Hey there! Here is the next chapter of Fairly Foolish! I hope you all enjoy this chapter! Please read and review! And let me know what you think of the babies' names. Yep that's right, you finally find out the twins' names!

Amanda

Chapter 24: Ready, Set . . .

September 19th

"There, perfect."

"Are you sure?"

"Ezra, its fine, don't make me get up off my fat ass and come over there." I responded from my spot in the gliding rocking chair in the corner of the nursery. Ezra was across from me, standing recklessly on a four foot tall ladder over the cribs as he hung the letters for the babies' names.

"You do not have a fat ass." Ezra climbed down from the ladder and moved it over to the over crib. "How does Benjamin's look?" He asked, stepping back to get a better view.

"Perfect. Now Lila's name." I handed him the pink and green damask letters, and he climbed back up the ladder to hammer in tiny nails.

"It looks amazing." I complimented, when Ezra was done. The babies' names were the last thing to be hung and it completed the gender neutral, pea green nursery. Hanging over the espresso colored dresser and changing table that matched the cribs, were vintage themed pieces of artwork that Ezra's parents had gifted to them at the baby shower.

"Is it what you imagined?" Ezra asked.

"Better than what I imagined." I smiled. I glanced up and noticed the time on the clock. "Shit, Ezra, we have to go. My appointment is in thirty minutes. Come help me up."

"Do you need to get ready or anything?"

"I'm too pregnant to get any more dressed up than shorts, a t-shirt and a messy bun." I noted.

"Alright, should we bring the hospital bag just in case?"

"It's already in the car; we took it with us when we went to last week's appointment."

"Right, okay, let's go then." I shook my head, a smile playing across my lips as we headed out the door. I had hit the 36 week mark three days ago so I could deliver the twins at literally any minute. I was up to two appointments a week since I was dubbed full-term by my doctor and she wanted to make sure that the twins were still healthy and that everything looked okay. If anything was off she would schedule an immediate induction, something I was hoping at all costs to avoid. I had read enough throughout my pregnancy to know I wanted a natural delivery. My goal was to even go without the epidural, but I was willing to let that slide if I absolutely couldn't handle the pain.

My cell phone rang as Ezra was getting on the freeway. The caller I.D said Momma.

"Hey Ella."

"Hi, baby. What are you up too?"

"Ezra and I are just on our way to my doctor's appointment."

"Oh yay! I can't wait for my grandbabies to be here, tell Lila and Ben they need to hurry up!"

"Mom, we don't want them to come quite yet, they need to bake a little longer." I said, causing Ella and Ezra to laugh.

"Alright, well call me when you get out of the appointment and let me know what the doctor said okay?"

"Alright Mom, I will."

"Okay sweetie, love you."

"Love you too."

Ten minutes later we were sitting in the doctor's office, patiently waiting for the nurse to call me in.

"What would you think if Dr. Hartly told us the babies would be here by the end of the week?" I asked Ezra.

"I would probably think, 'Holy shit.'"

"That's it?"

"That's it."

"Is that an excited 'holy shit' or a 'we're not ready yet' holy shit?"

"Hmm . . . both." Ezra was leaning in to kiss me when the nurse walked through the door.

"Excuse me, Miss Montgomery? Dr. Hartly is ready to see you."

Ezra and I followed the nurse into an examination room. She ran through our normal routine of checking my blood pressure, heart and lungs and asking questions about how the pregnancy was going. A few minutes after she departed, Dr. Hartly knocked on the door.

"Come in." Ezra and I said at the same time.

"Hello, how are we today?" Dr. Hartly asked, entering the room.

"Good." I replied.

"That's good. Alright well today we're going to do another ultrasound and an internal exam to see how things are moving along. Have you been experiencing any contractions?"

"I've had a few in the past week or so."

"Okay, how frequent and on a scale of 1 to 10, with 1 being the least severe and 10 being the most severe, what was the pain?"

"They were infrequent, kind of off and on. And I would say a 3 or 4." I explained as I lay down on the exam table, the white paper on the table crinkling beneath me.

"Okay," Dr. Hartly nodded. She hooked me up to the monitor and the sound of two heartbeats immediately echoed in the room as she placed the ultrasound probe on my stomach.

"Good, the babies' heart rates are perfect, and it looks like they are doing great. You do appear to be having some light contractions though. I'm going to do the internal exam now." Dr. Hartly wiped the probe clean, placed it back in its slot and then moved to the end of the table. After a few uncomfortable minutes she stood up from her stool, tossing her gloves in the trash and washing her hands.

"Alright Aria, you are about 2 centimeters dilated, and roughly 20% effaced. You could realistically deliver these babies any day! But until then I'm going to put you on bed rest, that way you are not stressing the babies out and we can let them bake a little longer. So that means letting Ezra wait on you as much as possible. Only get up if you absolutely have to and obviously to shower and use the restroom. And as for that I will see you two back here next week!" Dr. Hartly explained with a smile.

"Thank you Dr. Hartly." I said, sitting up to put my shorts on.

"You're welcome, have a great afternoon."

"Thank you, you too."

October 2nd

The next couple of weeks on bed rest slowly drug by. My days were spent getting ahead in my online classes, of which my teachers had been kind enough to send me a whole two months' worth of work the day class started. I was currently two weeks ahead of schedule, which would be nice for when the twins came considering I probably would begin to fall behind. And from Dr. Hartly had said at my appointment on September 25th, the twins were getting even closer to making their debut. I had been three centimeters along, and just over 60% effaced. I had been scheduled for an appointment yesterday as well, but had canceled it due to not feeling too well.

It was currently around four o'clock in the afternoon and I was waiting for Ezra to arrive home from work any minute. I had been having consistent contractions all day, timing them informed me that they were between ten and fifteen minutes apart. I knew I was at the start of labor. In between the contractions I was keeping focused on my homework, trying my best to get even another day ahead. As I was reading a section for history I heard the door open and shut, and Ezra's key's being dropped into the bowl on the table where we kept small items. I heard his feet shuffling down the hall a few seconds later.

"Hey, beautiful, how are you? Have you been having contractions still?" Ezra asked, coming over and sitting down on the bed beside me. He leaned over and placed a kiss on my swollen belly.

"I'm good. Yeah they seem to be getting closer together now, between eight and ten minutes apart."

"Should we go to the hospital?"

"No, Dr. Hartly said not to even call unless they were five minutes apart or if my water broke. I think we will be seeing these babies within a day or two though." Ezra smiled as I said this.

"Alright, well you just rest and I will go make some dinner. Okay?" He leaned in, kissing me long and slow on the lips before kissing my belly again. "And you two be nice to your mother."

I laughed. "I don't think they can be too nice at this point."

"Well, hopefully they won't be too mean then." Ezra grinned.

He headed into the kitchen to being making dinner. Feeling like I had to pee, I clambered out of bed as carefully as I could. As I began walking to the bathroom I expected the mild contraction that caused my stomach to harden, but what I wasn't expecting were my clothes to suddenly become drenched with water. My water had broken.

Kind of a little cliffhanger there but baby Lila and Benjamin are on their way! I hope you all enjoyed this chapter and please please review and let me know what you think of the babies' names!

Next time: The babies make their grand entrance and you find out their middle names!

Amanda