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Chapter 2- The news

Alex and I both stood up and walked towards the nurse who was waiting for us to go back and do the ultrasound.

                “Hello Graciella. I’m Linda and I will be doing your ultrasound today. Now is this your first child?”

                “Yeah it is.”

She nodded her head and wrote something down.

                “Graciella I notice that you are only 18. Are you planning on keeping this baby?”

                “Yes I am. I might only be 18 but I love this baby already and I could never you know..”

                “ I understand sweetie. I was 17 when I got pregnant with twins. It wasn’t easy but I see you have a good guy standing beside you the whole way.”

I looked at Alex and smiled.  He was taking a big step up in adulthood. We both were with this whole incident taking place in front of us.

                “Alright, lets lift that shirt up and see what we can see in that little belly of yours. Now this is going to be cold but it helps to get that baby moving.”

I lifted up my shit so she could squeeze that gel onto my stomach. She wasn’t kidding me when she said it was cold. I felt Alex grab my hand and we both looked at the screen.  A picture came up on the screen and we couldn’t really tell what anything was. Linda looked at the screen and nodded, then hit some buttons and then had this weird look on her face.

                “Okay I have a question for you both. Do either one of your sides of the family have multiples that run in them?”

Alex and I just looked at eachother. Both of us unable to  speak when Alex looked at her and spoke up.

                “Yeah multiples run in my side of the family. I’m the middle child of triplets.”

                “Okay that helps me understand what I’m seeing a little bit better.”

                “Linda is everything okay with my baby.”

                “By the looks of it everything seems okay with your babies. You look to be about 11 weeks and 3 days with triplets.”

She pointed to the screen to show us what and where the babies were. Right now they looked just like little mini babies but these were my babies. Linda printed us off some pictures and gave us a few minutes alone to process everything. As soon as she walked out of the room I started crying.

                “Hey, Graciella what is wrong? The babies are fine.”

                “That’s whats wrong Alex. I was getting prepared for one baby not three. How are we going to do this?”

                “Listen to me. I knew it was going to be tough with just one baby, but with three its going to even be more tough but we can get through this. Graciella I have a good lump sum of money that my dad left me for things. Graciella its more money than he left my mom. We will be okay for years to come. We will get through this I promise you.”

I looked at Alex and pulled him up and kissed him on the lips. I smiled at him when I pulled away from him.

                “how did I get so lucky with you?”

                “Because god made us both for each other. We are meant to be together Graciella. We complete who the other person is. Now we are going to have three beautiful babies.”