The Ones We Love
Chapter 10:
"Living with a baby is, hard to describe." Zack thought. At times, it's hard. Because of the 2:00am feedings, dirty diapers, and the fact that Ava had a high pitch shriek. But, Zack was up at 2:00am anyways, the dirty diapers go into the diaper genie never to be smelled again, and he actually loved the high pitched shriek when he wasn't trying to sleep. Plus he loved holding her, looking at her. "She looks smart." he decided.
It had been a month since they had taken baby Ava home. It was a lot of fun with Ava around. As Zack predicted, Ava had her mother's blonde hair. Cody and London were over often, Cody sometimes brought the kids usually. Caroline loved the baby, she loved holding it. She wasn't jealous, because she already went through that when Jacob was born. Jacob although happy that he had a cousin, was jealous. Everyone thought that it was cute he was jealous of the baby. But he was only two, so it was normal.
Cody and London were always together now, "Wow, it's nice that they are renewing their friendship!" thought Zack. But he was wrong, Cody and London liked each other, a lot. They had been seeing each other for a few month's now. But Zack and Maddie didn't know, they were too busy with the baby to notice. Which was good news for Cody and London anyways.
It was 8:00am and Zack and Maddie were up eating breakfast. Ava was in her bassinet when suddenly they heard a sharp, loud knock on the door. Ava, being woken up, started wailing. "Who could it be this early?" asked Maddie, the knocking continued, Zack shrugged his shoulders and got up to answer it.
Zack opened the door, standing there was a tall blonde woman wearing a black blazer and a matching skirt, she had a serious look on her face. "May I speak to Madeline Fitzpatrick?" Zack looked at Maddie who was calming Ava down, "She's not available right now." said Zack. "Well in that case could you give her this?" the woman handed Zack an official looking envelope. "Tell her she has been served." and with that, the woman turned and walked away. Zack looked confused and then read the top corner of the envelope. "Bridget Malone, Attorney at Law" Zack said to himself.
"What was that about?" asked Maddie who had put Ava back in her bassinet. "Here," Zack handed her the envelope. Maddie looked at the front, and mouthed the words that Zack had read to himself just a second ago. She tore open the envelope and started reading the letter inside. Then Maddie started crying, and handed the letter to Zack. Zack started to read it the letter said,
Mrs. Madeline Fitzpatrick,
This letter is to inform you of a custody hearing that will occur: Monday April 8th, 2008 at 9:30am The custody hearing was established on the grounds that the child in question (Ava Grace Fitzpatrick) would be in a safer environment if she resided with her biological father (Charles Alexander Lawford.)
Thank You, Bridget Malone, Attorney at Law.
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