Disclaimer: Unfortunately, none of these characters belong to me, except for Elle and Harrison Stokes.
This chapter takes place a little less than a year from the last chapter.
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"Mommy! Mommy!" Elle called from her room.
Sara jumped to her feet at the call. She slipped on her robe, and headed down the hallway. As she stood in the doorway, she felt something hit at the back of her legs.
"Harrison? Honey, why are you up?" Sara said, as she bent down to her son's eye level.
"I heard Elle scream, and I wanted to check and see if she was OK"
"Harrison, you're such a poophead!" Elle said. She'd become more dramatic since Greg bought her a trunk full of dress-up clothes.
"Elle? Why did you call for me?" Sara questioned.
"I wanted someone to play dress-up with" Elle said innocently.
Sara saw Elle eyeing the trunk, and knew it was way too early for anyone, even the Stokes households drama queen, to be playing dress up. Sara picked her daughter up right as she was reaching for the latch to open the trunk.
"Hey Elle, why don't you and Harrison go wake Daddy up, and then he'll play dress up with you?" Elle pondered this for a moment, and then her eyes got wide at the idea.
"Yeah!" Both twins screamed.
Sara trailed behind as the twins, who had turned four years old the day before, ran for the bedroom they knew their father was sleeping in. As Sara entered the room, she saw her twins devising a plan.
"Ok Elle, I'm going to go up by Daddy's head, and I'm going to count to three. Now, you sit on Daddy's back and then we'll...." Sara smiled as she watched her children conspire against her husband. Sara knew she should stop whatever was going to happen, but truly, she wanted to see what they were going to down.
"Elle, are you ready?"
"Yeah, Harrison."
"Ok.. One.. Two.. Three!!"
Once they reached three, Harrison bent forward to get as close as he could to his fathers ear and Elle jumped forward and was right in front of Nick as they screamed "DADDY!"
Nick jumped up, startled, at the loud noise that woke him up. He jumped up so quickly, that him and Harrison almost hit heads, causing Sara to gasp and for Nick to look up at her.
"Hi Mommy"
"Hi Daddy"
"Hi Daddy!" Elle said, wanting to be included in the exchange of greetings.
"Well, hello there Elle. You're up early."
"No, they're not Daddy. Its almost 11." Sara said, matter-of-factly.
Nick groaned at this. He had only slept 4 hours, since Elle had woken up at 6 screaming for a cup of juice. It took him another hour to recover from the scream. He had no idea how his daughter had so much energy.
"Whose hungry for breakfast?" Sara said, trying to find a way to get her children out of the bedroom so that Nick could catch a few more minutes of sleep.
"No, no Mommy. I, Daddy, will be making breakfast for the Stokes family today." Nick said, knowing he wouldn't be able to go back to sleep not until maybe next week after those screams. Nick looked at his kids. "What do you guys want?"
"Chocolate chocolate chip pancakes!" Both screamed.
"Thats a very difficult meal to make. And only certain people can get chocolate chocolate chip pancakes. They usually have to be twins.. about 4 years old.. " At the description, Elle and Harrison's tiny arms shot up and started flailing around.
"Mommy, do you know anyone like that?" Nick asked, hoping his wife would realize that he wanted to tease their children a bit.
"4 years old?? Twins??" Sara looked at Harrison and Elle, then back to Nick, and simply stated "Nope."
"Mommy!!!" Elle said, in her signature whiny voice.
"What, honey?" Sara asked, feigning innocence.
"Me and Harrison are twins!!"
"Yeah, and we're four years old." Harrison added.
"Wait.. are you sure?" Nick asked.
"Daddy!!" Elle said, her voice becoming more whiny as she became more frustrated.
"Mommy, I think we should investigate."
"Ok, Daddy."
Nick walked up to Elle, Sara to Harrison. They stood in front of their kids, nodded at each other, and began their 'investigation.' Nick looked through Elle's longer curls, and Sara examined Harrison's face.
"What do you think, Mommy?"
"Well, I think these two are definitaly twins."
"Yes, and they are four years old."
"See? We told you." Harrison said.
"Ok, well, why don't you and Daddy go start on those pancakes, and me and Elle will get ready for today." Sara said, taking her daughter's tiny hands, with the nails painted a sparkly pink, thanks to Lindsey.
"Haha, Elle has to take a bath!" Elle turned around, and gave him a glare that Nick could only figure was from Sara.
"Hey, Harrison, once Elle's done with her bath, guess whose next?" Sara said, making sure Elle didn't feel bad.
"Umm.. Daddy?" Harrison answered, now getting a look from Nick.
"Nope buddy, it'd be you. While the girls get all clean and pretty, we're going to go start breakfast. And once they're done, we'll be getting all clean and pretty."
Sara walked out of the bedroom and made her way to the bathroom, with Elle right behind her. As she entered the bathroom, she could hear Harrison say "But Daddy, boys don't get pretty."
'Today will be a long day... fun, but long.' Sara thought to herself, as she filled up the bathtub with water.
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I feel like these chapters are so short, but thats the way it is. I know it sort of ended abruptly, but I promise you I'll have more soon. Please, read and review!