I guess it is true what they say: east or west, home is the best. I had missed Zor and I was happy to be back. Yes I would still get hangry (angry + hungry and I was always hungry for food and sex, yeah) and tired a lot but I guess the fact that I was home helped in improving my mood after all.
We had so much to do and yet so little time and I felt bad because I felt like I was holding Adrian back but he deserved it: he is the one who got me pregnant, innit?
So, let him deal with it with me. All the same, we talked to his parents, then went to the university and found that we haven't, in fact, missed a lot because the school had been closed for renovations and students in our departments and years had been sent out for field work (I smelt a rat but I wasn't sure so...).
We then visited the hospital and since we didn't want to freak out any doctor when they find out that a man was pregnant, we visited one of the hospitals Adrian's family owned.
He did the sonogram on me and it was official. I was carrying twins. I didn't know what to think and my emotions were everywhere. I was happy, yes, that Adrian and I were going to be parents but I also was confused. Why me? Did I have to be pregnant? Then why did I have to be born a man? Wouldn't it have been better if the gods had made me a woman?
But I'm happy with Adrian as it is and I know he would do anything for me, so... AARGH! Anyway, since we were in the sonography room alone, we decided to be a little naughty and I was happy because it helped get me off of things for a while. We started by scanning me in my human form and then me in my griffin form.
Wah! This network of bones and veins is really complicated. We wanted to use the MRI machine on my griffin self but I was too big for it. Too bad! We also scanned Adrian in his centaur form and I was loving this. We laughed uncontrollably because we were happy. Yes, we were.
But all good things come to an end because we finally had to go home.
We slept over the fact that it was now confirmed that I was around three months pregnant and it was not going anywhere.
After an uneventful (wink) night, we invited our three adults and Beau out for lunch. We felt that Beau was old enough to handle the truth and that's why we involved her because we didn't want her to know that she was an aunt when it had already happened. We
wanted her to grow with the idea and when the little cuties arrive, she would be prepared.
We met at Mother's Kitchen' (A five star hotel in our region) at exactly one in the afternoon. I was nervous and I was grateful that Adrian was there to hold my hand and I guess that him being here helped a lot.
When we entered the private room we had booked, everyone was seated and they were all chatting happily. Sorry, a point a correction: Beau was talking incessantly as usual and everybody else was listening to her and laughing. She knew how to keep people busy this one and there was never a dull moment in her presence.
When we entered, she jumped at us in greeting and after hugs and smiles were exchanged all over, Ipressed the intercom and a waitress came and we told her that they could serve us.
Meeeaat!
Wah! Finally! This is one of the things I missed about Zor. I could eat meat all I wanted and I might just tell you, I'm now eating like twice of what I used to. Don't ask me where all this food is going, All I know is that my body is asking for it and who am I to refuse it *wink*?
After a delicious meal, it was time to address the elephant in the room and the first to ask was Adrian's dad. (By the way, to make things easier for us, we decided to call Adrian's dad 'father' and mine 'dad'. That way, we won't be confused when talking about them. Clever, right? Ha ha ha! Ahem!).
"I might not be a seer but something tells me that this dinner wasn't just a dinner. So, what do you two have to tell us?" He began and I was all jitters because I didn't know how they would react after finding out that they will be grandparents by a male.
"Ahem! Uuhm... errr... dad, father, mom, Beau... we have something to tell you. I... erm... um..." I began but I swear I was so nervous that I could barely construct a sentence.
"Gael is three months pregnant," Adrian blurted out and I looked at him with my mouth agape.
How could he? Couldn't he have eased them into it bit by bit? Damn! I eyed him like I would eat him and he chuckled nervously while looking at me timidly.
"What? We had to say it, hadn't we? And the faster we say it the faster you stop being nervous," he said as a matter of fact and I wondered how he could be so dense. Couldn't he see what he is doing to our family?
"The problem is not me idiot! Look at them. Look at them. They think you are mad!" That's when he looked at the four on the table and I swear it took a miracle for their jaws to remain fixed on their bodies.
They were all agape looking at Adrian like an alien who didn't know how things work in Zor.
"Ha ha ha! Baby, are you okay?" This from mom who thought that her son was losing his marbles and I looked at him like 'what did I tell you?"
"What did you say? My son is pregnant?" Finally dad found his voice looking from Adrian to me and finally Beau couldn't take it anymore.
"It can't happen. Our Biology teacher taught us about reproduction. We also drew the reproductive system of both a man and a woman and from what our teacher told us, a man cannot get pregnant and I know for a fact that my brother is a man and he can't get pregnant.
Good prank Adrian. You almost got us there. Ha ha ha!" She finished with a look that told Adrian that she knew how the universe worked and he didn't and so he was an idiot.
I leaned on my chair scratching my head with a smile, a disbelieving smile.
Damn! It's going to be a mad ride trying to convince them that it is all real.
Ah, I hated being me right now.