Freedom

Your mother finally let you and the babbies out a few weeks later. Eating for 5 had been too draining for her, and technically, the babies were not recorded as born yet, and the paperwork was getting complicated.

You had been inside your mother for over a year and required physiotherapy and a controlled diet to get your body back in full working order. However, the doctors were surprised on levels of fitness above what they expected. Your mother explained about your daily exercise routine. She explained feeling stretched, Yoga and jogging on the spot. You did not contradict her.

The age of the babies was hard to distinguish being held in your mother's womb for about a month before having a second birth. This helped you hide the truth. Joseph denied the parentage and Chloe 'admitted' to cheating on him one time with some random man she could not identify or give a clear date as to when it happened. The doctors attributed the confusion and inconstant story to 'womb sickness,' a well-known side effect of being unbirthed for too long, similar to cabin fever. This was why there were recommendations on only unbirthing for no more than a week. You had had much more than that.

You both got jobs at a different hospital than before, with better pay, helping with the paperwork backlog from the pandemic. It would still be a few years before all the restrictions and effects were fully gone, but the worst of the pandemic was over.

For you, it seemed like the best was over until your mum turned your room into a nursery, forcing you to share with Chloe and help look after the babbies. You had no problem raising the kids and 'sharing' with Chloe.