Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Better

You're a Month Early

The next couple of days went off without a hitch, I mean there's been a couple of arguments between my mother, my twin, and I but that was expected. Robyn went back to school yesterday and Morgan, Ma, and Ana all went back to work. So Rikki, CC, Ashley, and I have the house to ourselves.

We are all sitting in the living room watching Top Gun. Ashley and I love this movie and, well, Rikki and CC love us so they put up with this movie. CC and Ashley are both pretty tiny so they're both in my day's old recliner. Rikki and I are sitting on the couch, his arm is wrapped around me and I'm playing with his fingers.

"I hate Tom Cruise so much." CC states.

"I hate the Charlie character." Rikki says. "Why do you two like this movie so much anyways?"

"It's a good movie." I state.

"And Val Kilmer." Ashley laughs.

"And that." I say.

"Hey!" My husband complains making me laugh and kiss him quickly. "On what planet is Val Kilmer better than Tom Cruise?"

"Uh this one." I laugh and he smiles.

"You're cute but you're wrong." Rikki says and kisses my nose.

"I'm always right, remember?" I smirk and he laughs.

"Whatever helps you sleep at night, babe." He says and kisses my cheek. "I love you."

"I love you too, so much." I say and CC groans.

"I think that I liked this better when you guys where fighting." He grumbles and Ashley hits him.

"CC!"

"What? Now I have to watch my best friend kissing my baby sister all the time." My twin complains.

"You'd rather have them screaming at each other?" She asks.

"Yes because Bianca is better at arguing than Rockett." CC states and I laugh.

"She is not." My husband grumbles.

"I am, Rikki. I hate to break it to you." I say and he kisses my temple.

"I know." He mumbles with his mouth still against my forehead.

At that moment the door opens and Ana walks in carrying a million bags. She humming to herself and dancing around. Did she forget we are here or? She looks back and smiles.

"Happy birthday, twins!!" Ana yells and my twin and I share a look.

"Our birthday is in May." CC says and she rolls her eyes.

"I haven't seen my younger twin siblings blow out candles together since your eighteenth birthday." Our older sister states. "Today you guys and twenty four years and eleven months old, one month off of being twenty five. This as close as I'm gonna get."

"So what? You're screaming 'happy birthday' at us all day today?" I ask and she grins.

"Nope." Ana squeals and dumps a bag of party supplies. "We're going to have a party!"

"Jesus Christ, why?" Twin and I say in unison causing Rikki and Ashley to laugh.

"Because you are my little siblings are here and close to their birthdays which I never see them on." She crosses her arms like a stubborn kid. "Do you have any idea how much this will mean to Mom and Robyn."

CC and I look at each other, we both know that we have to put up with this. I go cross eyed and he smiles.

"For Robyn?" He asks.

"Yeah, I'll do it for her." I agree. "Do your party, Ana."

"You love me!" She grins and I roll my eyes.

"We love Robyn." CC states.

"I need all of you to leave though." Ana says.

"Honesty?" My twin wonders.

"Yes. Leave. Go. Now." Ana says and opens the door.

We all get up and go out the door, Ana turns around and leans in the doorway.

"Don't come back until after Robyn is home from school." She says.

"Yeah, yeah." My twin grumbles.

Ana closes the door and Rikki holds my hand. Ashley looks over to me and lights up.

"Let's get pizza!" She says and I light up as well.

"Let's do that!" I agree and Rikki and CC laugh.

We walk down the street to closest pizza joint and order a couple of pizzas (mainly because Ashley is having weirder cravings than I am). We all go and sit in a booth, Rikki wraps his arm around my shoulders. Ashley and CC sit across from us and my twin screws up his face at me.

"I love how when you moved to LA I was scared you weren't eating enough." CC starts. "But you eat an insane amount for someone your size."

"It's hard to believe it's only been a little over a year since I moved out to California." I say. "It's just--so much has changed."

"Trying begin me, I've been in LA since I was in high school. Everything was just normal until you and Jamie joined the band. It's never boring though." Ashley smiles. "Jilly is going to have her baby soon."

"What? First week of June, I think." I rack my brain. "Jamie is due in August."

"You two are do in the same month?" Rikki wonders.

"January of 1988." Ashley says. "We were close to us all having kids in the same year."

"Bret is going to freak out." My husband says. "He's convinced that the twins are connected somehow, like telepathically or something. He finds out that Bee is knocked up and CC got Ash knocked up, Bret will have a field day with that."

"Wait, Bret thinks the twins are telepathic?" Ashley wonders.

"Yeah, our theory is that he was dropped as a baby." CC says. "Then dropped down a flight of stairs."

"Sounds logical, I mean it's Bret after all." She laughs. "So what do you want to have, Bee?"

"Bee wasn't good at this last time I asked her." Rikki says.

"I want a boy and Rikki wants a girl." I explain. "What about you?"

"CC wants a little CC." Ashley explains and I laugh.

"That's a scary thought." Rikki laughs.

"But I want a girl." Ashley explains.

"So one of you will be happy." I say.

"Same with you guys." She says and I nod.

"Well, Bee, CC, you guys are twins. There's a chance that you and Ash will have twins." Rikki says and I sigh.

I know he's right but that whole idea scared the hell out of me. I mean having one baby is one thing but having two is a whole other. One cries and the other cries, they both want fed at the same time, they both need their diapers changed, and my husband will go on tour again before they're six months old.

I'm fucked.