(Clementine's Pov)
I was currently in the beginning of my second trimester when we decided to tell the others. Lee and Carley already knew so they had to keep quiet. The only reason we waited so long was that I didn't want to worry about anything bad happening during the first trimester. I have to say that Violet has been so helpful during this whole ordeal. When I was in my fifth week, I started to get these cravings, and I had a really bad one early in the morning. I ended up waking Violet up and even though she was tired she had gotten the food I wanted and even sat up with me and waited till I went to sleep myself. Oh, I also forgot to mention we were having twins.
"Hmm, 'nother craving?" I hear and look to see Violet as she wakes up a bit and looked to me. I was sitting up in the bed writing in my book and I watch her a she gets up and grabbed her glasses.
"No, not now at least." I tell her and she sits up more and stretches. I look to her as she was just in her boxers, it was a bit warm in the house and she rubbed her eyes a bit.
"Hmm… what has you up?" I hear her ask and I look to her more and I kissed her cheek gently. She moves a bit so that she could hug me and I hear her take a breath as she tried to get me to lay down.
"Sleep, you have a big day tomorrow." She mutters and I giggled lightly at this and place my hand on her head.
"I'm just to excited." I tell her.
"Hmm." She just hums and I look to her a bit as she looked to be falling back to sleep.
"You can go back to sleep, sorry for waking you." I say to her and she shakes her head just a little.
"Hmm, no not till you sleep." She mutters. Then she chuckled and looked to my stomach.
"You two agree right? Mama Clem needs her sleep." She says and I laughed. The doctor did tell her that she should talk more to the babies so they would know her voice.
"I bet if they were kicking right now, they would kick you in the face." I joked and she laughed.
"But I am right, you need to rest sweetheart." She tells me and I look to her as she looked to me.
"Alright, Alright you win." I say and set my book to the nightstand.
"And that kids is how I win this game." She mutters as she starts to fall back to sleep. I smiled as I take her glasses off and set them on top of my book and move so we were both laying down in the bed. Violet then places her hand on my stomach and I place my hand on top of hers as she fell back to sleep. When morning came, I wake up and look to see Violet still sleeping. I moved her hand off me gently and head to the restroom and do my daily morning routines. When I was done, I come back to the room to see Violet getting up and she was looking around for something. I smiled as I go and grabbed her glasses and hand them to her and she smiled as she put them on.
"Mornin'." She yawns and I nod and kissed her and she kissed me back.
"Where are we headed again?" I asked her as she got up and went to the closet.
"Hmm, breakfast with your parents, then we will… head to the park for a stroll, and… lunch with Louis and the others." She lists off and yawns a bit.
"Then… get some of those treats you like in town… and dinner with your grandparents." She says and she headed to the bathroom and did what she needed to do. When she came out, she was wearing a pair of blue jeans and a black shirt. Her hair was still wet and I laughed as she grabbed a towel and did a quick dry.
"Busy day." I stated and she nods.
"Hmmm, we also need to get those melons you like." She says and yawned again. I go over to her and kissed her cheek gently and she looked down to me and smiled.
"Sorry for waking you up." I tell her.
"No, it's fine, was just worried." She says and I kissed her cheek again. We then went over to my parents' house and had a light breakfast.
"How can they not like bacon right now?" I mutter as I looked to the plate Carley had set out.
"Sometime when you like a certain food it might become a food you can't stomach while pregnant." Carley says and I shake my head.
"Apparently my mom couldn't stomach bacon when she was carrying me, and she loved the stuff… also eggs, only thing she could eat was oatmeal." Violet says and I take a bite of my eggs.
"Well thank god they like eggs." I mutter and Violet laughed.
"Oh, the horror." She jokes and I stick my tongue out at her.
"Hey these are technically your kids." I state and she laughed.
"Ah no they are ours." She tells me and I take another bite of the eggs and she offered me some fruit. I had the massive craving for melons, of all types so they made sure I always had some for every meal.
"Would be great if we had honey." I say and Violet gets up.
"Well lucky for you I got some after last time." She says as she goes and gets the honey.
"I though she bought out the whole store with how much she got." Lee says and we laughed just as she brings the jar in.
