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Chapter Five
Kara woke up from her afternoon nap with a refreshed energy. She looked over and found Lena still asleep. In Kara's mind that just wouldn't do, her friend, although a year younger than you and enjoying her nap, needed to be awake because Kara was awake. She leaned over to where the younger girl was sleeping, teddy bear clutched in her grip and pacifier stuck in her mouth. She was giggling to herself quietly before leaning down so that her face was inches in front of Lena's sleeping face.
"Lena," Kara whispered.
The three-year-old grumbled and scrunched up her nose.
"Lena," Kara tried again, a little louder.
This time Lena swatted lazily at Kara, trying to get her away. Kara giggled to herself as she moved around Lena's little hand and then got closer.
"Lena!" Kara giggled even louder.
Lena's green eyes shot open and she looked at Kara's smiling and laughing face mere inches in front of her own.
"No, s'eepin'," Lena grumbled, pulling her bear closer and closing her eyes again.
"But Lena, I wanna play," Kara whined.
"P'ay later. Time for s'eep," Lena mumbled around the pacifier, not opening her eyes.
"Pleeease," Kara begged, drawing out the word.
With that, Lena huffed, opening her eyes and sitting up, throwing her arms down against the bedding and looking at Kara with a sleepy expression on her face.
"Fine," she huffed around the green plastic.
Kara grinned, scurrying off the bed, grabbing Lena by the wrist and pulling her along with her. She hauled them out into the hall, Lena dragging her teddy along behind her, still not completely awake. She found Maggie and Alex in the kitchen, Maggie was nursing a cup of coffee at the counter and Alex was chopping up apples and strawberries, placing them in a bowl beside a plate of crackers and cheese pieces.
Hearing the footsteps coming down the hall, Maggie and Alex looked up to see the refreshed Kara and a pouty Lena trailing behind her.
"Good afternoon, did you guys have a good nap?" Alex asked, going back to finishing off the snacks that she was preparing.
Kara hummed in agreement, marching over to the counter to see what Alex was doing. Lena took a different approach, shuffling over to Maggie and lifting her arms up in a motion to be picked up. Maggie agreed without question, lifting the little girl up into her lap and letting her settle back into her chest.
"What's up Little Miss?" Maggie smiled.
"Kara waked me up," Lena grumbled, scrubbing at her eyes and pulling out the pacifier as she watched Alex lift the plate and bowl up onto the raised section of the island counter.
"Sleepin' time was over," Kara shrugged, not seeing the issue with waking the younger girl.
"Kara, that wasn't very nice," Alex scolded lightly, lifting the child into the seat beside Maggie's. "Lena was sleeping."
"Sorry," Kara muttered, settling on her knees on the chair.
Maggie handed Lena a strawberry for the girl to munch on while Kara took a handful of cheese and crackers, dropping them on the counter before pairing them together one by one. The girls ate in relative silence, Lena was still waking up, and Kara was very enraptured in pairing her cheese pieces and crackers together. Alex and Maggie sat with them, watching as the girls ate their snack and cleaning up the messes as they went along. When the pair were finished, and their little hands cleaned of crumbs and stains, Maggie brought up the idea of what to do with the two for the afternoon.
"Did you want to go to the park for the afternoon?" she asked.
Lena and Kara both perked up at that, and Maggie looked over their heads at Alex, judging her reaction. There was a small park down the street from their apartment, not super populated, but people around the neighbourhood enjoyed walking their dogs and taking their kids to the small playground on the grass. Maggie figured it was a good a place as any to let the two little ones run off their energy for the afternoon. Alex nodded her acceptance of the idea, her brain working a mile a minute trying to inventory all of the supplies they would need to bring to the park now that they were bringing two toddlers and not just going for a jog around the trails.
"Park?" Kara asked.
"Yup, we can go play on the playground, and in build sandcastles in the sandbox, and we can play games in the grass," Maggie smiled, listing off all of the activities that could occupy the girls for the afternoon.
Two sets of eyes lit up as Maggie told them about all of the fun things they could do, smiles growing on their faces.
"Let's get ready then," Alex announced, lifting Kara from her chair and depositing her on the floor.
Maggie hefted Lena up from her lap, moving her onto her hip as she made her way down the hall following Kara. It took less time to get the girls ready this time than it had that morning, with a quick wipe of their faces to get the rest of the fruit juice and cracker crumbs off their faces, and then strapping tiny sneakers onto little feet and packing up a bag of a couple toys, water bottles, snacks and a packet of hand wipes.
"Are we ready to go?" Alex asked from the door. Lena was standing beside her, a hand wrapped into the fabric of Alex's shirt and her other hand wrapped tightly around the neck of the smaller giraffe plush that she had chosen the day before, pacifier still planted in her mouth. Alex had put her foot down about bringing the large teddy bear with her to the park.
"Coming!" Maggie called from the hall. She was scurrying down the hall and Kara in tow.
The quartet marched out the door, Alex locked the door behind them and they made their way down the stairs to the parking lot of the building. It was much easier to strap the girls into their car seats this time. They could have walked to the park, Maggie and Alex did it whenever they went, but with the added baggage of two toddlers, they figured it would be easier to drive down the street instead of carrying them a couple blocks down the street.
