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Hey you guys! Sorry for the wait, I had a ton of stuff to do this week and I was exhausted. I hope you like this chapter, I think the beginning is sort of slow, but I like the end! Enjoy and thanks for all the reviews!
Amber
Lincoln and I followed the doctor out in the hallway nervously, he hadn't said a word since he asked us to step outside and neither had we. Stopping when he got far enough out the door he turned to us and looked down at his clipboard. "Well, I have some good news!" my heart jumped and my mind raced at all the possibilities. Lincoln was standing next to me and he straightened up at the doctors words, listening intently. "Your nose is only fractured, not broken! The healing process will be much quicker than it was when you broke it." While I was glad to hear that I didn't have to get my nose re-broken and set again I was a little disappointed with the good news.
Lincoln was too, I could tell by his body language. He sort of slumped his shoulders and put on a not all there smile. Grabbing his hand I smiled as best I could without sending my face into a throbbing pain. I knew what he was feeling, it had been months since we lost the baby, and months since we had started to try for another, but nothing had happened. He squeezed my hand and went to turn back into the room after saying thank you to the doctor.
"One more thing," he smiled kindly at the both of us and Lincoln reluctantly turned around to listen. I watched him out of the corner of my eye, he was leaned up against the wall, trying to look interested. "As you know we conducted those blood tests just to make sure everything was alright with you," I nodded my head and felt my palms get sweaty at the impending news. The doctor paused for another second, much to my annoyance, "Congratulations, you're going to have a baby!"
Those were the words I needed, we both needed. The words that were denied us last time and we didn't get to know about until it was too late. I squealed and turned to Lincoln who was hiding his face in his hands, he grabbed me and pulled me up into his arms so he could spin me around. We were being so cliché, if Bec had been out there she would have thrown up everywhere, but you know what? I don't care because I was having a baby and I wasn't going to lose this one this time, Lincoln and I were going to be parents. I was kissing Lincoln despite the pain that was spreading from my nose, I couldn't decide if I was crying because of the pain or the happiness. Let's go with happiness.
A throat cleared behind us and Lincoln placed me softly on the ground before he kissed me on the forehead again. "You're about 2 and a half weeks along," the doctor informed us and patted me on the arm and shook Lincoln's hand. "You're going to have to be careful because we still don't know the cause of your first miscarriage, but I feel like this will go smoothly for you!" I wrapped my arms around Lincoln's waist again and pressed my face into his chest smiling happily at our news. "I'll just leave you two alone then," I turned my face into his chest and listened as the sound of the doctor's shoe squeaking on the floor disappeared around the corner.
When we were alone in the hall Lincoln picked me up again and I wrapped my legs around his waist. Leaning up against the wall he held me up with his arms under my thighs, I smiled down at him. "I love you," I told him before I took his face in my hands and kissed him, "and I missed you. Holy shit we're gonna be parents!" he laughed at my stating the obvious and held me closer to him.
"I love you too," his voice was husky and he scrunched his nose to the side and sniffed.
"Are you gonna cry too," I asked him jokingly. Right then the door to Beca's room opened and Jesse and Hayley's heads appeared around the door trying to find us.
Hayley saw us first and she elbowed Jesse to get his attention and then pointed at the two of us wrapped up together, "Public displays of affection aren't allowed in hospital hallways, you two horndogs." She and Jesse laughed then pulled their heads back into the room and snapped the door shut. Lincoln sighed happily and put me down again and then slid his hand into mine before he dragged me into the room. "Oh look they want to grace us with their presence!" Hayley fist pumped then high fived Beca whose face was contorted in pain as she went through yet another contraction.
"I kind of don't want Hayley here," I murmured to Lincoln. Said red head's jaw dropped and she crossed her arms angrily, I skipped over to her and pulled her into a hug, which she returned rather reluctantly. "I'm just kidding, shorty, I love you!" kissing her on the forehead I went back to Lincoln and he stood behind me with his arms around my stomach, I entwined our fingers and he rested his chin on my shoulder. "So guess what?" everyone shrugged their shoulders, it had been a long day, no one was in the mood to guess things. "We're pregnant!" I beamed at my friends who looked shocked for half a second before they came to congratulate us.
"Wow, Lincoln, you're gonna love being pregnant and all the changes your body will go through," Beca was laughing from her bed at her own joke.
"Aw, shut up, Beca," I went over to give her a hug and playfully slap her in the face, she had another contraction. "I hope that hurt," I hissed in her ear.
