Chapter 10
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Lillie's POV
Today we are going for another ultrasound. When we get to the hospital I sign in and then we take our seats in the waiting room.
"Baba." Says Lettie standing in front of me and putting her hand on my stomach.
"That's right Lett, there's a baby in mummy's tummy." I say lifting her onto my knee and taking Clark's hand.
"Lillie Lane." Calls the doctor a few minutes later and we go into his office.
"Hi!" Lettie says waving at him.
"Hi Scarlett, how are you?" The doctor asks
"I good!" Lettie says
"Good and Lillie, how are you?" He asks
"I'm good too thanks." I say and he nods and smiles at us.
"Well lets get started then. If you could lie back and lift up your top that would be great." The doctor says and I nod and lie back and lift up my top before turning my head to look at Clark and taking his hand as he smiles at me.
"This is going to be a little cold." The doctor says squeezing some gel into my stomach. "Ok and here's the heartbeat..." He trails off and looks closely at the scene.
"Wh-what's wrong with the heartbeat it sounds different?" I say my voice cracking slightly.
"It's ok Lils." Clark whispers and I nod.
"Let me just go and get another doctor a second." He says and makes his way out of the room.
"Everything's going to be fine Lillie." Clark says stroking my hair in an attempt to calm me.
"What wrong mama?" Lettie asks and I shake my head.
"We don't know yet baby but we'll find out in a minute." Clark answers for me a the doctor walks back in with another doctor and they walk over to the screen.
"Is everything ok?" I ask, both doctors nod and then the second doctor leaves again.
"Now I don't know how I missed this before but Mrs Lane you're pregnant with twins." Says the doctor
"Twins?" I repeat and he nods and smiles at us.
"And they're both ok? How didn't we see this in the last ultrasound?" Clark asks
"They're both fine, one must have been behind the other last time but everything looks good. I'll go and print off some pictures for you." The doctor says and leaves the room.
"Twins." I repeat sitting up and grabbing some tissues. "We're having twins!" I wrap my arms around Clark's neck and hug him.
"Me hug mama." Lettie says and I laugh and nod.
"Come here baby." I say as Clark lifts her onto my lap.
"What twins?" She asks
"Twins means that mummy had two babies in her tummy Lett." Clark explains hugging us both.
"Two baba?" Lettie asks and I nod. "How?"
"Exactly the same way as when mama had one baby but do you remember the magically stork mummy told you about? He's decided to give mummy and daddy two babies instead of one." I say
"I still your baba?" Lettie asks
"Of course you're still our baby Lett." Clark says
"You'll always be our baby Lettie." I say and kiss her.
After getting the pictures from the doctor and booking another appointment Clark and I take Lettie to build a bear workshop as a treat. As soon as we enter the shop, lettuce runs over to the teddies.
"Bunny! Me have bunny dada?" Lettie asks
"Sure lets go and stuff her." Clark says picking a bunny up and handing it t Lettie.
"Me make one for babas in mama's tummy?" Lettie asks
"That's very sweet Lett but the babies in mummy's tummy aren't going to be born for a while but you can make one for them after they're born." I say and lean down and kiss her.
"Ok." She says and takes Clark's hand and follows him towards the stuffing station.
"Can I help you with anything ma'am?" Comes a voice from behind me. I turn and find a man in a build a bear uniform who looks vaguely familiar.
"Oh no thanks my husbands just over there with my daughter so I'm fine thanks." I say and smile at the man.
"That's ok, do they need any help?" He asks as Clark and Lettie comes back over.
"No I think we're all good thanks." I say picking Lettie up as Clark wraps his arm around my waist. He's been a lot more protective over me and Lettie since the kidnapping, not that I'm complaining though.
"Do I know you from somewhere?" Clark asks and the man shakes his head.
"No I don't think so." He says and starts to walk away.
"I do. I know you from somewhere." Clark says as the man continues to walk off.
"I'm sure you're thinking of someone else." I guy says and turns around and walks over to the front of the store.
"I do." Clark repeats.
