Here is the next chapter sorry about the wait.
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That Friday was the day before Valentine's Day. Derek had a huge surprise for Meredith but she didn't know what it was. She was against the whole idea and said it was just another reason for people to spend money on their loved ones. It was a stupid idea in her book.
Derek knew she hated this but being their first Valentine's Day married he had booked reservations at her favourite restaurant and the evening kid free. It was just going to be them for about 15 hours alone together. Something that they needed considering half the time they never spent 15 hours of the day together. He told her it was going to be kid free and that was it.
"Okay I'm off to work. I'll be back tonight." He said that morning.
"Sure. I'll see you then."
He kissed her goodbye then left the house. It was only 6 o'clock. She rolled over and closed her eyes.
"Come on Kaylee time to get up."
Kaylee gradually got up out of bed and followed Meredith downstairs. Meredith made her breakfast and herself some as well.
Driving towards the preschool Kaylee seemed uninterested.
"Hey baby what's wrong?" She said looking in the rear view mirror.
"I don't feel like preschool today."
"Why's that?"
"I don't know. I'm just tired I guess and I don't feel too well."
"Okay well it's only for a few hours. If you don't feel well then you tell your teacher okay?"
"Okay mummy."
They pulled up outside the preschool. Meredith had to drop and run. Letting Kaylee out of the car then taking her bag from the boot. She placed it on her back.
"Okay I will see you this afternoon. Nanna is picking you up." She bent down and hugged her and kissed her goodbye. "Have fun."
Kaylee waved goodbye to her as she walked in with some other kids.
"Okay Coopie now time for school." She says as she starts the car and heads off again.
Meredith had school today for the whole day and Kaylee had preschool for half the day. She would spend half the day at preschool then the rest of the day at Carolyn's. Derek had a day at the hospital until around 6 pm. And little Cooper had the day being at his mummy's side all day.
After school Meredith went to the shops and picked up a present for Derek because she had a gut feeling he would buy her something for Valentine's Day. So with Cooper they went searching for a small gift. Cooper was on her hip as they went shopping.
"I don't know what to get him." She says.
After 10 minutes of looking she felt kind of sick from all the cliché type gifts. She went by the perfumes and colognes and remembered that at Christmas he liked the cologne that she bought him. So finding the same bottle she purchased it along with something's for them tomorrow night even though she had no idea what was happening. It was a just in case thing that might happen.
"Come on baby let's get going."
Paying for the items they left to go and pick Kaylee up.
"Hi Carolyn." Meredith says walking through the front door with Cooper.
"Hi Meredith. Hello baby." She says to Cooper.
Cooper holds his arms out for Carolyn to take him. She leads them into the lounge room where Kaylee is drawing and Amelia is besides her colouring as well. Even though she is in year 9 and 14 years old she still enjoys arts and crafts with her 4 year old niece.
"Hi Kaylee." Meredith says.
Kaylee looks up and smiles. "Hi mummy."
"Do you want a tea or a coffee?"
"No I'm fine."
"Anything to eat?"
"No I'm fine."
"Okay. So for tomorrow Derek has told me that I am babysitting the kids."
"Yeah that's what he has told me as well. I'm not really sure why so it's all a surprise."
"Well knowing Derek he has an extravagant surprise for you."
"But I really hate surprises."
"Well you know Derek. He loves them."
"All I would want from him is a foot message. That's all not a huge fancy dinner and romantic evening."
Carolyn just laughed.
"You know what he has planned don't you?"
"I'm not saying."
"Oh please tell me what he told you."
"Nope sorry you'll just have to wait and see."
"I don't want to wait. I suck at waiting."
"Well it is your first Valentine's day married so think about that."
"Yeah I suppose. I just don't want him to outdo himself because I'm waiting for the honeymoon where he can outdo himself."
"Talking about your honeymoon what day are you going again?"
"Well it's about the week before Coopie's birthday. We leave for 13 days, the week before his birthday and we get back the day before his birthday."
"So the birthday party. When are you going to have that?"
"We are thinking that weekend because that Monday I start my internship and Derek is a resident so we will have it that day."
"Well you better get planning."
"We have 4 and a half months to wait. We have a while to wait."
"Well early planning is best."
"Yeah I suppose. Anyway I will wait I guess. A lot of things are soon to happen then. Nancy's having a baby. Steph's having her triplets. There will be everything happening so we will wait."
"Okay well remember I am a phone call away."
"Yes I do." She says. "Anyway we better be going."