When it passed she flipped me off and knitted her eyebrows together for a second while she looked me over. "You look like Ross Geller when he got hit in the face with a hockey puck," she finally decided on saying.
I plopped down in the chair next to her bed and pulled my knees up to my chest to get more comfortable, "You've looked like Shamu for the past few months. Plus you did this to me, Moby Dick," I motioned to my face and stuck my tongue out at her.
"Bitch," she mumbled and ran her hands over her stomach.
"Shit face," I retaliated. The three other people in the room looked back and forth between us like a tennis match. Beca and I were completely unfazed by anything and went about our conversation, "Hey, babe, when you pop all them out we need to finish up the cd because we've been working on it for months." Everyone in the room laughed at the two of us, "What?"
"You guys are weird," Jesse said while he sat down in an open chair. "You just got done calling each other 'bitch' and 'shit face' and now you're calling each other 'babe' again...its weird," he laughed and I rolled my eyes and turned my attention back to my best friend.
3 hours later
"You need to pick names, Beca, it could happen any minute now!" I was laying next to Beca on her bed, Jesse was sitting in the chair next to us with his feet propped up and Lincoln was going through some film on his laptop. Hayley had left about and hour and a half before because her family was coming to town in a couple days and she needed to clean her house...I think she was just bored. Hayley never voluntarily spends her time cleaning.
"It's not gonna happen in a minute, Amber, we've been here for hours and nothing has happened!" she crossed her arms and glared at the ceiling like it was the cause of all her problems. It was true though, more stuff had happened with me than had happened with Beca's vagina in four hours. "I am tired of having four babies inside of me! I have been five people for like 7 and a half months! I want to be one tiny person again!" She slammed her hand against the bed and rolled her head over to look at me, Jesse was trying not to laugh in his hand. "Jesse, can it! The next time you have four humans growing in your uterus you can laugh."
"Jess, when you get a uterus can we put you in a freak show?" I teased and Beca slapped me...she really slapped me. "Okay. Ow. That hurt. You need to pipe the fuck down, Beca. Just give it a little more time...although if we're here any longer you might pop out full grown adults. But for serious, you two need to pick names for your children or I'm calling DSS. Now I called all of your parents and they should be here sometime today and I think they want their fucking grandchildren to have names damn it!" I got up and went across the room to go sit in Lincoln's lap and Jesse leaned forward to start suggesting names.
"I don't know how to name a kid, let alone four! I mean we named our hamster Clint-"
"God rest his soul," I offered.
"Amber."
"Beca."
"Shut the fuck up," she snapped at me. I laughed at her and snuggled down into Lincoln's lap to watch them. "Can you two go away so we can do this? You're making me really uncomfortable." Grumbling Lincoln and I got up and trudged down the hall.
"You'd think they were about to have sex the way she made that sound," I said to him and he burst out laughing before he grabbed my hand and pressed the down button on the elevator. The doors dinged open and within two seconds there was a flash of red and blonde and I was getting suffocated in hugs. "Oh my God, you guys! I was wondering what was taking so long, Mrs. Edwards," I added when Chloe and Aubrey took a step back from me beaming. They started to talk but I silenced them. "Guess what! We're pregnant!" I pretty much shouted at them before they could even take their first guess.
Aubrey almost picked me up she was so excited, "Oh my God this is the best day ever! It's your 22nd birthday, Chloe and Noah got married, and now you and Lincoln are gonna be parents! I- I just can't-" I leaned around Luke's shoulder while he was hugging me to look closer at my sister.
"Bree, are you crying?" I laughed happily and moved on to hug Noah and Chloe.
"Noo," she sniffed heavily and Lincoln hugged her. "I just...um can we go see Beca?" She grabbed my hand and started to pull back where Lincoln and I had just vacated.
"No. She and Jesse are either having sex or choosing baby names...Link and I got kicked out. But please do tell about the wedding!" We all lot back into the elevator when a doctor left beca's room and called for more people. "Oh god it's happening!" once again we piled out of the elevator and mde our way down the hall.
the door was pushed open before we got to it and Beca was pushed out in her bed with Jesse running along next to her holding her hand. They made their way to the delivery room and we all followed. When we got to the room the door was slammed in all of our faces. "Only immediate family in the delivery room, sorry," a man with scrubs on told us before he pushed open the door and the shut it again.
"Well shit."
Beca
I've dealt with pain before. I've dealt with being scared. I've dealt with being alone.
