Page 59 of Twisted Obsession

‘I’m good, and the baby is kicking strongly, which makes me happy,’ Mia replied.

‘How many more weeks to go?’ I stopped dead, as I made a mental calculation in my head.

‘Four weeks. So, even if he was to come early, he would be fine.’

‘He will be fine,’ Serafina added, before reaching over to grab her sister’s hand.

‘That’s good.’ I smiled at her statement.

Painful memories came flooding back to me of how, after giving birth to two healthy and beautiful little girls, Mia’s last two pregnancies had ended with a late miscarriage and the still-birth of a perfect son.

‘And me, I’m fine too,’ Serafina answered. ‘Although I have three months to go and I’m already the size of a woman who is nine months pregnant.’ Mia and Serafina laughed out loud, and I joined in.

‘Show me,’ I squealed with excitement, as I moved closer to the monitor I was using for the video call.

Serafina complied and after standing, she then moved backwards. Standing in front of me in maternity cycling shorts and a pretty, loose top, she pulled the top tightly across her middle and showed off her pregnancy bump.

‘Turn around,’ I instructed, eager that although I was a few hundred miles away, I wasn’t going to miss anything. I watched, as instructed she turned slowly around a couple of times.

‘Serafina, you look beautiful. Do you know, I think you might be carrying another girl?’ I informed them both. ‘I think you’re the same shape as you were with little Gi.’

‘I said that too, Sera.’ Mia turned back to look at her.

‘You don’t look that big at all,’ I lied. ‘But even if you are, you know how amazing your body is. You go back into shape easily afterwards.’

‘I know, I’m naturally lucky. I thank our mum’s genes for that. But it does take a lot of exercise and hard work.’

‘I’m sure.’ I grinned at the two of them, and knowing the three of us were alone, I carried on. ‘Having all the sex you have with my brother is all the exercise you need. But I’m sure it shouldn’t be hard work, otherwise perhaps he’s not doing it properly?’ I winked at them both.

‘I assure you he is—in fact, he does it very properly,’ Serafina laughed.

‘He must be. I mean, you’ve been pregnant nearly every year for the past seven,’ I added and I listened to their laughter. Suddenly, missing them both even more.

‘Oh, listen to her, Mrs. Newly-engaged-suddenly-knows-all-the-answers,’ Mia teased.

I felt the smile slip from my face at her teasing. It was true, although I would never admit it to anyone, not even them, that I had now experienced sex, losing my virginity to the man I was to marry, because it wasn’t something a good Calabrian woman did before marriage. Once I was married, and if my experience of sex was still the same, I would ask them about it and get their opinion on what they felt might be wrong with me, to find it so unsatisfying.

I wish I was there with you both,’ I sighed as I sat down on the comfy chair behind me, and after lifting my legs, I hugged them to my chest.

‘No, you don’t!’ Mia chastised. Through the camera I watched as she too stood and went to stand with her sister. ‘You deserve this little bit of freedom, this little bit of your own life. Enjoy it.’ She pointed a finger back at me to drive home her order. ‘Now, look at her,’ Mia demanded, as she smoothed a hand over her baby bump for comparison.

Mia stood up next to Serafina, and it was then I could see just how big Sera looked. The two of them stood there, carrying much loved and wanted children, was a sight to behold. Both beautiful women in their own rights, so different in their personalities, but equally the same in their love for their husbands and children. The future for our conjoined families looked rosy and I smiled at them both. I made the smile stay firmly on my face as I watched Mia hook her long hair behind her left ear, exposing the jagged looking scar our past had left her with, the one she normally kept so well hidden. I loved how she was so relaxed with the two of us she forgot herself. Our pasts and our futures seemed even now so tightly interwoven, sometimes the later bled across the years. If only I could be morelike the two of them in their acceptance, and once and for all put my past to bed.

Remembering where I was and just what I was supposed to be examining, I squinted at the screen before letting a grin consume me.

‘Dr De Luca…’ I came closer to the screen as I studied them both, ‘you don’t think it’s twins again, do you?’

‘No, it can’t be. Having one pregnancy where one hid behind the other until I only had a few weeks to go was unusual, there’s no way it could happen again.’

When neither Mia nor I replied to her, but widened our eyes, she looked between us shaking her head.

‘Stop it! Both of you!’

Both of them sat back down.

‘Tell us, then. How’s Rome?’ Mia questioned with a faraway look in her eyes, having studied here nearly ten years before.

‘It’s wonderful. It’s everything you ever said it was and so very much more. I know I’ve only been here a few weeks, but I love it.’

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