"Well, I didn't know how much she would want." Violet says defending herself and I kissed her cheek.
"And I thank you for causing others to not get any." I tell her and she laughed a little.
"Well, I feel sorry for any other pregnant woman who might also have a craving for honey." She says and I kissed her cheek again. She holds my hand gently and I hold hers back.
"So now that you know you are having twins, have you come up with extra names?" Carley asked.
"Well, if we have a girl, we have Diana picked out, if we have a boy we picked Ed, now if we have two girls, we have Diana and Lura, if we have two boys, Ed and well… Vinny." I named off and they looked to the both of us.
"Isn't Vinny your uh... other name?" Lee asked and Violet nods.
"And a relative of mines name." She tells him and he nods.
"Got it." He says and I nod as well. I finished my food and had extra helpings of melon and honey. It was good can you blame me? when we finished Violet helped clean up and I got up to help as well. The one thing I will say about Violet is that she will still let me help unless I feel too tired.
"Is AJ going to be joining us?" Violet asked.
"Oh right, he said he wanted to come." I say and AJ comes back down the stair.
"Sorry was getting some coins, I heard we were going to the candy store." He says excited and I nod as we get ready to head out. Violet was driving us to the park first and then we could walk into town and meet up with the others. Currently I was holding Violet's arm as we were walking down the park path around the pond.
"I still say you should name the baby boy Alvin." My little brother says and Violet laughed.
"So, they can be like their uncle?" I asked and he nods.
"Yeah, Alvin Junior, Junior." He says and Violet laughed more.
"I still think Vinny is a good name." She tells him.
"But wouldn't it be Vinny Junor?" He asked and he looked to the both of us and we nod.
"Yes, that would be true." She tells him and he nods.
"Well… he's a junior like me… so that's cool." He says and I laugh a little.
"Well, what if it's two girls?" I asked them both and they looked to me.
"Well, I did suggest Clem-."
"Again, we aren't naming them after you or I." I tell her and she smiled.
"But they would be Juniors, they'd be cool like AJ said." She tells me.
"We already have the names picked." I tell her and she kisses me.
"And what beautiful names they are." She tells me and I smile at her.
"Grown ups are gross." AJ says and I smiled a bit.
"Oh, really now?" I asked and he nods.
"I'm surprised AJ doesn't have a little girlfriend yet." Violet says and AJ laughed.
"Welp, I think I have to do the manly thing and help him get a girl." Violet joked and he runs yelling no while laughing. I laugh at this as Violet goes after him. I take a seat by one of the oak trees and watch as Violet and AJ play chase. I start to think that this is what we would do with our own children as well. We would be coming to the parks every Sunday, going on little walks, if it's the summer time we would stop at the candy store and get some ice cream and other treats for the kids. If it was winter, we would be out throwing snowballs at each other. I smiled a bit and then I hear some panting and I look to see Violet coming over to me.
"Are you good there Vinny?" I asked and she nods.
"Yeah just… god I'm out of shape." She says and lays next to me and I place my hand on her eyes to block the sun.
"Well trust me, if our kids are like me, you and I have to start getting active again." I tell her and she laughed.
"Their mama makes good food too, that's why I gained like a hundred pounds." She laughed. We both know it was an exaggeration and I lean down and kissed her and she kissed me back.
"Ok maybe ten to twenty." She says.
"To be fair most of it is muscle, you been doing more heavy lifting than running." I tell her and she placed her hand on top of mine.
"Gotta be strong." She mutters and AJ comes over to us.
"Hey Vinny, why would You and Clementine have to move?" He asked and I looked to them as they sat up and I moved my hand from his face.
"Uh part of my job buddy, but don't worry we ain't leaving for a good while, told my job that our kids had to be born here." They tell him and rubbed his head.
"The heart of Georgia I once heard this place be called." I say as we sat and chatted a bit.
"Would you want to leave though?" AJ asked and we look to him.
"Honestly?... No, I wouldn't want to leave… I have good memories here with you and your family… and I'd like my kids to have them too." Violet tells him and he hugged her. She was a bit surprised and then she hugged him back.
