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lx - oh babies*

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Month 3

"Twins?" I ask in disbelief. "TWINS?" I say louder slamming the door after me.

I am so fucked.

"Buy one, get one free pregnancy," Xavier says and everyone sitting in the living room laughs except for me.

This isn't funny.

Leo and I just got back from the doctor's and she finally confirmed that there are in fact two heartbeats and I'm having twins.

I was dreading pushing one baby out, now I have to push out two? At the same time? This is not what I meant when I said I wanted a big family.

"I'm gonna be there with you every step of the way my love," my husband says and wraps his arms around me.

My husband.

That's such a nice sentiment.

"Yeah but you're not gonna help me push them out," I whine. "Do twins even run in your family?" I ask because they certainly don't run in mine.

"You were supposed to be a twin peanut," my mom says and I groan. Never mind, I guess they do run in my family. "You ate your twin in the stomach though," she continues and I laugh, a little shocked.

"You're lying mama," I say in disbelief because there's just no way.

"I'm serious," she reiterates. "So your dad technically wasn't your first kill," she jokes and I burst out laughing. I shouldn't be laughing, but that was a little funny.

"Oh my goodness," Josh laughs too and of course, Xavier adds another comment. "You've been racking up bodies since the womb little sister," he jokes and I don't think I can stop laughing.

"Anyways," I change the topic. "The babies are fine, and Dr. Brown says that everyone is perfectly healthy."

"Dr. Brown?" Leo's dad says in an insinuating tone and my mom slaps his arm.

Huh.

"Fuck, I have to pee," I groan and Leo helps me up the stairs. After I use the bathroom, he's on the phone in our bedroom and I wrap my arms around him and lay my head on his chest.

"Who was that?" I ask after he hangs up.

"The contractor. Since we're having twins, I want him to talk to the architect about babyfying another room."

I also dreamed about building our family home from scratch so we would personalize it and make it as much ours as we can and that dream of mine is also coming true. In three different places.

We're building homes in New York, Italy, and Paris. The Paris home isn't too far from my hotel so I can navigate easier when I have to visit and see how things are going.

I look up at him and his green eyes are glistening with pure joy. "I don't think babyfying is a real word." He kisses the top of my head and I feel vulnerable. "I'm scared," I admit to him and he immediately gives me his full attention.

"Of what baby?" He asks worriedly.

"Of giving birth. I don't want anything bad to happen, we've been through enough." He sighs and cups my face in his hands.

"There's no way to truly know if anything bad is going to happen, but all we can do is hope for the best and you, never forget that I will always be by your side. No matter what."