Welcome to this short story sequel to He Touched Me & I Let Him Love Me!
Legal: I own nothing but the idea.
Important things to know before reading:
I highly recommend you read He Touched Me & I Let Him Love Me before you read this but it isn't necessary. If you haven't read He Touched Me & I Let Him Love Me here are the cliff notes ~
*Clare had sex with Dallas on prom night and Owen the night after at Owen's grad party. The boys, and everyone else, had no idea she'd had sex with the other.
*She went on the Paris trip expecting she was pregnant but refused to tell either of them. Eventually Maya and Tris broke the baby news to Owen who told Dallas (after hitting him).
*Still on the Paris Clare finds out she's pregnant with twins and decides to try and make it work with whichever one is the father.
*Also on the Paris trip Maya and Miles begin dating, have sex and Maya too becomes pregnant.
*Upon returning to Toronto and revealing the pregnancies to their parents both girls are kicked out of their house.
*Everyone moves into the Hollingsworth Manor (in He Touched Me & I Let Him Love Me Miles was raised by a single mother and has no siblings) and Owen, Dallas and Clare enter one relationship.
*Owen and Dallas have a civil ceremony and symbolic marriage to Clare and she becomes Clare Milligan-Dallas, legally changing her name even though the marriage isn't legal.
*Clare gives birth to superfecundation twin girls, Owen is Emerald's biological father and Dallas is Amethyst's biological father but both fathers love both girls equally.
*Maya and Miles had a baby boy names Max.
Now here's what to know for the sequel~
*Starts with the kids beginning at DeGrassi (about 12 years after the end of the original story) Emerald, Amethyst and Max are 13. Maya, Tris and Miles are 29, Clare is 32, Mike and Owen 33.
*The girl's nicknames are pronounced Emy (eh-mee) and Ame (ah-mee).
*I'm using most of the characters from the original story plus a few that weren't in the original.
*Kairi is pronounced Ky-rhee.
I think that does it, backstories and other details will be in this chapter and the following one.
Ch. 1 First Day at DeGrassi
(CLARE)
"Mmm I smell coffee I need coffee," I yawn.
"Did Dallas keep you up late?" Owen laughs pulling me into his arms and capturing my lips for a tenderly sizzling kiss.
"Hey save some for me," Mike says walking over. Owen releases me and Mike pulls me into his arms giving me an equally tender and sizzling kiss.
"Here coffee I'll see if the girls are up yet," Owen says handing us some coffee when we break from the kiss.
Owen always makes the coffee, and often breakfast, because he's almost always the first one up. He gets up at four to work out in the mornings and starts the coffee when he's done. Mike usually sleeps until around seven, leaving for work an hour later and when he does exercise it's usually after work with Drew.
Drew and Dallas started Double D Enterprises after they both graduated college. The business is pretty successful and they're happy, it keeps them both busy though. However, being the bosses they do make their own schedules and always make time for their families. Drew and Bianca got married of course, she became a lawyer and works in Omar's firm. They have a seven-year-old daughter Tracey and a five-year-old son Chase.
While I was attending college I began writing a book about the twins, my relationship with Mike and Owen and the whole experience. The book was published and did rather well, enough that I was offered a contract for more books. I've written both fiction and non-fiction, and am blessed to say they have all done well enough that it's afforded us a very nice house and a rather comfortable life.
Owen works at DeGrassi now as the head coach of the football, hockey and boy's basketball teams, as well as head of the gym department. He likes his job and he gets the summers off which he loves. This year our girls and Max start at DeGrassi which Owen is looking forward to.
Max and the girls have grown up being very close, we lived with Angela until sales from the book afforded us to buy the house we are in currently. It's less than a mile from what was Angela's house but is now Miles and Maya's house. Angela still lives close by in a condo and the girls consider her to be like a grandmother. Miles and Maya got married the summer they graduated from high school. Maya plays for the symphony and Miles went into marketing but of course they have the family money as well.
"The girls are awake and I told them to be down in five minutes," Owen says walking back into the kitchen.
"Which means we'll have to go back in and wake them up in ten," I remark.
"GIRLS IN THE CAR IN SIX MINUTES," Owen yells.
