"Kate? Kate, I'm home" Caroline calls through the house. Caroline hears a thump, she turns around and looks at Lawrence, who had just dropped his school bag on the floor, and he shrugs pushing his way past his mother. Caroline rolls her eyes, drops the keys into the dish and walks into the kitchen, wondering where her wife was.
Caroline sees her son in the fridge, "You'll have to go and pick your bag up" "Yeah, whatever mum" she hears from the fridge. "Caroline?" She looks towards the study, and there she is, the love of her life, Kate. Caroline smiles, places her briefcase and handbag on the kitchen table, walks over to her wife and wraps her arms around her for a hug. "That bad of a day eh?" Kate asks, Caroline looks into the eyes of Kate and nods. Kate can see how tired Caroline is, and she worries if Caroline is pushing herself too much.
Kate looks behind Caroline and notices Lawrence in the fridge; "Lawrence, supper is not even ten minutes away, couldn't you wait?" "Huh, yeah, whatever" Kate rolls her eyes and gives Caroline a peck on the cheek as she sweeps past. "Where is my little girl?" Caroline asks. Kate points upstairs. "She's has had a bad day, teething can be such an issue" Caroline smiles, it had been a while, but remembers that stage fondly, and she is a little happy to be going back through it with Flora, even if this time she is a bit older.
"Mum? Can I take my supper into the lounge? I want to watch TV" Caroline looks at Kate, then back at Lawrence, shaking her head. "Lawrence, the rule has always been that we eat supper as a family, all together, and that is never going to change" Lawrence hangs his head, plonks himself down on the settee, and pulls out his phone. Caroline watches Kate as she pulls a casserole out of the oven, smelling in the aroma.
As they all sit down for supper, a cry comes through the baby monitor. The girls smile at each other. Caroline places her napkin on the table, "I'll go" and before Kate could say anything Caroline was gone. Caroline walks into Flora's room, and she notices the little girl light up when she sees her mummy. Caroline picks Flora up, gives her a kiss on the head, and then places Flora on the change table. Caroline sits down at the table with Flora in her lap. "Do you want me to take her?" Kate asks, Caroline shakes her head, with a little smile on her face, Kate smiles back. "Mum can I go now?" Lawrence whinges, while looking at his mum, Caroline nods, and Lawrence walks away, leaving his plate on the table.
The two sit in bed, Kate on her tablet, and Caroline on her iPad "So what actually happened at work today?" Kate asks without looking up from Facebook. "Yeah, well, I had another two staff members call in sick, and one who had to leave after lunch time because she was really unwell, and we were that desperate, I had to teach" Kate gives her wife a cheeky smile. "Before you ask, and I can tell by your smile, it was PE" Kate lets out a little laugh at her wife, Caroline playful hits Kate's leg. "You, my wife, you were teaching PE today, god I would of loved to see that" Kate tells her with a playful smirk on her face. "What did you make them do?" Caroline looks at Kate over her glasses "I made them run laps of the oval" Kate lets out a laugh "I bet that went over well!" Caroline smiles "None of them dared to whinge about it, because they knew they would be in bigger trouble" Kate shakes her head, places her tablet on the nightstand, leans over to Caroline and gives her a kiss, "Evil, just plain evil, goodnight, I love you" "goodnight sweetheart, I love you too" Caroline sat there basking in the thought of how well the PE lesson went, and thinking about how at times she actually missed teaching. She then places her iPad down, turns off her lamp, and cuddles down into bed with Kate, draping her arm over her wife.