Author's Note: Okay this is a warning I hadn't meant for this to be but I turned this into just a real fluff. I wanted you all to see the relationship of the family would be without the interruption of Dawn. Thanks everyone so much for all the wonderful reviews! All of you have totally made my day!

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Dawn hadn't meant for anyone to see her. She had hoped that she could just go inside and catch a glimpse of Ryan and give him the present, even if it wasn't much. Kirsten of course had ruined her plan. Dawn cursed herself as she drove towards Chino for letting such a perfect lady get hold of her perfect baby. She should of kept him, she was regretting the choice to ever let him go. And yet she wasn't planning on doing anything that she had told Kirsten that she was going to do. She wanted her baby to be happy, and he probably would be scared of her and Kirsten's father she knew from looking it up was a big important man and Dawn barley had enough money to support her, her husband and her new baby Trey. Let alone pay some big shot millionaire for exposing a secret that she had no desire to tell.

The only problem she had at the moment was Kirsten. That women had been the only connection with her baby that Dawn had had since…well since the day he was born. Kirsten had been great about sending the letter's, but she had firm there would be no contacting her and no seeing or talking to Ryan. It was all really confusing to Dawn but she stayed with it because she loved her baby, even if her baby didn't love her.

Sandy groaned loudly as he half carried, half dragged a very hyper Seth inside with Ryan jumping along beside them. He wished Kirsten was here so that someone could help them. But she had insisted that she had a headache- Sandy was pretty sure she was lying- and gone inside. Leaving him to say good-bye to everyone and help attempt to calm down the boys. He was successful on the first one; the second one he was thinking was virtually impossible. By the time everyone had left, he had found them playing tag around the pool, regardless of the fact that it was almost one in the morning and all their friends had left a couple of hours ago.

"Daddy?" Seth asked smiling up at him

"What?"

"Can I open my presents?"

"Presents? Seth it's already not your birthday, how about tomorrow? I mean later today," Sandy said shaking his head

"Not my birthday?" Ryan asked suddenly his lip coming out in a full pout. His eyes welled up in tears and Sandy's heart broke

"Well uh it's uh kind of not your birthday, but it will really end when you wake up,"

"Can I stay up all night then, so it will never end?" Seth cried and jumped up and down suddenly.

"Yay!" Ryan cried and the two of them started jumping up and down.

"What is going on down here?" Sandy turned around gratefully. Kirsten had walked into the kitchen dressed in pajamas.

"Help me!" Sandy mouthed desperately and she laughed.

"What's up you guys?" Kirsten said bending down so that she was eye to eye with the boys.

"We don't want to ever go to bed," Seth said and Ryan nodded.

"Why not?"

"So our birthday will still be here,"

"Well if you don't go to sleep it won't be morning and then you can't have daddy's special pancakes"

"Daddy's making pancakes?" Ryan cried his eyes lighting up.

"Only if you go to sleep,"

"But what about presents?"

"How about you open just the ones from Daddy and me now and the rest tomorrow?"

"Ok!" Ryan cried throwing his arms around her neck

"No!" Seth cried stamping his foot at the same time.

"Please Seth sweetie, otherwise you won't get any pancakes,"

"Well…." Seth said and grabbed Ryan, dragging him over to a corner of the kitchen. They talked in hushed tones.

"Okay," Seth finally announced "but they better be good presents"

"Good," Kirsten said with a smile. "Okay go wait in by the couch,"

Watching the boys run towards the couch, Sandy shook his head in amazement. Women he though, as he grabbed the presets from their spot in the closet and carried them out. They were turning five so the had gone all out. Not that they didn't go all out every year, it was virtually impossible when the kids mother was Kirsten Nickel. It took them both two loads before they had bough everything out.

It took them about three seconds to rip through everything. Soon the floor was littered wit every toy imaginable. There were lots of board games and soccer thing, but they hadn't yet given them their biggest presents.

"Okay now Seth I know that what you want more then anything else is a horse right?"

"Yes!"

"So your mom and I decided that we wouldn't buy you a horse yet but instead we rented one called Goldie and got you lessons!"

"Goldie?" Seth asked wrinkling his nose

"Yep do you want to meet him tomorrow?"

"Can I name him something else?"

"Well…sure,"

"Okay then yes!"

"What about me?" Ryan asked his eyes lighting up in anticipations. Sandy and Kirsten exchanged looks. They hadn't decided yet what to give Ryan. They didn't want him to be upset about that but they hadn't figured out what to get him. They had bought him everything possible for his love of the moment-soccer. He was going to soccer camp, in the soccer league, had the uniform of all his favorite players, had soccer balls and nets and pads. There wasn't anything else that boy could need that had to do with soccer.

"Sweetie pie what do you want?" Kirsten asked hoping that she could make him as happy as Seth.

"I get to choose?"