"Don't yell," I scold my husband smacking his arm lightly.
"Sorry Babycakes," Owen grins putting his arms around me and snatching my lips again.
"They're at it again," Emerald complains.
"So now that we're in high school we get to date right?" Amethyst asks as Owen and I break apart.
"NO!" Both Dallas and Owen say together.
"I know for a fact you two began dating younger than them, and I had my first boyfriend at 13 when K.C. and I began dating," I remind my husbands.
"That's different these are our daughters," Owen and Dallas say together. I swear they share a brain at times and always have. At least when it comes to me and when it comes to our girls.
"Mo-ah-om," the girls whine.
"Can't we change schools with Dad teaching there no boy will even flirt with us," Amethyst complains.
"That's right and we like it that way," Owen nods.
"Yep," Dallas agrees.
"Relax Dad will be busy with work he won't be able to watch you every single second," I tell them.
"No but I'll have Max and Uncle Marco to help me," Owen grins and the girls groan.
"Okay you three better get going. I love you, have a good day at school girls," I say hugging Emerald and then Amethyst.
Emerald still has straight dark hair, she's cut it to just above her shoulders and it frames her face. Her dark blue eyes come from Owen and she has a more pointed jawline like he does but she has my nose and my fair skin. She's thin but muscular and like her sister will probably be taller than me but for now she's still a few inches shorter. She is older, born first by two and a half minutes. Her personality is far more like mine at that age, demure, curious, eager to learn, practical and stubborn. However, she does like sports as her fathers do and she's more of a tomboy than her sister.
Amethyst still has her curls but they aren't as tight as when she was a baby and they've gotten a bit darker, a deep chestnut brown. Her skin color is still dark olive, a couple shades lighter than Mike. She has my light blue eyes, she also has my nose and Mike's jawline. She's an inch smaller than Emerald and like me is more voluptuous. Her personality is more like that of her father, actually both her fathers. She has a wild rebellious streak, she's curious but in a different way that her sister. She has no interest in sports and while she's bright and get good grades she's far more interested non-academic pursuits like boys, fashion, drama.
"Bye Mom, bye Dad," the girls say hugging Mike before leaving with Owen. They call both Owen and Mike Dad. They called them both Dadas until they were about ten. When the girls need specifically Owen or Mike they usually say Daddy Dallas or Daddy Owen but when it doesn't matter they just call Dad and one or both will answer.
"I have to run I have a meeting with my publisher. You and Drew need to be done by six don't forget that we're all meeting at Adam and Grace's for dinner," I remind Mike.
"I know, I should get going too we've got a staff meeting this morning," Mike says kissing my temple. We grab our stuff and leave the house together, Mike uses his phone to lock up. Before I walk to my car he takes my arm and steals another kiss.
"I love you Sugar."
"I love you Mike Dallas."
(EMERALD)
"Hi Maxie," Ame and I say together when Max gets in the front seat with Dad. Maya waves from their doorway and we wave back.
"Hey Owen, Hi Gems," Max says turning to grin at us as he buckles up. When we were about two Max was having trouble saying our names and often mixed up Emy and Ame, the nicknames everyone calls us. Then he found out that our names were gemstones and he began calling us Gems when he wanted both of us.
"You three behave at the school, if I find out you got detention you can spend it with me," Dad is telling us as he drives and we roll our eyes.
"Max what classes do have? Ame and I have all our classes together except for second period when I have business and she has art," I comment.
"I have geography and then art," Max comments and Ame smiles because they're in class together. We all have geography for homeroom though. "Then English for third and gym for fourth which you'll be teaching right Owen?"
"Yep grade nine boy's healthy active living fourth period," Dad nods.
"Cool," Max smiles.
"The three of us have third and first period together, Ame and I have science last period," I remark.
"Good at least I have friends in three of my classes and Uncle Owen teaching the other one," Max grins.
Dad pulls up to the stairs to let us out before he parks in the employee lot. Ame and I get out of the car with Max, we get on either side of Max and link our arms with his walking in together.
"Ooh look at all the hot guys," I grin.
