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Chapter 9

Tommy was checking his watch. It was nearly 8pm. They had been shopping 6 hours now. Kimberly was attempting to strap him into a baby harness again. This was the 2nd mall they had been to today. The second mall! Tommy always use to have nightmares about Kim's shopping frenzy, and being back, shopping with her again, he couldn't help but feel that sicking scared feeling all over again

"Hold still please!" She went around his back again. Tommy was squeezing a baby toy in her face at every chance he could, making her laugh. "Hold up!" She closed the final strap. "How does this one feel now?" Kimberly asked. Tommy groaned.

"Shouldn't you be trying on this?"

"No! You are the Daddy." Tommy laughed as Kimberly took his toy and placed it into the pouch. She gave the pouch a shake. "Think the baby will like this?"

"I don't know," Tommy said with a smile.

"Need any help?" A clerk came over to them finally.

"Uh, just looking," Kimberly said.

"Shopping for yourself or..."

"Yes, uh, we're, I'm pregnant."

"Well, congratulations! First one, I see."

"Yeah." Tommy touched Kim's belly then put his arm around her shoulders. "How can you tell?"

"Always the first time Daddys get the pouch test." They all laughed. "And the toys."

"We probably seem silly huh?"

"No, not at all. All first time parents are this way. It's a joyous time, especially the first one. Would you like some help?"

"Yeah, which books would you suggest?"

"There are many. Follow me." Kimberly smiled. Tommy squeezed the toy in Kim's face. He put his arm around her again, as they followed the clerk.


"Should I breastfeed?"

"Huh?" Tommy looked over to see Kimberly looking at different pumps.

"I mean, don't you have to for at least the first few months?"

"I wasn't."

"Yeah and look at you."

"Hey!" She laughed.

"Don't the boobs sunk when you do?"

"How am I supposed to know?" Kimberly handed over another small pamphlet that was free of charge. "I did read that though somewhere."

"I think I want to breastfeed."

"Okay. You know, you can always try on me."

"As if!" She hit his chest. "I hope my boobes get huge!" Tommy smiled.

"Your boobes are just fine."

"But you wouldn't mind them bigger, right?" Kimberly arched her eyebrow at him.

"I love them just as they are." Tommy kissed her on the lips.

"Maybe I should get implants to see."

"Kim!" She held up her breasts and jiggled them at him. Tommy's eyebrow arched. "Come on."

"Can we get this?"

"Sure." Tommy took the baby toy she picked out. "Anything else?"

"There is one last place in this mall, we haven't gone yet."

"Where?"

"Pregnancy clothes!" Tommy groaned loudly. He brought the few items they picked up before heading to the 3rd Maternality Clothing Shop.


Kimberly held up some floral pants. "Promise me, I won't get this fat!"

"Okay."

"Kill me if I do!"

"Okay!" Kimberly held up some tops to her.

"Everything is bland, I want flare...style...grace not..." Kimberly saw Hayley. She gasped. "Oh my god!" Tommy went to look back, when she grabbed his arms and pulled him down to squatting on the floor with her.

"What?"

"Hayley!" Tommy went to raise up, but Kimberly pulled him back. "No!"

"Okay. Why are we hidin...?"

"SHhhh! She doesn't know about our baby yet! She won't be too happy!"

"Of course she will! We are married now!"

"I know and she seem happy at the wedding, but...it's still unfair to throw our relationship into her face. I have an idea." Kimberly pulled down some clothes and dragged him into the dressing room. Kimberly closed the curtain quickly. She poked her head out and gasped as Hayley saw a friend in the store and went to talk to her. "Shit! We can't leave until she goes."

"This is ridiculous! We should just go tell her now. I'm going to..."

"Oh, no you're not!" Kimberly pulled Tommy's arm back when he went to leave. "Are you crazy! She can't find out this way!"

"Why should it matter! Married people tend to start a family!"

"We will tell her, but not today! Please!"

"Fine." Kimberly held his face. She smiled. "What?" She kissed him.

"Thank you," Kimberly said. Her eyes had that sparkle as she smiled at him again.

"What?" She kissed him again, slowly and passionately. Tommy's arm went around her. "You want to, here?" Tommy gasped as she gripped his butt through his jeans. She gave him a nice squeeze before he cupped her face and kissed her this time. Kimberly pulled him down on top of the clothes in the room, still kissing. She sat on Tommy's lap, pulling at his jacket. Tommy's hands moved up to her thighs after he tugged her jacket off. Her blue halter dress pulled aside, as Tommy molded her into his hands. They made love right on the dressing room floor. Kimberly and Tommy dressed with kisses at each chance. When Kimberly got up, Tommy fixed her jacket on her shoulders. Tommy made sure his shirt was tucked in properly after rubbing her hair back. They hugged tightly. Kimberly opened the curtains.

