She's My Sleeping Pill

The streets were nicely decorated with different Christmas lights. Christmas songs and cheers can be heard everywhere and Cayenne was most excited with the giving part. This time of the year was what she liked the most because she can share more blessings than usual with the orphanages and random street people.

Yesterday, with the help of everyone, she finished decorating the mansion as well as the cabin where Latticia and Dr. Albert live. This year’s Christmas, she was aiming for a red and gold style. Almost all of the decorations; be it the lights or whatever little trinkets she could find, were either red or gold. Even the Christmas gifts were wrapped in red or gold wrappers.

Today, Cayenne and Stefan were going to the hospital to know their baby’s gender. Cayenne has been very restless since morning because of her excitement but Stefan, even if he was excited, he couldn’t seem to muster the strength to be cheerful. He wanted to puke! He was so dizzy since early in the morning and he vomited twice already.

“Why are you looking at me like that?” Stefan asked after noticing that his wife has been staring at him with a guilty expression on her face. “I’m really fine. I may look haggard right now but I’m still strong.”

Cayenne nodded her head in silence, not wanting to hurt his pride but when she looked away, a lone tear fell on her lap and she hastily wiped her face with the back of her hand. [Please grow up fast and come out quickly.] She prayed in her mind because she felt really guilty considering how he lost weight in just one month.

When she craves for something, Stefan felt it, too, and would eat the same food as her with an even larger appetite. However, Cayenne no longer felt morning sickness compared to him. He was going through worse than she had.

“This is the last,” Cayenne commented which stunned Stefan the most. Between them, she was the one who was very eager to have children. Although he wished that this would be the last time, it was still different hearing the same words coming out of her mouth. She sounded really sad. “I really wish we can have at least two children so that our child won’t grow up alone, but if it would be like this the second time as well then, I’d rather choose to have one.”

“I’m sorry you’d have to think that way because of me. I’m really okay. We can have a dozen more if you want. I heard that this only happens during the first pregnancy so, we won’t really have to go through this again in the future.”

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“Really? Where did you learn that?”

“Uhh...from the older generation?”

“You are just saying this to pacify me.”

“No, not really. Besides, we don’t have any control if God chooses to send us another child in the future. Let’s just pray that he won’t give us a hard time with our second, third, fourth child, and so on.”

Yet, a surprise was thrown at them. As soon as they reached the hospital, Cheska was already waiting for them with a wide grin on her face. You can see that she was looking forward to divulging this surprise to the couple. Every single time that Cayenne had her regular checkup, they won’t do any ultrasound to see the baby’s gender. As long as Cheska says that she was doing great and that her baby was doing great; everything was fine for them. All her records have been compiled by Cheska because the couple didn’t want to bring them home.

“Are you both excited?”

“We are. I may look like this due to exhaustion but I’m really excited to know our baby’s gender.” Stefan commented because he seemed really not happy when you look at his expression. He just wanted to go back home and sleep again.

Cheska grinned and nodded her head, “Alright, let’s go to the lab room for the test. This time I won’t be covering the monitor so that both of you could see what I’m seeing.”

“Doc, you said that I’m fine and I trust your judgment and the test. I am just wondering why my belly looks a lot bigger compared to other women of the same weeks as me.”

“I’ll tell show you why.”

Cayenne already had a gut feeling why that was the case and she was looking forward to having her question answered. Cheska pushed Cayenne’s shirt up to her lower chest and placed ultrasound gel on her belly. It was cold but Cayenne only felt it for a few seconds before her excitement took control of her perceptions. Nothing could beat her eagerness right now.

“Look at the screen,” Cheska mumbled and pushed away the curtain which usually covers Cayenne’s and Stefan’s view of their baby or babies rather. “You’re having triplets! Congratulations!”

Cayenne blinked her eyes twice. She looked at Cheska, to the monitor, back to Cheska, and to her husband. Stefan was so surprised that his eyes went wide and you couldn’t see the exhaustion on his face anymore.

“Not two but three? Did I hear you correctly?”

“Yup. You’ll have three children! Oh, my god! When I found out about this, I was so happy that I wanted to jump up and down. This is my first time handling triplets.”

“We’re not seeing it wrong?”

“Oh, no.” She responded at once and pointed her finger to the three little ones on the screen. “This, this, and this; these are your children. You’re not having one, not two, but three babies! I am so happy for you! Well, I won’t have to worry about how you would raise them anyway. You’ve got money to spoil them.”

Stefan: Yeah

Cayenne: No!

The couple looked at each other and Cayenne was clearly glaring at her husband. “No spoiling.” She reiterated which stunned Stefan because he never thought of spoiling his children either. He only wanted to spoil his wife but his response came out naturally from his mouth.