“I really do,” I smile, thinking of those fond memories from just two hours ago where we all just laid on the bed together, finally a family for the first time. It was the happiest moment of my life. I’m even going to go ahead and say that it was better than my wedding day.
I let out a deep breath and give Tully a regretful smile. “I’m sorry I was such a bitch earlier,” I tell her, referring to the less than acceptable things I was saying during my labor. “I wasn’t exactly very nice.”
“No, you weren’t,” she agrees as Ethan finishes up on my boob and has Tully diving straight for him, as jealous as can be that Rivers got to hold one of the twins before she did. “But just for the record,” she tells me with a wicked grin as she sits on the end of my bed and wraps Ethan back up in his blanket, “seeing as though you’ve now pushed out two babies, I’m going to go ahead and crown you the new queen of loose vaginas.”
I pout out my bottom lip and try to pull my shirt back on without flashing any more than I already have. “I guess I kind of deserve that, huh?”
“You sure do,” she grins. “I can’t believe you said my loose flaps would tangle in my legs and trip me over.”
Noah chokes back a laugh. “You said what?”
“Shut up,” I groan. “It’s all Noah’s fault. If he was here on time, I wouldn’t have had to use you as target practice.”
“I know,” Tully says, resting her hand down on my leg and giving it a gentle squeeze before grinning wide. “Alright, now that’s out of the way, I want all the gruesome details. Did you shit on the table?” Her grin widens as she looks to her brother for confirmation. “She shit on the table, didn’t she?”
I roll my eyes as Noah dives into the story, but I end up taking over as he constantly stops, wanting to know what he can and cannot say, but he should know that I have no secrets when it comes to Tully, and by default because of her big mouth, Rivers too.
Rivers comes and sits down beside her and we talk and compare birth stories and as we do, I can’t help but look at the two, beautiful little boys in their arms.
Tully and Rivers are due to get married in three months and I couldn’t be happier. It’s going to be an incredible day, one that we’ve all been waiting years for. Not to mention, Lily is going to make the best flower girl that I’ve ever seen.
“So, nobody knows that you had twins yet?” Tully confirms, looking at me with an excited smirk.
“Nope,” I laugh. “Not unless anyone here has said anything. But to be honest, I’m a bit surprised. It’s not exactly like my belly was small.”
“True,” Tully says, thoughtfully. “But it’s not like it was massive either. It was like a happy medium. It looked bigger than one baby, but you were small for twins.”
“Exactly. I figured someone would at least have guessed by now.”
“Well, they probably would have had Noah not shown them the fake ultrasound pictures.”
I grin at my husband. He really does take shit like this to the next level. Noah grins right back from his spot on the recliner couch. “Mom is going to lose her fucking mind. I can’t wait! She just sent me a text; they’ll be here in a minute with Lily.”
Violet has been a great addition to my life since the second I met her over six years ago. She’s always been a kind and patient friend, but the second little Lily came along, she jumped straight into ‘World’s best Nanna’ mode. Her own kids were forgotten as her world now revolved around that little girl.
Now there are another two babies, and Noah is right, Violet is going to lose her mind.
Tully and Rivers were the only two to know our surprise, but that’s only because I have just as big a mouth as Tully does and I’m a terrible secret keeper. I kept quiet about the news for less than twenty-four hours before that bomb was dropped, and naturally, she couldn’t resist sharing it with Rivers.
So, this is the moment we’ve all been waiting for, you know, apart from the babies actually coming out.
Knowing they’ll be here shortly, we get ourselves ready for the best surprise that we’ll ever give. Rivers gets up and places Elijah in my arms and I take him greedily. It’s only been an hour since I last held him, but fuck, I’ve been missing him while he laid on the other side of the room. Noah has to steal Ethan back from his twin sister and goes back to his position on the recliner and with that, we’re ready.