"Alright you two, how about we head to the candy shop and then we meet up with Louis and the others? They said they'll meet us at the bakery." I say and Violet looked to her watch.
"Oh, shit yeah we got to go." She says as she helped me up and we started walking again. When we get to the shop AJ goes and gets his own candy and Violet and I look around.
"Now what are the babies wanting." I say to myself and Violet chuckled at this.
"Yes, what do the babies and Mama want?" She says quietly and I smiled at her. I think as I looked to some of the chocolates they had and they even had dark chocolate as well.
"Oh, I heard they made this thing called a lava cake." I tell Violet as she was looking at the gummies.
"Lava Cake? So, like… hot chocolate inside a cake?" She asked as she looked to me.
"Kinda, it's a thick chocolate inside a small cake, when you take a piece, it's supposed to come out like lava… I'll have to bake one for you." I tell her.
"Oh no I get the picture; I think I saw Debbie with one at work." She says and I nod.
"How is work?" I asked as she grabbed a few chocolate bars for me and she looked to them.
"It's going fine, we had a little issue a while back with the one factory not fulfilling their order as promise, I think they're trying to sue my boss because we didn't pay them for the full order, but I mean come on, you didn't make the full order, we can't pay you for the full order if you didn't make it." She mutters and I picked the one chocolate that had some mint.
"Oh right you did mention that last week, weren't they saying you caused the problem?" I asked.
"The factory owner said I was the issue, the hell I was, I made plenty of calls asking how much needed to be done before the delivery date… we kept records, I made damn sure of that, and who I talked to and at what time… I had to do that back on base." She says and I look to her.
"I know I shouldn't ask this but do you miss the Army?" I asked and looked at her as she looked at me.
"Would it be bad if I said yes?" She asked.
"No… strangely enough I do but I don't miss it." I tell her as she grabbed some extra chocolate for me.
"I wish I could have done the full twenty… would be close to retirement by now." She says and I look to her.
"But I'm working with them still so no harm, oh shit I even met up with Kal, damn man is a fucking pilot now." She tells me and I laughed.
"What about Johnson?" I asked.
"He uh… last I heard from him he was back over in Europe, they're still trying to clear out the radiation from the bomb, I told them it would take years with that amount… hope he's ok though, exposure for too long can take a tole on the body." She says as she looked to the candy a bit.
"I think we should go to Arlington again… you know go see Marlon… and Minerva." I suggested and I see her stiffen up at Minerva's name.
"I uh… I should get some flowers for them." She says quietly.
"I'm sorry if I-."
"You didn't say or do anything wrong Clementine… I just… feel like a bad friend… I mean I know they're dead but… we should visit them at least once a year." She says and I look to her.
"Well if we do that, we got to bring the kids." I tell her and she smiled.
"I hope they're quiet little ones, Mama said I was quiet when I was born." She tells me.
"Oh according to Lee, my mom said I was loud." I laughed and so did she.
"One of them will be loud the other quiet." She joked and we laugh again. When AJ came over to us we went up to the counter and paid for the candy, Violet also got AJ and I a soda each. We then left and headed to the bakery where we see the others and they wave to us as we let them in.
"Sorry for being late, Violet and AJ saw a turtle near the road." I say as AJ was holding the turtle.
"We're going to take him to the pond." Violet says.
"Which pond?" I asked and she looked away a bit.
"The one at the park?" She asked as she looked to me and I nod.
"I had a turtle; his name was Geoff." Louis says and I smiled at this.
"By the way it's spelled G-E-O-F-F, not J-E-F-F." Louis says and I laughed as did AJ.
"That's a funny way to spell jeff… with this is Boxer, cause he's a boxing turtle, see." AJ says as he showed off his new friend.
"So, are we eating here?" Mitch asked.
"Actually, we were hoping you guys were in the mood for some Pizza." Violet says.
"Oh, I could go for a few slices." Brody says and we head out after I put the chocolate away so it didn't melt. We head to the pizza shop and they asked if we wanted to sit in which Violet tells them yes. We get to a booth and Violet, AJ, Brody and I take one side, Louis, Mitch, And Ruby take the other, and Aasim took a spare chair and sat at the end. Sadly, Omar wasn't here with us because he had to go setting some stuff back home but once he was done, he'll be back at the shop with me in two weeks, I told him to take his time and if he needed help we would help him.
