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Chapter 10: Let's Go Meet Our Girls
It was a Saturday afternoon and Alison was relaxing in bed, fully enthralled in the latest edition of vogue in front of her when Emily walked out of their steamy ensuite bathroom, half naked with nothing but a tiny towel barely covering her toned body. The blonde watched over the magazine as the dripping wet brunette made her way to the middle of the bedroom with a confused expression on her face and her hand scratching her chin.
"Do you know where my new red, lacy thong is?" Emily rasped before biting down on her bottom lip.
Ali cleared her throat but Emily interrupted her before she could speak. "You know what it's fine i'll just wear that hot pink g-string you so madly love on me"
When Emily walked towards the wardrobe she could feel her wifes eyes on her so she slowly lifted her arms high above her head, pretending to reach for the container on top of the wardrobe and purposely allowing her napkin size towel fall to the ground.
"Whoops" she sang with wide eyes and a her hand to her mouth. She watched as Ali dropped the magazine from her hand and curved her lips into lustful grin.
The brunette wanted nothing more than to have her way with Ali right now and she felt this was the best way to do it. Every time Emily went to make a move the past few days Ali would pull away and say she's too tired or just make up some excuse. She understood that her wife was pregnant and all that but she missed the days at the beginning of the pregnancy when Ali would practically attack her in bed, or anywhere else for that matter. Like that time in Spencer's lake house on New Year's Eve when Alison threw the brunette on the old granite worktop and attacked her tanned body with her tongue. They even had a quickie in the bathroom at that fancy restaurant they all went to on New Year's Day. But Ali was so moody and unpredictable lately and Emily was getting mixed signals off her all the time. She got a text last Monday at swim practice from the blonde saying 'I'm hungry come feed me' with a tongue emoji and a wink at the end and when the brunette got her hopes up and rushed home thinking she was going to get the five star treatment off Ali, She walked into the house to find that her wife was in fact actually hungry for food and not her like she had hoped. On top of that Alis hormones were crazy and Emily felt like they were affecting her just as much as her wife. Like last week for example when they went out for a meal with Aria and Ezra, one minute they were all laughing away to eachother and the next Ali was having a face off with a waiter who looked at her funny when she ordered seconds. But overall Emily didn't mind, after all Ali was in fact growing their little girls inside of her and if crazy hormones and dramatic mood swings were the price to pay then bring them on.
Ali shuffled forward on the bed and gazed hungrily up and down the tanned body that stood in front of her. She bit down on her bottom lips as she thought of all the things she wanted to do to Emily right now. Even after all these years the blonde still felt those familiar flutters in her stomach when she saw her wife naked.
She stood up from the bed and met the brunettes lips with a hungry kiss. She cupped a handful of Emily's breast with one hand and pulled on her hair with the other. Emily's body began to shiver at her wife's touch and she she quickly unbuttoned Ali's satin pyjamas shirt revealing her completely naked body underneath. The blonde shuffled out of her top, then trailed both her hands down to Emily's backside and groped her ass firmly as she deepened the kiss. She swirled Emily around and threw her onto the bed and Emily moaned as the blonde got on top of her and began sucking on her pulse point. The swim coach needed every inch of her wife right now and every inch was exactly what she was getting. Ali let out a small whimper as Emily scratched her nails roughly down her back. The blonde reacted by moving her face towards Emily and biting the tanned woman's bottom lip. Things got even rougher when Emily began tugging at the blonde locks and sucking hardly on her neck, leaving a few red marks each time her lips moved to a different area. The blonde beauty quickly ran her right hand down to her wife's soaking wet centre, shuffling uncomfortable to try to get her hand past her large bump that rested on Emily's stomach. Just as Ali began to build a rhythm between Emily's legs the brunette moaned and squeezed her pregnant wife's breasts roughly with both hands and that was when Ali quickly pulled her body away from Emily's with a loud whimper.
"What's wrong?" Emily breathed out, looking at her naked wife kneeling in front of her on the bed with her breasts held in her hands.
"I told you last time" Ali huffed in response.
Emily looked at her wife with a raised eyebrow while her chest heaved as she tried to control her breathing. "What Ali?….Told me What?"
Alison cleared her throat and began picking at the thread on the corner of the ruffled bed sheets "My….My boobs...There really sensitive"
Emily couldn't stop herself from leaving out a small giggle at Ali's words. "Heat of the moment Babe...I forgot"
"It's not funny" Ali pouted and the look on her face only made Emily chuckle harder which Ali responded to by quickly shuffling away from the brunette and sitting at the side of the bed with her arms crossed.
"No. Ali please I'm sorry" the chemistry teacher smirked, still stifling her laughter while crawling towards the blonde. She took a deep breath trying to composed herself and then began lightly scratching Ali's back. "I'm sorry"
Ali stood up from the bed and quickly wrapped Emily's night gown around her body. "Whatever"
"Where are you going" the brunette questioned, grabbing Ali's hand to prevent her from making her escape.
"For a shower" the blonde huffed.
"What about…." Emily trailed off while biting her bottom lip and allowing her hand trail down her own body but Ali just looked at her icily.
"I'm SUDDENLY not in the mood"
"Ali please I need this" Emily complained, gripping the blondes hand tighter. "...I'm horny"
Ali yanked her hand away and stomped to the bathroom "You've got a hand don't you"
"Can I atleast get in the shower with you?" the brunette shouted while striding towards the bathroom door but by the time she got to it Ali slammed it in her face.
Emily groaned loudly as she grabbed Ali's satin pyjamas top from the floor and threw it on her. This only proved how unpredictable Ali was lately. How had they gone from rolling around naked in the bed to Ali storming out and telling Emily to DIY herself. The swim coach considered jumping into bed and exaggerating her moans while she masterbated to see if it would get her anywhere with Ali but she SUDDENLY wasn't in the mood anymore and decided to just get ready to go to Hanna's house in a few hours.
