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Merry Christmas and a Happy New year!
Remember to stop by on New Years day to read the Prologue for Floating Memories!
Things happen
Chapter eleven
Christmas Day 2013
To say she was excited for her daughters first Christmas was an understatement, but it was dampended when she remembered her grandfathers condition. He looked like he was melting away and it was sad to see.
All the food had been made, the guests were starting to arrive and it was almost time to go and get Michala and her daughter.
When everyone had arrived, they gathered at the piano and watched Eric play carolls for half an hour, then when he didn't have enough energy, Kristen took over and the Forrester-girls sung until it was time for dinner.
Everyone took a plate and went to the table where the food was and gathered what they wanted, then sat down nice conversations with the people next to you.
Kelleigh spent the dinner propped up on a blanket to look at the tree and was letting little sounds out of her mouth to make sure everyone knew she was there.
Everyone had been given a person to give a gift to and after they had all been opened everyone was happy with what they got.
Then Eric asked Ridge to go into his bedroom and get the envelopes. There were six of them, one for each child. In Ridges letter was the deed to the house, in Thornes was the ownership records to Erics and Thornes favorite cars as well as a check. Kristens had a check as well as the jewelry Eric´s mother had received when Eric was able to give her jewelry. In Felicia´s was the ownership of the boat, the small plane and a check. Bridget and Rick´s envelopes contained the shares they would get when Eric died and a check.
After seeing what was in her envelope, Bridget rushes out to the patio off the livingroom, Steffy follows behind her. When she gets outside, Steffy hears that she's crying.
"Hey, what's wrong?"
"This just made it so much more real. He's tying up loose ends and I won't have my father soon. He's going to die and leave me behind."
Steffy just walks over and brings her in for a hug.
"I know, but it'll be okej, you just remember that you have your son and that you can lean on the rest of the family for support!"
"I know, but he's dying and we're celebrating Christmas!"
"Do you think he'd want it any other way?"
"No. He wouldn't." Silent tears still falling down her cheeks.
"Let's just go back inside and celebrate or maybe you would want to come with me upstairs while I feed my daughter and collect yourself a little?"
"Yeah, I think I'll follow you upstairs."
They walk back inside and Steffy walks over to fetch her daughter before starting the treck up the stairs to their bedroom, when she's just about to take on the last step up she looks back downstairs and sees Bridget getting a hug from Stephanie and then Taylor joins in. It seems like this does the trick and Bridget looks up and nods her head to let Steffy know she won't be following her upstairs. Steffy responds with a smile and then goes to feed her daughter.
When Kelleigh has been fed and changed, she fell asleep and Steffy left her in the bedroom for her nap.
She walks back downstairs and sees Eric sitting on the couch. She walks over and sits down next to him. She leans her head on his shoulder and thanks him for being her granddad.
"Thank you for being my granddaughter!" He whispers into her hair as he kisses the top of her head. "And thank you for bringing Kelleigh into the world!"
"I wouldn't have it any other way!"
I'm done!
Liam and Hope had decided to stay for the dinner, Hope hadn't been sure she'd be able to be so close to Steffy or the baby, but with as many people currently in the Forrester Mansions livingroom, she didn't feel uncomfortable at all.
She was a little sad that her mother wasn't there, but she knew that there was very good reason for her to not even get an invitation.
She sees Bill picking up a glass and clinking it to let everyone know he wants to say a few words.
"Hello everyone! I would like to say that we should raise our glasses and make a toast to the patriarch of the Forrester-family!"
Everyone raises their glasses, well, those who can find theirs. "To Eric Forrester!"
"Oh, and by the way! We are pregnant!"
This was news to Liam and Hope.
"Well, our surrogate is pregnant!" Katie interjects with a smile on her face as she'd seen the worried faces on their friends and family.
The relief is evident on everyones faces.
"To Katie and Bill´s baby!" Ridge raises his glass again. "May their daughter grow up strong like her mother and brave like her father!"
"Hey, how do you know it's a girl? She's only two weeks as of right now."
"Well, Bill and I made a pact. The next one is a daughter. You just see a few weeks from now!" The smile on Ridge´s face is almost blinding.
All the men starts laughing at the expression on Taylor and Katie´s faces.
"Did you know about this?" Katie directs her question to Taylor.
"I guess it has to do with what Ridge said the day you extracted the eggs?"
