"Caleb, what are we going to do? –A wants your little babies!", I exclaimed scared and crying sat in our bed.
"Maybe –A just want to scare us… Don't cry, Han, we are going to find a way to solve this situation, ok?", he said hugging me and stroking my hair gently.
"But Caleb, you know what –A is capable of! If they want Olie and Sam then they will have them no matter what we do!"
"Shh, don't think this way! Nothing is gonna happen to them while I'm alive, I promise", he whispered kissing me in the forehead.
"What about Spencer? She's pregnant and soon her baby will be born, there's one more target to –A! We can't leave her alone now when she did so much for us."
"Hey, who said we are going to leave her alone? We will find a way to protect everyone's kid, just… just let me think about it, ok?"
O looked at him in his deep brown eyes and I just saw the most determinate man in the world. He was being true when he said he would find a way to solve the whole situation, Caleb was the kind of man that would put the world down to keep his promise and to protect the ones he loves. My eyes dried from the tears and I smiled, giving him a kiss in his lips. He cuddled me in his arms and we were sitting together on the bed for a few moments. Then I heard the screaming of the twins in the next room. I looked at Caleb's face and sighed. He kissed me again in the forehead and then we jumped from the bed to go to the babies' room. I caught Oliver in my arms while Caleb held Samantha. I feed Oliver while Caleb was playing with the little girl. When I finished, we switched them. Then we stayed in silence, shaking the babies in our arms for them to sleep. Oliver was the first one to fall asleep. I put him in his crib while Caleb tried to make Samantha sleep. When he finally did it, we left the room, closing the door in silence.
"Hanna, I guess I have a solution for our problems", he said whispering and smiling to me.
[…]
"You can put your luggage in the left room", I said to Spencer pointing the last door in the corridor. "It's not that big, but I think you'll be fine with Toby in there."
"Thanks, Han! And don't worry, we don't need much space…", she said entering in the room with a big and black suitcase. "In fact, you and Caleb won't even know we are here."
"Thank you again, Caleb and Hanna, for letting us live here!", said Toby helping Spencer with the bags and cases. "We appreciate your preoccupation and attention."
"You're welcome!", said Caleb. "If you two needed something don't be shy to ask us, ok?"
"Ok", said Spencer after a long sigh. "Well, I think I'll need some coffee now, if you don't mind."
"Spence, remember what the doctor said about caffeine. You can't drink coffee all day like you used to.", Toby warned.
"It's just a cup of coffee, babe. I need coffee.", she begged to him. "Besides, I didn't drink it today."
"Okay, honey. But not too much all right?"
She nodded smiling and gave him a kiss.
"Come here, let's do some coffee before lunch!", I said to Spencer leading her to the kitchen.
Caleb's idea of bringing Spencer and Toby to live with us was just perfect! Thus, Spencer would be safe with us until her baby was born and she and Toby protect our twins. Caleb and I had to leave for work in the morning and Toby worked in the afternoon. It was the perfect combination of schedules! Spencer, Oliver and Samantha would never be alone in the house. In addition, she and Toby would be great company for us, they were great people. I would thank Caleb for this until I die! We thought about bringing Emily too, but she will have to travel in the next week. Besides, she was still in mourning for her mother. Anyway, we would be very happy this way…
Six months later, Spencer gave birth to a beautiful little girl named Julie. She and Toby were very happy about their daughter and we decided to celebrate it in our house. Some weeks after Spencer come out of the hospital we organized everything to her party. She couldn't be happier then she was in that day! Oliver and Samantha were both with almost one year old and we are planning their party's too. Caleb had already chosen the theme for them: 101 Dalmatians. It was a cute movie and a "unisex" one too. Oliver was almost saying "mommy" while Samantha was still muttering unintelligible words.
One day, after me and Caleb came back to our house from work, Toby and Spencer weren't in the house. There was an uncomfortable silence in there. Not even Julie was making sounds. Caleb and I stared at each other afraid in the front doorway.
"Hello?", Caleb yelled.
Nobody answered.
"Is anybody there?", I screamed. Nobody answered too.
We put our case and bag in the sofa and we gone upstairs rapidly, heading straight to the kids room. The door was closed as usual and we opened it. There was nothing different in there but there were no children too. Caleb ran to look in Julie's crib and I ran to look in Olie's and Sam's beds. There was no signal of –A. Suddenly we heard the back door opening and we ran downstairs just to face Toby and Spencer with the three kids in their arms. They looked surprised at us and Samantha said one of her weird words.