"Ali would you hurry up, we're late" Emily shouted from the bottom of the stairs, still in a foul mood from being left hanging dry earlier.
"We wouldn't be late if you hadn't given me so many hickeys to cover up" Ali replied icily with an eye roll as she waddled down the stairs.
Since the girls would in fact have to act civil to each other at Hanna's house, Emily decided it would be best to forget about earlier and try to make it up with Ali.
"Hey that top is beautiful on you" she smiled to her wife.
"Whatever" the blonde huffed as she trailed towards the front door and made her way to their car.
Emily inhaled a deep breath while pinching the bridge of her nose. She could already tell that this dinner or whatever Hanna was doing for them was going to turn into a disaster if Ali's mood didn't improve soon.
The girls pulled up outside the rivers household a little after five. On the way Emily had tried to communicate with Ali repeatedly but was met by radio silence each time.
"You know if anything it's me who should be ignoring you, after all you left me hanging dry and then told me to DIY myself" Emily stated as a matter of fact before checking her makeup in the overhead mirror.
"You laughed at my boobs" Ali mumbled with crossed arms and a frown on her face.
"Actually I didn't I laughed at…."
"We're late" the 29-week pregnant, hormonal blonde interrupted before stepping out of the car and waddling towards the door of the Rivers' house.
Ali's slow mobility allowed Emily to catch up easily and the two walked up to the house together. Emily placed a short knock on the front door and the two of them walked inside.
"Why is it dark?" Ali questioned while flipping on the living room lights.
"SURPRISEEEEEE" Everyone shouted.
"What...what is this?" Ali stuttered with her hand to her heart.
"Oh my god" Emily breathed, leaning over with both her hands on her knees and a wide grin on her face.
"What took you so long, we've all been sitting in the dark the past 20 minutes" Pam laughed as she walked towards both women and pulled them in for a hug.
The girls walked further into the living room where Spencer, Aria and Hanna lined up to hug the mothers to be. Ezra, Caleb, Toby and Wayne stood to the side with their beer bottles in their hands allowing the girls to have their moment. After everyone settled down Ali scanned her eyes around the room, there were pink balloons and baby shower banners everywhere and her eyes caught sight of the specially made poster which had an enlarged picture of the girls latest ultrasound and underneath it in large pink letters was 'Ellie and Madison Dilaurentis Fields'
"You guys, seriously this is amazing. You really went all out" Ali exclaimed as she trailed around the room and she had to admit she was holding back tears.
"It was all Pam and Hanna" Spencer grinned with her arms crossed and her red wine held firmly between her fingers.
"I expect no less from those two" Emily grinned with her arm around her mothers back.
After a few moments of light conversation between the group and Emily and Alison gushing over the surprise baby shower, Caleb made his way to the kitchen after offering everyone another drink.
"Okay so let's get this party started" Hanna cheered as she danced towards the middle of the room.
"So first things first" Pam announced as everyone made their way to the huge kitchen at the back of the rivers house that was decorated with even more balloons, streamers and banners. "We're going to start this shower off with a game called 'don't say baby' For the rest of the night you must abstain from saying the word 'baby'. Whoever says it is out and the winner gets a couples spa weekenddd" the older woman sang, earning cheering from the group and a competitive look shared between Hanna and Spencer as they all took a seat. "Now we have a lot of games planned for tonight, so their are plenty of oppurtunities to win one of the many prizes up for grabs...Theres the baby food game, the ice cube game"
"And of course my favourite one of the night which is 'bobbing for nipples'"Hanna interupted while ruffling Caleb's hair as he took a seat next to her, twisting open the cap of his new beer bottle.
"Bobbing for nipples?" Emily chuckled with raised brows.
"Yeah...bobbing for nipples" Hanna smirked. She leaned over to Emily and whispered loudly "I bet you'd love that one Em".
Emily widened her eyes and looked around to see who had heard. Luckily her parents were talking quietly with Aria and Caleb seemed to be the only one who heard.
Hanna laughed at Emilys expression and continued speaking. "So basically we all get into teams. There are five buckets in the corner that will be filled with water and 10 bottle nipples, whoever is the first to pull out all the nipples with their mouth, Blindfolded, wins a prize"
"So here is a cup for everyone. In each cup is an ice cube with a little baby figure inside it" Pam called out as she distributed the cups.
"You said baby" Aria announced, her eyes wide open in realisation.
"So did you!" Pam laughed.
"Two down already...Jeez that was fast" Hanna jokingly scoffed over the laughter, trying to hide the tight lipped smile appearing on her face.
"Anywayyy" the grandmother to be announced with a joking eye roll "Whoever's ice cube melts first must pull out the little baby figure and yell 'my water broke'"
"Okay while ye are all waiting for your waters to break we have a drinking game called 'drink up, baby'" Hanna added.
"You said ba...the word" Spencer stuttered before cheering and clapping her hands since her rival competitor was out of the way.
"Fuck" Hanna cursed under her breath resulting in the group to erupt into laughter at the look of defeat on the blondes face. Hanna continued to shuffle around the circle handing each person a baby bottle filled with diluted vodka. "Now Ali of course since your pregnant you can't drink vodka. Soooo. Pam and I decided it was only fair if we filled your one with prune juice"
"Oh god" Ali gagged.
"I'd happily take vodka over prune juice any day" Toby chimed in.
"Heck yeah" Ezra chuckled.
"How strong is this stuff?" Emily questioned while eyeing the little bottle curiously.
"Not too strong" Pam added. "It's mainly just orange juice"
Emily couldn't help but let her eyes trail over to the guilty look on Hannas face when Pam was talking but before she could ask questions entire group counted down from three and began chugging the contents of the bottles. It wasn't as easy as it looked though, Hanna had managed to slip in an extra ounce of vodka when Pam wasn't looking so the drink was stronger than it should have been and their jaws quickly started to tire since the nipples on the bottle would only allow so much liquid to leave at a time. It was a battle of the sexes between Emily and Toby and two seconds before the the chemistry teacher the police officer raised his empty bottle high above his head and cheered before quickly rinsing his mouth with the beer next to him.
