AllFreeNovel
Share Us
I take a deep breath as we all make our way up the walkway to the front door. Riley knocks on the door, and my excitement kicks in at seeing the babies and Emily of course.
Jake opens the door, and he can't hide his surprise.
"Sorry to intrude, Jake, we wanted to stop by and drop some things off for Emily and the boys," Leia says.
"Come on in, Emily will be excited to see you all," he says as he opens the door wider for us to enter.
We find Emily in the living room with the boys.
"What are you girls doing here?" she asks.
"We brought some stuff for you and the boys, and we wanted to see you," I tell her with a smile.
"I'm so happy to see you all," she says with a smile gracing her face. "Come see the boys," she adds.
"Oh my goodness, they are so cute," I say.
"They look so much alike. How can you tell them apart?" Riley asks.
"Patrick has a small birthmark on his left shoulder, and Payton doesn't," Emily explains.
We hand her the bags, as we play with the babies.
"Oh, these outfits are so cute. Thank you, Leia."
"These blankets will definitely come in handy, Riley, thank you."
She opens my gift bags for the boys next, and then she laughs. "Kris, they will not be able to use these for a while."
I shrug. It's never too early for them to get a feel for the gloves. These two are going to love baseball, huh little men." I say to the boys as they coo on the floor while looking at us all.
"See, they love the idea," I say as they both squeal and we all laugh.
Emily loved her gifts of bath spas and wine for when she's able to have both of those. Since she's currently breastfeeding, it will be a while before she can enjoy the wine.
We spend a couple of hours with the family, calling it a night, when the boys start getting fussy. I say goodbye to the girls and head home.
When I walk into the house, I turn on the tv and hear the ESPN sports commentators talking about the Hummingbirds and Will Anderson.
“Guess they won their game,” I say as I mutter with disgust.
Then I hear them talking about Will with some female at a charity event four weeks ago.
"Of course, he had a gorgeous woman on his arm. When has that man never had a woman on his arm for anything, except when he's on the field playing?" I say out loud, while I opt to make a sandwich for dinner. "The better question is why are we all supposed to care?" I ask the tv.
"The man is a man whore and doesn't care who he hurts. Never has, never will," I mutter as I take a seat on my couch, picking up the remote to change the channel. I settle on The Avengers movie as I eat my sandwich, before calling it a night and going to bed.
* * *
Three weeks later
“Hey Leia, what’s going on?” I ask, answering the phone.
“Hey, I wanted to see if you want to go to the fair with me, Noah, Riley, and Mike?”
“Mike’s home again?”
“Yeah, I’m so happy to have him here.”
