Chapter 3

Serena was able to talk to administration about her situation and it turned out that the campus did have a daycare center, but usually it was only for the professors who had young ones. But the administration believed that Serena was such unusual case that they reviewed her transcript and couldn't believe that she did so well at Stanford for being a full time student with infants to take care at the same time. So they decided that Serena could put the twins in the daycare center while she was in class.

'I can't believe it. They're actually allowing the twins into the daycare center! This is perfect!' thought Serena as she headed back to the apartment. She looked down to see that the boys were asleep in their stroller. Since it was only 3pm that she decided that she would go see Mina.

Serena walked back to the apartment and left Andrew a note,

Andy,

I went to go see Mina and I probably won't be back until after dinner. I have my cell if you need to reach me.

Many kisses,

Sere and the twins

The boys were still asleep when they reached Serena's car that was parked in the parking lot. Serena had BMW M3, she had gotten the car for her 16th birthday. It's not the average family car, but it was something that she had always used before the twins. It wasn't like she couldn't sell her car and get a better family suited car. It was that Serena liked her old car.

Serena had buckled the twins into their car seats and drove off to Milpitas which was 10 minutes further North East of Santa Clara.

Mina was Serena's half sister. Serena was adopted when she was born and was a single child with her adoptive family, but during her adoption Serenity, the birthmother, made a deal with Irene and Ken Tskuino to have contact with Serena. Mina was only a year older. Serenity was married to Mina's father, but then a year later got a divorce and met Serena's father who died in a car accident one night, before Serenity and Serena's father could get married. Mina lived in a small house with her best friend Lita from high school. Mina has long blonde hair with bright blue eyes. Mina is the bubbly type A person, always happy and cheerful. When Mina graduated from high school she didn't go a normal 4 year university or state school, but she went to an art university instead. Mina wanted to become a fashion designer, she lived for the lime light.

Serena calls Mina as she heading over to her house, "Hey Mines, I hope that it's okay that me and twins come over for dinner tonight? If it's too much then we can stop by for a bit then."

"Hey sis, no problem. Anything for the my two favorite nephews!" replied Mina as she was finishing a sketch she was drawing at her desk.

"They're your only nephews so I don't think that anybody can be your favorites except for them. Thanks well I'll be over soon, and you won't believe who I ran into today," said Serena as she was exiting the freeway.

"Wait, who did you see today?" asked Mina, "Oh yeah I'll call Lita to see what's she making for dinner tonight."

"Mines, I'll tell you when I get there and that would be great. I should wait to tell you both because I don't want to tell it twice," said Serena.

"Fine. I'll see you when you get here," said Mina.

"Okay bye then," said Serena disconnecting the phone call.

Mina gets up from her desk and walks over to Lita's room and knocks on Lita's door. "Lita?" asked Mina.

"Yeah?" replied Lita.

"Serena and the twins are coming over and I'm wondering what's for dinner?" asked Mina as she opened Lita's door, finding Lita on the computer.

"That's good. I got something for the twins that I bought when I was shopping at the mall the other day. I got them teddy bears," said Lita as she was pulling out two boxes that had a bear in each box, "I was shopping for some more clothes that I could wear at the restaurant and I saw this adorable little store is called Build-a-Bear so I went in built these cute little bears for the boys."

"That's such a good idea. I hope you'll let me say that they're from the both of us if I give you half of what you paid to make this?" asked Mina with this huge puppy eyes.

"Sure that's fine. Oh by the way I'll try a new dish on Serena tonight. I found this recipe online and I've been dying to try it out, and what do you think the boys would like for dinner then?" asked Lita.

Lita was tall with medium light brown hair with bright green eyes. Lita and Mina went to high school together. Lita was the athletic type of person, but in great shape. Lita wasn't going to college, but to a culinary school, Lita loves to cook and it's her dream of owning her own restaurant and being the top chief.

Even though Serena and Mina were sisters, but grew up in different cities they were still the best of friends and Lita became one of the family when she started being friends with Mina back in high school. But since then the 3 of them have been each other closest girl friends since Mina and Lita were in high school.

Serena pulled into the driveway. She got out of the car went to the trunk to get the twin's stroller out. Once she had the stroller set up she opened the car doors and found that the twins were still asleep. 'They look so much like him, but yet very different. I bet they'll grow into my stubbornness and Darien's charming personality. They will be like Darien in every way without even noticing it. But they'll grow knowing that their father was a good man, and hopefully they'll stay my little boys forever,' as Serena thought while gently picking the boys up from the car seats without disturbing them from their sleep.

