Getting a tiny bit disappointed with reviews… lack of interest in the story now? Well ;)
FRIGGING LOVE THIS CHAPTER.
So this week's shout (forgot to say it in Lost and Found ;) out goes to my Macedonian buddy, for being an amazing friend with great advices and a lot of funny things to cheer me up when needed, and when not too, wishing you the best of weekends, girl!, to Jake, for being just awesome buddy, although don't you if you're reading man but if not I'll give a call I guess hahahaha, for Simon, not a reader but I know he'll hear about this and man, you're simply amazing… and for the woman who owns my ovaries, for kicking the butt of my natural loneliness ;)
Chapter 10: Big day.
"Rebeca Mitchell!" a grinning Wyatt Lightwood walked from Tatiana's table in the lobby to his boss, as she walked determinately into the building of Bulletproof Productions. Wyatt hugged the shorter brunette "Ready to be back?"
"I think so" Beca smiled a bit "I just want a normal day, no excess of enthusiasm, surprise or whatever. I just left to take care of the family in a time of need, I didn't like receive a bullet that was meant for a kid an almost died, so don't treat me like a freakin war hero."
"Okay" he nodded, and walked beside her to the elevators, as they greeted the coworkers they walked past by on their way.
"Right, so what do I have today?" Beca asked pushing the button number seven in the elevator to go to her office.
"In your desk you will find a folder with some contracts I've already revised but need your approval, in your mail you will find some letters from musicians that want you to work on their music, Emily Junk's new album's photo shoot is over and the album designer sent you and her the finished look to the album, so you may have emails from both of them" Wyatt explained "In an hour, we have a meeting with the public relations' people because there is this event against cancer next week and they are having several performances to raise money and donate it to cancer, and Bulletproof Productions apparently could help them raise money if you disc joked there, or some of our musicians and DJs performed there. At half past ten, you'll be meeting this new singer in studio number eight to work on a track, and then you can spend the rest of the day catching up, revising mixes and produced tracks, and in your desk there's also a folder full of deals that need to be closed soon and other stuff you should do today. You'll be home probably around one, before, I doubt."
"Great" Beca nodded getting out of the elevator "Today Chloe has class until twelve, so I guess we'll have to settle with a late lunch, and I'll let her know she has to pick the kids up. And Wyatt, before anything else, I want you in my office, now."
"Okay boss" Wyatt opened her office's door.
"Couch" Beca closed the door behind them and shot a quick look to the place, that was basically as she remembered leaving it months ago, and took a chair putting it in front of the couch and sitting there.
"What's going on?" Wyatt asked starting to worry.
"Many things, but nothing bad" Beca assured leaning forward with her elbows on her knees "Listen, Wyatt, I'm bad with words so I'll go straight to the point. Thank you. I can't express how lucky Chloe and I are to have you and Eva in our lives, and just thank you, you have no idea how thankful we are and how easy and better you make our lives. And you make my life so much easier. You've been doing tons of extra work that you shouldn't have had to do, and I've been so unfair towards you, so I want to make it up to you. I want to give you this" Beca searched in her jacket's pocket and put a paper on Wyatt's hand. Wyatt looked at it and shook his head.
"God Bec, I cannot..."
"Yes, you can, and you should." Beca said firmly "I'm your boss, so it's an order Wyatt. Accept it."
"But it's... it's five hundred thousand dollars!" he said like if she didn't know.
"Yeah. I thought it should be more but after talking it with Chloe we thought this could be a better idea since having too much all at once so suddenly sometimes ruins people" Beca said "We want you to have it. You have a family, Eva is a nanny because she adores kids, but she doesn't make much with it and we all know it, and I've made you work too much and too hard, and Chloe and I want nothing else than for you and Eva to have six months without working, not from home not anywhere, just take Toby, make the luggage, and go to somewhere nice, or travel around the world, whatever you want. And when you'll back, you will always have to work just as much hours as I do, never extra hours, and look, Eva talks a lot about how much she'd like more kids, give them to her Wyatt. You have an amazing family, just make it better and bigger, and enjoy it."
"We can't accept this Beca, it's too much" Wyatt looked at her intently and Beca grinned.
"Do it for your son and his future siblings then" Beca replied "Look, if I've learned something in my life is that family is more important than nothing else. Respecting them, loving them, trying to please them the best you can, being with them. My father spent years away from my life, I spent years away from social life, and now, I have dead family I never enjoyed enough, never spent enough time with them because of work, never tell them so many things that I should've had told, and I've missed too many things. I can't live with myself knowing I made you miss so many things during these past months because you where here trying to do both mine and your job, you're one of my best friends, and you and your family are part of my family too somehow, so I want you to go, enjoy the family you have because you never know how much time you have with each of them, and don't come back until a few months, and when you do, I hope you have many awesome stuff to talk to me about. Your holidays start right now, pick your stuff and go." Beca leaned back and nodded.
"Beca..." Wyatt shook his head, smiled, and jumped to hug her tightly. She grinned hugging him back.
"Come on, go!" she encouraged him.