The group erupted into cheering while Pam handed Toby one of the many envelopes in the middle of the table and walked towards the kitchen island with a smile across her face.
Even though the game was over, everyone continued to chug their vodka and Hanna even refilled hers and Spencer's with an extra few ounces and had a 'friendly' competition to see who could down it first. It was a draw between them which only made Hanna more competitive and eager to beat Spencer at at least one game tonight.
"Everybody Pick a partnerrrr" Hanna sang over the conversation that had started between everyone after her and Spencers race.
"Wanna go with me baby" Caleb grinned to the blonde while puckering his lips together for a kiss.
"You said baby" Ezra yelled, pulling his wife onto his lap.
"You did too" Wayne chimed in before swigging back a mouthful of beer.
"Fuck sake babe I really wanted that spa weekend" Hanna joked, gently slapping Calebs face away, not even acknowledging that his lips were still pursed together.
"So we're all with our sexual partners that's what I expected" Hanna casually announced while everyone, including Pam, who heard as she walked towards the group holding a basket filled with baby stuff laughed.
Everyone looked at Hanna as she stood up and explained the next game. Emily reached her hand to Ali's and gave it a gently squeeze before both of them smiled at each other.
"I'm sorry for earlier" the blonde whispered.
"I'm sorry too" Emily smiled as she took the blondes lips in hers for a lingering kiss.
"Break it up you two. There's plenty of time for that later." Hanna clicked her fingers as she continued explaining the baby food game. Emily jokingly rolled her eyes and Ali smiled her classic dimpled smile. Hanna was always so straight forward with everything.
While everyone got into positions with their partners Hanna pulled her chair in front of Caleb's. "Okay so with your partners one of you hold the spoon in your mouth and the other place the bib around your neck."
The objective of the game was for each group to try to finish the jar of baby food first. One of them had to hold the spoon in their mouth and with no assistance from their hands, spoon the baby food into their partners mouth.
Hanna and Caleb started off strong but slowed down when Caleb had to take a moment to compose himself after Hanna pushed the spoon so far down his throat her lips were nearly touching his. Emily and Ali then took the lead but got passed out by Pam and Wayne when Ali dropped the spoon out of her mouth and onto the floor. It was a battle between Spencer and Aria to finish while the others proceeded to catch up to them pretty quickly. Spencer kept on shouting at Toby to hurry up spooning it out and Toby got so flustered he hit the spoon off every part of his wife's face besides her mouth. When Aria stopped to cheer that she was winning Hanna spooned the last spoon of the sweet potato and carrot flavoured baby food into her husbands mouth and won the game.
"I won...yeah...Yeah I won" Hanna sang as she swayed her hips and danced with her hands above her head before leaning down and wiping the baby food teasingly off Spencer's nose.
"What kind of baby food is this?" Wayne asked with a disgusted face after he dipped his finger into the jar and tasted it.
Emily's eyes widened when she heard her dad speak and quickly swallowed the contents of her mouth. "DAD" she coughed. "YOUR OUT YOU SAID THE B WORD"
"So that just leaves Spence, Toby and the mothers to be" Pam smiled.
"MY WATER BROKE!" Ali yelled.
Wayne and Emily, forgetting that they were playing a game shot up off their chairs and ran towards the blonde. The group erupted into laughter when they saw the confused look shared between father and daughter when they saw Ali stifling her laughter and opening and closing her mouth trying to compose herself to talk.
"Awwwww sweetie are you okay?" Pam laughed as she walked towards her husband who's face had quickly turned a shade paler.
"I'm sorry baby" Ali smiled with her hand gently squeezing Emily's.
"Hah Ali your out" Toby cheered.
Spencer high fived her husband and looked at everyone with a competitive smile. "One down one to go"
"What?" Emily asked with furrowed brows, pretending to have missed out on what just happened.
"Ali said baby" Toby chimed in before casually sipping his beer bottle.
"And So did you" the brunette bit back with a sneaky smile plastered across her face.
Toby's face dropped and he looked at his wife with wide eyes and a toothy grin. Spencer just scoffed with a smile and rolled her eyes before pressing her lips off her wine glass and taking back a large gulp.
"Ohh Spencer versus Emily...this will be interesting" Aria called out.
"There both so competitive….it could be a close one" Ezra nudged Wayne as he sat back down on his seat and took a few deep breaths after the scare he just had.
"Here you go babe" Hanna said over her laughter at Emily's sneaky trick, handing Ali an envelope identical to the one everyone else received.
"Okay Pam let's get the nipples ready" Hanna clapped as her and the older woman made their way towards the kitchen sink, and with the help of Wayne filled the five buckets with water and tossed ten bottle nipples into each.
"Okay so after this game feel free to take as many nipples home with you as you want because Im not going to have any use for all fifty of them" Hanna called out from the counter.
"You can never have enough of those" Spencer added.
"Yeah, Jane used always chew on them in her sleep and She would be covered in milk the next morning" Aria chimed in.
"Evie does the exact same" Hanna complained, throwing her eyes to the sky. "Especially when she's teething"
After a few minutes of chatter between the girls Spencer popped open another bottle of wine and filled all their glasses, while Ali sat there sipping on her sparkling water, internally wishing it was something else.
"Choose a partner to dunk their heads into the 'icy' cold water." Wayne said with a smirk from the sink as Caleb, Toby and Ezra walked over and helped put the buckets on the floor.
"Not me, I'm not messing up my makeup" Aria sat back with folded arms.
Hanna nodded her head while swallowing wine in her mouth "Me either, no thank you"
"Toby why don't you take one for the team" Spencer insisted.
Ali and Emily stared at each other for a few seconds. "Don't look at me...im pregnant" the blonde laughed.
