An Enchanting Experience [Discontinued Until Further Notice]

AEE15~~~ I don't want to breathe!

Chapter Fifteen

I don’t want to breathe!

Meghan

The ultrasound was nerve-wracking. At first, the doctor couldn’t find the twins’ heartbeat. It took him five terrifying minutes to find the first one. I had been clutching Darren’s hand so hard it was going to leave marks. Bria looked scared out of her mind.

Darren looked sad. He actually had tears in his eyes.

I was so relieved when my second baby’s heartbeat filled the room. It was such a beautiful sound and it had the tears that had been pooling in my eyes trickling down my cheeks and I couldn’t hold in a relieved sob.

I had been right when I had been thinking of having triplets instead of twins.

Darren looked heartbroken when the doctor told us that I had lost the third baby.

If Darren and Bria were heartbroken, I was inconsolable.

I may not have known I was pregnant with three babies, but losing a child is still the worst pain you can ever imagine.

The doctor couldn’t even tell us if it was a boy or a girl. The baby hadn’t formed that much yet.

We were going to have a memorial for the baby. Obviously we couldn’t give this baby the last name of Sullivan and invite the town, but at least Darren knew the baby had been his.

We decided to give the baby a name anyway, instead of just calling it ‘baby Everest’.

We decided to give it a name that could either be for a girl or a boy.

Riley Taylor Everest.

Riley, because it was my grandmothers middle name, and Taylor because it was Darren’s fathers name. That, and they could both pass for either a girl name or a boy name.

I didn’t know how I was going to get passed the loss of my baby, but I needed to be strong for the two I still had.

The doctor told me I needed to stay on bed rest for the next two months to make sure I didn’t lose them. I was told I could go for short walks and I needed to stay stress free. I couldn’t eat anything with salt either.
I was willing to do it though. I would do anything for my twins.

“Why didn’t you tell me?” Darren whispers once the doctor had left the room. I was supposed to get changed into some pajamas that my brother had brought from home. While he was there, he had told mom and dad, against my wishes, of course. They were currently freaking out and on their way to the hospital now.

Bria had gone to fetch a wheelchair because the doctor wanted me off of my feet completely for the next forty-eight hours, bathroom trips excluded.

“I didn’t know how to tell you. I was still trying to come to terms with it myself and I didn’t know how you’d react. I was going to tell you. That’s why we were at your apartment in the first place.” I say softly, trying not to cry.

Darren wipes away the two tears that fall from my eyes with his thumb.

Then, what happens next shocks me completely to my core.

He leans down and kisses me.

I immediately respond.

The kiss is filled with everything we’re feeling and all that is between us.

It was a mix of tears and our lips. It was filled with emotion.

The passion.

The anger and betrayal.