Me Without You

~Jack POV~
I threw a beer to Alex who was screwing together the frame of the crib we had found online. Overnight shipping mother fuckers. Rian and Zack were attacking the walls of one of my two spare bedrooms with a light grey so that they would be dry tomorrow for Zack’s sister Sam to attack the walls with her paintbrush. Just as I was about to get back to attempting to assemble bookcases, Jasey’s ringtone blared through my speakers.
“Hey, baby!” I smiled down the line. It was the first she had spoken to me since telling me she had landed safely. “How is everyone?”
“Uh, everyone’s great, Jack.” Her voice was slightly shaken.
“Are you okay?” I was worried. What if she had actually decided to stay in California? I couldn’t deal with that. I needed her here with me. I couldn’t spend my entire life in California, my home was in Baltimore.
“I’m perfectly fine, but we may have a hitch in our plans.” Did she just giggle? I put her on speaker phone and looked around at the guys who had stopped working and were staring at me curiously. “So, I went to my doctor in San Diego today.”
“Is the baby alright?” I started to panic, oh no. What if something was wrong with the baby? I noticed Alex go pale as well and I knew that somewhere deep down he was hoping that this kid was his. And knowing my luck, by some stroke of chance it would be.
“That’s exactly it. Baby. Single.” I could hear multiple voices chuckling on her side of the line now and I scrunched my face up in confusion. “It’s not a baby, Jack. It’s two.” Jasey laughed and I placed the phone down on one of the shelves we had installed and started to pace around the room. Two? TWINS?
“Holy shit.” I murmured. I mean one surprise kid was okay, that was do-able. But two? At the same time? “Twins?” Jasey hummed her response and I burst out laughing along with Rian. “Is that why you’re so fat?” I laughed and the phone went silent. Oops.
“I am not fat.” Jasey grumbled and Alex cracked a small smile before turning his attention back to the crib. Oh damn, we’d have to get another one.
“I’m sorry, Jay.” I couldn’t stop smiling. “Holy crap, babe, this is so cool.” She giggled again before there was a scuffling and Vic shouted down the line.
“Okay! Fuck off now! She’s mine this week!” The line went dead. Well, that was rude.

~two days later~
“I can’t believe you’re having twins.” May whispered as she carried a large box of toys up the stairs.
“Yeah, it’s ridiculous.” I nodded in agreement, opening the door to the nursery. I was glad I picked the bigger room. The two cribs sat next to each other against the southern wall, strategically planned by Rian so that the sun wouldn’t hit the babies directly.
“Have you thought of any names yet?” She asked as she plopped herself down on the armchair that was next to the window. To be honest, I hadn’t stopped thinking. I blushed and May smiled as she started to take the toys she had been shopping for out of the box.
“I like Rayan to go in there somewhere if it’s a boy.”
“Oh, Lebanese name? Keeping it in the family, I like it.” I laughed at how enthusiastic May was about it.
“I also like Willow and Scarlett for a girl. Maybe Connor. I’m not sure. We haven’t spoken about it yet.” I shrugged it off. We had plenty of time, Jasey was only six weeks. “I still don’t know when she’s coming home though.” We had been texting frequently for the last couple of days about the babies but she kept telling me she didn’t know when she’d come home yet. I was starting to worry that she was realising all the things she had in California and was becoming increasingly reluctant to leave.
“Sam did a good job in here.” May stood, spinning so she could take in the various small pictures that scattered the walls. A silhouette of every single character from Peter Pan stood across the top of the window sills, Jack and Sally were hugging next to one of the shelves on the wall. Various Disney characters were peeking out from clever places on the walls. Sam must have covered a lot of the movies, but the images were small and neat so the room didn’t seem cluttered. Some were hiding behind books on shelves so you could only see them if you moved things around. Pinocchio, Cinderella, The Lion King, Winnie The Pooh, Mickey Mouse.
“Yeah, she did. Matt would love it in here.” May nodded in agreement as she tilted a book to reveal Jiminy Cricket. “Jasey will love it.” I couldn’t help but smile. Everything was slowly becoming more real. We had a fully furnished nursery, a scan to prove that the bumps were actually there and were fully real. Everything was coming together.

From: JASEY!

There’s a small present for you turning up soon ;) I had it shipped over. I hope you like it.

As if on cue, there was a light knock on my front door. I left May to organise the toys and bolted down the stairs. I whipped the door open and signed for the not-so-small box sitting on my porch. Shit, what was in here? I pushed the box inside and closed the door before tearing the packing tape off and peeking inside. I was met with a pile of books, a record player, a small collection of vinyl and a PS4. Pulling the items out of the boxes I got increasingly confused. Why on earth had she shipped me…
“JACK!” A squeal pierced my ear as a shadow whipped into the room and jumped on my back.

Notes

Just a bit of cuteness for y'all. Remember to give me some ideas for names! I seriously considered naming the twins Luke and Leia but... I'm controlling my nerd.
I hope you guys are enjoying it! x