On the 27th May, eighteen years ago, two baby boys were born and those two would grow up to be the best of friends, just like their parents were. In the Lima hospital maternity unit, there were two pregnant women, Elizabeth Hummel and Dianna Anderson and they had never met each other before they arrived for their first scan all those months ago. They both sat together with their husbands on the first scan date.
“Hello, I’m Elizabeth Hummel, but you can call me Liz, and this is my husband Burt.” Elizabeth introduced them both to the couple in the neighbouring chairs. Elizabeth looked at the woman, she was pretty, her hair was dark and curly and she looked slightly Filipino. The man, she was sure was the husband, had dark hair too and he had a firm face.
“Nice to meet you, Liz and Burt Hummel. I’m Dianna Anderson and this is my husband Mark, over there playing with those toys is our other son. His name is Cooper.” Dianna held her hand out to shake Liz’s and then Burt’s, Mark did the same afterwards. Both couples talked for ages before Liz and Burt were called for their scan, it turned out that they both had the same doctor, Doctor Mandy Sullivan. The doctor told Liz and Burt that their baby was healthy and looked very happy from what she could tell. She told the same thing to the next family, the Anderson’s.

Liz was sat in the chair by the window a couple of weeks after the scan, playing the piano when she heard what sounded like a big truck pull up. She looked out of the window and saw a moving van, coming out of the car behind it were a couple and a little boy. They looked familiar.
“Burt! We’ve got new neighbours.” She told her husband, who put down the newspaper to follow his wife outside to see the new neighbours. To their surprise, it was the Anderson’s.
“Dianna? Mark? Hi!” Liz was overjoyed and ran to Dianna, hugging her tight. “I can’t believe you’re moving in next door, this is amazing.”
“Mark, nice to see you again. The football is on later, want to watch it with me?” Burt shook the man’s hand, nice to have a man living next door who was interested in football and had a wife who got on with his.
“Sounds great. I’ll come over and then the ladies can have their mothers meeting.” Mark laughed.
“We can help you get everything inside if you want.” Liz offered and the couple accepted. It took so much less time than they thought carrying everything inside, with the men carrying the heavy stuff. They hit it off great and quickly became friends. Burt and Mark would watch football together and work on cars while Dianna and Liz would chat, gossip, shop and cook together. It would be easy to say that they were all best friends. It was only coincidence that every scan they had was on the same day, with the same doctor and one was right after the other. The women went together while the men worked; they decided the cards were trying to tell them that were supposed to be best friends.

Months passed and it came the time to find out the sex of their babies, both couples were so excited to find out what they were having. Burt and Mark wanted football playing sons, someone he can talk cars, girls and football with but little did he know. Liz and Dianna had always wanted a girl so they could shop together and play dress up. They all placed bets on what they were having.
Liz was lying on the bed, holding her husband’s hand as it was shaking so much from nervousness and excitement. The doctor pushed up her shirt and squirted the jelly onto her stomach; it was cold and felt really strange as it was spread around her stomach by the ultrasound equipment.
“Do you want to know –“ The doctor started before getting cut off by excited yes’s from the couple. She laughed and looked closely at the baby, seeing the little turtle shape which was the baby’s penis. “You are having a baby boy, congratulations.” She smiled. “Would you like some pictures to take with you?”
“Yes please!” Burt said excitedly. He was looking forward to having the son that he had always wanted. They got their pictures and waited outside for Dianna and Mark.

Dianna was lying on the bed with her shirt up and holding Mark’s hand, having already carried a boy before, she had a feeling she knew what it was but she couldn’t wait to find out anyway.
“Do you want to know –“ The doctor started before getting cut off by excited yes’s from the couple. She laughed. “The couple before you did exactly the same thing. She took a look closely at the baby, seeing another little turtle shape which was the baby’s penis. “You are having a baby boy, congratulations.” She smiled. “Would you like some pictures to take with you?”
“Yes please!” Mark said excitedly. As much as he loved Cooper, he was going to get another son so that he could have both boys to teach.