"Pregnancy is an excuse for everything babe high five" Aria grinned while the rest laughed.
Cheering and yelling echoed around the house as Toby, Ezra, Pam, Emily and Caleb dunked their faces into the icy cold water to retrieve the nipples. Ezra destroyed everyone when he got all the nipples out of the bucket more than five seconds before everyone else.
"Whooooooo"!Aria cheered, bending down and kissing her husbands soaking wet face.
Once everyone dried their faces off and calmed down after the highly intense game of bobbing nipples Wayne and Hanna took the large cake out of the fridge and started distributing it between the group. The cake was beautiful, it had two tiers and was covered in white icing with pink swirls and butterflies scattered around it. On the top was a grey elephant and little pink and purple blocks made of icing which spelled out Ellie and Madison. It was chocolate Swiss roll flavoured and everyone loved it. They also got a box of cupcakes decorated with all different designs like baby faces and bows and each one was a different flavour. After about a half an hour in the kitchen eating cake, drinking alcohol and chatting, Pam called them all to the living room to open the gifts. The group walked inside with their drinks in their hands and all took a seat around the huge pile of gifts near window.
Spencer and Toby were the first to hand their presents to the girls. They gave them a toy chest that was handmade by Toby and painted by Spencer to match the nursery. Inside it was an assortment of items such as bibs, pacifiers with little stuffed animals hanging off then, pyjamas, headbands, hats and different types of toys. On top of it was a set of electric baby camera monitors, a breast milk pump, diapers, wipes and two blooming bath tubs that all of them said were the best things ever.
"You guys, thank you so much" Ali gushed.
"This is too much" Emily grinned.
Spencer took tobys hand in hers and smiled. "With everything you two have done and gotten for our little ones you deserve it"
Next up was Hanna and Caleb. They got the girls a huge box of newborn pampers and a playpen. On top of the pampers box was two baskets, inside each was a little pink bathrobe, one with Ellie printed of the back and the other with Madison. The baskets were also filled with an assortment of beautiful designer outfits, headbands and a little pair of shoes each. Everyone, even the boys were aweing and gushing at the cuteness of the little dresses, bows and shoes.
"Oh my god...These are the cutest!" Ali grinned while holding up the custom made bathrobes.
"I had too, you should see Evie waddling around the house in hers it's the cutest thing ever" Hanna grinned.
"It is" Caleb agreed with a soft smile.
Emily looked at all the outfits Hanna and Caleb had gotten them. "I can't wait to dress the girls in these"
"I got 0-3 months in a few of them because its that age when their not spitting up every ten seconds" Hanna laughed. '" figured that out the hard way when I got Evie a load of custom made newborn dresses and they barely lasted ten minutes on her before I had to change her into something else"
"That was the same with Jane" Aria nodded before leaning forwards and tossing a few peanuts into her mouth. "I ended up leaving her wearing nothing but a diaper half the time because it was just easier."
"Yeah, Noah was always so messy when he was a baby" Spencer added.
The girls began smiling as they thought back to when their kids were newborns. They were all laughing at the memories of exploding shitty diapers and mashed potato in their kids hair before Caleb's eyes widened in realisation and he almost choked on the beer in his mouth "You said Baby…..Spencer said baby" he continued after he composed himself.
Everyone laughed at the defeated look on Spencer's face, She had kept the conversation going with the girls hoping no one had noticed her little slip but Caleb was smart enough to catch it.
"Congratulations Emmy, you are the proud new owner of the couples spa weekend at the Radley, cortesy of Ashley Marin." Wayne smiled.
After all the laughing and cheering dyed down Emily and Ali looked gratefully at the pile of gifts in front of them. "This is just….Amazing" Emily smiled, wiping a stray tear from her cheek.
Ali placed her hand on Emilys and gave it a gently squeeze. "Thanks guys"
"Like what Spence said, ye both deserve it, you have done so much for all of us and I plan to do the same for Ellie and Madison" Hanna smiled sincerely.
"Amen to that" Ezra cheered.
"To Emily and Alison" Toby held his beer bottle in the air.
"To Emily and Alison" everyone repeated.
Aria and Ezra's turn came next. They got the twins two custom made hampers, in each was a snow white fluffy blanket, a teddy bear, bottle scrubbers, pacifiers, bibs and a load of toiletries like baby powder, baby oil, creams, wipes and bubble bath. Next to the hampers were a few children's books, two mirrors for in front of the carseats and a changing bag which Aria had filled with pyjamas, vests and onesies.
"No way!" Ali exclaimed with wide eyes when she flicked through one of the books.
"What?" Emily asked with another in her hand.
"Look" Ali smiled over to Aria when she handed Emily the book.
"Oh my god" Emily whispered to herself. Aria had literally written a children's book, which starred the twins, Noah, Evie, Jane and Haven.
"No way" Hanna exclaimed when she saw the cover, jumping up from her seat and walking towards Emily to see the book.
It was then that Ezra pulled up two more bags from his side and handed them too Caleb and Spencer.
"This is amazing" Spencer gushed as her and Toby read through the book that Ezra gave them.
"Is it an actual book" Caleb questioned curiously.
"Yeah, pages and all" Ezra joked with his arm around his wife, pulling her closer.
Caleb laughed and shook his head.
"It's not published if that's what you mean" Aria added with a soft smile. "It's just a little something for all of us"
"Babe this is so good. Oh my god" Hanna gushed from her position behind Emily's chair where she stood gazing down at the book "I can't wait to read it to Evie tonight"
"I though she's staying at your moms" Caleb questioned with a twinge of hope that Hanna hadn't changed her mind.
"Oh shit yeah, I'll read it to her tomorrow" she said before biting her bottom lip and eyeing Caleb who sat there with a lustful look on his face. There was no way they were letting anything get in the way of the night they had planned tonight.
