Risking Fate(2)

Instead, I let him do his own thing, knowing he needed the time to adjust. Besides Ty and me, his only friend in North Carolina was Brina, if that was what he would call her. He hadn’t been with us for a whole weekend before she started showing up. At first, she and Conner would go somewhere else, but we woke one morning to her walking around in his clothes.

It wasn’t just that I didn’t care for Brina, Ty hated her. She had been a bitch to him since they were kids; fighting with him over Van like she was an object. After spending time with her during Van and Colt’s nuptials, I really got a good taste of the person she was. Brina was a selfish girl who had every intention of having a relationship with my brother. She thought she had an advantage of being the only chick he knew. She was wrong.

When I came out of that bedroom and saw her in my living room, I wanted to pounce on her. She had no right to be in our house, especially after several comments she made about my husband just days prior.

Once she finally went home that day, and I got Ty to stay out of it, I sat down and talked to my brother. Of course, he made me feel like the bad guy, claiming he had no other friends. The truth was that he and Ty were friends, he just hated that Ty would rather stay home with Bella and I, instead of going out to party at bars. I guess Conner and Ty used to be on the same page as far as their lives were concerned. After he and I hooked up, it changed him, completely. Conner couldn’t handle the change, not when he knew how Ty had wandering eyes when he was with Van. I think he held that against him. He loved Ty; he just couldn’t understand him any longer.

I’d invited several of my co-workers over to the house to hang out, even when she was there. After meeting a few of them, he started hanging out with them and some of their friends. Most of them all knew Ty, being that we lived in a small town, so we could keep tabs on Conner, even if he did go out.

For a while, I felt like his babysitter; always making sure he ate right, worked enough hours and went to bed at a decent hour. There were many times where he called me a nag, among other things, causing a verbal confrontation between him and Ty as a result.

I was now reaching my fifth month of pregnancy and was already starting to wonder how much longer I could continue to work on my feet. I will never forget going into that doctor’s office and finding out that our little peanut was actually two peanuts.

We walked into that cold room and I got all changed out of my clothes. Ty was wearing his mechanic uniform, since our appointment was during our lunch break. He stood at my side as the doctor came in and got the monitor on to do the first sonogram. He had been itching to see a picture of the baby for the past five months, but we didn’t have the best insurance and it only allowed for two throughout the pregnancy.

With my husband being unable to keep a secret, we were also finding out the sex. He had names picked out, but refused to tell them to me until he knew what it was going to be. I had made the mistake of telling him that he could pick out the names this time around, since he obviously didn’t have a say with Bella.

With the anticipation in the room being so intense I was ready to puke, I watched the monitor as the doctor rubbed the wand over my already growing belly. In a matter of seconds we heard a gasp followed by an “Oh my”.

I looked to Ty, who seemed as worried as me. “What is it? Is something wrong with the baby?”

My doctor shook her head. “No, nothing is wrong with the babies.”

For a moment time stood still. Ty’s hold on my hand became loose and he looked down at me, and then turned toward the doctor. “Wait a minute…did you just say…I’m sorry, but did you just say babies…like plural?” Ty’s rambling made me look straight at the doctor.

She smiled and nodded her head, while she got the position on the monitor and pointed to two separate little peanuts. “You’re having twins. Congratulations.”

I put my hand up to my mouth and started crying and laughing at the same time. When I felt no reaction from Ty, I squeezed his hand to grab his attention. He had been still staring at the screen. “Babe, are you okay?”

“She said twins.” He spoke like the doctor wasn’t in the room anymore.

“Mr. Mitchell do you need to sit down?” She asked him.

He shook his head, while wetness formed in his eyes, before bending down to kiss me. As he pulled away, he had a huge grin on his face. “We’re having twins.”

I let out a cackle. “I heard.” We looked back at the screen and watched as she looked at both of the little babies growing inside of me.

“This one here is a boy.” The doctor pointed to the screen. I heard an air filled laugh come out of Ty as we both awaited the second result. “And it looks like this one is also a boy.”