Filed to story: Sorry Alpha I Am Wolfless Novel
“See you soon, Dad.” Reagan, my little man that acted like a grown up, said goodbye first.
“We will be there soon, Daddy.” Rika was next.
“See you.” Talia waved at me.
“We will be there soon, Joaquin.” Mom smiled at me as she brought the phone back to her face. “And I can’t wait to hold each and every one of them.”
“I know Mom. See you soon.”
I disconnected the call just as I got another call. This one was from Riley. He was the closest thing that I had to a brother. At the same time, Riviana got a call on her phone. It was Juniper.
“I guess we have a lot of calls to make.” She smiled as she answered the phone and put it to her ear. “Hello Juniper.”
“Hello Riley.” I said as I answered my phone.
“Don’t you hello me.” I heard that in stereo. It came from Riley on my call but also Juniper on my Little Bunny’s call. That was pretty funny. The fact that they would say the same thing at the same time.
“What?” I asked Riley, paying attention to my own call.
“What the hell happened? You have four babies. Weren’t you guys only having three?”
“Well, one was hiding underneath the boys. She was hidden and no one could see her.”
“Holy shit! That is crazy!” He sounded so excited on the other end of the call. “This is amazing, man. I am so happy for you.” We talked a little more about this happy surprise before we hung up the call.
Riviana was still on her call with Juniper. I could hear her talking about the nursery and the need to finish it. Damn! I would need to leave here and get that done. And I needed to order a new name sign so that Zaley would have hers here when we all went home. I had a lot of work to do.
The good thing is, they weren’t going to be leaving the hospital right away. They would be here for a couple of days. Maybe I could have someone sit with Riviana while I ran home and did some work. And I would need to ask Juniper if she would alter the mural. She could put Zaley in Riviana’s arms since she was only holding one of the boys in the image.
I was ordering the name sign when I got another call. This one was from Trevor. He definitely was not expecting the news that he had been given.
“Hey, Trevor.” I tried to remain calm but I knew that he was going to be so happy for us.
“JOAQUIN!” He bellowed into my ear. “You dog! You got four babies at once! Are you trying to beat me to a certain number of kids or something? You’re only four ahead of me and I know that Glory wants to have more. I can beat you.” He was laughing so I knew that he was joking, but it was still funny.
“Nah, I am not trying to race you. I just wanted to spread the good news.”
“Yeah, I know.” He chuckled a little as the joke settled down. “Congratulations. I can’t believe that this happened, but I am happy about it nonetheless. You and Riviana are the best parents ever.”
“Thanks man. That means a lot to me.”
Trevor and I talked for a little bit longer. He wanted to know about the boys and Zaley. He was interested in how big they were and then was shocked when they were so small. He also told me that he and Gloriana were going to come back for a visit soon.
Once I said my goodbyes with Trevor, my phone rang again. I had to wonder if they had the phone company monitoring my calls so that they could just call in true succession. This next call was from Noah. He probably tried to call Riviana, but she was still on the phone with Juniper. I could tell that Juniper was going to talk for a long time right now. So, it was left up to me to talk to everyone else.
I accepted Noah’s frantic yet excited call. He was happy for us and expressed his shock with what had happened. When I spoke to Bryce next, I was doing so while answering several of the text messages that I had received. Those messages were from Carter, Shawn, Shane, Dietrich and several others. They were all happy and excited for us.
I was texting as fast as I possibly could. I was working hard to make sure that no one’s message was missed or ignored. They all deserved to get their answer from me. And I must admit that it was taking a long time.
Riviana had finished her call with Juniper before I was done with the messages. And that was when I realized that she had almost as many messages as I had. This was going to be a really long morning.
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I had predicted the responses that we would be getting. I knew that we would have everyone calling and texting about it. There were multiple people asking if they could come for a visit as soon as we got home. And some of them even wanted to come to the hospital to meet the four little ones.
Mom, Dad, Lila, Grandfather, Reagan, Rika and Talia were already on their way here to meet the babies. That was something that I was excited about. I wanted to see how the kids reacted to their little siblings. And I wanted to see how adorable the grandparents acted when they each got to hold a baby at the same time without having to wait their turn.
The constant stream of calls and messages had slowed down to a little trickle by the time our first set of visitors arrived. I had known they were coming and was therefore expecting them, but I didn’t think that they would be so loud about it.
It seemed to me that the moment that they all got off of the elevator, they were celebrating. This was a trip they had all made several times already, visiting me over the last week in the hospital. But today was the first time that they were cheering when the elevator doors opened up.
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“We have four babies! Four babies! We’re on our way to see the four babies!” It sounded to me like Dad and Grandfather both were singing that little song. At the same time, Reagan, Rika and Talia were all singing their own songs.
“Mommy came to the hospital without me, and said there were going to be one baby, two babies, three. Now we come to see her once more and we find out that there were four.” I have no doubt that it was Reagan who made that little rhyme of theirs up. He loved music so much.
“Nona and Lola coming to the babies. Time to see the lovely little babies. Riviana came here expecting three, now she surprised you and me. She had four. Talk about a surprise galore.” Yeah, they were all singing and I thought it was the cutest thing ever.
As I listened to the songs that were being sung, I turned to look at Joaquin as I remembered his impromptu song last night.
