Isabella’s P.O.V.The morning after the blissful sleep was too hyped up, unlike the weekdays which were timed up in order to complete my daily chores and then leave for college. I woke up due to the slight movements around me, opening my eyes I saw my baby brothers inching closer to me, Winston was now settled on the bed, with his head resting on my stomach. I caressed his head and turned both sides to look at my other to munchkins.
They are my everything.
I slowly moved out of my bed, making sure not to make a lot of movement so that they don’t wake up due to it. As soon as I’m out of their hold, I grab my phone from my bedside stand to check the time, which shows 9.38 am.
What?
I slept for too long, it’s something new for me; I do sleep but not for so long, last time I slept too much was a long time ago and it was till 7 in the morning, 9.38 is my new achievement. Smiling at my own stupid thoughts, I made my way tto the bathroom to do my business, once I’m done with it, I walk downstairs towards the kitchen to make some breakfast.
I take some bread, eggs, cheese, bacon and tomato; I start preparing some grilled cheese sandwiches for the boys and some with scrambled eggs and bacon for me and my sisters. Placing the boys sandwiches in the griller, I place a milk pot on the stove and start making some plain coffee, whereas on the other boiling some milk for the boys. After a few minutes, I’m done with the sandwiches for the boys and the milk for them is already cooling down, when I hear footsteps coming down the stairs.
I am about to turn to see who it is, but before that I hear Mia ask, “Need some help sis?” I shake my head and reply with, “No I’m almost done kiddo?” I move my attention back towards the griller when I remember that the boys are still sleeping, so I say, “Well there is something in which I need your help.”
“What is it?” she asks, excited to help me; I smile at her and answer, “The boys are still sleeping. How about you wake them up, brush their teeth and bring them down for breakfast. Could you do that for me sweetie?”
She nods with a smile and runs back upstairs, to get down to business; I can always rely on them, especially her for the boys. I’m plating everything on the table when I hear faint footsteps slowly walking down the stairs; I turn and at the same time small arms wrap around my legs, I look down to see Theo hugging my legs as I ask, “Someone looks happy? Did you sleep well baby?” He beams at me, nodding his head vigorously as he replies, “Yes mommy. I even had a dream.”
“You did?” I ask with the equal amount of excitement, I can see the sparkle in his eyes, I wonder what he saw? The curiosity gets the best of me as I ask, “What did you see honey?” He hides his face as he bows down with a shy smile etched to his face as he mumbles something; it’s hard for me to hear it so I bend down to sit on my knees as I ask again, “You don’t want to tell mommy?”
He shakes his head to deny my assumptions and says, “I saw that we all went to picnic together, by the lake. All of us, you, me, winsy, luke and daddy.”
Daddy? Where did that come from?
“Ohhh” I say as I smile and try to cover the topic up in order to avoid the questions, but luck isn’t on my side as Lucas comes running towards us and asks Theo, “You saw daddy?”
“Um hmm” Theo replies with a big smile and a nod to confirm his brother’s thought. I move away to get up and stand from my bend position when Lucas asks again, “How does daddy look Theo? Is he like me?”
Oh my poor little brothers.
My heart aches for them, they don’t know that Mom and Dad are dead, and now when they think I’m their mother, they crave for a father’s love; what am I supposed to tell them? I am already in too deep shit, when I didn’t clear their misconceptions about me being their mother, but I can’t tell them another lie like their father left me or something like that. Maybe, I should talk to Mason. Yeah, once we decide to name our relation, I’ll ask him if he is okay with the boys calling him daddy; yes that sounds perfect. That way the boys won’t question anything as once I and Mason are mated, we will move in to his pack and everything will fall into place.
PERFECT!
I’m brought back from my thoughts as I feel someone pull my shirt, tilting my head I see Theo with a sad expression as he asks, “Mommy, why didn’t I see daddy’s face?” Tears are brimming up his eyes as I open my arms to pull him in and say, “Because you never met him sweetie.”
“When will we meet daddy, mommy?” asks Theo.
“Does he not miss us?” asks Lucas.