"Were the pants to your liking, miss?"

"Uh, yeah. We are buying them."

"We are?" Kimberly looked at him. "Oh, yes, we are."

"Good." Tommy pulled out his credit card and paid for the pants and top.


"Did you see her face!" They both laughed as they exited the store. "She looked like she wanted to kill us."

"I know," Kimberly said laughing

"I think we shouldn't come back here until you are showing."

"I think that is best." They kissed. Tommy put his arm around her as they walked alone. Hayley was exiting a bookstore and saw the happy couple kissing. She noticed the baby bags purchased. She couldn't believe it, they were shopping for baby things, but Tommy hadn't told her, they wanted a baby so soon. Hayley decided she would ask Tommy sometime at school next week when they had tutoring together.


Kimberly was out getting some muffins that she was craving when she bumped into Hayley at the coffee store a few days later.

"Hey!"

"Hey!"

"How are you doing?" Kimberly asked.

"Good. And you? How's married life?"

"Eventful, many things happening very fast."

"I'll bet."

"Want to sit down?"

"Sure," Hayley said. Kimberly got her ice tea with her muffins and found a small table. "You sure like muffins."

"Yeah, well, been craving them for days. I mean, I really like them." Hayley smiled. "Besides, Tommy ate up all the doughnuts for breakfast today, so I'm stuck getting food."

"Surprised you aren't working?"

"On errands, what about you?" Kimberly asked.

"Oh, on break from my job at the Tech Corp."

"Amazing that you are working there so young."

"Yeah, I guess so."

"I mean, I did errands and graphic inputting in school but, you are dealing with technology that only Billy could understand."

"Billy?"

"Oh, he was friend of my, since grammar school. He was a genius."

"Oh, Billy Cranston, yeah, I've heard of him. A lot of the computer programs we work on, was created by Billy."

"Wow. Amazing. Was that something you always wanted to do? Be a tech?"

"Pretty much. Though, I did have this dream last night about opening my own coffee shop." Kimberly laughed.

"Really? A brain like yours working with coffee and muffins. No way!"

"Ridiculous, I know!" They both laughed.

"Though Hayley's Café does have a nice ring," Kimberly said with a huge smile.

"It does. So, um…I saw you and Tommy shopping a couple of days ago." Hayley sipped on her coffee.

"Yeah, we were. Tommy hates shopping with me though. Thinks it's maddening."

"Tommy told me about the tales of you and your shopping."

"I hope some of it was good?" Kimberly asked as she laughed.

"Not really." Kimberly laughed.

"Of course. Well, then… I guess I should tell you something."

"Tell me what?" Kimberly bit her bottom lip.

"I'm pregnant." Hayley looked at Kimberly. She smiled and laughed.

"I heard!" Kimberly let out a breath as Hayley squeezed her hand. "Tommy told me today."

"He did?"

"Yes! And he's really excited!" Hayley said standing up.

"Me too."

"Congratulations!" Kimberly hugged her.

"Thank you, I was just hoping that…you wouldn't be too..."

"Weird about it. You two are married. Tommy and I are friends, good friends and always will be. I was fool to think I could ever be with him, his heart obviously belonged to you and only you. I'm happy for you two. Completely. I hope, you know that, and we could become best friends too."

"Me too. I want that too."

"So, what do you want?"

"A girl of course!" They both laughed. Hayley and Kimberly talked and laughed together for what seem like hours.


By the time, Kimberly was about 3 months along, the couple had found out some unexpected news by the 13 week, beginning of her second trimester. Kimberly was pregnant, with twins.

It was the mid-May now, going into the third week of the month. Kimberly was 5 months pregnant, showing very much these days. Tommy would become an official graduate of college in just a little over a week. Then they both would be heading to Africa for Tommy's new job working along side Dr. Anton Mercer in 10 days. Tommy came back to the apartment around 4pm. He put his bag and keys aside on the counter and saw boards on the counter. Tommy went into the living room and found Kimberly asleep on the couch. A board against her chest and a few colored pencils in her hands. Tommy smiled and bent down to kiss her forehead. She moaned and looked up.

"Hey."

"Hey, Beautiful." Tommy touched her belly and gave it a snuggle with his cheek.

"What time is it?"

"Just 4." Tommy kissed her forehead again and sat on the coffee table before the couch. "What are you doing home so early?"

"I got sent home."

"Why? What's wrong!"

"Nothing, nothing!" Kimberly reached up and kissed him again. "I was just tired of waiting around and since we have to wait on fabric for a while, I was glad to go home and create." Tommy lifted the board.

"This is a nice dress."

"Thanks." She rubbed her belly.

