Six thirty rolled around when Char popped her head into Vi's room where addie currently was too ,"you both ready? The kids are all done with their home work so I figure we could start early."
They went into the empty office space where the kids were currently kicking a ball around, mason was the only one reading a book. "Momma I'm getting tired." Savannah was yawning.
"we can go home soon but first we have a few," she caught the ball on its way from Luke to Henry, "Questions." She sat it down.
"do you all remember those papers that you found a while back?" Addison looked around to blank, bored faces, "the ones about us?"
Luke began to chew on his lip and avert eye contact. Savannah looked at her companions as if she was about to say something but the looked back down.
"We are not mad, we just want to know what you read about? And what you saw?" Vi jumped in.
"wheres dad?" Mason popped to life.
The older girls looked at eachother, "what if we split you up? Boys can go with the men and we stay with Savannah."
"I like that idea better." It was Henry who left first with Luke and Mason following.
Savannah dropped her eyes down and ran to the trash can only to puke. Charlotte was right behind her to hold her hair back. "Honey, are you feeling okey?" she placed her hand on her warm forhead to check for a fever.
Her eyes welled up with tears, "nuhuh." She shook her head and sniffled.
"are you done?" Charlotte waited until her little one shook her head yes and she picked her up.
She set her head on her mothers shoulder and shut her eyes, "we read the story about the unicorn baby and about oxyliphones. Aunt Amy liked to play with those." She snuggled her head into her moms neck.
"we can talk about this tomorrow if you want, or even when youre feeling better." Her aunt Vi said.
She pulled her head up," but you guys would think I'm trying to get out of the stories and I'm not." She sniffled again.
"Addison will you go get a thermometer?" Char asked politely.
Addison quickly exited the room as Charlotte sat down with Savannah. "we read about daddy and a girl named Erica who was Masons mommy." She curled into her moms lap, "I didn't like that story because I like you and daddy, not her."
"Do you believe these stories?" Vi asked skeptically.
"the one about my brother because of the picture of him and the girl. But the other ones couldn't be."
"what other ones?"
"the one about aunt amy, and her baby Unicorn. Unicorns aren't real."
"That's all you read?"
"yeah because the boys wouldn't let me because they are mean." She managed a slight frown.