The Honeymoon

Chapter 13

2 months Later 

"Good Morning beautiful," Maxon says to wake me up with a kiss. I smile against his lips.

"Good Morning," I say starting to open my eyes. He kisses me again, but pulls away to quickly.

"You need to get up my dear, we have to make the announcement today," he says. Right, the announcement that I am pregnant. With twins. There have been articles of how the people thought I was pregnant or just gaining weight. Today is the day we get to announce the exciting news. 

I get up quick, and snatch another kiss. "Now I am ready," I say smiling at him. 

"Get going before we are late," he jokes with me. We both left our room, and headed to our separate rooms where our maids were waiting for us. As I walk in, Mary, Ella, and Irene were all waiting for me. 

"Good Morning America," Mary greats. I have all the maids call me America because I don't want them to feel lesser then me. A year ago I was just a step above them technically, but now, I am their equal but with a crown. I am okay being called Highness foremothers because they don't work with me all the time, but the people who see and work with me everyday call me by my name. 

"Hello Mary, so what lovely dress do you have for me today?" I say looking at the bag.

"Oh you will see, but first we need to clean you up. Come on, into the bathroom," she says ushering me into the room while the others followed. Mary and the others set up the counter with everything while I took a shower. I let them do everything else except this now. The only time they can is when I am having a really rough day and need the end-of-the-night routine. Mary is the one who always does it because she is the gentlest. After I clean every inch of my body, shaved, and washed my hair, I hop out of the shower, and allow the girls to do whatever they need to.

Mary hands me a robe after I am dry, then sits me in the huge chair in front of a mirror. Mary starts to blow dry my hair while Irene attends to my nails, clipping them, and painting them a light pink color. I never was used to that, but after being here for a year, I enjoyed having them painted, but not with bright colors. Ella is the one to do my makeup. She knows I don't like a lot of it on,  but does enough to enhance my features. All neutral colors to make everything stand out. By the time they all end, the side of my hair hair is up in an intricate design, but the back is let down but straight, that comes together to allow a small tiara to sit nicely in front of it. My nails are a light pink, and all even lengths, and my makeup is all neutral and light, but makes my blue eyes pop. 

I am ushered out to the main room, where the unknown dress is hanging in a bag on a rack. Mary goes over, and unzips the bag. She brings it out, and my breath stops. It is a deep red day dress, sleeveless, and has a light floral design to it. As the girls put it on me,and fix the little things, I felt the silk just caress my skin. Before I left, marry arranged the loose hair to fall over my shoulders. I was officially ready for the big announcement.

I head out of my room, almost running into Maxon. He grabbed me before we could fall. 

"Well hello dear," he says laughing. That was when he noticed my outfit. "You look gorgeous Mer. Are you ready?" I nodded. He gave me his arm, and we made our way to the front doors. An announcement like this is made in front of the castle, so everyone near can witness it person. For those who can't make it, it is being televised live, and will be recapped before the Report this week. 

We waited in front of the door, holding each other till our cue was heard. Our names were announced, then the big doors were opened to allow us to walk out onto the big stage. In the middle of the stage was a microphone, which was for us to announce the twins. I started to get nervous, and grabbed Maxon tighter. He looks down to me and gives me a reassuring smile. One that tells me I will be okay, he will be with me through the whole thing. When we get to the Microphone, Maxon makes a quick announcement, 

"Welcome everyone to this big announcement. Before we get to that, I just want to say a quick word of stuff happening right now. We will be continuing the elimination of the caste system, but after hearing some of the hesitation of the upper class, my amazing wife has found a solution. To eliminate the fear of not having enough to support your families, we have decided to bring back an old rule of minimum wages. Queen America has figured it all out that for every hour people work at any job will automatically receive  $7.25. We now are working to eliminate the caste of Four, and hope that people will now feel better about this, and allow our country to continue to grow. Now for the big announcement you all have been waiting for, may I introduce my beautiful wife, and your Queen, Queen America!" Maxon says, stepping away to allow me to come to the microphone.

"Thank you everyone for being here today, and thank you to everyone for allowing this country to grow out of the Caste system. Now I have been seeing article after article about me being pregnant. For those who are saying yes, you are all correct,"  I say before everyone erupts into loud cheering. I let it continue for a little before I raise my hand. "But thats not all. At the last appointment, King Maxon and I got the great news that we are expecting twins!" Everyone erupts again in louder cheering. As they cheered, we made our final goodbyes, and headed of stage. Now all of Illea knows that they will not only have one heir but twins.