Thelma touched her daughter"s big round tummy, "Why you did not inform us about your pregnancy? Why you hide it from us? I could take care of you," she said.Catherine hugged her mother. She couldn"t tell her what really happened when she caught John cheating on her and she suffered Dissociative Amnesia, it will only disrupt the peace and happiness she was currently enjoying right now. Her family should not know what kind of condition she had undergone through the past few months. She has to focus on the future without looking back into the past.
"No need to take care of me, Mother. John hired two private nurses to take care of me and my pregnancy. Jacob and Lily want your care and attention better than I do. Besides I"m a big girl now, I can take care of myself and my baby inside my womb," explained Catherine.
"You"re going to be a mother soon! It"s not easy being a mother, Catherine. But I"m not worried because John is here to take care of you. Being a single mother is very hard, I"m just consoled with the fact that John is beside you always to take care of you. So, when will the wedding resumed?" asked Thelma very much interested in the wedding.
"After I give birth to our son, mother. We will have our civil wedding the moment the baby will turn one month old," she said excitedly.Find authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please click for visiting.
Thelma observed her daughter"s countenance. Catherine looked happy with her pregnancy, she has nothing to worry at all.
"Are you hungry now?" asked Thelma.
"Not yet. When will the party going to start mother?" asked Catherine.
"At four or five, let"s wait for your sister to come home first in a little while so that our family is complete when am celebrating my birthday!" replied Thelma.
"Guys are you done with the chitchat? Can we go down now? We can pa.s.s our time singing karaoke in the living room while waiting for Caroline," suggested Grace.
"Okay, that sounds nice!" said Catherine grinning as she was looking at John"s face knowing he had a talent for singing, with his good voice he can give Justine Bieber a run of his money.
They all piled up down the stairs...
John and Catherine were the last one to go down.
"Lol, prepare your songs, John. Once they will know you got an awesome voice they will not stop requesting songs for you to sing, so yeah, be ready to sing "till you drop," she grinned.
John pinched her side. "I will request that you will have to sing also, hahaha," John teases her knowing full well how terrible her voice was. He starts chuckling truly amused when she began glaring at him.
"No way! I"m not gonna sing in front of everybody, they will discover that I had the voice of a frog, that will make me a laughingstock in the whole neighborhood. But you should hear my identical twin sister belt a song, between the two of us she got the golden voice. You have not met her yet? Right--? She looks exactly like me, my replica," raves Catherine.
"Okay, we will go down now," said John. He steps into the narrow stairs first guiding and a.s.sisting his pregnant girlfriend to come down safely onto the ground floor.
After a few minutes, the couple already settled comfortably on the sofa. The living room was becoming stuffy due to the visitors already arriving. Thelma"s friends and their neighbors were starting to gather inside the living room.
"Ladies and Gentlemen, let"s give an applause to John, he will be singing us some wonderful song!" Grace give John the microphone.
John chose three of his favorite Westlife songs to sing, t.i.tled...Swear It Again, You Raised Me Up and My Love.
When the music started and John"s soulful voice floated in the air, everyone was stunned with his outstanding voice, he had an incredible vocal range. He belted the songs smoothly from A to Z.
John finished singing all the three songs that he had chosen and everyone cheered and applauded on his remarkable singing performance.
Catherine felt proud of her boyfriend.
Several visitors took part in the karaoke singing session as well.
They become so engrossed with their little friendly singing compet.i.tion when Caroline finally arrived. She entered the door and her eyes grow bigger when she saw her twin sister"s big tummy and saw a handsome guy sitting beside her. OMG! Her sister get married already? Is this the guy named John?
"OMG! You"re pregnant!" exclaimed Caroline. She sat down beside her sister and touched her protruding tummy. "How many months?"
"Seven months," answered Catherine.
Caroline looked at the good looking guy. "And who is he--?"
"His name is John, he is my boyfriend and my husband to be," said Catherine.
She introduced her twin sister and John to each other.
"Nice meeting you brother in law!" Caroline smiled at John.
John was stunned for a moment upon seeing Caroline for the first time. "h.e.l.lo, Caroline, nice meeting you!"
Then Caroline stood up to greet her mother a happy birthday. "Hope I"m not late, Mother, happy birthday!" she said and kissed her mother"s cheek.
Thelma smiled at Caroline. "You just come in time. I"m going to start the party without you!"
They walked towards the table and admired the splendid looking two-tier birthday cake.