Ridge walks back over to his wife. "It sure does. It actually goes back all the way to when Steffy announced Kelleigh´s name on Instagram."
"Really?" Taylor leans back to look at her husband.
Both Ridge and Bill says "Yes!" to answer that question and both Taylor and Katie shrug their shoulders.
"Well, Bill seems to only be able to produce boys so the likelyhood that it's a boy is bigger then a girl!" Thorne had walked over to see what was going on.
"Yeah, well, I'm only the donor, someone else put the parts together!" Bill says with laughter in his voice.
"That's true. Hmm. Well, congratulations either way!"
"Thank you!" Katie smiles at Thorne.
Bill looks over at his son and daughter in law and realizes that he hadn't even told them about his and Katie´s baby plans. He gently nudges his wife and walks over to the table.
"Hey! Merry Christmas!"
"Congratulations on the pregnancy news!" Hope says with a shyness that's not normally a part of her conversations with her father in law.
"Thank you!"
"We didn't know you had gotten so far in your baby making plans!"
"Yeah, after Katie ended up in the hospital we decided to start as soon as possible and Katherine agreed." Bill says with a small smile on his face.
"Right, how is Katie doing?"
"Well, it's been almost a month now so she's doing okay, some things are a little bit harder then others, but it's getting better every day." He watches his wife with so much pride in his eyes.
"That's good!"
"How's Brooke doing? Katie was concerned that she hasn't been in touch in almost two months now."
"Mom is planning on moving to New York because there's not that many people she likes here anymore and her not getting an invitation to the Christmas party was the last straw."
"Well, I hope she does well in New York!" Bill looks on both their faces. "So, how are you two doing? How are you doing being so close to both Steffy and Kelleigh?"
He directs the first question to both of them and the second one towards Hope.
"It's not as hard as I thought it would be!" Hope says with a smile. "I think it has to do with the fact that there are so much people here that I'm distracted and not thinking about it. I also think that my break through has a lot to do with me being so calm."
"Well, I'm glad it happened, although loosing the reality that once was couldn't have been easy."
"It wasn't, but it had to happen. Realizing your mother is manipulating you is hard on you emotionally, but realizing that your whole life is a big manipulation is even harder. I wish I would've found out what she was doing much sooner then this."
"Well, you know now and I'm proud of you for not losing yourself in the process!" Liam brought his wife into a hug.
"Yeah, that was very strong of you!"
"Well, I have my husband and family as well as there are other things that need my attention."
"Distractions are great in times of hardships."
"They sure are!" Hope sighs.
"Well, this got way to sad way to fast, it's Christmas! Did you like your gifts?"
"I know I liked mine, I don't know about Hope." Liam looks at his wife expectantly.
"Yeah, I liked mine as well, how about you Bill?"
"Oh, trust me, I liked mine quite a lot." Bill says with a sparkle in his eyes. Both of the younger people in the conversation laughs a little.
~Things happen~
Across the room, Nick is looking out on the people he thought he'd never call family, but due to his wife having a baby with his stepfather, he kind of had to take part in family hollidays. Watching his former wife talking with her brothers and walking around he had been a little worried when Bridget all of a sudden almost ran outside and Steffy followed her, but it seemed like Steffy had worked her magic on her aunt because she seemed to be in a more festive spirit when she came back in.
Watching his other former wife walk around the place and instantly fall into the conversations taking place because of the long history of the people in the room made him proud of how long they've all come. He had been surprised when he heard Taylor and Ridge had gotten married again and he had worried about Brooke and how she would feel, but then she did what she did and he felt like she wasn't worth him worrying about her anymore. Watching Taylor interacting with Jack again was filling his heart with joy, he had realized that he handled their break up very wrong and he and Taylor had a conversation about it about a year ago when Taylor was in New York at a conference and they had worked it out.
As he's standing there watching everything, he sees his mother walking over to stand by him.
"It's amazing don't you think?" She's looking over at Taylor, who has ended up with Jack on her back talking to Kristen, Owen, Zende, Dino and Thorne. "Did you think it could be like this a few years ago after you and Taylor split?"
"It is amazing and I hope it continues, but I did think it could be like this and it would have been like this earlier had I been more concerned with giving my son the best life he could have rather then running away like I did."
"So, I take it you want to move back then?" He looks over at his mother with shock in his eyes.
