SOMETHING UNEXPECTED

Chapter 11

Lucy's POV

"What? Tim no I'm sorry but I don't think it can work..."

"Lucy, it can work. I don't mean you should move in with me like in a relationship because we're no longer together. But then let's move in together as roommates. We'll buy a house with four bedrooms, so each of us and each child has their own room. I don't just want to be a weekend dad who only sees his children at the weekend. I want to see the twins every day and experience everything. I don't want to miss anything. I want to be the one who massages your feet after a long day on the sofa because they are swollen from the pregnancy. I want to be the one who drives you to the hospital when you go into labor.
I want to argue with you about baby names and the color of the nursery. I want to carry the babies out of the hospital and drive them home. To our house, where they will grow up and have a great childhood with both parents. I want to get up with you in the night to change dirty diapers.
I want to be there when the twins reach all sorts of milestones like crawling, walking and talking. I want to come home after work and have the opportunity to tell them goodnight stories before we put them to bed"

I had to smile automatically when Tim listed these things and I thought of all these moments that would come.
I also wanted my children to have their father around them all the time.
With two babies and a roommate, the apartment would be too small so I would have to find something new anyway and then buying a house with my children's father would be a logical next step in my life.

"Tim, I understand all the reasons why you want this and I would love to say yes straight away, but the fact that we are no longer a couple makes the situation more complicated. We've also never lived together so it would change even more for both of us than it already does because of the pregnancy."

"You've spent the night at my place and I've spent the night at yours so many times. It won't be that much more different" he said.
"Oh yes, Tim, it will be very different. When I spent the night with you or you with me, it was never longer than two or three days at a time and we slept in the same bed because we had sex together. We were in love and crazy about each other. In a relationship you tend to overlook things that would otherwise bother you."

"Okay, you're right, but you've already lived with Tamara and Celina and I've been married before, so we both have experience of what it's like to live with other people. Besides, I'm still crazy about you and I regret leaving you every day. Let me make it up to you as best I can so you might even give us another chance sometime in the future. Please Lucy let me prove to you that I'm a good roommate even though I've been a shitty boyfriend."
"Tim, you weren't a bad boyfriend except at the end of our relationship. You're 100 percent sure about moving in together as roommates?" 
"I'm 1000 percent sure Lucy."

"Okay then, let's look for a house. But tomorrow we'll first tell the others about the pregnancy and our plan to become roommates" I agreed to Tim's plan to move in together.
Tim nodded "Okay, I'll write to everyone later and invite them to a barbecue in my garden." "Yes and I would come over  around 11 o'clock? So you can write to the others and tell them to come over at 2 o'clock in the afternoon."
"Yes, those are good times." "See you tomorrow Tim."

I was just about to get out when Tim said my name. "Lucy wait..."
I turned and looked at him.
"How about you sleep over tonight? Then we could figure out tonight how to tell the others about the pregnancy tomorrow."
Lucy nodded "That's a good idea Tim. I'll just get a few things from my apartment upstairs that I'll need until tomorrow."
He nodded and I went upstairs to pack a bag for tomorrow.
I then came down with the bag and put it in Tim's car.
I got in and we drove to his place.

When we arrived at Tim's, he carried my bag in and Kojo greeted us immediately.
I stroked Kojo while Tim put my bag down in the bedroom.
"You sleep in my bed and I'll take the sofa" he said.
"No Tim, I'm not stealing your bed, you've only been out of hospital for a few days."  Kojo and I followed him into the bedroom.
"Yes, but I'm fit again, which is why I was discharged and you're pregnant. I'm not letting my pregnant roommate sleep on the sofa. You're getting my bed. So you take my bed or we share it."

He didn't really mean the last part but I didn't care, I meant what I said next. "Okay then, we'll share your bed for one night, I spent two nights in your bed at the hospital too so it should work"
Tim looked at me uncertainly "Yes, but the hospital was a completely different situation to now" said Tim.

"Why? Because you weren't really able to do anything. You'll manage to keep your hands to yourself tonight."
"What if I don't manage to keep my hands to myself?" asked Tim.
"Then I know a curse from Lopez where something falls off you."
Tim looked at me open-mouthed in shock.
I had to laugh because he really believed me about the curse.
I really knew the curse, but I would never use it on Tim.
"Then you have to behave yourself too and keep all your body parts in your side off the bed. There will be no cuddling or leaning on me" he said. "Okay, I can live with that" I replied.

We went into the kitchen and made ourselves something to eat.
I saw that Tim had attached the ultrasound picture I had given him when I told him about the pregnancy to the fridge with a magnet.
I took one of the new ultrasound pictures out of my bag and hung it on the fridge to the other picture.
Tim watched me and had to smile when he said. "We're going to have twins.Two little boots to love and care for."
"Oh yes, I still can't believe that there really are two little babies growing inside me, I thought one was amazing but two is just overwhelming." I said and stroked my little bulging baby belly which I was able to cover up with clothes so that nobody could see it.