Mina looked out the kitchen window and saw that Serena had pulled into the driveway. Mina walked over to the front door to let them in.

"How's my favorite sister and nephews doing today?" asked Mina as Serena was walking inside the house.

"Hi Mines," replied Serena who sounded like she had a lot on her mind, "I'm just a little stressed out, that's all. You know with school starting soon and that Darien is now in the picture."

"What do you mean that Darien's in the picture? Did you see him today or something like that?" asked Mina as she led Serena to the guest bedroom so Serena could set the boys in the bed.

"Yeah, Andy and I were walking through campus looking for the administration office to talk about my situation and the boys and Darien saw us and we briefly talked before I left Andy and Darien to themselves," said Serena as she closed the door and followed Mina to the living room.

"So you did see Darien? How was that then?" asked Mina who knew that Serena must have felt awkward about seeing Darien again. 'It's been two years since they last saw each other or even spoke to one another,' thought Mina as she asked, "Sere, would you like something to drink?"

"That sounds great. Tea," said Serena as she followed Mina into the kitchen. Mina reached for the tea kettle and placed it on the stove. While Serena took a seat at small table in the kitchen. "Mina, it was so awkward seeing and talking to Darien today. Especially since he saw me with the twins. You know that I was originally planning on seeing Darien was probably when classes start and just allowed enough time for me and him to talk and work things out. Then maybe later, introduce the twins to him and once he got to know the twins I would tell him that they were his."

"So then Darien did see the twins. Did he ask you about them?" asked Mina who placed two tea cups on the table, "Black or white tea?"

"White," said Serena who looked very distraught by the current situation, "But now that he's seen them, I wouldn't be surprised if he asked Andy lots of questions after I left. I would think that he would know that they were mine, because he over heard the twins calling me mommy today."

Mina was pouring the tea and replied, "Well that answers my questions so far, but the real question is what are you going to do about telling Darien?"

Lita came into the kitchen, "Hey Sere, I didn't know that you got here so soon," as she went to the cabinet to pick out a coffee mug and sat down at the table.

"Hi Lita, I'm just catching Mina on what happened today and that I saw Darien. Who saw me with the twins and heard them calling me mommy. Because of that incident with Darien today has thrown me off my plans of telling him about the twins," said Serena as she was sipping her tea.

"Whoa there. That's a lot of information," replied Lita as she was sipping her own tea.

"Now we're just figuring what Sere is going to do next," said Mina.

"Honestly, I don't know what I'm going to do? I don't even know if he's going to talk to me again. If he does then I'm guessing that I'll be answering a lot of questions that he'll ask me," said Serena. Then she heard the twins crying, "I hear the twins are up now. I better go check on them," as she started to get up.

"No it's okay Sere, I'll go get them," said Lita, "I haven't seen them in forever and I hope that you don't mind but the other day I made/bought them teddy bears."

"Lita, thanks, but you didn't have to get them anything," said Serena as she sat back down in her chair.

Lita got up and left the room to go get the twins. A few minutes later Lita came back holding both of the twins' hands and in their other hands were their teddy bears that Lita got them.

"Boys, what do you say to Auntie Lita?" asked Serena as the boys came closer to her and Mina.

"Thank you," said the two little boys who were smiling and cuddling with their new found friends. Chris walked over to Serena and gave her the look that he wanted to be held. So Serena leaned over her chair and picked up Chris and he sat in her lap. Lita sat down at the table and Geoff did the same thing with Lita. Geoff and Chris were sitting quietly in Serena's and Lita's laps playing with their teddy bears.

"Back to business," said Mina as she got up to get another cup of tea, "Now, let's assume that Darien understand that the twins are yours but the real question is how do you avoid the timing of the pregnancy?"

"I'm hoping that he doesn't get the chance to ask that question or maybe I'll avoid that topic of discussion or maybe I'll just tell Darien that it happened one night and not tell him who it was," said Serena.

Mina sat back down at the table, then Lita got up and handed Geoff over to Mina, "I'll get dinner started, by the way is Andy coming for dinner? Since he was the last one to talk to Darien, maybe he'll be able to give you suggestions about how to go about the situation," said Lita.

"That's a good idea, Lita, since you're up could you hand me my cell that's in purse that's in the living room?" asked Serena as she was then giving baby talk to Chris.

"Sure thing," said Lita.

"I'm sure that Andy knows how to deal with Darien a lot better than we do. They have known each other since forever, plus. Tell Andrew to get his butt over here. I haven't seen him in forever!" explained Mina. Then Geoff sneezes, "Bless you," said Mina who smiled at Geoff in adoration.