The Spin off - Part 4


A week later…

"Ring Ring" the telephone rang out in the Macdonald household.
"Wonder who that could be" Lexie questioned, as she left the twins to go answer the phone. "Hello…?" Lexie answered speaking into the phone.
"Hey Lex its Emma from next door" Emma explained.
"Oh hi you ok?" Lexie asked.
"Yeh I'm fine thank you, I was just wondering if you wanted to come round for a cuppa now things are sorted out around here" Emma asked.
"Yeh sure I'll be right over" Lexie replied happily.
"Ok toots we're off next door" Lexie called the twins as she held each little hand either side of her as they walked next door. Lexie knocked on the red door similar to hers next door. Emma opened the door with Brandon peering at the bottom smiling cheekily. "Hey" Lexie answered.
"Please come in" Emma smiled opening the door further to see Lexie in.

Lexie looked down the same narrow hall to the kitchen. The layout was the same just the other way round to hers. The hall looked quite blank and there were a box of pictures ready to go up at the end of the hall on an old chair. There was a temporary coat hanger hooked on the wall and half the wallpaper torn off. Emma noticed Lexie's eyes looking around. "Yeh sorry… we are still re-decorating" she looked embarrassed. "Oh sorry!" Lexie laughed "I was just observing, I can imagine it must need some work, I'm lucky Arch did it all before we actually moved in" Lexie explained.

"Wow…that's a good idea, but we didn't have time, the old house was sold and the divorced settlement had to be sorted, then this came up and it was the prefect opportunity" Emma told Lexie.
"Your divorced?" Lexie asked.
"Oh no no, not me" Emma laughed, "Kat is, I live here with her" Emma went on to explain.

There it was again 'Kat', in the whole week, Lexie hadn't actually seen this 'Kat' only heard about her, yet she saw Emma and Brandon the time, but before Lexie could ask there was a scream from the kitchen. Lexie and Emma rushed through to see Brandon standing in the middle of the two girls, who were both drenched in water. The girls looked up, their usual 'fluffy stand up straight' black hair was now flat against their faces and the water dripped down off their noses and on to the floor, where another mass of water collected around there feet. "BRANDON" Emma shouted at the child who was holding an empty bucket in his hands. Lexie didn't say anything but she giggled away at the state of the children before them.

"Oh Lexie…I'm so sorry" Emma apologised to her.
"Oh don't worry, no bother at all" Lexie replied still laughing.
"I'll just pop and get some clean clothes, you don't mind looking after them for 5minutes do you?" Lexie asked.
"Oh no, no problem its what I'm here for" Emma answered, Lexie was a bit confused by this but didn't think to question it further as she popped back next door to get some clothes.

After a little while Lexie returned.
"Hey again" Lexie laughed as Emma opened the door.
"Come in, I've just made the tea its in the living room" Emma answered as she pointed through the door.
"Thanks" Lexie replied as she went through to change the twins into their clean clothes.

As Lexie sat down to change Ellie she looked across at the side table where a couple of photos stood. She was concentrating on sorting Ellie's trousers out so didn't get to see the pictures but as she took a second glance over, someone looked very familiar, but her view was distorted when Brandon came and knocked his arm across. "BRANDON!" Emma shouted again, as she moved across to pick the pictures up. "I told Kat not to put them up there, she should of just put them in her room" Emma muttered to herself as she collected the pictures up and put them in a nearby box. Lexie was desperate to see the pictures again but knew she couldn't just intrude.

The spin off 2 – Part 5

Lexie came in that night at about 9o'clock. "You've been out late" Archie commented as she carried the twins through. "Don't help or anything" Lexie complained trying to balance both of them and take off their coats. "Oh Sorry!" Archie apologised jumping up and taking one of the twins off her. "Just put them straight to bed I think" she suggested
"Where have you been?" Archie asked as they walked up the stairs to the nursery.
"I went round Emma's" Lexie whispered as they laid the twins down to sleep.
"Oh" Archie replied.

Back in their room…

"So um you have a good time?" Archie asked as they took the cushions off the bed.
"Yeh actually, oh Emma mentioned there was a job going at the local Playgroup next to the school" Lexie explained.
"Oh is she going for it?" Archie commented.
"No actually I am" Lexie replied.
Archie laughed "You? Playgroup?"
"Yeh why not?" Lexie questioned.
Archie stopped laughing "Your serious?" he asked
"Of course I'm serious!" Lexie yelled throwing down the cushion she was holding.
"Well what about the girls?" Archie questioned
"Well I doubt your going to look after them!" Lexie shouted
"To right!" Archie answered, "I've got my own job!"
"Well then it's just as well Emma offered" Lexie replied getting changed.
"You know I think I've had just about enough of this Emma girl!" Archie shouted.
"GRRR! I don't believe you!" Lexie yelled "She has done nothing wrong in fact she's helping me sort my life out! Which is a lot more than your mate Adam did for you!"
"She's a teenage mum!" Archie shouted, "Goes to show how much you can rely on her!"

Lexie opened her mouth to argue back but sighed instead and pulled back the covers and climbed in, facing away from Archie. Archie did the same then went to reach to turn the light off "GoodNIGHT!" he announced before turning the light off.
They both lay there silent in the dark; Archie could hear Lexie sniffing and could tell she was upset. He reached over and put his CD player on and switched on to the radio.

"And now here's a song from Ronan Keating tonight on Late night Love" The man on the radio announced as Archie listened the words related a lot to him.

Sometimes late at night, I lie awake and watch her sleeping
She's lost in peaceful dreams so I turn out the light, lay there in the dark
And the thought crosses my mind, if I never wake in the morning, would she ever doubt the way I feel about her in my heart?

If tomorrow never comes, will she know how much I love her?
If I try in every way to show her everyday that she's my only one
And if my time on earth were through, she must face this world without me
Is the love I gave her in the past gonna be enough to last? If tomorrow never comes

Cos I've lost loved ones in my life, who never knew how much I loved them
And now I live in all regret that my true feelings for them were never reviled
So I made a promise to myself, to say each day how much she means to me, and avoid circumstances where there's no second chance to tell her how I feel

Archie looked across at where Lexie was and thought as the chorus of the song played again, he remembered his father saying that how that it was bad to go to sleep on an argument.

So tell that someone that you love her, just what you're thinking off, if tomorrow never comes

As the song finished, Archie took off his headphones and turned over again to face Lexie's back. "My father always said it wasn't good to go to sleep on a argument" Archie commented, waiting for Lexie to turn over, eventually she did to face Archie.
"Lex, I'm sorry, you can go for the job if that's what you want, I just don't like the idea of the girls with someone else" Archie told her.
"But Arch they will be with someone they know and if I get this job, Brandon will be coming to the playgroup, so it will be just like looking after each others kids." Lexie explained. Archie sighed, "Oh ok, come here" he motioned kissing her.
"Lex I really love you, I just want you to know that ok," Archie told her, thinking about the song he had just heard.
"Arch I know that, you don't need to tell me, although it is good hearing it once in a while" she laughed
"Oh and I love you too Mr. Macdonald" she chuckled.
"Goodnight Mrs. Macdonald" Archie replied cuddling up to her as they fell asleep.