I turn towards Winston and see him deep in thoughts, he soon feels my gaze on him as he looks at me and smiles; this little one is too mature for being his age. He doesn’t ask anything and I know why, he knows I don’t have answer to all their questions and he wants to cut me some slack.
I turn towards the other two and say, “He misses you too babies and I promise you will meet him soon. Very soon.”
Everything turns silent once we all start stuffing ourselves with breakfast; Iris grabs my attention when she says, “Hey sis, we are low on milk. I think we need to go Grocery shopping.” I look at the boys, seeing their saddened expression causes a dull pain; thinking about freshening up their mood, I ask, “How about we go Grocery shopping?”
They are still no responding, but Iris and Mia have my attention; so I nod them towards the boys and make them aware of my idea. Mia nods as Iris speaks, “But it’s too much of work Bella. How are we supposed to it without any help?” I smirk at her statement and continue with the act as I say, “Yeah. You’re right. I wish someone would help us get groceries.” Mia finally hits the nail in the head with her request to the boys as she turns towards them and asks, “Boys, would you like to help us with the grocery shopping?”
Their eyes light up like lights on Christmas morning at her request. Finishing up our breakfast I make way upstairs with the three munchkins walking in front of me, so I could get them ready for the deed. After bathing them and getting them in their diapers, I dress all of them in blue jeans and similar sweatshirts in Maroon, Blue and Black colors as the climate’s a little cold for their liking, getting them in their shoes they are good to go. Once we are out of their room, I bend a little and say, “Now go downstairs and wait for me on the couch. Mommy will be there in a few minutes.”
They nod with some “Okay” as they slowly make their way downstairs. I go to my room and get dressed in blue jeans, Olive green sweatshirt that says ‘San Francisco’ and black sneakers; grabbing my wallet and phone, I make my way downstairs to see my sisters already sitting with the boys, waiting for me.
Clearing my throat I make my presence known, as all the eyes have their attention on me, I shout, “Who wants to go Grocery shopping?”
The boys shout in unison, “ME!” as the girls smile while looking at them. Taking my keys, I make way to the garage, turning the car on, Mia enters the last seat and pulls it back, as I and Iris place the boys in their car seats. Once the boys are settled, I move to the driver’s seat and Iris settles in the passenger one. Within a time span of 20 minutes, we are parking in the parking lot of the supermarket. We all have decided that we will carry three carts carrying one boy each; if by any mistake one of us misplaces from the others, that person is supposed to wait by the lost and found counter till the others come to take them and come what may, we are not allowed to leave the boys alone at any cost.
Soon we enter the supermarket and don’t even realize that it’s almost more than an hour that we are shopping. I fill my cart with the important stuff like cereals and grains, sugar, coffee, etc while Iris are supposed to carry the cart that are filled with daily necessities like bread, milk, eggs, bacon, etc and Mia is supposed to take care of the snacks department; they are allowed to add things only after confirming from me.
What? I can’t trust them in this matter; they are hardly 12 for crying out loud.
We reach the medicinal department, when I see a familiar face; not a friendly face, just a familiar one. She is looking at something in her hand, reading intently what’s written on the back. I move past her to take the bottle of disinfectant that is placed further away, when I hear Iris say, “You should grab some of these.”
I turn towards where she is pointing and what meets my eyes, makes me gasp, a little too loudly may I add. She is pointing at Condoms, what does she think I’m doing? I turn towards her and ask, “Why would you say that?” Mia blushes at my question and walks away a little as Iris walks closer to me as she whispers, “We heard you last night. You were a little too loud sis. I think everyone at the pack house might have heard you too.” Listening to her words, my mouth is left hanging as she nudges me towards the rack and whispers again, “Its okay, you found your mate; so it’s nothing wrong. Now grab some before I do.”
I know when its Iris who is warning, not to take her lightly. I turn around swiftly and grab a box, as I’m about to throw it in the cart a slogan printed on it catches my attention, ‘World’s Thinnest Condom’; oh no I can’t take this one. The chances of me conceiving after having sex is more than 90% and using this will be as good as not using it; the thoughts scares me as I place it back and move my eyes all through the rack as I find one, which has 97% chances of protection from pregnancy, that is the most I’ve seen till now. So I take it and throw it in my cart, I turn and am about to leave, when I see the person again but she has a flat box in her hand, looks like a tablet;. When she turns the box to check what’s written behind, the word catches my eyes.
