Chapter 22 Buffy's POV

Gabi knew something was up. She had written the question down so I had no choice but to tell her something. I hated lying so I told her that it was a surprise, a pleasant one, but she was going to have to be patient. She accepted that, but we were now on a countdown. I also had to visit the kitchen to find out what we were going to be fed for dinner and work out if any of the food was prohibited for pregnant women. The fact that I had asked for the menu was out of character, so again, time was running out.

I text messaged Sarah, not to put any pressure on her, just to let her know. She replied that she would join us at five pm. She wanted to talk to us without Gabi and then all of us could speak to Gabi. She then proposed that I arrange for all the interested parties to be invited to dinner tonight so that we could tell everyone at the same time without a suggestion of favouritism. Sarah had already spoken to her mother who would pretend that she didn't know.

I thought inviting everyone would be also giving the game away, but then realised that no one was going to guess. They might suspect that we were going to make our relationship more official. We found it hard to believe, so our parents and my grandfather would never predict what we were going to say. To make sure everyone was present I did say that we were going to make an important announcement.

I made sure that Gabi was taking a bath just before five and found a room that we could use without anyone likely to hear us. I did tell Gabi that Sarah would arrive while she was in the bath, we would go over our surprise and come and get her when we were ready. Gabi acknowledged my statement with the light of curiosity shining in her eyes.

Sarah arrived with her luggage in tow and needed to see Gabi before she was ready to talk to us, so we returned to our room for Sarah to smile tenderly at Gabi and kiss her sweetly on her forehead. Then I led us to the study. The room was lockable but I didn't have the key, so I just placed a chair against the door to give us some semblance of privacy.

“How are you doing? Feeling better now you have had time to process?” I asked her.

She sat down in one of the chairs and let out a deep sigh. “I am finding this very hard,” she admitted. “I don't want to talk about why, but the idea of being pregnant scares the shit out of me.”

Ellie walked behind Sarah and gripped her shoulder. Sarah looked up and smiled.

“I think we are all broken, in our different ways and if we are going to have a successful relationship between the four of us, when we hit one of our triggers, we need to acknowledge it and rely on each other to keep standing,” Ellie quietly said.

Sarah reached up to touch the hand on her shoulder, with tears in her eyes. “I have come to a decision. Being pregnant is going to be hard emotionally for me, but if I was ever going to be willing to go through with it, it would be for Gabi. If I don't do it, I never will and I think I would regret it. I am going to keep the baby. I am not going to let him win.”

Sarah was looking down in her lap. 'Him' I mouthed to Ellie who mouthed back 'rapist'.

“Oh, honey. We will be there for you,” I said, getting on my knees in front of her to hold her hands.

There was a pause while we comforted her as best we could.

“Right. Nuff of that sappy shit,” Sarah said, sniffing. “How do we tell her?”

“We can't just tell her she is going to be a father, as strange as that sentence sounds. We could hardly believe it and it happened to us. Maybe a rehash of our first lovemaking and where the sperm ended up,” I suggested.

“I don't think we should call her the father. She is going to mother them more than we will and I think we should express our intentions from the beginning,” Ellie interjected.

“I liked the idea of us proposing to her,” Sarah said. Then she smiled. “In fact, I took the liberty of going to a jeweller today. To do anything like you were suggesting, Buffy, would be a custom job and take some time. However...”

Sarah pulled out three small boxes and opened them. Inside each was nestled two thin rings of gold, one reddish in colour, one whitish and the other normal yellow. “These don't have to be the actual rings, I just thought if we were going to propose we needed something to do it with.”

We both hugged and kissed Sarah in gratitude.

“Why don't we tell Gabi and save the proposal for the dinner tonight?” I asked.

We spent a few minutes rehearsing what we were going to say. I was going to do most of the explanation but the important bits we wanted to do together, which would take some coordination and we needed to say the same words.

We crept up to Gabi relaxing in the bath with her eyes closed.

“She looks so cute and innocent,” Ellie commented, which startled her to open her eyes.

Gabi looked around at us all and gave us a big smile. She is quite a fast healer and already most of the swelling around her face was down and what was there could easily be covered by makeup.

She started getting out, so I got her a towel and wrapped her up in it with a hug I just couldn't resist giving her.

“Let me do it,” Sarah said, as she took control and started drying Gabi for us, gently, lovingly.

Gabi had managed to keep her hair dry in a shower cap so I removed it and used my fingers to run through her hair. Ellie meanwhile gathered the clothes that we had earlier decided Gabi was going to wear to this dinner.

One of us helped Gabi while the others got ready as well, so we were all in evening gowns, dressed to the nines and made up for the wonderful evening to come. I was starting to feel a little nervous and I could tell Sarah was as well. Ellie probably was but I could almost never tell when she was agitated. I knew Gabi was going to be delighted about our pregnancies. We all were pretty sure she would say yes to our proposal, but there is always a little niggle of doubt and this was so important, so any doubts get magnified.

I pulled a chair to be close to the bed and gestured for Gabi to sit in the chair while we settled on the edge of the bed.

“Gabi we have something wonderful to tell you, but I need to explain myself a bit first and you need to remember that you are not allowed to talk. You don't need to say anything, just nod or shake your head, OK?” I began.

Gabi put one finger up as a gesture to wait and then got up and fetched her pad and pen, before settling again.

“Alright. Let's go back to a very fond memory of mine. Do you remember the first time we made love?” I asked her.

She nodded with a smile.

“Not to be too crude about it, Sarah made you cum while you were on top of me, you then lay back while Ellie rubbed herself on you while Sarah mounted me. That means the sperm that you produced was rubbed into all of our vaginas.” I paused while that sank in.

Gabi was getting a very wild eye look and her breathing had sped up. I looked at Sarah and Ellie, reaching to hold their hand and then looked back at Gabi.

“Remember, no talking, Gabi. On three girls. One, two, three, I am pregnant,” I said.

“I am pregnant,” Ellie and Sarah echoed. Not quite in sync but close.

Gabi gasped and leapt out of the chair to try and hug us all at once, tears running down her face.