AN: Apologies it has been a while. A lot has happened and teaching has kind of left me rather busy. However it is Valentines Day and I have been working on this for a while so it's about time I published it I think.
It is a series of chapters one for each year they have spent Valentines together until the present so I hope you like it.
Kallie xx
2011
Kittie was the first awake, wanting it to be an extra special day for Oscar. She wanted to show him how much she really cared, that he was loved, and that he was no longer alone. So she did it the only way she knew how. With Tom's help, she set up the train track to bring a specially engineered train of tea and cinema tickets to see Gnomeo and Juliet just the two of them without the kids, just like they had planned for Kittie's birthday. Of course living with 4 small children including a now toddling 10 month old, everyone was used to loud noises and being able to make them stop quickly, plus Oscar had a habit of destroying alarm clocks – which Kittie learnt the hard way. So when the train arrived on the bedside table, whistling away to get Oscar's attention, it quickly got smashed and the mug of tea was spilt all over the carpet in Kittie's room. Aside from that, the morning ended free of disasters, especially as it wasn't Oscar trying to make pancakes this time.
Oscar had his own surprise waiting for Kittie at Barclay – a mixed bouquet of flowers including sprigs of lavender, snow drops and some forget-me-nots, presented to her by Edie and Alex along with a brand new paperback book and the promise of one every day for the rest of the month. As for at St Hopes, Kittie had coerced Rose and Carrie into pulling Oscar into HQ and throwing a load of Palma Violets at him which Kittie had spent months collecting knowing they were his favourite. Despite the fact that they probably should have been working, Oscar slipped off to go and sort out something else, leaving Carrie and Rose to stop the Grand Master who had created a love gas designed to make everyone happy and make them forget about protecting banks so he and his SKUL agents could rob them.
Kittie met Oscar after school and the two walked off to the cinema hand in hand, and were deemed an adorable couple by those who saw them although this might have been because Amy threatened to hit anyone who said it wasn't. No-one liked to make Amy mad. She could be just as violent as Kittie. At the cinema, the film was enjoyed but not really watched. The time mostly consisted of hasty kisses in the back of the cinema and a lot of popcorn being thrown between them as they commented on the film, each as bad as the other. Their walk home lingered as moonlight kisses kept them out as they danced underneath the stars in the cold, February night. And that was Oscar's plan, keeping Kittie out of her room as long as possible so that she wouldn't notice the glow in the dark stars covering the ceiling spelling out 'I love you'.
Luck was on his side and instead of heading straight up to her room, she ran around after her siblings making sure they didn't avoid bath time. Cal was the easiest to get to bed, sending him up with a book and a 20 minute timer. Sophie curled up listening to Lexi read The Faraway Tree, with Tom beside her, listening eagerly until Lexi finished and took him across to the playroom that was temporarily Tom and Charlie's room while separate rooms were being sorted for them. There was just Charlie to put to bed and after a kiss, a cuddle, and a lullaby from Kittie he was sound asleep in his cot, dreaming about captains and ships in the land of dreams, or at least that's what Kittie hoped he was dreaming about.
Once he was asleep, Oscar led Kittie to her room, blindfolded so she wouldn't see his final surprise before he could show her properly. As well as the stars, he had fitted colourful glass butterflies to thin dark blue fabric and attached it around her bed like curtains, hopefully allowing her to feel like the princess he saw her as. When he took the blindfold off, she was stunned into silence as she stared at it taking it all in. The stars caught her attention first and with a quick glance at it, she threw her arms around his neck and kissed him. Oscar stayed in her room that night as the two ended in blissful happiness side by side, never wishing to leave.