Wait! Isn’t it the morning after pill?
I know about that one because Rose takes it, when she feels that the condom wasn’t safe enough; which is most of the times. But why is she having it? Did she find her mate? Well, if she did; that’s just good news for me. I’m too busy I my thoughts when Lucas whines, “Mommy, let’s go. I want new colors.” I turn towards him and say, “Okay baby. Let’s go.”
I can feel eyes on me and I turn to look who it is, but find no one, ignoring the weird feeling I make my ways to the stationary section and take the boys down from the cart to pick what they want for themselves. I’m with Winston who is asking me to show him the different books that are placed at a higher level, when I hear Theo shout, “Cally” followed by Lucas, which grabs Winston’s attention as well as mine.
My sisters are glaring at Caleb, who is talking to the boys very animatedly, he looks at me and closes the distance by wrapping me up in a hug as he says, “How are you princess?”
“I’m totally fine Chipmunk” I say, he nods and talks to the boys for a minute, later making his way somewhere else as he bids us a goodbye. It was nice seeing Caleb, but since I’ve met Mason it’s like the things I thought I feel for him have totally disappeared; isn’t forgetting the one you love painful and time consuming?
“You never loved him dumbass” I hear Aurora say.
“God woman. You have some great timing, don’t you?” I ask her.
No reply.
Taking her silence as my answer, I finally check the carts trying to remember if I forgot something, which I didn’t; I add the color pencils, crayons, painting books, story books and clay dough in the cart, we all make our way to the counter. Paying for the same, we are finally done with it and let me inform you, we took almost 3 hours for the same. Getting the bags in the back seat as well as the trunk and settling in the car, with Mia in the passenger seat and Iris in the back; I ask, “So what do you guys think about lunch?”
Iris whines, “Yes please. I’m starving” whereas Mia just gives me a nod. I turn towards the back seat and look at the boys who are still very much hyped up, I ask, “What do my babies want to eat for lunch?”
“Let’s go to McDonalds” says Theo, Lucas whines with a, “Nooooo, I want to eat a burger” listening to this, Winston moves a little closer to him and says, “We get burgers from McDonalds Luke.”
I smile at their discussion and turn back in my seat saying, “McDonalds it is.”
Soon we are inside McDonalds, with the boys settled in the table with the girls as I go up in the line to place our order. After a few minutes, my order is placed on the counter and I take the two trays in my hand as I make my way to the table. Everyone digs in their burger as if they have been starving for ages, so do I; I’m busy eating and enjoying the time with my family when Iris clears her throat as she says, “Isn’t she the one who we saw in the supermarket?”
“Who?” I ask moving my attention towards the direction she has her attention at, the person notices me looking at her and she stiffens visibly as if she got caught doing something she wasn’t supposed to do.
My phone dings grabbing my attention, I turn the screen on to see who that is and a smile latches on my face.
Macey-Boo: Hey babe, are you free today?
Me: Today when?
Macey-Boo: Evening babe. It’s already afternoon, isn’t it?
Me: Yes smarty pants, I’m free.
Me: Why?
Macey-Boo: Would you like to go on a date with me?
Me: Straight-forward much?
Macey-Boo: Come on babe. It’s been a week, since I’ve known you. You owe me a yes for it.
Me: okay.
Macey-Boo: Okay?
Macey-Boo: Is that a YES or no?
Me: YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
Macey-Boo: Great. I’ll see you at 6 by your pack borders. Dress Casual. Bye.
Me: bye.
Once I’m done with the chat, I move my attention back at Iris, who I still looking at the girl sitting at the far away table as she asks, “Why does she look pissed off?”
I move my attention towards her and indeed she looked furious about something ir someone, who got her panties in a twist? I’m busy in my own debate when Mia asks, “Do you know her?”
“Yes” I answer.
“Who is she?” Iris asks, curiosity dripping from her question.
I look at the person one last that before I move my attention towards my sisters as I say, “That, my lovely sisters, is VERONICA.”