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Owen spins around so they can read the back of his shirt.
“Reid Twins coming November,” Everleigh continues as her voice goes an octave higher.
“TWINS? Shut the front door!” Gemma rushes over at the same time as Everleigh, and they completely lose their minds.
Soon, the three of them are teary-eyed and squeezing the hell out of Katie.
“Be careful, my babies are in there,” I tease.
“Congrats, man,” Tyler says.
“Thank you.” I smile.
“You too, Owen. Are you excited?”
Owen shrugs. “Yeah, I guess. It’s probably gonna smell bad in here, though.”
We all laugh.
“I totally called it,” Everleigh says moments later.
“Called what?”
“That you’d be knocked up in no time. The way you two…” She quickly stops herself, remembering Owen is in the room. “Anyway…congrats. I couldn’t be happier for y’all.”
“We get to be pregnant together!” Gemma beams. “How far along are you?”
“Just turned thirteen weeks today.”
“You’re three months?” Everleigh shouts. “You hid this for that long?”
“We wanted to wait until we had our scan and knew they were healthy. Plus, we needed some time to process it ourselves,” I explain.
“We only found out a month ago after theincidentwhen I was already nine weeks,” Katie adds.
“Wow…I’m still in shock you’re having twins,” Gemma says.
“You and me both,” I muse, wrapping my arm around Katie and pulling her in for a kiss. “But we couldn’t be happier.”
“Are you gonna find out the genders?” Tyler asks.
“Yeah, at our twenty-week scan,” Katie says.
“What are you hoping for?” Gemma asks Owen. “I bet you want brothers, huh?”
He shrugs. “Maybe one of each. That way, I can have a brother and a sister, but I guess it doesn’t matter either way.”
Katie smiles at him. “You’ll be the best big brother regardless.”
“For your sake, I hope it’s boys. I grew up with a sister…” I tease.
“And I was an angel,” Gemma declares.
The four of us laugh.
“It doesn’t matter to me,” Katie says, smiling at me. “I’m already the happiest woman in the world to have my amazing son and you in my life.”
She has no idea how much that means to me because only months ago, I was hoping to have a place in her life at all. Now here we are—madly in love and expanding our family.
