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Lauren was lying down in a sterile room, while Leyla was sitting just besides her, their hands were intertwined as per usual.
“Hey, babe” Leyla began with a soft voice, uncapable of letting go of her wife’s hand, “this time it will work. I can feel it.”
“I have a feeling too.” Lauren replied with a reassuring smile , “but in case it doesn’t, remember we can still adopt like we’ve always wanted”
“Of course” Leyla said “we won’t give up on that dream of ours”
After years of talking about it, the couple had decided that they were going to have one biological child through reciprocal IVF (Lauren was going to hopefully carry Leyla’s egg) and then they were going to foster and adopt two siblings in the future so that the couple of siblings had a chance at growing up together, in the same family.
“We are about to begin” the physician said, “Dr Shinwari, can you feel anything?”
Lauren just shook her head.
She had been married to Leyla for four years, and she had decided to leave her family name behind, and she loved her wife’s one so it was no a brainer that she was the one to take Leyla’s name.
“Great, you are going to fall asleep soon and we’ll get started”
10 days later
4am
Both wives couldn’t help but toss and turn in bed, until Leyla rested her head on Lauren’s neck and Lauren placed a small kiss on her wife’s forehead as she reached out for Leyla’s hand, who was ready for Lauren to do so.
They spent a few minutes just taking each other in.
“Hey, do you want to…” Leyla began.
“Take a pregnancy test? Heck yeah, with you, always.”
Lauren and Leyla never got up from bed so fast. They went to the master bathroom, Leyla reached for the pregnancy tests in the bathroom cabinet: “How many do you…”
Her wife wouldn’t even let her finish.
“Just take them all”
Leyla laughed.
“What? You are a Doctor too. And a very thorough one just like me.”
“Alright, alright, three pregnancy tests coming up. Should I get you something to drink?”
“Nah, I’m good.” Lauren replied while taking off her shorts.
“This was your plan all along, wasn’t it?” Leyla smirked.
“Busted” Lauren smiled.
Leyla couldn’t help herself and kissed her wife. She began to kiss her soft and slowly and then deepened the kiss. When they both broke the kiss for air they stared at each other like it was their very first kiss. They were both shaking.
Leyla grabbed the three pregnancy tests they had in the house and she handed them to her wife.
Lauren peed on all of them , one by one, fast like the pro that she was by now.
“Ok, setting the timer” Leyla said, focused on her phone.
“I know this is your favourite part” Lauren teased.
“I don’t know what you are talking about” Leyla joked.
Throughout their failed IVF attempts they had learned to make things more fun, to make those three minutes more bearable, by making out.
Leyla pushed her wife against the wall, surely and yet “softly” and began to kiss Lauren’s neck. They both wanted each other so badly, yet they only had three minutes.
Lauren moaned, searching for her wife’s lips.
They kissed. Lauren broke the kiss for air as well as to say : “I love you so much”
“I love you more, Dr Shinwari” Leyla replied, already knowing what Lauren was going to say.
“That’s not possible” Lauren replied staring at her wife serious for a minute, yet so happy, still and always after four years, to be called “Dr Shinwari”
Meanwhile the timer beeped.
Leyla took her wife’s hand and asked permission to turn around the three tests just by looking into Lauren’s eyes.
Lauren smiled, took a deep breath and nodded, still holding her wife’s hand.
They were both scared that they would have to face another fail attempt, but they both remembered their promise, at the Dr’s, 10 days prior to that night.
Leyla turned around the tests.
“Oh my God, the second line is so tick” her wife said.
“We’re really pregnant” Leyla was shocked.
“We’re having a baby” Lauren said at the exact same time, both women tearing up.
They both took care of each other’s tears, then stare into each other’s eyes.
“Ok, bed rest for the first two weeks, that will give me time to finally get the nursery ready, and no peeking.” Leyla said smiling, but still shocked.
Lauren was just too happy, and at a loss for words, to argue with an overprotective Leyla.
After a soft and quick kiss, their foreheads rested together for what felt like an eternity and yet not enough.
Then Leyla went down on one knee, like Lauren had done all those years ago.
She played with the hem of her wife’s pj shirt, she looked at her wife bare belly, caressing it and placing a kiss on it, while Lauren couldn’t stop the happy tears.
“Hey, it’s Mami here. Mommy and I are so happy and so in love with you. We can’t wait to meet you, and until then we’ll talk to you and sing to you every day. We’re so ready for you and you are so loved, not just by us, but by so many more friends that can’t wait to meet you, either. You'll probably look a little bit more like me, but Mommy is the superhero for carrying you and you're the only one who knows how her heart sounds like from the inside”
Leyla got up, without her hand ever letting go of her wife’s stomach.
This time around, it was Lauren’s turn to kiss her wife, and she deepened the kiss before Leyla could.
“I didn’t think this would work” Lauren sobbed, a few minutes later, against her wife’s neck.
“I see” Leyla was serious for a minute whilst caressing her wife’s back “so this really was your plan all along”
“What?” Lauren asked, happy but confused.
“You just got me in here so you could kiss me” her wife replied and they both broke down in a good laugh at the same time.