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"Ezra, I think Juliet wants you", Aria sighed tapping Ezra on the back as Juliet's cries rang out. Ezra opened his eyes looking at Aria "well I think we managed 3 hours into the night since we were last woken up by one of them. I suppose that's something, I'll go get her and I'll wake you up again if she's hungry, night honey". Ezra climbed out of bed seeing Aria had already drifted off again. He turned back to look at her sleeping one last time before walking to the nursery. They'd a had the twins home for a week now and they'd slept most of the night for the first three days but for the past four they had been waking up every three hours or less and Aria was washed out.
Ezra walked into the nursery to see Juliet lying in her cot screaming her head off, bright red with tears flooding from her eyes. Ezra was surprised to see Atticus had remained fast asleep his tiny chest going up and down as he smiled slightly in his sleep. Ezra smiled at his little boy before picking up his screaming daughter. "Hey JuJu what's wrong baby", Ezra cooed as Juliet began to calm down slightly. Ezra smiled as she began relax resting her head on his should and stroke his hair. "Tell you what why don't we go downstairs and I'll sit on the couch and read you a story my little princess", even if Juliet was only 9 days old Ezra was determined to start reading to her as early as possible.
Ezra crept downstairs Juliet safely leaning against his shoulder. He went over picking up one of the book Spencer had brought over for them along with some groceries that morning. Him and Aria were planning to take the twins out for the first time tomorrow; they wanted to give them a week to get used to the house first. "Once upon a time there lived a beautiful princess in a magical kingdom. The princess would wait everyday looking out of the window, waiting for her prince to return", Ezra told Juliet noticing she had already drifted off again. Ezra smiled stifling a yawn himself so as not to wake her up.
He placed her safely pack in her cot making sure she was safely wrapped in her blanket, before turning the lights back off and heading back to his wife. Aria was asleep with her arms clinging to something. Ezra walked over her side to see her clinging to Juliet's stuffed rabbit; she must have picked it up when she fed her and Atticus 3 hours ago. He climbed in next to her wrapping his arms around her and pulling her close as they drifted off.
"Morning", Aria chirped, walking into their bedroom made up and dressed with Atticus in her arm also clean and dressed. "Morning honey, I see you're ready to go let me just get dressed real quick then we can go". Aria nodded and smiled before turning and heading back to the nursery. It wasn't long before Ezra heard Aria's voice ringing down the corridor. Her beautiful voice singing old MacDonald as she finished packing up the twin's stuff. Ezra got his jeans and a shirt on before heading to nursery to join Aria.
"I'll take Atticus you take Juliet and then once they're in the car I'll put the stroller in the trunk", Ezra suggested, "Sounds good to me but first come here I want my good morning kiss". Ezra nodded firmly wrapping his arms around Aria's waist and pulling her into his lips. He held her close for a while until Atticus's gargling noises broke the silence. "I think they're ready to go", Ezra laughed before planting a finale kiss on Aria's lips and scooping Atticus up as Aria picked Juliet up.
"Off we go", Ezra sang out as he started the car and headed for the town. "High school first Mrs Welch insisted we bring them when they were born and I know mom and the girls would love to see them. It's also Hanna's first day back I figure she could do with a pick me up", "Of course", Ezra replied as they headed to the school.
Aria and Ezra pushed the stroller up the ramp to the school entrance and through the double doors. Their footsteps echoed down the hall as they headed to the school office to register as visitors. "Aria, Ezra", the receptionist called out as they approached the office. She opened the door running out from behind the office window. "Hello Jill", Ezra smiled, "Hi Mrs McClain", Aria smiled. "Oh you're not a student any more you can call me Jill and who have we got here", Jill asked. Atticus smiled up at Jill as she leaned down and Juliet wriggled slightly a smile spreading across her face as well. "This is Juliet in the pink and this is Atticus in the blue. And they're 10 days old today", "Oh there precious you're mom mentioned you might be coming in sometime I've been holding onto this for you both", Jill smiled as she produced a gift bag from behind her back. "Oh thank you this is to kind", Aria said as she pulled out a blue and a pink 'Rosewood Sharks' baby grows. "Oh Jill they're lovely", Ezra exclaimed looking at them before hugging Jill. "Can I have a hold", Jill asked. "Of course I'll give you Atticus he's little calmer and Juliet has an obsession with attaching herself to people hair", Aria laughed as she carefully lifted Atticus from the stroller. She handed him over carefully as Jill cradled him safely in her arms. "Oh he's precious, I remember when my son's were this age, now my oldest has just started high school. They grow up so fast I sometimes forget how small they used to be", She smiled running finger along his cheek as he gurgled slightly, causing them all to laugh. "Lunch is due to start in 5 minutes so I best get you both signed in, so you can get out of the halls before the crowds come", Jill sighed handing Atticus to Ezra and heading back to the office.