"Well, you and my babies rest then. I'll make dinner." Tommy cupped her stomach and kissed it several times before he sat back.

"We need to go heavy food shopping."

"We leave in less than 2 weeks."

"We still have to eat in that time. I'm thinking steak tonight," Kimberly said.

"Steak?"

"Yeah, my babies want meat." Kimberly lifted the blanket from her waist and sat up better. Tommy saw the shirt she was wearing finally closely.

"Are you back in my closet again?"

"No!" Kimberly quickly covered her chest with a smile. Tommy smiled and kissed her again.

"Stay out of my clothes, Beautiful."

"Whatever. My feet are getting bigger!" Kimberly groaned as she tried to slip into some slippers before standing up.


Tommy went to the kitchen.

"The doctor told you that would happen, just all the water you are retending for our babies." He saw the list on the fridge and groaned. He opened the fridge and sighed. "Gosh, we do have nothing."

"I know, I made a list," Kimberly said.

"Yes I see," Tommy said going down the list. "I guess I will go now."

"Wait! Can you make sure and go over things we have now?"

"Of course. I'll tell you what we have, you rest."

"I'm fine." Kimberly got up, Tommy's shirt just falling in right way, more comfortable than her tops these days. She walked into the kitchen, her belly very much rounded with twins. She lost sight of her feet early 3 weeks ago. Her scream woke Tommy from his deep sleep. He was so frightened at her scream, but Kim's giggle made him so angry. She was laughing at the lost of sight to her feet, but Tommy wasn't laughing about being scared shitless from his dreams, though Kim's kisses helped calm his beating heart for a while.

"Go sit down."

"Oh, I've been sitting all day." She opened the fridge. "These babies need exercise been sleeping for a while now."

"Mommy exercises enough. They were kicking all morning, remember. You were mad about them waking you too." Tommy put his hand on her belly.

"Did I put juice down?"

"Yeah. You know what, I changed my mind. I can't keep calling them 'they'. I want to know, Kim."

"What?"

"What we are having! Boys or girls!"

"But we agreed!"

"Well, if Dr. Mara knows, why can't we? How can she know, and not us, their parents?"

"I want to be surprised. I love surprises, you know!"

"Fine."

"Add lemonade." Tommy did.

"Want some broccoli with steak?" Tommy asked.

"And yellow rice." Tommy added that as well. "I want something with sweet caramel now, oh and spicy sour." Tommy made a face.

"Uh, okay," Tommy said putting caramel on the list again, Kimberly having a huge fixation on caramel with nearly everything these days. She opened the cabinet. She struggled to reach a jar. She tried to lift herself to reach the second shelf. Tommy quickly went behind her and stopped her quickly. "What do you want?"

"Caramel."

"Then ask." Kimberly nodded. Tommy grabbed the small jar after kissing her cheek. Kimberly opened it and got a spoon. She pulled out her pickle jar and put some caramel on it.

"Yuck." Kimberly went to feed him a bite, but Tommy pulled away. "No thank you. I can wait for dinner." She shrugged and took another bite. Tommy had his own mood cravings with her, feeling the nausea and back pains as most fathers do.

"Can we get watermelon?" Kimberly asked getting more caramel.

"We have half of one still in the fridge!" Kimberly sighed when Tommy pulled it out. She shook her head. "What do you want?" Tommy surrendering quickly nowadays.

"Seedless watermelon."

"Fine."

"And yogurt."

"We have yogurt!"

"Good yogurt. Not the cheap 4 for a dollar kind. I want creamy to go with my broccoli." Tommy shivered, pregnancy craving were somewhat scary at times.

"Of course." Tommy wrote it down. "Anything else?" Kimberly finished her pickle and was just finishing a spoonful of caramel. She got a silly grin.

"A kiss." She raised her head up, lips puckered.

"Happy to oblige, wife." Tommy kissed her. She got caramel on his chin. Kimberly licked it off and got a groan from Tommy. Tommy stuck his finger around the rim of caramel and allowed Kimberly to suck it off. Kimberly placed her spoon into the caramel jar and put it on the table. She took the list from Tommy's hand and took his hand. Kimberly led him to the stairs. "Wha...where are we going?"

"Upstairs."

"For what?"

"A little game."

"A game?" Tommy took one step upstairs.

"Yes, a game, hubby."

"What about the groceries?"

"After the game."

"And what game is this?"

"Who comes first under the covers." Kimberly put both his hands at her waist and led him upstairs. Tommy smiled the whole way up to the bedroom. Kimberly held his face as they kissed and slowly fell to the bed. Tommy kissed her as they made love slowly and passionately.