"Where were you?", I asked worried.
"We gone to the bakery to buy some candies and bread.", Spencer said.
"Why you two look so frightened?", Toby asked putting a white bag in the kitchen table.
"We thought –A has taken the children away!", Caleb explained. "Thank God they are safe!"
"Oh, we forgot to write a note to you! I'm so sorry, guys!", Spencer apologized, giving us Oliver and Samantha.
"Well, next time please leave a note, ok?", Caleb requested, kissing Oliver's cheek gently.
"Ok. Now let me go to work or I'll be late!", Toby said catching his brown coat in the sofa. "Goodbye sweetie! See you soon!", he said kissing Spencer in the lips and Julie in the forehead.
When he left the house, the cell phones of everyone in the room rang. We stared at each other and slowly we saw our messages.
"This time it wasn't me to take your babies but in the next it will be. –A"
[…]
One day before Sam and Olie complete one year, everything was already planned and bought for their party. We had invited all of our friends and it promised to be a really cool celebration. Lacked only one thing for the party: get a 101 Dalmatians banner in the party supply store. Toby had taken Julie to play in the park and Caleb had gone to work. Spencer has to stay in the house to take care of the twins so only left me to get this banner. I didn't have to work in that day so I could get the banner every time I wanted. Then I left the house under Spencer's eyes after put the twins to sleep in their room. It took an hour to the store man gave me the banner. It seems like he didn't want to give it to me. Anyway, when I finally got it, I drove home.
"I come back", I yelled in the doorway of the back door, locking it after I entered in the house.
Nobody answered and there was a creepy silence.
"Hello? Spence, are you ok?", I asked again, putting the rolled banner against the wall and the keys in the kitchen table.
Nobody answered again and I walked through the house until I find Spencer sleeping in the sofa of the living room with the television turned on mute in front of her.
"Hey, Spence, are you ok?", I asked shaking her gently. She didn't wake up or made a sign that she would. "Spencer?", I asked again now shaking her really hard. She didn't wake up anyway.
My heart jumped in my chest and I started patting her face. She didn't wake either. I got on her wrist and measure her pressure. She was alive! But she wasn't responding to my claims… Suddenly an idea occurred to me and I climbed the stairs as fast as I could, my breathe skirt hot through my nostrils and the air pressured my lungs. I ran in the corridor just to see the kid's room door opened just like the window.
"NO!", I screamed when I saw the beds empty. I ran to them and started to look for the kids in the blankets but I couldn't find anyone of them. "SAMMY! OLIE!", I yelled.
Nobody answered and the wind blew through the window, making the blue curtains fly.
"NO!", I yelled again, letting myself fall on the ground. I felt the tears in my eyes and tightness in the throat. Now everything was making sense: the guy in the store was slowing me down, so I couldn't get home in time to save my kids. –A probably should have drugged Spencer so he/she could get my twins.
"Mommy!", said a tiny voice in the corridor. "Mommyyy!"
Oliver was crawling to me as fast as he could with a big smile on his face and a yellow car in his hand. I turned to him and jumped from the ground, going catch him in the floor and hold him into my arms. The toy car stayed in the ground but Oliver didn't seem to care. He started to clap his little hands while I kissed him and cried at the same time.
"Oh, Jesus, you're still here! Thank God!", I said crying. "Thank God you're ok, Olie!"
"Mommy!", he kept saying. "Tata!"
"Tata? What's that Olie? Who's Tata?"
"Tata, mommy!", he said again smiling and laughing.
"Tata…", I whispered thinking about what he was trying to say. "Caleb id the dad, Hanna is the mom, Spencer is the aunt, Toby is the uncle and the sister is Saman… SAMANTHA!", I yelled, making him a little bit surprised. "Oliver, you are trying to say that they got your sister?"
I waited for him to say something but then I remembered he was just a baby. I caught my cell phone in the pocket and showed Oliver a photo of his sister took two days before. Immediately he started to clap his hands and yell "Tata" to the photo.
"Oh, good Lord… Who did it to Samantha, Oliver? Hã? Who did it? Who took your sister away?", I screamed but obviously I got no answer. Suddenly me phone rang and I knew what was waiting for me. I opened the message just to cry a little more.
"One year, one baby. Next year I'll have both and you'll have none. Kisses –A"
