“Mom, you’re too nervous.”
Bella smiled at Blanche and Blanche shook her head, “How can I not be nervous? I’m so happy that you conceive a child, and now you conceive twins at once, I can’t wait to serve you.”
Lena was also happy, lying on Bella’s belly and saying, “Quickly let me hear. Are my little nephew and niece moving?”
“Idiot. They haven’t even grown into a human being yet, so how come they are moving?”
Bella poked Lena’s forehead helplessly.
“Do you want to go upstairs and lie down for a while? I’ll call out to you when we eat.”
Kevin’s tone was so soft. He really wanted to make everyone disappear, leaving only Bella and himself, and then he would hug her tightly and kiss her to show how joyful he was at the moment.
“It’s okay. I’m not a patient. You all don’t be too nervous about me. When you are nervous, I’m nervous too.”
“Don’t be nervous. Don’t be nervous. From now on, you must keep yourself happy, so that the child you give birth to will be smart and lovely.”
At three o’clock in the afternoon, Blanche ordered the kitchen to prepare dinner and specially prepared a set of maternity recipes for them to cook the same. At dinner, looking at a table of dishes, as well as nearly ten small bowls of nourishing soup, Bella stared her eyes wide, “Mom, how can I eat so much?”
“These soups are all helpful to your pregnancy. I don’t know which kind you like to drink, so I let the kitchen prepare all of them. You drink a little of each kind to see which kind you like and I let them write down, and cook for you every day afterward.”
Bella sat down. Kevin had a look around, “Drink this first.”
Bella took it up and drank it. As a result, he felt sick after drinking a few mouthfuls. After she came out of the bathroom, Blanche brought another bowl of soup, “Try drinking this one. That one just now is too greasy.”
So, Bella drank a few more sips and ended up vomiting again.
Blanche still didn’t give up and took another bowl, but Bella really did not want to drink. She was embarrassed to refuse Blanche’s kindness, so she reluctantly drank a small sip. She vomited again.
Seeing her so uncomfortable, Kevin’s heart ached, “Mom, don’t let her drink.”
“But she hasn’t eaten anything for a day. If she doesn’t drink some soup, she will have no nutrition.”
“If you want to supplement nutrition, there’s no hurry. The doctor said she’s having the worst vomiting right now. Look how uncomfortable she is.”
Kevin was depressed about Bella and Blanche knew it. Blanche nodded her head, “Well, maybe I’m really too nervous. When I was pregnant with Lena, I couldn’t eat anything in the first trimester, so I just wanted to drink some congee every day.”
“Mom, cook me some congee tomorrow. I want some too.”
“Good, you can tell me what you want to eat, but before you go to bed at night, you must drink some milk. Even if you have no appetite, you must force yourself to drink it for the sake of your child.”
“Okay, I know.”
After the dinner, Kevin pulled Bella upstairs, Bella looked back at Lena’s mischievous smile, a little embarrassed, let go of his hand, “Don’t hold me. I’m not so delicate.”
Kevin associated with Freya falling down from this staircase previously and insisted on holding her hand, “Don’t be capricious.”
They took a bath and lay down on the bed. Kevin tightly hugged Bella. Bella said with emotion, “After living for twenty-eight years, I finally feel what is the real happiness this moment.”
Kevin was dissatisfied and retorted, “Have I never made you happy?”
“I have been happy. But only by having unexpected happiness can I deeply feel its meaning.”
Kevin kissed her forehead, “I’m happy too now.”
“Why don’t you give our children a name?” Bella tilted her head up.
“Am I giving names again? Haven’t I given names before?”
“The old ones are formal names, and it won’t be used until school, so you can give it two nicknames.”
He nodded, “OK. Let me think about it.”
Kevin only thought about it for less than three minutes, “OK, I’ve thought about it.”
“What name?”
Bella looked at him expectantly as she propped herself up.
“The girl’s name will be Hip Hop, and the boy’s name will be Ha Ha.”
“Don’t you think they’re happy names?” Kevin asked in a serious manner.
“I just feel so childish.”
“Idiot, there’s a meaning to those names.”
“What’s the meaning?”
“They mean happy, and our baby’s mom didn’t experience a happy childhood, so I want all of our children to grow up happy and enjoy the double happiness their mom didn’t enjoy.”
Bella got choked, and she was about to be moved to tears.