"So why have we set up this meeting, of the Lucky Bastards?" Louis says and Violet as a joke covers my stomach.
"Dude no swearing we have kids present." She says and the others laughed.
"Oh, come on AJ-… wait… Kids?" Aasim asked and both Violet and I nodded.
"You two are having a baby?" Louis asked and we nod again.
"Well… two, to be exact." She says and Louis and the others got excited.
"Holy… dude when?" Louis asked excited.
"Well, I'm in the second trimester…. Surprised I didn't hear any fat jokes." I say.
"I mean I wasn't going to be rude." Louis says and I know he was joking as I laughed.
"Well carrying two babies will do that." Ruby says and she asked me a lot of questions as did Brody. And of course, the guys were talking up a storm with Violet.
"So, are you two excited?" Ruby asked me.
"Of course, we are Violet here has been buying extra clothing and said we might have to paint half the room one color and the other half a different color… she's very excited." I tell her.
"Do you need another Crib?" Brody asked.
"Violet's mom is actually giving us Violet's old crib; we were going to take a quick trip down there next month actually." I tell them.
"Well, that's good, but I have some old baby toys if you two want them." Brody offered.
"That would be nice, thank you, Violet's been getting teddy bears like crazy." I say.
"Hey, they have so many different sizes, and even colors too… one lady even had outfits for the teddy bears at the last market." Violet tells them.
"Oh, that sounds adorable." Brody says and Violet nods.
"So have you come up with names?" Louis asked.
"Yep, if it's two girls we have Diana and Lura, if it's two boy we have Ed and Vinny, if it's a boy and a girl we settled on Diana and Ed but it might change." I explained.
"Oh, are those family names?" Aasim asked.
"Diana and Ed are my parents name." I tell them and they looked to Violet.
"I actually asked Clem what their names were, said that I wanted to name them after her mom and dad." She tells them. They awed at this and then the server came over and took our orders. We chatted for a while longer and when we got the food we ate.
"So, when is the due date?" Ruby asked.
"Well, they said sometime in October, but with twins they said I might be a month early." I tell them.
"Oh, just imagine if they're born on Halloween." Louis says.
"No that's a bit late, they would be born around the third of October." Violet explained to him.
"Aww that sucks." He says and I see Violet laughing a bit.
"Come on October alone is spooky month for us." Violet says.
"Well, I'm going to get them a birthday month." Louis says and we all laughed. We finished our food and Violet was about to pay but Louis beat her to it.
"Dude." She says.
"Hey it's my turn to pay." He says.
"No."
"Yes, besides it's too late." Louis says and she sighed.
"Fine but it's my turn next time." She says and they have a little agreement. I roll my eyes at this and we get up and leave and I see Violet leaving a tip to the server. Once we left, we decided to walk some more.
"So, how's the new job going?" I hear Louis asked Violet.
"Don't get me started, I have already ranted about the stupid people." She tells him.
"Oh, it can't be that bad." He says.
"Oh, now you done it." I say with a small laugh.
"Dude these people… nope, nope just, nope." She says as she takes a breath. I go over to her and hold her hand and she chuckled a bit.
"Anyway, how's your job going music boy?" She asked him and Louis went on and on about how he actually loves his job.
"They even want me to be a theater teacher." He says.
"Well given the fact that you're so dramatic I can see why." Mitch says.
"Hey, it's my personality and all of you love me…. right?" He asked. Violet smiles and pats his back.
"Of course, we do you big lug… so when you getting a girlfriend?" She asked him.
"When I'm dead." He sighed and I look to him.
"I'm honestly surprised you don't have a wife yet." I say to him.
"Right? Me too, I'm charming, strong, smart too…. Maybe I should grow a beard." He says as he rubbed his chin a bit and we laughed at this.
"I'll grow one with you." AJ says and I pat his head as we keep walking.
