Here's chapter 4, I hope you enjoy it and please let me know what you think. As usual I own nothing.
"Thank you Jane." I can't believe this, he had to drive me home, this was ridiculous. Okay so now I wasn't aloud to do any fieldwork, this wasn't fair. Then again I shouldn't have yelled at Bertram about it. Goddamn hormones!
"I told you all you had to do was ask." He helped me up the stairs, I was five months pregnant this was insane. The doctor said I needed to relax easy for him to say. "Do you need me to get anything else?"
"No I'll be fine." I just wanted him to leave I couldn't stand him being helpful when I was still lying to him.
"Come on let me at least cook you dinner or something you deserve to relax."
"Why does everybody keep telling me that?"
"Because you really need to calm down. I've accepted that you insist on doing this by yourself but it wouldn't kill you to accept a little help every once in a while."
"I let you drive me home didn't I." I had failed at keeping him out of my apartment.
"And what would you like for dinner?"
"I would like for you to leave."
"Well we can't always get what you want." He smiled, why did he smile like that it really made me want to kiss him or slap him I haven't decided yet. "It's a good thing I brought stuff over to make you dinner."
"Goddammit Jane I don't need your help."
"Go put on something comfortable, and cooking dinner is not helping you it's being a good friend."
"Something you've never been incredibly good at."
"That hurts." He chuckled, taking a grocery bag from behind his back how had I not seen that and how did he possibly know he would be taking me home tonight? When I came back to the kitchen I found Jane working hard at the stove he smiled when I came in and motioned for me to take a seat. "You have another ultrasound coming up are you going to find out the sex of the baby?" He wondered after a couple minutes of silence.
"Did you find out when it was…"
"No, I liked the idea of something surprising me." He smiled as if recalling memory.
"I have something that might surprise you." I looked up from the shrimp linguine it was nice to have an appetite again.
"Really and what might that be?" He took a sip of his tea.
"Well the baby…" I stopped for a minute I hadn't told anyone yet how was I supposed to say this what the hell, "It's two." Jane actually spit the tea back into the cup.
"Really congratulations Teresa." He actually jumped up and gave me a hug and I just smiled and accepted, he didn't look as thrilled as he was acting. "You still aren't going to tell the father, I mean you still think you can do this on your own."
"I raised my three brothers I can handle it Jane."
"If you think so." He frowned, "And you're feeling okay, I mean it's dangerous having twins and…"
"And I'm not especially young." I finished, "The doctor says I'm fine, but I might have to spend some time in the hospital leading up to the birth."
"Are you okay right now?"
"I'm tired my back hurts and so do my feet, other than that perfect." I sighed, "I'm fine Jane I don't know why you're so concerned."
"Because you're my best friend, come on I'll clean this up and give you a foot massage before I leave." He answered gathering the dishes while I made my way to the living room. He was an amazing best friend, but if he knew I was carrying his kids he would go into hiding for months maybe years. The same way he did after Red John died at someone else's hand. The foot massage did feel amazing though, in fact I had made peace with the idea that if I told him he would disappear, but if he thought it was someone else's I would get to keep my best friend.