"Okay. Come on Kaylee your going home now."
Kaylee quickly finished drawing while Carolyn passed Cooper back to Meredith and started packing her bag.
"Bye Amy." Kaylee says hugging her.
"Bye Peanut. I will see you tomorrow night."
"Can we play babies tomorrow?"
"We can play whatever you want. I'm your favourite aunty so I'm going to let you choose what we want."
Kaylee picked up her drawing and went over to Carolyn kissing and hugging her goodbye.
"We'll see you tomorrow." Meredith says letting Kaylee lead the way out of the front door.
"Yes we will." Meredith says leaving with the kids.
"So what are we doing tomorrow night?" She asks that night when Derek is home.
"Well it's a surprise."
"Yeah you know I hate surprises."
"Well I promise you will enjoy it and I mean enjoy it." He says kissing her.
"You promise?"
"When do I ever break my promises?"
"Never." She says.
He smiles before kissing her again.
"Night sweetie." He says turning the light off.
"Night."
...
"Happy Valentine's Day." Derek whispers in her ear that morning, walking his fingers over her shoulders and leaning down to kiss her cheek.
"You know I hate this day." She murmurs.
"Well you won't hate it after tonight. You'll be screaming for it and counting down for it every year." He says.
"Hmm that better be true. Cause I need something to count down to every year besides our kid's birthdays, your birthday and all our family and friends birthdays." She says sitting up.
He sits up beside her and hands her a present.
She opened the box with a pair of silver earrings inside.
"Oh they are gorgeous. Thank you." She says kissing him.
"No problem, I love spoiling you."
She reached into the drawer beside her and handed him the present she bought yesterday.
"Oh thank you."
"That's okay."
"I can give you a clue about tonight." He says.
"Yes please."
"Well formal wear is to be worn to this place."
"Somewhere fancy and expensive I like."
"And we are to leave this house at ten to 7 so we can drop the kids off and then head to this destination for 7.30."
"Okay then I can do that."
"Good." He says agreeing. "So what do we want to do for the day?"
"Well I don't really mind. Kaylee will want to do something considering your home. So maybe a family day to the park or something."
Sparrow had jumped onto the bed and curled up around Meredith's chest.
"Um I know what we can do." He says.
"Derek no, the kids will be up soon." She says. "And besides that's for tonight."
"Yeah, yeah I know." He says. "We can maybe just stay here. Build a cubby house and have a picnic and do whatever she feels like."
"Sounds like a good idea." She says smiling at him. "That reminds me, Peanut will want her breakfast."
"We'll I will go do that before the kids wake up."
He kisses her again and leaves the room. Meredith stays on the bed with Sparrow curled around her chest.
"You find the weirdest positions to sleep in don't you boy."
Derek was back in 20 minutes with coffee for the two of them.
"Oh and I think Coopie is up." Meredith says. "I can hear him blabbering away on the baby monitor."
"I will go and get him."
Leaving the room he walks into the nursery and arrives in the bedroom with Cooper.
"Hello baby." Meredith says as Derek places him on the bed.
His crawling had gotten him into everything that he could reach, so everything breakable or worth of value was placed higher because he also raced Kaylee, Peanut and Sparrow around the house and got really clumsy and hit everything with his legs or arms or his bottom.
Cooper crawled besides Meredith and he used her as a support to stand up.
"You're getting game aren't you?" She says to him.
Cooper looks at her wondering why she hasn't picked him up yet and started feeding him. He then looked at Sparrow and saw his tail. Lucky that Sparrow was so nice and gentle he didn't care about Cooper tugging his tail. Sparrow looked at Cooper and laid back down. Cooper didn't like people not giving him attention so he tried to get his attention again by tugging harder.
"Cooper he is going to bite you." Derek says.
Cooper keeps annoying him and Sparrow finally looks up at him then climbs off Meredith's chest and gets off the bed leaving the room. Cooper doesn't care about him leaving because now Meredith could feed him.
"Come here Coopie since you kicked Sparrow off." Meredith picked him up and kissed his cheek.
"Would you like breakfast?" He asks.
"I'll be happy with raisin toast."
"Well that is coming right up."
Derek left the room and Meredith looked at Cooper.
"Do you know what daddy has planned for today?" She asks him.
He just looks at her before wrapping his arms around her neck giving her a sign that he wants to be fed.
...
"So daddy how are we going to build this?" She asks looking at the pile of blankets, sheets and pillows.
"Well we have to find something that is big enough and then you build it however you want."
