Life Choices, Challenges and Changes
Part 2a June 20, 2017
June 20, 2017
Finn looked over at the patio door as Rory came out holding his daughter.
"Hey, is it daddy time now that she is all fed?" he asked Rory.
"It is." She handed him Lyn and sat down in the other chair beside him where she placed her glass of tea and the beer on the table between them. Lucas came running over to her and hugged her.
"How is my big boy doing?" she asked him gently smoothing the hair from his face.
"Good. Mama I am thirsty can I have some juice?"
"Sure buddy, do you want apple or grape?" she asked him. Then Liam came running up behind him.
"Me too, juice," he said running up to her and putting his hands on her knee.
"Ok, why don't you both come in, wash your hands and you can pick out your juice box."
Lucas took his brother's hand and the two boys followed their mother into the house. Finn grabbed his phone and quickly took a picture of the two of them. This was the first time he had seen them do this, and he had to capture the moment. Lyn was cooing and blowing bubbles and he then took a selfie of him and his daughter. Just as he finished saving the picture to his gallery, his phone rang. Adjusting Lyn in his arm he answered the phone.
"Hey little brother, Mum and Dad should be arriving at your house around five thirty. They just called, Dad wants to stop by the penthouse before coming over. He has another project he wants you to check out. I should be in with my brood on Friday. Are you up for this family reunion?"
"Angus I am always up for it. Wait let me send you some recent pictures. I just took them."
He quickly sent the picture of Lucas and Liam walking into the house holding hands and the selfie with Lyn.
"Oh Mate, how did you get those two little monkeys to hold hands? My two would rather be punching each other out."
"It's all Rory, Angus."
"I told you when you married her that she was one in a million. I can't believe that she fell for you."
Rory walked out with the two boys following her.
"Liam, Lucas do you want to say hi to your Uncle Angus?" Finn put his phone on speaker.
"Uncle Angus when are you coming? Are Jasper and Jamie coming too?" Lucas said taking the phone from his father.
'Yes, Lukie they are, and we will be there on Friday."
"Mama how many days till Friday?" Angus heard Lucas ask Rory.
"Only three nights of sleeping," Rory replied.
"Ok, Uncle Angus, see you on Friday." Luke replied handing the phone back to his father and went to sit in the sandbox with Liam.
"Ok Bro, I will see you soon, give my love to Mia." Finn ended the call. Lyn had fallen asleep on her father's chest. She looked so comfortable that Rory didn't want to move her. She leaned over and kissed him.
"Will Ashlyn and Jess be joining us on Friday too?" Rory asked Finn.
Ashlyn was Finn's sister and Jess was her husband. They were married now for four years and she was expecting their first child in four months. Finn and Rory saw them often since they lived in Hartford and they were Liam's godparents. They named their daughter Lorelai Ashlyn and called her Lyn after his sister. They spent as much time as possible together.
"Yes, they will be here, you know Jess enjoys being here with our kids. Rory open my phone to the last pictures I took,"
Rory opened the phone and saw the picture he took of him and Ashlyn.
"When did you do that?" she asked him as she looked at the beautiful picture he took of the two of them.
Their daughter's eyelashes were long and dark, and she looked like a porcelain doll lying on her father's chest. Rory quickly took another picture of them together.
"No look at the picture of the two boys," he said. She scrolled and saw the picture of Luke and Liam holding hands.
She smiled, "How did I ever end up with you and this wonderful family?" She said as she got up and sat on his knee. Leaning in she kissed him.
"When I think back to our first proper date…" she said but Finn never let her finish her sentence instead he said, "I knew the moment I saw you standing there that I was going to make sure you married me. I no longer cared what Logan thought. I was not going to let you out of my life again."