Last up for the gift giving was Pam and Wayne. They went all out, getting the girls two pink bassinets, each filled with baby spoons, baby bottles, pacifiers, bibs, diapers, wipes, some onesies and a few pyjamas. Just when Ali and Emily thought it couldn't get any better wayne pushed a double stroller towards them. It was one of those carseat strollers they were going to get a few days before but pam had convinced them not to saying they should wait and she would bring them to a better baby shop in Philly first. The stroller was all black with one detachable car seat in front of the other, so Emily's fear of not being able to get through the front door with a double stroller was now long forgotten about. In the first seat was two fluffy grey and white blankets, Ellie was printed on the corner of one and Madison on the other. In the same carseat was a variety of stuffed animals which belonged to Emily when she was a baby, as well as a few more of her old blankets which all held a symbolic meaning to the brunette, she loved the thought that her daughters would be able to use stuff that had belonged to her when she was a baby. In the other carseat was an assortment of baby shampoos and lotions as well as two white towels with little duck hoods on them.
Emily trailed her finger across one of her old baby blankets, it was one of her favourites, white and fluffy with a big panda face on the middle. It even still smelled like baby, no matter how many times Pam had washed it after it's dusty journey in the attic through the years. How lucky was she to have so many people in her life that cared so much. Her eyes met Ali's and she could see by the look on her face that her wife was just as happy as her. At this point Emily was speechless, just a few weeks ago they were dipping into their savings account to get two cribs and a set of drawers and rummaging through Ali's attic to see how much of her baby stuff they could save and now they have everything they need. After the crash the girls were left with a lot of bills from physical therapy and other treatments that insurance wouldn't cover. On top of that they put extra money towards a newer car and also the cost of Ivf. Although they did have a lot of money between them they were never really prepared for the expense that came with twins, it was when they started flicking through catalogues they realised that double everything wouldn't be cheap. But now here they were, 29 weeks pregnant and fully prepared to bring their two little princesses into the world.
'This...I can't….thank you….so much' Ali stuttered, her eyes filled with unshed tears as she played with the ears of Emilys old teddy bear.
"This is….it's too much. You didn't have to" Emily stated while looking at her parents.
"Emmy, these are our grandchildren" Wayne smiled, rubbing circles on his wife's back.
"And it's our job to spoil them, and I can't wait for them to be born at the end of May so we can spoil them even more" Pam chimed in with a smile reaching her eyes.
The girls also got an electric bottle warmer and a bottle steamer from the Hastings, Ella and Byron got them a box of diapers, a box of wipes and two sets which included a onesie, a matching pyjamas, a hat and mittens. Ashley Marin bought the girls two princess pyjamas, some onesies, some vests, bibs, mittens, socks and little slippers. There was also few hampers from some of pams and Wayne's friends.
Soon after the gift opening the men loaded everything into Wayne's truck and with the help of Ali who acted as the designated driver, made two trips to the Dilaurentis-Fields house to load all the stuff out of the truck and into the nursery. Spencer, Hanna, Pam, Aria and Emily stayed at the house and finished off all the cake and wine while chatting to Emily about the joys of motherhood that were all ahead of her in a few weeks.
Emily and Ali had an early start the next Morning. After Breakfast Ali worked on sorting through all the baby clothes and putting them away in their designated spots around the room while Emily put the playpen together. Hanna had got them the newborn edition which came with a section that was higher up but could easily be removed once the girls got old enough to stand up and waddle around. Pam and Wayne called over after lunch and helped out too. Ali worked with the older woman to sort through all of the bath stuff and piles of diapers and after putting all the new bottles, pacifiers and baby spoons into the dishwasher they cleared a shelf in the pantry for them and put them all away. Emily and her dad worked on putting together the electric baby swings that they ordered a few days before and installing the two car seats in the car before folding up the stroller and storing it in the boot of their white SUV. It was around dinner time when they finished sorting through everything so Wayne decided to treat them all to a nice dinner at the new Italian restaurant that opened up near the boutique.
"So, how was the first birthing class" Aria smiled as she took a seat in the teachers lounge across from Emily.
"Horrible" The swim coach breathed. "Ali is odd with me"
"Why? What happened?" The petite brunette questioned while pouring a packet of sugar into her cup.
Emily rolled her eyes and blew out air from her cheeks. "I just couldn't stop laughing. I mean at first it was just the awkwardness of it all and then Ali throwing me daggers definitely didn't help the situation"
"Oh god" Aria smirked.
"Yeah, and the worst part was when we had to massage our partners 'glutes'. Ali was on her hands and knees and next thing the instructor bent down behind me and whispered into my ear 'Come on give it to her harder, work your fingers up and down and all around and if she's making noises then that means it's working'... and at that point I completely lost it"
"Everything is funnier when your not suppose to laugh" Aria chuckled.
"Oh tell me about it" Emily rolled her eyes. "She completely ignored me all night last night and when we were in the kitchen this morning she wouldn't make me coffee, and when Ali doesn't make me coffee thats a no brainer that I've done something to piss her off"
"And her hormones are only going to make her feel one hundred times angrier with you" the English teacher added before raising her cup to her lips and gently blowing it cool.
"Oh Yeah" Emily chuckled while stirring her coffee. "I'm going to make it up to her later though. It's only a few more weeks until the girls arrive and once they do it will be a while before we get a night out sooo...I'm going to ask her out on a date tonight"
Aria swallowed the contents of her mouth and smiled. "Oh really. Where are you brining her"
"I'm going to reserve a table at that French restaurant in Philly that she loves and at lunch I'll see if I can get tickets to something in the theatre or the movies"
"Oh she'll love that" Aria grinned and Emily nodded in response before taking a sip of her coffee.
"Shoot look at the time" Emily exclaimed as her eyes caught sight of the clock above the door frame. "I have to go I need to track down two seniors before first period. I'll see you at lunch"
"Little help over here" Hanna groaned.
Ali switched her phone off and looked up at the blonde "Sorry"
She made her way over to the ladder where Hanna was standing, struggling to make it down with a huge box in her hands.
