MY FEISTY WIFE

C4

We left for the hospital after taking care of some documents that only needed my proof reading and signatures. I have always hated hospitals, sometimes I wonder why doctors love their jobs.

Don’t take me wrong, but the only times I have been to the hospital was when my parents had the plane crush and I went to identify their bodies, when my grandma was undergoing chemo and looked like she was walking dead, when she finally died, weirdly, I cried a lot when she was alive than when she died, call me crazy but if you had seen her then you would know what I am talking about and then there is me and my pregnancy, especially the first trimester with the morning sickness.

See, no good memories, and now I was sending Lily 1000miles away, I’ll forever be alone with my work and my baby.

“Miss Jo, I mean, Gigi, were here.” Ron my driver says pulling me out of my thoughts.
He’s old enough to be my father and the best driver I could ever ask for, so I can’t have him calling me miss Jones and me call him Ron, its weird.

Thanks Ron I say and walk into the hospital, no one knows my identity here as ex MRS Black so I could go to a park, buy a scrunchy from hawkers, go into any restaurant, even fast foods without pictures being taken and I want to keep it that way.

“Hi, my appointment is at 10 with doctor Mandy” I say

“Sure, go directly in she is expecting you and you are literally on time” the receptionist says smiling

I walk in to the office and exchange pleasantries, Lily sits beside me when I’m asked to lie on the bed and lift my dress, she places a clean cloth to cover the lower part, rubs a cold gel on my abdomen after a warning on the temperature.

“The babies are growing and are healthy.” Mandy says

“I’m sorry, babies?” both lily and I say at the same time

“Yes, babies, you see, they were lined side by side previously, so you could barely see them, considering they were all dots on your previous ultra sound. Congrats Gigi, you are having quadruplets!” she says with a smile

I just felt like the air was knocked out of me, I expected twins, or just a baby and here I am at 25 having quadruplets and single. Also their dad called me a whore the last time I saw him, yey me.

I put on my brave face, I’m excited too and scared but I’ll be alright

“wanna hear the heart beat and know the gender?”

All I do is nod my head, Lily is excited though and screams “YESSSS”

“Hear that.? Thats the heart beats, they are all in sync,” thats new I listen and Im overwhelmed, I cry a little and laugh, it sinks that I’m going to be a mother. What ifs run through my mind but I push them away, I can’t wait to meet them.

“you’re having two girls and two boys, each pair identical”

I’m mentally exhausted when we leave the hospital but still head to the office for the board meeting after getting an ice cream along the way