Twist of Fate

The Road Ahead

Niall
I wake up to the sound of throw up from the next room over, and I wonder who's sick. I walk in to see how I can help, and June's kneeling over the toilet.
"Hey, Bug. You okay, sweetie?" I ask. She shrugs.
"I've been like this since yesterday. I called the doctor after the first time. I have an appointment in a few hours......" she says, and throws up again. And again. It's constant for about 3 minutes, and she's crying by the time it's over. Okay. I'm pretty sure I know what's happening now. I went through it myself about a year ago.
"June, are you pregnant?" I ask. She smiles weakly.
"That's what the appointment is for. I want to confirm." She says. I hug her right before she vomits again. I sit next to her and rub her back. When she's done, I help her back to bed, and hug her.
"Can't wait to hear the results. Get some sleep, Bug." I smile. She giggles.
"See you in a bit. Night. Or is it morning?" She teases.
"It's like 3 am. Good very early morning. Sleep." I order, and she curls into Louis. I head back to my beautiful fiancé and curl up next to him for a while.
I wake up to the screams of a baby girl. It's been about 3 hours since I woke up to June vomiting. I get up and grab a blanket to wrap around myself and Dylan from the end of the bed and go into the nursery.
"Well hello there, Dylan. You not sleepy anymore?" I ask, throwing the blanket around myself and cuddling her close. She quiets down some, but she's still crying.
"Hungry?" I ask. She seems to like the idea of food, because she starts cooing. But after a moment, she starts sobbing because I don't have food. She is exactly like me. It's hilarious. "Shhh... shhhh... let's get you swaddled and we'll get a bottle." I say. I swaddle her in a black and white polka dot blanket, and hand her the stuffed kitten Zayn got her, whom we named 'Kate'. Then we make our way into the kitchen, where I warm up a pre made bottle and feed her.
"There we go. All better. Now will you sleep for Papa and I?" I soothe softly as I burp her and her cries go to hiccups. I rock her a little after unswaddling her and wrapping her in my arms and my blanket, and with her little arms around Kate, who's about as big as she is, she finally drifts off. I watch her sleep for a while, and then place her in her crib and cover her in her little pink quilt my mum made her. At this point, June and Louis are up and in the kitchen.
"Hey, Bug. How are you feeling?" I ask.
"Better. But I'm not going to eat much. I won't be able to hold it." She smiles weakly. I can tell she definitely didn't feel like getting ready today. She's in sand colored leggings and a black tank top.
"Hey baby, can you grab my white jacket out of the coat closet?" She asks. Louis darts off.
"Seriously though. How you feeling?" I ask. She groans quietly.
"Like death. It's been 4 hours, and I haven't gotten back to sleep. I might take a nap later." She admits. Louis comes back with her jacket and she slips it on. It gets colder earlier here, so she also puts on boots and Louis quickly does the same and they leave.
"Feel better." I say, and they smile. There's a bit of cold air as the door opens and closes, and I shiver. By now, Liam and Harry are up, so we start our daily routine of trying to make breakfast and dragging Zayn out of bed. All while keeping Dylan asleep. I'm so happy for June and Louis. This is going to be an interesting next few months.

Louis
We're on the way to the doctors appointment, and June looks sick.
"You okay, love?" I ask.
"Um yeah, the car ride isn't agreeing the strawberries is all. I won't throw up, I promise." She says, offering a weak smile. "Really, Lou, I'm fine." She reassures me.
"You don't look okay." I say. We are currently arguing a little bit about whether or not she is indeed okay, if it's not obvious.
"Louis, I promise I'm fine. I don't feel 100%, but morning sickness gets the best of me." June replies, taking my hand. I'm not convinced but I'm not arguing anymore. We pull up to the doctors office. We are using Dr. Green as well, since he knows us.
"Juniper Roque, 8 o'clock with Dr. Green." June says to the receptionist. She nods.
"Go right in." She says. So we do.
"Hi, guys! Congrats!" Dr. Green says.
"Thank you!" June says.
"Is there anything you'd like to talk about before we begin?" He asks.
"Yeah actually. I'm wondering if you can tell how far I along I am while I'm here. I'm already showing a little bit." She says, pulling up her shirt to show the small bump. Dr. Green smiles.
"Of course. You know the drill. Go ahead and lay down and pull up your top." He instructs. "Remember, this is cold" he says as he squirts the gel on her belly. She shudders.
