LUVIE [fin. / unedited]

t h i r t y - t h r e e

l u v i e

Somewhere along the way, I drift off into sleep. It was one of those periods of sleep where I could still hear and feel everything. It was relaxing to hear William, the heart rate machine, and the twins. It was nice to know that William was still alive, that he isn't dead. I knew all humans died eventually, but not William, not yet.

    I blinked open my eyes, looking to see William sitting next to me, as the twins were on the end of the bed. William was playing around with them, I smiled while looking at him. "Good afternoon," I say smiling. William only looks at me, "Afternoon!" He exclaims, "It's evening! You slept through most of the day!"

    "What? What time is it?" I ask, sitting up and putting a hand on my stomach. "It's almost seven in the evening!"

    "Do you feel better, momma?" Allen asked me, I nodded. "Yes, baby. I was just a bit tired. Your sibling is killing me slowly." I said with a small laugh, rubbing my stomach. Allen and Alek looked at each other, "We weren't that much trouble!" They said together, looking at each other afterwards glaring at the other. I only laughed and rolled my eyes, "You too were lots of trouble, then and now!" I say laughing.

I leaned into William's shoulder, comfortable with the way he smelled. He smelled like man, the ocean, and a scent that can only be described as William. Resting his head onto mine, he wraps his hands around my stomach, almost protectively.

    A butterfly erupted in my stomach, I gasped looking at William in confusion. "Did you feel that?" I asked him. He only shook his head at me, "No, what was it." I took his hand and placed it on my stomach.

Another butterfly flared in my stomach. "Did you feel it then?"

    He nodded, "What was that?"

    "It was our baby, silly!" I said with a smile.

His confusion turns into a look of awe and admiration as he looks at my stomach. He gently rests both of his hands on each side of my stomach. He then bows his head, when his forehead rests against it. Whispering small words of love to the enlarged stomach. I ran my hand through his curly locks, as he rested his head on my stomach. I smiled down at him as his green eyes met mine.

    "It's our child! We have another child!" He says in glee, taking me and placing me in his lap. I snuggle into his lap and sign in contentment. My bloated abdomen somehow does not cause a very large space in between us. I feel William place his hands on each side of my belly, and rub in small circles that cause a moan to erupt from my lips. A short kiss was placed on the nape of my neck, as his soft curls tickled my ear.

I giggled and pushed him away from my neck, remembering that there are drunken midgets in the room. My drunken midgets. Alek and Allen both have looks of disgust on their face, "Ew!" They draw out, sticking their tongues out while both look away from us. I giggle at them more and place a messy kiss on William's lips to gross them out more. That just causes them to shriek and run out of the hospital room.

They run back in with Kent and Sealy, over the past few days Kent and Sealy have grown a liking towards each other. I don't think it was a like like, but more of an 'oh, you're cool' type situation. Kent and Sealy both laughing at something that the other did, they look at us. "What did you guys do?"

"We went to the cafeteria and made fun of the ladies who look like the lunch ladies back in high school," Kent said with a smile, I pout a little. "That's not nice! Those lunch ladies were so nice!" I exclaim to them, William rolls his eyes next to me. "They were not nice! They gave me no mashed potatoes! You know mash potatoes are my favourite!"

"That's because you were a total a-hole to them!" I say exasperated, cleaning up the word because of the twins in the room. "They liked me! No! They loved me!"

"Well, they can't love you any more than I can." He says with a smile. I lean over a kiss him gently, he wasn't happy with my PG attempt at a kiss, he wanted more. There was an ew from the end of the bed, and a scramble to leave. "Apparently, we're leaving again. We'll be in the cafeteria." Kent says, I throw a clumsily thumbs up at him. "Let's go children," Sealy says with a smile.

William broke the kiss and looked at me. His nose pressed into mine. "Marry me." He says quietly. My eyes widened, "Are you sure? Once I say yes, you're stuck with me until death do us part." I say with a giggle.

"Or until you divorce me," William says cheekily. "Smartass," I tell him, drastically falling down on the bed with William over me. "Is that a yes?" He asks.

"Ask me again."

Rolling his eyes, he looks at me, "Luvie Rigressa? Will you marry me?"

"Why should I?" I ask giggling. "Cause you love me!" William says exasperated. "Hm..." I drag on. "I give up," He says, he gets up and grabs the ring from his coat pocket. Putting it on my ring finger he smiles at me. "She said yes!" He whispers at me and then plants his mouth on mine. I smile and wrap my arms around his neck.

"I would've said yes," I tell him.

"You would've, but you weren't saying it fast enough." I roll my eyes at him. "That's rude." I pout. He goes in for another kiss, and I turn my head, where he skims my lips. "Hey!" He yells, I laugh. "You're getting it now!" He leans down and tickles me, laughter bursts from my lips.

A few hours later, I was sitting down beside him scrolling through the Internet looking for wedding ideas. Not totally happy with any of them. William smiles at me, "What about if we just have a small wedding? With just family?" He suggests. "That sounds perfect!" I gasp, "Could we have it in a church with a pastor? I always wanted someone to object to the marriage!" She says with a giggle. "What if someone does?" William asks.

"We'll just throw them out! Like Oscar!" I tell him, he only rolls his eyes at me. "You want someone to hoist the objectee over their shoulder and toss them out of the church?"

I nod vigorously, "Yes I do! And objectee isn't a word!" He only laughs at me, "That is such you thing to say!" Rolling my eyes, I think of colour schemes. "What about a rainy theme?" I ask him, "You want to do the wedding while it's raining?" William only looks at me. "If that's what you want."

"So a green and white theme with fairy lights in the rain?" I ask him. He nods, "If that's what you want my love." I smile at him. "Thank you!" I say with a smile.

"It's going to be beautiful!" I whisper before leaning in to kiss him.