She lay into the arms of Kevin, tightly hugging his waist, choked and said., “Kevin, you are so good to me. I have no regrets with you in my life.”
“Having you in my life is also my greatest comfort.”
“You must hope that I am carrying two boys in my belly, right?”
“Why do you think so?”
“There are a few male offspring in your family. You and Mom would be so happy if there are two boys.”
“No, I desperately hope that you are carrying boy-girl twins.”
“Why?”
“Because then I won’t need to rename them.”
“…”
Bella’s pregnancy news was quickly learned by friends and family. A stream of people came to congratulate her every day, and this day, Alice also came.
Bella sitting downstairs in the living room saw Alice whom she did not see for a few months and was really shocked. She grabbed Alice’s hand and asked with concern, “What is wrong with you? Why are you so haggard?”
Women were sometimes strange creatures. They obviously didn’t want to cry, but when others asked what was wrong, tears would fall uncontrollably.
Alice wailed, “Louis doesn’t love me.”
Bella knew that Alice must have problems of feelings and patted her shoulder, “You may have misunderstood him. He told me very clearly before that we would be friends. He’s no longer be attached to me.”
“He’s no longer in love with you, which doesn’t mean he’ll fall in love with me.”
“Then how can you be sure that he won’t love you?”
“By intuition, a woman’s intuition. I can feel it whether he loves me or not.”
Bella sighed and said sincerely, “Your intuitions can sometimes be wrong. If you want to make sure your feelings are accurate, I’ll give you advice.”
Alice looked up in tears, “What?”
“It can test whether Louis loves you or not.”
“You tell me.”
“The easiest way to find out if your man cares about you is that you get close to another man, which is a bit old-fashioned, but it’s the simplest and most effective way. You don’t make him think that you only have him in your world and you’re around him. It’s easy to spoil him and he will be secure. A man is a contemptible wretch. The more you care about him, the less he cares about you. On the contrary, when you don’t care about him, he thinks he can’t live without you.
“Does that work?” Alice had some doubts.
“Of course it works. If Louis doesn’t care about you, that will be fine with him. If he cares about you he must not turn a blind eye. As long as a man loves his woman, he can’t tolerate such a thing.”
“Then I’ll give it a try.”
After returning home from the Cloud Mansion, it was late in the evening. Alice dialed the number of a male classmate who had pursued her in college. They hadn’t had much contact after graduation, so she wasn’t sure if he still liked her.
Alice didn’t think that her classmate was very happy when he received her phone call. He was very enthusiastic to talk with her. Alice did not hide him and directly said her purpose. He was manly and promised to cooperate with her at once.
When Louis came back, he happened to see Alice sitting in the living room making a phone call. Her tone was gentle and what she said was more ambiguous and obscene.
He unconsciously frowned, but didn’t say anything and went straight to the study.
In the past few months, since they quarreled, Louis slept in the guest room. They talked, but they were just a bit distant.
Louis sat in the study listening to Alice laugh loudly outside from time to time and even distracted when he was reading. He pushed open the door of the study to go out and reminded her, “It’s time to take a shower.”
Alice ignored him and just waved, “I know.” She continued to chat with her male classmates. Louis couldn’t bear that their talk was blatantly obscene.
He went behind Alice again and patted her on the shoulder, “Shower.”
Alice glanced back at him and exclaimed that Bella’s method was really useful. He had never cared about her in the past, let alone that she didn’t take a bath for three months.
Alice reluctantly hung up the phone and found Louis sitting on the sofa with a livid face. She didn’t say anything, got up, and prepared to take a bath. Instead, Louis said mockingly, “Who are you talk to on the phone? You’re chatting so fervidly.”
Alice languidly replied, “Oh, he’s my college classmate, who pursued me for a while.”
She deliberately sneaked him to see if he looked bad, but she was pleased, and thought to herself, ‘Do you think I’m not loved by anyone? I will change my name from Alice if no one loves me.’
“You’re married. You’d better watch your words and behavior.”
“I watch my words and behavior. Can’t I talk to my male friends on the phone when I’m married? Mr. Hunter is not talkative. I have to find someone who likes to talk with me, or else my life will be too boring.”
Louis was speechless.
After that night, Alice started to come home late on purpose, and this night, her male classmate who she was chatting with fervidly sent her home, and just happened to run into Louis coming out to take out the garbage. Louis looked at them sulkily, and slowly walked over to greet them, “You’re back.”