Adopted

Chapter 17

It was the night of October 11th, few hours before Stephanie's tenth birthday. Stephanie was very excited that she couldn't sleep! So instead of trying to force herself to sleep, she decided to talk to her parents.

In their own bedroom, the couple was watching something on the TV, and Alex rested his head on Valeria's stomach while she was stroking his head. That was until Stephanie opened their door.

"Hey, can I join you for a while?" she asked hesitantly.

"Yeah, sure. But aren't you supposed to be asleep?" Valeria asked as Alex sat up to make a room for Stephanie between them.

"I can't! I'm too excited about tomorrow! Especially because it's going to be very different this time..." she told them.

"I know, it's exciting us too." Alexander said to her with a smile.

"You know, I actually remember the day I told you I was having her." Vale looked at Alex.

"Really?" Stephanie asked with excitement.

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Flashback

It was February 9th, exactly 5 days before Alexander and Valeria's wedding. He was 21 and she was 19.5.

Alexander, who had Sportacus identity since he graduated high school, was supposed to come home today, back to their home in Miami, after being away on a mission for two weeks far away from his fiancé.

Before he was gone, Valeria randomly got sick. Alexander thought that maybe she got a dangerous virus or something, but only after he went on this mission, Alison, Vale's mother, insisted that she'll do a pregnancy test.

When she saw it was positive, she burst into tears of happiness. The good news were told only to her father Jorge, her brother Daniel and her best friend Mandy, who started dating Daniel at the time.

When Alex/Sportacus arrived home, the family welcomed him with a small feast, just the 6 of them.

In the middle of the evening, Valeria asked him if she could talk to him alone. He followed her to their bedroom and closed the door behind him.

"What do you want to talk about?" he asked.

"Well..." she started, "do you remember when before you left we thought that maybe I was very sick?"

"Yeah... What about it?" he asked worried.

"Well, my mom and I discovered what it really is." She told him.

"So, are you really sick?" he asked hysterically and put his hand on her forehead, to check if she has fever.

"Um, no, actually..." she moved his hand from her forehead to her stomach.

Alexander tried to understand what she wanted to say by that, but then he realised where his hand was. She wasn't sick – she was pregnant!

His eyes got wide and he covered his mouth with both hands. It suddenly made sense to him, but he still wanted to make sure.

"You... It's for real? You really are pregnant?" he asked and laughed nervously.

"Yes!"

"Oh my goodness. Oh my goodness! I love you so much!" he passionately kissed her, looked down at her stomach, back at her and she kissed him again.

End of flashback

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"Awww, that was a really cute story!" Stephanie said.