A/N: Post Myri and Me. Enjoy and do let me know what you think!
Terrified
She watched his expression change from laughter to eye-widening shock in the split-second it took for the words to escape her lips. He had been making one of his usual teasing jokes just a moment before.
She just stood there, searching his clear blue eyes, biting her lip and waiting for his response. She had rehearsed this scene in her mind a thousand times, anticipated his shock, but now that she was faced with it, she realized it terrified her. She needed him to hold her, to tell her that everything was going to be alright, that he would be there for her no matter what.
The silence surrounding them was deafening.
And suddenly, he sprang up, engulfing her in one of those hugs that would take her breath away.
"Myri," he breathed, "Oh wow! Are you sure?"
She looked up and nodded.
His grin was light-years wide, but it did nothing to ease the thumping of her heart.
"Ben...I'm scared."
She knew she should be happy, but the discovery had been simply too overwhelming.
"Aren't you?" she asked him. She needed to know it wasn't this freaky just for her.
Ben's grin never wavered for a moment. If possible, it might just have grown wider.
"Terrified."
He rested his hand on her still-flat stomach.
"Just tell me it's not twins!"