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Mandy and I walked into the kitchen to grab the paper plates all white except one plate with baby bottles on it and forks. I grabbed the all white iced cakes one pink and one blue on the inside. Mandy placed normal looking napkins on top of the plates. We hoped that with the cakes someone would figure it out. The plates were just there for back up. We walked into the the living room. Setting the cakes on the coffee table I begin to cut one into slices then the other. "Finn?" I here my mom say, "Why don't you cut one?" Looking up at my mom "I say one of them is strawberry and one is vanilla dyed blue." My mom simply nodded not piecing together the baby colors. I ask Mandy for the plates and she hands them to me where no on could see anything but the bottom. I hold the plates as Mandy takes a small slice from each and sets them on one. I hand this one to Jess winking as I do so. With this she mouthed the word twins at me with a questionable look ,and I nod. She hands me the stack of plates with the special one on the bottom. We decided earlier that we would give that one to my sister and make sure the cake covered it. This would require her to eat most of it before she would see the bottles. With everyone served we set two plates for us on the coffee table and retreat to the kitchen to put the cakes up.
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I could hear them all talking. Either Finn's sister was talking too much or hadn't paid much attention to her plate. I busied myself cleaning the rest of the dinner dishes. Finally when Finn and I walk back to the living I see his mom sitting there holding her daughters empty plate crying. The others looked confused as to what was happening since they couldn't see the plate. Mrs. Whitman, or mom as she now told me to call her stood up and walked over to us leaving the plate on the table where everyone could see it. She embraces us both and whispers "Twins?" I whisper back a yes as I feel my own tears forming. I hear Finn's dad come up behind us and pats us both on the back. The first of the keepers to notice the plate or figure it is Charlene. Charlie gasped and I could hear her whispering to the others. As Finn's mom and dad let us breath I see Charlie mouthing the word of "Is she pregnant?" to Jess. Jess nods. I decide to speak up. "Everyone I can see you all know now that Finn and I are expecting a baby. We actually just found out today that we were having twins, a boy and a girl. It was just even until two weeks ago I knew I was pregnant at all. I am 4 months pregnant so in 5 short months or February of next year we will be welcoming two babies into our house." With this everyone erupted into cheers and the rest of the night was filled with talk of babies. The whole time Finn held me and our little ones close.