Did you know that researching information on pregnancy for triplets is difficult? Getting specific uncomplicated information certainly is, but I will keep checking. I think this story is messing up my dreams, I had a dream where I met Chloe&Derek's three kids. They were about one year old and they saved my life using swords and were only wearing diapers... I really need to find a way to control my dreams or something because that's just weird... :D
A couple things to say:
First to 1997icey10's review: Great character idea, but I have all the character plans done already. Awesome ideas though! I love it when people give suggestions. Baby ideas, I like. 2 boys and 1 girl... any name ideas let me know :D and that applies to anyone with name ideas... just don't pull a Renesmee or however you spell it on me :)
Second thing, I got a review that I was upset by. I love suggestions and like constructive criticism, but I dislike destructive criticism. The review pointed out every single thing that was wrong with last chapter and I didn't particularly enjoy reading that. It was rude and if you want to be rude save it for teachers, but be prepared to get detention :) Seriously though, don't do that.
Enjoy!
DISCLAIMER: *With Melody looking over the bought items*
Me: I cannot believe you bought that shirt.
Melody: Well I think the children should have at least one honest thing in their home.
Me: One? At least one? *Dumps out all the bags* It is like a Darkest Powers OVERDOSE!
Melody: It is not... now I ordered the baby mobile with the faces of Derek and Chloe going by to the tune of baby sounds.
Me: We bought multiples!? I thought we agreed on the transportation, pretty in spring, and the weather type mobiles.
Melody: I put them back...
Me: Oh my god... *Sits and jumps back up because I sat on something* What the heck was that!?
Melody: *Pulls out a laptop* Do you like the screen saver?
Me: It has bouncy red words that say, "Darkest Powers, Written by Kelley Armstrong. Not the crazy girl named Jessica."
Melody: YEP! YEP!
Me: NO! NO!
Chloe's Point of View
I woke up the following day to the sound of Melody at my door, I knew it was her because she doesn't continue knocking after you don't answer, she kicks the door three times and then screams 'Open the door PURPLE TOES'.
I wasn't exactly sure why she does that, but I figured I probably didn't want to know.
I opened the door and said, "I am tired. What do you need?"
"How are you still tired?" Melody asked, confused.
"What do you mean?" I asked.
"It's two in the afternoon." Melody said.
"Two?" I asked.
"Yes, two. The number after one and before three." Melody said.
Things from early morning came back to me and I almost fell over from the onslaught of information.
"Are you okay?" Melody asked.
"No. Do we really have to tell them all today?" I asked.
Melody looked like she didn't want to say yes, but she said it anyway.
I groaned and said, "They are going to think that I am such a slut!"
"No they won't. You know who the baby's father is and he is the only one you have ever slept with." Melody said.
I groaned again and walked back into my room, Melody following behind me. I grabbed a pillow off the bed and screamed into it for a couple minutes.
Melody coughed and asked calmly if I was done.
"Yes." I answered.
"Get dressed. We are all meeting at the library in twenty minutes, I said you had something to say." Melody said before leaving.
"What to wear, what to wear? The question every girl asks herself at least 3 times a week." I mumbled.
I changed into a pair of jeans and a T-shirt. I figured I might as well wear jeans while I could. I brushed my hair a few times and went to the library, Derek was already there.
"Hey." I whispered.
Derek jumped as if he didn't know I was there.
I smiled and said, "Wow, a rare moment when someone can catch Derek Souza by surprise."
"I was thinking." Derek said.
"What about?"
He looked at me as if the answer should be obvious.
"Oh... yea... that..." I said, trying to form a proper sentence.
It's a little difficult to talk to your kind of sort of boyfriend about the unborn babies you have with super awesome powers that like to help out mommy when she is in danger when you're only 15.
"So? What is the big announcement?" Noah asked, walking in.
"Wait until everyone else is here." I said.
Noah rolled his eyes and sat down on the carpet, he was the type that ignored chairs.
Tzigana came into the library, walked up to me and said, "They aren't dangerous, only protective of their sister and mother."
How much does she know?
She sat down on one of the 6 chairs.
Five minutes later everyone else was sitting in the library, with the exception of Simon, Derek and I. Simon was sulking near a bookcase, Derek and I were standing waiting for everyone to pay attention.
I looked around and saw the other people living in the house, this was going to shake their world.
