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a/n: WOW 500 reviews. Thank you, thank you, thank you to everyone who left a review on the previous chapter and welcome to the new followers, I hope you like it so far. Last chapter, we saw a little bit how kids can be mean and now Matt and Gabby finally have a little chat with their brood about it all. Hope you like it
Matt and Gabby had been extremely busy in the weeks following the kids argument in school. The girls birthday was coming up and now that they were in school and had friends, Matt had to plan something bigger this year. They knew they had a lot of talking to do about it and also where they were heading as a couple and they'd have to sit down and think about it but time was fleeting and they couldn't find any to do so.
"Dad, I can't find my blue shoes." Grace yelled from the front door.
"Take another pair Gracie." They were late for school because Matt's alarm hadn't gone off and he was pissed off at his carelessness, setting it in the evening instead of the morning. Once they got ready and into the truck, Matt drove off towards the school only to find someone else that had been late this morning. "Hey Gabby." He startled her.
"Matt. Late too huh?" She helped the boys out of her car and into their backpacks, Valentina staying inside the car.
"Yeah, alarm problems." He helped the girls in their bags and let them walk though the door. Since starting school, they insisted that they could do it alone and he hadn't gotten any negative feedback since. "Heading into work?"
"I'm off today, how about you?" Matt simply smiled, Gabby knew what that meant. "Up for some breakfast?"
"Sure, meet me at my place after you drop Valentina at daycare?"
"Yeah." They kissed quickly before Gabby went back into her car to drop her daughter off. Matt cleaned a few things he had left behind in their hurry to get to school as he waited for Gabby to get there. He didn't have much to make fresh but there were some leftovers from the previous night that hadn't been cooked yet that they could use for lunch at least. Gabby knocked a few minutes later, a smile on both their faces as their eyes met.
"I missed you." He pulled her to him, leaning down for a kiss as Gabby closed the door shut with her foot.
"I missed you too." She exhaled as they pulled away from each other.
"That's good then, we have the whole day to ourselves." He smiled.
"How about I cook breakfast?"
"Let's just see if you can do it with my hands all over you." He teased as he kissed her again. She had become his own personal kind of drug and he had missed her more than he dared to say in the past week.
"Watch and learn." She giggled, pulling away from his embrace and heading into the kitchen with a seductive sway to her hips.
"You're on." He smiled and followed her. He was glued to her as she pulled some stuff out of his cupboard, sometimes having to stop what she was doing because he was having so much effect on her. "What were you saying about watching and learning?" He whispered as she spilled some more flour on his counter.
"I lied." She was already breathing hard and he hadn't laid a finger on her, simply hovering around her as she moved around his kitchen. She really couldn't concentrate on the recipe that had completely gone from her mind as he finally laid hands on her to turn her around to face him, his lips pressing to hers hard, pulling her to him. She wrapped her arms around his neck as he lifted her up, her legs coming to wrap around his waist, breakfast being the farthest thing from their minds.
They took it to his bedroom, Matt gently laying her down on top of the covers, his body pressing into hers, his want for her evident. Gabby pushed her head back as Matt's lips attacked her neck, her hands bunching up his shirt at the shoulders, his name slipping from her lips. They separated for only a few seconds, Matt pulling his shirt over his head, discarding it on the ground next to the bed, his lips finding Gabby's once again. Their kiss was hungry and filled with lust, both having missed the other's touch in the past days. Gabby's fingers pressed hard into Matt's shoulder as he pressed into her hips, pushing down on her, a low growl muffled in his throat.
He trailed feather light kissed against her still clothes body and lifted her top ever so slightly to run his tongue along her stomach and biting down on her hips, Gabby whimpering as he did. He kissed his way back up as he removed her shirt, revealing a purple coton bra. His lips found hers again as his right hand gently ran along her side, needing to have her exposed to him. He popped her button easily and started sliding her jeans down, kissing his way to the inside of her thigh, her body needing to be with him. He revealed a pair of matching panties and threw the pants somewhere on the ground, not really caring where.
"Matt." She whimpered, his hands just barely grazing her skin, driving her mad.
"Let me take care of you." Gabby arched her back as Matt kissed his way up, his hand reaching behind her back to unhook her bra the only thing seperating them from each other were her panties and his pants, pants that she was quick to flip them around to get off of him. Her movements were more erratic though as she started to kiss him with more hunger, tired of the foreplay. She kissed her way down his chizzled chest and removed her pants along with his boxers in one motion as she stared into his darker blue eyes.
He flipped them around to remove the very last thing seperating them and was done with the teasing as well, slipping into her, both moaning at the intimate body contact. They moved as one for many very long minutes, both wanting the other as if it was the very first time. Gabby moved her leg up against his side, giving him more access to her center, his movements going harder and faster.
Gabby was the first to blissfully tumble over the edge, Matt's name escaping from her lips as he fell from it as well, Matt's nose nuzzled in her neck, their breathing erratic and their hearts pumping hard. Matt moved slightly so his body weight wasn't all on Gabby but she made so that he did, enjoying the feeling of his heart beating a mile a minute over hers. When they caught their breath, Matt rolled from over her and pulled her to him.
