Chapter Five: Baby Shopping

Emma is eighteen weeks along with her pregnancy and the time has come to go baby shopping. Emma has a few things in mind but she has to buy everything in twos or more so Emma's first stop is a small store called my little peanut. Emma first purchased two cribs two baby bouncers two mobiles two of almost every toy six bottles two pumps Emma was getting pretty drained so she loaded up the van with all the baby stuff. When she got home Julian was making dinner and heard the Van pull up and looked out the window to see Emma hauling the crib boxes out of the van. He went out to help her carry stuff into the nursery they finally got all the boxes in the room and started building the cribs it took them three hours per crib then everything else was pretty simple. Emma finally got to sleep and Julian joined her after a little while Emma woke up and quickly grabbed some toast and out the door she went to go buy baby clothes. Emma got to the store a started buying twin onesies and twin shoes shirts and pants she also bought a ton of accessories got a changing table and a rocking chair. Emma was extremely excited and decided to go get some food for herself and Julian she decided to get some pretzels from the mall food court. Got her food and her stuff and went home to do set up day part two she put the rocking chair in the corner put the cribs against the wall next to the other one in a line. She put the clothes in the closet shoes in the shoe box placed a rug in the middle of the room moved the small couch in the corner put some pillows on it hung up the mobiles and placed a blanket on the back of the chair and called it done. Emma was excited by the new room but she felt something was missing and remembered she needed a stroller she went to the store twice and forgot the stroller. Emma went back to the store and asked the lady who was working if the had twin strollers she pointed to the twin stroller in the corner Emma thanked her and went over to it. Emma had to decide side by side or in a line and she chose the side by side one and took the stroller to the cash register she bought it and left the store. She was asked by some people how old her baby's were thinking they were in the stroller they got confused when they saw an empty stroller and Emma would stand up and tell them that the baby's weren't born yet. The person usually got embarrassed and just apologizing and walked away. Emma would miss the people who were curious about the pregnancy. As Emma was finishing up her shopping she ran into her mother in law, Her mother in law just looked at her in disgust "Emma are you sure you don't want an abortion I know some great doctors" she said enthusiastically. Emma just looked at her like she was crazy who would even want an abortion this late in there pregnancy "No me and Julian are fine with having two babies and abortions are never the option". As soon as Emma said that security was passing by them and Emma's mother in law decided to do something terrible. "Help security this lady is crazy she assaulted me" the entitled Karen screeched. Emma got really confused and just sat down and cried as she listened to her mother in law tell the security guards what she believed happened which was all false. Finally security asked Emma what happened and Emma gave a brief explanation about who the other woman was and why she was screaming. Emma got to go home and had to file a restraining order against her mother-in-law Emma was relived that she wouldn't have to deal with her anymore. Julian came home to see Emma sprawled our on the couch filling paperwork "Emma darling what you writing"Julian asked as he came into the living room. "A restraining order against your mother"Emma answered coldly. Julian just looked at her with a puzzled look on his face. "But why" Julian finally asked his wife. "Julian honey she tried to get me arrested by security at the mall today" Emma said. Emma told Julian what happened, Julian just listened in confusion then confusion turned to anger. Julian got up and went to go outside on the way he grabbed his phone and keys. Emma didn't see Julian until after dark which was unusual for him, Julian finally came back and told Emma that if his mother came within one hundred feet of Emma she would be arrested. Emma was relieved and told Julian that dinner was in the kitchen and she was going to bed. Julian ate his meal in silence so the only sound he could hear was the distant crickets and frogs making there usual sounds. Julian was alone and confused and angry but could only fix one of those problems. Julian decided to sleep on the couch that night so he would not disturb his sleeping wife. When Emma woke up that morning she didn't know were Julian was and when she checked the clock it read (11:24 am) which meant Julian was already at work for the day. So she had whole house to herself and she decided to eat ice cream and read romance novels by the fire place until it was later in the evening. By the time she was finished Julian hadn't returned which was extremely odd for him,but Emma didn't think much of it and decided to start making dinner. Minutes turned into hours and Emma started getting worried so she decided to call his work. when she opened her phone the time read 7:36, which meant that Julian was supposed to be Home two and a half hours ago. He had never been this late before it was out of the ordinary. Emma called his work once twice, by the third time of getting no answer she figured something was wrong. So she decided to call his personal phone and someone picked it up. It wasn't her husbands voice it was a woman's voice. The woman quietly asked "are you alone". Emma was freaked out by this but said yes. Then the woman quietly told her that she had her husband and then the phone line went dead...