"And I thought Niall was exaggerating." She laughs. Dr. Green takes the wand in his hand, and I take June's hand in mine and sit next to her. Dr Green moves the wand around until he finds something.
"Juniper, you're 8 weeks. Also, do you have a history of multiples in your family? Or Louis?" He asks. We both nod.
"Twins on my side." I say.
"Triplets and quadruplets on mine." June says. "I have triplet aunts and my grandmother had triplet siblings and was a quadruplet herself." She explains.
"Okay. So here we go. Here's Baby One." He says, pointing at the screen.
"Baby One?" June asks. Dr. Green nods.
"And here are Babies Two and Three." He says.  June starts crying.
"Oh my god...." I whisper, crying myself. Dr. Green wipes the gel off and June sits up.
"How many copies?" He asks.
"Um-- like 20." I say. He doesn't even blink. I sit with her while he goes to get them. We are crying happy tears.
"I can't wait to tell the boys." She whispers once we calm down.
"When?" I ask.
"This afternoon. During Dylan's nap, we'll play tag or something and I'm not going to be able to run as fast and I'll say something about pregnancy and that'll give it away." She says.
"Love, that's a wonderful idea!" I exclaim. Dr. Green returns with the pictures, and we go home. It's almost 10:30 by the time we arrive, so we go ahead and hide the pictures until we tell them. She does want to call Dan and Amal, who happens to be 9 months pregnant. Since they moved to America for Dans work, they can't be here for the announcement.
"Hello?" We hear.
"Hey, big bro. Is Amal there too?" June asks.
"Hey sis. Yeah. I'll put you on speaker." He says. After chatting for a few minutes we decide to tell them.
"Hey, so you know how I told you I'd been feeling a little sick lately?" June says.
"Yes." They both say.
"Well I went to the doctor. And guess what?" She says.
"WHAT?!?!" They yell. They can't stand it. She looks at me.
"She's pregnant!" I say. They cheers.
"Well we want to show you something too.
We just took the last bumpdate the other day. Wanna see?" Amal says.
"Um yeah!" June says. Her phone dings. It's a picture of Amal laying on her back smiling at a baby boy and girl laying there. "Oh my gosh! TWINS?!" She cheers. After congrats on both sides, Camille and Warner, the babies, wake up, and we hang up. We head downstairs for lunch. Eggs, potatoes, and corn on the cob. June seems to be fine, which is good.
"So we were talking to Amal and Danny, and they had the babies!" I say.
"Babies? As in multiples?" Harry says.
"Twins." June says, showing the picture.
"Oh my gosh that's amazing!! I'm so happy for them!" Liam says.
"Um.. sorry guys, Dylan needs her nap, so I'm gonna put her to bed. I'll be back soon." Niall says, taking his daughter from Harry and taking her upstairs.
"Why don't we play tag while she naps? We haven't done that in a long time." I suggest.
"Oh yeah, totally. We'll bring out a baby monitor and play." Liam says. We all agree, and wait for Niall to come back down.
We sit around and chat for a while, and June falls asleep on me. She really looked tired.
Niall comes down after about an hour, and we tell him about tag. He's in, so we all pull on shoes and head outside with a monitor.
"Who's it first?" Harry asks.
"Me!" I say. We scatter, June not as fast as the others. We run around a little before I go inside "to get water". I'm not getting water, I'm setting up the camera to witness their reactions. When I come back, Harry's it by Zayn and he gets June. She goes after Niall, the slowest, but she can't even catch him. That's how hard it is for her to run. She's getting lightly teased when she stops running.
"What's the matter? Finally admitting defeat?" Niall teases. I smile as she drops the bomb.
"Leave the pregnant girl alone." She says. Everything freezes.
"WHAT?!?!" Zayn cries, looking at me. I nod, biting my lip. The yard explodes in cheers and yells and pumping fists.
"Oh yeah, there's more." I say.
"Not Louis too!" Harry cries. That send us into hysterics.
"No. There's more. Two more than usual." June says, waiting for it to sink in.
"Oh my god June!!!!!!" Liam cheers, the first to get it. Everyone else is looking at me blankly.
"Oh my god, you idiots! I'm having TRIPLETS!!" June yells. More cheers and a group hug.
"Oh I get it now!" Harry says. June laughs.
"We asked because we thought she was several months along because of the bump. Like 3 or 4. But she's 2 months along." I explain.
"Well now we have to celebrate! Tell the families!" Niall cheers.