"Thanks, little dude, we can pick up girls here at the park." Louis says and then they run off to do lord knows what. When the time came everyone went to go do their own thing and Violet took us back to the bakery so I could grab the chocolate.
"We got your grandparents their favorite right?" She asked and I nod.
"And uncle Bud too, he should be there today if he isn't at work." I stated.
"Haven't seen him since the barbeque hope he's doing ok." Violet says and I nod.
"He is, I talked to him yesterday on the phone." I tell her and she nods. We then went back to the car and she drove us to my grandparents' house. It was a nice drive and I felt the wind in my face a bit. when we finally get there, I see that Lee's car was there and even my uncle's car. We all go in and Grandma gives all of us hugs and kisses on the cheek. I look to Violet who gave Grandma the treats for her and grandpa, and I went over to my uncle and gave him his as well. We all sat at the table and Violet would get up and help grandma.
"Such a gentleman." She says and pinches Violet's cheek a bit. I smiled as I look to Violet and she looked happy. It's still a new thing for us, she's gotten use to being called sir at work, or out in public and she was happy. Though she still happy when I would tell her she looked pretty but not as much as when I call her handsome. We all were finally seated at the table and I feel Violet grab my hand when we were halfway through the meal.
"Oh uh… Grandma, Grandpa, Uncle Bud Violet and I wanted to share something with you." I say and they look to us.
"Oh? What is it?" Grandpa asked and I look to Violet as she takes a breath. I feel her hand become a little sweaty and I kissed her cheek and she looked to me and nods.
"Violet and I are expecting twins." I say and they look to us. I feel Violet grip my hand a little tighter and then I see my grandmother smile.
"I told you; I told you she was having babies, I was right." She says to grandpa and uncle bud and we all laughed.
"Alright, I'll never doubt your dreams again love." Grandpa says and I feel Violet's grip loosen a little. The dinner went very well with grandma constantly asking questions about the babies, when they will be here, how far long I was, just the usual questions along with if we have come up with baby names as well. A few more weeks would pass and I was currently in my twentieth week and Violet was currently laying her head gently on my stomach as we sat in our living room listening to the radio. We barely watch the TV unless it was my show which started to air at night, or to see what the weather would be like.
I place my hand gently to her ear and looked to see she had her eyes closed but she had her hand placed gently on my stomach as well.
"Hmm." She hums a bit and I smiled at her.
"You good there Violet?" I asked and she nods gently.
"Doc said they'd be kicking soon." She says quietly and I nod.
"When's the next appointment?" She asked.
"Well, they did say to come next week when we wanted to know the genders." I tell her and she nods gently.
"Does this feel weird?" She asked me.
"What do you mean?" I asked.
"You know carrying something in you?" She asked as she sat up but never taking her hand off. I kid you not she said she wanted to feel their first kicks and God I don't know why but it made my heart flutter. To know she was wanting to know her kids.
"A little… sometimes I forget I'm even pregnant." I tell her honestly and she nods.
"I'm still a little worried." She tells me and I rubbed the back of her head.
"Want to talk about it?" I asked and she looked like she did but also didn't.
"It's ok to talk about it." I tell her and she sighed.
"I want them to be happy and healthy… but I feel like… sometimes I feel like I might mess up you know? And I know that all parents feel this way but… Jesus Clem look how I grew up." She says and I moved both my hands to cup her face gently and I give her a kiss.
"Trust me, you'll be a better father than your own." I tell her and she takes a breath.
"That's another thing… I want them to see me as their dad but… I know we have to tell them I'm a woman… I just don't want them to get hurt because of that… did you hear what happened in Florida? That drag bar?" She asked and I nodded.
"Yes." I say.
"And all those newspapers… painting us as if we were perverts, monsters… I don't want our kids to get hurt because they were born into this family… or the fact that what if one of them is like us? I couldn't live with myself if they got hurt." She tells me and I rubbed the back of her head gently.
"I know, I'm scared for that too." I tell her. Truthfully, I was terrified, what if someone does go after our kids, it doesn't matter how much we've done to help others people will always paint us in a bad light. It may seem nice here but then I remember when Violet first came here, when we went into town and we had that argument because she fought those nasty people. Granted she was justified but I still had to worry about the racists here. And the fact that our kids are mixed, they've already got a target on their backs and they aren't even born yet.