Tommy was happy their sex drive hasn't dampened since the pregnancy. If anything since Kim's 4th and now 5th month, she has never been hornier. She loves waking Tommy to have sex with him. It was comfort for her and for him as well. He always assured her how beautiful she was, though she was pregnant, because to Tommy, she has never looked more beautiful, then now pregnant, belly poking out. Sometimes in the morning, Tommy would wake up and stare upon his wife. As she shifted in bed a bit, scratching her belly or groaning with any slight movement, Tommy couldn't help but feel blessed as he felt the babies' movements. He would lay with his head against her stomach, talking softly to them, his children. Life couldn't be sweeter. A wonderful wife with 2 babies on the way.

Tommy smiled as Kimberly's eyes were closing often, after they made love. She yawned and snuggled against him. He kissed her forehead rubbing her belly. A slight kick made him smile.

"Tommy?"

"Just sleep, Beautiful."

"Can you pick up some dry cleaning?" She mumbled.

"Sure." He kissed her again and got up. Tommy threw on some slacks to go out to the store. Tommy came home about 2 hours later with everything and started dinner shortly after that. Tommy hated food shopping alone, it always took so damn long. Kimberly seem to know the layout so well, she knew sales like the back of her hand.


Kimberly came downstairs in his tank top and boxers around that time. She was yawning and rubbing her belly as she walked into the kitchen with his huge flips flops, causing Tommy to smile at her sight. She looked so beautiful. Tommy cupped her face and kissed her forehead. "Hey."

"Hey, something smells yummy."

"Yeah, steaks on the grill. Rice is steaming up. Broccoli is nearly done. Maybe 10 minutes longer."

"I'll set the table." Kimberly went to getting dishes down. She reached for 2 glasses and stopped. Tommy turned drinking a beer and saw her legs buckle, as she grabbed her head. Tommy quickly caught her around waist to hold her up.

"Baby, what's wrong!" Tommy held her against him.

"Nothing, just a headache. Nothing more." Tommy sighed as he held her up. He pulled out a chair. She laid her head back to his chest. "It passed. I'm fine." Tommy made her sit down.

"You know I couldn't handle if something were to happen to you or our babies," Tommy said.

"I know." She hugged him as he was squatted before her.

"Maybe you should take some time off and rest. The doctor doesn't want to put you on bedrest, but she said she might have to, espeically with twins."

"All I do is rest after work! It's rather boring. I'll be leaving with you for 6 weeks, that's my entire vacation time. I am not overworking. If anything, my work hasn't suffered though I am chemically unbalanced!" She laughed, kissing him.

"That's my point, Beautiful. Your body is changing, I just want to keep you healthy, calm and rested."

"I am!"

"Are you? I know you didn't sleep much last night. Or the other night. You laid awake so much at night this past week."

"Just thinking."

"About what?"

"Nothing and everything. I don't know, my mind, it just… races at nights."

"The doctor wants you resting in bed, not thinking so much."

"Okay."

"Will you promise me you will slow down?"

"Yes."

"Thank you."

"You are the best husband a girl could ask for. I love you so much." She hugged him.

"I love you too." They kissed. She held his face, kissing him deeply. Tommy groaned as she sucked on his bottom lip, taking it between her teeth. Kimberly pulled away and pointed.

"Dinner."

"Oh! Nearly forgot. Let's eat." Tommy kissed her neck as he brought the food to the table.


Next morning

Tommy was making eggs, bacon, and oatmeal for breakfast. Kimberly looked at the calendar. It was May 17th, a Friday morning.

"Do you realize in 8 days, you will be a college graduate?"

"About time," Tommy said pouring the oatmeal into a bowl. She added some bacon and chocolate. She took a spoonful and moaned. She went to get up, but Tommy stopped her. "What do you need?"

"Just milk."

"Then ask, okay." Tommy went to the fridge and got the jug.

"I'm not helpless."

"I know, but I love doing things for you, wife."

"Man, in 10 days we will be in Africa. Africa!"

"I know. It's going to be amazing," Tommy said. "You need to start packing."

"I have a week."

"My mother is coming this weekend to help you pack."

"I thought she was coming to pamper me?" Tommy laughed. Kimberly grabbed the ketchup and syrup for her eggs. Kimberly giggled at his face. "You know mister, cravings can tell what kind of baby you are carrying."

"Oh, really?"

"My mother said that with my brother, she wanted tons of meat and pickles. But with me, she loved her sweets, probably why I am so sweet and lovable." Tommy snorted.

"You? Sweet?"

"Hey! I am not a bitch."

"Never have or will say that, though you do have bitchy mood swings," Tommy muttered.

"Excuse me!"

"I said, but you have... have both cravings, meats and sweets."

"Well, then..."

"We should find out before we leave."

"No! I still want to be surprised. I love surprises!"

"I know. I know," Tommy said.

"Babies are kicking." Tommy smiled. He moved the chair closer to touch her belly.