The kiss, such a simple kiss, spoke volumes. It was their first step to mending their broken bridges.
Pulling back shakily Addie looked deep into Meredith's eyes. "I know i shouldn't have left, but i'm back, and we can do this."
"Mer, we're home." Alex called as he and Christina moved into the house.
Addie sighed and reached for her singlet.
"Stay" Meredith whispered.
Addie could see how fragile she was feeling.
"I'm not going anywhere Mer." She said as she grabbed her blouse. "I'm going to go get my things from the car, and take them up to our room." she added.
Meredith nodded and watched as Addie moved tot he door. "Addie" she said quickly before she had gotten too far. "Can you put your stuff in the spare room?" she asked. "I dont think i'm ready to have you back in my bed just yet."
Addie nodded sadly as she left.
Meredith waited a moment as she regained her composure. She then wiped the tears from her face as she heard a knock on her door.
Sighing Meredith then called for them to enter.
In filed Alex, Christia and Richard, each carrying a baby, with Alex carrying too. He had hold of Harry and Lilly while Christina had Lucas and Richard had hold of Skye.
"Their Hungry" Alex said as Meredith reached for Harry. She then led them to the high chairs that they had just started to use.
"Whats on the menu tonight?" Christina asked as she placed Lucas in his high chair before moving to the cupboard.
Meredith closed her eyes and tried to think. "Lilly is having carrots, Harry has Banana , Lucas is eating Aple and Skye has the peas tonight." she told her as Christina then moved to grab the jars out of the cupboard.
Alex moved to grab the spoons, handing one to Richard, Meredith and Christina, and keeping one for himself. They all moved in place, slipping the bibs over the babies heads before begining to feed them.
Meredith had been busy feeding Harry when Sky had began to cry. She sighed and put the spoon she was holding in the jar. "Switch?" she asked her dad.
Richard nodded and put his spoon in the jar and moved to stand in front of harry.
"Thanks" Meredith sighed as she moved to stand in front of Skye. "Oh blossom" She said softly. "Let's get this down." Meredith then picked up the spoon. "Ok baby watch the butterfly." she said as she moved the spoon through the air for her daughter before getting her to eat the peas.
They all heard the kitchen door open and yet none of them turned to acknowledge her.
Addie stood back and watched them work like a well oiled Machine. She was in awe of how they all funcioned. She knew that she should be a part of this. That it should be her feeding one of those babies.
Meredith could feel Addie's emotions without her having said anything. She knew what she should do, but also knew that Skye could be very put off by new people.
Richard could sense Meredith's troubled mind, but wanted to sit back and see how she would choose to deal with the situation.
Meredith closed her eyes and tried to think hard about how to handle the situation. Slowly she opened her eyes and knew exactly to handle the situation.
"Addie" she called softly, and wasn't at all suprised by her promptness to be by herside. "This is skye." she said softly. "I want you to take over."
Addie nodded, while Meredith slowly stood. The others paused to watch the exchange. They all knew how tempremental Sky could be, and was completely worried about the outcome of the exchange.
Addie moved into the seat and picked up the spoon.
"Now Skye's not a fan of many people." Meredith told her. "She tends to be needy. You also need to talk to her. She lieks to hear the sound of your voice."
"Oh ok" Addie replied.
"So pick up the spoon." Meredith prompted.
Addie quickly did so.
Meredith moved n to a position where Skye could not see her, knowing that it might be easier if she focused on Addie in a 1 on 1.
"Ok" Meredith said softly. "You need to offer her the spoon first. Sometimes she will accept it straigt off, othertimes you have to pretend the spoon is a butterfly."
Addie nodded and raised her spoon to Skye's mouth.
Skye moved to slap the spoon away.
Addie closed her eyes and took a deep breath before looking up at Meredith hesitantly.
"You can do this. Talk to her. Your voice will soothe her." Meredith told her.
Addie sighed a little before trying again. "Hey Skye" Addie spoke softly. "Can you please eat this for mommy." she said as she moved the spoon through the air as if it was a butterfly.
Meredith watched anxiously knowing that Addie would be devestated if Skye didn't havesome of the peas. She knew that Addie trying to feed her could possibly be a bad idea, especially with the high possibility that she wouldn't. Meredith moved a little.
Sky slapped the spoon again.
"Come on Addie, try again." Meredith said, not believing the situation she had found herself in. She would never have dreamed that she would be in this situation this morning.
Addie sighed, trying to focus on the task at hand. She could see that Skye was losing focus on her. "Maybe you should take over" Addie suggested.
Meredith shook her head. "No you can do this." she said before looking to her dad to make sre that she was doing the right thing.
Richard gave a nod.
By now the others had almost finished feeding Harry, Lucas and Lily.
Addie sighed as she dipped the spoon in the tiny pot before bringing it back up, ready to try again.
Addie watched as Skye began to pout. She watched as the lip began to wobble.
"Hush now little Skye, watch the little butterfly." Addie said softly as she began to move the spoon. "It's flying through the air with food. There's no need to look so blue."
Addie watched as the spoon got closer to Skye, and how Skye didnt even look at the spoon, and just focused her attention on Addie.
Sky slowly opened her mouth and accepted the food that Addie was offering. Once Addie removed the spoon she looked up Meredith in complete suprise.
Meredith watched as tears came to Addie's eyes.
Meredith smiled softly at her. "Good, not you can get her to finish the rest of the pot."
Addie nodded as Meredith moved to completely sit back, and for the first time ever, she just enjoyed watching her babies be fed.