Millie

Bonus Chaper- Two

Two years later

Josephine is eighteen tomorrow. How did that happen?! One minute she's the baby sister of the family, sweet and adorable, and the next she's eighteen. She's still sweet, but the Nomikos wild kicked in about six months ago, and now she's a little more feisty than before. Heck it could have been hormones, or it could have been Vedas influence, but shes found her tribe and her voice, and I loved that.

Josephine is reluctantly popular. She would tell you she was popular by association only, that association being Veda Williams. I think it was believed that their arms were linked together permanently, because you never saw one without the other. 

Veda found being popular an easy transition and quite the thrill. She loved it, adored it, and worked it. She had taken Millie's credit card many a time and spent a fortune on her wardrobe. Compared to Norman, Veda was an expensive dependant. He had needs don't get me wrong, but his, they were mackerel, and mice stuffed with catnip.

Our home in Portland, it was always busy, a constant revolving door of teen girls and felines. Vedas circle of friends were always here, and most recently so were the stray kittens that had been born in Millie's workshop. We were sure by looking at their cute and fluffy tabby butts, that these kittens were the product of a romantic liaison between Norman and one of his many girlfriends. It was only then that we even realised he hadn't been neutered. Norman spent a week in a head cone after that, his ability to create more fluffy butts was removed.

The kittens were everywhere! Sometimes we counted eight, and other times we were sure there were ten. Norman it seemed had been quite busy since he was allowed to be an outdoors cat. He came and went through a cat flap on the back door. He was living his best life. He was still a complete asshole, but perhaps a little less so.

Millie was going to sell the kittens, but the longer that they were here the more attached to them she became. We ended up rehoming the majority of them to family and friends. Avery convinced Moira to take two boys, named Sigmund and Freud. Kate had one, her name was Muffin, not to ever be shortened under any circumstances. Kates words. Willa and Allie had two, Mr Dashwood and Colonel Brandon, named with the Jane Austen theme that Mary had started. Cameron and Camilla took a girl, Blanca, the most like her birth father Norman, in all of the worst ways. Blanca however, disliked women. Camilla was chopped liver. Cameron was the only person that cat let fuss her.

Millie made us keep the other two, or were there three?! Who knows, they all looked the same to me. The ones we kept were all ginger tabbies. Millie said she would never tire of red heads, being everywhere.

Did we mention that she thought she was funny?!

We were three years down the road of our relationship now, from the moment we had met to this current second. We were married, had a home, and were currently planning our own family. Millie knew I couldn't carry our baby any time soon. I had just joined the NWSL, playing for the Portland Thorns, and carrying our child would end my career right as it began. We decided on the best way to create our family, and that would be with Millie carrying my egg, and me one day, carrying hers. We had both had egg retrievals back to back in November, and currently I had six eggs frozen with our donor sperm, and Millie had eight.

We didn't know when to start, but it would most probably be next year. I couldn't wait to see Millie pregnant and carrying our first baby. I hoped and prayed it would all go to plan and it would be possible. You never knew until you started, how your journey would go. My own Moms had had two very different experiences in pregnancy and getting pregnant. Mama got really sick when she was pregnant, and Mom didn't. Mom required IVF with Bastion but not Olympia, and Mama fell pregnant at home with Jo.