"Kira! Leah! Let's go!" Sam yelled for the fifth time the next morning. "You're going to make me late!"
"Why can't we just take the bus?" Leah yawned, coming into the kitchen and grabbing the piece of toast Sam handed her.
"Every day all I hear you and your sister do is complain about the bus," Sam said, rolling her eyes. "And now I'm offering to drive you guys to school and you give me a hard time?"
"Mom, I need ten dollars," Kira said, joining her mom and sister in the kitchen.
"For?" Sam frowned.
"The basketball team is going out for pizza after practice today," Kira explained. "So I also won't be home for dinner."
"Uh-huh…and is your coach going to be there with you?" Sam asked.
"No, it's just me, Riley and Vanessa," Kira told her.
"So no adults then?"
"No?" Kira said, giving her a strange look.
"Then you're not going," Sam said simply. "Sorry."
"What? Why?" Kira exclaimed.
"Yeah, she finally got invited to do something with people," Leah smirked.
"Because I don't want you running around New York with no one watching you," Sam said, ignoring Leah's comment.
"I've done it a million times before!" Kira pointed out.
"Yeah, well I was wrong to let you," Sam said, handing the girls their lunches.
"This is so unfair!" Kira moaned, grabbing her lunch from her mother. "You let Leah go out with her dumb cheerleader friends all the time by herself!"
"Well starting now, Leah's little group also better have an adult with it if she wants to hang out with them after school," Sam said.
"What?" Leah cried. "Mom, we're thirteen. No one goes out with their parents anymore!"
"Well then that's too bad for you, isn't it?" Sam said. "Now come on, I have to be at the doctor's in an hour before I go into work."
"Have these pregnancy hormones made you loopy or something?" Kira mumbled.
"Watch it," Sam said firmly, grabbing her car keys.
….
"Sorry I'm late," Freddie said later that morning, rushing into the doctor's office, where Sam was already sitting on the table, changed into a paper gown. "Did I miss it?"
"No, the doctor's going to get the gel stuff to put on my stomach," Sam said, giving him a quick kiss. "How was your meeting?"
"Fine, short," Freddie said. "But don't worry about that now. I can't believe we're actually going to get to see our child today."
"Yeah, at least I'll get to see one kid mad at me today," Sam sighed.
"The twins are mad at you?"
"Yeah, because I'm not letting them out by themselves," Sam mumbled.
"Hey, you're doing what's best for them," Freddie said, rubbing her shoulder. "They just don't understand everything right now."
"Well hopefully I'll get everything sorted out in court next month," Sam sighed as the office door opened again and the doctor returned.
"Alright, good to see everyone's here," the doctor said, stepping over to the monitor next to Sam. "Are we ready to see this little one?"
"Definitely," Freddie smiled, taking Sam's hand as the doctor began to spread the gel on her stomach.
"Ugh, it's cold," Sam cringed.
"So when can we know if it's a boy or a girl?" Freddie asked.
"At her next appointment," the doctor answered.
"Which are you hoping for?" Sam asked as the doctor began to fiddle with the machine.
"I'm fine with either," Freddie said. "As long as he or she is healthy. What about you?"
"Same," Sam shrugged. "But I guess it would be nice to see what it's like raising a boy this time."
"Okay, I think I just about have it…" the doctor said, and Sam and Freddie looked over at the screen. "Yup, here it is. This is your baby."
Sam and Freddie stared at the screen where a small, peanut-shaped figure was now shown.
"Wow," Freddie breathed. "Wow, that's-that's really it?"
"It is," the doctor smiled. "I'll give you two a moment."
"Doesn't look too much like a baby," Sam commented. "When I came for my first ultrasound with Kira and Leah, it took me ten minutes to see what the doctor was showing me."
"That's really our baby, Sam," Freddie said, smiling up at his fiancé.
"Yes, Fredward, I can see," Sam said, rolling her eyes at his sappiness.
"I've just never seen anything like this," Freddie said. "I can't wait for this baby, Sam."
Sam looked from Freddie to the screen showing her unborn child.
Even with everything happening in her life right now, this was one moment that wasn't going to be taken away from her. Sitting here with Freddie in this office, getting the first look at the life they had created together…she wouldn't trade it for the world.