Saturday:
As Olivia entered her daughter's room, she looked around at everything remembering when Jake had first surprised her by painting and decorating the room. She had never seen their daughter that happy. It was purple and yellow with butterflies covering the walls. Lily's name painted above her bed. Pictures of her and Lily and Lily and Jake hanging on the walls. She looked down at Lily with a smile, the girl was snoring, a trait she got from Jake.
"Lily, it's time to wake up." Olivia said and watched as the little girl slowly sat up. Lily rubbed her eyes and looked at her mom.
"Mommy?" Lliy said groggy.
"Hey, you gotta get up, we're gonna see nana today." Olivia said and her little girl immediately perked up.
"Really?" Lily asked happily.
"Really, now come on. You gotta take a shower and get dressed." Olivia said and Lily hopped out of her bed. The little girl also got a bad case bed head from her father, curly sandy brown ringlets all over her head.
After Olivia help Lily get dressed, they left to meet Jake's mother. Once they got there, as soon as Lily spotted her grandmother the little girl rushed over to her.
"Nana!" Liv heard Lily squeal as she ran over to her.
"Hi sweetheart." Sarah Ballard said as Liv got closer. "Olivia, hi." Sarah Ballard was a petite woman with short sandy blonde hair and sea green eyes. She was loving and kind to everyone no matter what.
"Hi, Sarah." Olivia said and they found a table.
"So, has everything been okay since Jake died." Sarah asked carefully after the waitress took their drink orders.
"Everything has been fine, we've been fine. You?" Olivia answered, she didn't like talking about, even if it was his mother.
"I've been fine. Marissa has asked about you too." said as the waitress brought their drinks and took their food orders. Marissa was Jake's younger sister. Her and Olivia were close but since Marissa worked over in London, they didn't talk much.
"Is she in town?"Olivia asked before looking at Lily who was happily colouring.
"Actually, she will be Monday, she was looking forward to see you and Lily. She said she was going to be staying for a while." Sarah said and Olivia took a sip of her lemonade. Lily looked up and handed her picture to her Nana
"Here Nana, I made this for you. It's a prettys flower." Lily said with a big grin showing off her missing tooth.
"Oh thank you. I see your missing a tooth. Did the tooth fairy give you a dollar for it."
"Uh huh. When got up the tooth was gone and I had a dollwar." Lily said happily.
"Wow." Olivia just looked on, smiling as Lily kept talking to her grandmother. They were always happy around Jake's family. Olivia thought of as a second mother, Sarah and Marissa helped her with the wedding, picking out her wedding dress, the baby shower and was there when she gave birth which was more than her mother or any of her sisters would even try to do.
"Mommy look!" She heard Lily squeal and Liv turned her attention back to her daughter who was holding up another picture.
"I see, it's very pretty." Olivia commented.
"So Olivia, do you still live in the house?" Sarah asked. It was their first home that Jake bought when he found out she was pregnant. They had been married a little over two years when she had found out she was pregnant.
**FlashBack**7 years ago**
"Jake where are we going?" Olivia asked slightly annoyed. He knew she hated surprises but still continues to surprise her.
"It's a surprise, Carrie!" He said with a smile on his face.
"You know I don't like surprises." She sighed
"But you will like this surprise." He said as he continued driving and she rolled her eyes.
"Are we there yet?" She asked about five minutes later and Jake laughed.
"Really." Jake questioned
"Yes really, I have to pee." Liv said and Jake laughed again and she followed in laughter. About five minutes later they pull into a driveway of a two-story townhouse.
"Jake where are we?" Liv asked and he smiled.
"We're home." Jake says and her eyes go wide.
"What?" Olivia exclaimed.
"Its our home." Jake said with the biggest smile.
"When did you buy this?" Olivia asked looking back out the window at the house.
"Well it's your surprise. Since Lily was coming soon I thought we could use a bigger house." He says and she smiles.
"I love you." She said with tears in her eyes.
"I love you too." He said kissing her.
**End of Flashback**
"I do actually, couldn't let it go." Olivia said just as the waitress returned with the food. They continued talking about random things as they ate.
"Have you started dating?" Olivia almost choked on her food when she heard this question.
"I'm sorry if that was too soon to ask you that." Sarah said and Liv shook her head.
"No its fine. It just took me by surprise is all. I actually have a date later tonight, my first one." Olivia says calmly.
"Oh that's good, Jake would be proud to see your happy." Sarah commented.
"He would." Olivia said softly.
I know. I know. I promised a date and I am soooooooo working on that. I promise I am but I've taken wayyyy to long with this just sitting on my computer. Leave a review because they make me smile and I'm working on the next chapter right now.