"Here look….don't lift it just push it up so I can get a better grip on it" Hanna groaned.
After helping Hanna, Ali walked back over to the counter and sat down. She looked at her phone again to see if she had any texts from Emily. 'Still nothing' she thought to herself. After Emily's immaturity at the pregnancy class yesterday she at least expected an apology.
"What's so interesting on your phone that you have to look at it every ten seconds?" Hanna asked, walking over towards her friend and standing near her with her hand on her hip.
"I'm waiting for an apology from Emily" the blonde replied with her head slouched in her hand.
Hanna jokingly rolled her eyes. "I think you should just let it go, so what if she laughs at the classes. I did"
"And you and Caleb had to find a new one after two weeks" Ali stated as a matter of fact.
"Ya well our instructor was a bitch who couldn't take a joke."
"I'm sure" Ali laughed in response. Just then her phone beeped and she looked at it to see a text from her wife.
Hey beautiful, what you up to? -Em
Ali read the message on her screen and just as she was about to type a response another one popped up.
I'm sorry about how I acted at the classes last night. I want to make it up to you. How do you feel about dinner and a movie in the city? -Em
Ali looked at the message for a few moments, contemplating her answer. Maybe Hanna was right, maybe she was overreacting. She had to admit there were a few times throughout the class when she felt like laughing at what the instructor was saying, or the look on Emily's face when they showed a model pelvis and what happens to it during childbirth, or even Emilys loud gasp for air when they showed how wide the cervix stretches when it's about to birth a child. So Ali quickly typed a response before tossing her phone in her handbag and heading to the bathroom to relieve her bladder for the tenth time so far today.
It's a date x -Ali
Emily's pulled up outside Hanna's house a little after 5pm. Ali had texted her a little while ago to say that she was getting dressed at Hannas so Emily planned to pick her up there. The brunette walked up to the rivers household and rang the door bell. All of a sudden she felt butterflies in her stomach and her palms started to sweat, for some reason it felt like their first date all over again.
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It had been a little over a week since Ali told Emily how she really felt about her at the kissing rock. They kept their relationship between themselves for now and were just enjoying being together. They still hadn't talked about the distance and how hard it would be on their newly found relationship once Emily goes back to California because neither one of them wanted to think about it until the time came in a few weeks. After that night in the nightclub last week they were spending a lot of time together and after Hanna and Caleb came back from New York to spend Christmas with Hanna's mom, Emily could tell their blonde friend was catching on. They planned to tell everyone before Christmas though, but there was something exciting about their 'secret' relationship.
Tonight was their first official date and as nervous as both women were, they were equally excited to spend time together outside of Alison's house. Emily walked up the steps of the Dilaurentis household and placed two gently knocks on the door. She stepped back and fixed her dress, then the wrapping on the bunch of flowers she had got Ali, and then her hair. Her palms began to sweat profusely and her mouth was dry. She had never been so nervous for anything in her life.
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Emily was broken from her daydream When Ali opened the door. The brunette felt her breath get caught in her throat when her eyes caught sight of the blonde. Her wife looked absolutely breathtakingly beautiful. She wore a black, low neck dress that hugged her body in all the right places and adorably showed off her perfectly round baby bump.
"You" Emily cleared her throat and swallowed hard. "You look beautiful"
Ali scanned her eyes up and down Emily's body, admiring the beautiful red, knee length, v-neck red dress she wore that showed off her amazing figure perfectly. The red roses in Emily's hands only made her look even more gorgeous.
"My wife is hot" the blonde breathed before leaning forward and capturing her lips in a lustful kiss. When Ali pulled away she looked at the brunette who had the most adorable, dimpled smile covering her beautiful tanned face.
"These are for you" Emily grinned while handing the blonde the bunch of roses.
"Thank you babe, there gorgeous" Ali admired the flowers and reached her hand forwards to Emily's before Hanna walked up behind them and made her presence known.
"I'm feeling the STEAM ladies" Hanna exclaimed as she stood next to Ali with her arms crossed. "Em, you look AMAZING. Here I'll take these" she grinned as she pulled the roses from Ali's grip as breathed the scent of them deeply through her nose. "I'll put them in water and bring them over tomorrow"
"Thanks Han" Emily smiled.
"No bother. Now Emily I need Ali home before eleven, Okay" Hanna joked as her friends made their way to their car where Emily pulled the door open for Ali and helped her in. "DON'T HAVE TOO MUCH FUN" she shouted as the brunette got into the driver's seat and the car disappeared down the street.
The train into the city wasn't too busy and the girls easily found seats. When they sat down Emily took the window seat and found herself drifting into deep thought as the scenery passed her by.
"What are you thinking about?" Ali looked up with a dimpled smile, breaking Emily from her thoughts.
"You remember our first date?" The brunette questioned with a grin on her face.
"Oh yeah...I remember" Ali smiled as her own mind drifted back to that special night a week before Christmas all those years ago.
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The girls decided to stroll through the city before their reservation at their favourite little French restaurant. It was like a winter wonderland, the fresh blanket of snow was crunching under their feet and the displays in the windows were beautiful. The smell of roasted chestnuts and cinnamon roamed through the city and the Christmas lights above them twinkled in the night sky. Ali walked with her arm in the crook of Emily's elbow and watched as the brunettes eyes lit up when she saw the huge Christmas tree in the town square in front of them.
"This is so beautiful" The brunette beamed with a sparkle to her eyes.
"Like you." Alison looked up at her girlfrien, giving her signature dimpled smile. 'Girlfriend' Ali thought to herself, 'Emily is my girlfriend'.
The brunette lowered her head to meet Alison's and took her lips in hers. Alison breathed deeply into the kiss and kept her eyes closed briefly once it ended. The blonde then dropped her head and smiled as her and the brunette made their way towards the park at the end of the street.
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After the train ride into the city the girls went straight for their 6:30 reservation at the French restaurant, the same one where they had their first date all those years ago.
