Timothy Turner's baby

Chapter 3

*Jo POV*

'Twins?!'She thought to herself.She knew they ran in her family,so she should have expected it but this was supposed to happen to her brother or her sister not her.She walked home,dreading what her mother would have to say.

The moment she walked through the door,her mother started talking at her in mandarin.She'd never been good at the language and when it was being screamed at her she didn't understand a word.Her father appeared at the door.His face was a picture of distress;swivel-eyed and clammy.He mouthed four words to his daughter,'We...got a call.'Unlike mandarin,Jo was fluent in mouthed words.She nodded.He continued to stand there,worried.She knew he truly wanted to save her but they both knew Jo's mother's wrath would knock them down if he interfered.At the end of the hall,the two small heads of her siblings poked out of the kitchen-living room area.They were the same age as May and Angela but twice as mischievous.She fuzzed up her vision until her mother was just a blur in her way .Forcing her way past her,she dropped her things and a single tear made a path down her cheek.

"Wǒ hái méi hé nǐ shuō wán ne, qiáo!"Her mother shouted up the stairs after her.She knew what she meant;she'd been screamed it for 16 years after all.Slamming the door,she turned to her bed.She slumped onto the pillows and turned onto her side.Holding her belly with both hands,she began to weep.The tears slithered over her lips and into her ears,clogging them so she could not hear her mother's screams of anguish

*4 weeks later*

*Timothy POV

Tim held her in his arms,not wanting to let her go.She was already beginning to a show,a flatish,round ball glued to her belly.He held it like a vase as he whispered sweet nothings into her ear.

"Jo,you're due at your appointment in 6 minutes!Go.",Jo's faher shouted from the bottom of the stairs.

"I'll take you,I'm due at my shift in 30 minutes anyway,enough time to drop you off with mum and hurry to dad."He lifted her off the padded bed.

"Thanks,Tim."

*At the maternity clinic*

Timothy grabbed her hand as she was lifted off the car seat.She grunted but managed to get to the door.As Shelagh called Jo's name,she noticed her son waiting with her.

"Hi mum."He said it in a way that would make  passer-by view it as a daily experience,but for Shelagh it was a surprise.

"Timothy,good to see you're treating her well."

He smiled,"Always for you,mum."

Shelagh brought Jo into a cubicle and asked her to bring up her top.

"You're a bit big for twins."

"All of my family were 10 pounders,so nothing out of the ordinary i wouldn't think."She smiled,staring down at her slowly growing belly.