"I don't know, I mean, I want Jack to have both sides of his family close and I can't give him that in New York, but if I move here with Jack, he won't have you, Owen, Logan or Bridget anymore."
"Well, Owen and I have been talking to Bridget over the phone this last month during the daily calls to check on Logan and we've been discussing moving back to LA."
"Why haven't you said anything to me?"
"Well, it was only discussions, we knew that neither of us could move if you didn't want to as well, but with Bridget being in such demands due to her speciallity, she shouldn't have any problems relocating to LA and I know Massimo would love to have you closer to him then you are right now. I know he's been thinking about coming back to the states the last little while. Maybe you and him could set up shop for Marone Industries here in LA again?"
"What about you and Owen?"
"We'll be good, Jackie M is currently looking into venues to start up a boutique in LA and I atleast needs to be here for that. Jackie M in New York will do just fine with Jessica and Aubrey at the helm."
"Maybe we need to sit down and talk about this all of us."
"Maybe we should."
~Things happen~
Stephanie Forrester took great pride in seeing her family gathering like this, watching them all catch up with each other was something she'd wanted since her younger children decided to move from LA.
The family had grown a lot over the last few years and she was proud of the progress made. The only thing that needed to happen now was for Thorne and Felicia to find their significant others.
Watching Felicia run after her nine year old son was fascinating and watching Thorne´s daughter Aly join in the game was heart warming.
She watches closely as Steffy makes her way over to the piano and lock eyes with Michala, Thomas and Wyatt, apparently there have been plans in the making and Thomas sits down next to his sister.
The song they start playing brings everyone over to the piano again. Steffy starts them off with Michala joining in for certain words and then Thomas and Wyatt joined in as well.
Stephanie stands by the patio doors and looks out at the view of LA singing along silently.
Have yourself a merry little Christmas.
Let your heart be light.
From now on all troubles will be out of sight.
Silent tears start falling down her face and she removes them before turning back around.
Taylor sees that Stephanie is having an emotional moment and walks over to give her a hug and lend some strenght.
~Things happen~
Listening to Steffy singing was causing emotional turmoil for Hope Logan Spencer as well. She was starting to have trouble breathing, thankfully, her aunt could see that there was something going on with her and she walked over and pulled her into a hug.
Katie holds her like that for two minutes or so, then she pulls her with her out through the door to the kitchen to talk to her a little bit.
She walks over to the counter and takes the roll of paper with her, she rips off a piece and gives it to Hope.
"So, how are you doing? I know it can't be easy listening to Steffy singing."
"It could be worse, I could have not found out that mom had been manipulating me my whole life and realized that she was causing all the stress in my life and neither Liam or I would be here because I would be pissed at him for wanting to spend Christmas Day with his daughter and Liam would be angry with me for being pissed at him and spending his Christmas Day at the office ignoring my calls."
"That is true!"
"I think it's time I just let it go and I think I need to go and see Kelleigh."
"Do you want me to come with you?" Hope just shakes her head at Katie´s offer. "Ok, do you mind if I tell Steffy that you're on your way up to see her daughter?"
Hope looks up with anger in her eyes, then she sighs. "No, it might be for the best."
Katie stands up and pulls her niece into a hug. They then leave the kitchen and Katie watches Hope walk over to the staircase before locating Steffy as she's still sitting by the piano.
She walks over and touches Steffy´s shoulder and when Steffy turns around to look at her, Katie points over to the stair case making Steffy see Hope half way up the stairs almost frozen in place. She then sees Hope shake herself and fisting up her hands and arguing a little with herself. Steffy turns back to Katie.
"Is it time?"
Katie just nods her head.
Steffy gets up from the piano and starts moving towards the stair case at a pace that would let Hope get all the way to Steffy´s bedroom before she starts walking up the stairs.
As she comes to the top of the stairs she hears the door open and Steffy walks quietly towards her bedroom and stops outside the door.
Downstairs, Liam had noticed that Hope had gone up the stairs and that Steffy had later followed. When he moved to go after both girls fearing for either of theirs security, he was stopped by Katie.
"It's time."
Five minutes later, Steffy is still standing outside of her bedroom listening to Hope talking with her daughter. She could hear the sadness in Hope´s voice so she stays outside the door, because Hope obviously need to have this talk with Kelleigh.
On the other side of the wall, Hope has taken the chair that normally stands in front of Steffy´s vanity and placed herself next to the crib where Kelleigh was entertaining herself before Hope entered.