"I'm sorry I shouldn't be making you worried with how you are." Violet says and I rubbed the back of her head more and placed her head to my stomach.
"I don't think you're in the wrong for telling me what you are scared of, I did ask but I am being honest with you when I tell you that I am worried myself." I tell her and she nods gently. We stayed like this for hours and I was glad that it was Saturday night. I feel Violet grab my hand gently and she would talk to the kids. She really did take what the doctor said to heart.
"How's your foot feeling?" She asked.
"It's fine dear." I tell her.
"What about your prosthetic?" She asked.
"I'll have to take it off in a bit." I tell her but she gets up and looks to me and then helped me take the prosthetic off. It felt nice, to have it taken off.
"Looks a little swollen." She tells me as she looked to my stump a bit.
"Well good thing I don't have work tomorrow, can keep it off for the day… unless we are going somewhere?" I asked her.
"You don't need to but if I have to then you don't need to come with." She tells me and I nod. She placed her head back to my stomach and would talk to the babies more. It was so weird when I felt them kick and Violet quickly lifts her head up and then looked to me with the look of shock on her face and I couldn't help but laugh. She had the look of wonder as she laid her head back to my stomach and talked more to them hoping to get them to kick again.
"Come on just one more kick." She says and I laughed a little at this. But I guess they wanted to be mean to their papa since they didn't kick again.
"They don't want you to get spoiled." I joked and she looked up to me a bit and then kissed me.
"I'm happy though… at least I was here for the first kick." She says and I nod. I moved my hand to her back a bit and she looked to me.
"Do you need a massage? I know the doc said your back might be hurting, especially with carrying two kids." She says and I giggled.
"No but I am craving melon again." I tell her and she nods then gets up. She heads to the kitchen and I look over to her. I always wonder why Violet felt she was so lucky to be with me, in all honesty I was lucky to be with her, or if I have to be truthful, we were lucky to be with each other. She is so kind to me, I felt so bad waking her up in the middle of the night after she's had a long day at work, one night I woke up in a panic thinking something was wrong and Violet helped me out as best as she could. I had kept her up the night before and I felt even worse but she told me it was ok, and that she would take a nap during her lunch break. It still didn't make me feel better.
She came back over with a bowl of all types of melons and she had put some honey on it. I smiled at her as I kissed her cheek when she took a seat next to me and handed me a fork so I couldn't get my hands all sticky. She kisses me on the cheek and I share some of my melons with her. At one point she was a little hesitant, more so with the fact that she said it was my food and I needed it, plus I think she's been talking to the other husbands at the parenting classes.
"I do recall you being terrified of eating this with me." I say and she groaned a bit after she took a bite.
"Hey those husbands made it sound like I was going to get stabbed." She says and I laughed.
"But let's be fair did they even ask if they could have a bite? Also, why would they want to know what chocolate and steak taste like?" I say as I wrinkled my nose, I may be pregnant but that did not sound appetizing at all.
"Ugh sounds gross… or what about the one woman that said she had craved toast with peanut butter and mayo? At the same time too." She asked.
"Oh, that is a weird craving… I once heard of one woman that craved dirt, of course she didn't go eat any but she said it was so weird that she was craving it." I say as I remember the one woman in the class.
"Well, I'm glad all you are craving is Melons and honey… must be a sweet tooth craving." She says and I nod.
"I'm glad too… did you like melons as a kid?" I asked her.
"Oh, I loved all kinds of fruit, Oranges, melons, grapes, berries of all kinds Peaches too." She tells me and I nod.
"Well, you know I love apples… sad that these little ones don't." I say quietly.
"I think it was just the greens ones, now that was the only ones I didn't like, too sour." She tells me and I nod.
"Well maybe I should get some red apples, see if they like that." I mentioned and she nods. I offer her another piece of melon and she takes a bite. I'm glad she made a huge bowl, we haven't made a big meal in a long time since I had gotten sick, the fruit was fine and all, but they said I needed to at least eat more meat.
"I think I should make you some stew tomorrow, with a big bowl of fruit of course." She says and I nod.
