Chapter 45

An hour later she was finally dilated to ten centimeters and her doctor had arrived. It was time to start pushing. The problem was Liiani was so tired that she couldn't push.

AJ encouraged her by helping her to sit up and telling her how proud of her he was. She snorted as the contraction ended, "Pride doesn't help me squeeze these babies out!"

"No, my love, I expect it doesn't but I know you can do this and before long we will know if we have two boys or one of each."

She suffered through another contraction before saying, "Or two girls. Remember Vince and Collette thought they were having a boy before Haley was born."

"True, but then we are in trouble because we don't have two girls names picked out."

"Okay Liiani on the next push we should have the head of the first baby delivered, so I am going to need a really hard push," her doctor told her.

Liiani looked up at AJ with pleading eyes. AJ moved behind her to help her sit up. He whispered how much he loved her as she pushed hard.

The doctor was happy with her effort and told her that one more push would have the baby with them. Three minutes later they had a son.

Liiani fell back on the bed as AJ cut the cord and then looked down in amazement as they placed the baby on her tummy.

"Thank you for a beautiful son," AJ told her as he stroked the baby's head. "And if we do have a daughter next, thank you for having him first so she won't tease him like Adel did me!"

She couldn't help but giggle at that but halfway through she gasped and her eyes flew to the doctor. The nurse took away their son to weigh and measure him, as the doctor told Liiani it was time for round two.

Twelve minutes later Robert's sister was born. This time Liiani was almost too tired to even look at the baby they put on her tummy. "You should call the family," she whispered.

"I think I'll wait until you've had a nap and then we can call them together."

She only heard the first part of what he'd said. Liiani fell asleep halfway through his comment.

While Liiani slept AJ went down to the nursery for a report on the twins. Both babies were under five pounds. Robert was four pounds ten ounces, and Rebecca was four pound four ounces. The nurse reported that both were healthy and should be fine. Liiani had been put in a room and AJ settled into a chair to wait for her to wake up.

The quiet of the room was broken when Liiani's cell phone rang. Reaching into her purse to try and stop the ringing before it woke her, he quietly said, 'hello' into the phone.

"AJ? I thought I hit Liiani's number first. Oh well, no matter I'm sure you can tell her the news," Vince's excited voice greeted him.

"We were going to call you with news too," AJ told him as he saw Akaliiani's eyes flutter open.

"What news?" both of them asked at the same time.

"Go ahead," AJ told Vince politely.

"Well, I was calling to tell you that Collette woke up a few hours ago."

"That's fantastic news!" AJ told him, and passed the news along to Akaliiani. She grinned happily and reached for the phone. He handed it to her and sat down again.

"That is so awesome Vince! Has she seen Harley yet?"

"The doctors are still checking her out, but as soon as they are done I'll take her to the nursery. Now didn't AJ say that he had some news too?"

"We wanted to let you know that you were an Uncle once again."

"Oh sis that's great! But you're early! Is the baby alright?! Are you?!"

"Yes, were all fine."

"That's great then! Did you have a boy or a girl?"

"Yes," she answered with a giggle.

"You aren't going to tell me?"

"I did!"

"Wait a minute! Did you guys have twins?!" Vince exclaimed.

"We did, please don't say anything to Pops. I want to tell him myself."

To be continued…..