“I feel like I am too. I tell ya, I can’t wait to deliver so I can try and get some kind of body back. Ty and I still have sex, but I miss feeling attractive.”
She smiled. “I know for a fact that your husband loves the way you look. He tells me all the time, even more than I would ever want to hear.”
I laughed. “He tells me too. I don’t know. I feel distant from him. I can’t put my finger on exactly what it is, but somethin’ is different about our relationship.”
“Maybe you’re just getting settled. After a while the newness fades away.” Van picked at her fingernails as she talked.
“I guess it could be that. I don’t know.”
Ty came walking into the kitchen, while still yelling something about a goose. He looked from me to Van and shook his head. “Is she talking about my meat again?”
Van rolled her eyes. “Since I know there isn’t that much to talk about, it would be pointless.”
She and I both knew that she was lying about that. Ty wasn’t gigantic, but it was big enough to hurt me every single time. She’d once told me Colt was huge, not that I wanted to know at all. I guess it was only fair, but still.
Ty leaned over and kissed my cheek. “My Baby never complains about my meat.”
“Aww, she just doesn’t want to hurt your feelings. That’s why we have girl talk.”
He stood up and put his hands on his hips. After shaking his head, but saying nothing, he turned to grab something out of the cabinet.
“Van, can you help me? I can’t seem to find my pickles.” I couldn’t see him, but Van winced when she looked in his direction. I turned around to see what was so startling and saw my husband’s entire ass hanging out. He was reaching in the top of the cabinet and had pushed his pants down, revealing his whole ass. Luckily, he kept his front covered, but continued to keep them down until he walked out of the room.
“You’re sick!” Van yelled.
“Bite me!”
She rolled her eyes and turned around. Of course, I was in hysterics. “He is never going to grow up.”
“I know.” The truth was, I didn’t really want that part of him to ever go away. I loved that every day he made me laugh.
Chapter 16
Ty
Lying to Miranda was hard enough, but keeping up with that lie was worse than I could have ever imagined. I thought as time went by I could get over what had happened, but as Miranda’s pregnancy was coming to an end, I felt more and more guilty.
It didn’t help that she’d caught me crying several times in the middle of the night. I’d turned into a pussy, unable to deal with my own actions. Every second I looked into my wife’s beautiful blue eyes, I was reminded of waking up naked next to Heather.
I hated myself.
The only thing keeping me from just telling Miranda the truth was my kids. Conner had pretty much threatened me to just forget what had happened and be with my family, but I wasn’t sure how much longer I could live with myself.
Savanna and Colt coming to visit, helped distract me. In fact, I felt like myself for the first time in a month. Miranda and I got so many gifts for the boys. It was funny getting two of everything, although I was sure that the people buying them hated that part.
Of course, my wife was so excited about all of the gifts that she made Conner, Colt and myself spend two nights putting all of the shit together. By the end of the weekend, the girls had made us a shitload of food and the boy’s room was filled up with every kind of toy and gadget they needed.
Miranda seemed so excited and seeing her happy made my night. She may have been gigantic, but inside of that huge belly was two little boys that we made out of our love for each other. They were planned and loved before we even knew they existed. I watched her holding her belly with her feet propped up on a chair. Her ankles were swelling up something fierce and with the doctors saying that twins delivered early, we were all on high alert.
After literally putting things together until my fingers bled, us guys retreated to a pool table I had set up in the old barn. All it had in it was a refrigerator full of beer, the pool table and a stereo with an IPOD docking station. Conner used the rec room a lot more than me, considering I liked spending most of my time with Miranda. She and I had joined a billiards league, but we took off for a whole session on account of her being so pregnant. Conner had joined the team and he enjoyed practicing and playing with Harvey on some nights. In addition, it gave him a place to go to get away from us for a little while.
Colt was leaning over to take a shot when I put my stick in front of his face. “I think we should make a wager.”
“You waited until I was about to sink this shot to tell me that? Fine, what’s the bet?”