Chapter 29 - Fortress of la Mola

                                    

                                          
Date: Friday 2nd August 2024 
Charlie’s POV 
Upon my awakening, I ensure I have some ginger biscuits as I don't want a repeat of yesterday as that was horrible.  
I wake up before Nick, as usual, and after eating my biscuits and going to the toilet, I play with his hair until he wakes up. When he does he says “Morning,” 
“Morning,” I reply. 
“Happy 7 weeks pregnant” he says, which I find rather funny. 
“Is that even a thing people celebrate?” 
“It’s something I celebrate. How are you feeling today?” 
“Good. I remembered to have some ginger biscuits so I'm already having a better than yesterday.” 
“That’s always good to hear. Do you want a hand getting dressed again?” 
“Maybe. Depends on how unstable I am and how difficult it is to do up my trousers.” 
“Ok, lets get dressed now then go have breakfast, as we still need to pack our lunch for later.” 
We start getting dressed and I am able to do most of it on my own as I am more stable than yesterday, but my prediction was right in that I couldn’t do up my trousers so Nick had to help with that. I really don't have long left before maternity clothes are needed. 
After the struggle of getting dressed, we go into the kitchen and have breakfast, before making our lunch. 
Once everyone is ready to go, we pack up the cars and drive to the Fortress of La Mola carpark. 
When we get there, we get all the bags out of the boot and head over to the entrance. We buy our tickets, then go in and start the route. 
The route is fairly long and halfway through we stop at one of the rest areas for lunch, where there are also toilets which I am so thankful for as I'm bursting and have been for like half an hour. 
After everyone’s finished their lunch we continue the route, which we finish at about half 2. We then spend half an hour in the shop at the end. 
As usual, we go to the beach in the afternoon, however Nick decides to stay with me on dry land, so we went on our usual walk but as we had more time we also got ice cream. 
While sitting on our bench, eating our ice creams I ask Nick “Have you thought about the possibility of it being twins?” 
“No, not really. Why? Do you think it is?” 
“I don't know. You’re mum mentioned the other day that it might be, due to the size of the bump. She also said it might just be a big baby, but I cant help but think she’s right about it being twins.” 
“Well, even if it is, we’ll be fine, because we’ll have each other. But let’s not worry about that now, let’s just enjoy the fact that we’ll soon have our own little family.” 
After finishing our ice creams, we walk back to everyone else who are just beginning to pack everything up. We go over and help them finish off, before we go back to the villa for dinner. 
After dinner, I go into our room as I'm to tired for games tonight and I just want sleep. As I get changed for bed, I notice that my bump seems to have gotten even bigger, so I hope I’m just a bit bloated and everything will be back to normal in the morning. 
As I drift off to sleep, I hear Nick come in and give me a kiss goodnight on my cheek. He then plays with my hair for a few minutes before disappearing into the ensuite to have a shower. I don't hear him come back in so I must have fallen asleep while he was in there, but at least I was awake when he came to say goodnight.