Double Trouble
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“We can’t have a triple wedding, that would be crazy,” Katie protested. “Just think of poor Daisy!”
“What’s another hundred?” Daisy laughed, wiping chocolate frosting off her cheek.
“Well, we could always just step aside and let you guys get married.” Rob was behind me, his hands on my shoulders, and I glanced up at him and smiled.
“Oh, I don’t think so,” Katie scoffed. “You two are tying the knot with us!”
“Well, the thing is…” I said, glancing around with everyone looking at us. “We kind of already did.”
“What?” Sarah was the first one to say it.
“I planned to announce it later, out there, officially,” Rob nodded toward the crowd outside. “But we wanted you guys to know first. We got married when we went to Aruba.”
“I knew it!” Celeste exclaimed, holding her hand out to Jesse. “You owe me five bucks!”
“You know everything.” I laughed, running my finger around the rim of my cake plate, getting the last remnant of chocolate.
“Hey girl, I wouldn’t eat that if I were you.” Arnie came into the kitchen, a towel draped around his neck, dripping water onto the Italian marble floor. “You’re gonna wanna stay skinny if you’re going out on the road with Trouble.”
“Right.” I laughed, rolling my eyes. “Tell me some more fairy stories.”
“I got the call just before I came.” He grinned, drying what was left of his hair with the beach towel. He shook off like a dog, making both Katie and Celeste squeal in protest. Was he kidding? He had to be. “Thought I’d make the little announcement while everyone was here. The label was so impressed with your cover of Joplin and how much it was pirated online, they decided they want you in Trouble after all.”
“You’re kidding me.” My fork clattered to the plate.
“Good,” Rob grinned at me as I jumped up, too stunned to stay seated. “Now I can take you on tour with me.”
“I…” This wasn’t happening. My feet felt like they weren’t touching the ground. Here it was, the thing Rob and I had talked about, the thing Tyler had advocated for repeatedly, my dream. I could be, not just part of the family, but part of the band too. All my dreams had come true. All of them, all at once.
“I don’t know.” I shook my head, still trying to absorb it all.
“What do you mean you don’t know?” Rob scoffed, taking my hands in his, pulling me near. “This is what we wanted.”
“I know.” I met his eyes, feeling tears sting them. “But I’m not sure I can go on this tour.”
“Why not?” He frowned, his dark eyes growing darker. Rob wanted something, and he was determined to get it. He glanced out the door at the pool where the rest of Trouble was taking turns whipping a Nerf football across the length of the pool. “Are you worried about the guys? They’re used to you now, Yoko. You’re part of the family.”
“No, it’s not that.” I swallowed, looking around. Everyone was watching us, listening to this conversation. They all looked puzzled, confused by my hesitation. Of course, they were. They didn’t know what I knew.
“Then what is it?” Rob tilted my chin up, looking concerned at the tears quivering on my lashes.
“Well…” I took a deep breath. It was now or never. “I’m pregnant.”
Rob stopped breathing and so did I, waiting, hoping.
And then he was kissing me, a kiss so full of love and hope and the future, it hurt, bruising my mouth and my heart, which felt so full I thought it would burst. The whole room exploded around us, everyone screaming, yelling, crying, laughing, hugging, all at once. Rob wouldn’t let me out of his arms to let anyone else hug me and congratulate us, not at first.
“Is it really true?” he choked, his face buried in my neck. He was holding me so tight, my feet weren’t even touching the ground, and it was hard to breathe, let alone answer him. “Oh sweetheart, I love you so much.”
“Yes,” I whispered when he let me go, just long enough to cup my face, streaked with tears now, in his hands. “I’m going to have your baby.”
“My baby.” He sank to his knees, right there in front of everyone, but I didn’t care. My tears fell on his upturned cheeks, mixing with his own.
Then he wrapped his arms around my hips, his cheek to my belly. I hadn’t felt the baby move quite yet, but I was far enough along that I’d already gained ten pounds.
“This baby can’t replace her.” Rob’s words sent a bittersweet shot of pain through my heart and our eyes met when he turned his face up to me. “But we’ll love it just as much.”
“Just as much.” I nodded, touching his cheek, and then he lifted me, carrying me around the kitchen, both of us laughing.
“She’s having my baby!” Rob announced, as if no one else had heard me. They all rallied as he carried me outside, telling me to duck as he went out the French doors, still yelling it at the top of his lungs. “My wife is having my baby!”
I had no doubt it would be in the tabloids tomorrow, but I didn’t care. It was about time we were splashed all over the front page with good news instead of bad.
“I always said you were good at making trouble,” Leanne said with a laugh as Rob paraded past the patio table.
“He’s been trouble since the day I met him,” I called to her, giggling.
“You love trouble.” Rob grinned, biting at my belly, making me squeal. “Remember?”
“What are you doing?” I protested, glancing behind me, seeing the rest of the band— Kenny, Nick and Jon —sitting like three monkeys, seeing, hearing and speaking no evil on the edge of the pool.
“Making trouble.” Rob jumped.
The pool water was warm, but still a shock. I came up sputtering, laughing. When we surfaced together, everyone clapped, and my husband took me into his arms, smoothing back my wet hair, looking into my eyes.
“I do love trouble,” I whispered, wrapping my arms around his neck. “And I love you.”
“That’s my girl,” he murmured, kissing me, then paused to say, “Girls.”
“Girls?” I raised my wet eyebrows in surprise. “How do you know it’s a girl?”
“I just know.” A slow, sure smile spread over his face and, just at that moment, I felt the first stirrings of our baby—our girl—like little butterfly wings beating in my belly.
I thought immediately of Esther. Rob was right, of course. This baby wouldn’t replace her, but we would love her just as much. And she would be a part of our family, this family, the one surrounding us now, who loved us and wanted us to be nothing but happy. I looked up at their faces, and then back at my husband, knowing, in spite of all the heartache of the past year, I had everything I had ever wanted.
We were really all one big family now.
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