Dianna and Mark came out after the scan and saw Liz and Burt sat with their scan photos in their hands and looking so excited.
“Guess what?! We’re having another boy!” Mark practically shouted to the entire hospital. Burt and Liz laughed and got up, showing them their scan.
“We’re having a boy too!” The two women squealed and hugged each other while the men shook hands.
“We need to start thinking up names!” Dianna said, dragging Liz with her. “I’m taking the car, you can go back with Burt!” She called to her husband as the two excited women went to the store to look at baby clothes.
“Do you have any names ideas?” Liz asked as they went through the racks of blue baby clothes.
“Oh yeah, we had some names spare when we came up with Cooper’s name. We thought about naming our new baby after Eric from The Little Mermaid but we don’t know now. We have a few choices, Eric, Harry and Blaine. What do you think?” Dianna asked. She loved having Liz’s opinion, after all, she was her best friend.
“Blaine is so cute! I really like that name.” Liz smiled, picking out a cute little blue outfit with a bow tie on. Dianna picked out one too, so that their babies matched.
“Do you and Burt have any ideas yet?”
“Yes, we picked Katherine for a girl and Kurt for a boy. Burt wanted his child to be named Burt Junior but I didn’t want two Burt’s in the house and having to call a child “junior” so I negotiated and we picked Kurt.”
“Kurt is so sweet! Kurt and Blaine, that’s so amazing. Kurt Hummel and Blaine Anderson. Can you imagine them two being the best of friends and being each other’s best man at their weddings?” Dianna was just too excited, she kept picking more and more outfits and so did Liz. At the end of their shopping trip, they ended up buying ten outfits each with shoes, toys and other little bits and pieces. Both husbands were glad that they left the women to the shopping because when the women showed them the many bags, they rolled their eyes and laughed.

Burt Hummel was sat reading the newspaper when he heard the sound of something smashing. Worried about his wife, he threw down the newspaper and ran into the kitchen so see a smashed plate on the floor and his wife doubled over.
“Elizabeth? Honey, are you okay?” He put his arms around his wife, watching as a flood of water rushed down her leg and onto the floor.
“My waters just broke. Burt, my waters broke! Our baby is coming!” Elizabeth’s face looked in pain but her eyes, her gorgeous blue eyes, showed so much excitement. Burt rushed to get the birth bag that they had put safe for when the time came and threw it over his shoulder. He went back to his wife and helped her to the car, driving off at top speed.

“It was so nice of you to take me to lunch, Mark. It was really sweet of you.” Dianna smiled, rubbing her stomach when she felt another painful twinge.
“Are you still having them pains?” Mark asked worried.
“It’s nothing sweetie, really.” As soon as she said that, a puddle of water appeared at her feet that had come from her. “Oh, it seems it really is something.”
“Come on honey.” Mark grabbed his wife as she held her stomach, wincing at the contractions.

“So many people are having their babies today and we don’t have enough rooms for individuals so we’re doubling you up, is that okay?” The midwife called Janet said.
“As long as they aren’t looking at my downstairs then i don’t care.” Liz said, leaning over the bed in so much pain and moaning from it.
“Okay great!” Janet said, walking out of the room. She came back a minute later with another woman and her husband. Liz and Burt looked up to see it was Dianna and Mark.
“You’re having your baby today too?!” Dianna laughed through the pain. “It really is fate.”

Mark and Burt pushed the women’s beds a bit closer before their wives sat on them. When they did, they held hands and held each other while they screamed in pain. They got given the pain relief that they wanted and a while later, the midwife came in and checked them both out and smiled.
“Liz, you’re doing great. You’re almost ten centimetres dilated. And you Dianna, it seems that you are also almost ten centimetres dilated, you’re doing great. You can’t push yet, just wait.” Janet smiled.
Burt and Mark held their wives hands and the wives held each others. When the time came, the doctors and midwives came in to help them push. The women screamed and panted and pushed together, squeezing on each others hands.
“Wow, this is incredible. I can’t believe it.” One of the midwives said, looking between Dianna and Liz.
“W-what is it?” Liz panted.
“Both of your babies, they’re crowning and moving at the exact same time.” She said.
Liz and Dianna looked at each other and their husbands in shock. Their babies were indeed very special.

At 4:17pm on 27th May, two babies were born at the exact same time. Blaine Anderson was born to Dianna and Mark Anderson and Kurt Hummel was born to Elizabeth and Burt Hummel. This was when the two women knew their babies were special.
“Kurt, this is Blaine. He is your best friend.” Liz held Kurt up and showed him to Blaine, who was being held up by Dianna, the largest smiles on their face but both were exhausted.
“Blaine, this is Kurt. He is your best friend.” Dianna smiled, kissing her new baby’s head, giving him to his father as Liz did with Kurt, so they could sleep.
The men took their babies out of the room to the baby room, putting them down in the right beds, right next to each other.
“They really are going to be best friends aren’t they?” Burt asked, stroking his son’s head.
“I think so. Like the women say, I think its fate.” Mark said, leaning down and kissing his baby’s dark hair. Kurt’s head turned as did Blaine’s to face each other, their eyes opened and the babies lay there and looked at each other. Blue eyes locked on hazel. Kurt and Blaine both conceived on the same day, both had scans on the same day; both were born on the same day and the exact same time. These were no ordinary babies; they were destined for very great things.