"Yeah look at all the hot older guys," Ame smiles and Max rolls his eyes.
"You both know that any guy attempts to date you will have to face your fathers and that will probably scare anyone away," Max comments.
"We can be sneaky about it," Ame replies with a mischievous grin.
"With one dad and one uncle working at the school I don't think so," Max snickers and we twist our mouths at him.
We find our lockers, we're all in the same hallway and our lockers are close together. We figure out our combinations and look at the space in our lockers but that's about it we don't have anything to put in it yet. Then we start walking the school and try get oriented.
"Hey look our dads," I remark pointing to a picture of the Ice Hounds when our dads were in senior year, well Daddy Dallas' first senior year since he had to repeat.
"Awesome, there's Luke too," Max points out.
"Hey look Uncle Adam and Uncle Drew," Ame says pointing to another picture.
"Yeah and there's Mom," I grin.
"Look Uncle Tris and your mom," Ame comments to Max pointing to a picture of the drama club. We would probably keep looking at pictures of the DeGrassi alumni that we know but the bell rings and we have to go to class.
We walk into class and sit down at three desks together. The teacher comes in and begins calling roll, she calls a couple names before getting to my sister.
"Amethyst Dallas-Milligan?"
"Here."
The teacher calls a few more names before getting to Max but she calls him Maxwell and he tells her to call him Max. And then some more names before getting to me.
"Emerald Milligan-Dallas?" The teacher asks with a confused tone and looks up at her list I'm sure confused by the last names, teachers usually are.
"Here and we're twins," I explain.
She looks like she doesn't believe us but she continues calling role. We spend the class learning what the class will entail and the teacher gives us homework. When we leave class the questions and comments begin. We're used to it, no one ever believes we're twins.
"Are you guys really twins?"
"There's no way you're twins."
"Yeah you guys don't even look alike and you have different last names, sort of."
"They're really twins, same mom, different biological dads which is why they look so different and why their last names are reversed," Max explains for us he's done it several times.
"That's not a real thing, twins can't be born to two different dads."
"It's called superfecundation and it's real you can look it up," I inform them.
They still don't believe us but they will it always happens. We go to our lockers and put in our books, Amethyst and Max leave to go to art and I try to find the business class. I look at the map and the class numbers and not paying great attention to where I'm going bump into two bodies.
"Oops sorry," I apologize before looking up and seeing identical faces, "hey more twins."
"Yeah you're a twin? Oh I'm Kaleb and this is Dillion."
"I'm Emerald but most people call me Emy," I smile at the identical twins. They're both on the thin side but muscular and at least as tall our dads. They both have black hair like me and Daddy Owen. They both have green eyes, sharp green eyes that are sort of mesmerizing. The only difference seems to be that one has straight hair and one has wavy hair.
"Mannings shouldn't you be in class?" Dad calls to them and they turn around.
"Sorry Coach we just bumped into this…" Dillion begins before he's cut off by dad.
"Hi Princess," he says and the Manning twins look at him and then back at me.
"Hi Dad I got lost on the way to class," I tell him.
"Dad?" Kaleb gulps.
"Yes this is one of my beautiful twin daughters. Your next class is right there Princess," Dad says pointing to a classroom before he pulls the Manning twins away.
I watch Dad pull them away and smile. I wasn't as excited as my sister to meet high school boys but they were hot!
(AMETHYST)
"Welcome to art class I'm Miss Dawes. The best way to learn about art is to create it, there are easels before you so create," the teacher says without even taking role.
"Maxie work on this easel with me," I assert taking Max's hand.
"Are you two a couple?" A boy at the easel next to us asks.
"No Amethyst and her sister are like sisters to me, I'm Max."
"I'm Doug," he smiles. He's very hot, blonde and muscular with green eyes.
"Nice to meet you Doug," I grin.
Max and I start randomly painting on the canvas, we have no idea what we're doing but the teacher said paint so we paint. After a few minutes the teacher starts walking around to look at everyone's art.
"Lovely, you two work very well together," Miss Dawes says of mine and Max's canvas and we smile. "You know I taught your parents, Clare was one of my very best and most gifted students," Miss Dawes smiles before looking at Doug's painting and moving on.
