One-shot 15: Coming Back Home

"When is Mommy coming home?!" Hailey asked out loud, screaming.

"Today," Travis answered. "Thank the gods." Hailey had been asking the whole four days (and yelling her head off and waking up sleeping babies that took an hour to put it to sleep) Katie had been gone for this convention thing that had to do with scientists who were trying to find the cure to STDs and Katie happened to be one of them so she and her lab partner Gretchen (the creepy one, he and the kids didn't like her) flew off to Florida to hang out with science type people or nerds that followed the field of curing STDs.

Needless to say when he told people he was married to a scientist they didn't believe it. And when Katie said that she was married to a non-nerd in her group of friends (mostly nerds) they thought she was telling a joke and said "Come on Katie, we know that you're married to a scientist!"

Even when they came over to talk to Katie about something they stared at Travis and the kids blankly and said to Katie, "This has to be their uncle or something."

"Yay! Jacob, did you hear that! Mommy is coming home!" Hailey cheered grabbing her brother and swinging him around.

Once they landed on their butts Jacob smiled and it looked hilarious because his two front teeth were missing due to the adult ones growing in. "Really?! Mommy's coming home!"

"Oh, so you don't like Daddy?" Travis asked teasingly, bouncing their other baby, Rosie on his knee.

"We do like you!" Hailey exclaimed.

"It's just that Mommy knows how to cook and she smells good and that she's pretty." Jacob piped up. The two twins looked at each other and nodded in agreement on why their mother was better than their father: the cooking, the smelling like flowers and vanilla, and being pretty.

"But you're pretty too!" Hailey said, trying to make things better. "But not in a girl way, in a boy way."

Travis smiled and remembered to use that to embarrass the two when they were older. But knowing them, when they got older they wouldn't be embarrassed about anything (little did he know in the future they would go running through IKEAs with mops screaming, "FOR NARNIA!" when they were teenagers. Well, Hailey would scream it because Jacob was a mute when surrounded by mortals).

"When are we picking Mommy up from the airport?" Hailey says, bouncing up and down.

"After dinner." Travis told them. "Mommy's flight is coming to JFK at 7:30."

So then throughout the day Hailey kept asking when dinner was and if they could have it now so they could go see their mother.

Then once they had dinner Hailey ran to the car dragging her brother with her leaving Travis to get his keys and the baby.

Once they got into the car they drove through the bad New York City traffic to JFK airport. And once they got there Hailey tried to get out of the car but he pressed down on the lock so she wouldn't be able to.

"But I wanna go see Mommy!" she whined.

Out of all of their children she was the most difficult and it was all thanks to him and his nature. They parked and stood outside (the kids running around while the baby was sleeping in the car) and waited.

Then he saw her. And what was perfect was that she had a lab coat on. "MOMMY!" Hailey and Jacob yelled as they ran over to her.

Katie looked up from the ground and smiled and knelt down with arms outstretched and a smile on her face.

The two ran into her arms and started to bombard her cheeks and lips with kisses. "Mommy, I missed you so much!" Jacob exclaimed burying his head in the crook of her shoulder to smell the smell that was the smell of motherhood according to the both of the twins.

"I missed her more you butt head! We had nothing to eat for four days! FOUR DAYS!" Hailey said, giving her mother another kiss on the cheek.

"But what about all the pi—" but he was cut off by Hailey's hand slamming onto his mouth. You would think that wouldn't stop him but his mental talking worked the same way as regular talking.

"Well, I missed you both equally so much!" Katie told them returning the bombardment of kisses. They both giggled but once the greeting was done the kids dragged her to the car where Travis was waiting with that smile of his that she missed dearly.

The kids piled in the car and the two just stood there. "Hi." she said teasingly as he wrapped his arms around her waist and brought her closer to him. They weren't ones for PDA but when you haven't seen your husband and or wife for a long time (four days was a long time if you had kids and they were wild things) PDA was allowed.

He kissed her on the forehead to tease her back on what she really wanted (well part of what she wanted). "I missed you. How can you do it?"

"Do what?" she asks.

"Take care of all three of them without going crazy."

She smiles and plays with the collar of his t-shirt. "What can I say, I'm pretty amazing."

He plays with a loose strand of hair coming from her messy bun as he snakes one hand off of her waist but still keeps her close to him. "And you say I'm the cocky one."

"Just kiss me you cocky prick."

"Okay." They both leaned in and from the car Jacob was smiling a little bit and Hailey was pretend barfing.

The two got into the car and they drove all the way home listening to the musings of the two awake children in the back of the car.

"I'm just glad to be home." Katie mutters under her breath so only Travis can hear.

He smiles as they pull into the drive way. "Me too."

I am a horrible person. Well the truth is that I couldn't think of anything else until I watched the ShayTards on YouTube of Katilette coming home from BlogHer and I got this idea. So thanks for reading!