The room was silent for a moment before Miranda called out, "Girls!" She was shocked that her girls had basically spat all over the table, Andrea's drink, and partially on the woman herself. She did however, partially blame herself for teaching them to blow on things that were hot so that they would not burn themselves on anything, not that they were really given anything that was hot enough to do that of course.

Cassidy and Caroline both froze for a moment before their lips started to tremble and both of the little girls began to cry.

Miranda sighed, wishing that she could take that reaction back so that the girls wouldn't cry at all. It was always a sound that she didn't like and she always did what she could to prevent them crying. It did mean, however, that the girls tended to get whatever they wanted whenever they wanted it. She wasn't delusional though, she was aware of the negative and positive effects that could come of it as she had read every parenting book that she could possibly get her hands on during her pregnancy, especially when she discovered that she was having two girls instead of just the one.

Andrea acted instantly and on instinct, moving closer to the girls and wrapping them both in her arms, "Shhhh," she said softly, "It's okay."

The girls continued to cry.

The dark-haired assistant adjusted her position so that she was sat on the floor with her legs crossed and one girl on each of her legs with her arms securely around them. She held them close to her and rocked them whilst she made calming sounds to soothe them both at the same time.

Caroline was the first to stop crying and then Cassidy. Both of the girls were soon watching Andrea's lips as the woman made sounds and smiled down at them both.

Miranda felt relieved when they stopped but found herself watching her assistant closely. She found herself quite enjoying the ability to watch the woman interact with her children. She couldn't recall the exact moment that she had fallen in love with the younger woman because, in actual fact, she hadn't even realised that it was happening until it was too late. Much like falling down a rabbit hole that she didn't know was there to begin with. She had fallen suddenly and before she had even realised she had started to fall, she couldn't even see the entrance to the rabbit hole anymore.

She hated being away from her girls for very long but she felt conflicted because she wanted... needed to go to work to see Andrea. Of course she enjoyed her job and she had a passion for it but more recently the highlight of her job wasn't the job itself but the sight of her second assistant and the opportunity to spend time with her. Recently, she had made some slight changes to the office dynamics to adjust to that. It was now Emily that was sent out around the city on random errands and it was Andrea that she would call into her office. It was also Andrea that she would call at random times outside of office hours with tasks or reminders, although most of those calls could have waited until office hours or at least more sociable hours. In addition to that, it was Andrea that she called to her house for coffee or for things that her girls 'needed' or to bring her things that she had (conveniently) 'forgotten' at the office. Whenever she would get called to the house she would end up spending time with Miranda there or with her and the girls. Miranda had 'forgotten' things in the office enough that Andrea now did a sweep of the office each night and put anything in her bag that Miranda might call for.

Andrea smiled down at the girls softly as they calmed in her arms, "Now, how about you both finish your hot chocolates? Then I will read you both a story on my kindle."

Soon, the girls were up and off of the woman's lap, back sat at the coffee table as they drank their hot chocolates carefully. Andrea even drank hers to show the girls that it truly was okay, although that did make Miranda cringe a little.

Once the girls had finished their drinks, Andrea picked up the cups and took her own too over to Miranda's desk with the tray to collect her boss' cup too. Miranda looked down and noticed that Andrea's was full still. The white-haired woman raised an eyebrow at her assistant in question.

Andrea simply winked at the woman and then smiled.

Miranda glanced over at the girls and then back to the woman who was now taking the 'empty' cups out to the kitchen. It was clear that the woman had pretended to drink the drink to make her girls happy. Another reason to love the beautiful brunette. Not that she really needed any other reasons to love the younger woman. She already had an infinite amount of reasons in her head already.

She could hear Andrea in the outer office talking to Emily who had recently returned from her latest trip out for scarves. Andrea was explaining the alterations in Miranda's schedules that had happened whilst Emily was out whilst Emily was secretly grateful that she had been tasked to run around the city and to stay at the office instead of being tasked with taking care of the girls (or as she called them the twin horrors - something that Serena often told her off for as she was actually quite fond of the little 'Tesoros').

Once everything was organised with Emily, which did not take very long, Andrea returned to Miranda's office with her kindle in her hands.

The girls were quite excited to see the woman returned and they both jumped up to greet her as if she had been gone for hours rather than mere minutes.

Andrea chuckled as she put her kindle under her arm before taking the hands of each of the children and leading them back to the sofa which was beside the coffee table where they had been drinking their hot drinks earlier.

She let go of their hands to put the kindle down on the coffee table and then she helped each of the twin girls up onto the sofa indvidually.

Miranda smiled as she watched on.

Andrea sat down in between Caroline and Cassidy before she picked up the kindle to pick out a story for them. She had already downloaded a multitude of children's books for them both and Miranda had added Kindle Unlimited to the device for her as well as put a rather large gift card amount on Andrea's account (which was mostly used for work purposes to order various items) so that the woman could purchase any books that were required. The account also had the work bank details for any work related purchases and Miranda's personal account details for any more personal purchases that the woman was requiring.

Both of the girls eagerly climbed into Andrea's lap, taking a leg each as they snuggled up to her quite comfortably.

It didn't take Andrea long to choose a new story for the girls and to start reading to them whilst their mother finished off her work whilst also listening to the story because how could she resist listening to the woman's voice?

Emily even found herself listening to the story that the other assistant was reading out loud to the children.