Chapter 3
On June 14, AC 199, I made one the biggest decisions of my life. After two wars, one death, and the terra formation of a baron planet, I finally swallowed my pride and married the love of my life, Lucretia Noin. I though my "wild" life was over. I thought that the day that I traded my mask and my Tallgeese for a ring on my finger would mean that I'd be totally changed. I was wrong. Rather, my life has gotten more exciting. Before Lucretia and I were just a team. Now we more.
In July we moved out of my small apartment into a larger house. Preventer housing is provided by the government. Single officers are provided with small one bedroom apartments (mine had two bedrooms because Lu and I always lived together). Preventers with families were given moderate sized housing depending on their needs. Any way, around late July, early August, Lucretia and I attended our first social gathering since our marriage. To my surprise (along with all the other former Gundam pilots) Wu Fei got married. The ceremony was beautiful, as was the bride. A Chinese beauty by the name of Jiang Hu Chow. Lu stole the attention be making an announcement that even I did not know about. She informed our closest friends that she was two months pregnant. Oh, how I was beaming. I can remember Relena asking how much I had to drink at the wedding. I can also remember complaining to Lucretia about how much my face hurt when we went home.
I waited in anticipation for my first child to be born. During the course of Lu and my first year together we got new neighbors (Wu Fei and Jiang Hu moved in three houses down from us), was let out of the loop, (Relena and most of the other Gundam pilots stopped communicating with us), and formed our own group (Wu Fei, Jiang Hu, and Sally Po regularly came over for a social night). Wu Fei and Jiang also had good news. Jiang, too was pregnant. Perhaps Sally felt left out, maybe she felt that she'd never meet the right man, but what ever the reason Sally announced that she was adopting a child. Sally adopted a little girl name Nell. Sally always raised Nell as if she had given birth to Nell herself. I expected nothing less of Sally.
March 6th came and I must admit, I wasn't ready. Lucretia was going into labor and I was in a panic. I never thought it could be so scary. I drove her to Preventer Hospital (again provided for us by our wonderful world government) and waited through a horrific (well, horrific for me) fifteen hour labor. At one in the morning on March 7th my daughter Adele was born. I can still remember the first time I held little Adele my arms. She was so small. Such a miracle. I never felt so proud of my accomplishments in my life.
A week later Lu and I brought Adele home. Sally had already been there, getting the nursery ready. Jiang Hu had made us dinner. And Wu Fei did some thing no one expected him to do (he was just full of surprises back then). Wu Fei managed to get a few of the Gundam pilots and the "Gundam girls" together to celebrate Adele's coming home. By a few, I really do mean a few. Relena, Hilde and Duo came over. At the time I didn't really mind.
Four months later Jiang Hu and Wu Fei were in Lucretia and my shoes. And we did the same for them as they did for us. Lucretia made dinner for them. Sally got the baby's room ready. And I tried my best to contact a few Gundam pilots. I did worse that Wu Fei. I got Quatre, and Duo. The Changs came home with the newest addition to their family, a son named Chin Xue.
Those days in the past were great. The Changs would come over for barbeques and lawn darts. Okay, not really. Wu Fei and Jiang Hu would bring over Chin Xue and he and Adele would play. We all thought it was adorable, well, not Wu Fei. The two babies seem to become fast friends.
Yes, those were the days.
On June 14, AC 199, I made one the biggest decisions of my life. After two wars, one death, and the terra formation of a baron planet, I finally swallowed my pride and married the love of my life, Lucretia Noin. I though my "wild" life was over. I thought that the day that I traded my mask and my Tallgeese for a ring on my finger would mean that I'd be totally changed. I was wrong. Rather, my life has gotten more exciting. Before Lucretia and I were just a team. Now we more.
In July we moved out of my small apartment into a larger house. Preventer housing is provided by the government. Single officers are provided with small one bedroom apartments (mine had two bedrooms because Lu and I always lived together). Preventers with families were given moderate sized housing depending on their needs. Any way, around late July, early August, Lucretia and I attended our first social gathering since our marriage. To my surprise (along with all the other former Gundam pilots) Wu Fei got married. The ceremony was beautiful, as was the bride. A Chinese beauty by the name of Jiang Hu Chow. Lu stole the attention be making an announcement that even I did not know about. She informed our closest friends that she was two months pregnant. Oh, how I was beaming. I can remember Relena asking how much I had to drink at the wedding. I can also remember complaining to Lucretia about how much my face hurt when we went home.
I waited in anticipation for my first child to be born. During the course of Lu and my first year together we got new neighbors (Wu Fei and Jiang Hu moved in three houses down from us), was let out of the loop, (Relena and most of the other Gundam pilots stopped communicating with us), and formed our own group (Wu Fei, Jiang Hu, and Sally Po regularly came over for a social night). Wu Fei and Jiang also had good news. Jiang, too was pregnant. Perhaps Sally felt left out, maybe she felt that she'd never meet the right man, but what ever the reason Sally announced that she was adopting a child. Sally adopted a little girl name Nell. Sally always raised Nell as if she had given birth to Nell herself. I expected nothing less of Sally.
March 6th came and I must admit, I wasn't ready. Lucretia was going into labor and I was in a panic. I never thought it could be so scary. I drove her to Preventer Hospital (again provided for us by our wonderful world government) and waited through a horrific (well, horrific for me) fifteen hour labor. At one in the morning on March 7th my daughter Adele was born. I can still remember the first time I held little Adele my arms. She was so small. Such a miracle. I never felt so proud of my accomplishments in my life.
A week later Lu and I brought Adele home. Sally had already been there, getting the nursery ready. Jiang Hu had made us dinner. And Wu Fei did some thing no one expected him to do (he was just full of surprises back then). Wu Fei managed to get a few of the Gundam pilots and the "Gundam girls" together to celebrate Adele's coming home. By a few, I really do mean a few. Relena, Hilde and Duo came over. At the time I didn't really mind.
Four months later Jiang Hu and Wu Fei were in Lucretia and my shoes. And we did the same for them as they did for us. Lucretia made dinner for them. Sally got the baby's room ready. And I tried my best to contact a few Gundam pilots. I did worse that Wu Fei. I got Quatre, and Duo. The Changs came home with the newest addition to their family, a son named Chin Xue.
Those days in the past were great. The Changs would come over for barbeques and lawn darts. Okay, not really. Wu Fei and Jiang Hu would bring over Chin Xue and he and Adele would play. We all thought it was adorable, well, not Wu Fei. The two babies seem to become fast friends.
Yes, those were the days.