Chapter 20

Over the following months, Kat mostly recovered ahead of schedule. Brandon and she got closer and Emily took Kat to get her on birth control. Emily kept up on her appointments and Mark and she decided that they wanted to be surprised with their child’s gender. This of course drove Kat nuts but her parents wouldn’t budge. Emily continued to work at the hospital and on the farm, at least as much as her bun in the oven would allow her to. Mark supported this for he knew that it would help keep Emily and the kid healthy. When Kat got home from the hospital, she and Emily started remodeling one of the spare bedrooms for the kid.

The three of them went to Emily’s first ultrasound and the results threw all their plans out the window. For the ultrasound showed triplets. At this Mark fainted, and the girls were slack-jawed. Emily had no family history of multiple births that she knew of. When they got home it was obvious that they would have to do a major rethink. It was Kat that came up with the solution. She could move her bedroom down to the basement so each of the triplets could have their room within earshot of Emily and Mark. So, the next weekend the three of them started working on the basement. Kat was able to design her new room, bathroom, and walk-in closet. During this time another change in the family happened, Kat got her driver’s license much to Mark’s relief and dread. Granted now he didn’t need to chauffeur her around, but now she could also sneak off on her own.

At seven months Emily got the depressing news that she had been expecting and dreading; no more vaginal intercourse until after the kids were born. Mark took this in stride though, after all, what’s a few months without intercourse when three new lives would be brought into the world. After talking about it, Mark and Emily decided that Mark should get a vasectomy before the kids were born so that when Emily was physically ready to get laid again all the little swimmers would be out of Mark’s cum. Emily of course would make sure that Mark had every last swimmer out of his cum. Just because Emily couldn’t have use of her vagina at the moment didn’t mean that she couldn’t keep his cock in shape with other parts of her anatomy. Plus, the side was that Emily had amazing cock-sucking skills. After all, Mark had just wanted one kid while Emily had wanted two, now they were having three.

Two and a half months later the four of them were getting ready to go early morning fishing. By this time Kat and Brandon were inseparable and he liked to go fishing with Kat and her family. Emily had problems getting comfortable in her seat when she felt like she had peed herself (she was wearing her bikini bottom and one of Mark’s t-shirts for it was forecasted to be a hot day and she might want to go for a dip). Looking down, she knew what happened, her water had broken. The other three had just come out of the house with the food for the day.

“Hey guys, we got a problem.”

“What’s that, Mrs. Schneider?” This was what Brandon always called her and after battling him, Emily gave up and let him call her that.

“I don’t how to tell you this but my water just broke.”

Mark just smiled, “Kat can you help me get the boat unhooked and back in the barn please?”

“What’s this dad, you’re not going to go into a panic like other dads?”

“Why panic kiddo, Emily’s going to probably be in labor a while before she gives birth and it won’t take but a couple of minutes to get the boat put away. After all, who knows what time we’ll get home. Speaking of that, do you want to ride with us or drive yourself?”

“Um...” looking at Brandon “We’ll ride with you. After all, I can bring your truck back home.”

“Well then let’s get going then.”

Mark and Kat got the boat put back and then they all went to the hospital. Mark made sure to drive carefully for it was four in the morning and there was plenty of deer around. This was defiantly not the time to hit a deer. Driving to the hospital, Emily called Cindy to tell her what was going on for Cindy had given Emily very strict orders to call her when she went into labor; no matter what time it was. Of the four in the truck, Brandon was the most nervous.

“To see you like that honey, you would think that I was the one that was about to give birth” teased Kat.

“Shut up Kat, I’ve never closely known anyone who gave birth, plus I don’t have your nerves of steel.”

“Well, Dad’s not as nervous as you are.” Kat couldn’t stop herself.

“Ya, well he’s been through this before and his nerves I think, are harder than yours. Can you please stop teasing me? I’m nervous enough as it is.”

Arriving at the hospital, Mark dropped Brandon and the girls off at the entrance and went to park the truck. Once he got in, he found Brandon in the waiting room.

“I’m not family so they wouldn’t let me in.”

“Come on Brandon, I’ll get you in and make sure to call your parents as well.”

With that Mark took Brandon and true to his word got him past the nurses and into Emily’s room. Emily didn’t mind the fact that Brandon would see her private parts. For one she was a doctor after all. Two she knew that Brandon and Kat were sleeping together, Mark knew too for that matter. And the third reason the whole experience would be good for Brandon and Kat to see the entire birthing process. So, Emily put her foot down when a nurse tried to make Kat and Brandon leave. The nurse might have been new but she had heard all about Emily, Mark, and Kat and knew the last thing she wanted to do was to piss them off. Plus, anyone with half a brain knows that it’s never a good thing to argue with a pregnant woman.

The entire experience was a real eye-opener to not only Brandon but Kat as well. Having theoretical knowledge and having firsthand knowledge are two completely different things. They were both surprised by the amount of pain that Emily was going through.

Twelve hours later it was over. Emily had given birth to two boys and a girl. All three were born with blond hair that was shaded red and weighed six pounds six ounces apiece. The girl was named Gretchen and the boys were named David and Mason. Kat, Brandon, and Mark went home after they met the triplets. They were tired and being Sunday Kat and Brandon had school, in the morning, but Mark called off work so he could go back with his wife. After they got home Kat and Brandon left to go back to his house for the night. They usually alternated between the two houses so that they got to spend time with both families. Granted Kat could easily afford to buy her own house, she still stayed with her mom and dad. One was she wasn’t old enough to buy a house, two was she didn’t know where she would end up working, and three she didn’t know yet what all she wanted in a house. Four, she wasn’t ready to tell Brandon that she was loaded. Kat wanted Brandon to love her for her, not her money.

When Mark got back to the hospital the next morning, Emily was already up and was moving around slowly. She had just got done nursing the kids and she had to go the bathroom. She was tired but happy. Soon she would be able to move around again and with three kids to take care of she would need to be able to move around too.

“Morning Mark. Good news, I should be able to go home later today after the doctor checks up on me and the kids get their shots. All three would have all their vaccines. Emily had been to a third-world country and had seen the damage that not having vaccines could do firsthand. She wouldn’t risk that with her kids and she knew that Mark felt the same way.

“Hey, cool. You know honey it sucked not having you in bed with me last night. I think that was this first night that I spend completely alone in the house in almost ten years.”

“Aww,” Emily said as she gave Mark a quick kiss and went into the bathroom. Mark stopped at the kids’ beds and said good morning to them. He then settled down in a chair and opened his laptop to work on his stock trading. That evening Emily and the kids were released to go home, and Brandon and Kat were waiting for them with dinner almost cooked and the table already set. Emily and Mark took the kids back and laid them down in their cribs. There would be no co-sleeping in this house. The kids would get used to their beds right off the bat. Emily went to carefully take a shower with Mark’s help before dinner. She was grimy and smelly and wanted to feel better before eating.