Page 17 of His Everything
“I love you,” I tell him, enjoying the way he always kisses me when I say it. After taking so long to be able to get them out the first time, we know how special the words are.
“Love you too, baby,” he states heading towards our bedroom and I wait at the foot of the stairs for him to notice the surprise on the bed. A couple minutes later, his loud ‘Lucy!’ told me hehad long before his quick footsteps sounded on the steps headed towards us.
He turns the corner, the onesies in his hands and he holds them up when he spots me and my grin, his eyes questioning it entirely. “Baby…is this…you’re sure?”
“Very sure,” I tell him, pulling the ultrasound photo out for him to see the very distinct view of both babies in the same frame.
“I love you,” he says reaching me, dropping a kiss onto my lips, before leaning over, adding, “and you, and you,” while kissing my belly twice. “I guess baby two really is baby times two.”
“Happy?” I ask resting my arms on his shoulders after he gives me another sweet kiss.
“More than you’ll ever know, baby. Now we just need to know if they’re girls or boys or one of each,” he states, and I can’t hide my smile in time. “I’ve read the books, you can’t tell for several more weeks.”
“Well there’s a blood test that can tell if it’s a boy or girl, although with twins it’ll only tell you that at least one could be a boy,” I muse, drawing it out. “Except ours didn’t show any boys…”
“Lucy!” he shouts in excitement, drawing Liam’s attention our way as Jayden twirls me around, tears shimmering in his eyes that I know have absolutely nothing to do with sadness.
“What’s going on?” Liam asks, and we show him the onesies.
Jayden holds up the one that says ‘I was planned’ which doesn’t surprise him since we’ve already told him about the baby. His eyes widen when I hold up the ‘But I tagged along’ onesie and he lets out a big shout of excitement.
“Think you’ll still be this excited to know they’re both girls?” I ask and am nearly toppled over as Liam hugs me tight, happy tears falling down his face.
“Guess I don’t have to ask if he was team girl or team boy,” Jayden teases, picking him up to hug between us.
“You were both team girl from the moment I told you,” I counter, loving that they both wanted a little girl to join our family.
“Okay, you all enjoy some snuggles while I go get out food. I think I’m going to have to stop and get some dessert as well after this news,” Jayden adds and my mouth waters with a huge craving for something sweet but light. “I already know,” he states before I can begin to ask for it. “Strawberry shortcake from Dezie’s?”
“Best…husband…ever,” I sigh in between kisses, and when he gets home, the salad is just what I was wanting but oh god, the strawberry shortcake was delicious, leaving a permanent smile on my lips long after Liam was in bed.
“Do you want to try and convince Liam to not spill the beans or tell everyone…or just let him do it?” Jayden asks as we pick up the house for the night.
“Well, I might have taken some pictures of my little set-up before you found it, including some with the ultrasound photo. I thought maybe we could post it, so they all see it together and then we won’t get in trouble for telling one of them before the others? You know the second they get the notification that we’ve added a post, they’ll be calling—like immediately.”
“True,” he states, giving me a long kiss before we head upstairs. He grabs his iPad and types up a post. Neither of us are huge fans of social media still but it lets our parents—mostly his, Jessa, Joel, Tiffany, Bryant, and Patrick to see what’s going on with us since they’re rarely in town. We only use one page on just a few platforms which makes it easier.
Tiffany, Bryant and Patrick have welcome Jayden, Liam and me into the family fully, they’re just not nearly as family oriented and enjoy their freedom far too much to stick around the city.We still have Sunday brunch every week and I love it, so does Liam, so we don’t plan on stopping any time soon.
Mom and I can spend as much time together as we want without having to worry about being hurt too. My father is in prison, with a life sentence thankfully, and won’t ever get out. He can never come to hurt any of us, which makes it so much easier to enjoy this pregnancy.
I love the sweetness of his post and lean over, kissing him as we lounge on the bed, waiting for the calls. Almost simultaneously, ones come in from both our moms. We answer Shelly first, sending a request to Claire to join the group call, then do the same for Jessa and Joel when they both try to call just moments later.
“Are you serious?” Jessa asks as Jayden drops a kiss on my temple. “Twins?”
“Twin girls according to the blood test she tells me,” he says with a grin for the group. “Liam and I are both over the moon about it.”
“You’ve been saying you want a little girl for the last year so that’s definitely not a shock,” Michael says from behind Shelly who takes up most of the screen with her hugely grinning face.
“It’s amazing, honey,” Mom adds, her eyes shining as brightly as Jayden’s did earlier. “Summer is going to be so sweet now. You should be able to be off for most of it, won’t you?”
“Well…I talked with Dr. Moore at the university after we found out I was pregnant, and they’ve agreed to let me take a year’s leave of absence after the twelve weeks I can take for normal maternity leave would be up. I wouldn’t go back until the new school year starts after they’re one,” I tell everyone, including Jayden who can’t hide his excitement about that news. “I figured we would be okay without my paycheck for a year. That even with two babies it won’t hurt us.”
“If you didn’t love your job I’d tell you not to go back at all and you know that, baby,” he teases, and I know it’s a hundred percent true.
“You both can still babysit, I’m sure we’ll be glad to have some date nights or days, whatever works out best. And just think, if we do a vacation somewhere next summer, you won’t have to fight over the baby,” I add to our moms who laugh but also agree it’s a win for them for sure.
The joy for our girls doesn’t fade one bit, and two weeks before we’re due, Shelly comes to town, not wanting to miss a thing. And she doesn’t when a couple days later, our girls decide to come in the middle of the night. Kenneth comes over to stay with Liam, who isn’t thrilled he can’t come to the hospital with us, so we promise if the girls aren’t there by morning, he can skip school and stay with us, which makes him happy.