Ive never dealt with someone else's life that is entirely in my hands. Scratch that, four people's lives. Lucky for me, despite the pain and the fact that I felt like the lower half of my body was being ripped open, I had Jesse next to me the whole time. He had quickly changed into scrubs and was standing at my side while the doctors told me what to do.
A lot of things were happening, a ton of doctors and nurses were moving around the room, things were getting prepared for the babies and the main doctors were saying things I wasn't really listening to. After a few minutes the main doctor clapped his hands and said we were ready to begin. "Jesse can you help keep beca's knees up," if it was any other time and I wasn't about to push four babies out of my vagina, which surprisingly enough had never had anything that big in it before, I would have found that funny. But alas there I was getting ready to push four living breathing things out of me.
Jesse was pretty calm, but I was freaking out internally. Plus I was really sweaty and I just knew this was going to be the most disgusting thing I had ever done. Obediently Jesse pulled my leg back as far as he could and yep there was a everything I had to offer on display for the public. "Do you want the mirror to see what's happening?" Someone asked me.
"Hell no. Do you want me to throw up everywhere?" I made a face when Jesse put too much pressure on my knee. He apologized and kissed my forehead.
"Alright. Push." Thus my hell began for 7 and a half minutes before anything substantial happened. "okay we're crowning. You're doing great Beca, just keep pushing." The first time you have sex is really weird. It's this really strange and painful feeling that you're not used to, yet it's still not satisfying until like the 15th time you fuck. Having a baby is the same feeling, except there's no way to describe how completely and utterly happy I was just to hear that my first born was making her appearance.
A frail little cry rang through the air and i felt tears spring into my eyes. jesse looked over my thigh and then immediately retracted his head and looked like he might throw up, "Oh my God," he repeated this over and over and was scared to look back for awhile.
"Here comes a shoulder, Beca, I need you to really push hard for me now." I did what he asked and felt something really weird happening that I can't explain. "Almost there, big push big push." And then I had only three babies in me. "We've got a beautiful little girl!" The smallest baby I had ever seen in my life was held up wriggling and crying in the doctors gloved hands. She was placed in a blanket and placed in my arms for a second, just long enough for me to see she had jesses nose before she was taken from me. "We'll clean her off and then Jesse you can cut the chord!"
He looked a little sick at the thought but nodded his head before he got on tiptoes to look over people's shoulders to see his baby. "Beca, she's beautiful." He whispered just loud enough for me to hear before he turned around to wipe my face of all the sweat and give me a kiss. "I love you." I got to wait a few minutes while 1 was getting cleaned and then Jesse was called over to cut the chord. "This is gross," I heard him mumble.
"3 1/4 pounds and 13.14 inches," I heard a nurse say before she placed my baby in my arms again.
jesse was at my side again, "Hi baby girl," she had been screaming her head off but as Soon as she was in my arm she stopped and quieted down. "Oh my gosh shes perfect, Jess." He kissed my head and smiled again while he rubbed my arm.
"Ready for the next one now," the baby was taken from me and shuffled off somewhere I didn't know and I got ready to start pushing again. "Annd...push." And it started all over again. Within 10 minutes our oldest son started to cry out and then he was held up for us to see. He kicked his legs around and reluctantly got swaddled in a blanket and I got to hold him for a few seconds.
"He looks like you, Bec-"
"We've got the next one coming right now we can't wait, you've got to push," just as soon as I got him he was taken from me and Jesse was holding my hand and my knee again. "Beca, you need to push...now," I pushed with all the strength I had left and almost cried when I realized I still had another one inside of me. Funny enough my stomach was decidedly smaller. "Beca, push! Okay we've got a head, keep pushing, Beca," it was silent this time and it scared me, but I kept pushing. "Almost there, one more, good job." My youngest son was handed off to someone else besides me right away, there was no noise and no flailing limbs.
"What's wrong with him?" as much as I tried to sound composed it came out a little hysterical. Jesse had left my side to try to see him, but his way was blocked by an army of doctors and nurses. My doctor wiped the sweat off his face and didn't answer me. "What's wrong with him?" I said louder and wasn't answered again. "DAMN IT WHAT'S WRONG WITH HIM?" I was sobbing by this point and Jesse ran back to me biting his lip and breathing deeply to stay focused, there was a sound like a vacuum in the background.
