Bella groaned as she got out of bed and stroked her stomach that felt painfully sore. She tried to avoid waking Mortimer up, because, although she felt sore, she didn't want to wake Mortimer up painfully early because she felt as if she was in labor. She walked to the sink, and got on with her normal daily routine, which, of course, contained filling up and drinking a glass of water at the kitchen sink. She sat down with her glass of tap water and drank it quietly, and felt nervous as she felt she was waking up Mortimer and the kids. She washed out the glass and put it on the kitchen bench, not thinking that it might give away that somebody was up incredibly early on a Monday morning, because it was five in the morning, after all. She walked up the creaking stair case and quietly slipped into bed and fell asleep, being careful not to wake up Mortimer or anyone else in the process of doing so. But, soon after Bella had begun to drop off into a peaceful slumber, she felt a horrible pain in her insides that surged through her entire body. She felt incredibly uncomfortable, and the feeling felt relatively similar to one she had had twice before. She felt very much like she was in labor. She nedded to get to the hospital, pronto, and woke up a startled Mortimer in the process. In a rush, she and Mortimer ran as fast as their legs could take them to Willow Creek Hospital, and in a flurry of yelling and groaning, were checked in to get the baby out of Bella. She laid on the examination bed, grunting and groaning as if her life depended on how much she grunted and groaned. Soon, not one, but two babies were out of Bella Goth's stomach. Two! Bella was astounded. And they were both girls, too!
Mortimer grabbed one baby and rocked it at the same time as Bella grabbed the other baby and breastfed it, and then burped it, putting it back down afterwards. They carried both the babies home with them, and placed them in indenitcal bassinets in their bedroom, giving them little kisses on their tiny foreheads. Both the little ones had a short nap, before one of them began to cry. Alexander nudged Cassandra, and both of them ran as quickly as they could up the staircase, and came to the landing where they both split in different directions across Bella and Mortimer's room, eventually finding the babies in identical bassinets next to Bella's huge cupboard, which both knew was filled to the brim with all sorts of red clothing garments. Bella heard the commotion, so she and Mortimer both walked back up the staircase to their bedroom, where they found Cassandra changing one of the little girls's diapers, and Alexander cooing at the other one. Both Bella and Mortimer smiled as Cassandra put one of the girls down, and Alexander stopped cooing at the other, temporarily, of course, because he loved them lots. Bella and Mortimer tapped both of the duo on the shoulder, and both spun around.
"Two?!" was the first thing to come out of Alexander's mouth, in an exasperated breath.
"You said you were only having one!" Cassandra gasped.
"It was a pleasant surprise for the two of us as well, Cassie, don't worry," Bella told Cassandra, but was meaning to direct it at both her and Alexander.
"Cassandra, I was the one to first sigh in relief when we got the first one, but come out of the hospital as surprised as you two are, all wide eyed and open mouthed," Mortimer confessed.
"What are we going to name them?" Cassandra asked.
"I wasn't exactly prepared for the two of you to have two babies like you did," Alexander began. "But, I was prepared name wise. I think that it's safe to say that we have a Venus Goth and a Pandora Goth? Or maybe I'll let Mum and Dad name one."
The family did agree on Pandora for one of the girls, but not so much Venus for the other girl. Bella decided she'd name the other girl, since there were two girls. They had a Violetta Goth and a Pandora Goth, two names that both Mortimer and Bella agreed on being good names for the two twins, who were having a nice relaxing nap in their respective bassinets. Cassandra smiled when she heard the names that Bella and Mortimer had decided on, especially Pandora. She thought that it was nice that her parents had taken into consideration one of Alexander's baby name suggestions, of which she had been shown yesterday. She wondered what the two would look like as toddlers, even though she could probably have a wild guess and say that they were going to look exactly like everyone else in the family had, pale skin and black hair. Though Cassandra's dominant genes were for black hair, she also had recessive genes for light brown, sort of like an auburn shade, hair. So, really, the recessive genes could overpower and result in two identical pale skinned brunettes. That was unlikely as anything ever could be, but still wasn't exactly impossible either. Bella smiled at the two kids and the babies, went to bed and fell asleep until she heard a cry from the bassinet that she assumed belonged to Violetta. Shoot, Violetta was crying, it was the start of the normal routine of going to sleep, waking up because of the baby crying, falling asleep again and waking up, all on repeat every single day of the week. She had been able to tolerate not going through that bloody routine twenty four seven, but she had to now, with twin baby girls needing her to answer their every beck and call every hour of the day.
Then, there was a cry from Pandora.
"Morty, I need you to get up! The twins need our attention!" Bella yelled to wake Mortimer up.
"Yeah, yeah, Bell, leave me be for around five more minutes," Mortimer mumbled.
"No, not five minutes, Morty, now, please," Bella instructed impatiently.
"God dammit Bella. You're so high maintenance," Mortimer groaned.
"Don't mock me! I'm your freaking wife, for Maxis sake!" Bella screamed. "Now, feed Violetta before I snap!"
Mortimer groaned again, almost like his much younger self did with Cassandra. He got up and fed Violetta, who cried and slapped the bottle out of her mouth. Mortimer put her down. Feeling frustrated, he picked the baby back up again and began to feed her.
Bella breastfed Pandora, and then put her down again. She watched Pandora fall peacefully asleep, and then laughed a giant laugh when she saw Mortimer failing to successfully feed Violetta.
