Sorry for the delay. All reviews are appreciated.
months later.
Time was flying by. It was time for another scan for Amy, Jac and Jonny's surrogate. Obviously Jac and Jonny didn't want to miss a thing, they did everything together.
They entered the consultant's office and Amy lie down on the stretcher while she pulled up half of her top, exposing her growing belly. Jac and Jonny sat on her left, right across the screen and their consultant on her right, ready to use the ultrasound machine.
"Right so now, you are?..." the consultant asked Amy as he looked at her notes.
"29 weeks," Amy reminded him.
"Ah yes that's right… let's have a look shall we?" he said in a cheery voice, as he applied cold gel to her lower abdomen and moved the probe around.
"Ah, there they are…" he said as he spotted both twins and pointed at them on the screen. Jac smiled at Jonny… Jonny took her hand in his in response.
"Well they seem to be growing well, they are a perfect size…" the consultant added, observing the scan closely, "Are you sure you still don't want to know the sex?" he asked now, talking directly to Jac and Jonny.
Obviously both Jac and Jonny knew how to read a scan, they were medical professionals but from across the stretcher where Amy was lying, they were a bit far away to tell.
Jac replied with a simple 'No'. "Ah we… want to keep it a surprise" Jonny added to Jac's comment.
"Okay then, it's your choice…" he ended, as he put the probe back in place and printed out two pictures. He handed one to Amy to keep and the other one to the parents obviously. He wrote down more notes in Amy's file.
"Okay now, let's have a listen to your heart and check your blood pressure…" he said, as he put the file away and set up the blood pressure monitor.
"Right… 130/85 is a bit high, it's good if we monitor it regularly," the consultant commented but Jac's words cut him off.
"What do you mean high? What the hell have you been eating?" she told Amy in a high tone.
"Nothing unhealthy of course… lots of fruit and vegetables, fluids, just a normal balanced diet…" Amy answered back, "and you don't have to take it out on me, I've had kids of my own before, I know what I'm doing!"
"Do I have to remind you, that those are my babies you're carrying?" Jac snapped back.
"Jac, take it easy.." Jonny told her slowly, holding her arm.
"Your partner's right, Ms Naylor as a doctor yourself, you should know that it's not necessarily because of her diet, you know that pregnancies with multiple foetuses are at a higher risk of having a high blood pressure…" the consultant explained slowly to calm everyone down.
"Yes but it could be because of nutrition, right?" Jac wasn't going to drop this one.
"Yes but it isn't.." the consultant ended it, "Now just to be on the safe side, I'm going to take a urine sample, just to rule out preeclampsia… I'll give you the results next week, in the meantime, take plenty of rest, reduce salt intake and if you notice any abnormal pregnancy symptoms like vision blurring or anything, come visit immediately, understood?" the consultant explained clearly.
"Yes, thank you," Amy thanked the consultant as he handed her the small jar to take the sample.
"You better…" Jac ordered. "Jac…" Jonny called out her name, to stop fussing. But the reality is, she wasn't fussing, she was concerned about her babies. She wasn't carrying them herself so the least she could do, was seeing that they were in good care, until they were born and then she could take over herself.
…
Jac was taking care of some paperwork at her consultant desk, when Jonny walked into her office, holding an opened magazine as if he was reading it, moments ago.
"Hey honey, look what I've found…" he told her placing it on her desk, in front of her, on top of her notes.
"Uh excuse me!" she removed it immediately off her notes, "I'm busy!" she snapped.
"Oh come on, we can't miss out on this one.." he told her placing it again in front of her. It was a magazine showing property for sale, "we've been looking for houses since we found out about the twins, they'll be here before you know it, and still we haven't found the one yet! And I think I just found the perfect one"
Jac knew he had a point. She took the magazine in her hands, and looked at the advert closely. He started massaging her shoulders to play nice and make her like the idea.
"It's not far away from here, two-storey house, with a nice big garden…" he started blabbing from over her shoulder, "3 bedrooms, complete nurseries… it's perfect..."
Jac agreed with him deep down. It did seem perfect, just from the pictures, it did seem perfect. But something else on the advert also caught her eye… the price.
"And I assume, I'm the one paying for it, right?" she asked him, sarcastically smiling.
"Okay fine, I can help out but not a huge contribution, you know that" Jonny reminded her, he was only a nurse who obviously couldn't afford the same stuff as Jac.
"Don't you think it's not worth it, for now? I've already paid out our IVF costs, didn't that cost us enough?" Jac was a bit worried, financially, "Can't we just wait a bit more?"
"But I already told you, what are we going to do when the twins are born?" Jonny asked her, leaning on her desk.
