I didn't really know what to write, but here it is anyways. Enjoy...

Excited – 47

I thought my mom was going to flip, or faint, or something other than what she did. All she did when I said "You're going to be the grandma of triplets" was stand there and stare at my belly, completely speechless. It was definitely the first for her. We all stood there, not saying anything, even though I knew everyone wanted to. We stayed quite as all this sank in for my mother. Who knew this news would make the famous Janine Hathaway speechless?

"I-" she started in a low voice. "I- I should have known." I laughed.

"That's what I thought too."

"You are twice the size of me."

"Yeah, I know." Yeah, I know, I thought to myself after I said it out loud. I hate it, I'm so fat.

"I can't believe it," Abe said. Oh yeah.

"Yeap, you're going to be a grandpa." I know how much that meant to him, especially how I treated him since I found out he was my dad. He loved when I mentioned he'd be part of the family. And then he did something I really hated, he rubbed my damn stomach. Dimitri had to grab both of my hands behind my back from just punching him away from me. Everyone in the room laughed but Abe, not knowing that I hated that. And when he pulled away, he finally realized it.

"I'm sorry, I couldn't help it."

"It alright," I said through clenched teeth. "But don't make a habit of it. And if anyone else tries to do it, Dimitri won't be able to hold me back." Dimitri laughed and moved his hands to my shoulders, massaging them to relieve the tension.

"So," Lissa muttered, changing the subject, somewhat. "When can we throw the baby showers?"

"It's kind of hard when we don't know the gender," Jill said.

"Oh yeah," Lissa sighed with a disappointed look on her face.

"Probably in two months," Christian said to cheer her up, and it did.

"Yay, I can't wait." She was practically jumping off the walls. And everyone else looked happy too, even Adrian who I thought was still kind of mad at me for being pregnant with Dimitri's baby, well babies now.

I never thought that it would actually feel normal again; with all my friends around, just hanging out, laughing about jokes. That night I had so much fun, it didn't even register in my mind that I was still a little mad at my mom. And then when it couldn't get any better, Eddie should up and showed me I was wrong. I really had been missing hanging out with all my friends. Even Mia, who happened to show up right after Eddie, apparently they had been spending more time together like Adrian and Jill were.

"So what's up?" Eddie asked. Oh yeah, he hadn't heard.

"I'm going to be a grandmother," Janine said.

"We all already know that," Mia said. "So what's up bitch?" she laughed as she hugged me. "Damn, you've gained a lot of weight, you should lay off the donuts."

"Ha ha, very funny," I smiled and hugged her back.

"I know you all know that I'm going to be a grandmother," Janine mumbled, getting the attention back to her. "But do you know that I'm going to be the grandmother of triplets?" I doubt her smile could get any bigger; it was practically ear to ear.

"Really?" Mia shrieked. "That's awesome." Oh my gosh, now she has a huge smile along with everyone else.

"It's not really a big deal," I said, wanting the attention away from me and my big, fat belly before someone rubbed it again. I had to think it. Mia reached out, but right when her hand was an inch away, I grabbed it and squeezed. "Do you want me to break your nose again?"

"Yeah, I wouldn't do that if I were you," Abe laughed. "She almost punched me when I did."

"Yeah, and that's why if you do it again you will be dead instead of knocked out like everyone else."

"I'm sorry," Mia said. "I can't help it, I love babies." Ugh, what's with all these baby lovers?

"Now we know who will babysit," I grumbled. Everyone laughed, but Lissa did look a little disappointed. "Liss," I said as I sat beside her. "You know I'm only joking, you can babysit whenever you want." She smiled at me and hugged me.

"I know that." I really missed this most of all. Before Christian and everyone else came into the picture, it was just the two of us, by ourselves, hanging out and having fun. Especially when we ran off for two years until being caught in Portland, by the father of my babies, my baby daddy.

After hanging out and everyone getting drunk, except me and my mom, Adrian had to bring liquor, which I hated because I really wanted some, we all went home and fell asleep. Or at least I tried. It took me forever to find a comfortable spot to lie down. In the end I ended up waking up Dimitri.

"What's wrong?" he asked, rubbing my back as he sat up. I had ended up sitting in bed, just thinking.

"I can't sleep. I just can't seem to get comfortable with this big thing in the way." I rubbed my belly, showing him that's what I meant by 'big thing'.