"Yes, of course, we didn't know what would make you the happiest,"

"a kiss," Ryan said simply

"What?" Kirsten asked out of confusion. She wasn't sure what she had heard.

"A kiss from you and daddy, please,"

"Of course you can have a kiss," Kirsten said reaching out and enveloping him in a hug. Kissing him on both cheeks, she pondered how she had gotten such a great son. She wondered what she had done to deserve him.

"Daddy?" Ryan said pulling away from Kirsten and launching himself at Sandy.

"Uggh!" Sandy cried as Ryan ran straight into him. "Of course you can have a kiss too big guy," Sandy looked over at Kirsten while he hugged Ryan and raised and eyebrow. How was it that they were living in a huge house, the boys got everything they wanted and more and all Ryan wanted for his big present was a kiss?

"Well sweetie, kisses we can give you anytime you want, but what about a birthday gift?" Ryan sat in Sandy's lap and thought for a while. He thought and he thought and he thought. Until finally Seth got fed up.

"Ryan wants a horse,"

"No I don't"

"Well then make up your mind"

"No!"

"Yes!"

"No! No! No!"

"You guys don't argue on your birthday!" Sandy cut in

"We're not arguing daddy, we're fighting,"

"What's the difference Seth?"

"I don't know but their different words,"

"Yes but they mean the same thing!" Seth insisted

"Nope,"

"Yes!"

"I don't want to hear this!" Ryan screamed covering his ears and running out of the room. Ryan was an over reactor. He also happened to at the moment hate any confrontation that wasn't involving him.

"Sandy!" Kirsten cried in exasperation and went running after Ryan. Sandy stopped yelling at Seth, if you could actually call it that and sighed loudly.

"So Seth you excited for tomorrow?"

The night hadn't gone as planned, especially since they never did get out of Ryan what he wanted for his birthday. Sandy had to work even though it was a Saturday, so that left Kirsten to take the boys over to the stable to visit Goldie. Unfortunately they were stuck in the car with Julie Cooper. Not that Kirsten hated Julie-she was sort of nice, but she did have the tendency to get on her nerves.

It wasn't even as if Kirsten had invited Julie. All that had happened was that they had been coming out of their houses at the same time, and Julie had asked where Kirsten was going. Mostly just out of polite curiosity, and when Kirsten had told her it had turned out they were going the same place. So Julie had said let's carpool and Kirsten hadn't been able to think of an excuse fast enough. So here they were, the kids laughing and talking in the back seat and Julie going on and on about something, while Kirsten sulked at her own stupidity.

"So anyways I was all like…" Julie continued on with her story Kirsten was pretty sure was about buying something at the mall, but she couldn't be quite sure. Kirsten checked her watch; ten minutes had gone by which meant she was stuck in the car with Julie for another twenty minutes.

"Mommy?" Ryan asked leaning up to tap her on the shoulder

"Yes?" Kirsten asked happy for the interruption

"Can I get food soon?"

"You just ate sweetie,"

"But I'm hungry,"

"Can you wait a while?"

"No!"

"Well I have a granola bar,"

"Yuck!"

"Water?"

"No,"

"How bout fast food?" Julie asked pointing at a sign for a McDonalds drive through. "We still have plenty of time,"

"Yay!" Ryan cried then stopped "what's fast food?"

"Stuff you like,"

"Yay!"

"Do I like it?" Seth asked

"Yes,"

"Do I mommy?"

"Too much so, honey, it can't be very good for your figure,"

"What's a figure?"

"Never mind, you'll find out later,"

"Okay," Marissa said and went back to giggling with Ryan and Seth.

"Your already worried about her figure?" Kirsten asked in surprise

"It's never to early,"

"I guess I don't have to worry about that with boys, huh?"

"Nope, guess not,"

"Lucky me though I have to worry about the girls,"

"The girl's, why?"

"I have to look out for the well being of the poor girl's that end up dating either one of them,"

"Yep, that must be hard too,"

"Hard? Probably the understatement of the year. Especially since I have to watch out for double the amount of girls that everyone else does. The hard part of having twins, I guess,"

"Really that's the hard part? I would have though giving birth twice would have been?" Kirsten choked and then gave a half hearted laugh

"I was too drugged out to notice"

"Ahh, makes since,"

"Totally" Julie agreed as they pulled into the McDonalds

"Two kids meal burgers, with lemonade and a coke,"

"And a kids meal chicken nuggets," Julie piped in "and an…what do you want to drink honey?" she asked turning towards Marissa

"A coke,"

"A coke please,"

"Please drive up to the pickup window," the cracking voice said and Kirsten was happy to obey as she checked her watch. Forty five minutes until Seth's lesson. Taking the stuff from the window and managing to steal a fry and take a sip of coke before handing it back to the kids, Kirsten thrust a ten dollar bill into the hand of the cashier and sped onto the highway.

When they had finally arrived at the stables, it was giving them a good five minutes to go meet the horse and get ready for the lesson. Kirsten cursed Julie Cooper and her desire to give kids everything she had never had.

