Love, is not for us

#21 - Are you ready?

Tiara

"I still think the best names are Lucas, for a boy and Lucy for a girl.", Luke beams proudly with the name he came up with. Obviously derived from his own name.

"I've a lot of pointers to shoot your ideas. But I'll just go with the ultimate point, the baby daddy won't like it." I replied nonchalantly while scanning through the maternity office wear to prepare for my growing belly. All my work clothes are getting tight.

Ever since I told Luke that we might find out the gender today, he had non-stop giving a list of names. Initially, I wanted it to be a surprise but now that we know we're going to have a twin, James manage to convince me to just find it out now. His logic is, we might get both boys or both girls or one of each. Then, we will need to prepare 4 names, in case of the first 2 possibilities. It'a already difficult to agree with 1 name.

"Both of you owe me for having the twins. ", he counter back on James' possible rejection.

I turn to him and give him a playful look, "Ohh Lukey, let's not go there. There's no way that we owe you. You don't want to hear how it went on...How James—".

"La la la la laaaa stop stop! What the hell, T! Eww! I don't mean that! You're like a sister to me. I do not want to hear how my step bro got you — aghhh you're putting things into my head. I hate you!", gosh he is so dramatic. I laugh out loud at his reaction until my eyes get teary.

After a good few minutes of laughter and still traumatic look on Luke, I finally speak, "Okok, sorry. But you're right, we do owe you, at least I do. I'm not sure how far me and James will go, but at the moment, I'm happy. Super happy and I know we will never regret the twins. I know this is not what you wanted for us and we did betrayed your trust. Thank you bestie, for your weird idea and give me a chance to redeem myself as your one and only bestie. Love you"

"Aww let's not get sappy in the middle of these maternity clothes. I love you too bestie" and I hug him tight.

"Alright, enough of this, please get back on the main focus for today. I need to renew my wardrobe! After lunch yesterday, I literally had to undo my pants button."

"Fine, fine.. okay what about this?", he picks up a floral maternity sundress with ruffle sleeves "—you can wear it for casual outings and pair it up with your oversized blazer for work".

This is why I drag him to shop with me, he has better fashion taste than I would ever be.

"Awesome, let's get that and a few more sundresses. I think till I give birth, I wouldn't want to wear any more pants & skirts. Sundress sounds good."

"T, I suggest one style, doesn't mean you have to wear only one style. Let's mix it up, you don't want to bore James with the same look every day, right.", Luke disagrees with my plan.

I swat his arm, "Hey! You're mean! He won't be! —" and my confidence swayed after a second, "—rightt..?", I look at Luke worriedly.

He chuckle at me, "Course not T. No one can get bored of you easily. If you had seen how he looked when you were on a break, and how he threatened me.. I'm pretty sure you could wear a sack, and he will still stick around."

I'm not sure what he meant exactly by that. But I choose not to ponder on it and address another issue in hand, "Have you met him? Since I got back together with him?"