Past wont go away: Story of my life – Day 2
You Say I'm no Angel,
Trying to put the past behind,
So now I try to find,
A place to leave all,
Memories in my mind
"Morning Arch" Lexie laughed as Archie came down into the kitchen and raised a hand in effort of saying hi. He sat down at the table opposite Ami and Sapphire. "What we got girls?" Archie asked. Two sets of bright blue eyes stared back at him, scrambled egg shined from around their mouths and their white teeth shined. "Hggs" they announced in their best efforts of saying 'Eggs'.
Lexie placed a plate down infront of Archie, "Important things in life hey" she added. "Thanks Lex" Archie replied, picking up a silver spoon and putting some egg onto it. Lexie sighed and sat down next to him, she was exhausted, Ami had woke early and Lexie had been awake ever since, making breakfast for the house. "It's kinda scary how they both look so alike isn't" Archie commented, watching both girls finish their eggs and soldiers. Lexie laughed, "Yeh I suppose they do, it's the hair colour and eyes I think" Lexie exclaimed.
"Where's Amber and Max?" Archie suddenly asked, noticing that they were alone eating breakfast. "Um...Amber muttered something about a diet and then disappeared leaving Sapphire here for you, and then I made Max and Duncan breakfast and then they took Owen out with them" Lexie explained. "You really are superwoman aren't you?" Archie laughed.
"Archie you know that the kitchen is my place" Lexie replied giving him a smile as she got up and fetched some wipes and began cleaning the girls up. "Right, now to get you too dressed" Lexie said as she lifted each girl off the chair.
"I'll help" Archie announced finishing his breakfast.
"Arch, you don't have too I'll be fine" Lexie insisted
"No, no its no problem" Archie replied
"Ok then" Lexie laughed, as the four walked upstairs.
He's not giving anything away, what is he thinking?
When they were upstairs in the room Max and Lexie were staying in, and were dressing the girls in fairy dresses, due to Ami's choice. "So Arch...How come we have both been visiting here for five years, yet we haven't seen each other at all?" Lexie asked out of curiosity, she had been thinking about it since dinner last night, when Molly had mentioned that they had both been visiting for the past five years.
"Well, I was thinking the same thing, apparently Paul said it was mother's idea, she thought." Archie suddenly cut off, it had been fine when Paul was explaining to him, but how could he tell Lexie his mother had done it because she knew they both had, had feelings for each other.
Lexie stopped what she was doing and looked up at Archie. "She thought what?" Lexie asked, blue eyes wide and with questions.
"That er" Archie panicked, Lexie was waiting for an answer that Archie didn't partially want to answer. Archie rubbed his head as if he had forgotten, Lexie knew what he was doing but as usual didn't let on. "Don't matter, I'll talk to Molly later" she replied.
"Hey do you want to go for a walk down by the shore?" Lexie asked as they carried the girls down the stairs. "Yeh sure why not, it's a beautiful day" Archie replied as he gazed out the window.
The girls ran ahead of Archie and Lexie, screaming as the little waves hit the sand and came near their feet. "So you and Amber settled down pretty quickly" Lexie mentioned, she didn't want it to sound like it had done, but she thought that they had married and had kids pretty quickly, mind you that had been what Archie had wanted once, kids, a family. It's what Lexie had wanted, only she was looking for Mr.Right and she wanted her own time before she settled down with kids. She felt her and Max had been together a good year and a bit before marrying and then waited another two years before deciding to have Ami.
Archie realised where Lexie was going with this. "Oh no, you see after you er left...as you know Paul turned up and well I went away for a bit, and that's when I met Amber, she already had a little boy Owen." Archie explained. "Ooo" Lexie chorused
"Anyway we ended up getting engaged, and I brought her back here, but well she couldn't quite get the hang of being a laird's wife, she said she preferred to be behind a desk in Manchester. So then I decided as Paul, the rightful eldest son, he should take over my role and be laird, it took a lot of persuading, but mother and Golly were supportive and helped him."
I wish I could read what her eyes are sayin'
Staring straight and not blinking
"Ah I heard that much, its what happened after I never got to hear about" Lexie informed Archie. "Well then once we got married, I adopted Owen, to make him my son and then Amber fell pregnant with Shapphy"
"Then you visited here every four months, and so did I, but Molly never let them mix..." Lexie continued
"Until now" Archie finished.
"Hmm...Weird" Lexie mumbled as she looked out onto the loch, the wind blew back her hair. Archie could see how beautiful she looked; yet her mind seemed distant. She was looking at the mountains, the way the clouds hovered around the top of them, yet the sun shone down and reflected off the loch and the waves lapped around her.
Somewhere deep inside you must know that I miss you
Archie spotted Ami heading for the water and quickly ran over to stop her; he picked both girls up and started walking back. He could see Max walking up quietly behind Lexie. Lexie felt warm arms wrap around her and she laid her head on his shoulder. "Max" she shouted in surprise.
"Who did you think it was?" Max laughed.
Lexie saw Archie put down Ami in the distance as she ran towards her parents and Archie turned and carried on walking with Sapphire waving over his shoulder.
"You ok?" Max asked noticing his wife's distant look.
"Wha? Oh yeh I'm fine" Lexie replied
"You sure...you've got that look" Max laughed
Lexie didn't reply she bent down and picked up her excited daughter and continued to walk in towards the road back to the house.
"Hey Lex wait up" Max called behind, running to catch up.
