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I heard Tank and Lester talking behind us, and one of them made a sound that was something like a giggle. Lester started singing, "Ranger and Diesel, sittin' in a tree…" while Tank hummed along.

I felt Rangers hand tighten in mine and I leaned over and whispered in his ear, "They just want a reaction. Don't give them one." I didn't have to say it to Diesel, he gave a nod when I looked over at him and I knew he'd been spying on my thoughts again. The rest of the tour went well and the prissy girl in me definitely preferred this over the hospital in Trenton.

Ranger made arrangements for me to give birth here and the doctor asked us if we'd like to make arrangements to stay if it happened that I was put on bed rest in the hospital due to the twins. I looked at Ranger and he nodded. We didn't anticipate that being a problem but I guess it didn't hurt to make sure we had a plan in place.

The rest of a night passed in a blur as I became more and more tired. I ate and tried to watch a movie with Ranger and Julie but didn't quite make it. Ranger carried me to bed and went back to the living room to finish up the movie. I woke up when he came back into the bedroom and smiled as he put on PJ's. We'd found out that with a kid in the house you always wore PJ's. Ranger now had PJ bottoms with the batsignal all over them. He still slept without a shirt. I got really hot and I usually slept in shorts and a sports bra. I cuddled up next to him and fell back asleep.

Julie woke me up in the middle of the night. I looked at the clock and panicked, "What is it sweetie? Are you okay?"

"I'm okay. Can you come with me?" Julie asked softly. I got out of bed as quickly and quietly as I could, which at twenty-six weeks pregnant with twins wasn't very quick or quiet.

Ranger stirred and lifted his head. "Waz wrong?" Ranger hadn't been sleeping very well due to my tossing and turning all night, but he refused to let me sleep somewhere else.

"Nothing, go back to sleep." I followed Julie to her room and she paused, she looked at me nervously.

"Er…Stephanie? I got my period," she said quietly. I stood dumbfounded for a second.

"Uh…are you okay? What do you need me to do?" I asked. Cripes. Was that the right thing to ask? I thought I'd have another twelve or thirteen years until I needed to deal with this. And I had no idea what Julie knew or didn't know."

Julie nodded, "I'm fine. But do you have any…uh…you know?" My sleep deprived brain made the connection.

"Oh…uh…" Crap, I'd been pregnant since we'd moved into this house. "Hold on." I walked back to our bathroom and rummaged through my stuff and finally found one single pad at the bottom of a cosmetics bag. I walked back and gave it to Julie. "It's the only one I could find; I'll get dressed and run to the store. Is that okay?" Julie nodded and I went to put on some clothes. One of them men would have to drive me. I was no longer allowed.

Ranger woke up again as I was pulling on my shirt, "Babe? What's going on? Where are you going?" Crap what was I supposed to tell Ranger?

"To the store. Julie just became a woman." Ranger looked at me with a blank face.

"What?" He asked and rubbed a hand over his face and through his hair.

"She got her period. You need to call Rachael tomorrow and find out the extent of Julie's knowledge. I'll be back soon." I kissed Ranger quickly and left him sitting there looking as if someone had told him the earth was really flat.

I took the elevator down to the control center and waved to Cal. "Who can you spare? I need to go to the store."

Cal looked at me suspiciously, "We're not supposed to take you out to get food."

"I don't need food, I need lady products."

"You can't fool me, you're pregnant, you don't need lady products when you're pregnant." Fuck. Leave it to the man who had a flaming skull tattooed on his forehead to know that.

"They're not for me Cal."

"Well they sure as hell aint for Ranger," He said. I saw the wheels trying to turn in his head and made the 'and then' motion with my hands. "No! Our little girl. Oh god. Take Vince."

"Vince! You're with me."

"We're not supposed to get you food anymore." Cripes. I started walking towards the elevator, Vince catching up to my waddle quickly.

"We're not getting food."

Vince helped me into an SUV and I strapped myself in. Ten minutes later we were at Target. I grabbed a basket and Vince followed me, making sure I didn't break down and open a bag of Oreos while in aisle five. His eyes widened when he saw what we were buying and he looked around to make sure no one was watching. I got a few different things, not knowing what she'd like and took my purchases to the front. The only checker was a pimply faced teenage boy.

He looked at my stomach and then at the box of tampons he was holding and raised an eyebrow. Christ. I nodded towards Vince who was looking through a People magazine which brazenly claimed that Brad had cheated on Angelina and gotten Jennifer pregnant. "She's post cosmetic surgery but she hasn't done the big one yet, it embarrasses her to have to buy these," I said in a whisper. Vince threw me a glance and I tried to look innocent. I swiped my AMEX and Vince followed me out of the store.

"What were you talking about with the cashier?" He asked as he boosted me up into the SUV.

"Oh nothing…"

I delivered Julie her bag of goodies and made sure she was okay before climbing back into bed. Ranger put a hand on my stomach and commanded the babies to not grow up so fast and fell asleep. I finally got comfortable by turning sideways on the bed and draping my legs over Ranger's waist. There was a knock and the door opened. The position must have looked naughty.

"Oh…crap…I can come back later."

"Diesel what do you want?" I asked grumpily. I had almost been asleep.

"I don't feel good." And then Diesel threw up on our floor, causing me to sit up and throw up on Ranger.

Ranger looked even more stupefied than he had earlier.


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