Chapter 20:
Sam POV-
On our way to our next (regularly scheduled) doctor's appointment in our new car, I was ecstatic.
And, apparently, I wasn't doing a great job of masking my excitement because every time Danny looked over at me he chuckled. But I knew he was just as excited because he fidgeted and tapped his fingers on the steering wheel every few seconds.
Today we would be finding out what we are actually having.
"What do you think we're going to have?" Danny asked me.
"I think we're going to have a boy and a girl," I replied. I just kind of had this feeling that I was right.
More than that, I kind of hoped that I was right. I mean, obviously, whatever we get would be great, but two boys, two boys with ghost powers, would be a handful, plus, I think Danny would be really good with a girl. She would have him wrapped around his finger in no time. And if we had two girls, well, they'd definitely be easier to handle, but Danny and I both wanted a boy too.
Danny didn't say anything; he merely looked back at the traffic in front of us, thoughtfully.
Finally, we turned into the parking lot and parked in front of the OB-GYN clinic.
We walked in, and some of the office girls still regarded us weirdly, but the one at the counter, who had not been there when we had been called here in the morning, cheerfully checked us in.
Our doctor called us back and we went into the ultrasound room. She clearly was irritated about our last…meeting, but now she at least seemed like she was trying to be professional. However, the friendly "how are you doing" dialogue was gone as she silently, squirted the cold jelly on my stomach. I was fine with this, I really had nothing to say to the doctor, plus, I'm so anxious, I'm not sure that I actually could have carried out a conversation right now.
"Well, you're still going through this pregnancy quickly, nearly ten weeks from where you should be," the doctor finally said, though now she seemed to leave something out at the end. I knew that these excluded words were probably, "and now I know why," but at this moment, I really didn't care what she thinks is going on.
The doctor moved the little tool through the jelly and I saw the images of our babies appear on the screen. They were a lot more defined now, still a grainy image, but now I could see their heads and arms and legs. It took a few minutes for the doctor to sift through the image enough to find what we were looking for.
"Well," the doctor said finally, "It looks like you're having one boy and one girl."
"Yes! I knew it!" I exclaimed happily. Danny laughed and hugged me. I hugged him back.
I looked at the ultrasound. Our son, had his elbow in his sister's face, and she, in turn, had her knee in his stomach. Wow, not even born yet and already fighting.
The doctor printed out the image and handed it to us, then she left the room, clear not wanting to talk to us any more than she had to.
"So I guess we can start thinking about names," Danny grinned at me.
"Yeah, wow, names already, it seems like only two weeks ago I found out I was pregnant," I laughed, Danny laughed too, catching on. It was only two weeks ago that I found out I was pregnant.
"Any names you really want?" I asked him as I got up and we walked out of the room and into the waiting room, I didn't really have any preferences of one name over another, but I was interested to see what he thought. We signed a couple forms before leaving and going into the parking lot.
"Well…" he thought, "For the boy, I was thinking…Grayson Xavier Fenton…is it okay if we use my last name or do you want to use your last name?" he asked me.
"We can use yours, after all, I was disowned," I told him, "I like Grayson, I think that's perfect," I commented about Grayson. I thought for a minute, applying that name to one of the babies in my stomach, the baby who was elbowing his sister. Yes, Grayson Xavier Fenton was perfect.
"What about the girl?" I asked him.
"I don't know about a first name, but I like Luna for a middle name," he told me. I nodded, thinking over my list of names.
"Do you still have my list?" I asked him. He grinned and pulled the list out of his back pocket, handing it to me.
"Okay, I like Addison, Cadence, Elizabeth, Olivia, and Riley best with Luna," I told him.
"Why?" he asked, not criticizing my choices, just seeming wanting to honestly know why I had picked the names I had.
"Well," I blushed, "Partially because most of them can be shortened to nicknames."
"Ahh…so we're making the name shortening thing genetic, huh?" Danny smirked referring to the fact that Danny and I have both shortened the names given to us at birth, "What are the shortened versions?"
"Well, Addison can be shortened to Addie, Cadence to Cady, Elizabeth to Lizzie, and Olivia and Riley… they can't really be shortened easily, I just like those," I grinned.
"Hmm…" Danny mused, "Maybe we should have my family vote on which one they like best, mine and your votes counting for two, of course."
"Sound like a plan," I agreed.
Okay people. The reason I chose the names I did, because, for boys, the votes for Grayson and Xavier were pretty much tied, so I decided on combining them. And for girls, well, I got a variety of answers with Luna and Faith being the most popular, but I couldn't make those two sound very good together, so I decided to make Luna the middle name and use several other names from the list as her first name. I used Luna instead of Faith because I figured she could use it as her phantom name, i.e. Luna Phantom (sounds pretty cool, right?) and it probably would be a little harder for people to guess that it is her. For the boy, since is name is Grayson, he can be Gray Phantom, which also sounds very cool.
Now, the girl's first name is up to all of you. Using the five names I just provided: Addison (Addie), Cadence (Cady), Elizabeth (Lizzie), Olivia, and Riley. I want you all to comment your favorite by tomorrow (5/12/13) at 7:00 pm. At that point, I will select the one with the most comments. However if it ends in a tie, I will select the one I like the best between the tied names.
I hope you enjoyed this chapter.