"Yeah she's coming!" Leila smiled. "Caleb was supposed to tell you."
"Uh, it must have slipped his mind," Tyler said as he readjusted his bag strap. Fallon just nodded and opened the back door of the car.
"So where are the little ones?" she asked. Reid just laughed as he got into the drivers seat.
"We finally pawned them off." Leila gave him a gentle swat.
"What he means is that my mother wanted to have some quality time with her grandkids. Not that I mind. Plus I think that Alma could use another miss manners teacher, your daughter will not be a snotty, rude little girl," Leila said as she laced her hand with Reid's unoccupied one.
"Why is she my daughter when she is misbehaving and yours when she is nice and polite. Then when we get a compliment on how cute the kids are you introduce them as ours?" Reid asked.
"Well its quite simple. When any one of the kids are bad that's coming from your chromosomes and when their good that comes from mine. Then when some one compliments them their 'ours' because it took all our chromosomes to make them, I thought it all through." Leila glanced back and Fallon and Tyler and laughed as Reid pondered Leila's theory.
"But I have gotten better," he mumbled as he turned on his blinker. Leila leaned over and kissed him on the cheek.
"Of course you have!"
"So how do you know Reid and Leila?" Tyler turned is body to face Fallon.
"Jerry is Leila's uncle and we went to high school together, well the three years that she went to Grand Junction. But yeah and than I met Reid when he first came down to see her," Fallon smiled at the memory, but it was a bittersweet one, she tried to shake the envy that she felt crawling up.
"Oh way cool," Tyler leaned toward the driver's seat. "You know I have never heard of what when on when you came down here to find Leila. When do I get to hear this story?" Tyler laughed as Reid just smiled and Leila rolled her eyes.
"Oh please, that story gives his an ego a trip," sighed Leila.
"But everything about it is true, and when it works out as well as it did," he raised Leila's ringed hand as emphasis. "You can't help but get an ego trip out of it."
"Okay well we can tell it another time, because right now I want to know more about your guys, how goes the celeb life?" Leila asked as she readjusted her seat belt.
"Oh you know the paparazzi coming at you right and left, always having the police on speed dial. You know the norm," Fallon gave a dramatic sigh. Leila snorted. "But really nothing you haven't heard before, except when Jeff blabs about our break up." Fallon rubbed her eyes in frustration. "Oh that is going to go on for weeks, and knowing him he'll say that I just came in one night and ransacked his house in a mad rage, what people do for their fifteen seconds of fame." The car was in an awkward silence for a few moments. Before Tyler's phone went off.
"Uh, hello this Tyler?" he answered. He glanced at Fallon before staring out the window watching the people go by. They didn't even realize that the two most talked about celebrities were passing them by. On the other line Caleb relayed a message to him. Apparently his agent didn't get his new cell phone number after he had it replaced, when a crazed fan had gotten a hold of it and gave the number out to the public. "Yeah I'll talk to you later."
"Who was that?" Reid asked glancing in the rearview mirror. Tyler relayed what Caleb had asked and then told the story about the crazy fan. Fallon smiled.
"When I was giving a concert, I had a nudist jump up on the stage and chase me around it, then finally Todd my lead guitarist picked up his extension cord and trip the guy, that's when security came and took him away, now that I look back at it, it was hilarious, but at the time it really freaked me out," Fallon laughed. Tyler grinned.
"I forbid Alma from becoming a celebrity," Reid muttered.
"I had a girl, well a group of girls come at me ripping off their shirts to show me that they had all tattooed my name on their lower backs, that was really weird, but I don't know if I can top the naked guy on stage," Tyler said as he smiled at her.
"Hey we're here!" Leila sang as she hopped out of the vehicle. Just than a little boy ran out with a big smile on his face. His short little legs moving as fast as they could and his little arms stretched out wide.
"Momma!" he squealed. Leila laughed with him as she scooped him up.
"How is my big boy?!" she asked enthusiastically and proceeded to tickle Asher on the stomach.
"Mamma no!" he laughed while trying to get away. When Reid got out of the car, Archer stopped squirming. "Momma put me down," he whispered in a not so whisperish way. Leila just raised her eyebrow and looked at Archer. "Please," he asked. Leila smiled and gently put him down. Where he decided to strut, meaning he just rocked his shoulders from side to side until he reached his dad. Then he threw up his hands and ran into Reid's legs. Wrapping his short little arms around them.
