Umm..well I only know the name of two of Tess' s children so have made up the name of the third and chose Ellen. So now there's Sam, Saskia and Ellen. xxxx
Tess looked at her three children sitting watching. Waiting for the news. She breathed out. "I'm pregnant." She said.
Their eyes widened looking at each other shocked.
"Mum are you sure you want another child?" Saskia asked.
Tess smiled, "yes. But I'm not alone I've got Fletch."
"Who's Fletch?" Ellen asked.
"My fiance." She replied looking down at the table. She should have told her kids that she was engaged but at the same time they didn't want anyone to make a big deal about it. They'd talked about getting engaged and they just felt like they should get married. Not that they had to. He'd asked for a divorce a few days after they'd arrived at the New house and then Fletch had found a job but Tess decided to get a job after the baby was born. Staying home all day was boring. Nothing to do. But having Fletch with her in the evenings made it all better. She loved him and they were happy together and both of them could say that this was the happiest time of their life. Fletch missed his children though. But he would see them in two years. They were saving up for tickets and wrote to their dad. But the letters have become lest frequent. Now he was lucky to get one a week. Sometimes she saw him get up in the middle of the night and walk to the window and stare at the sky. Wishing on a shooting star. Or maybe he watched the stars. Dying. Maybe he wondered what his kids were doing right at that second and sometimes Tess saw him cry silently. Suffering. She wanted to comfort him say everything is going to be fine but the truth is...He was slowly drifting apart from them. So far away.
"Can we meet him?" Sam asked snapping Tess back. She looked at her kids, glad they were excepting the fact that she hadn't told them about the engagement.
She looked at the clock and then turned back and nodded. "Soon." She said...
They looked at him. Not sure what they thought. He seemed nice enough. But they'd only just met him and their mum was already engaged to him and they had a baby on the way. Maybe they were rushing into things? But their mum seemed happy around him. A kind of happiness they'd remembered her having with their dad. The smiles. The laughter. The way they made each other feel. Maybe it is good that their together.
Fletch tried to stay calm but on the inside he was a nervous wreck. He did not want to make a bad impression on Tess' s children. But they seemed very nice and reminded him a lot of Tess. After a while he felt more comfortable around them learning to trust one another. After all trust is important in a family.