COSTARS | CHRIS WOOD

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Today is the day of the baby shower, the day I find out the genders of my babies and tell everyone who the god parents are.

Candice and I are running around the apartment finishing up decorating and cleaning up the living room so it looks nice when everyone gets here. I invited the whole cast of Vampire Diaries and The Originals because they are basically my family and my brother wasn't coming for two more days.

I walked into the kitchen seeing Chris standing there finishing up cooking dinner for everyone. I love Chris, I really do. But I keep hearing Phoebe's voice from when she was texting me the other night. 'Paul is in love with you'

I know she was just angry and upset but what if she was right? What if Paul did have feelings for me and I'm just too blind to see it? I'm a hormonal mess right now so I decided not to talk to anyone about any relationships other than mine and Chris's. I don't love Paul, only as a best friend. Hopefully he feels the same way because Phoebe is my best friend and I never want to hurt her again.

As soon as I hear the doorbell ring I run (more like waddle) over to the door and swing it open to reveal my best friends. Paul, Phoebe, Claire, Kat, Nina, Ian, Joseph, Daniel, Charles, Nate, Michael Trevino, Zach, Michael Malarkey, Matt, and Steven.

Once everyone is settled in and done talking around Chris and I start right away with announcing the godparents.

"Okay, we love each and every one of you and don't want anyone to get offended if we didn't pick you. We took a lot of things into consideration. Like who does well with kids, who lives near us and things like that. So let's get started," Chris states.

I smile widely and begin to talk, "Okay so first I'm going to tell everyone the godmother. Candice."

Candice gasps and smiles, "oh my goodness!"

I give her a huge hug and everyone 'awwws'

"Next is the godfather. This one was so difficult! There were so many amazing choices and I almost just picked all of you. But we have to pick one. So, Pawel."

He gets up and shoots his fists in the air, "Fuck yeah!" He yells at the top of his lungs.

"Maybe I should reconsider..."

"No! You already chose me! No getting out of it!" He runs over to me, kisses my forehead, and jumps on Chris who is sitting on the chair. Lets just say, Paul is already a crazy lunatic, but when you give him drinks, he's even crazier.

I look over at Phoebe after Paul kisses my forehead and see her picking at her nails. Hopefully she didn't see that, I love her to death but she gets jealous very easily. I know Paul only meant it in a friendly way but after what Phoebe told me, it felt awkward. Paul always kisses me on the forehead or cheek, it was never awkward.

After revealing the godparents, we decide its time to find out the genders. Paul hands us two boxes, one to me and one to Chris.

Inside of each box there is a powder. Blue or pink. Pink means girl and blue means boy.

We run outside with the boxes and everyone pulls out their phones to record it. Chris and I set the boxes down and open them up, without looking. We pick up the powder and throw it in the air and everyone gasps. We open our eyes to see pink powder everywhere.

I'm having girls.