"Race you outside!" yelled Nabu.
Rolling her eyes, Layla ran after him, slipping her jacket and boots on along the way.
It was snowing, and there was a lot of fluffy white goodness on the ground. We all had a day off today, seeing as there was about 14 inches of snow on the ground. We were all convened in Stella and Brandon's house because it was the biggest. It also had many backup generators, in case we lost power.
The rest of the guys got up, grinning.
"I think Nabu and Layla have the right idea," said Brandon, yanking on his gloves as they got up.
Helia looked at me worriedly. "You'll be fine, right, love?"
I smiled at him. "Don't worry, I'll be fine,"
The men got up and left, leaving the 5 of us in the room, getting ready to face the cold.
"Later on, we'll conspire, as we dream, by the fire," sang Musa and Tecna.
Bloom and I giggled. Tecna was singing horribly off tune, but she was still enjoying it.
I struggled to get the button of my jacket over my protruding belly. Looking over at Bloom, I saw that she was having the same difficulties, though her stomach was significantly larger.
"I am so sick of being pregnant," she said, speaking to her belly now. "Y'all need to get out right now,"
We all laughed again. Bloom winced a bit, and took a deep breath. She placed her hands over her stomach. I looked at her worriedly, but she nodded her head. I shrugged, thinking it must be nothing.
Taking a sip of my warm hot chocolate, I opened the door and was blasted with a gust of cold air on my face.
We carefully walked outside, hoping to surprise the guys, but Tecna slipped.
"Ouch!" she said, rubbing her elbow.
"Are you alright?" asked Stella.
"I'm fine," she said. Suddenly, a maniacal smile took over her face. Forming a snowball in her hand she ran over to where Timmy was and threw it at his back.
"Tecna!" he yelled, turning around. He gathered snow in his hand and threw it at Tecna, who ducked. The snowball hit Stella instead, who was checking her makeup in a compact.
The snow hit Stella's side, and made an imprint on her Coach jacket. I winced. She was SO not going to be happy about this.
"Oh, it is ON!" screamed Stella, shoving her compact in her pocket and gathering snow.
We all laughed and a snowball fight ensued. I handed snowballs to Bloom, who couldn't bend down in this stage of her pregnancy. Add that to the fact that she was having twins, and that made for difficulty in moving around everywhere. Luckily, I wasn't having twins and I was only 24 weeks along, so my belly wasn't that big.
I threw a snowball at Brandon, and looked around for Helia, but he wasn't there. Shrugging, I continued handing snowballs to Bloom and throwing them at everyone.
I giggled as a snowball hit my arm and seeped in my clothes. The snowball slowly melted and became a puddle on my arm.
Suddenly, there was a sharp cry. I swiveled my head around and saw that it came from Bloom. Her face was pale and her hands were protectively placed on her belly.
"Oh my stars!" screamed Stella. "Bloom, are you okay?"
Bloom pointed down at her jeans. There was a faint stain. My eyes widened in surprise, and I wasn't the only one to notice.
"My water broke," said Bloom, her hands shaking as I held her arm and took her inside.
By then, everyone had heard the commotion. We started going back in, Sky guiding her. I was holding her other arm, and the back door opened.
Helia walked through, smiling at us.
"Hey guys, why the long faces?" he said.
"Bloom's water broke," I said, rushing past him in my hurry to get Bloom into the house.
Once Bloom changed into more comfortable clothes, we called the hospital.
After a long discussion with the nurse on the other end, Bloom angrily hung pu the phone.
"She said I shouldn't come in until the contractions become 4-5 minutes apart," said Bloom, holding Sky's hand.
"So you've felt the contractions for how long now?" said Sky sternly.
"For maybe half an hour?" said Bloom. "I checked on my watch and they're only maybe 14 minutes apart. I wouldn't be surprised if they were just Braxton Hicks. Don't you remember what happened at couple weeks ago?"
There was a slight scare a couple weeks ago. While it was normal that the twins would come a bit earlier than expected, they were still shocked when Bloom started feeling contractions. Luckily, they stopped after a couple of hours, so it was obvious that they were fake.
"So I guess we're in for a long night," said Brandon, handing Bloom a warm glass of water.
Layla and I headed to the kitchen to whip up a light snack while everyone else set up a movie.
