Anything Can Happen

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KRISTEN

I opened my eyes, and promptly shut them at the bright sunshine streaming in through the window.

I shifted in bed, and screamed when I felt one of the babies kick. "Rob!" I shouted.

He ran up the stairs, and came into the room. "W-What's wrong?"

I smiled, and reached my hand out for him. He raised a brow in confusion. I took his hand, and placed it on my abdomen. A few seconds later, I felt another little flutter hit my walls. I laughed, and Rob smiled up at me. "That's incredible."

He took my face in his hand, and kissed me.

I sat at the kitchen table, looking warily at the waffles Rob made. He cut one up for Lily, and I was amused that's she didn't eat it either. She stared at it, and played with it in her hands, but didn't eat it.

"Uhh, honey, I don't think waffles is your specialty." I said jokingly.

The doorbell rang, and I hurried to get it, hoping it would get me out of eating those disgusting waffles. I loved my husband, I really did. But he didn't have a knack for cooking. At all. Anything.

I opened the door, and squealed when I saw Nikki. I hugged her, and she walked in. Rob walked in with Lily, and smiled at Nikki.

Nikki squealed at Lily, and Rob came over to her. "Hey Nikki." He greeted.

"Hey, Rob. How are you?"

"Never better." He winked at me.

"Can I hold her?" She asked.

"Yea, sure." He said, and gave our daughter to Nikki.

"Hi!" She cooed. Lily looked at her, and smiled. She was growing a few bottom teeth, so when she smiled, you could see little white squares.

"You are a cutie, yes you are!" Lily looked over to Rob, and reached her hand out for him.

He picked her up, and brought her to the TV, and put on Baby Einstein's, and sat her in her bouncer.

He came back over to us, and properly hugged her. "I missed you guys!"

"We missed you to." I said.

"So...tell me everything." She said excitedly.

Rob looked back and forth between us, and decided it would be a good time to go and clean up the uneaten burnt waffles.

We went and sat down on the couch. "Well?" She rushed.

"The sex was amazing." I emphasized. She laughed, and I smirked.

"Well...it's Rob, of course the sex is amazing."

"So, do you know what you're having?"

"No, we're going today."

"Oh, do you need me to baby-sit?"

"Do you mind?"

"No! We'll have a great time!"

We were sitting in the waiting room, waiting to be called. Rob was sitting next to me, looking at a particular poster about breathing techniques during delivery.

I giggled, and crossed my arms over my chest. He looked over at me. "What?"

I looked up to the poster, and then back at him. He chuckled. "Does it hurt?"

"Is your name really Robert Pattinson?" I asked sarcastically.

"I'll take that as a yes."

"Pattinson?" The nurse asked.

We got up. Rob put his hand on my back, and led me into the exam room.

I sat on the table, and leaned back. The technician asked me to raise my shirt.

"I hear you two are having double the trouble?" She asked.

Rob smiled. "Yes, we are."

"Would you like to know the sex's?"

I looked to Rob, and he nodded. "Yes." I replied.

She smeared the jelly onto my swollen abdomen.

She ran the mouse over my belly, and two heartbeats soon filled the room. "Well, there are your babies." She said happily.

I squeezed Rob's hand, and smiled at the screen.

"There are the hands, and the feet." She pointed to them on the screen.

"And, it looks like you've got two new men in the house. Congratulations."

I smiled, and looked over to my husband, who looked like he just saw a ghost. "Rob?"

He looked at me. "Two boys. Love, two boys."

I laughed. "Yea, I know. I heard the nurse."

He didn't seem enlightened. "Our house is going to become a monstrosity."

I giggled, and got up from the table. "Let's go home." I said chipper.

When Nikki left, Rob, Lily, and I sat on the couch in the living room. I placed Lily down on the floor, and looked over to Rob. "You know...It isn't' the worst thing in the world."

"Kristen!" He whispered.

"What?" He looked down to Lily, so I did too. I almost fainted when I saw my daughter crawling.

"She's crawling!" I squealed.

I was amazed, upset, and jittery at the same time. My baby was growing up. She was already crawling. Next thing you know she's going to be driving! Okay, so maybe I was getting a little bit too ahead of myself. But really, what mother doesn't obsess over their child's growth?

Lily looked up at me. "Bug's crawling!" I came up with the nickname 'Ladybug' a few nights ago, and just started calling Lily it now.

Rob chuckled, and rested his cheek in his palm. "Can you believe it?"

While Rob and I were obsessing over our daughter crawling, Lily was just roaming the floor as it was something she had been doing her whole life. She finally plopped down on her bottom when she reached her bouncer. She stood up, and I immediately went to her, and put my hands on her sides. She reached up to the bouncer, so I picked her up, and put her inside. I pushed the bouncer down, so she could bounce, and turned back to Rob. She just stood up. As if crawling wasn't enough.

I sat back down, and leaned my head on Rob's shoulder. I know she's only eight months, but I felt like she was five years old. I didn't want my baby to grow up yet. I wanted her to stay in her small, helpless state, unknowing of the outside world.

ROB

My daughter was crawling. My sweet, helpless, tiny, eight month old daughter was crawling. It should seem natural for her to be crawling, but to me, I just felt scared. She was growing up already. She was evolving from not being able to fully put her hand into a fist to crawling around on the floor.

I quietly walked out of the bedroom, hoping not to wake my angelic wife. I walked carefully into the nursery, and sat down in the rocking chair next to the crib.

"I know I've said all these things to you before, but you were barely eight weeks old. I want you to know how much I love you, and how much you've taught me. As I watch you everyday, every little thing you so. The way your eyes flutter when you sleep, and the way you brush your hand across your face in your sleep, and the way you laugh when you see red trucks go by. You teach me things everyday. I never thought I could love anyone the way I love you. Sometimes it scares me. It scares me how much I love you; how much someone so small could cause such big emotions. I would die for you, Lily. Both you, and mommy. Maybe there is not limit to how much I love the both of you, because you see bug, you're mommy gave you to me. And without her, I wouldn't have you, and I don't want to think about a life without you. And to think I would have been living one without you kills me."

I reached into the crib, and stroked her light bronze hair.

"I remember the night I found out you were coming. I got a call from your grandma. Yeah. She told me mommy wouldn't like me very much if I came to see you, but I did it anyway, because I love you more than anything in my life. You and mommy mean the world me to me. Lily, I want you to know that no matter what happens in the future, I want you to have something to hold onto. I hope you can hear me because baby, I want you to know how much I love you. I must have said that so many times, hu?"

"Rob, it's 3 A.M." I heard from the door. I looked over to Kristen. She was wearing an old tank top, black lace boy shorts, and one of my old black and green plaid shirts that came to her mid thigh. Her hair was slightly disheveled from her sleep, and her lips were pink, and pouty. She was simply beautiful.

It was then that I realized that I had been crying. I got up, and wrapped her up in my arms. "I love you." I whispered into her hair.

She sighed, "I love you too."

She let me go, and looked into my eyes. "What's wrong?"

I shook my head, and took her back into my arms. "I want you to know how much I love you and Lily, and the two lives you have growing inside of you. I love you so, so much."

KRISTEN

It was nine thirty in the morning, and the fucking door bell rang. I got up out of bed, not bothering to get dressed, and went downstairs to the door.

I opened the door, not believing who I saw.