Hope had introduced herself and apologized for the way she acted when Liam brought Kelleigh home after Katie´s trip to the hospital.
All of a sudden the room starts stinking.
"Oh no, did you just poop?" Hope looks at Kelleigh who coos almost saying yes. "Well, maybe we should take care of that."
Hope rises from the chair while searching for a changing table, she finds it and so she picks Kelleigh up and she's immediately intoxicated by the smell coming from Kelleigh´s head.
Hope walks over to the changing table and realizes she has no idea what to do. "Hey, help me out will you?"
Kelleigh does a motion with her head that can only be described as a nod.
"Thank you for not being a boy." Hope takes the dirty diaper off, finds the baby wipes and starts cleaning Kelleigh.
Steffy decides that Hope is doing well with Kelleigh and goes down to warm a bottle up, then she walks out to the others, finds Liam and tells him to bring the bottle up to Hope and demands that he only delivers the bottle, maybe help Hope get Kelleigh in the right position.
Liam just nods his head and walks up the stairs to find his wife and daughter.
Hope has moved both of them over to the rocking chair and had pulled the puff closer to place her feet on, she has Kelleigh resting on her lap and moving her arms around.
She looks up when the door opens and a bright smile forms on her lips as she sees her husband walk through the door,
"I just changed her diaper!" She says with so much pride in her voice that he can only let his mouth drop to the floor.
"Steffy told me that you would need this!" He walks over and hands Hope the bottle.
"Are you hungry?" Hope directs the question to the baby in her lap and Kelleigh coos and stretches a little more.
Hope tilts the bottle so that Kelleigh can start eating and Kelleigh takes it instantly. Hope stares in wonder at the little girl in her lap.
"I can't believe I hated her the way I did." Hope starts crying. Kelleigh looks at her with those icy blues and grabs ahold of one of Hope´s fingers.
Ten minutes later, Kelleigh refuses to eat more and so Hope hands the bottle back to Liam and brings Kelleigh up over her shoulder to burp her. Kelleigh, being the good baby that she is, burps like she should and then tilts her head down on Hope´s shoulder causing Hope to cry again at the trust that this little girl is putting in her.
"I'm going to go and put this in the dishwasher. Will you be coming with me or are you staying here a little while more?"
"I'm going to stay here with your daughter a few more minutes and then we'll come downstairs."
Liam searches her eyes and then nods his head and walks out the door after giving her a kiss.
Hope turns her head and lets herself take in the baby smell once again.
"You know, you smell different then your uncle Will did when he was three months old, maybe it's a girl thing, but you smell so much better."
Liam comes down the stairs and walks through to the kitchen and empties the bottle before rinsing it out as well. He then walks back through the door from the kitchen and sees his wife at the top of the stairs with Kelleigh securely in her arms and the joy that fills him almost knocks him to the floor.
The smile that forms on Steffy´s lips as she watches Hope walk down the stairs with Kelleigh in her arms causes Thomas and Wyatt´s forheads to frown, then they turn and looks where Steffy is looking and the smile on Steffy´s lips migrates to theirs as well. Michala turns her head to see what has her boyfriend, Steffy and Wyatt smiling so big.
"It's a Christmas miracle!" She says as she starts smiling as well.
Hope searches the crowd for Steffy and then she walks over to her and brings her into a hug.
"I'm sorry!"
Michala steals the baby away from Hope giving Steffy room to give Hope a proper hug.
"It's okey! You needed time and I'm proud of you!"
Stephanie is still standing by the door out to the patio looks on with great pride at her former step granddaughter and granddaughter making peace with each other.
The clock strikes 6 PM and everyone starts getting a little bit hungry again, luckily, this had been planned for and plates filled with fruit, vegetables and left overs from the big lunch had been prepared and everyone went and got a plate filled with food.
"This is delicious!" Thorne exclaims as he leans back on the chair he's sitting on rubbing his belly after finishing what he had put on his plate.
"I agree!" Both Jack and Logan agrees.
Steffy just nods her head in agreement with her brother/cousin and her cousin. Aly, Dino and Zende groans their agreement.
Taylor, Kristen and Felicia just smile at their kids antics.
Eric laughs a little. "Now, if everyone will excuse me, I think I need to sleep for a little while."
Ridge and Nick get up and help Eric into his current bedroom.