"That actually sounds nice, and it's easy on the stomach." I say and she nods. When the bowl was done, she takes it and goes to was the dishes. She then came back and turned the radio off and turned the TV on since it was time for one of my shows and I have to say it was funny when she and I would make comments on them. It was a good few hours before we finally go and head to bed for the night. The next week felt long to the both of us, Violet has been very busy at the office and I decided to surprise her for lunch.
"Hello, is my husband still here?" I asked the secretary.
"Oh, you must be Mrs. Everette yes he is still in his office." She tells me and I nod as I go into his office. The lights were off and I look to the couch to see Violet was laying on it with her eyes closed as some soft music was playing. I go and set her lunch on the desk and I go over to her and grabbed a chair and gently rubbed her head. She was still sleeping and I smile at her and she snores a bit which makes me giggle. It was a good ten minutes before she finally woke up and she sees me.
"Hmm… did I stay late?" She asked as she sat up.
"No, I wanted to come have lunch with you." I tell her and she patted the couch and I moved to sit next to her. She then moved a bit and lays her head on my lap and I smiled a bit.
"How are the twins?" She asked.
"Oh, they're fine… a little kick happy when they don't hear you though." I tell her and she chuckled at this.
"You two giving Mama Clem a hard time? I thought we agreed none of that." She tells them and I roll my eyes a bit at this. It was sweet though.
"Hmm, what's for lunch?" She asked and I looked to the lunch box.
"Some of Grandma's meatloaf." I tell her.
"Hmm, sounds good." She says quietly and then she fell back to sleep. I sigh a bit and then close my eyes as I ended up falling asleep as well. It wasn't long till I felt some movement and woke up to see Violet gripping my shirt a bit. I gently rubbed her head but that didn't seem to work so I gently shook her shoulder to try and get her to wake up. When she finally did, she shot up and looked around a bit.
"Fuck… hmm." She mutters as she gets up.
"Are you ok?" I asked and she nods.
"Yeah just… bad dream." She mutters and I kissed her head gently. She rubbed her face a bit and looked to the time and sighed.
"Lunch is almost up." She says and I nod.
"Well, I'm glad you got some sleep though." I tell her and she yawns a bit.
"Yeah but… I like sleeping in our bed more." She says and I could hear her cracking her back a bit. She then gets up and grabbed the lunchbox and we ate some of the food together. She said I can stay with her until for a while since I must be tired, and to be truthful I was a little tired so I laid on the couch a bit and she kept the lights off and the music playing. I could hear her talking on the phone quietly here and there and I would sometimes look at her as she worked.
"We're going to the appointment tomorrow, right? Since we missed the last one?" She asked and I nod a bit.
"Yeah, sorry I just… wasn't feeling good." I tell her and we look to each other.
"It's ok Clem… if you still aren't feeling good, we can reschedule, you've been tired lately… maybe we should do a house call." She suggests.
"Hmm, no it's fine, I think I just overworked myself the other day." I tell her.
"You sure? It's fine if you can't go in they'll understand." I hear her say.
"I know… I'll see how I feel in a few hours." I tell her.
"Hmm, you sure you're ok Clem?" She asked as she comes over to me and I nod.
"I'm fine I promise." I tell her and she rubbed my head gently. It felt nice and I lean into her hand a bit. I feel her place a hand on my forehead gently and I look to her and she looked back to me.
"I'm not sick, don't worry." I tell her and she nods.
"Doesn't hurt to check but I think I'll make you some soup tonight, would you like beef or chicken?" She asked.
"Beef sounds good… actually corned beef sounds good right now." I tell her.
"You want that?" She asked and I nod a little.
"Yes, that just sounds good." I say quietly and I look to her as she nods.
"And a big bowl of your melons as well." She tells me and I nod. I ended up staying with her until she finished work. She helped me to the car after she tells the secretary goodnight. When we get home, she takes me to the couch and I lay down for a bit. She gets started on the dinner and she would come and check on me from time to time, she even made me some tea which was so good. She told me she had a pitcher in the fridge so if I wanted more to just tell her. I felt fine, but it started to get a little warm and I tried to get comfortable.
