Danny was nervously watching, afraid of what the doctor was going to say. A thousand possibilities went through his head, none of them good, and none of them being the one that came out of the doctor’s mouth.
He looked at Mia at the same time she looked at him, his eyes wide, then he looked back at the doctor. He was silent for a few seconds before he managed to get something out. “Tw – what? No. No way. That wasn’t on the original ultrasound,” he insisted, sure he’d warm up to the idea once the shock faded.
“--Y-yeah, I mean.. the first ultrasound didn’t show that. You don’t--They don’t--It’s not like they just magically split into two fetuses out of no where,” she paused. “--That can’t happen right?”
She didn’t know what to believe when the doctor said one of them might have been hiding behind the other during the first ultrasound. They weren’t having one baby, they were having two. She was eighteen--only eighteen. She didn’t know how to take care of one never mind two.
Once she had gotten blood drawn and was in a gown in her own room, something attached to her stomach and hooked up to a monitor, both of the babies’ heart beats going. When they were alone, she looked at him. “Twins..”
