A/N So 39addict101 won by default for my second contest. I not only threw her in with the contestants for contest three, but I'm writing her a five chapter continuation of Better Than You. Here it is!
"Hope, slow down." Sinead Rosenbloom called after her toddler. It was hard being a mom of twins with another on the way. She looked down at Amelia, the good twin. Amelia looked up at her mom with her big almond eyes. She reminded Sinead a lot of Jake, her husband. Hope looked more like her, auburn hair with emerald eyes. Amelia's hair was a dark brown. Sinead had thought her kids would be a mix of her and Jake. Maybe dark hair with green eyes. Or auburn hair with almond eyes. Either way she loved her twins. Although Hope was rambunctious, while Amelia stayed close to her parents. Hope was outgoing, Amelia was shy. Hope liked to talk, Amelia just listened. Hope didn't listen, Amelia obeyed her parents. Sinead loved both just as much. Although Amelia may be her favorite.
Reality brought her back from thinking about the twins. Hope was now banging on the table shouting, " I want cookie!" Sinead reluctantly got her one. Amelia looked at her mom. Sinead gave a cookie to Amelia as well. Both girls chomped at their cookies. Finally she put the girls to bed. As usual it was a struggle. Hope said she had to go to the bathroom, eight times. Amelia said she needed a drink of water, two times. The excuses keep rolling in, bedtime story, song, food, snuggles, goodnight kisses, and hugs. Eventually they fell asleep. All three of them. In a heap on the floor. Sinead loved her girls so she didn't mind.
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"Sinead," she was being ushered awake.
"Uhh...five more minutes," she called to whoever needed her awake.
"The girls are running around like crazy," the voice said. Finally Sinead realized it was Jake. She also realized that it was morning.
"What time is it," Sinead groaned.
"It's almost 10," Jake told her.
Sinead bolted up. She landed smack on her bottom after she tried to slide of the bed, she wasn't sleeping on. The twins giggled. Sinead looked at them, messy hair, rumpled pajamas. She smiled anyway.
"What do I do with them?" Jake asked impatiently. Sinead remembered she usually took care of them.
"I'll do it." Sinead offered. She picked the girls up and headed to the bathroom. Jake heard the door click shut and water starting to run. Oh, you give them a bath. He thought. That's easy. Little did he know the struggle the girls make at bath time.
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"Amelia, you need to take a bath," Sinead told her daughter.
"No!" Amelia shrieked. "I don't wanna!"
"I want a bath," Hope whimpered.
Bath time was the only time when Hope listened to her mother. Amelia was the struggle.
"Okay Hope. In the bath you go," Sinead gently lifted Hope into the bathtub. "See, Amelia. Your sister takes bathes like a good girl."
"But I'm mommy's good girl!" Amelia screamed.
"If you get in the bath you both will be good girls." Sinead inticed her. Amelia looked at her sister splashing in the water.
"Fine," Amelia hopped into the tub herself.
Sinead washed the girls, let them play in the tub for a bit, dried them off, and got them dressed. When they finally got out of the bathroom, Jake had breakfast made, waiting, cold. Sinead just shook her head at the girls. Smiling she went and kissed Jake good morning. She served the girls they're breakfast. Then she asked Jake why he wasn't at work.
"You have the ultrasound at 2," he replied.
"Oh I totally forgot!" Sinead exclaimed. Being 5 months into your second pregnancy come with hard times and good. The good times are when you don't have your morning sickness anymore. The bad is when you have an ultrasound every two weeks. Sinead was glad Jake took the day off to stay with the girls.
"You are staying with the girls. Right?" Sinead asked.
"No I'm coming with you." Jake told her.
"Whose going to watch the girls?" Sinead questioned.
"Nellie was bringing Nia, Edmound, and Hollie over to play." Jake explained.
"Oh you had me worried they were coming with us." Sinead sighed in relief.
"No way! They wouldn't even have a chance to go." Jake laughed.
"Baby! Baby!" Hope screamed. "I want baby now!"
"Sweetie the baby won't be here for another 4 months." Sinead explained. "Right around your birthday."
"Birthday?" Asked Amelia, who loved presents.
"Yes, do you want the baby to be your birthday present?" Sinead asked the girls.
"Yes!" The girls exclaimed at once.
"Okay then you're going to have to be patient. Sinead told them.
"Okay mommy," Amelia said.
"I guess." Hope whined.
"Good. Nellies going to be here soon, behave for her. " Sinead told them before getting ready herself.
That's chapter 1. I hope to have chapter two up on the weekend. So. Please enter my third contest. You can help make sure 39addict101 doesn't win that. Review if you have ideas for names. With five chapters I hope to get to the baby. Should the baby be born on the twins birthday? Anyway. Review and enter The War Of The Ships! -Star