While Ridge and Nick helps Eric, the rest of them decides that while this is fun, maybe it was time to leave and they agree to do this again a little less then a week from now, although maybe a little later in the day.
~Things happen~
The following week was spent planning the New Years party. All the Forrester girls gathered with Taylor, Katie, Jackie and Stephanie to plan the party.
They decided to not do a big celebration and just have a dinner. They spent much time getting all of the guest houses on the Forrester property ready to house everyone who was coming so that they didn't have to drive home.
They also decided that the only alcohol that was going to be served during the party was the glass of champagne at midnight as there was so many children present.
The planning was done on Monday, New Years Eve was the next day and everyone was ready.
~Things happen~
December 31st 11:52 pm.
Forrester Mansion, the livingroom
Liam looks around and sees Steffy talking to her brother, Hope holding Kelleigh while talking to Katie and Bill and he knows that the year to come will hold so many wonderful things.
He was going to become a big brother again and him and his wife were on the right track. His mother in law had left LA just after Christmas and she had moved to New York without letting anyone know.
She had signed over the house to Bridget after hearing that Bridget might be moving back to LA, Bridget in turn had called her landlord and signed over her apartment to her mother and now there was no turning back.
Bridget was planning on renovating the house and had decided to talk to Derek about it and see if maybe he and Jessica could do it after finishing on the Spencer-Forrester-James house.
It was almost midnight and so he searches for his wife again, he finds her talking to Steffy. Steffy reaches out to take her daughter and then tells Hope to find her husband.
Liam walks over to her with two glasses of bubbly, he gives her one of them and then snakes his arm around her waist.
"Hey Everyone!" Taylor clinks her glass to gain everyone´s attention. "I want to welcome you all to 2014!"
"Cheers!" Everyone raises their glasses and salutes her. "Happy New Year!"
Eric hadn't made it to midnight, but he slept fine when Stephanie went to check on him twenty minutes past.
~Things happen~
New Years day was spent by the fire place and Eric had got a surge of energy and most everyone knew what this meant, the doctor had warned them that he would get a rush of energy right before he lost the battle of his life, but they wanted to make the most of it.
~Things happen~
Friday January 3rd 2014
Bridget had called Derek and asked him to come over to check the house out.
She had walked around with a pen and note pad to write down what she wanted changed in the house and when she was done, she had almost filled the whole note pad. Yes, it was a small note pad, but she managed to almost fill it completely.
It was mostly cosmetic work, like new wallpaper or new paint, she wanted to change the kitchen, new furniture, rip out the carpet in the masterbedroom and put in woodfloors. Change the interior in the masterbedroom closet. Fix RJ´s room into Logan´s room and then fix Hope´s old room into a room that Logan and Jack could share during sleepovers.
Right now she's sitting on the couch in the livingroom waiting for Derek to arrive. He had said that Jessica was needed at the Spencer-Forrester-James-site and could not come with him, but they could talk about everything regardless.
The doorbell rings and Bridget walks over to open the door.
"Hi!" She extends her hand to shake his. "Thank you for coming!"
"Hello!" He accepts the handshake and the electrical current traveling along their arms is intense.
He looks into her brown eyes with his green and they get lost in each other.
It takes a few minutes, but he shakes his head and turns to look at the house.
"So, you wanted to give this house a new look?"
"Yeah, I did. I have a notepad with the things I want done. I can write them in an email after you've read them when we walk through the house?"
"That sounds good. Do you have any idea what the end result is that you want?"
"I do. I want this house to have the same layout, but look totally different. Right now, this is my mothers house and that's not what I want my house to look like."
He nods his head and she then leads him to the kitchen.
Two hours later, they come back down the stair case and he had a note pad filled with Bridget´s notes as well as suggestions he had given her to think about.
"Well, I think we have a plan for this house. I'm going to talk to Jessica and see when she can get it done and I'll call you after I've talked to her. I believe she'll be quite busy for the next few months until I can start on the inside of your niece and nephews house."
Bridget nods her head. "I look forward to hearing from you!" She gives him one of her brightest smiles.
"I'll talk to you later! Have a nice weekend if I don't call you before the end of the day!"
"You too!" Bridget caresses his arm as they walk to the door, she opens it and lets him out. "Good bye!"
"Good bye!"
She closes the door and walks over to the couch to collect her phone and she sends some texts over to Steffy´s phone.
