Chapter Five (A/N: this 1st paragraph is so you know what all is going on)
Exactly 15 ½ ago he had been down this road with his wife and daughter. Now 33 year old Jake Jagielski was going the other way, back to where he came from, now with his wife, 2 daughters, and 6 sons.
15 yrs. And 2 months ago his triplets had been born. Three years after that Levi Phillip was born followed by Aidan Keith two years after. The month after Aidan was born Phillip signed the farm over to Jake. Jake and Peyton thought their family had stopped growing but as fate would have when Aidan was 4 the twins were born Hunter Jaime and Jonah Aryan. Not too long after that Phillip died in sleep and was soon joined by Arlene who suffered a massive heart attack. Their deaths had affected the Jagielskis hard but they managed in the five years since.
Seven months ago Jake got the overwhelming urge to go back to Tree Hill. And after long consideration it was agreed. The farm was sold at a very nice price and a big enough house was bought some what secretly.
--Jake, man, you know their going to find out. They were never stupid. Everyone is going to be asking questions, especially if they connect the dates. Peyton was pregnant before you guys took off. How are we going to tell everyone. Well, we'll hit that bridge soon enough.
"Dad?" a sleepy voice from the back seat brought Jake out of his thoughts.
"Yeah?"
"Not to sound cliché or anything, but how much longer?" His daughter Aurora asked. She and Jenny looked just like Jake except that Aurora's brown hair was even more curly (if possible) than her mothers.
"We should be to the new house in 10 or so minutes"
"Really? Remind me again why you didn't want to get here until 3:33 in the morning?"
"We didn't want to draw too much attention."
"So you don't think they'll notice when a once unoccupied house suddenly has ten people spewing in and out?"
Jake laughed at his youngest daughter. She was, oddly, the one who under stood best why they were moving. As she said, "Sometimes going backwards is the only way to move forwards."
The boy in between Aurora and Jenny began to wake up and stretch to the best of his ability to which he was greeted by a shove, "Watch it, Audi, your going to break my guitar."
"Aurora, if you didn't want a broken guitar you should have put it in the moving truck, and quit you're going to wake the twins." came Aowen from behind them.
Jenny who always stood up for Aurora was also now up and pointing out that Aowen himself had kept his art set up with him.
Jake laughed at the commotion going on in the backseat and was awed at the fact that his wife and four youngest could sleep through it all.
"Okay, we're here." he announced. The next five minutes were blurred by the chaos of getting everyone in quietly.
Jake had brought all the furniture into the house a week ago, again, in the middle of the night.
Soon, everyone was in a bed somewhere in the five bedroom house.
Jake laid next to his wife listening to Aurora and Jenny playing a duet on guitar to the twins in the room above them. (The girls and Audi were they only once so far who wanted to play although Audi wasn't as concerned about the upkeep of his guitar)
Even though, in a sense, he was back home Jake Jagielski had never felt so out of place.
Exactly 15 ½ ago he had been down this road with his wife and daughter. Now 33 year old Jake Jagielski was going the other way, back to where he came from, now with his wife, 2 daughters, and 6 sons.
15 yrs. And 2 months ago his triplets had been born. Three years after that Levi Phillip was born followed by Aidan Keith two years after. The month after Aidan was born Phillip signed the farm over to Jake. Jake and Peyton thought their family had stopped growing but as fate would have when Aidan was 4 the twins were born Hunter Jaime and Jonah Aryan. Not too long after that Phillip died in sleep and was soon joined by Arlene who suffered a massive heart attack. Their deaths had affected the Jagielskis hard but they managed in the five years since.
Seven months ago Jake got the overwhelming urge to go back to Tree Hill. And after long consideration it was agreed. The farm was sold at a very nice price and a big enough house was bought some what secretly.
--Jake, man, you know their going to find out. They were never stupid. Everyone is going to be asking questions, especially if they connect the dates. Peyton was pregnant before you guys took off. How are we going to tell everyone. Well, we'll hit that bridge soon enough.
"Dad?" a sleepy voice from the back seat brought Jake out of his thoughts.
"Yeah?"
"Not to sound cliché or anything, but how much longer?" His daughter Aurora asked. She and Jenny looked just like Jake except that Aurora's brown hair was even more curly (if possible) than her mothers.
"We should be to the new house in 10 or so minutes"
"Really? Remind me again why you didn't want to get here until 3:33 in the morning?"
"We didn't want to draw too much attention."
"So you don't think they'll notice when a once unoccupied house suddenly has ten people spewing in and out?"
Jake laughed at his youngest daughter. She was, oddly, the one who under stood best why they were moving. As she said, "Sometimes going backwards is the only way to move forwards."
The boy in between Aurora and Jenny began to wake up and stretch to the best of his ability to which he was greeted by a shove, "Watch it, Audi, your going to break my guitar."
"Aurora, if you didn't want a broken guitar you should have put it in the moving truck, and quit you're going to wake the twins." came Aowen from behind them.
Jenny who always stood up for Aurora was also now up and pointing out that Aowen himself had kept his art set up with him.
Jake laughed at the commotion going on in the backseat and was awed at the fact that his wife and four youngest could sleep through it all.
"Okay, we're here." he announced. The next five minutes were blurred by the chaos of getting everyone in quietly.
Jake had brought all the furniture into the house a week ago, again, in the middle of the night.
Soon, everyone was in a bed somewhere in the five bedroom house.
Jake laid next to his wife listening to Aurora and Jenny playing a duet on guitar to the twins in the room above them. (The girls and Audi were they only once so far who wanted to play although Audi wasn't as concerned about the upkeep of his guitar)
Even though, in a sense, he was back home Jake Jagielski had never felt so out of place.