BECAUSE OF YOU sequel to Never Say Goodbye….
Characters still not mine, and sorry I haven't been updating much…. And sorry if they seem out of character…but hey…. They are older and this chapter is just kind of an intro….
Chapter 1: The Future
Eight years had passed since the past events had occurred. Phil and Keely were both twenty five now. Raileigh was almost nine. Their twin daughters, Kaylee and Kaycee were going on five, and Keely was eight months pregnant with their fourth child.
"Hey! I'm home!" Phil called entering their house down the street from their parents.
"Daddy!" Kaylee and Kaycee called, rushing to the door and leaping into his arms.
"Hey, girls, where's your mom at?" he asked, balancing the two girl's in his arms as Raileigh waved as she passed.
"Mom's upstairs," she said as she headed to her room.
Phil managed to detach the twins from his arms and get upstairs to the room he shared with Keely. "Hey, Keels," he said, sitting on the bed next to her. "Are you okay?"
"I'm fine for someone who can't see their feet," she said sarcastically.
"Seriously? Are you okay?" he asked, resting his hand on her rather large stomach.
"Yeah," she said.
He smiled at her. "Good," Phil leaned over and kissed her. "I love you," he said.
"And I love you, too, even if I look like a blimp," she joked sitting up and heading downstairs to start dinner.
"A very cute blimp," he said. "Hey, Rai? Didn't you get your report card today?"
"Yep!" the little girl said, pulling it out of her backpack and handing it to her father. "I got straight A's" she said proudly.
"Great job, Rai! This calls for celebration. We're going out for dinner!" Keely said, kissing her daughter's forehead as the twins jumped up and down excitedly.
Phil looked worried, "Are you sure, Keel?" he said, memories of Raileigh's traumatic birth flashing back to him.
She nodded, "Mommy needs a break from cooking, and daddy's no good at it," she teased.
"Okay, I give! Where are we going?" he asked, after sticking his tongue out at Keely.
"Raileigh's choice," Keely suggested and her daughter's eyes lit up.
"Can we go to Friendly's?" she asked, hopefully.
"Yeah, let's go," Phil said, grabbing his keys and piling the three kids into the car.
"Mommy? Are you okay?" Kaylee asked, noticing her mother looked rather pale.
"Yes, honey, your brother is just being hyper, again," she said, rubbing her stomach.
Phil looked worried again, "Are you sure?" he asked.
"No, I'm not," Keely said.
"Okay, stay here, I'll go get the car." He said, freaking out as he raced out of the restaurant. A moment later he returned and helped Keely into the backseat, he then headed toward Pickford hospital.
"Hello," he said, as Raileigh helped her mom into the hospital while Phil ran ahead to get help.
"Can I help you, sir?" the receptionist asked.
"Yeah, my wife is eight month's pregnant and I think she's going into labor," he said as calmly as he could as a nurse came out with a wheelchair which Keely gratefully sat in and was wheeled away.
"Come here, kids," he said, following Keely up, with Kaycee in his arms, Kaylee hanging onto his shirt and Raileigh holding his hand.
It was several hours before the cry of a newborn filled the Diffy family's ears. "Hey guy's, this is your brother, Lucas Riley Diffy." Phil said, holding his son in his arms.
"Is mom okay?" Raileigh asked, she had always been close to her parent's, especially Keely.
"She'll be fine, you can come see her now," he told them as Kaylee and Kaycee looked at their brother.
"Can I hold Lucky?" Raileigh asked, as the twins went into their mother's room.
"Lucky?" Phil questioned, handing her the sleeping bundle carefully.
"Lucky, cause he's lucky to have you and mom," she said, as her father pulled her into his arms.
"You know, brat, you're wise beyond your years," he said, just as Lucky started crying. "You remember how I used to get you to sleep?"
"Yeah, you sung to me. I sing it to myself when I can't sleep now," she told him.
"You wanna sing it to him?" Phil asked her.
She nodded, "Lullaby Lullaby
Baby-o
Both of us know that it's time to go
Nighty, night, night
Sleepy bye-o
Lullaby baby-o
I love you so my baby-o
So much more than you'll ever know
From the top of your head to your cute little toes
I love you, my baby-o
Lullaby Lullaby
Baby-o
Both of us know that it's time to go
Nighty, night, night
Sleepy bye-o
Lullaby baby-o" and by the time she was finished Lucky was sound asleep.
"You have your mother's voice, you know that?" he asked as he walked her to Keely's room.
Good place to stop, next chapter will be up soon…Review please!
H t t p / t i n y p I c . c o m / d d n w i a . j p g take out the spaces to see a pic of what they'd look like…..
