the lead.
“Katie,” I hear coming from inside.
“I’m out here,” I shout.
Walking outside is Eric and Ava. “Hi baby!” I smile at Ava.
“Oh my god, do you know how hard it was not to tell your dad. He kept asking if everything was ok.”
“What did you tell him?”
“I froze. The only thing I could think of was that we needed some ‘adult time’ and he about shit himself and said that was too much information!” I can’t help but let out a small laugh. “It’s not funny. I thought he was going to kill me for saying that.”
“Well they’ll know tomorrow. Then we won’t have to hide anything anymore.”
“I can’t wait. I can’t keep in shit like this.”
“It’s ok, I couldn’t either and I had to tell someone so I sent Rachel, Maddie, Morgan, Nikki, Jenny and Alexis a Voxer message with the ultra sound picture. It took them a while to figure it out. Well not Maddie, but the others I ended up telling them.”
“That explains the ‘Super Sperm’ text from Brady. I had no clue what he meant by that.”
“Brady’s a dumb ass,” I laugh.
“He’s an idiot. No clue how Rachel puts up with him.”
“Well he’s your best friend too.”
“No, you’re my best friend,” he says kissing me on my nose.
“Awe look at you being all sweet and romantic.”
It’s three o’clock and the three of us are ready for Ronnie. Someone knocks on the door and I run to answer it. When I open the door I’m greeted with the biggest brown eyes and smile “Ronnie,” I screech!
“Holy shit girl, have I missed you,” he says wrapping his arms around my waist.
“Well let’s see the ring,” I say and he shows me his diamond white gold ring.
“It’s beautiful,” I gasp.
“Thanks. I cannot believe I’m married.”
“I know. I hate you for not inviting us,” I tell him as we’re walking through the living room into the kitchen
“It was a total spur of the moment.”
“It’s ok, you’re forgiven.”
“So what’s up with this
photo shoot?”
“Well we sort of have a huge announcement to make and I want to do it with a picture to capture the moment.”
“Well tell me!” I show him the ultra sound picture and he starts screaming, “No way? Twins?!”
“Yes sir, its twins.”
“Oh my god!”
“How the hell did you know its twins?”
“My sister has twins and I saw every ultra sound picture, so I know this shit. When are we due?”
“In April, we’re only six weeks along.”
“Oh my god, I’m so happy for you. I’m assuming Eric is daddy?”
I start laughing, “Yeah, Eric is daddy.”
“Sweetie, finally, you get your happy ending. Oh my god I’m going to cry.”
“Stop or you’ll make me cry.”
He hugs the shit out of me. “Wow, look at him be daddy to Ava,” he says staring out the window. I turn to see what he’s looking at and it’s Ava chasing after Eric and they’re both laughing
“He’s amazing with her.”
“Girl I am so happy for you and Ava. This is what you need.”
“You know Ronnie it feels weird to feel this happy. I’m not used to happy.”
“I know but it’s about damn time you felt happy.”
“Thanks.”
“Well let’s get these pictures taken shall we?”
“Ok!”
We don’t get done with the shoot until almost six. Ronnie had fun with this and took a ton of pictures. I told him that I was going to do the edits and print them, but he could come and pick up the disk next week.
“Oh, you know what, I have an idea,” Ronnie says.
“What’s that,” Eric asks.
“You guys are finding out the sex of the babies right?”
“Yeah we’d like too,” we both say.
“Don’t find out, give me the results, we’ll do a gender reveal party and we’ll take pictures. Like that one we saw with the balloons in the box where they didn’t know what they were having until they opened the box.”
I didn’t even have to say anything. “Man that would be perfect. We’ll let Ava open the box,” Eric says with a huge smile. I’ve never seen him smile this much before