“Twins?” Greg asked with a huge smile.“It seems that the two of them have been hiding one behind the other. They are both a good size which explains the slight increase in your size as well.” The doctor said as he looked at Kristen. She was taking it all in. Greg looked at her and saw the look on her face. It wasn’t that she was unhappy it was more she was clearly shocked by the news. She only thought there was one baby in there that she had been dealing with.Kristen nodded to the people who were talking. She had retreated and knew she had to regroup and quickly. This was going to be more than they had thought. She would need two of everything, at least sometimes they would. She began to process everything as he was talking, and she looked at Greg. He was okay with this. It wasn’t going to be a bad thing.As the tech and the doctor left and Kristen was wiping off her stomach. Greg

  Greg was driving the hour to go back to his parent's house while holding her hand. He was going over everything he had told her about them to make sure he wasn’t leaving anything out. He looked at her, and though she remained calm looking on the outside, he could feel the energy again coming from her and not the babies. “Why today?” she asked as she looked at him. She hadn’t really said anything the entire time.“What?” he asked, confused as he tried to find the right words to answer her as well.“Why did you decide to tell your parents about me today?” Kristen asked as she looked at him. “We have been together for months now. We have been married for a few months as well. I mean, the timing is weird that you want me to meet them today or all days.”“Kristen, first off, I would have told them about you earlier, but I wanted you to be comfortable with the idea of maybe l

 His phone was constantly ringing the entire way home. He already felt bad for even thinking this was a good idea. He honestly didn’t know why he thought his parents would be happy and pleased for him. He had been hopeful and was riding the high of finding out about the twins. That was his only excuse for this. Though he didn’t know if she would ever get over it either. This was worse than taking her in front of her parent's house and letting them throw insults at her. He felt horrible. He would never do anything to hurt her on purpose.Kristen had stopped crying, though. She didn’t say anything and only stared out of the windows. She was lost in her own world, and he knew that this was her way of dealing with everything. Though she normally talked things out now, sometimes, when something really bothered her, she went back inside herself and had to stay there until she was ready to deal with the problem head-on. That almost worried him that she

 Greg shook his head. He didn’t want this to be happening. However, when he looked at his mother, he saw it right in front of him. His father probably had no clue and didn’t know that he was being used as a pawn for his wife. Greg felt his own energy change in a way it never had before. He also felt the babies reacting to his change. He had to calm down. The simple fact he was the one who was causing the change in the babies scared him. They knew he was angry, beyond angry.Kristen was looking at him. She knew something wasn’t right, but it wasn’t until he was almost pulsing with a different type of energy that she knew he was beyond mad and upset. She took his hand in hers quickly. The other woman watched as it seemed the small gesture calmed her son. He had focused on her tiny hand touching his. She was still his center. She would always be his center from now on, and he knew that. As soon as he felt her tiny fingers rubbing his hand, he

  Greg helped Kristen to the car, and they took off. He was surprised at how completely different this night had been than the one before it. She had shined all night, and it came through more and more. It was like a side to her had to be reawakened, and it was now. “Why did you stand up for us like that?” he asked softly.“It was easy, Greg. It was like I had a vision of how much your mom and sister thought they could control you through the way they treated me.” Kristen said as he took her hand in his as they drove back to the apartment. “I have dealt with much worse than those two, and I know how much you wanted to have them in your life and how much it would hurt you. I couldn’t allow that. Just like you won’t let someone hurt me. I won’t let them hurt you. I figured it was just the way to go.”“Kris, I do want them in our lives but not at your expense.” He