Five years Later

Vincent and Catherine were happily married with twins William and Eliza. They lived in three bedroom house with a beautiful backyard in Colorado. Catherine sat down on the couch with photo album, glancing at that photo, tracing the twins when they were babies. She smiled, tears slowly fell down on her cheek as she remembered when they were born, on the same day Vincent and she got married. That was the best thing that ever happened to them! She sighed and sat back and tilted her head on the back of couch then closed her eyes, thinking how handsome Vincent was in a tux and how happy he was to marry her as she walked down the aisle and stood besides him while she was pregnant. She started having contractions and shouted "Let's get married immediately." So they did and they then went to the hospital and had twins.

Vincent walked into the living room and saw her on the couch. He walked over to her and he sat down next to her, causing her to jump. She looked up at him and giggled. It made him smile when she had a cute crinkled nose with a dimple and loved her laugh. He leaned down and kissed her on the lips passionately. He deepened the kiss as their tongues played. He pulled back and gazed into her eyes and signed, "what were you thinking about? and what's with photo album?"

"Our wedding and twins", Catherine signed, giggling.

Vincent threw his head back and sighed, "Oh that was the best time and the best thing was our babies were born on our wedding day. Everything went perfectly. And I love you."

Vincent and Catherine were overwhelmed with the kids running around and over all the place, but they loved them unconditionally. New challenges for them in their lives as they learned how to be a good parents since Catherine was deaf and the kids started to sign as much as they could. When they were born and she taught them every day, the way they could communicate better and understanding. Vincent didn't want Catherine to feel left out, so he told the kids to use sign language for their mother and later and he also taught them to speak and sign at the same time. They worked well together as a team.

One day, Catherine was at home with the kids while Vincent was at work. The kids played with their toys in their room and she was in the kitchen washing the dishes. William came out of his bedroom and walked down the stairs to find his mom. He excitedly saw her in the kitchen and ran over to her. He tugged his mother's shirt to get attention. Catherine turned around and looked down at him smiling.

She bent down to meet his eyes, signing, "Hi, William!"

"Mommy, Eliza not listen me," William signed as he pouted and crossed his arms with his eyebrows furrowed.

Catherine slowly nodded and signed, "why?"

William shrugged his shoulders, "I don't know, me asked if she wanted play."

"Ok, let's go find her." Catherine signed.

William and Catherine walked out of the kitchen to go upstair and found Eliza playing with her doll in her room. She didn't realize that William and Catherine were in her room watching her. William ran past his mother and yelled at Eliza, "Eliza!" as Catherine saw him yelling at her and scolded him, "no yelling at her." She noticed that Eliza didn't react to her brother's yelling. She was puzzled as she slowly walked toward Eliza, bent down on her knees, and rubbed on her shoulder, causing her jumped and startled. Eliza quickly turned and looked up at her, signing, "Mommy!" She got up and hugged her mother.

Catherine laughed, "Are you ok?"

Eliza excitedly nodded her head yes. Catherine then looked at William keep talking to Eliza and looked back to her puzzled. Eliza kept looking at her with a big smile.

"Mommy, please play with me." Eliza signed happily.

Catherine signed, "ok let's play."

The three of them played with toys and games. They were laughing.

Vincent arrived home from work and walked into the foyer near the kitchen and put his keys on the counter. He stopped in his tracks and heard them laughing from upstair. It made him smile and ran upstairs to find them in Eliza's room. He stood and leaned against the door frame. He enjoyed watching them playing and laughing around. William snapped his head up and saw his daddy there and ran over to him, "Daddy, you home!" Vincent bent down and lifted him up in the air then hugged and kissed him. Then Eliza saw him too, excitedly ran to him, and Vincent bent down and lifted her up with William on his side while Catherine looked at them smiling. She got up from the floor, walking over to them. She gave Vincent a kiss on the lip.

"You came home early." Catherine happily signed.

Vincent gasped and realized that he couldn't sign because the kids were on his each side.

"Hey baby girl, please sign for me to tell your mom, I said yes I missed you all." Vincent said to Eliza.

Eliza didn't response, making Vincent wondering why she didn't answer. William quickly signed to his mother, "Daddy said he miss us."

Catherine smiled at Vincent, "we miss you, too." She tiptoed and kissed him.

The kids yawned and fell asleep on daddy's shoulders.

Catherine covered her mouth with her hand and tried not to laugh, but look at the babies falling asleep on Vincent's shoulders. Vincent got puzzled and mouthed, "what?" Catherine pointed to them, "sleeping." Vincent looked down at them smiling.

"Let me get her and put her on the bed while you take him to his room and put him on the bed, ok?" Catherine told him.

Vincent nodded as he walked out of Eliza's room and into William's room. He put him on the bed and pulled the blanket over him then bent down to kiss on top of his head. He turned around to look at Catherine standing in the doorway. Catherine extended her hand out as he grabbed her hand. She pulled him to the kitchen. She made something to eat for him. He watched her making his favorite turkey and avocado sandwich. She put it on the plate and handed him. They sat down on the dining table. Things got quiet since they noticed something about Eliza, but hoped there was nothing major.

Vincent waved his hand to get attention to Catherine as she looked up at him smiling.

"Can I ask you something? I'm concerned about Eliza..have you noticed anything about her? I was hoping that was nothing but she might be deaf?" Vincent signed in worry.

Catherine had a worried look with her half mouth opened, "Yes I just noticed that she couldn't look at William when he tried to speak to her, just today. I'm concerned..but if she's deaf, I accept, that's okay because we do love her so much and if she is, we're doing everything to help her in our power. We can be there for her as long as she needs us and show her how much we love her. We'll take her to the hearing test and see what the audiologist says, ok? Let's not worry about it."

"You know what? You're right. We'll take her. I'll make a call right after we finished eating, Catherine." Vincent signed.

Catherine put the plates away in the sink and washed them while Vincent was calling the audiologist for Eliza. Catherine walked towards Vincent and wrapped her arms around his waist and looked up at him as he put his arm around her shoulder. He finished the call and put his phone on the coffee table.

"We have an appointment with our audiologist tomorrow afternoon and I called JT to take over for me at work, so I can be there with you and the kids, sweetie." Vincent smilingly signed.

Catherine nodded and smiled, "Ok, Thank you for doing that….and do you know how much I love you?" she smirked.

"hmm...I don't know...just show me how much you love me." Vincent signed, giggled.

Catherine wrapped her arms around his neck and tiptoed to kiss him hard on the lips and their kiss deepened as she slid her tongue into his mouth and they moaned.

There was a noise from upstair, like little footsteps running.

Vincent broke the kiss when he heard the kids running upstair and rolled his eyes then laughed.

Catherine's eyes furrowed and looked at him perplexed, "What's so funny?"

Vincent pointed to the stairs, "Here the little monsters come!"

Catherine looked over his shoulder and saw the kids come running down towards them. Catherine and Vincent bent down and stretched their arms out to catch the kids then hugged.

Hi my good friends! This is my new story! Just an idea in my mind so I thought I'd give this a try. I hope you like it. If u do, please leave a review and I will continue. If not, I will delete it.

I'm still writing my other story, but I put it on hold because too many going on in my life….the moving process, packing, giving away things we don't need and then my friend passed away three weeks ago. I lost my motivation of writing, but now I'm doing ok. I'm back to writing two stories. I'll try to finish Secrets on the Sand when I'm settled down in new house. I'm sorry it has been so long time since last late Aug I wrote.

Thank you for your patience and support! I love you all XOXOXO