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Well guys, here we are. The last chapter! I've been working on this since April the first in 2014 and yes, that is one day I remember. It feels like yesterday but at the same time a thousand years must have passed since then.

I was thinking Elijah, at eight looks like Ender Orgill from the YouTube channel April and Davey.

After all, I'm quite happy with the way it's ending and I hope all of you guys will be too.

Eight years later

"Hello."

I was sitting on a hospital bed, with one baby girl in my arms, on the other side of the room sat Johnny, whom I had now been together with for so long, with another baby girl in his. The first 24 hours had passed since they were born had passed since they entered this world, and it was time for them to meet their older brother.

Eight years, four months, one week and three days had passed since the night I spent in agony, and Elijah had grown up into one pale but healthy young boy with my red hair and green eyes. And he was still living with his big brother and his dad.

Right now the three of them came into the hospital room. And for the first time my heart beamed with pride for having all my three in the same room at once.

"Be careful…" Elijah came up to me and the little girl in my arms. "Come on here, meet your older brother." I nodded towards Johnny. "This one is thirty-two minutes younger than her sister…"

Trenton and Matt had come into the room after Elijah, who came up to the bed I sat on. But they stayed in the background and sat down in two chairs by the window, on the other side of a small table that Johnny sat by. Johnny was almost half asleep, after the first night along with the girls and what we were about to do.

"Is that one a boy then?" Elijah asked happily. We had told him what the name was going to be if the baby had turned out a boy. "My brother Benjamin Scotty Michael."

"No, silly. They're both girls."

I smiled a bit inwards, to myself when I remembered when I came to the dumping ground first. With so bad morning sickness I had ended up in the hospital. The letter I had written, telling people what names I wanted for my child if I wasn't there to say it. I had forgotten all about it afterwards, but found it when I was going through all of my things for moving away from the dumping ground.

"What are their names then?"

"This one is Madison Molly Tee." We had used the names I had mentioned what felt like a thousand years ago. "And that one, that Johnny's holding is Gabriella Rose Joannie."

I guess I just had a thing for long names, along with ones that we- I and Johnny knew we needed to use the moment we found out we were having twins.

"Will you always be able to tell which one of them is who? Now they're so little they look the same?"

"You think?"

"Yes, they both look like white potatoes with thatches of red hair."

I couldn't help but laugh. I had a feeling loads of people were going to be mixing them up for all of their lives, but I never really thought of it like that. But then I felt my laugh die away when suddenly a frown formed in Elijah's forehead.

"Trenton…" My best friend flew up from the chair he sat on and came over. "Do you want to hold onto her, I think you remember how to hold on to a baby, right? Just support her head. Just like that… Hey," While Trenton turned away from me I turned to my oldest. "You look as if you're wondering about something. Is something wrong?"

Silence fell in the room except for two babies' calm breaths…

"Mama?" Elijah questioned, almost quietly at last. "Now, you and Johnny will soon take Madison and Gabriella home. Right?"

"In a few days, yes."

I probably knew what question was coming. And I had probably known, ever since I placed Elijah in his dad's arms that he was going to wonder sooner or later. Because we all knew there would never be any reason to try and keep it secret.

"I'm just…." Elijah's voice was shivering and suddenly he started sobbing as tears came streaming down his face. "Why do you keep them, why didn't you want to keep me?" For a few seconds none of us said anything at all. "Why?"

I really should have figured something to answer to this question a long time ago…

"Oh baby. Come…" He crawled up on the bed and came and hugged me. I wrapped my arms around him and he cried towards my shoulder. "My sweetheart. Just breathe and calm down and I'll explain it to you…" For just a few seconds we sat like that. Elijah crying towards my shoulder and I was holding on for dear life. "When I had you…" At last he sat up, I kept my arm around his shoulder. "I wanted to keep you so bad. But I knew I couldn't. I wasn't even twice the age that you are now. And I knew that there were loads of people out there who would be able to give you a better life than I would ever be able to…" I looked towards all the three guys on the other side of the room. "And when I met your dad I knew that he was it."

"Did you still want to keep me?"

"More than I have ever wanted anything else…. And there's nothing I love more than you. There's nothing that makes me any happier than getting to know you, while I know that you are having the best life possible- a whole lot better than I could have given you, along with your dad and Trenton… And still you, all three are letting me know you so I can be your mama."

The nine months that had passed September 2014 and May 2015 had stayed a big blur all until this day. And while I tried to explain it to Elijah I wasn't even so certain myself.

Now I and Johnny, thankfully, a guy I knew I could trust. Had two young girls and none of us had even turned twenty-five yet. Still I was a complete different person than I had been that day by the playground, nine years ago.

I thought back to the memory of me trying to run after Jace when he left me to figure out what was about to happen on my own. I remembered how I had run away, how the old barn in the garden had collapsed over me, how I had come to the dumping ground…

Here I was, with one new mess. But in difference from the last time, I knew that I and Johnny, along with Mike, Minnie, Trenton, Matt, Tee along with Elijah Christopher, Gabriella Rose Joannie and Madison Molly Tee could get through.

Never so much had I been in a room filled with so much love.

"I love you Elijah…" I told him one more time and stroke his soft, red hair. "You know that right? You never have to doubt that because I love you more than anything."

"I love you too mama."

And after all, knowing that was all I really needed.

And cut!

This story's original ending was Kenny and Elijah staying at the dumping ground, and Elijah's name being Elijah Johnathon Michael. But honestly I quite liked this version. I hope all of you did too.

Random fact

Eight years, four months, one week and three days after Elijah was born, makes this story end 24th September 2023.