The warmth of the sun was lulling Jessica to sleep. Normally by this time, she would be stealing a quick power nap from all her paper works until Tiffany would come barging in, forcing Jessica to eat her lunch, even though Jessica’s days have been anything but normal since Yuri entered her life. First, she would have never missed her work for any reason at all, not unless it was life and death matter. Second, Jessica would only be eating lunch at a restaurant for business meetings and half of the time she doesn’t really eat much for she was busy talking about business, but here she was fully stuffed as she finished the last bite of her food and talking about anything but business. “Are you feeling okay to go shopping?” Jessica asked as she took the last bite of her dessert. “Yes, I actually feel a lot better, now that I’m outside.” Yuri confessed. “I’m sorry, that you’re stuck inside the house most of the time. I will introduce you soon to my friends. You’ll love them. But first off, you really need a cellphone. Let’s go and I’ll get you one.” Jessica stood up and left some money for the food. ---- “You didn’t need to buy me this fancy phone.” “The lady said it’s the best phone right now and it’s really popular.” Jessica answered as she shrugged her shoulder while she guided Yuri out of the cellphone store. “But it’s so expensive.” Yuri argued as she felt that a phone that does more than calling and texting was a little excessive for her. “Yuri, it really is okay with me. Don’t worry about it. For now, let’s go buy you maternity clothes then we can go grocery shopping.” Jessica eagerly pulled Yuri to a maternity clothing store that was a few stores away from the cellphone store they were just in. “Dr. Lee said that in a few weeks you would actually start showing, so we need to buy you maternity clothes and probably some comfortable shoes as well.” Jessica recounted as she look at Yuri wearing faded jeans and an orange Mickey Mouse shirt that was already tight around Yuri’s belly. “Good afternoon, how are you ladies doing today?” the sales woman beamed as she welcomed the two. “We’re doing great! We just found out she’s having twins and so we need maternity clothes for her” Jessica excitedly answered. “Twins! That’s wonderful! How far along are you?” The sales woman asked Yuri who was timidly standing next to Jessica though a smile was playing on her lips at seeing the excited Jessica. “About three months.” Yuri answered as she fiddled on the loose thread of her favorite hip hugger jeans. “Well we can pick a few summer maternity clothes for you. You shouldn’t really buy a lot on one go since your body will change so much towards the next few months, so I suggest to just buy a few for now and come back later on, especially with twins you just get bigger all of a sudden, trust me. I know!” answered by the sales woman with a wink. “Are there a lot of women who comes here carrying twins?” Jessica asked as she was busy browsing through the various clothing in the store while Yuri just followed her. “Oh, I just gave birth to twins four months ago.” The sales woman answered with a smile. “That must’ve been exciting!” Jessica continued on as she pulled a T-shirt with a Mickey Mouse design. Mickey’s hand looks like it was giving the mother a back hug, its arms laying perfectly on where the belly would be. The words ‘embrace your bump’ written on the shirt. “Mickey!” Yuri squealed seeing the shirt. “I’m guessing you like Mickey Mouse…” “I love Mickey!” Yuri gushed all the while still looking at the shirt with a big smile. “You’re lucky then; we just added a Mickey Mouse collection on our maternity line.” The sales woman started pulling more Mickey Mouse shirts to show Yuri as Jessica just watched the eager Yuri choosing shirts and squealing now and then when she sees a really cute Mickey shirt she likes. “Sica, can I really get Mickey?” Yuri excitedly asked Jessica while holding some Mickey Mouse shirts. “Sica?” Jessica’s forehead creased as she repeated the nickname Yuri had come up for her. “Sorry…it’s just easier to say. If you don’t like it I can call you Jessica.” Jessica saw it again. Yuri’s head was bent low, as she spoke timidly. “Sica's fine and you can get as many Mickey shirts you’d like as long as you get other designs too.” “Thanks Sica!” Yuri gave Jessica a big smile as she continues to choose more shirts. “What else would she need?” Jessica asked the sales lady that was helping them. “We're kind of new to this pregnancy thing” “All I can say is that you will enjoy this journey. The twins were my second pregnancy and it was a wonderful experience. I keep a scrap-book of my pregnancy to show my babies later on.” “Maybe we can try that…” “Yeah, and it’s really helpful to attend prenatal classes, have her husband become involve on the whole thing too. It would be more fun that way. Plus, it strengthens the bond of the family and babies can recognize voices already even if they’re still in the womb. But most importantly, she will need the support more than ever.” The sales lady continued to relay, not noticing that Jessica became quiet and gloomy at the mention of husband, knowing full well, that her brother and sister-in-law would never experience all these or that there will never be a husband to go through with this pregnancy with Yuri. “Sica look!” Jessica was pulled out of her gloomy state at the sound of Yuri’s excited voice. She saw that Yuri has wandered around the baby section of the store and was holding a pair of baby shoes. She shook her gloominess and went to where Yuri was. “It’s so cute!” “It is…but is it not too early to buy baby items?” “But it’s so cute” Jessica was amused to see the reserve and shy Yuri whining and pouting that she couldn’t help but give in. “Okay…okay we can get those.” “Let’s get the deer and the frog! They’re so cute!” Jessica just smiled at the sight of a happy Yuri. The rest of the day continued with the two shoppi