The drive went well, and as soon as the car was parked on the side of the street, Alex opened the back doors and unbuckled the two little girls. Before letting Lena down onto the pavement, she tapped the pacifier.
"I'm going to hold on to this while you play," Alex said, lightly pulling the pacifier from the pale girl's mouth and put it into a plastic cup that she had thrown into the bag.
Lena relented, and then when Alex placed her on the ground, Kara took her hand and the two took off down the grass toward the large play structure in the middle of the park.
"Stay where we can see you!" Alex called, watching the two little girls laugh and toddle along the grass, their little feet rushing as fast as they could.
"You're such a mom," Maggie chuckled, taking her financée's hand and following the two little girls at a slower pace.
"What?"
"You're such a mom with them," Maggie repeated. "It's cute."
Alex smiled softly, not giving a verbal response. The comment made her think. What about their own kids one day? They hadn't really discussed it yet, only some passing comments made when watching sappy movies, or when they saw cute children walking down the street with their parents. Alex didn't dare start that conversation now, knowing they had much more important things to be dealing with.
The pair took a seat on the bench and watching their two temporary toddlers play around on the playset.
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Kara and Lena made it to the play structure before Alex and Maggie had found a seat on a bench and they didn't even slow down, rushing up the little steps and clamouring around on the playset, giggling and laughing as they tossed around Lena's giraffe and chattered.
The pair started a game of tag, chasing each other around in the sand and all over the playset, laughing and running around.
There weren't many kids around the park today, the day wasn't super sunny, slightly overcast, but the weather wasn't putting a damper on the two little girls' fun, they spent most of the afternoon running around, chasing each other and taking turns on the slides and spending time on the swings with Alex and Maggie pushing them as they each squealed to go higher. By the time dinner time rolled around, the two were pleasantly worn out, letting Alex and Maggie carry them off the grass and back to the SUV. They strapped them into car seats and headed back down the street to the apartment parking lot.
The drive down the couple of blocks was silent except for the quiet radio in the background. The toddlers in the backseat were almost completely asleep and Alex and Maggie were completely worn out from their first full day of parenting two energetic and attention needing little girls.
"Should we have a quiet night?" Maggie asked, looking at Alex out of the corner of her eye.
"Definitely," Alex smiled. "Movie night and easy dinner?"
"Yes," Maggie smiled.
When they made it back to the apartment building, they each grabbed a little girl and carted them into the apartment, depositing them onto the couch where they fell into each other like puppies. Alex handed them sippy cups filled with juice and turned on the television to a colourful children's program. The two little girls were half asleep, but Alex figured that the colours and the music from the television would keep them away long enough to feed them dinner.
The older two got started on their easy dinner, Alex buttering slices of bread and unwrapping cheese slices for grilled cheese sandwiches and Maggie dug though the cupboards for a couple cans of tomato soup. Their easy dinner was filling enough for the adults and the children and it was simple enough that Alex could make it without running the risk of burning anything, which was what they were going for today.
It was finished quickly and Maggie dished up sandwiches and little bowls of soup onto four placemats at the table, and Alex went to gather the children for dinner. Kara and Lena followed along behind Alex to the table, the redhead lifting the two little ones up onto their chairs, and letting the two look at their dinner skeptically for a moment before Maggie prompted them to try it.
Kara looked a little concerned.
"You won't know if you like it or not if you don't try it," Maggie commented, taking a bite of her sandwich.
Alex cut Lena's sandwich into little pieces before handing her one of the smaller ones.
"It's really good if you dip it in the soup," Alex commented to the pair.
Lena's green eyes narrowed for a moment, before she picked up a square of sandwich and dipping it delicately into her little bowl of soup. Slowly, and dripping some soup onto the table, Lena put the little piece of sandwich into her mouth. Giving it a second, she then smiled at Alex, signalling that she had enjoyed it by repeating the action. Kara watched the entire act before copying the smaller girl, dipping a corner of her sandwich into the soup and then biting it. She chewed for a moment before smiling, following along with Lena's actions and repeating herself until half of her sandwich was gone.
After dinner, Alex cleaned up the mess in the kitchen while Maggie cleaned up the two little girls, cleaning off their hands and faces from the tomato soup stains before getting them changed into their pajamas and bringing them back into the living room and setting out a couple DVD cases on the coffee table.
"Which one would you guys like to watch?" Maggie asked.
Kara and Lena looked over the cases before they each pointed to a colourful case. Beauty and the Beast.
"Good choice," Maggie smiled.
She placed the DVD in the machine and pressed play on the remote as Alex joined the group on the couch. The quartet enjoyed the colourful cartoon, the two little girls slowly falling asleep on the couch against Maggie and Alex. When the movie finished, the couple tucked the two into the large bed in the spare bedroom.
"We're doing good, Danvers," Maggie whispered as the two leaned against the bedframe, watching the two little girls sleep peacefully.
"Hopefully we can figure this out soon," Alex hummed.