"Did you like my big boy walk?" Archer asked, desperately looking for approval from his dad. Reid bent over and picked him up so that they were eye to eye
"Yes I did, in fact it was very much a big boy walk, it looked even more like a daddy walk to me." Archer's eyes got big, and he looked back at his momma.
"I did a daddy walk momma!" he shouted, bouncing up and down in Reid's arms, clapping his hands. Fallon laughed at the little boy's joy at something so simple and getting the approval of his father. As she looked at the front door, Leila's mother was giving a little girl a gently push on the back. The little girl stomped her foot and held her elbows because her arms were too short to cross each other.
"Alma! How is my little princess?" Reid said to her. She glanced up at her dad and let her arms drop.
"Daddy I can't do a daddy walk! Because I'm not a boy!" she had tears in her eyes and her voice started to waver, Reid walked up to her and crouched down.
"Its okay, I think that you are the prettiest little girl I have ever had," he scooped her up in his other arm and gave her a kiss on the forehead. Alma smiled and grabbed her daddy by the face and gave him another kiss on the mouth.
"See what perfect children we have," Leila said as she smiled at her family. Alma was busy patting Reid's cheek. While Archer gave Leila a questioning look.
"Momma am I pretty?" he asked obviously feeling left out.
"Boys can't be pretty," Alma said as she looked at Archer.
"You are the most handsomest little boy I have!" Leila said ruffled his blond hair. Archer gave a satisfied nod. Tyler watched this whole exchange with wonder and delight. Wonder at seeing his best friend transform from being a total hothead to becoming this wonderful giving father. And the delight that came from the children just wanting to seem grown up.
"Oh! Mom! Sorry, this is Tyler and Fallon," Leila said as she introduced the latter. "thank you again so much for doing this." Leila gave her mother a hug and a kiss on the cheek.
"It was a pleasure, I love my grandchildren! And its nice to meet you both," she said to Fallon and Tyler. "I can't tell how good it is to finally see you both again. I remember when you two were still on school," Leila's mother gave a wistful sigh. "Well I'm going to head out, don't hesitate to call me Leila!" she said as she waved goodbye.
"Here I'll show you two to your rooms, Fallon's is upstairs and Tyler yours is going to be down stairs," Leila said as they all walked into the house. Reid put the twins down and they shot off running to the living room.
"They are adorable!" Fallon exclaimed as she looked around the corner to see Alma brushing a princess doll's hair. And Archer had put on a fire fighter's hat. "So much humor," she couldn't help but wonder about her own kids that she hoped to have one day.
"I am very surprised that you took to this role like a duck to water Reid," Tyler teased. Reid just rolled his eyes and punched him in the arm, to show that he hadn't exactly lost his old self.
"Okay Reid go show Tyler where he's going to sleep and I'll do the same, than we can let them rest or what ever they want to do while I make something for us to eat," Leila suggested. Everybody agreed. Leila help Fallon with her stuff to the upstairs room.
"This is going to be Alma's room when she's old enough, but I haven't really gotten around to doing anything with it besides paint it a baby blue, but hey what can you do?" she shrugged.
"Its fine, you have a lot on your plate as it is, even with out the two extra mouths. I never did get to thank you for forcing me out here, it really was the best thing for me," Fallon said as she gave Leila a hug.
"Oh your welcome," relied Leila, she thought it was best not to bring Jeff up into the conversation. Down stairs Reid was taking the different approach.
"Do you still have any of your powers?" Tyler asked him. Reid shook his head.
"No, and you know the worst part is that Lee actually beats me at pool sometimes," Reid laughed at himself. Tyler chuckled. "But I don't mind as much as I thought I would, its more of a relief. If I still had them I wouldn't have my kids, I would only have one, or maybe I would have had two, but there's still no way to really tell, and I love them as it is. How is your life going Tyler?" Reid asked sincerely. Tyler gave a big tired sigh and sat down on the bed.
"Honestly, it sucks. I mean you must have heard about Pogue and Blair," Tyler said as he ran his fingers through his hair. Reid just nodded. "I mean how can be in love with one of be best friend's fiancé?" Tyler shook head as if he were trying to get the crazy idea out of his head. "I really thought I would be where you are by now. I mean how do you know that you're going to end up with someone?" he asked Reid.
"Man, I'm going to sound like a parent right now." Tyler just smirked. "Tyler you never really know who you're going to end up with, you can only make a commitment and the best of it the best way you know how. Because in the long run love really is a commitment," Reid finished, and Tyler nodded.