"Clem?" I hear and look to Violet as she looked to me worried.
"Hey, you have a slight fever I think-."
"No, it's… it's fine it'll go away." I tell her and placed my hand on her cheek.
"I called the doctor they'll be here in a bit." She tells me and I sighed.
"Ok… ok." I say and she nods a bit and I feel a cool rag on my head. When the doctor came they gave me some medicine for the fever and told me I should rest up, it might be caused from stress but what did I have to be stressed about. They told Violet if I did get worse that I needed to come to the hospital immediately, it was to make sure nothing happened to the babies and myself. Lucky for us the fever didn't last long and I was ok but we made sure to check on the babies at the next appointment.
"Your twins are doing just fine, very strong heart beats from the both of them." The doctor tells us and I nod and we both sighed in relief.
"I know this isn't common but you should take some bed rest for a while, if you're getting stressed you could get sick again." The doctor tells us and I look to Violet as she looked to the doctor and nods.
"I'll make sure she gets the rest she needs." She tells the doctor who nods.
"That's good, anyway you and the babies are fine, if you feel any discomforts that feel really bad make sure to call me." The doctor says and I nod.
"Also, have you two thought of a birthing plan?" She asked us.
"Birthing plan?" Violet asked.
"Well yes, are you going to be taking any pain medications?" The doctor asked and then explained more on what could happen.
"I was thinking of taking the medicine but if things got worse, we would do a c-section." I explained.
"Alright, and you aren't allergic to any medication which is good, we can talk about this more at the net appointment which should be by your third trimester." The doctor says and I nod. Violet then takes me to the car and drives us home but I told her to make a quick stop to the store so we could get some more melons.
"Do you want to stay in the car?" She asked.
"No, no I'm fine to walk Vinny." I say as some couple passed by the car.
"Alright, I just wanted to make sure." She tells me and I nod as we get out the car. As we were shopping some women would come up to me and ask how far long, I was and where my husband was. Violet came over with some melons and I would introduce them to her.
"Theres my husband." I say and they look to Violet who nods.
"Clem do you want a watermelon? They have a few left." She asked me deepening her voice a bit.
"Oh no I'm fine just these will do." I tell her and she nods a she puts them in the cart.
"Oh, craving melons?" One of the women asked and I nod.
"Just melons and honey, I thought the cravings would go away but nope, it's what the babies want." I tell her.
"Oh twins? You husband and you must be proud." She says.
"Yes, we are." Violet says.
"Do you know the genders?" She asked.
"Oh no we haven't asked yet, we will when I hit the third trimester." I explained.
"Oh, you want to be extra sure?" She asked and I nod.
"Yes, we do have a lot of baby clothes for either gender." Violet tells her.
"Having twins is going to be really expensive, I do hope you have a good job." She tells Violet who nods.
"I do, plus with my military benefits and Her benefits we're fine." She explained to the woman.
"Oh, that's interesting." She says and I nod. We bid her a bye as we went back to shopping and I see some other things we needed at the house. We paid for the items and then left the store. When we got home Lee and Carley were with AJ as they came over to us and explained they were going over to grandmas. I felt a little bad that I was feeling tired but they said it was ok and they would explain it to her. They also said they would bring some dinner unless we had plans.
"Oh, we have dinner planned out, don't worry, but uh… if grandma made her chocolate cake I'm not apposed for a few slices." I say and I hear Violet chuckle at this.
"Alright, will do, rest up Clem." Lee says and he gives me a kiss on the head and the other two hug me before they left. Violet takes me inside and takes me to the couch and turns the radio on for some music. She then went back outside to take care of the ducks real quick and then comes back in with the grocery bags. She then got to work on dinner and she would check up on me here and there like always. I started to feel a little bad that she was doing a lot of work.
"You know you can relax too." I tell her as she brought me a glass of cold tea.
"I know but I want to make sure you're doing ok first." She says and I lean up a bit to kiss her. She kissed me back it got a little heated and I feel her placing her hands on my side a bit.
"Hmm, you know I love you?" She asked and I nodded.
"I love you too dear." I tell her and she nods a bit.