"Obviously we'll bring them to my place, there's plenty of room and you're already living there anyway so… problem solved. Now do you mind?" Jac told him as she closed the magazine and gave it back to him.
"I know there is but think about when they grow a bit older, the place will be all cramped up, we would still need a bigger place anyway. We would be comfortable if we were having one baby, but don't forget, we're having twins, Jac" Jonny told her, looking at her closely.
"Come on… the least we could do is go and see it…I'll phone him, plus when we're there we could arrange a price with him, see if we could bargain…" Jonny pleaded.
"Okay fine, but I'm not promising you anything" Jac seemed to agree in a way.
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Jac and Jonny were about to step foot in their dream house. They met up with the realtor a couple of days later to observe the lovely house, Jonny saw on the magazine a few days earlier.
"So… here we are…" the realtor commented as she opened the main door for them and stepped inside, "this is the main entrance..." Jac and Jonny looked around, it was beautiful, with a circular staircase leading to upstairs. It was like what you saw in movies.
"I'll show you around here, then we'll observe upstairs later… now this is the dining room, and a combined living room and kitchen…fully furnished as you can see" she added as she led them through the kitchen. Jac widened her eyes, she liked it, she just didn't say so.
"It has a big garden… lovely for summer time…" Jac and Jonny followed her around, "you have a main bathroom and a spare room down here, you can use it for whatever you like…shall we see upstairs?"
They all went up the staircase, and went down the main hall. "Now in total you have got 3 bedrooms, this is the master bedroom…" she opened a door leading to a big room, with a huge double bed filling up most of it.
"Ah a big bed is good for us, isn't it honey?" Jonny joked, looking at Jac. Jac narrowed her eyes at his comment.
"Ha! Still a young couple with sparks flying… you've got a fireplace to make it more romantic!" the realtor played along, "and in there, there's an ensuite"
They emerged into the hall, "there are two bedrooms down the hall… and now these are the nurseries… um sorry, do you have any kids?" the realtor asked before they went in.
"Uh no, but we're about to have…twins" Jonny said smiling.
"Aw that's lovely, now that's just perfect, this house has two fully furnished complete nurseries, one for a boy and one for a girl…I'll show you the pink one first…" she told them as she opened the door.
"Great… but we don't know what we're having yet…" Jac commented.
"Aw right, cos it's too soon? Anyway you will be using one of them, and if they're the same sex, they can sleep in the same one!" the realtor commented.
"Ah no, that's why we're trying to find a house fast, theyr'e gonna be here soon…" Jonny had to open his mouth and say something else.
"I… don't understand…" the realtor asked confused, looking at Jac's belly. Obviously she wasn't seeing a baby bump.
"um…she's not the one carrying them…" Jonny tried to explain.
"Oh sorry for butting in, anyway let's stick to the house… so this is the girl's one…" Jac deep down feel in love with it. It was all pink, and soft toys and dolls everywhere, it was perfect.
"And this is the boys one…" it was painted blue and had toy trucks and cars all over the place.
"So what do you think?" the realtor asked as they went downstairs and were ready to leave.
"Well it's a good price, considering all the stuff it's got… but we'll think about and confirm it in a few days if you don't mind" Jac said politely.
"Okay then, let me know" the realtor left as she left.
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On their way to Jac's place, Jonny couldn't help talking about the place. He was in love with it.
"So it was nice, ain't it…" Jonny commented, with his eyes on the road.
"Yeah, lovely…" Jac replied back.
"Are we gonna take it then?" Jonny asked again.
"Well… if it makes you happy then… yes, as you said, we'll need to buy something else further on, so we should do it now…" Jac said smiling at him.
"Really?" Jonny asked amazed, as he parked the car in Jac's driveway.
"Yeah… now all's left to do, is put this place on the market, so we could get some cash in…" Jac added as she opened the door.
"We could put mine as well, you know, for more cash…" Jonny added, following her inside.
"You don't need to, you could keep yours, what's to lose?" Jac thought it wsa sensible owning at least one other property.
"What do you mean? We don't need my 'shoebox' as you put it…" Jonny was confused.
"Well we never know what could happen…" Jac commented as she started preparing a dish for dinner.
"Oh I get it… you're not ready to commit yourself to us living together in one house, aren't you?" Jonny was a bit mad at Jac's suggestion.
"No I'm not saying that, we're gonna have kids together for God's sake!" Jac replied.
"Then what are you saying then? Because if I didn't know any better, you're not ready for a commitment… you should've just said so… you know what? Don't wait for me tonight!" and with that, he stormed out of the house.
More to come :)