A/N: Here's another chapter of Life After the Letter! Hope you enjoy :)
Spencer POV
The day after the barbecue, I furiously faced Toby in our master bedroom, my hands clenched into fists.
"For this?" I yelled indignantly. "You threw us away for people you've only met once?"
"Yes, I am." Toby said flatly, without emotion.
"You're a coward." I accused him. I took a step towards him and poked a finger to his chest to challenge him. "You're running from this because it's real. More real than anything you'll ever get from them."
Toby snorted and shook his head. "I guess you really DON'T know me at all, do you?"
"You're right. I don't even recognize you." I hissed angrily.
Toby looked down at the papers he was holding in his left hand. "That was realistic." He commented. "If I didn't know better..."
"You think?" I asked gratefully. I threw the papers that I'd been holding onto our cream-coloured night table and collapsed onto our burgundy bedspread with a sigh. "Thanks for running lines with me. I really need to book this role."
"Relax." Toby told me with a smile and an arm around me. "They'll love you! I know I do."
I broke into a grin at his loving words and pushed my brown curly hair out of my vision. "Thank you. Its the only part I could find of a character that gets pregnant along the way."
"Why would you need that type of role?" Toby asked curiously, hope dancing in his eyes.
"Because it's the only role I can play right now." I told him as my smile grew wider.
"Wait," Toby said in disbelief, "you're really,-you are?"
"Yes. I'm pregnant, Toby!" Tears formed in my eyes as I saw how happy he was. We had been trying for nearly two years now with no results, and then this little miracle happened.
"How far along are you? When did you find out?" He asked, holding my hands tightly.
"This morning I found out that I'm about 3 weeks. I went to see a doctor for confirmation and Dr. Sherry said that it was crazy that I didn't suffer from morning sickness yet, but the baby's absolutely fine. She wants me to come in for an ultrasound soon. I'm PREGNANT Toby!" I was full out crying as I choked out the last three words that had become completely true this very morning.
"This happened during our weekend in New York City?" He wondered aloud.
"Well you know what they say, don't you?" I asked him, moving in for a kiss. "It's a magical place."
He pressed his soft lips to mine and I could taste my salty tears on the kiss, but they weren't unhappy tears. They were joyful tears.
The next week, we pulled up in front of Dr. Sherry's and Accociates in Philedelphia with Toby driving. Ever since I'd broken the news to him, he treated me as if I were breakable glass. Not that I minded though. I hadn't had breakfast in bed since we were dating in high school and I was sick with the swine flu. Toby had been sweet even then.
I'd called the girls right after telling Toby the news. They didn't try to serve me breakfast or carry me up the stairs, but they were pretty excited.
-"Spencer?" Emily asked, concerned. "Are you okay? You sound like you've been crying."
"Yeah!" Hanna chipped in from the four-way call.
"I, uh, actually have been crying." I replied, squeezing Toby's hand.
"Is it Toby?" Hanna asked aggressively. "Because if he made you cry, I will personally blow his nuts to Mars and back!"
"Hanna!" I couldn't tell if Emily was indignant about the imagery, or about the mention to man parts.
"He knows I'm not bluffing!" Hanna argued back.
"So what is it Spence?" Aria asked, staying on the point. "I paused in the middle of baking brownies for this call so it'd better be good."
I chuckled. That was Aria's second batch today and she was craving them like crazy. "It isn't Toby's fault, Hanna... Well I guess it kind of is if you look at it that way- I'm pregnant."
"Congratulations!" Emily and Hanna squealed at the same time.
"Ah I see what you did there," Aria commented dryly. "A clever little sex reference there Cavannaugh. Congrats!" I could hear the smile in her voice.
A slightly familiar voice interrupted Hanna's would be sentence. "Oh sorry, Caleb just came in to take me to dinner, and the babysitter is with him. Guess I gotta go!"
"Goodbye, Han!" I called through the speaker.
Being Hanna, she couldn't resist making one last sex joke. "Bye! You Cavannaughs aren't the only ones making babies!"
"Ewww!" All three other girls chorused.
Hanna just giggled and said in a Texan accent, "G'night, y'all. Ima go ride that boy there." Then she hung up when we all laughed.
After they all hung up, I just sat with Toby for the longest time, just smiling at him.-
Now we walked into a sterile white doctor's office, checking in with a receptionist. It was absolutely surreal.
"It should be under Cavannaugh." I told the brunette. "At 4:15?"
"Ah yes, I see it here now." She smiled up at me while clicking away at the screen of the computer. "Sherry, right?"
"Uh-huh." I nodded.
"Well she'll be right out, you can have a seat over there. Next?"
Toby sat himself down on the blue plastic chair beside me. "Hey, Spence, relax."
I took a deep breath. "Thank you." I said honestly, looking straight at him. "For coming in with me."
"You know I would come no matter what." He affirmed.
"Spencer, uh, Cavannaugh?" A reedy, strict-sounding voice called. I looked up to see a woman with pencil thin eyebrows, graying blonde hair in a ponytail, and a name tag that said 'Dr. Sherry' in bold letters.
I stood up with confidence and followed the woman through a virtual labyrinth of passageways, making my head spin. My husband was close behind.
"I'm getting dizzy." I muttered to him as we entered yet another hallway.
"Well I'm feeling the same way so it's definitely not a pregnancy symptom... I hope." I nearly laughed out loud.
Once we stopped walking, Dr. Sherry gestured to a pale green chair sitting in the middle of our final destination room. "Please take a seat and lay back, Miss."
I complied and the doctor almost disappeared into the cupboards, finding the necessary gel for the ultrasound. I was a nervous jumble of excitement and anticipation waiting for the image to finally show to prove that I was going to be a mother.
Once the clear gel was spread across my pale exposed stomach though, both Toby and I stared at the monitor screen while holding hands in a state of complete shock.
"Well congratulations, Miss Cavannaugh." Dr. Sherry said, a pleased tone creeping slowly into her voice. "It looks like you're carrying twins."
A/N: So there you go! Next up is an Ezria chapter then a Haleb! Leave ideas for baby names male and female in the reviews and see you later! :)
