Chapter 14

Authors note: Hi, sorry for the delay I had a bit of writers block. Enjoy

"Hey Sam, I know I should have run this past you earlier but I completely forgot, Evie's coming down this weekend." Jules says as she climbs into bed with Sam.
"Um Jules, Nat's coming down this weekend as well, remember?" Sam says and Jules sighs
"Gosh my memory is appalling at the moment! It's ok I can call Evie and ask her to come down some other time." Jules says resting her head on Sam's chest.
"No no it's fine, Nat's staying in a hotel anyway. We can all spend time together it's fine."
"Are you sure? I mean Evie's staying in a hotel as well but won't you want to spend time with your sister?" Jules asks
"Yeah of course but just because Evie's coming down, doesn't mean I can't still do that." Sam says leaning down and kissing Jules. "Just go to sleep, we can talk more about this in the morning." He says seeing Jules' eyelids start to droop. She nods and is soon asleep.

"So when's Nat arriving?" Jules asks as she feeds Sadie her breakfast the next morning.
"Tomorrow at 12." Sam replies putting a plate of pancakes and a cup of coffee in front of her.
"Thanks. Evie's arriving tomorrow as well but at 11:50. Are you sure you don't mind Sam?"
"I'm sure Jules." He says leaning down and kissing Jules.
"No! No kisses! No daddy!" Aiden shouts from where he's sitting.
"Sorry buddy." Says Sam laughing.
"Guess who's coming to visit tomorrow Aidy?" Jules asks briefly turning her attention from Sadie to Aiden and smiling at him.
"Who?" Aiden asks
"Auntie Evie and Auntie Nat." Says Jules
"Yay!" Says Aiden
"I thought we could go to the aquarium and then out for dinner tomorrow and then to the beach on Sunday. We've both got work on Monday so maybe they could look after Aiden and Sadie." Suggests Jules and Sam nods.
"Sounds good." Says Sam leaning down and kissing Jules once more.

*Next day*

"Auntie Evie!" Aiden shouts running towards Evie as she walks through the airport.
"Hey buddy!" She says and bends down to hug him.
"Mummy it's Auntie Evie!" Aiden says as they reach Sam, Jules and Sadie.
"I can see! Hey Evie." Says Jules and hugs her sister.
"Hey guys." Evie says hugging Jules back and then hugging Sam. "Is this baby Sadie? She's grown so much since I last saw her!"
"Yep, looking more and more like her mummy everyday!" Sam says lifting Sadie out of her pram and passing her to Evie.
"Evie, I completely forgot but Sam's sister Natalie is coming down today as well." Says Jules and Evie smiles at her.
"That's ok, don't worry about it. I'd love to meet your sister." Evie says turning to Sam. "When's she arriving?"
"The plane should have just landed.. Actually looks like she's here already. Nat!" Sam calls and waves to Nat before taking Aiden by the hand and walking over to greet his sister.
"He really loves his sister doesn't he?" Evie asks as she and Jules watch Nat and Sam hug.
"Yeah, he does. I think he misses her a lot when she leaves for long periods of time. I mean it's not like we use to see her everyday but he still misses her." Jules replies. After introducing Evie to Nat, they left the airport and headed for the aquarium.

"So I thought that maybe you, me, Jules and the kids could do something together tomorrow, that sound good?" Natalie asks Sam as they walk through the aquarium. Jules and Evie were just ahead of them with Aiden and Sam and Nat were walking a little slower with Sam pushing Sadie in the pram.
"Actually I think Jules had planned for all of us to go to the beach together so that we included Evie in everything as well." Sam says
"Oh." Says Nat trying to hide her disappointment. "Ok well what about Monday before I leave?"
"Jules and I have shifts all morning, we were going to ask you and Evie if you could babysit." Sam says and glances at Nat who smiles at him, trying to hide her disappointment once again.
"Me and Evie? You know if you wanted to I could just do it, Evie could go shopping or something." She says
"No I think Jules wanted you both to do it so you both got to spend time with the kids."
"What about tonight then?" She says sighing, this was not going to plan.
"We were all going to go out for dinner." Sam says "I'm sorry Nat, if you wanna just spend some time, just you and me at some point tomorrow then I could sort something out with Jules?"
"No it's ok." Nat says
"Are you sure? It doesn't look like its ok." Sam says
"Yep, it's fine." Nat says

"Sam told me about your plans for tonight, tomorrow and Monday. You know if your sister wants to go off shopping or something on Monday, I can look after Sadie and Aiden by myself." Nat says sitting down beside Jules on a bench in the park watching Evie and Sam play with Aiden.
"That's really kind of you Nat but I think Evie wants to help, she doesn't get to see Sadie and Aiden that often so I think she likes to spend as much time as possible with them." Jules says smiling at Natalie before turning her attention to Sadie who is babbling at her.
"So do I." Nat mutters barely loud enough to be heard.
"Sorry what did you say?" Jules asks turning back to Nat.
"Nothing." Natalie says and gets up to join Evie, Sam and Aiden.

"So I was just wondering if you wanted me to just babysit the kids on Monday, I wouldn't mind." Nat says to Evie when she comes and sits beside her on the bench after Nat had swapped with Jules and Jules had gone to play with Aiden and Sam.
"No thanks. I don't get to see them very often at all. I mean the last time I saw Sadie was when she was born."
"Really? Why's that?" Nat asks
"Just because I'm busy with work a lot." She replies and Nat nods.

"You know I really don't think that Evie is that committed to her role as Auntie to the kids and godmother to Aiden." Natalie says to Sam later that evening.
"Ok Nat stop. This isn't funny and I don't know what you're doing but if you have something against Evie, I can't see why personally, then put it behind you for the few days that you're both here. I love you Nat but I've never seen you like this before you're acting so...so..jealous."
"I'm not jealous I just.."
"Save it Natalie I don't want to hear it." Sam says cutting Nat off. Aiden then calls his name and Sam makes his way over to his son leaving his sister sitting alone on the sofa behind him.

"I uh, I think I'll leave a little earlier than planned I just..." Nat starts, walking into the living room that evening.
"What? Why?" Jules asks
"I just don't want to intrude on family time with your sister." Nat says shrugging.
"Nat, come and talk for me for a bit." Sam says pulling Nat out of the room. "What are you doing?"
"Only what I think is right." Nat says
"This is not what's right. You're going because of what I said to you earlier. Listen I'll talk to Jules about us having sometime as a family tomorrow at some point and Evie going off and doing something and then we do something with Evie and you go shopping or whatever and then we can meet up in the evening." Sam suggests
"Ok, yeah that would be great, thanks Sammy. I love you, I'm gonna go back to my hotel, I'll see you later." Nat says kissing his cheek and then leaving.

"Nat wanted to know if tomorrow instead of going to the beach, if we could do something with her and then later on something with Evie and then meet up in the evening?" Sam asks getting into bed beside Jules and wrapping his arms around her waist.
"Really? Ok, that sounds quite good actually." Jules says
"Yeah? Ok cool." Sam says leaning down and kissing her.

AN: To be continued. Please review :)