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  Opened ones.

  “Um, Fallon? Why do you have fifteen boxes of opened pregnancy tests all over your floor?”

  Fallon looked over her shoulder, blowing her bangs out of her face as she gazed up at Audrey, “Um? Well you see what had happened was…”

  Audrey rolled her eyes, bending down to look at one of the sticks that lay on the marble floor. When Audrey saw the two pink lines, her heart stopped, “You’re pregnant?”

  Fallon rolled onto her butt, looking up at Audrey as tears welled up in her eyes, “Yes.”

  “Oh my God!” Audrey shrieked. She dropped to her knees, crawling to Fallon to wrap her up in her arms. Forgetting her excitement that she was pregnant, Audrey hugged Fallon tightly as excitement for her took over. Audrey’s love for Fallon was soul deep and this was huge. Lucas wanted a baby so bad and even though Fallon was probably scared out of her mind because she was so busy from what she said, Audrey knew she had to be excited. Who wouldn’t be? It’s a baby! “This is so great! Did you tell Lucas? Is he excited!?”

  “No, I just accepted it like five minutes before you got here.”

  Audrey giggled, kissing Fallon’s cheek, “This is great!”

  Fallon looked into Audrey’s eyes, “I’m old.”

  “You are not!”

  “I am, and Aiden is almost eight and Lucas travels a lot and I’m still not where I want to be at the office or even the cellar. I want to be at the top and I can’t when I’m taking care of a newborn, an eight year old and my horny husband!!”

  Audrey giggled, “Yes you can, it’s a baby, Fal. A baby. This is your Happily Ever After.”

  A small grin went across Fallon’s face as she looked down at her hands, “Yours too, huh?”

  It was as if all the excitement from earlier hit Audrey ten times harder, “God, yes.”

  Audrey had never thought of it like that, probably because she never believed it would come true. She had always wanted to have a husband and baby. She accepted a long time ago that it would probably be just her, her closet, cupcakes, and a boyfriend here and there. But now, she was in love with her Prince and she was pregnant. With a baby.

  Tate’s baby.

  Fallon smiled and looked over at Audrey, “So I guess we’ll both have our Happily Ever After together.”

  “I guess we will, isn’t it great?”

  “I don’t know, I’m pregnant and I’ve only been married four months and I got a soon-to-be-eight year old and I’m old,” Fallon said with a look of distress on her face.

  Audrey giggled, “I’m pregnant and I’m not even married. My baby daddy has only been legal to drink for six months.”

  Both women looked at each other and started laughing. Fallon took in a deep breath before looking over at Audrey, “Gosh, what a pair we are!”

  “I know! We’re crazy!”

  “We’re having our babies together, Audrey, how does this happen?” Fallon asked her eyes wide and happy.

  “We’re two of the luckiest bitches in the world, that’s how!” she giggled as she held her stomach.

  “What is going on?”

  Fallon and Audrey looked up at the doorway, where their mother, Nora, stood with a confused look on her face as she looked down at the floor. Audrey knew that she was looking down at the tests, and they were about to have do some serious explaining. Fallon took in a deep breath when Nora bent down, and picked up one of the tests.

  “Girls?” she asked. Audrey watched as her eyes went wide before she looked down at the two speechless women, “Fallon? Audrey?”

  Audrey looked at Fallon as Fallon looked back at her. They both then looked up at Nora before pointing to each other, “She’s pregnant.”

  ~*~

  Audrey was still smiling when she pulled into her driveway. It was nuts, and insane, but this was her life. She was having a baby with Tate, and at the same time as Fallon. When she did the math, Fallon was two weeks later than Audrey. It was amazing, and she couldn’t wait.

  After going to the grocery, Audrey came home with bags of stuff for ‘We’re pregnant’ cupcakes and a nice romantic dinner for before she told Tate. She couldn’t help but think of all the reactions he was going to have. She knew none of them would be anger though; Tate wanted this just as much as she did. It wasn’t planned and Lord knew it was early in their relationship, but she didn’t care. She wanted this.

  Just as she shut off the ignition and was about to get out of the car, her phone singled a text from Tate.

  Have you heard “Wanted” by Hunter Haynes?

  Audrey shook her head as she wrote back, I haven’t, why?

  Download it, I am learning to play it for you.

  A smile came across her face, You are?

  I am, here is my favorite line of the song: ‘You know I'd fall apart without you, I don't know how you do what you do, ‘Cause everything that don't make sense about me, makes sense when I'm with you’. I love you Audrey.

  Tears came quick to her eyes, she couldn’t even blame it on her hormones, because she knew damn well it was because she would never love anyone the way she loved him. Wiping away the falling tears, she typed back: And I love you. So much more. See you soon.

  Very soon.

  Her heart kicked up in speed as she jumped out the car, and gathered her things. Making her way up the walkway, she went over what she needed to do first, which was put the chicken in the oven. She had also needed to put the ultrasound picture in the frame she had picked up at grocery. Audrey was running late, and hoped she could at least get the cupcakes half way done before Tate got there.

  She was almost to the door when she heard the gravel crunch in the driveway. She thought it was Lucas dropping Tate off, but when she turned, she saw Levi jump out of his car and come towards her.

  “Levi?”

  He looked up, and smiled, “Audrey, I’m sorry to come unannounced but I need to talk to you, here let me help you,” he said taking her bags in his hands despite her protest. He walked past her to the door and waited as Audrey unlocked the door.

  “Tate is going to be home soon,” she said as he walked passed her, laying her things on the counter as she shut the door, “so you need to be gone before he gets here, what do you need to talk about?”

  He turned, leaning against the island of her kitchen as he said, “You said you’d always be there for me.”

  Something wasn’t right. His eyes were wild and he was sweating. She didn’t even recognize him, he looked worried, trouble. She could tell that something was definitely off. As she lay her purse and keys down, she noticed that his hands were shaking too. She had spent eight months with this man, and she had never seen him so upset. “What’s wrong?”

  “I need you, Audrey, I can’t go on without you anymore,” he gasped coming to her, before taking her hands in his. “I love you.” Audrey took in a sharp breath as his wild eyes held her. “I love you so much and I can’t go on another day without you. I need you to be mine again, Audrey, I miss our life and you were right, we were meant to be together.”

  She had waited months for him to say that, but to hear him say it now, it meant nothing. She loved Tate, and only Tate. Plus, she had a feeling that he wasn’t being true. With Tate she never questioned his motives but there was something going on, and she didn’t trust anything Levi said. Shaking her head, she looked up into Levi’s eyes and said, “I’m sorry, Levi, but I don’t feel the same. I love someone else.”

  “No, you love me. No one will love you but me.”

  Audrey scoffed, “No, I love Tate and he loves me.”

  “No you don’t, we are meant to be together,” he said with annoyance on his face.

  “No, I’m meant to be with Tate. I’m pregnant.”

  He smiled, “Fantastic, I hope it’s a girl and she is as beautiful as you.”

  Audrey shook her head as her face twisted in confusion, “What? It isn’t yours.”

  “It has to be.”

  “It’s not, the baby is Tate’s.”