"Just leave it babe, I do too but it's not important ok? Lets go and pay." I say pulling Clark in the direction of the tills.
"I know where I recognise him from now." Clark says getting into bed beside me that evening.
"Yeah? Where?" I ask
"He was one of the boyfriends of those girls who bullied you." He says wrapping his arm around my shoulders and pulling me closer to him. I lean up and kiss him passionately before resting my head on his chest.
"Lets not think about that now. Lets think of our future." I suggest and I feel him nod. "I think we need a new apartment."
"A new apartment?" Clark repeats and I nod.
"This place is barely big enough for the three of us as it is, there is no way we're going to fit two more babies and all their things in here as well." I say looking up at Clark.
"True. So do you want to start looking soon?" He asks
"Ideally I want to be moved into a new place and have it all ready before the babies are born because that way we don't have to worry about moving house with three babies." I say and Clark nods.
"Then we can start looking tomorrow." He says and kisses my forehead. "Lets go to sleep now." He suggests and in a few minutes we're both asleep.
"Ok so apartment or house?" Clark asks as we arrive at the estate agents and look at the pictures in the window.
"Is a house way out of our budget?" I ask
"No not really, I mean we've got the money that your grandfather left you in his will, did you want to use that? And we've got some money saved up and obviously we'll get some money when we sell the apartment so if its not too expensive then it would be fine."
"Ok well how many rooms would we need? Do we want the twins to have a room each or a room together?" I ask looking down and checking on Lettie who is asleep in her pram.
"Together would be fine right? I mean if they need separate bedrooms when they're older we can just deal with that then." Clark says and I nod.
"Lets go inside and book some appointments to view some houses then." I say and we make our way inside. Luckily we managed to view all the houses we wanted to view in that day. That evening we went out for dinner and discussed all the houses that we had viewed.
*The next day*
This morning, oddly both Clark and I were throwing up. Me because of morning sickness which isn't strange but Clark was throwing up for no apparent reason. He doesn't have a fever and he's saying that he only feels nauseous and not anything else. When I get up, Clark stays in bed which is fine by me because I just want him to get better.
"Dada! Dada!" Lettie shouts running as fast as she can into Clark and I's room.
"Lettie no daddy's not feeling very well, why don't you go and play for a bit." I suggest and she runs off at the same time as I hear Clark run into our en suite. I kneel down beside him and rub his back gently as he throws up, just like he does for me.
"How on earth do you cope with this every morning?" He asks leaning back into my embrace after he finishes throwing up.
"With great difficultly, trust me." I say passing him a glass of water and a wet cloth.
"Where's Lett?" He asks
"In the living room playing. Clark are you sure we shouldn't ring the doctor?" I ask
"No. I'm pretty sure it's just food poisoning from the restaurant we went to last night. I'll be fine Lils, don't worry about me just worry about you and Lettie and the babies. I promise you I'm fine." He says and I nod and help him up and into bed.
"Ok but shout me if you need anything." I say leaning down and kissing him on the cheek as he nods.
By the next day, Clark's sickness had gone so we took our parents to view the house that we liked the best with us before we placed an offer.
"So this would be our room." I say. "Lettie stop running around please." Clark says from behind me and I pick her up as she runs past.
"How many bedrooms does it have again?" My mum asks
"Three." Clark answers taking Lettie from me.
"This would be Lettie's room." He says as we move onto the next room. I wait for my dad to catch up as walking with crutches isn't easy.
"Do you like it so far daddy?" I ask as he catches up with me.
"Yeah it's nice, good price for it as well." He says as we move onto the twins bedroom.
"So this would be the twins' room. We decided that they would sleep in the same room until they're a bit older and we can deal with needing an extra bedroom then." I explain and everyone nods.
"So what does everyone think?" Clark asks
"Like I said to Lillie just now, it's a nice house with a good price." Dad says and everyone nods in agreement. After chatting about the house for a little longer, we decide that it's the house that we want and place a bid. About an hour later, when we're back in our apartment, we get a phone call from the estate agent saying that our price had been excepted and we had got the house. Now for yet another new chapter in our lives, a new house for the Lane family.
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