The Couple- short novel based of the Selection Series

Chapter 4 Chaos Arising

The day was coming. The day. The big day! The birth day of my first child. I was so happy. I was also very stressed, too.

"America! What are you doing, go lay back in bed. We only have 1 week before the baby is due!" Maxon yelled as he saw me walking through the castle halls.

"I am perfectly fine. Stop worrying Maxon. Trust me everything will go fi- oww owww"

"America!" Maxon screamed worriedly as he grabbed me. "Are you okay dear? Just go back to bed please, your scaring me."

"It was only a few kicks. I told you I am fine. I have seen my mother go through all this with my younger sister and brother."

"Just please, for me?"

"Okay, if I must. I love you!"

"Thank you, I love you too."

I smiled, and walked back to my room and lay in bed.

riiing riiing riiing riing

"Ugh," I complained as I awoke.

It's the stupid palace phone for the King and Queen to be paged on.

"Hello?" I asked as I picked it up.

"Oh yes, Queen America, Sorry to bother you but we are unsure what colors to put in the nursery room since we are unaware of the gender of the unborn child."

"Oh well, I didn't even think of that. Me and Maxon decided we wanted to wait. Oh no what am I going to do. AHHHHHH!"

With that, I hung up the phone.

Minutes later Maxon rushed into the room.

"Are you alright? Someone alerted me you were screaming on the phone."

"I am just stressed, which I know is bad, but how on earth are we going to decorate the palace nursery if we don't know the gender Maxon! I want everything to be just perfect and we can't have it all done last minute. This is going to be a dias-"

"America stop dear. I know we decided to not know the gender, but I have been very curious myself. If it's stressing you out this much, maybe it would be better if we did know."

"Really? How soon can we find out?"

"I guess right now if you please."

"Okay!"

Maxon helped me out of bed and we walked down to the hospital wing.

"Is everything alright?" one of the nurses asked.

"We have changed our minds," Maxon said, "we would like to know the gender of our baby."

"Oh how wonderful!"

"Thank You so very much," I replied.

We walked into the room and Maxon helped me up onto the bed. The nurse rubbed the gel on me, and started.

"America!!!" Maxon shouted.

"There is two!" we both exclaimed.

"Well I think we can get started on that nursery now except for two?."

"Oh my, well the other nurse must have not seen it since the last time you were in here they must have been quite small. Well it looks like you have a twin girl and boy on the way!"

"Wow. Its a surprise, but a good one. Well it looks like will be doing something special for the nursery," Maxon said.

"How about we do grey. Then for the girl some purple, and the boy some blue," I said.

"As you wish my queen," Maxon told me while smiling and nodding.

Three days later, at around noon, Maxon and I were sitting in the nursery, just off our bedroom.

"It is so pretty. I am so glad with how it turned out," I said.

"Me too. I also think the purple and blue with grey is much nicer than just pink and blue," he said.

"Yah."

We sat there for a while just thinking.

"Oww!" I screamed.

"Another kick dear?"

"I'm not sure."

Maxon stood and helped me up. Just as the floor became wet. I looked down.

"Umm, Maxon?"

"What, what is it?"

"I think my water just broke."

His eyes widened, "Oh my gosh!"

"But its early by 5 days! Owww."

He grabbed my hand and we started fast walking to the hospital wing. We passed a guard and Maxon told him to alert the nurses.

When we arrived at the wing the nurses rushed me to a bed.

"How are you feeling America?" Nurses kept asking.

It was just so much happening at once.

I heard a guard out side the door, "Alert the media and the country, everyone must know! Royal twins are about to be born!"

Hours past, I was so extremely tired I had passed out just after holding my daughter and son. Me and Maxon had decided on names. Today Princess Eadlyn Schreave and Prince Ahren Schreave were born into the country of Illea. They were so beautiful.

When I finally left the hospital wing, Eadlyn, Ahren, Maxon, and I were always together. There was not a second that went by that we were apart. We were just so happy. But I was wondering one thing.

Can Eadlyn be an Heir to the throne? She was the first born even though it was by seven minutes. It is always a boy, but why not have her get the throne.