Once they were signed in they headed to Ella's classroom and peeped through the door. Ella was stood at the board writing up the class's assignment as they all copied it down. Turning away from the board to see her daughter and husband Ella beckoned them to come in. Ezra opened the door for Aria allowing her to wheel the stroller through Ella's classroom door. There were a chorus of 'awws' from the girls in the classroom as the twins were wheeled in. The bell rang suddenly making the twins burst into tears only to cause more awws to erupt from the girls. Aria lifted Atticus and Ezra grabbed Juliet as they began to gently soothe them. "Would you like to come and meet them", Aria asked the girls who stood there staring at them as the twins began to quieten down. The girls nodded and came over as Aria and Ezra placed the twins back in the stroller so the girls could see them more easily. "What are they called Mr Fitz", one of the girls asked. "This is Atticus and this is Juliet", Ezra told them all. "Like Juliet in Romeo and Juliet and Atticus in To Kill A Mockingbird", one girl asked. Aria piped in now "Yes we thought literature names would be appropriate". "Grandma Ella wants a hold", Ella laughed scooping Juliet up and allowing Juliet to grab hold of her hair.
The girls soon filtered out of the classroom leaving Aria and Ezra alone with Ella and the twins. "You to look like you're coping well. I remember when we first brought Aria home me and Byron were getting woken every hour for three weeks. It was as if you couldn't go a second with out screaming. How are theses two at night". "Well they've been waking us up every two to three hours between them, but they seem to be settling well though and unless both of them are crying at the same time we tend to take it in turn", Aria explained picking Atticus up and cradling him safely against her shoulder. "How about we head to the cafeteria the halls should have cleared now you can go and sit with the girls for a bit. Plus Mrs Welch has been asking me for pictures and I only have few I know she'd love to meet them", Ella asked. Aria nodded as she placed Atticus safely in the stroller before taking Juliet from Ella and placing her safely in the stroller as well. Ezra took the stroller this time pushing it down the corridor to the canteen.
"Aria" Spencer called waving across to her. Aria headed over to the table where her friends all sat Ezra following with the twins. "I'm going to catch up with my old colleagues I'll take Atticus so that Mrs Welch is happy", "Ok", Aria smiled giving Ezra a quick kiss as Aria got Juliet out of the stroller and headed over to join the girls. "Hey", Aria said as she sat carefully down at the table Juliet cradled in her arms a hand clinging to Aria's hair. "Wow Aria she really does love hair doesn't she", Hanna laughed. "Tell me about it every time I pick her up she grabs onto my hair, the book says sometimes babies like hair cause it's soft they find it soothing. That doesn't seem to stop her spitting up in though", they all laughed as Aria finished. "So we wondered if may be you'd like to go to the park with us at the weekend, you could bring the twins and Ezra. We thought it might be nice to sit and have a little catch up", Emily suggested. "That sounds lovely, how's the studying going Spence", Aria asked looking at Spencer who seemed to be drowning in a pile of notes. "I'm preparing for graduation I'm head of the organising committee and graduation is only 4 weeks away. I have to make sure everything runs smoothly and so far I've had the staging people mixing our order up with another school and the catering company getting us mixed up with a wedding", "Wow Spence if you need any help your more then welcome to ask me, I'm with the twins all day now Ezra is going back to work for the next 3 weeks. I'd be more then happy to help organise orders", "Oh that would be brilliant you're a life saver", "Sure Spence any time", "now that's sorted Auntie Spencer wants to give little Juju a cuddle". Aria laughed as she untangled Juliet from her hair passing her over. Juliet frowned slightly at the facts Spencer hair was plaited up on her hair, meaning she had nothing to hold.
"It's been great seeing you all have a good day", Aria waved as they all headed off to class. "Let's go", Ezra whispered in Aria's ear making her jump slightly. "Don't sneak up on me when I'm holding a baby", Aria responded strapping Juliet into the stroller. "Sorry I thought you knew I was behind you, how about we go to Lucky Leon's and we can get some food". "Deal", Aria replied giving him a peck on the nose before they headed back out of the school.