"Seth, out of car. Now."

"Why? Mommy are you mad at me?"

"No, but don't you want to meet your horse?" Kirsten asked thrusting open the door and unbuckling Seth. "Ryan, let's go!"

"But I wanna eat,"

"How about if after Seth start's his lesson we come back and get your food? Can you wait five minutes?"

"I don't know…."Ryan said eyeing his mom suspiciously. Kirsten sighed, but to her surprise Julie actually knew what to do.

"Hey Ryan," Julie said as she picked Marissa up and got her out of the car. "When Marissa and Seth have lessons, you and your mom and I can have lunch. I'll even promise not to tell Seth if you eat all his fries," she said leaning in and whispering in to him. Ryan grinned at her and unbuckled himself before jumping out of the car.

"Thanks," Kirsten yelled back as she rushed Seth and Ryan towards the stable. "Hi, can you help me?" she asked a man with a name badge on.

"Sure, what can I do for you?"

"My son is starting riding lessons today and we rented him a horse named Goldie. Do you know where I can find her?"

"Goldie? Sure, come on I'll take you,"

"Great," Kirsten said as she dragged Ryan who was sulking with her. Seth was running up ahead, or rather skipping.

"Horse day, horse, day," he sang as he skipped. His singing was loud and Kirsten took a deep breath hoping that no one else heard Seth singing.

"Ahhh, here you go,"

"Thank you," Kirsten said and looked at the horse. It was beautiful, dark chestnut brown with a white spot on it's head. Stroking it's head made Kirsten smile. She'd had a horse as a little kids, one named Princess who she had adored, but in the end she had become tired of horse back riding, and decided that hanging out with her friends was much more fun. She was wishing that she had kept at it. "Seth, honey, this is Goldie," she said picking up Seth so he could pet him.

"He looks like Captain oats,"

"I know that's why I picked him,"

"Is he Captain Oat's daddy?"

"What do you think?"

"I think Captain oat's daddy is named General oats,"

"Really what makes you think so?"

"Because general sounds better then captain,"

"Okay, then his dad is general oats,"

"Do I own general oats?"

"No, well at least I don't think so…do you?"

"No, I don't think so,"

"Well you own Goldie for a year,"

"Then what?"

"If you still like him you can keep him,"

"Really?"

"We'll talk about it,"

"Hello, Mrs. Cohen I presume?" a riding instructor asked walking over to them. Kirsten put Seth down and held out her hand.

"I'm going to guess that you're Ben?" she asked shaking his hand

"Good guess," Ben said and bent down towards Ryan. "Let me guess your Seth?"

"No! I'm Ryan,"

"Oh, so where's Seth?"

"I'm here!" Seth said popping out from behind his mother.

"Oh it's only Seth that has a lesson right?"

"Yes, this is Seth's twin Ryan, who doesn't like horse's he's going to stay with me,"

"You don't even want to ride once?"

"No way José,"

"Okay, then you ready to go Seth?"

"Yes, what's your name?"

"Oh duh!" Ben said hitting his forehead "I'm Ben,"

"I'm Seth,"

"Yes I know,"

"How?"

"Your mom told me,"

"Well that was rude of her,"

"Come on you can complain about your mom while we start learning to ride,"

"Okay," Seth said and smiled and skipped after Ben talking a mile a minute.

"Well I refuse to let you complain about anyone," Kirsten said grinning at Ryan "but we can go and share Seth's fries,"

"Okay mommy, but first I want to tell you something,"

"Sure sweetie, anything you want I'll talk to you about it,"

"It's a secret," Kirsten nodded and squatted down so that he could whisper in her ear.

"Don't tell anyone because Luke says only sissies…" he trailed off then started again "say the words I love you"

"Oh no, honey, no, Daddy say's I love you all the time is he a sissy?" she asked picking up Ryan and kissing his forehead. He pondered this for a moment then nodded. Kirsten threw back her head in laughter.

"But I love you mommy, does that make me a sissy?"

"No sweetie, not if anyone knows,"

"Okay then promise you won't tell?"

"I promise,"

"Good, can we go eat fries now?"

"Sure," she answered with a sigh, still not putting Ryan down. She loved having alone moments with both her boys. Seth and her could spend hours playing together, running around and doing things, but her time with Ryan was different. He would come and crawl in next to her when she was watching a movie or TV, he would sit in her lap and snuggle up to her when she was working at the kitchen table, or the fact that he would sometimes randomly ask her if he could be picked up or be given a hug. And as much as she knew that he loved it, she couldn't help but love it more.

Author's Note:there my warning proved true, how fluffy was that? But don't worry all you drama lovers I promise in the next chapter there will be more drama I actually for the very first time in my entire life know pretty much where I'm going with this story. I know surprise, surprise! Review all you wonderful people and I will cherish and adore you forever!