Chapter 7, The Birth of Phil and Lil

Peter unpauses the video, and the story of Phil and Lil's coming into the world, begins.

Betty, Howard, and Didi were all sitting around Didi's kitchen table, drinking coffee and talking.

"I can't believe Betty will be due any day now Didi." Said Howard.

"I know! This is so exciting!" Said Didi with a smile.

"Yep, and this time, I didn't have to get an abortion like I did the last time." Said Betty.

"No Betty, we were in high school. You did the right thing giving up the baby when your boyfriend, Rickie got you pregnant." Said Didi.

"Yeah, maybe so…" Said Betty, as she started to feel funny in her lower abdomen area, getting a funny look on her face.

"Something wrong dear?" Howard asked.

"It's just that intestinal gas again." Betty replied with a sigh.

"You know, you've been complaining of intestinal gas a lot lately. Maybe we should go to the hospital." Said Howard.

"Nah Howie, I'll be fine." Said Betty.

"Oh I don't know Betty. Wouldn't it be better to get looked at first, just to make sure everything is ok?" Didi asked in concern for her friend.

"Oh all right, I'll go get checked out." Said Betty, as she put her coffee cup down, and the three adults, got up from the table.

On this particular day, Chaz was with Chuckie and Charlotte and Drew decided to try putting Angelica at a daycare for a day, so Didi could oversee Betty and Howard to the hospital, while Stu was trying to work on a deadline for some inventions he was producing for the Cynthia doll making company.

The three adults got to the hospital, and in a little while post arriving, Betty was admitted to be checked out.

"Mrs. Deville, it appears you've gone into labor." Said the doctor who was checking out Betty at this time.

They sent Betty to a delivery room, and Howard and Didi followed them there. Didi purched herself down in a rocking chair in the corner of the room, while Howard got on one side of Betty, and the doctor got on the other side. Everyone was quite surprised though, as they thought Betty would deliver quickly, seeing she was so muscular and all, but they waited for three, long, hours, as the two heartbeats of the twins came from the monitors in the room, and Betty pushed for quite a while.

"Come on now Betty, you can do it." Said Didi, cheering from the corner of the room.

"Push dear." Said Howard.

"You ready? I can see the head of the first one." Said the doctor, as Howard and the doctor held Betty's legs up high, Didi, having to come help Howard at one point, because his arms were getting tired out from holding up Betty's rather large leg.

A few minutes later, the first baby was born. It was a girl. But Betty wasn't done yet. A nurse who was in there at this point, took the first baby, while Betty pushed the second baby out. Two minutes later, they now had a baby boy in the room, and Betty and Howard, took their twins, and held them for the first time.

Lil POV

When I came into this world, everything looked so new, and neat! I was passed around from person to person though, not sure what to expect, and then, all of the sudden, I saw my brother come out.

End of Lil POV

Phil POV

My sister had lefted the birth canal. I knew I had to get out, and if I kept moving, and mommy kept pushing, I'd make it. Well, I made it, no longer inside mommy anymore, but now, on the outside, with my new mommy, daddy, and sister.

End of Phil POV

A few minutes later, Betty was sitting up, holding the twins in her arms. Each twin had a tiny inch of dark brown hair on their heads, one, was wrapped in blue swottling clothes, while the other one was wrapped in pink swottling clothes.

"So what are we going to name them dear?" Howard asked.

"Now Howie, we agreed on Phillip Howard and Lillian Louise a while back." Said Betty.

"Phil and Lil. Phil and Lil. I like it! Hi Phil and Lil, it's daddy!" Said Howard, stroking the heads of his new baby girl and boy.

Phil and Lil just smiled up at their daddy.

"And I'm your mommy." Said Betty with a smile, looking down at the two little miracles, she had brought into the world.

"Oh Betty, they're so adorable!" Said Didi.

Just then, Chaz walks into the room, crying, and carrying Chuckie, who looks confused.

Peter then pauses the video at the scene of Chaz and Chuckie coming into Betty's delivery room.

"Ok Chuckie, can you explain what's going on here?" Peter asked, handing the remote to Chuckie.

"I can Peter, but guys, it's not going to be easy." Said Chuckie, as he unpaused the video, and began his story.

Cliff hanger time. What happened? We'll find out, in the next chapter, and all I'm going to say is, you might want to grab some tissues, before reading the next chapter.

Author's Note: Ok, so we know the truth behind the stillborn child, it was Tommy's older brother, Spensor Pickles, who didn't make it. And earlier in this chapter, we uncovered the truth about Betty's abortion. It happened before she ever married Howard, thus, her twins were born just fine. Talk about a bunch of mix ups here, but we all know Angelica is known to do this. But what about the mix up Angelica made about Chuckie dying with his mother? That, will be revealed in a later chapter, as well as a sad truth about Charlotte's mom. We all know Angelica's biological mother was Charlotte, as learned back in chapter 3, but yeah, we'll get all of these mixed up truths sorted out, one way or another, by the time we end this story. Meanwhile, I hope you'll continue to keep reading this story, and be looking for more chapters, coming soon. Also I decided, it would be better to write this chapter more or less in a general pov, rather than from one of the specific twins, as it was hard for me to decide who should tell the story. Hope you enjoyed the chapter despite it wasn't exactly told from Phil and Lil's POV, with the exception of their first glimps of the new world they were born into.