"I can wait a few days, you just got back!"
"I'm a big girl Wyatt, I'll survive" Beca patted his back "Go pick your family up and enjoy. Oh, and send me pics from time to time!"
He nodded, hugged her again, and left, speechless.
Beca sighed looking around and went to sit in front of the company laptop Wyatt had settled for her until she bought a new one, and started to work. It was now a quarter past eight in the morning, and the next time she looked at the clock, was almost nine, so she quickly went to see that musician downstairs. When she opened her house's door, she was greeted with her children, both their pets, and the smell of chicken. With Kammy on her shoulders and her other children between her arms, she walked to the kitchen and smiled looking at Chloe.
"Hello gorgeous" Chloe smiled helping Beca leave the children back in the floor and kissing her passionately "How was the morning?"
"It was awesome" Beca replied "Exhausting, but awesome" Beca added "Yours?"
"Pretty good too" Chloe smiled kissing her again "Lunch's ready, and the kids already got the table ready, so let's eat quickly, have a quick nap, leave the kids with the Hannigans, and go get pregnant." Beca grinned nodding. They were doing the artificial insemination that day.
Jacob and Louis Hannigan were their neighbors. They were parents of Beth's best friend in the whole world, Brittany, who was in her same class, and Clark, who was fifteen and Chloe had been his teacher when he was in Elementary. Their usual nanny was Eva, but since the Lightwoods where now officially in holiday, she wasn't to be called.
After lunch, Beca took a quick nap, wanting to be completely ready for the afternoon, and Chloe at first was going to join her, but then was so excited she couldn't fall asleep, so she just went and played with their children. Later, they left them with the Hannigans and went to the hospital to have the procedure done.
"All right, lie down, please remove your underwear" the doctor instructed Beca. She already knew the whole process, but it was still awkward for her, the woman who had taken ages to let Jesse see her naked, let alone let anybody except her wife have her get into a room and take her underwear off, so she blushed and accepted Chloe's help, following the instructions. She got as comfortable as possible in the special bed, and Chloe sat grinning in the side of it kissing her forehead and holding her hand while the doctor went to get the equipment she needed.
"Are you wet?" Chloe asked jokingly.
"Are you kidding me? I'm as dry as the sun, and this is the least sexy thing I've ever lived" Beca smiled at her "The things I do for our family..."
"Yeah, not anybody can say they wanted a kid to the point off getting the panties off for a stranger to put tube into your uterus with some stranger's semen." Chloe chuckled.
"We are awesome, that's what we are" Beca smiled and bit her lip looking at the doctor and a nurse come with the rest of the equipment. They looked to the uterus in the screen as the nurse did an ultrasound while the doctor took a needle with a very thin tube at the end of it, tube that pulled into Beca, looking at it in the screen "Chlo" Beca whispered "why does it look like I have a caterpillar in my uterus?" Chloe held her laugh back biting her cheek on the inside.
"We can always tell our children they came from a caterpillar?" she joke, and Beca chuckled, forgetting about the awkwardness of the whole process.
After it, they were told they'd had to come in fourteen days to see if it had gone fine and Beca was pregnant, so they went back to pick the children up and went back home.
"Chlo, I want chocolate ice cream" Beca said suddenly getting her eyes out of Chloe's laptop, where she was trying to find herself a laptop, while sitting in the couch with her wife, who was watching the children draw in front of them.
"What?" Chloe rose her eyebrows looking at her "Beca, it's October, it's cold, you'll get a throat ache. Plus, it's half past eight, we'll be making dinner in no time."
"But I want chocolate ice cream" Beca frowned "I don't even fancy ice cream that much, but right now, I'll kill for it."
"It must be the hormone medication" Chloe chuckled and kissed her getting up "I'll go get some for you."
"You're an angel" Beca grinned and kept trying to find herself a new laptop.
After dinner, putting the kids to bed, and having a quick shower, the two wives cuddled in bed.
"You know, if I get pregnant now and it's a boy, we're naming him Noah and I'm not accepting a no for an answer" Beca whispered entangled with Chloe in the bed. Chloe smiled looking at her "In fact, I'm going for Noah Beale Mitchell. Your family hasn't had a spot in our children names all along, and Noah will be the happiest boy in the world with Beale as a second name" Beca added "And if it's a girl, we're naming her... I don't know, Sophie Aubrey Mitchell, for example."
"Thank you" the ginger simply said kissing her softly and lovingly.
"For?" Beca asked burying her face on Chloe's crook of the neck.
"I don't know, everything. Is just everything" Chloe sighed hugging her wife tightly "From loving me, to staying with me through thick and thin, marrying me, having this amazing family with me, being with me, taking care of me, being my shoulder to cry on, and everything else. If I could go back to the eight year old me, I know any future I could imagine could be better than the one you've given me."