"Oh god. This is not going to go over well with Asher. He's a big believer is marriage before kids. He doesn't care if you're engaged or not." June groans. We head inside to figure out what to do.
"Okay. So we've started the wedding plans. A little. But we need to figure out what to do about the fans. And us." I say.
"Well you can do a private ceremony with just your families or you and then a public one with celebrities and reporters and all that." Zayn suggests.
"I like that. Maybe our closest friends and family in one small ceremony, and then a few days later, do one for the public." June says.
"Which means we have a few months. 4 or so." She adds.
"Four?" Harry asks.
"Yeah I wanna do this before I'm on bedrest. We can honeymoon somewhere once the babies are older." She says. I shrug.
"Sounds good to me. Now, we need to do fun stuff!" I say.
"What's that, Lou?" She asks.
"Well, you get to take the lads wedding dress shopping, and I get to have a bachelor party!" I say, which makes everyone laugh.
"Ooh, we should go to that place where they do Say Yes to the Dress!" Niall says, and June giggles.
"Totally." She nods. We spend some time discussing boring stuff before Dylan starts crying. Liam goes to get up but June stops him.
"Can I?" She asks. Niall and Liam shrug.
"Go ahead." Niall says. She grins and heads upstairs.
"So, what's going through your mind?" Niall asks.
"What d'you mean?" I ask.
"Well you were ready for marriage, but now you're having three kids. And we have the new album coming out next week. Things are about to crazy." Harry says. We all nod.
"Well I mean at first I was freaked out. When we stopped dancing near the end of the song, that was when she told me she was pregnant. Liam, I saw how you reacted with Niall, crying and laughing, and all, and I thought it'd be the same for me. It wasn't. I just couldn't stop smiling. I was 3 minutes engaged and just found out I was going to be a dad. I didn't have it in me to cry or laugh. It was the most surreal moment." I say, sighing. Everyone is smiling. We sit in silence for a few minutes.
"Hey, I wonder if June is okay. She's been up there a while." Liam says, breaking the silence. I jump up.
"I'll go check on her." I say. I walk upstairs and hear talking. I peek in and see June holding Dylan and talking to her.
"... I've been talking for a while, but it stopped you crying, so I want to tell you some big news. Uncle Lou and I are going to be married. And your Papa and Daddy are getting married too. And I'm so excited. Uncle Harry is dating Miss Lucy, and Uncle Zayn is with Miss Zoe. We're all so happy. Let me tell you, you're our baby. Our baby girl. Since your Daddy won't get a wife, you're his princess. And Papas too. And Auntie's and all your Uncles too. Hey, you better start reading up, because I got a baby in my tummy. Actually I have 3. You're getting 3 little cousins. And guess what? I bet you Uncle Louis was thinking he'd be funny and give me two boys, and only one girl. I can feel it. Okay, I've been talking for a forever, but even if the boys listen, you're the only other girl in the house. We gotta stick together." She says. I'm smiling so wide it actually hurts.
"That's it." I say. She jumps a little.
"What?" She asks.
"That confirms it. You're definitely the one. The one I want to spend my life with. The one who I want to make mini Tommos with." I say, and she grins.
"Well I'm glad, because there's really no going back with that last one. I believe we have three little ones on the way." She giggles.
"Come on, love. The others want to talk wedding again." I say, and we walk downstairs.
"There's my girl!" Liam grins, taking Dylan.
"Don't worry, love, you'll always be my girl." I whisper in June's ear. She smiles.
"I know." She smirks.
"Now, we have 4 months. So why don't we start shopping for dresses Saturday?" Harry suggests.
"Totally!" June says.
"Who do you want to come?" I ask her.
"Well Harry, Liam, Niall, Zayn, Dylan, Zoe, Jen, Lucy, and Jay. One video chat we can call Tina, Asher, Dan, and Amal." She says. I smile.
"And I guess we need a dress for our flower girl?" I ask. She cocks her head to the side. I tap her head with my palm. "Dylan, you dork!"
"Oh!" She laughs. "Totally!" We spend time discussing budget, and then talk about the guests and wedding party for the private wedding. We end up with about 50 people, because there's a few celebrities who we can't not invite to our private wedding, including Simon Cowell and Katy Perry. Then, June's face falls.
"What's up, love?" I ask. She looks up.
"We still have to tell one person. And invite one." She whispers. She looks terrified.
"Who?" Zayn asks. She gulps.
"My mother."