Dinner at 'the Eiffel Tower' has been amazing. They spend most of the walk towards the restaurant reminiscing about their first date and the days that followed when they told all their friends and family about their relationship. Once Aria came home from Savannah they all had a girls night in Ali's house. That's when Ali and Emily told them that they had decided to be together and their friends were beyond happy that the soulmates had finally found their way to each other.
After dinner they walked to the same park they had on their first date and sat on the same bench they did on that special night all those years ago. It was kind of surreal that this would probably be the last time they get out together before the twins arrive.
Soon after the movies they headed back towards the train station and were just on time for the train back to Rosewood, which Ali was immensely happy about because her feet were starting to swell up from all they walking they had done tonight and she couldn't wait to sit down on the train and enjoy the quiet and peaceful ride back home.
They girls took the seats towards the empty carriage at the end of the train. Emily had her right arm wrapped around Ali's shoulder and her left arm rubbing circles on the blondes stomach. Ali sat with her head resting in the crook of Emily's neck and her hand gently scratching the brunettes bare thigh.
"Tonight was amazing babe. Thank you" Ali grinned.
"Anything for my beautiful wife" the brunette whispered, placing her face into Ali's hair and breathing in the smell of the coconut shampoo.
Ali moved her head away and took the brunettes lips in her own. The kiss quickly became heated when Ali ran her tongue across Emily's bottom lip, begging for access. The blonde quickly sat upright and trailed her hand up Emilys skirt where she began gripping her thigh harder and harder as her lips peppered kisses along the brunettes jawline and and down towards her neck.
"I want you right now baby" Ali rasped against the chemistry teachers neck.
"Hmmm" is all Emily could respond as the blondes hand trailed further up her thigh.
Ali's lips made their way back to Emilys and she resumed their passionate kiss. Emily ran her fingers through the silky blonde locks and then cupped Ali's face with both hands while Ali's fingers began circling her inner thigh.
"Ali" the brunette whispered, running her hands down to Ali's shoulders. "Babe" she practically moaned before reluctantly pulling away from the heated kiss.
Ali cleared her throat and pushed the brunettes hair behind her ear 'Yeah'
"We need to stop" Emily chuckled as Ali continued to pepper kisses around her neck.
"There's no one here" the blonde whispered, moving her hand dangerously close to Emily's center.
"Babe...You know how hard it is to stop once we go there"
"Come on Em, take the risk, have a little fun" Ali chuckled, biting her bottom lips and gazing lustfully into Emily's eyes with her free hand scratching the back of the brunettes neck.
"I want you more than anything right now but I really don't appreciate an audience" Emily nodded her head towards the security camera that was pointing right towards them. "Anyway you now how much more fun it will be if we wait"
The blonde trailed her hand away from Emily thigh and sat upright in her seat with a loud sigh. "You have a point"
Emily found herself squeezing her thighs together for the majority of the train ride home trying to get some pressure in her throbbing centre as Alison done everything in her power to make Emily want her even more, from sensual yawns to small touches, even letting out a loud moan as she took a gulp of her bottle of water.
Once Emily pulled their white SUV up outside the house she immediately captured Alison's lips in hers for an insanely heated kiss. The brunette reluctantly pulled away to get out of the car and she met Alison in front of the bonnet where the blonde slammed her against it and ran her hands up her skirt while their tongues battled for dominance. Alison pulled away, grabbing Emily by the hand and leading her up the steps to the front door where they crashed their lips together once again.
"Open the door" Ali moaned into Emily's mouth.
Ali began gently sucking on Emily's pulse point as the brunette rummaged through her bag for the keys. Once she had them in her hand Alison swirled her around and grinded her back against Emily's front while Emily tried desperately to get the key inside the front door as fast as she could.
Once inside the house Emily kicked the front door closed with her leg and gently pressed Alison's body up against the wall at the end of the stairs. The brunette pinned Alison's hands above her head and ran her free hand up Alison's dress.
"Your not wearing any underwear" the brunette panted against Ali's lips.
"Pulled them off in the car" Ali let out a loud moan as Emily groped her bare ass. "Figured I'd make it easier for...for you"
"Upstairs...now" Emily panted out against the blondes face, untangling herself from Ali's body and allowing the blonde to interlock their fingers and lead them upstairs to the bedroom.
At the top of the stairs the couples lips met in another crashing kiss and the two stumbled to the bedroom where Ali slammed the door with her foot and pinned Emily against it. Both women quickly kicked off their heels and Ali immediately began undressing the brunette, pulling her jacket off her shoulders and unzipping her dress. Once both women were completely undressed Alison cupped Emily's face with both hands and took her in for another passionate kiss as they made their way towards the bed. Once on the bed, Alison pushed the brunette onto her back and pinned both her hands above her head as she crawled between Emily's bent knees. The blonde then trailed open mouthed kisses around Emily's chest and down towards her breasts. Emily arched her back and let out a deep moan as Alison teeth began gently tugging on her nipple. The brunette managed to get her hands free of Alis grip and she quickly pulled Alis face against her own, sliding her tongue across Alison's bottom lip, begging for access. Both tongues battled for dominance while Emily slid both hands down Alis back and gripped tightly on her ass. The blonde tangled her fingers in the dark curls and began trailing kisses down Emily's neck and around her collar bone. The chemistry teacher lifted her hips against Alison's bump to try to get some friction where she needed it most as Alis lips made her way down the brunettes body, placing passionate kisses around her stomach and smiling into the tanned skin as she felt her wife shiver underneath her.
"Ali" Emily moaned as the blonde placed a circle of kisses around the tanned stomach. "Ali please I need you"
"Tell my what you need baby" Ali whispered against Emily's toned abs.
"I need you to fuck me" the chemistry teacher pleaded before moaning at the sensation of the blondes hands trailing down to her breasts.
"Hows this" Ali breathed through open mouthed kisses below Emily's belly button as her fingers ran through Emily's soaking folds.
