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The food tasted amazing, and I felt so hungry after all the excitement. I took a big bite and moaned softly.
“Mmm, this is so good.” I sighed with relief as I started to fill my belly.
“Yeah it is.” Riviana grinned and looked at me with suspicious eyes. “So, what’s the good news?” She had a quizzical look on her face but I could see the underlying investigator look in her eyes. She was curious and would find out one way or the other, but she knew I was going to tell her so that didn’t matter.
“Well, I woke up to some very happy, and exciting news today.” I grinned at her, I just couldn’t keep the smiles off my face today. I felt like I had been smiling so much that it was likely to become my new permanent look. I didn’t care, I was too happy to care.
“Really? And what news would that be?” She was smiling happily at me. She was not pressing for more details yet, she was letting me guide this conversation at my own speed. Honestly I am kind of proud of myself for not jumping with joy when I saw here screaming ‘I’m pregnant, I’m pregnant’. This was actually a miraculous feat for me right now with how happy I was feeling.
“Well, I didn’t discover this happy thing myself.” I grinned being cryptic.
“Oh really? Then who told you whatever this happy thing is?”
“Paul did actually.” I blushed as I remembered the scene this morning, how it had turned from an intimate moment to one of pure joy for us both, all thoughts of sex and intimacy flying straight out the window.
“Really? What exactly did Paul say?” She had a knowing look on her face, like she could tell what I was getting at.
“Oh, nothing too serious really.” I joked. “Just that I’m pregnant.”
“Juniper!” She squealed my name. “I thought you might be alluding to that, but to know I was right, oh my Goddess, this is amazing.” She was bouncing on her seat like she just couldn’t sit still. “Our babies will be so close in age, and Nikki’s baby will be just under half a year older than ours, they will all grow up together and it will be so much fun having playdates for them. I am so excited, this is amazing.”
“I know, I am so happy, and so excited. I feel like I am going to just float out of this booth and keep going until I reach the moon. I didn’t know it was possible to be this happy and excited.”
“It’s a wonderful feeling isn’t it. Once the initial shock wears off. It’s the best thing there is.” She reached across the table and took my hand. “I’m so happy I am going to be pregnant at the same time as my best friend.”
“Me too, this is the best thing that could have happened. My baby, and your babies, they’re only going to be like two weeks apart. Can you imagine it? They will learn everything at the same time.”
“We can do all our shopping together, and have all our pregnancy moments together. This is awesome. I’m glad I have someone to go through all of this with.”
“You and me both, Rivi, you and me both.”
“You two look about ready to burst.” Joaquin spoke for the first time since getting his food, having spent the last several minutes watching us and listening to us as he stuffed his face. “This is going to be fun to watch. What’s going to happen when you both become emotional train wrecks with all those baby hormones?” He laughed at his own joke.
“We’ll be fine.” I assured him.
“Yeah, butt out Fido.” Riviana smacked his arm. We finished our lunch, the three of us talking about all the fun things the future had in store for us.
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Riviana
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It had been a week since Joaquin’s party, and since Juniper told me she was pregnant. I had nothing but babies on the brain right now. What with my pregnancy, Juniper’s pregnancy, and Nikki ready to pop any day now. It was nothing but babies for me.
I wanted to start shopping, to start buying things for the babies right away. But Joaquin forbade it. He said it was too soon. I know he was right, but dammit, I was excited, and there was so much going on last time that I didn’t get the chance to buy anything besides the announcement gifts. What else was I supposed to do?
Well, I knew what I could do. I could go crazy buying a super special baby gift for Nikki. She was my sister in-law of sorts and I was going to be the baby’s aunty.
Nikki didn’t have any sisters, just four brothers, two older and two younger. Her two older brothers were married and had started families of their own, one of her younger brothers was recently mated but wasn’t married yet. The youngest brother was younger than me and still in highschool, so he still had a little while.
Nikki got along with her sister in-laws and soon to be sister in-law, but she seemed to gravitate more towards me, she always had. So, it was no surprise that she was including me in everything to do with the baby.
As the days passed since the party and my baby fever was reaching its peak I was out shopping for baby stuff almost every day. My guards took turns going with me at first, but Vincent was the only baby expert among them so eventually they just left the job up to him. He gave me lots of advice on how to take care of my babies, though he had never had to deal with twins. And he told me what we really needed and what was just superfluous and we could get only if we really wanted to. I had a feeling I was going to buy everything, even if I didn’t need it.
Day in and day out he took me to different stores in the city. From big box stores and chains that carried everything under the sun to small little baby boutiques. I just fell in love with everything and I couldn’t help myself, I bought too much stuff for my little nephew that was due anytime now. Oh well, who was going to reprimand me for buying so much? That’s right, no one. I was the Luna Queen, I could do what I wanted.
I was in my room, sorting the massive amount of baby stuff I had bought for Nikki, and putting it all into a neat little arrangement for a gift, when my phone rang. It was Joaquin calling me in the middle of his work day.
“Hey Bruiser, what’s up? I joked with him, another dog name coming to me easily as I spoke to him.
“Hahhh.” He sighed when he heard the dog name but continued immediately like I hadn’t said anything.”
“Hey Little Bunny, just wanted to let you know, Noah just rushed out of work in full on panic mode.” I could hear a hint of laughter in his voice.
“Why? What happened?” I asked him absentmindedly as I continued creating my wonderful masterpiece.
“Oh, nothing too much really. Just Nikki going into labor.”
“Oh, glad it’s nothing too seri-.” I stopped mid sentence when I fully processed what he said. “Wait, what did you just say?” He laughed at me like he thought my delay and outburst were hilarious.
“I said Nikki is in labor.”
“Oh my Goddess!” I squealed. “My little nephew is almost here?” I felt my excitement reach new heights that I wasn’t even sure was possible before now. “Oh, I need to hurry and get this gift ready then I need to hurry to the clinic. They are going to the clinic right? Or are they going to the hospital? Or is Griffin going to their house? I don’t even know where to go Joaquin. Help me.”