I looked and saw that Melody and Jaron were giving me positive signs, meaning that whatever happens they will help me.
Tori and Amelia were just looking bored, as if they had something better to do.
Tzigana just smiled like something was amusing her.
Noah, Emy and Alexa were almost bouncing with impatience. They wanted to know what was going on.
I looked at Ava, she is 7 years old and was sitting patiently waiting for me to speak. She could teach all of us a lesson on patience and politeness. She has light brown hair that was usually clipped back, brown eyes, and her skintone made her look like she was spanish but she was part greek and part italian. She is a fire half-demon just like Rae.
Sitting next to Ava was Ivy, Ava's mother, Ivy is just human and looked exactly like Ava, only older. Ivy has light brown hair, brown eyes, with a lighter skintone than Ava. Ivy was also waiting patiently. She was 32 and didn't look a day over 23.
Luca was sitting next to Ivy. Ivy isn't his mother but she is his legal guardian. Luca is 12 and he is a sorcerer, he has black hair, gray eyes, was pale skinned and always nervous and jumpy.
I looked to where Silas was sitting, he is a 43 year old man, a sorcerer, has fire-red hair, green eyes, and has a light tan. Next to him were Andrew and Benella. Benella is Silas's wife and she is 41 years old, she is a witch, has black hair and brown eyes, and has a dark complexion.
"We are waiting here..." Tori said, impatient as usual.
"R-Right. Uh... w-w-well... I-I'm..." I tried but I couldn't do it.
"That was just SO eloquent." Amelia said.
"No comments from the witchy people please." Melody said.
"That excludes you as well." Amelia said.
Melody stuck out her tongue.
Derek glared at the two of them.
"Okay... I-I... am... p-pr—" I cut myself off and looked to Derek for help.
"She's pregnant." Derek said.
It was as if a bomb went off a few metres away from us and we were all waiting to be blown to bits.
Everyone looked at Derek then me and then Simon. It wasn't a secret around here that Simon was trying to get my attention.
"Seriously?" Amelia asked.
"Seriously." Melody replied.
"With whose baby?" Tori asked.
Leave it to her to ask the one question that the answer will cause everyone to freak out.
"Derek." I mumbled.
"Huh?" A few people asked.
"D-Derek." I said a little louder.
Apparently it wasn't loud enough because there were a few more 'huh?' questions.
"For gods sake she said DEREK." Melody said.
I thought the reaction to my pregnancy was bad...
"That's just..." Emy started.
"Uh..." Amelia said.
"What in the..." Alexa said.
"Looks like the wolfboy is now wolfman. CONGRATS!" Tori said, near laughter.
"Victoria, I don't think this is very funny." Andrew said. "What are you going to do?! What do you even know about werewolf pregnancy?!"
Melody stood up and said, "They ARE going to get our help, or at least mine. Also we will do research Andrew, it's not like she's going to pop the kids out anytime soon. She has time, since she is pregnant with 3 babies she has about six months and three weeks to work on things."
"Only six months and three weeks? That doesn't seem right." Benella said.
"Werewolf babies grow at faster rates than normal human babies and she is pregnant with three, I did the math." Melody said.
"You did math?" Jaron asked, unbelieving.
"Well... Derek did, but it's right." Melody said.
"It still doesn't seem like they would be fully developed in that time." Benella said.
"No human triplets would survive with only that much time in the womb." Silas said.
"I think we have established that my babies aren't human." I said.
"Is it safe for Chloe?" Ivy asked.
"It'll be complicated to work on, but yes she will be safe, the timing of her pregnancy symptoms will be abnormal most likely." Melody said.
"Dr. Melody." Ava said.
"Alexa, we'll need your help." I said. "Please?"
"HELL. NO. It isn't my fault you and Derek were incredibly irresponsible about this. I will not be responsible for three lives when I really don't have to be. I don't want anything bad to happen, but I am NOT going to help." Alexa said, walking out.
We waited a little over a minute and we all heard her bedroom door slam.
"Nothing against this thing at all. I don't do babies but need help with anything that won't traumatize me and I'll help." Noah said, he walked out.
With Alexa and Noah's claims, everyone felt that they should speak on this issue. Say if they'll help or not.
"I'll help. If you need Alexa's powers I will see what I can research about stealing them in the event of an emergency." Emy said.
I smiled and nodded. The 14 year old power thief was on my side.
"Can I hold them at least once?" Ava asked.
