Three Years Later
Hunter
I never thought it was possible for a man to have so much happiness in life, and I definitely didn’t think it could be me.
Three years ago when Blue went into labor, I’d panicked because it was nothing like I’d ever witnessed or imagined. The pain that she was going through seemed unbearable and I spent the rest of the time cursing myself and swearing to never get my dick anywhere near her. I regretted even getting her pregnant.
I could still remember how before being wheeled into the hospital room, she’d assured me everything would be okay with a confident smile on her face and for a minute there I thought I wouldn’t see her smiling.
Women died of child labor sometimes, what if Blue was fragile? I’d spent the rest of the time sobbing with my head bent on my mother’s shoulder.
And then the Doctor declared, “Mr. Brantley, you have twins.”
“And my wife, how is she?”
“She’s doing great.” He assured me.
Still didn’t understand why someone would choose his career as a gynecologist and spend his entire life pulling out babies out of VJ’s. It looked like a very difficult and nerve-wracking job. I sure as hell wouldn’t be able to handle a sobbing father and a screaming mother.
My heart soared, there was no way I could describe the happiness I felt knowing that I had two little girls. I was just trying to process the information when the doctor said, “Let me say that again. You have triplets.”
“What?!”
It was probably the anticipation or the tension, it must have taken a toll on me and I fainted. It was the most embarrassing thing that had ever happened to me. When I woke up the nurses were giving me amused looks, some had even flirted in good nature by saying what a handsome husband I was.
And then I had three babies in my arms. Can you imagine my excitement?
Not one.
Not two.
I had three.
That day marked the best day of my life. Literally the fucking best.
“DADDY! DADDY! DADDY!”
“DADDY! DADDY! DADDY!”
The sounds blared in my ears like an alarm pulling me back to reality. I pushed the pillow on my ear and buried my head deeper.
“Daddy! Daddy! Daddy!” The chanting continued.
I opened one eye and looked around. Two young faces peered at me. One of them was still jumping on the bed, she was going to break the mattress spring one of these days. Artemis, the naughtiest of the triplets.
“Daddy, you promised to take us out today for McDonalds Happy Meal and the iche-chream.” Freya reminded me, her eyes were large and round like that of Blue’s.
“YOU PROMISED! YOU PROMISED! YOU PROMISED!” Artemis screamed at the top of her lungs, her life motive was to make her father deaf.
got to do
new toy store?” Jude, my son said. He was sucking hard on his
it or not, the two girls were a handful,
me wake up first,” I said.
up. Artemis pecked my forehead, Freya placed a kiss on my nose and Jude on my cheek. That was the morning
for breakfast?”
didn’t know what your mom
my mom, your
mouths were
word,” Freya exclaimed out loud like I’d committed four murders
I corrected. “I said smart-apples. Jeez, you
made Waffles.”
Jude. “Stupid, you shouldn say. Daddy should
was half merman. Artemis and Freya were like mini-Blue’s, without the Blue hair. The girls had inherited her nose, her lips, and her eyes. I’d only contributed to their
honest, I was proud of
difficult part was to explain to them that they were different. Normal children didn’t have powers. My kids did, they could sense if a person had bad
guy before, never dreamed of getting married or having my own family but here we were. I couldn’t think of my life without Blue or our kids. They were everything to me. I found joy in putting them to bed or reading them stories. Sometimes the girls
and I would never
much they were getting spoilt there. It was hilarious to see Dad who
want to go out, go get
said in unison and stormed out
the kitchen. The aroma of freshly made pancakes welcomed
smaller one, the fourth plate was a bunch of
the two
and settled down in my
patted my other thigh, “Plenty
us, making a face. He was about to cry, I was kind of sad I
with me, baby.” Blue sat down next to me
lap. Blue was a loving mother, a patient listener, and a caregiver. She loved them unconditionally, the way I did and although
threw pancakes in his mouth.
Sometimes, I lost my will for control and slipped my hand under the table and over
being Blue, took a
her a questioning look. “I’m already
were kicking me under the table because you
three and sometimes found it difficult to comprehend what was going on,
why don’t you finish up your Waffles and
are we goin?” Freya
“The aquarium,” I said.
“Yoohoo!”
breakfasts first. I don’t want to see a small scrape on your
sliding it
And don’t feed any more to
mouth and began speaking with a mouthful. “Caff we
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