(Two updates in one day ;) Hope you enjoyy)
Connie sat staring at a plant in the corner of the small waiting room, she was due for her first baby scan any minute now. Cal was next to her slowly rubbing his thumb over the back of her hand, he was talking to her but she wasn't listening, she was anxious that something would be wrong, maybe she still wasn't eating enough. Infact, she knew she wasn't eating enough despite upping her intake to one meal a day. She'd watched a total of five women leave since she had been here, each smiling at the pictures in their hands, each with a glow that could only be described as golden. She knew she didn't have a glow. Instead she looked in the mirror each morning greeted by her grey complexion and the growing bags underneath her eyes. Most of the time she didn't bother with make-up anymore, being pregnant was a huge strain on her body and Connie couldn't remember if it had been this bad when she was pregnant with Grace. She'd been forgetting a lot of things lately actually, maybe I should ask the doctor about that she thought.
Connie let her eyes wonder and then focused on a poster with one corner falling from the wall, it had a picture of a baby boy. She looked at Cal, his eyes were focusing on a different poster, with a baby girl on it.
"Do you want a boy or a girl?" she asked.
"A boy." said Cal.
Silence. Connie returned to taking in her surroundings, most of the women were younger than her and Connie seemed to be the only one in the room who was more anxious than excited. A door opened and a woman stepped out, she was crying and a man was comforting her. Connie felt her chest tighten and she prayed she wouldn't find herself in the same position, it would kill her.
Ten minutes later and the same door opened again, a woman in a white nurses uniform stepped out and read from a clipboard, "Mrs. Beauchamp?" she called. Connie stood up with Cal and followed the woman into a small examination room where a female doctor with blonde hair was sat waiting. She reminded Connie of her counsellor.
"Hi, I'm Dr Walker, could you sit on the bed for me, and there's a space for your husband over there."
"He's not my husband." replied Connie quickly, earning her a look from Cal.
"Oh, sorry, I just assumed... Anyway, this is your first scan, correct?"
Connie nodded and looked at Cal, he looked hurt.
"Right okay, this gel is going to be cold." said Dr Walker and she lifted Connie's top slightly before squirting the gel onto her stomach.
It took Dr. Walker a few minutes to position the scan properly. 'She's hopeless.' thought Connie and she could tell by the look on Cal's face that he was thinking the exact same thing. Finally, the doctor smiled and turned away from the monitor, "I have some news, you're having twins!"
A few minutes later and the couple left the room, both still too shocked to speak.
"I uh.." started Cal. "This is good news, right?"
"Yes. Just a shock." mumbled Connie before taking his hand. "If they're both boys I think I'll cry, having two mini versions of you running round the house."
Cal smiled and kissed her cheek. "I'm already outnumbered by you and Grace, we need to think of some names."
"Yes, we do." said Connie getting into the passenger seat of Cal's car.
When they returned home they sat at the kitchen island with an array of baby naming books and magazines but after an hour they still hadn't found a single name that they both liked.
"I have an idea." smiled Cal mischievously. "Over the next week we have to record the first name of every patient we treat, then at the end of the week we'll see if there's any we both like."
Connie liked the idea of a challenge, she wanted to be the one to find perfect names for both of the babies. "You're on."