"It's not that big."

"Yeah it is, and it's still going to get bigger. I don't know how woman ever sleep when they're pregnant."

"Usually they hug up on a huge pillow or something. But if you want to can hug up on me."

"That what I usually do, but it's my back tonight, I think one of them keeps kicking me in the spine or something." He stuck his hand to my belly, which I didn't mind if he did, but he got nothing. "It's only four months, so you can't really feel them kick yet. I can only because it's my insides."

"Well I can't wait until I can feel them."

"I can't wait until they get out of me and stop kicking, I'm probably bruised all over inside." He laughed as he kept rubbing my stomach. "You know, is still don't know what we're going to do when they're born. How are we supposed to be guardians with three little babies crying and running all over the place? Because I don't want to be like my mother and leave them with complete strangers and only show up when I want to. I still don't know how my mom's going to do it. She will probably just drop them off somewhere."

"Don't say that."

"Why not," I raised my voice. "It's what she did to me. And then when she decided to show her face, she didn't even call to let me know, just show up and piss me off. Maybe she'll decide to give her new child a black eye like she did me." I don't know what brought that up, but it's true. I still think she did that on purpose.

"You know she didn't mean to do that. And she told me herself that she was sorry about that. And she also said that wanted to try over, do better with this child."

"Oh, great. So she'll just rub it in my face that she didn't give a damn about me." I looked away from, hiding the tears that start to show in my eyes. Damn this pregnancy, everyone knows that I don't cry.

"It's not like that. She also wants to build a stronger relationship with you."

"Is that what she thinks she's doing with being pregnant at the same time as me?"

"No, she didn't mean that."

"That's why someone invented condoms; it prevents pregnancy, most of the time."

"She would probably say the same thing about you if she wasn't so excited."

"It's different between us; it was supposed to be impossible for us to get pregnant."

"True," he laughed and pulled me to him, laying us both down and falling asleep wrapped in each other's arms.

The next morning (in vampire world, which meant it was dark) I woke in a great mood. I don't know if it was because I loved to wake up in Dimitri's arms, or because the kicking had finally stopped, or at least for now. I was so happy that I actually made breakfast for Dimitri and myself, and he's the one that usually made it.

"What's the holiday?" Dimitri asked when he woke up and walked into the kitchen.

"Do I need one?"

"No, but this is the first time I've seen you in the kitchen," he laughed

"Whatever, no it's not."

"Oh yeah, I forgot, I did catch you in the kitchen with a bottle of liquor a few times."

"That was I long time ago, and only when I wasn't on duty." Which wasn't much.

"It wasn't that long ago, pretty much right before we found out you were pregnant." True. I laughed.

"Just sit down, I made waffles."

"Are they any good?"

"I don't know, you're the judge." I pushed a big plate of waffles in front of him and he just stared.

"Did you fix enough?"

"I think so. But if it's too much, then I'm sure Christian will be happy to eat them, that is if he doesn't find out that I made them." And he did eat them too, because Dimitri and I could only eat a few each. And they were good; maybe I should cook more often. But when I mentioned that to Dimitri, he laughed.

"You know what?" I asked Dimitri as I sat at the counter as he loaded the dishwasher.

"What?"

"I was thinking while I was cooking, about what we talked about last night. The part about how we're supposed to work and raise our kids, not the other stuff."

"Oh yeah, and what did you come up with?"

"The only thing I could come up with is daycare, because I know Lissa can't watch them every day with her being queen and all. But I don't really like that idea either; they'll probably always be in there."

"Well we're not always on duty, we're only ever in court so Lissa is always guarded. And with her being queen she has loads of other guardians. So we'll get to have lots of time with them." True, I hadn't really thought of that, I'm so used to always being by Lissa's side, even now with me being pregnant.

"And I still don't know how we're going to do this. You have little sisters, you know how to handle them, I'm an only child, I have no clue what I'm in for."

"It'll come to you," he smiled, pulling me closer to him and giving me a bite of his waffles. I hope it stays like this, a happy, loving family.

The next chapter is going to be way better. And I'm not going to be able to update until after Christmas, probably not until early Janurary.
But I'll try to update as soon as I can.

But I can promise that the next chapter is when you find out a few things.