"Sure..." I said.
"Yay!" Ava screamed and ran up and hugged me.
I was sure that I looked confused.
"I will do anything except for feed and change diapers." Luca said.
"You know where Jaron and I stand on the topic." Melody said.
Melody then took off her sweatshirt, the T-shirt underneath said 'future godmother'.
"Oh good grief." Tori said.
"I am not against this but I am not going to help." Amelia said.
"Undecided." Tori said.
"Don't expect me to start talking about baby clothes and happy uncle stuff." Simon said.
"Tzigana?" I asked.
She smiled and said, "I think it is in all our best interests if we help, unfortunately not all will. When you need me, I will be here."
"If the kids want to help I guess I can't say no." Ivy said.
Both Luca and Ava hugged her.
"Andrew? Silas? Benella?" I asked.
"Derek, I've known you for your entire life and can't believe you would do something so illogical." Andrew said. "However, I have learnt that whenever Tzigana says that something should be done it isn't wise to disagree."
"Silas and I will be there." Benella said smiling.
"We will?" Silas asked.
"Are you disagreeing with me?" Benella asked.
"No dear." Silas said.
"Thought so." Benella said.
We all decided to continue on with our days after that. Things weren't very productive though, people were just stopping randomly and checking to see if this actually happened which Melody found funny because we could all handle bullets, guns, and weapons of magical variety but we didn't know how to handle a teenage pregnancy.
"That is actually pretty." Melody said.
Melody, Jaron, Derek and I were eating at the kitchen table and Melody and I were talking about baby clothes we had seen on the internet earlier.
"Well we do know that at least one of them is a girl because Tzigana said 'sister' so we can buy that for sure." I said.
"The other two are probably boys then." Melody said.
"Probably." I agreed.
"We are going to have to create temporary baby rooms here until we are no longer trying to avoid capture and murder." Melody said.
"I know, we are going to have some trouble getting organized." I said.
"Definitely." Melody said.
"So back to topic. We will need to discuss colours to dress the boys in." I said.
"Blue. They are boys, you put them in blue." Derek said.
"If they are identical twins we will need to colour code them." I said.
"Since when do children need to be colour coded?" Derek asked.
"Since you don't want to mix them up if they look exactly alike." I said.
"They would each have a different scent even if they are identical, I would be able to tell you in less than six seconds who is who." Derek said.
"Well not all of us can smell scents Derek." I said.
"Boys." Melody and I muttered under our breath.
"What about one does the whole yellow & green thing, while the other does the whole blue & orange thing. Or maybe vice versa?" Melody said.
"There are many shades and a lot of baby clothes out there so that could work, but what about jeans when they get older?" I asked.
"When they get older we can just use different hairstyles, they can get haircuts at alternating times." Melody said.
"Even so we might not have to do that, one could have a birthmark or some other identifying mark on their bodies so we won't have to." I said.
"Please let that be the case." Derek whispered.
"You seem to be forgetting something." Jaron said.
"What?" Melody and I asked.
"Not all twins are identical, some are fraternal twins." Jaron said.
"Well I'm just saying..." I said.
"He does have a point though, last time I checked there are 4 types of triplets." Melody said.
"Four? Really?" I asked.
"Yep. I researched it right after Derek told me there would be three." Melody said.
"You are more prepared than I am." I said.
"I know. Don't worry, I will always be around to share my incredible and vast baby knowledge with you." Melody said.
Maybe we can do this... we will have to check some books or something about the powers my babies seem to have.
I gave a slight smile and asked, "You are having fun doing all this research and looking for happy baby clothes aren't you?"
"A little. I feel oddly left out. Whatever... I'll have a baby eventually, this is great practice." Melody said.
Jaron started choking on his food when she said that.
"Oh relax Jaron. It won't happen for over 6 years." Melody said.
Derek hit Jaron's back lightly and Jaron spit his food out, still coughing.
Some silent talking:
Derek: Are you okay?
Jaron: Get me away from here.
Derek: Me first.
Jaron: This is painful.
Derek: I feel your pain.
Only Melody could make her boyfriend almost die with her way of speaking :D This chapter is my favourite because it tells us how people feel about Chloe being pregnant. It also tells us that Jaron and Derek dislike baby speak. Teehee, colour coding. So identical or fraternal twins? Take your pick, so if you have any baby name ideas tell me. Review :)