Chapter 36

Akaliiani was able to eat a healthy dinner after her tummy had been emptied. For the evening they chose a movie to watch with large bowls of popcorn to be passed around.

They stayed at the ranch two more days and rode both of them, but much shorter distances for Akaliiani.

Then came the day of their flight home. The parting was on the sad side because the four of them didn't know when they would see each other again. However, one interesting plan had come from Gerald, he suggested that they take over his first floor apartment because as Liiani's pregnancy progressed it would be easier if she didn't have to do the stairs. Liiani said she would think about it as she took the keys her father still had for his apartment.

In Little Creek Virginia Vince and Collette had decided not to go away on a honeymoon, even though both had taken a week off of work. What they were going to do with their time off was to turn their guest room into a nursery.

Collette was an interior designer by trade, owning her own business, so Vince had decided to let her make most of the choices for the room.

She chose a lemon yellow for the walls with all white furniture. They had decided they didn't want to know the sex of the baby until it was born so were keeping the room gender neutral.

At the store Collette showed Vince three different banners, one of which they would use as a boarder for the room. The first was and ABC theme, the second pattern was of baby jungle animals, and the third was rainbows and clouds. She was leaving the choice to him.

"I really like the rainbows and clouds. Is that okay with you?" Vince asked.

"Yes darling. I love all three, that is why I wanted you to pick which you liked best. This will be the boarder around the room and we can get sheets for the crib that will match it as well as a bumper pad that goes around the crib."

"Now all we have to do is wait for the baby to arrive!" Vince smiled.

Between Collette and Akaliiani they had discussed due dates and if everything went as planned, barring the babies surprising them, Collette would be a mother about two weeks before her sister-in-law, Liiani.

At her first OBGYN appointment Liiani discovered that she might have an advantage over Collette after all!

"Oh AJ twins! Isn't that wonderful?!" Liiani gasped.

AJ looked a bit dazed as they stared at the ultra sound screen. Even though he was a twin he hadn't even thought about Akaliiani having twins.

"AJ aren't you happy about this?" she asked in a worried voice.

Snapping out of his daze he grinned, "Akaliiani when you told me we were having a baby I was overjoyed, I have no words for how it feels to know we are having two!"

She leaned over and kissed him as a reward for the perfect answer.

What the expectant mothers didn't know was that as Mac was searching for their new apartment she looked at one that was right next door to an orphanage. As she walked up to the apartment building she saw four little boys standing at the fence staring at her. Instead of smiles like you would expect young children she was faced by four of the most solemn faces she had ever seen. The boys were about five or six years of age and as she looked closer she could see that they were identical! Identical quadruplets!

She went home to tell Trevor about them and was in tears over how sad they had been. Mac couldn't help by cry as she talked about them. The two of them talked almost nonstop about the quads for a couple of weeks. They made a trip to the orphanage to meet the boys and both of them fell in love with the children. Trevor was worried that with Mac having a brand new job with so much responsibility and adopting four children?! One child would be a lot for a newlywed couple, but four at once?!

To be continued…..