Baby Daddies - Tara Brown Page 0,85
sickness started and I basically throw up at work all day and then gorge to recover my strength all night.”
“Oh my God, me too! We’re having the same pregnancy,” Nat says as if baffled by the similarities. “I stop right at two in the afternoon, every single day. And I’m sleeping like fourteen hours a day right now.”
“Speaking of pregnancies,” I interrupt, “we have another surprise.” I glance at Sami. “You’re going to be pumped. The photo ops for this are off the charts.”
“Oh my God, Lori,” Jenny laughs.
“It’s twins. We’re having twins. Two.” I hold my fingers up.
“Twins?” Brady arches an eyebrow.
“Yes, apparently my sperm are superior to yours. Some kind of superhero DNA or something.” I shrug and earn a whack in the stomach from him.
“You mean superhero girlfriend,” Rich takes a stab at me but winks.
“Oh man,” Nat laments. “Lucky. One pregnancy and you’re done.”
“I never thought of that.” Jenny nods along.
“What?” Matt asks as he sits and glances at Rich petting Simon.
“You need two kids, bro.” Brady offers this fact up with some serious attitude.
“I want four.” I flash a grin at Jenny. “So two pregnancies.” I wink at her, earning a middle finger for a response.
“Yeah, no. First time ever for this, I’m with Brady.” Jenny points at him. “You only need two kids. Me and my brother were best friends. Still are.”
“Twins,” Matt repeats as if this has just sunk into his thick head. His eyes lower to her flat belly. “You can’t even see anything yet.”
“The doctor said because I’m tall it’s more likely I won’t show right away. More torso for the babies to sit in.”
“How big were you as a baby?” Nat asks me.
“Nine pounds and some change. Why?”
Nat winces. “I was six pounds and Brady was ten. I’ll be the size of a house. I have no torso. I’m short. It’s already starting to show.” She stands and turns sideways and lifts her shirt and sure enough, there’s a tiny belly.
Carson shakes his head in twitches. “I can’t believe you’re all having kids. Ruining our gang with babies.”
“What do you mean? I want kids,” Rich pipes up. “I’m with Lori, I think four kids would be awesome. A little pack of them.”
“Dude, no.” Carson waves him off. “You just need to see Lori up to his elbows in baby shit and puke while Jenny’s crying. You’ll change your mind. Actually scratch that, Jenny and Lori are going to ace parenting. It’s Brady you should watch.”
“Wow.” Brady gives me and Carson a glare.
“Oh my God.” Sami ignores everything but what she wants to hear. “Rich, you guys should have a baby. I would surrogate for you,” Sami says the most random thing any of us has ever heard. Particularly, Matt whose eyes widen with fear.
“Only if we get to have sex and not test-tube it.” Carson laughs but Matt doesn’t.
“Not on your life.” Sami scoffs. “But for real, I would have a baby for you.”
“Not me,” Nat grumbles. “I’m genuinely not loving being pregnant.”
“Me either.” Jenny wrinkles her nose.
“So two babies?” Brady holds his fingers up, stuck on the news.
“Yeah.” I grin, pretending the idea of it hasn’t drained all my life essence and robbed me of at least five of my golden years. When the doctor said twins, I nearly died, but the look on Jenny’s face told me to keep it together.
It was nearly impossible.
His eyes dart to Jenny. “Holy shit.”
“Finally, a normal response.” Jenny sighs.
“You just called me normal.” Brady’s lips twist into a wide smile. His crush on her is epic, even now.
“Guess that means hell has frozen over. I’m having twins and Brady is making sense.” Jenny lies back into the sofa more. “Can we talk about the honeymoon?”
“Capital idea, Jenny.” Carson points at her. “This baby talk is going to kill my boner for at least a week.”
“That works for me, little spoon.” Rich winks at him and I laugh.
“It was amazing. I’ll load the photos on Insta over the next week. But Nat has a bunch of pictures on her phone.” Sami waves a demanding hand at Nat.
“Yeah, the designated sober person was also the camerawoman,” Nat grumbles and lifts her phone so Jenny can see them.
“Oh my God, this is amazing. Where were you?”
“Malta and all over the Med and Adriatic. It was so cool,” Nat gushes and moves her finger like she’s scanning through pictures.
“You ready for the season to start?” Matt asks me. His eyes flicker for the briefest of seconds