"You know" Beca rolled over Chloe supporting on her forearms and smiling at her wife giving her a peck on the tip of her nose "I think the one thing I keep wishing for everyday is to things to keep going on this good. To this to not be a dream, to us to be safe and happy, to the children to grow up into even more awesome adults one day, and to things to be worthwhile. I'm the one that has to thank you Chlo" she shrugged "Because many years ago, I was in places that were so dark I thought why? Why would I stand anything one second more? And then I don't know how or why, I guess it was out of pure stubbornness, but I thought I needed to see why. I needed my whys, my whatfors, my answers. I wanted to see if it was worthwhile, where was I going to end, what would my reward be. And thanks to you, I know it was all worthwhile, every step of the way, everything was. To be here, tonight, with you and our children."
Chloe grinned widely, pulling her in for a deep kiss.
. . .
October, 19th was Beth's fifth anniversary of birth. Beca and Chloe woke up early, made pancakes and hot chocolate, and got the table ready with Beth's favorite colors, lilac and yellow, before going up to their son's bedroom, waking him up, and going into their daughters' bedroom stealthily, where they woke Kamara up.
"On three" Chloe instructed as they approached Beth's bed and she sat on the side, stroking Beth's belly "One, two..." and the four of them sang a very well pitched version of Happy Birthday that woke the girl up with a huge grin "Good morning sweet angel!" Chloe greeted hugging her daughter and covering her in kisses.
"We love you so much!" Beca grinned leaning to join the hug and kissing their daughter too. Beth's younger siblings did it too, and soon Beca took Beth on her shoulders "Alright, we have birthday pancakes and hot chocolate for breakfast, so let's go!"
"I love my birthday" Beth mumbled with her mouth full of pancakes a bit later.
"Good!" Chloe grinned kissing her hair. Beca smiled at them drinking her own chocolate. Beth was their firstborn, so it was even weirder to see her grow up, but they were trying to see it as a welcoming for new amazing experiences than a goodbye for other ones "You're gonna love your presents. There are presents from us, from your grandparents, uncles and aunts, from Aubrey and Jesse, there is a present from all the other Bellas..."
"Come on Chlo, you make it seem like the most important thing of birthdays are presents" Beca laughed happily stroking Kai's hair distractedly.
"Isn't it?" Beth asked confused with her mouth full of chocolate. Chloe quickly cleaned her.
"Of course not babe, no, no" Chloe smiled "Today is the day we celebrate that five years ago we got so lucky to welcome an amazing new member to our family, the day momma and I became mothers for the first time, the day we saw you for the first time ever, and held you, and cried on you..." Chloe couldn't resist giving her daughter another tight hug kissing her a lot.
"One of our very best days ever" Beca smiled at her daughter "And we are gonna have a great birthday party this afternoon in your honor, because it is important to remember our own importance and value, and today is the day we are like 'hell yeah, look what amazing little kiddo was born five years ago today'" Beth chuckled.
"Can I turn three again next year?" Micah asked.
"What? Why?" Chloe asked.
"Because I wanna have a party for me, but I also don't wanna go to elders' school, have more homework, more responsibilities, and I don't wanna stop playing with trucks or being a baby." He said matter of factly eating happily "Who would want to be an adult, with so much work and responsibilities, and having to pay a house and not having time to play with trucks?"
Beca and Chloe looked at each other speechless and Beca patted her son's back.
"You can turn the age you want son, I support you." Beca whispered.
Later that afternoon Beca, Chloe, Wyatt, Eva, Jacob, Louis and other adults that were Beth's friends' parents, stood in the garden looking over all the children running around playing. Then, Beca felt a sudden urge to throw up, so she ran into the house and to the first bathroom she could find, and Chloe ran after her worried only to find her throwing her guts off knelt in the WC.
"Oh shit" Beca's raspy voice said before another wave of puking it her, and Chloe held her hair back grinning.
"Is this what I think it is?" Chloe whispered stroking Beca's back lovingly. Beca stood clinging into the sink, cleaned her mouth, and turned back to look at Beca.
"Am I... could it be... already?" she asked, and Chloe giggled hugging her and kissing her "I just puked Chlo."
"You cleaned yourself" Chloe reminded her kissing her again "The appointment is tomorrow, but I think you are sweetheart."
"I'm probably pregnant" Beca smiled and kissed Chloe.
It was only a suspicion, but it kept them awake all night and then in the morning, Beca skipped a couple hours at work to go with Chloe and have an ultrasound done.
"There it is" the doctor pointed at a very tiny spot in the screen and smiled "Congrats, you're two weeks pregnant."
Beca grinned widely and looked at the screen and then at Chloe.
"Look at our baby" she whispered, and Chloe sniffled kissing her. They broke the kiss quickly to focus in the screen again, and Chloe caressed Beca's lower belly lovingly.
"I love both of you" the ginger whispered closing her eyes and pressing her forehead to Beca's temple.
Unfortunately, things wouldn't be calm and happy forever.
HEY ALEEEEXXX! Thanks a lot for your reviews! Well I have nephews and nieces and I kind of get inspired in them when writing kids stuff. Although they are very weird kiddos too Love you liked it! And thanks I did good, although you'll have to speak with my girl about distractions. Not complaining though hahahahah