"Your parents went to school here?" Doug asks.
"Yeah both our parents, and my dad teaches gym here, Coach Milligan."
"Coach Milligan is your dad? That's awesome I had him last period he's great. My parents went to school here too, well my biological parents I was adopted as a baby and only know a little about my birth parents but I know they went here. I found a picture of them at the school in the few things my parents kept."
"That's cool I have an adopted cousin. So do you know anything else about your parents?" I question.
"No just the picture, I found out I was adopted last year and found the picture of my birth parents in a box in the attic a few months ago. I know they're my parents because I'm in the picture and I look like them but my parents won't talk about them. I'm hoping I can find out more about them from the school," Doug tells us.
"Intriguing I can help," I offer with a grin.
"Thanks," Doug smiles.
"You're flirting," Max whispers in my ear and I stick my tongue out at him. When Doug looks back at me I pull my tongue between my lips and flash Doug a flirty smile.
When class ends we wash up and Max walks with me to our lockers where we find Emy. The three of us eat lunch together and then go to third period English class.
"Hi Uncle Marco," all three of us chime together when we walk into class and see our teacher.
"Hi kids," Uncle Marco smiles.
Marco Del Rossi went to school with our uncles Spinner, Sean and Jay only Marco is actually related to us by marriage as he married Daddy Owen's brother Tristan. Uncle Tristan dated Miles best friend Chewy for most of high school but they broke up for the final time when Chewy went away to college. Uncle Tris met Marco at a party at our house and they dated for four years before getting married. They have a six-month-old adopted girl named Natalia.
Marco is a good teacher but we already knew that and growing up with our mom, Aunt Clare to Max, we're all pretty proficient in English and have already read or had us read most of the year's reading list. Max leaves us after class since he has gym with Dad while Emy and I have science. I'm kind of bored in science and spend most of it thinking about Doug but I'm sure Emerald will fill me in later.
"I'm off to the gym see you guys in a bit," Emerald says when we leave class. She's trying out for girls volleyball.
"Yeah I'm off to the football field," Max comments. He's been training with our dads all summer to make the football team.
I don't like playing sports you get sweaty but I am going out for yearbook. I'm hoping to be a photographer, what better way to meet hot guys than to ask to take their picture for the yearbook?
"Hi Nick," I smile happily when I get to yearbook.
"Hey Amethyst," he smiles.
Nick is the son of Paige, a close friend of Uncle Marco's and an ex-girlfriend of Uncle Spinner's, and her wife Lexi who used to date Uncle Jay. Lexi and Paige were pregnant at the same time and they have a daughter named Kairi. Nick and Kairi are both in grade eleven. If Nick wasn't a good friend and sort of family to me I'd have a major crush on him.
"Are you running yearbook?" I ask Nick.
"I'm one of the editors."
"Awesome so you'll let me be one of the photographers then?" I ask hopefully. Nick smiles and hands me a camera.
"Amethyst you're helping out n yearbook too?" Doug asks walking in.
"Yeah I'm a photographer. Doug this is Nick Michalchuk," I introduce them and they nod to each other.
"Sweet, I thought it would be good to help out on it," Doug says and then when Nick is talking with other people Doug leans close to me. "And I can look at old yearbooks hopefully finding my parents," Doug whispers to me.
"Like I said I'll help," I tell him and Doug smiles.
"Thanks that would be great. I'll give you my number," Doug says. I get out my phone and put in the passcode before handing it to Doug. He hits some keys and hands it back to me.
"Hang on I need your picture," I comment snapping his picture and saving it to his contact. I see that he put in his last name as well. "Doug Powell," I smile looking at the contact and then text him from my phone. "Now you have my number," I grin and he snaps my picture.
"Amethyst Milligan right?"
"Amethyst Dallas-Milligan actually."
Doug smiles and saves my contact just as the yearbook meeting begins. Doug is assigned to work with me and I can't wait to start working very closely with Doug!
The update on Saturday will begin with dinner at Adam and Grace's house and include the girls flirting and their dads finding out. Plus more of Maya, Miles and Max and appearances by the Manning family and Michalchuk family.