"Oh okay. Can we use the lounge room; use the entryway was the door?"
"That's a good idea."
They finally had finished building the cubby house.
"Mummy quick come have a look." Kaylee said grabbing her hand.
Meredith stood in front of the doorway.
"Come on in." Kaylee says dragging her inside.
"Wow this is amazing. It looks very comfy sweetie."
"Well that's what we wanted to do so we can all be comfortable and be able to lie down and do whatever we want."
"Well let me grab Coopie and we can start."
"No need to. He is over there." She says pointing to the pile of pillows and the passed out baby.
"Did he get tired helping?"
"Yes he did."
"Well then let me grab my camera and take a photo of him so we can show Nanna and everyone else."
They spent the day inside the cubby. It wasn't romantic like it should have been but it was a nice family day. They placed board games, ate lunch, read stories, made up stories, told stories and finished off the afternoon with an afternoon nap all together.
...
"So sweetie what do you think." Meredith said modelling her dress for Kaylee.
"You look like a princess. A really really really beautiful princess."
"Well thank you. Let me say that you are a beautiful princess as well."
"So what are you doing with your hair?"
"Well what do you think a pretty princess like mummy should have?"
"Have it wavy."
Meredith done her hair.
"Like this?"
"Yes. Now for you make up."
She started applying her makeup and Cooper crawled inside.
"Coopie no boys allowed." Kaylee says.
"His alright Kaylee boys under the age of 21 are allowed in this room."
Kaylee looked at her confused.
"Don't worry." Meredith replies laughing.
Cooper sat besides Meredith. Kaylee was sitting on the basin.
"Mummy I think Cooper wants to get up."
"Well I won't be able to hold him so he will have to stay down there."
"Do you want me take him to daddy?"
"Yes please."
"Come on Coopie?" Kaylee said getting down off the basin.
She picked him up as best she could and went to find Derek.
"Daddy."
"Yes Kaylee."
"Can you come and get Coopie."
Derek collected Cooper and brought him downstairs to the kitchen. Derek was dressed and ready to go. He even had the kids packed and ready to go with their gear in the car. He brought Cooper downstairs into the lounge room. Derek at the table reading the paper and Cooper amused himself with a toy.
"Do you want some food?"
Cooper looked at him and went and pulled a bar out from the cupboard. Opening the bar he handed it to him. Derek then remembered that he needed to grab the medicine to pack into the baby bag for Cooper and Kaylee. Grabbing a chair he moved it by the cupboard and climbed up it. Cooper crawled over to the chair and started trying to climb up it. Derek searching the cupboard knocked one of the bottles of medicine and it fell. Hitting Cooper's head. Derek reacting as quickly as possible jumped down off the chair and picked him up. His forehead was bleeding and it looked quite deep.
Meredith and Kaylee walked into the kitchen just as it happened.
"God is he alright?" Meredith says
"I don't know."
Meredith disappeared and Kaylee just stood there not knowing what to do.
"Daddy."
"Yeah sweetie."
"Will Coopie be okay?"
"Yes he will. He might just need to go to the hospital."
They arrived at the hospital. Derek had let them know that they were on their way in the car. They also let Carolyn know what had happened. She had Braden, Maddie and Lacey so she couldn't leave the house.
Pulling up in the ER Derek got out of the car with Cooper. Meredith parking the car got Kaylee and they headed inside.
"So what's happening?" She asks.
"The plastic surgeon is on his way down."
"Why the plastic surgeon?"
"So he doesn't have an awful scar."
"The scar will slowly disappear."
"Yes but at least this one will hardly be recognisable."
They waited and waited. Kaylee was getting bored so she was watching a movie on Meredith's phone.
"Sorry about our dinner plans." She says.
"That's fine. I suppose it was kind of my fault."
"Derek these things happen."
"Yeah I know, I just wish I didn't."
"So are you going to tell me where we were going?"
"Well we were going to that really fancy restaurant down near the wharf. Tonight was formal wear night due to it being Valentine's Day."
"I'm sorry we missed it."
"That is fine. After dinner we were going to go for a walk down the pier to watch the ferry boats before we came home for a romantic evening of anything you wanted." He says leaning in and kissing her.
"Sounds amazing but you know what I don't mind being with the kids."
An hour past and the plastic surgeon finally arrived.
"Hi Derek what seems to be the problem?"
"Well my son Cooper had an accident. I accidently knocked a medicine bottle onto him. He was climbing the chair I was and I knocked it and it hit him in the head."
