Hey everyone! I haven't written a story in so long! For the past couple of days, I was thinking that I wanted to write something. Then the idea for this one-shot came to mind. I hope you enjoy it.
I never thought I would be one of those dads that is showing off pictures of his kids to complete strangers. But here I am. I guess I just really miss them a lot. The twins area 8 months old now and this is the first time that I have been away from them. I had to go on a short business trip to Chicago. It was bad enough having to leave Monica all those years ago when I had to go to Tulsa, but this has been torture. And it has only been 5 days. I know it hasn't even been a week but I don't like it.
"This is Jack and that is Erica. And that is my wife Monica. We took this picture last week." What am I doing? She doesn't care when this picture was taken. She probably doesn't even care to see it. It's really cute though. Monica is sitting on the floor with Jack and Erica on her lap and they're smiling at each other. It's probably the cutest thing I have ever seen. Well until something else really cute happens.
The lady beside me smiles. "Beautiful family."
I smile back at her. "Thank you." These three people mean the world to me. I love them so much.
I have so many pictures of my wife and kids, but I won't bore the poor woman with them all. I already have so many pictures of them, I can't imagine how pictures I will have of them by the time they are 18. I don't care though. I don't mind being that dad.
The rest of the plane ride was quiet. The lady pulled out a book. So I took that as she was tired of talking to me. That's ok. I put my air pods in my ears and decided to watch a show for the rest of the ride. Which seemed to take forever. It seems to take longer when you are excited to see your wife and kids.
Mon wanted to to come to the airport to get me, but we both didn't see the point of dragging the babies all the way over to the airport. Babies require a lot to leave the house. I had no idea. Because of that, I parked my car at the airport.
After I finally get back to Manhattan, I got in my car and headed back to the house. I can't wait to see my little family. Although, it's almost 8 so the babies will be in bed already. It's at this moment that I wish they didn't sleep through the night so I could see them and hold them. Guess I will have to wait until morning. At least I can see my wife tonight.
A smile spreads across my face when I pull up to my house. I open the garage door and pull my car right next to Monica's. Before I get out of my car, I see the door open to the house and Monica's beautiful smile is the first thing I see. I go over to her and wrap her in my arms and give her a kiss. Goodness my wife is perfect. I have always thought that. And nothing would ever chenge that.
"Hey honey."
I kiss her again. "Hi honey. I missed you."
We pull apart and she takes my hand. "I missed you too." She says as she leads me in the house.
"This isn't going to be a thing right? The whole business trip thing?"
I shake my head. "No." At least I hope not. I don't want to be that dad that is away a lot on business trips.
She kisses me again. "Good."
"Although, I could get used to all these kisses when I get back."
She laughs.
"Did the twins do anything new while I was gone?"
"No except somehow they got even cuter."
I can believe that. I don't know how they manage to get cuter and cuter every day. This has been like that since the day that they were born. Just when you think they can't get cuter, they manage to the next day. It truly is incredible. I'm so happy to be their dad. And I am happy to be doing all this with Monica. I know that I am extremely biased, but we really do have the cutest kids.
"I do have some news though." She tells me when we make our way to our bedroom.
"What's that?" I put my suitcase down and open it to start unpacking it. It's funny, before I got together with Monica, I would just set the suitcase down and climb into bed. Monica doesn't like that though. She likes to unpack right away. And because of that, I started to unpack right away. Now it's just second nature to me.
"I'm pregnant."
I stop and look at her, stunned. "What?" Did she just say what I think she said? Am I imaging it?
She nods with tears in her eyes. "I don't know how it finally happened but it did."
Now I have tears in my eyes when I wrap her in my arms and hold her close. "You're sure."
"I am. I went to Dr. Connelly's office this morning to confirm and make sure everything was ok. I'm 2 months along and he has no reason to think anything would be wrong."
"Oh honey." I kiss her. "This makes me so happy. "We're really going to have another baby?"
"We're having another baby."