After spending a couple of days in Denver with Spencer's parents, the family of four flew back to LA. Teddy was happy to be back home. She missed it, but she wasn't looking forward to going back to work the following day, even though she's usually gone for three hours top. They arrived back at their house, and Teddy looked through the kitchen to see what they had in the house they could eat for dinner.
"I need to go shopping." Teddy said closing her fridge. "Can you watch Alex while I go? I'll take Ellie with me."
"Actually, can you take him with you? I'm going surfing with Darin."
Teddy stared at him. "You already have plans to go out and we just got back?"
"I wasn't planning to but he said the waves are perfect today."
"Yeah, whatever, have fun. I'll just take them both with me." Teddy went into the living room and helped her son get his shoes on and then picked her daughter up out of her swing and placed her in her car seat. "Do you want anything special for dinner?"
"No, you can pick." Spencer said.
"Alright." Teddy grabbed her keys and purse. "Love you. Have fun."
Teddy arrived at the grocery store and placed the baby car seat in the shopping cart and her son also in it. As she was looking at the fresh veggies, her son kept pointing to the bags of cookies.
"Mama, cookie."
"No cookies today, Alex." Teddy said placing a bag of lettuce in the cart. "I think we'll have pizza tonight since I don't feel like cooking tonight. Do you want pizza tonight, Alex?"
"Cookie." He said again.
Teddy arrived back home an hour and a half later, and saw her husband home. She found him on the couch watching a baseball game.
"And I thought you were going surfing." Teddy said, as she placed her daughter's car seat on the floor. She took the baby out and placed her in her baby swing. "You know what. I don't want to hear why you didn't go. You can bring in the grocery's instead to make it up to me."
The following day, after school, Charlie stalked the channel 7 news station building in hope she would find her birth mother. She didn't so she took the bus to a park near the beach, and just by her luck, she spotted a blonde women who she thought could be her birth mom. The woman was with a man, assuming that's her husband, and two kids, a little boy and a baby.
Charlie sat at a picnic table, watching the couple sit under a three playing with their kids. I shouldn't go up to her, she thought. Should I? She's with her family. Charlie decided to go over to them and she knew exactly what she would say to them.
"Excuse me." She said. "I'm sorry to bother you. But do you have a phone I could call my mom with? Mine is dead."
Teddy reached into her diaper bag and handed Charlie her phone. "Here you can use mine."
"Thanks." She smiled. Instead of calling her mother's number, she called her cell phone and pretended she was talking to her mom. After she was done, she handed the phone back to Teddy. "Thanks." Teddy placed it back in her bag. "You have cute kids. How old are they?"
"Two and four months."
"Oh... Well thanks again. Bye."Charlie went back to the picnic table and watched Teddy's husband kiss her. "I want to be a part of that family."
"You know that girl at the park, I think she looks like you." Spencer said as he took his shirt off and climbed into bed.
"What, just because she has blonde hair? You think everyone with blonde hair looks like me."
"Okay, good point, but she looks more like you, like she could be related to you. Do you think there could be any possibility that was the baby you put up for adoption?"
Teddy shook her head. "That's impossible. Besides, that girl was like fourteen. She would be like twelve by now."
"I still think you should meet with her and answer anything she wants to know."
"I'm not going to do that, Spencer. I left a little note for her before I handed her off to that couple, and told them to give it to her when she's older and starts asking questions. In it I told her why I gave her up. She shouldn't have any questions for me."
"But wouldn't you want to know who your mom was and actually have a conversation with her if you were adopted? Wouldn't you want to know where you're from and what your mom was like?"
"If she wants to know what she is, then she can take a test."
"You're being very difficult. If she was my kid, I would go meet her."
"She's not my kid. Alexander and Michelle are my kids. That girl is just a kid I gave birth to. The couple that adopted her are her parents. She is their child." The room was filled with silence. "You know, after all these years, I thought I managed to finally move on from my past because I have a new life and family, but now, my past wants to come back and haunt me again." Teddy took a long pause again. "The only reason why I don't want to meet her is because I feel like those images of that man and what he did to me will come back to haunt me. I was finally able to forget what he looked like. I don't want to close my eyes and see his face. Or have me dreaming of that incident. I just... can't."
Spencer scooted closer to his wife and held her in his arms. "I'm sorry. I'll stop suggesting you to meet her. I don't want you to have those awful memories coming back. I'll stop talking about it."
"I mean, if her father wasn't who her father is and I didn't get pregnant with her how I did, then I would, with no question, see her. But I just can't risk having those memories come back." Teddy could hear her four month older daughter start to cry through the baby monitor. "I'll get her." Teddy climbed out of bed and wandered down the hall to her daughter's room. She picked her up and carried her back to her room and climbed back in bed beside her husband. "She's going to sleep with us tonight."
"Man, I was hoping to get some action tonight." Spencer grinned.
Teddy rolled her eyes and pushed her husband when he was pouting his lips at her. "Go away."
"Not a chance, darling." Teddy laughed and placed the baby down in the middle of her and Spencer when she went back to sleep. "And she gets to be in the middle of us? Tonight is just not my night."
"She's my cuddle monkey." Teddy smiled, as she reached to turn off her lamp.
"But your my cuddle monkey."
"Goodnight, Spencer."
So just to let you guys know, I just published a new story. It's a Little Mermaid fanfiction called Learning to Love. Check, it out if you like or don't... So i hope you are liking this story. There is two more chapters after this. Remember to leave a review. Thanks for reading!
