“Yes we are.” She squeezes my hand and I finally look away from the ultrasound, looking at her. “I’m so excited to watch you experience this. You’re going to do amazing.”
My eyes sting with tears, I lean over and press my lips to hers. “Thank you. I don’t think I could have been able to do this appointment without the both of you.”
“Absolutely, we’ll be there for every appointment.” Monty tells me, and I catch his eyes in the rearview mirror. He’s showing me everything that he’s feeling in that look and I can’t help but be giddy.
This is what being loved is supposed to be like. This is the love I’ve always deserved but never knew about.
“I love you both.” He says to us, before focusing back on the road.
“I love you too.” I say, “and I love you.” I bring Josie’s hand up to my lips and kiss it quickly.
“I love you guys too.” Josie repeats her answer. A wave of contentment washes over me, and I spend the rest of the drive watching the scenery.
Twenty minutes pass before we finally pull into Harper and Xavier’s driveway. We get out and make our way up the porch, knocking on the door.
We hear a bark come from behind us and when we turn around Winnie is circling the three of us with his tail wagging ferociously. Xavier comes up the porch a minute later with a smile on his face.
“What a surprise, what brings you guys around?” Xavier slaps his hand on Monty’s shoulder.
“We just came from the first ultrasound, Evie wanted to see Harper before we made our way home.” Josie tells him as she pulls him in for a quick hug.
“Of course, she went to lay down about an hour ago. Let me go get her.” He walks past us and gives me a quick hug before continuing into the house. We follow close behind, and get ourselves settled in the living room.
A couple minutes later a sleepy Harper comes into the room rubbing her eyes. “Hey guys, I didn’t expect to see you today.” She takes the seat next to me, “How did the appointment go? Is everything okay?”
“More than okay,” I tell her eagerly and take out the ultrasound picture. “I’m having fucking twins, Harps!”
“What!” She screams, snatching the photo from my hands and looking down. “Holy shit, Xavier they’re having twins!”
“Oh shit.” He says looking over Harper’s shoulder then looking at the three of us. “Congrats guys, that’ll be fun.” He laughs.
“Should we tell them?” Harper looks up at Xavier, and he nods.
“Tell us what?” I ask, I look between the two of them.
“Well, I wanted to tell you sooner, but with everything that was going on. It didn’t feel right…” Harper starts, she tucks a piece of hair behind her ear.
“Oh spit it out already, bitch.” I tell her in exasperation. Monty and Josie chuckle in the background at my impatience, but my bestie has been keeping something from me and she needs to spill.
“I’m pregnant.” Harper says with a huge smile on her face.
“Shut the fuck up!” I scream, “We’re both pregnant.”
She nods her head quickly, and tears threaten to fall from my eyes. I leap forward and wrap my arms around her. I hear congratulations being said behind us but I can’t be bothered because my bestie is having a baby at the same time as me.
“Holy fuck, we’re besties having besties!”
Epilogue Two
Evie
Four Years Later
“Mom,Benkeepssayingthe gifts are only for him.” Caleb whines as he pulls on my pant leg. I roll my eyes because these two are going to be the death of me. The party hasn’t even started and they’re already fighting.
“Ben, this birthday is for youbothmeaning the presents are for both of you.” I tell my other son, who just huffs and walks away.
“That’s not fair. Shiloh and Hayes have their own parties and get their own presents.” Ben shouts.