While Jesse smoothed down my hair and wiped my face again dr...um Buchanan looked at me from between my legs, the first time an attractive man between my legs didn't have an affect on me. "Beca, right now we just need to worry about the last baby okay? He's gonna be fine, just focus right now, I really need you to concentrate on your last baby and then we're done," I nodded my head between tears and Jesse squeezed my hand reassuringly. "Get ready, push now," I bit my lip and pushed my hardest yet, I tasted blood in my mouth and swallowed it back and continued to push. "Okay."
"Good job, baby, keep going," Jesse rubbed my thigh and looked back down to see our youngest being born. This time he didn't retch, but continued to encourage me. I leaned forward and pushed like I'd never pushed before. Another little cry broke through the air and I collapsed back on the pillow. A little bundle was in my arms and I looked down to see my fourth baby, happy and healthy. She had a lot of light brown hair and she squirmed around in the blanket.
Someone came to take her from me, "Can I have a second please?" the lady nodded her head and stepped back. Sitting up a little more I looked down at my daughter who was still crying, "Hey, baby girl. Shh, stop crying, mommy's got you. Mommy's right here," after a couple second she stopped screaming and I held her close to me and kissed her on the forehead, she was definitely the littlest of them all. In the silence that followed I heard something that made my heart leap, another cry finally shattered the silence, all the breath spilled out of my body and my youngest was taken from me. "Jess," I called my boyfriend over and he sat down heavily next to me, "I love you."
"I love you too, you did great, Bec," he pressed his face into my hands and smiled happily. "Hey, I'm gonna go let everyone know the five of you are okay," he got up and kissed me on the forehead and then went out the door.
"Hey, Buchanan, is he okay?" I motioned exhaustedly over to the group of people surrounding my four babies.
"Well, he wasn't breathing when he came out, but we suctioned his airways and he started to breath on his own. He'll be fine. The other three are prefect, but they're all going to be in the NICU for at least a month. It's nothing serious, but they were born a month and a half early, that's normal with multiple births though." At the beginning of his little spiel I felt my world crashing around me, but then I started breathing again at the rest of his news.
"Girl 1: 3 1/4 pounds, 13.14 inches. Boy 1: 3 3/5 pounds, 13.11 inches. Boy 2: 3 pounds, 13.06 inches. Girl 2: 2 3/4 pounds, 12.42 inches." They were tiny. But healthy and I was happy, but tired.
45 minutes later
Jesse and I were sitting side by side in bed each holding two babies. I had our oldest girl and our youngest boy, he was doing great now, his eyes were wide open and he was making cute little noises while she slept soundly next to him. Jesse was staring in awe down at the two he had. "Bec, we're parents," he had said this like 20 times in the last ten minutes, I laughed and kissed him quickly on the cheek. This was seriously the best day of my life.
"So we're agreed on the names?" he nodded his head and ran his finger over the boy's nose. "We should let them come in now, I bet Amber's practically peeing in excitement." The nurse that was in our room went to the door and right when it opened the six of them tumbled in excitedly. Amber's eyes were all read, apparently not knowing what was happening to her best friend proved more than a little difficult for her. "Hey you guys!" I smiled brightly at them all as they crowded around the bed oohing and awing at the babies.
"Mitchell, they're beautiful!" Aubrey leaned forward to give me a kiss and glance down at the babies in my arms. Chloe squealed excitedly at the girls blue eyes and kissed me also. Luke, Noah, and Lincoln were all standing around complementing the babies and being typical boys. Only Amber hadn't said anything.
"Ambular, you okay?" I smiled up at her and she nodded her head silently and held back from crying as she looked at my babies.
"Oh my God, I can't believe you guys are parents," she finally choked out.
"You want to hold one?" she stepped forward eagerly and took the girl from my arms. "Be caref-" she rolled her eyes at me as she expertly cradled her in her arms and talked quietly to her.
"Names?" she asked with a huge smile on her face.
"Well you are holding out eldest right now, and her name is Parker Olivia. Chloe is holding baby two and his name is Jesse William, Jr. Aubrey has number 3 and his name is Lane Patrick and finally Lincoln has Rory Grace," my three best friends all squealed excitedly and I leaned up against Jesse. He got up quickly and went to go get Parker, he said something to Amber and she giggled excitedly before handing her off. There was a shuffle and he walked slowly back to me with her and a smile on his face.
"I love you," he said seriously and handed her to me. Taking her in one arm I looked down at her and then quickly looked back up at Jesse, he was still smiling nervously. I gently pulled a black diamond ring from her tiny hands.