"So have you decided on names?" said Layla.
"Well, we haven't scheduled an appointment for figuring out the gender yet," I explained. "Helia kept putting it off because I wanted to know but he wanted to be surprised, but I convinced him to find out before,"
"So no names yet?" asked Layla, spooning salsa onto some crackers.
"We're thinking of keeping the flower tradition if it's a girl, if it's a boy I have no idea," I said, laughing.
"Ah," said Layla.
We worked in an amiable silence as we prepared the snack. Five minutes later, we were all in the living room watching Frozen. It was a pretty good movie, perfect for this time of year.
By the time the movie was over, Musa and Tecna were asleep on Riven and Timmy, respectively. Bloom had gone into the other room with Sky seeing as her contractions had gotten closer together and they were terribly painful (understatement!).
I knocked on their door, Helia behind me, as we waited for Sky to open it.
When the door was open, I told him that we'd be in the guest rooms and that he should wake up when it was time for Bloom to go to the hospital.
I yawned, saying good night to Bloom and Sky as Helia and I went into the basement where some of the guest rooms were.
As I took my jewelry off, Helia wrapped his arms around my waist. Smiling, I leaned back into his embrace.
"Are you excited?" he murmured.
"Of course!" I said. "And that'll be us in a few months,"
"Mmhm," he hummed, leaning down so he was level with my belly.
"You stay good in there, alright Ducky?" he said. We had taken to calling our child Ducky, much to the dismay of Rose who insisted on calling him/her Junior. She was convinced that it was a girl and we were going to name her Rose.
"Be good for Mommy, okay? Become healthy and fit, so that when you come into this world, you can be healthy,"
I smiled. It was really nice to have a loving husband. One of the girls I worked with, Melody, had a husband who didn't really take part in anything. They had an arranged marriage, one of convenience rather than love. I thanked my lucky stars I had Helia, because to me nothing was more important than being surrounded with people who loved you.
We got ready for the night and I shifted on the bed, trying to find a good position to sleep in. My back had been hurting a lot more with my rods from the surgery and the added weight in my front with Ducky. My doctor had said that the scoliosis curve might get worse with pregnancy, so I had to be very careful/
My eyes drooping, I snuggled next to Helia as dreams of our children claimed me.
I awoke to a knocking on the door.
"We're going to the hospital," said Sky, gathering up some last minute items.
Helia rubbed his eyes.
"We'll meet you there," he said, voice still scratchy from sleep.
I rubbed my eyes and we got ready.
Half an hour later, we were in the waiting room. According to one of the nurses, Bloom had to go into emergency surgery for a C-section. Apparently one of the babies was breech, feet facing down rather than the head. Upon hearing this, we all became worried. I hoped it was alright for Bloom, knowing I would have to get a C-section as well due to my back.
I yawned, and my head drooped against Helia's shoulder again. I'd been even more tired than usual due to the pregnancy.
I closed my eyes, and when I opened them again, there was a loud commotion around us and there was light streaming in from the windows.
"Flora!" said Musa, a wide smile on her face. "You're finally awake. We've been trying to wake you up for such a long time. Bloom had the twins!"
I gasped, the wide smile on my face threatening to make my cheeks crack. "So what are they?"
Sky appeared behind me. I hugged him in congratulations, while he answered my question.
"Keiran Alexander and Aiden Phillip were born at 4:23 A.M. and 4:27 A.M. respectively," he said, grinning.
"That's great!" I said, smiling.
Sky went back into the room to wait with Bloom, who still had not woken up as of yet.
I grinned, looking at all of our happy faces and hoped that we could stay like this forever.
Hi guys! I am SO sorry about updates (or lack of). I really have no excuse. I've just been lazy and stuff, and there's been RL and all that jazz. Sorry once again... But I was thinking, people actually read 6 Years and this fic, so are there any questions y'all have? I'd love to do a Q&A or something. Just PM me your questions or drop a review or something. I suppose I'll upload the same thing on 6 Years, just in case anyone there wants to see the Q&A. But, yeah. That's it, guys! Thanks for putting up with this totally lazy author XD
P.S. Don't we all wish we could have our own Helia? He's so adorable :)
P.P.S. I'm kind of stumped on what to name Flora and Helia's child, if you guys have any suggestions please tell me~