"I need you inside of me" the brunette moaned.
After a few more moments of teasing the blonde inserted two fingers into Emily's entrance. The brunette inhaled a deep breath and let out a loud moan as Alison pumped her fingers slowly in and out of the her. Ali kissed the spot right below Emily's hips before moving over and hovering above her centre. The brunette gripped the bedsheets with both hands at the sensation of Alis tongue lapping against her clit. The blonde felt as if she herself was going to fall apart at the sound of Emily's breaths leaving her body in short moans.
"Faster" the swim coach panted out with an arched back and her head pressed firmly against the white pillow.
Alison pumped in and out of the brunette faster and faster while Emily's fingers tangled in the blonde locks. Emily pulled the blondes lips towards her own as she felt her orgasm approaching fast and strong. Alison hummed into the kiss and curled her fingers inside the chemistry teacher before dragging them down her front wall. Emily's hips began moving lazily under the blonde and Ali used her thumb to rub circles around her wifes clit when she felt the brunette tighten around her fingers.
"Keep going" Emily moaned. "I'm so close"
"Come for me" Ali whispered against the tanned neck while squeezing the brunettes breast with her free hand.
"Alison" Emily moaned as her orgasm rippled through her body. The blonde watched as the brunettes mouth hung open in a loud moan. She continued moving her fingers in and out of Emily as she rode out the pleasure of her orgasm. "Fuck" the brunette panted out.
Alison removed her fingers and lay back onto the bed, both women taking a few moments to catch their breaths.
Emily looked lovingly into the blue orbs, her chest heaving as she tried to control her breathing. "Your turn" She rasped with a wide smile before moving towards her wife and crashing their lips together.
It was a Tuesday Morning and Emily woke up to the familiar sight of golden hair splayed across the pillow. She picked up her phone on the bedside table to see a reminder on her screen, the reminder for the day she had been looking forwards to the past few weeks, their last ultrasound before the birth of their daughters Ellie and Madison. The brunette looked at the date and a wide smile broke across her face. May 1st. She was well aware that by the end of this month there would be two beautiful little babies occupying the bassinets near the window.
Everything was becoming surreal now. The nursery was set and ready for two little princesses - although her and Ali decided that the twins would sleep in with them for the first few months. Both car seats were installed in the car and had been since the day after the baby shower, the hospital bags were packed and ready to go by the bedroom door and the groupchat was on high alert since Ali could in fact go into labour any day now. It was a little after 6am and the morning sun was peeking through the gap in the curtains. Their appointment was at 9am and even though Emily could stay in bed for at least another hour since she had taken the day off work, she decided to get up and make her and Ali breakfast.
When Ali woke up she heard babbling in the kitchen over the music that was playing in the background. She followed it, and the smell of freshly made pancakes down to the kitchen where Emily was standing in front of the cooker, her hair pulled back into a messy bun and her baggy sharks swim coach t-shirt falling off her bare shoulder. Ali watched from the kitchen door as the brunette flipped pancakes with one hand and whisked the batter with the other while singing one of their favourite songs - I wanna dance with somebody by Whitney Houston.
Oh! I wanna dance with somebody
I wanna feel the heat with somebody
Yeah! I wanna dance with somebody
With somebody who loves me
The brunette continued singing the lyrics loudly and Ali tried to hide her chuckle when Emily started shaking her hips and raising her hands above her head. When her arms began to wave in the air Ali had to dodge her head to keep clear of the pancake batter that flew off the whisk towards her.
The lyrics of the song continued to echo around the room and it was when Emily started humming that the blonde walked up behind her. Emily flinched when her wife wrapped her arms around her body, but quickly smiled when she felt Alis bump against her back.
"Damn girl you can danceee" Ali sang into her wifes air. Emily blushed at the thought of being caught in the act but quickly brushed it off and turned to face her wife, grabbing her by the hand and twirling her around. The two sang and danced to the end on the song and Emily quickly took the blondes lips in hers while the last line played through. The thought that very soon they will be swaying around the kitchen, one baby on each of their shoulders while the playlist of some of their favourite songs plays in the background brought a smile to both of their faces.
The next night, Ali and Emily lay in their bed, both of them sleeping soundly. That was until just after 2am when Ali felt a kick against her stomach, a kick with so much force that it knocked the air out of her. She quickly sat up in the bed and clutched her bump, a worried expression plastered on her face. Then another kick shook her stomach, this one just as strong. It was when Ali ripped the covers off her and noticed the wet patch on the grey bed sheets below that she really started to panic.
"Emily, Em wake up quick my...my water broke" she yelled while frantically slapping the duvet that covered the brunette.
Emily jumped up so quickly that she saw black dots in her line of vision. "Oh my god, okay, everything's fine don't...no need to panic. Don't panic" she yelled while switching on the bedside lamp.
Ali groaned loudly as a shooting pain made its way through her stomach. "I'm….i'm not panicking" she moaned while rubbing large circles around her bump.
The blondes eyes followed Emily as she ran quickly to the window and picked up the two sets of clothes she had set out for her and Ali in case something like this happened and they had to rush to the hospital. After shoving on her own clothes in less than a minute she helped Ali to the bathroom where they worked as a team to change her into a black leggings, white flowy top and long baggy cardigan. Emily quickly gathered everything they needed to bring with them while Ali slipped her swollen feet into the black adidas slides she had been living in the past few days.
"Ready" Emily breathed with the large hospital bag hanging off her elbow and Alis Louis Vuitton backpack on her shoulder.
Ali scratched the back of her neck and scanned her eyes around the room, keeping her gaze held on the two pink bassinets near the window. "Ehmmm...Yeah, yeah I think so"
"Don't worry, everything is going to be fine" Emily whispered with a reassuring squeeze on Ali's shoulder. She cupped Alis face with her free hand and placed a lingering kiss on the blondes lips "Let's go meet our girls"