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"p'mhor?" earn called feeling the bed but only noticed an emptiness "babe?" she walked silently down the hall in search of her wife and found her arguing angrily with someone on the phone. knew the matter was really serious because her chinese accent was mixing with the thai.
"did i wake you up?" fahlada questioned, moving the cell phone away to look at her wife guiltily, which made earn open one of her sweet smiles and deny it slightly as went towards the kitchen, listening to fahlada end the call.
"you know you can handle this yourself.” earn blew the solution while picking up her fruits, which were already cut " i'm not invalid and our child is very healthy as you saw in my exams."
"my father never left my mother's side during pregnancy, my brothers did it and i am doing it. the hospital can survive a few months without me." shrugged arrogantly and hugged earn from behind and circled the hands over her wife's small, three-month pregnant belly "besides.. it's been a while since we spent so much time together, you recorded series after series to prepare for our pregnancy and i did a lot of work at the hospital."
"yeah.. you're a little right." the blonde sighed, thinking better of it and offered a watermelon to the woman who ate it willingly "you took every shift and left me alone here, it's really good that you made up for that absence." it wasn't serious, of course, they both supported each other in their work.
"as if i would disagree with that." lada murmured sniffing her wife's neck before sitting on the next bench "did you have a good sleep?"
"yes, the nausea is passing as the obstetrician said." shrugged, finishing her snack and looked artfully at the brunette who was already watching her "i was thinking.."
"why?" lada questioned, eyes widening, receiving a pat from the blonde who squinted at her in threat "i’m kidding my stubborn girl, what did you think?” questioned, looking at her again intently.
"that we should go to England." earn commented seeing her wife clench the jaw "we have great memories during college and our first three years of dating there. i can't erase how terrible our breakup was there but.. we can make new memories. our kid could be born in the country where our love began, can you think about it?"
"do you want to do this?" fahlada asked, frowning slightly.
"only if you want, i think it would be great for us to get out of Thailand for a bit because our parents will be around us all the time and i want this pregnancy to be just you and me. until the baby is born, i want this experience to be just ours and if it's so difficult next time we can stick around." explained the point, seeing the older woman soften her expression as drummed on the counter "besides.. there's a branch hospital of your father there, we won't go completely off their radar."
"it’s a plan, can i give you a real answer in a few days?” asked softly and the blonde nodded giving her a kiss on the forehead "i love you. you know, right? even though our reconciliation is difficult, i love you."
"but of course i know, we wouldn't have been together for five years, two married and with a baby on the way if one of us had doubted that." earn laughed lightly when she was pulled back between the other woman's legs "besides hiding the year and a half we spent apart.. we have eight years of relationship."
"how did you manage to put up with me for so long?" the serious doctor questioned, looking into the greenish honey-colored eyes "how could someone as sweet as you like someone as reserved as me?"
"how could i not, p'mhor?" earn questioned, widening the eyes in false shock because they had already had this conversation a lot of times. fahlada was a little insecure about the age difference between them and their personalities "some people don't really work but we do, and I don't question that."
"you must be right." the brunette joked, kissing her cheek and fixing her blonde hair that was out of place. before she could say anything else, earn's completely forgotten phone rang on the couch. both women looked in the direction and the doctor rolled the eyes when saw her wife's lazy beak "i’ll get it for you.” she saw the contact of their obstetrician and responded quickly "hello? yes, this is P'thananusak." replied confused when the call started the doctor called for her and earn walked towards her confused wanting to know "yes, we can go to the clinic. we will be there in half an hour. thank you."
"why do we have to go? my last ultrasound was like two weeks ago." the blonde questioned confusedly following her wife towards their bedroom "did she say anything else?"
"no, she said would explain it to us there." she sighed going into the closet and handing her wife some clothes "go get ready, i'm curious."
"but of course you are, that doctor is a nerd just like you." the blonde accused falsely, entering the bathroom, hearing fahlada's hoarse laugh and smiling in denial.
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"so many people." fahlada murmured as they entered the clinic "are you okay?"
"yes, something with you?" asked almost automatically and the brunette smiled slightly.
"you're the pregnant one here, silly." fahlada reminded her, poking her and eliciting a fulfilling smile from the blonde "why so quiet?"
"i'm thinking about what we're going to have for dinner." earn commented without any shame, shrugging her shoulders.
"anything in mind?" the brunette asked while passing the information to the receptionist.
"chicken wings with avocado and peanut butter." earn replied in a dreamy voice.
"i don't think mixing peanut butter and chicken is a good idea." the voice came from behind them and fahlada sighed in relief that the comment came from their doctor.
"mrs. aphichaya!!" earn said excitedly to the woman who smiled tenderly at her and waved them towards her office.
"i'm glad you girls were able to come quickly and don't have to worry. it’s not bad at all, i promise.” the almost elderly lady commented when everyone was in the room for fahlada's relief because earn wasn't that worried. if it were something really bad it would have happened already.
"then..?" earn questioned when the woman spent a few minutes looking for something in the drawers.
"here, your two ultrasounds and the baby's heartbeat." the doctor placed the papers on the table and took the CD, placing it for them to see.
"you were reviewing your patients and something has changed for you in her frame, hasn't it?" fahlada questioned more seriously looking at another doctor, because she had already done this herself by reviewing medical records.
"it's a rare thing." she said suddenly stopping the ultrasound on a specific part "i don't know if you know, but there are the famous "shy babies" they are usually nicknamed that when they don't let us know their gender but that's not the case with our girl here."
"oh my god, is that a girl?" earn kind of screamed, squeezing fahlada's hand very tightly "did you hear that, honey?"
"this is not everything." the doctor brought her attention back to the ultrasound "can you see this shadow here?" pointed to the almost imperceptible spot behind the baby and they both nodded "it's not actually a shadow, it's someone very shy hiding behind her sister. i couldn't identify it before because their hearts were synchronized but two ultrasounds but what we see here is a rare twin pregnancy, when the babies share the same amniotic sac and placenta. i could tell you that they are twins at the next appointment but it has just become a high-risk pregnancy that will need twice as much care. i'm going to leave you here for a while to digest the information and I'll be right back." warned, patting both of their shoulders before leaving the room.
"your pregnancy is called a "monochorionic twin pregnancy" it is only possible for 2% of pregnant women to achieve this feat, but the risk is high." fahlada said suddenly, breaking earn's immersion as he noticed his wife looking paler than normal "the mortality of one of them is very high, we learned about this in college. it's like there isn't enough liquid for both of them and they have to compete for it. even if they survive, the chances of one of them dying during childbirth are so high. Is there possible..-"
"my heart" earn called, held her face to connect her eyes and quickly changed seats, occupying her wife's lap "we are right here." took one of her wife's hands and placed it on her belly. thanking her for choosing a button-down shirt so it was easier for her to have contact with her skin "you're an incredible doctor but we don't need your big brain that has already seen and learned several things, some will really be used but others won't.. who i need now is my wife and future mother of these children. can't we think of negative hypotheses just because we hear about it, since when was our history traced by third parties?"
"but what if.. something happens to one of you?" fahlada questioned with a completely broken voice, a voice that only earn has ever heard.
"do you believe me?" she questioned seriously, almost immediately receiving a positive nod from her wife "fine, so also believe me when i say that we're going to be fine."