"Okay well I will have a look at what we can do." He says.
He checks his forehead.
"Okay he will need about 5 stiches. I will be back. Excuse me."
"See he will be fine." Derek says to Meredith.
Cooper was getting tired.
"I think he will be asleep before his forehead is even stitched up." Meredith says.
He held his arms up for Meredith to pick him up.
"Can I hold him?" She asks as the plastic surgeon comes back.
"Yeah sure. Do you have a bottle for him?"
"In the car we do."
"Well I will let you feed him while I stitch him up because he looks as if he is about to pass out."
"Yeah I think he is." Meredith says. "Can you get Kaylee's pyjamas as well?"
"Sure."
"I'll wait if you want."
"Yes please."
"Mummy how much longer are we going to be here?"
"What's your name sweetie?"
"Kaylee."
"Well Kaylee I'm Dr Roberts and I work with your daddy. I'm hoping to be another hour and then you can go home to bed."
"Okay."
"How old are you Kaylee?"
"4."
"Wow, do you go to preschool?"
"Yes I do. I go with my best friend Sam. His mummy is having triplets. 2 girls and a boy. And Sam's mummy got married to Dan so now Dan is Sam's daddy. And Sam's knew daddy has a daughter Zoe who is Sam's baby sister. I'm also starting ballet with my cousin Claire and Caitlin next week. I have 6 cousins and I am second oldest. Cooper is the youngest out of all of them but he won't be for long when my aunty Nancy has her baby in June. I have 5 Aunt's and 3 uncles. Mummy has a brother and a sister and daddy has 4 sisters. But then I have other aunts and uncles who aren't actually my real ones but we call them that." She rambles.
"And my mummy and daddy are going to build a castle out at the land. That's where I was born. And we are going to live out there with my other siblings and have a happily ever after."
Kaylee keeps talking to Dr Roberts and Meredith just shakes her head at him. He smiles back.
"Okay Kaylee that's enough sweetie."
"Sorry mummy."
"No its fine you ramble like me and talk like your father." She tells her. "Finish watching that movie if you want."
"It's finished."
"We'll start another one."
"Okay."
"Sorry about that. I sometimes think she is a 15 year old the way she talks."
"No its fine. My god son is exactly the same."
Derek came back and handed Meredith a bottle and she laid Cooper down on the bed and started feeding him. Derek helped changed Kaylee into her pyjamas. Dr Roberts also started stitching Cooper's forehead.
"You guys came in at the best time."
"Why's that."
"Well Derek when you work the Valentine's Day shift you get some weird cases coming in."
"Oh that's disgusting." Derek says realising what he meant.
"Yeah it really is." He says. "I see that you two were not planning on being here tonight."
"Yeah we had dinner reservations without the kids. My mum was going to watch the two of them but that kind of changed."
"Well at least you wore your clothes somewhere."
...
"Okay you are all good to go home. Bring him by in 5 or so days and I can take them out." Dr Roberts says.
"Thank you."
"Just page me when you are ready and I can be down in a tick to take them out."
"Okay so is there anything to avoid."
"Just avoid wetting his stitches. And I know how babies can touch and rip them so a bandage over them will avoid that."
"Okay thank you so much."
"It's fine. I will see you in 5 days."
Meredith settled Cooper over her shoulder and Derek picked Kaylee up from the bed and placed her over his shoulder.
They arrived home putting the kids to bed. It was just after 10.30. The two of them changed from their evening wear and hung out down in the lounge room. The cubby that they built earlier that day was still standing. Derek grabbed some alcohol for the two of them and they went and sat in the cubby.
"Let me say that this was the best Valentine's Day I have ever had." She says.
"Are you kidding me they will get better a lot better and when we don't have babies getting hit with medicine bottles and ending up in the ER then they will be great and I will make sure of that." He says leaning in and kissing her.
"So I suppose we have just over an hour and a half left of the day and that could lead to some very amazing celebrating of our love."
"A celebration of our love? That's what our anniversary is for."
"Well can we just do the sex thing instead of having this conversation?"
"Sure." She says. "Just one thing you better top this Valentine's Day next year."
"Oh just you wait."
Okay this one I thought was a nice filler just saying that things don't always go to plan.
Anyway let me know what you thought.
I am always at the moment having been banking many chapters up because I haven't gotten the chance to and at the moment I am writing another story and I have almost finished that and as soon as I finish it I will post in and hopefully you like it.
Next chapter is Kaylee's first day at ballet.