"So much for breakfast." She pressed her nose to his chest.
"Who needs breakfast?" He laughed, kissing her hair.
"We might need lunch though."
"I think I can keep my hands off you long enough to cook lunch for us."
"Matt."
"Yeah?"
"We need to talk with the kids about what happened at school and about us. We can't keep dancing around it." Matt pulled her closer to him and his mind kept going to what he had been thinking about all week long.
"I know but I want to talk about us first." He pulled away from her and took something out of his night stand, Gabby sitting up to try to see what it was. She held the sheets to her body, bringing her knees to her chest, waiting for what Matt had to show her. "I know that we've been moving sort of fast but I think this should be the next step." He released a single key from a CFD keychain and looked at her, gabby's breath suddely stuck in her throat. She moved her hand to take the key before pulling it back again.
"I." She started but couldn't keep talking for long seconds, Matt waiting patiently for her reply. "I can't move in with you." She finally found the words, her body slightly pulling away from Matt's. "What will the kids say? We haven't even talked to them about us. How can you ask me to move in with you?"
"I don't want you to move in with me." He felt Gabby recoil a bit more and felt the need to make it right. "I mean I do want you to move in with me but it's too soon. I just thought that you could have a spare key, come and go as you please with the kids. Say you'll think about it?" He asked hopefully, turning around and placing the key where it was first hidden, giving his full attention back to Gabby.
"Just, can we talk to the kids first about us and then see where that leads us?"
"Anything you want baby." They stayed in bed, cuddled up until it was time for lunch, Gabby wearing one of Matt's t-shirts to go back down in the kitchen, Matt following, wearing his pants but still shirtless. He cooked what was left from last night and they enjoyed it on the couch, Gabby's legs on Matt's lap, trying to figure out how they'd talk to the kids about moving forward and the proper way to behave when kids said mean things to them.
They got ready to go get the kids, deciding to have dinner at Matt's place so they could talk to their whole brood. Once the kids were picked up, they went to the store to grab a couple of chickens and some frecnh fries, not wanting to burden themselves with a heavy dinner so they would talk with the kids. They agreed that Valentina wouldn't really understand but it was important for them that the four other ones did. They did some family talk over dinner, trying to find out from them how school had been today and if the incident had repeated itself in class, even if it was minor.
"Everybody was nice today. Nathan and James even came to say sorry to us." Grace told the truth, the three other saying how it was true.
"Ok but we need to talk about it ok?" Gabby said with a smile. She knew it wouldn't be an easy conversation but they had to have it with them. "Your friends don't know how hard it is for you and they don't understand what happened to daddy but you do have a daddy and he loved you guys very much, I don't want you to ever forget that ok?" Matt was rubbing slow circles on her back, knowing how hard it must be for her to be talking to the kids about Alberto.
"And you know what girls, your mommy loved you a lot but then she became sick and she couldn't take care of you."
"That's right and that's why you get to stay with daddy and he loves you very much." Gabby smiled at both Grace and Emma, the girls smiling back at her. Both were satisfied about the way both sets of twins understood what they were talking about but now they had to tell them about them as a couple.
"And you know, your daddy would want your mommy to be hapy." Matt started, only to have Gabby finish.
"And Matt makes me happy, and I make him happy." She winked at him and smiled, his brighter smile confirming what she just said.
"Does that mean that we'll have to call him dad?" Filippe didn't quite understand this part though.
"Never." Matt ruffled his hair. "Matt is fine but the four of you will have to listen to the both of us though, you guys comfortable with that?" Matt wanted to make sure no was stepping on anyone's toes. "And same goes to you two ladies." He wasn't giving his daughters the option though. He knew that they loved Gabby already and now that they were serious together, what she said was also valid for them.
"Yes daddy." They said.
"And what about you guys?" Gabby asked her son.
"Yes mom, we'll listen to Matt too." Both adults were happy about how it turned out and they sent the kids play in the living room while they cleaned out the table and did the dishes, Matt leaning against the counter, a clear eye sight into the living room while he dried the dishes.
"See, it wasn't that hard was it?"
"I was so scared they wouldn't understand." She looked into the living room before going back to the dishes.
"Our kids are intelligent." He kissed her temple. "Say you'll think about what we talked earlier?" He asked as she handed him the last plate.
"I will."
"Alright, let's get these kids in bed." He set his dish towel down and wrapped an arm around Gabby's shoulder, both heading to where the kids were to get them ready to go home, washed and in bed for tomorrow's school day.
a/n: Through their hectic schedule, Matt and Gabby finally spend some quality time together but they also have a very important talk with their kids about mean kids and life and them moving on together but will Gabby accept Matt's offer of a key or will part of her be afraid of what that means?
I hope you guys liked this chapter and please take a few minutes to review so I know what you guys thought of it. - Sarra
