Ten years later… I was wringing my hands nervously. We were almost there. "I'm never going to stop babbling when we get there. You know that, right?" I asked as I continued looking out the window. Kaoru laughed, "You've talked my ear off plenty of times. I'm sure I can handle this. Besides, it won't only be me you know there. Mori, Honey, and Tamaki will be, too." I frowned, "Plus, another few hundred I barely spoke to during my time at Ouran. I only had classes with a few them! I simply happened to graduate the same year as them!" It was the Ouran Academy Reunion. They had it for every class ten years after their graduation, and it was my year. I hadn't seen most of those people in a decade. Also, because I was valedictorian, I had to make a speech. Did anyone really expect me to be calm? Kaoru took my hand in his. I looked over at him, surprised by the sudden contact. He smiled at me reassuringly, "You're going to be fine, Azami." "But I just had to be pregnant when this came up! I should have stayed home! Everyone's going to think I'm a fat housewife that ended up mooching off her husband!" I exclaimed. Not to mention how that was messing with my hormones and making me even more nervous. "It's obvious that you're pregnant. You're overreacting." "I don't know. A few of those people weren't the brightest...." I trailed off. I placed my other hand on my bulging stomach. I was eighteen weeks along, and I was having twin boys. I had only just found out the other day their genders. I had to admit, twins were the last thing I expected, but I blamed Kaoru for that. He was somehow the cause; I just knew it, even if it wasn't really possible. I wasn't sure what I would do if they were identical. I didn't want them to go... ... middle of paper ... ... crowd calling us cute, and he laughed before looking at the people again. He and his brother put their arms around each other's shoulders. I hugged my stomach and grinned at the bulge. How silly of me. I wasn't about to start a family. I already had a family. Maybe not by blood or law, but everyone on that staircase had always been there for me. Wasn't that what family really was? I was just getting two new additions. Haruhi said to me, "Azami?" I saw she was looking at the others, too. She seemed to be taking in all that had happened to us and how much we gained as well. "Yeah?" "I'm so glad I broke that Renaissance vase," she told me. I laughed and put my arm around her shoulders, "I am, too. It was the best mistake ever made, because if it didn't happen, we would have never met our dear friends and husbands. Then, what would we be doing right now?"
Twenty years ago, twin births were radically lower, with twins being more frequent than other multiple births. With technology becoming more advanced and people who normally have problems becoming pregnant can use in vitro fertilization, people delaying motherhood, and survival rate increasing; having twin children is not as rare as it was thought to be in the past. Twin birth rates have increased 42% from 1980 to 1994 (Lytton, Singh, & Gallagher, 1995).
“Everything was moving very fast, and as I looked around, I noticed my father and my two older sisters were gone. As I clutched my mother’s hand, an SS man hurried by shouting, Twins! Twins! He stopped to look at us. Miriam and I looked very much alike. Are they twins? he asked my mother. Is that good? she replied. He nodded yes. They are twins, she said.” (“Eva and Miriam”).
"Sorry, it's just that we're almost there and I thought that you wouldn't want to missing your grand entrance into the castle."
Thirty years later, Alex was married, had a son, and was pregnant with twins. She was asleep, oblivious to what was going to happen next. She awoke with a throbbing pain in her side. Alex saw a man looming over her with a knife glistening with crimson blood. The man was her dad. "You really didn’t think I was dead, did you?" he laughed. Then the world faded around
It was August 25, 2006 and I just received the news that I was going to have a baby. At that moment so many thoughts ran through my mind. I was extremely nervous and terr...
Do I have time to take a shower?” he asked. Unfortunately, he could not. To this day, my family still laughs about his unexpected response. It was only a few hours later that I was brought into this world, alert, with my eyes open wider than a doll’s. I was a tall and skinny baby, born with a lot of hair.
“I felt scared because I didn’t know much about younger children. I also was nervous because I didn’t get along with my step-son and was scared that I wouldn’t get along with my own children when they were older.”
“I don’t want to be here,” I mumbled, a bit more audibly than I intended. I wondered absently what would happen if I just strolled out the door and never came back to
Kuroko blinked a couple of times. “That’s not necessary.” He turned back around only to feel Akashi press against his back and two arms appear on either side of him.
Korra grasped onto Asami 's wrists and shakily said “Alright, I 'll try and recall what I can.” Asami offered a small, sympathetic smile in response.
“Life justs goes on.” Dad responded. Putting his hand on my shoulder, “Don't worry about it too much Elena.
It was my first week of my freshman year in college. Normally, you want to survive the first week by going to school events and meeting new people. Being the first Saturday night of the school year my new friend and I decided to go to a party in another dorm on campus. Both of us didn’t know what to expect at a college party, so we dressed up and tried to look our best. As I put my black mascara on I knew that this would be a fun night. My friend Jessica knew one of the guys that would be at this gathering because he lived in the same town that she was from. Finally, we leave our dorms and head out to our first college party. We arrived at the party and started to play cards. As the night progressed, poker was getting a little boring and staying in that dorm room wasn’t too much fun either. Abruptly, one of the guys said we should go to a freshman dorm. Everyone grabbed their belongings and headed to central campus. As we walked to central campus many of the boys were whispering about how they were going to cause a ruckus. No one was a resident of this hall, so we had to ask someone who was outside to let us in.
They spoke up after a while, playing with their hands and looking down,"These kids at school...they make fun of me for being genderfluid. Please tell me you know what that means, I really don't want to explain it again. And just everything is so, so overwhelming and life is stupid anyways. We're all gonna die. I don't believe in heaven or hell. After I die, everything will be the same, I'm just a little speck in this whole wide universe." They spoke fast, and their words came out mixed with each other, making it hard to hear.
"Alright," is what he responded before shuffling over onto the chair next to me and wrapping his arms tightly around my body. He held me close to his chest, gently pulling me over onto his lap. "I...I'm sorry if I bring any trouble to you, if you tell me to go, then I'll go. I won't question it, honest, I won't. I'll just leave if you want me to, or if I ever annoy you," I whispered into his chest.
We got to the convention center where the ceremony was being held and the parking garage was so full we had to park three blocks away. As I walked through the doors of the convention center I found my to the sea of purple and yellow caps and gowns that were already forming a line. I quickly threw on my gown and walked into the back to find out where I was supposed to be and instead found my English teacher frantically running around trying to get everyone in place. I was pushed into my row and told not to talk, that’s not easy when you have to sit through 400 other people’s names getting called before yours does but I muscled through