Chapter 3
Three weeks pasted and it was time for Lucy's next appointment. By this time Lucy was starting to show a little bit, which was a bit unusual. Kevin had taken the day off so that he could spend the day with her.
"Luce, you ready?" Kevin asked her.
"Yeah, just a sec," Lucy responded. After a few minutes, Lucy and Kevin were out the door and on their way to the hospital.
Once they got to the hospital, Lucy checked in and waited in the waiting room for her name to be called. It finally was and she and Kevin followed the nurse back to a room. A few minutes after the nurse had exited the room, Dr. Jacobs came in.
"Hi Lucy, how have you been feeling?" Dr. Jacobs asked Lucy.
"I have been having a lot of morning sickness lately," Lucy told Dr. Jacobs.
"Okay, lets take a look," Dr. Jacobs told Lucy. With that, Dr. Jacobs rubbed some gel on Lucy's stomach to do the ultrasound.
While doing the ultrasound, he discovered something that he had not seen before.
"Lucy, have you been noticing any change in your weight over the past three weeks?" Dr. Jacobs asked her.
"Yes, I have. I was going to ask you about that," Lucy responded.
"Lucy, Kevin," he said.
"Yeah, what's wrong?" Lucy asked immediately.
"Lucy, calm down, nothing's wrong," Dr. Jacobs told her.
"There is just a second head hiding behind the other. You're going to have twins, which would explain the weight gain," Dr. Jacobs told Kevin and Lucy.
"Twins!" Kevin and Lucy said excitedly.
"Would you like to know the sexes of the babies?" Dr. Jacobs asked Kevin and Lucy. Lucy eyed Kevin for the answer. He gave her a reassuring nod.
"Yes," she told Dr. Jacobs.
"You are having two girls," he told Lucy and Kevin.
"Girls!" they both said excitedly. With that, they left.
When they returned home, Lucy and Kevin immediately called a family meeting.
"I am going to have twins," Lucy announced happily to her family.
"That's great Luce," Mrs. Camden said after a few moments.
"Wait, there's more. We are having twin girls," Lucy added.
"Well, Congratulations Luce," Reverend Camden told his daughter as he hugged her.
"Congratulations Luce," Simon said getting off the couch and hugging his older sister.
"Congratulations Lucy," Ruthie told her older sister as she hugged her. Meanwhile, Kevin just sat in the background and smiled at what was going on, he couldn't be happier...for him or for Lucy.
After the family meeting was adjourned, Lucy went to her and Kevin's garage apartment. Once she got there, she dialed a very familiar number.
"Hello," a voice one the other end of the line said.
"Hey Sarah, is Matt there?" Lucy asked her sister-in-law.
"Sure, hold on," Sarah told Lucy. A few minutes later, Matt got on the phone.
"Hello," Matt said.
"Hey," Lucy told him.
"Hey Luce, how are things going?" Matt asked his little sister.
"Good, really good actually," Lucy said with excitement in her voice.
"What do you mean?" Matt asked her suspiciously.
"I mean, I have some great news," Lucy said.
"Well, what is it?" Matt asked anxiously.
"I had a doctor's appointment today and I found out that I am going to have twin girls," Lucy told her older brother in an even more excited voice.
"That's great Luce, Congratulations," Matt said.
"Thanks Matt, I love you," Lucy told him.
"I love you too Luce," Matt told her as they hung up.
Next, Lucy dialed another very familiar number. The phone rang three times before someone answered.
"Hello," the person on the other end of the phone said.
"Hey Mary," Lucy said to her sister.
"Hey Luce, how are things going?" Mary asked Lucy.
"I'm glad you asked," Lucy told her.
"Why?" Mary asked in hesitation.
"Because I have great news," Lucy told Mary excitedly.
"Well, what is it?" Mary demanded.
"I had a doctor's appointment today and I found out that I am going to have twin girls," Lucy told her sister in an even more excited voice then before.
"That's great Luce, Congratulations," Mary told her sister happily.
"I can't wait to be an aunt," Mary continued.
"Speaking of which, how are you doing?" Lucy asked her sister.
"I am doing fine. I have a doctor's appointment tomorrow. Ben is take -" Before Mary could finish the sentence she was cut off.
"Is everything okay?" Lucy asked in horror.
"Yeah, calm down Luce, everything is fine. I am just going in for a check up," Mary reassured her sister.
"Good," Lucy said, sighing with relief.
"As I was saying," Mary continued, "Ben is taking a day off of work to go with me," Mary told Lucy.
"Well, that's good, and I'm sorry that I got so concerned about you," Lucy told Mary after a few moments.
"It's just that if anything ever where to happen to you or anyone else in this family, I don't know what I would do. I love you so much Mary," Lucy continued.
"You have no need to apologize Lucy, I understand how you feel and I appreciate you being so concerned about me," Mary told her sister.
"I love you too, and I don't know what I would do if anything were to ever happen to you or anyone else in this family either," Mary told Lucy. After a few minutes they hung up.
A few minutes later, Kevin came up the stairs to their apartment.
"Whom were you talking too?" he asked in suspense.
"Were you listening?" Lucy asked jokingly.
"Come on, tell me," Kevin urged.
"Okay, Okay, I was talking to Mary," Lucy told him. Just then, the phone on the nightstand rang.
"Hello," Kevin said as he answered it.
"Hi Kevin, this is Detective Michaels. They need you at the police station right away," Detective Michaels told Kevin.
"Okay, I am on my way. Thanks," Kevin said quickly as he hung up the phone.
"Who was that?" Lucy asked Kevin once he was off the phone.
"That was Detective Michaels. They need me down at the station right away," he told his wife in a rush. Lucy was going to ask why, but decided that it was best not too, at least not right now.
"Bye," Lucy said.
"Bye," responded Kevin as he rushed down the stairs.
About a half an hour later, Kevin came home.
"Is everything okay at the station?" Lucy asked him.
"Now it is," Kevin simply said.
"Do you want to go out to dinner tonight?" Lucy asked Kevin after a few minutes.
"Sure" Kevin told Lucy.
"I was thinking that we could invite Roxanne and Chandler to join us," Lucy told Kevin,
"I mean if that's okay with you," Lucy added.
"Sure, that would be fine, but I am not sure that Roxanne will be up to it," Kevin told Lucy.
"Why?" Lucy asked.
"Because she just got off of a six hour shift at the police station. She was there when I was called in," Kevin warned Lucy.
"Well, it's worth a shot," Lucy told Kevin.
"If you think so," Kevin told Lucy. With that, Lucy picked up the phone and dialed Roxanne's number.
"Hello."
"Hi Roxanne," Lucy said into the phone.
"Hi Luce," Roxanne said.
"Do you and Chandler have any plans tonight?" Lucy asked Roxanne.
"No, why?" Roxanne asked.
"Would you and Chandler like to join Kevin and me at the promenade for dinner?" Lucy asked.
"Sure, that would be great," Roxanne told Lucy.
"Okay, meet us there in about fifteen minutes," Lucy told Roxanne.
"Okay, thanks Luce," Roxanne said.
"No problem," Lucy told Roxanne as they hung up.