To Steffy:
Hey, that architect you're working with, he's kind of good looking isn't he?
From Steffy:
Hey Bridget! Yes, he is. Did you have a good consultation?
To Steffy:
We did, he'll talk to Jessica about it and should be in touch as soon as possible.
From Steffy:
That's good. So, did you look into his green eyes?
To Steffy:
What do you mean?
From Steffy:
Did you look into his eyes?
To Steffy:
I did, but what does that have to do with anything?
From Steffy:
Because, he's made for you.
When she reads the last text Steffy sent her, her jaw drops.
To Steffy:
I'm sorry, what?
From Steffy:
Well, when I first saw him and his green eyes, my first thought was He's Bridgets new man.
To Steffy:
Well, we'll just see about that.
From Steffy:
Haha. We will, we will!
~Things happen~
On January 11th, Eric started showing signs of the cancer finally beating him and on January 13th, the family gathered to say Good bye and they were all there when he finally let go.
January 28th, the funeral took place and the day after a small gathering at the Forrester Mansion happened to say good bye to the family patriarch.
~Things happen~
The next few months turned into a blur for many in the family, all production at Forrester Creations stopped for three weeks and the buyers understood why.
It was time for one of the Spencer-family lunches when Katie and Bill decided to announce what gender their baby was.
Bill clinks his glass to gather everyones attention and everyone turns their head towards him.
"As many of you know, this last Thursday Katherine, Katie and I went to the doctor to find out the gender of our baby. And, it would seem as Thorne was right in his assesment that I can only produce boys as there is a little boy cooking inside of Katherines belly!" Everyone cheers and then they see the dissapointment on Katie´s faces. "So, I want to thank Katherine for the opportunity for another son and that you are willing to help us out again if we choose to try again!"
A look of mystery puts a vail on Katherine´s face though and she stands up to take the word from Bill.
"So, we've been lying to both of you, Bill. Yes, there is a boy growing in my belly, but I'm also making good on my promise to Steffy to do my best in giving you a little baby girl!" A big smile forms on her lips at the shocked look on Bill and Katie´s faces.
"Are you serious?!" Bill starts crying tears of joy and then his legs give out on him and he slides down into his chair.
Steffy gets up from her chair and walks over to Katherine to give her a big hug. "Thank you!"
Liam and Wyatt give each other a high five and Katie is still looking shocked at the news.
"But how? We've been there for all three ultrasounds?"
"Well, I've been going to extra ultrasounds and then they've been showing videos of my cousins ultrasounds." Bill´s mouth drops. "I wanted this to be a surprise for all of you and that you'd find out together and this was the best way we could do it."
Steffy starts laughing and Bill turns his head towards her with a strange look on his face.
"What are you lauging about?" Bill says with laughter in his voice.
"Well, I now know where all of Kelleigh´s hand me downs are going and you two need to figure out two names for your babies!"
Bill and Katie look at each other and then smile.
"Well, we know what to name our boy and we hope that the Forresters don't mind."
"You're naming him Eric aren't you?" Steffy asks with a small smile.
"Yes, Eric Stephen Spencer." Katie says with pride all over her face.
"Well, I'm sure grandma will be very happy that granddad is honored by you!" Steffy walks over to Katie and gives her a hug. "What about the girl then?"
"Well, I was thinking Elizabeth Karen or Elizabeth Caroline." Katie looks over to her husband.
"Maybe Mary Elizabeth after our mothers?"
"Mary Elizabeth Spencer." Katie says the name to taste it on her tongue and see how it feels to say. "It sounds good, but it doesn't feel right."
"What about Maribeth?" Steffy gives as a suggestion.
"Maribeth." Both Katie and Bill feels the name out.
"You know you don't have to decide right now right?" Liam interjects.
Then you can see Katie´s moment of clarity. "Maribeth Alessia Spencer."
Bill´s head whisks around to look at his wife. "After both grandma´s and her great grandmothers. Combining the names was a good idea. Thank you for the suggestion Steffy!"
"Well, tricky baby names is a talent of mine. Besides, your wife came up with the end product."
"To Maribeth and Eric Spencer!" Hope raises her glass with a smile on her face.
~Things happen~
AN:
Yeah, no, I couldn't end with Eric dying and the gathering after the funeral and announcing Kill´s babies were the best happy news I could think of.
I do not like writing about people dying to I decided to just mention Eric dying.