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Even as Keely sat at her kitchen table six hours later, she couldn't be entirely sure that her mother wouldn't call the number on the piece of paper. The twins were asleep in the crib in the living room and Phil was sitting next to her stroking her back soothingly.
"You okay yet?" He asked her. She stood up from the chair and pulled him into the living room silently. She laid down on the couch and he placed him self over her. She leaned up and kissed him softly on the lips and he put his hand on the back of her head making it more passionate. Their tongues left their mouths to graze each others when they both pulled away.
"Are we aloud to do this?" She asked silently laughing. Phil shrugged and continued kissing his wife. The continued to make out until the door bell rang. Phil got off of Keely and flattened out his hair. Page started crying and he nodded at Keely who bent down to take care of the baby.
Phil out stretched his had and pulled open the door. A man in a business suit stood there looking fluttered. Phil's ruffled hair must have set him off because he took a step back awkwardly. "Uh, can I help you?" Phil turned his head toward Keely who was smiling at him from a far.
"Hi I'm Neil De Luce and I'm guessing that you're Phil Diffy?" He cleared his throat. "Um, nice bullet hole display."
"Yeah, um it's a long story." Phil shook his head. "You're Alice's father, right?"
"Yeah, I remember you now, you ate my flower." Phil shrugged his shoulders.
"Um yeah, can I help you?" He held open the door for Mr. De Luce. "Can I get you something to drink?"
"No, I just have a quick question for you." He paused and glanced around the room. He didn't see anyone so he continued to talk. "All my life I've been trying to find someone good enough to date my daughter, but I've failed miserably. The other day my collage told me about you and I was wondering if you wanted to date my daughter."
Phil choked on air. "Uh huh no?"
Neil put up his hand in detest. "I'll be willing to pay you as much money as you want to dump any present girl friends or attachments."
Phil walked into the living room and found Keely who was close to tears. He held out his hand to her and she took it. He pulled her into the hallway and stood at attention in front of Mr. De Luce. "This is my beautiful wife Keely." He said sternly.
Mr. De Luce leaned over and whispered just loud enough for Keely to hear. "Well is she really worth all the money in the world?"
"She is worth so much more than your money. Now we would appreciate if you would leave, now!" Phil closed the door in his face and locked it.
"You think about it, Son. I'll be back tomorrow with Alice for a final answer." He yelled through the door.
He wrapped his arms around her waist and hunched over to rest his chin on her shoulder. They stood there for a few moments until put his hands on her butt and forced her to wrap her legs around his waist. He lay down on the couch with her on top and forced her head under his chin. He rubbed her back softly and kissed the top of her head. Page and Madison stared at them from the crib.
"Ba Ba Ba Ba!" Page shrieked indefinitely. Keely turned her head against Phil's chest to look at them.
"What's that suppose to mean?" She asked her quietly. The baby turned her head and held up her hands. "Oh, you want me to get up, ah. But you see, if I take you out then I'm going to have to take out Maddie too." She bit her lip as the baby stared at her.
"Da!" She shrieked again. Keely laughed.
"They're using us you know." Phil said sitting up with Keely. He reached into the crib and pulled her up and into her arms. Keely did the same with Madison and the couple fell back into the couch.
Madison began to suck on Keely's ring finger, but she genteelly pulled away. "Don't you think you're a little too big to be eating my fingers?" She said kissing the baby's cheek. She ignored her question and became fascinated with her rings. She tried to pull them off but Keely wouldn't let her.
"You're too cute." Phil said jokingly to her.
"Yeah, but am I really worth all of the money in the world?" She asked sadly.
"Let's put it this way. I wouldn't be happy owning the entire world if I didn't have you." Phil kissed her cheek and she half smiled. Madison slapped at his face and Page soon joined in.
"Aw Phil, looks like I'm worth more than the world to them." She said acknowledging their slaps.
Phil shook his head at the babies. "No, you can't have her she's all mine."
Like she understood, Madison wrapped her arms around her mother's neck and Keely held her up. "Maddie thinks differently then you do."
Phil leaned over with Page sitting on his lap and kissed Keely square on the lips. "Da!" Page shrieked.
"What?" He looked at her and she giggled.
Keely smiled as she set Madison on the floor and this time she watched her crawl around. She made her way over toward the table and pulled her self up. Keely got on the floor at sat by her, just incase she was to fall. The baby looked at Keely and let go of the table. She wobbled back and forth for a few seconds until falling into Keely's arms. "Oh my god, Phil, did you see that?"
He looked up from the baby sitting in his lap. "What didn't I see?"
"She stood, by herself." Keely helped Madison stand up again. She let her hold onto her hands until she dicided to let go. "She look, she's standing." Madison fell into her laps and Keely kissed the babies cheek.
"I bet she'll be walking soon." Phil told her happily.
"I know, both of them will be running around this house before we know it." She sighed and placed Madison in the middle of her lap.
"Not too soon though, I promise." She sighed and smiled.
"I told the office I would go in for tonight's broadcast." She looked at him sincerely. "That's okay, right?" She asked him.
"Of course, by the way, do you have any idea when you're going back full time?" She bit her lip.
"Actually, no, I haven't really thought about it." Looking up at her she frowned. "Should I know? I don't really know how this is supposed to work. I mean, how old are Page and Madison supposed to be before at least one of us doesn't have to be with them for a good portion of the day?"
"I don't know either, I meant to ask mom, or even look it up in a parenting book, but I forgot." Phil held Page against his chest as he stood up to go to the kitchen. "I think I left it in here."
Keely remained on the floor with the baby in her lap as Phil rummaged through the book in the kitchen. She sat their thinking for moments on when she wanted the kids to start having a nanny. She pictured herself walking into the house after a long day at work and having her babies run over to her, "Momma, guess what what's her name did with us today?".
She shook with terror. Maybe if they hired an old boring lady to take care of them until they started preschool. This was all too complicated for her. She was too confused to make a life affirming choice. Phil walked back in. "Nine months to a year is when mothers start putting their babies in other peoples care."
She shook her head. "I guess I can start looking."
"Are you looking for someone, like an au pair?" He asked her.
"I don't know, I guess if we got someone with good recommendations that came from another country, they could stay with us for as long as we want them to. Yeah, I guess that would be cool." Keely carried the baby into the office with Phil in tow.
"She could stay with us, and help out around the house, and when the kids are old enough, she'd be here when they got off the bus. I see this working out well." Keely sat at the computer her bad thoughts of her children loving someone more than her flooded back to her. "Well I guess day cares are good too."
"Yeah, it would give the babies a good chance to mingle with other babies." Phil agreed.
"I mean, I guess now that we're parents, we'll never be working our regular hours, but we'll make it work." She paused and looked at him as she sat in the swirl chair. "I mean, we have to work to make money to pay off our house and cars and everything else."
"Well, technically, no, we don't." Phil said awkwardly.
She kicked his leg harshly, but not enough to make him fall over, because he had Page in his hands of course. "Hey, what do you mean?"
"Future money is worth so much that we could pay off all our debts on our house, and cars, and just about everything else." Phil grinded.
"Yeah, but it would look like we robbed a bank if we never worked but still managed to pay our bills." She laughed.
"Just know that we'll never go bankrupt and our children will be spoiled brats." He put his hands over Page's ears as he said that.
"Hey," Keely said looking at Madison. "Did you hear what he called you?" She tickled her stomach and the baby giggled. The baby tried to wriggle away, but couldn't, so she yawned instead. "Oh, you're a tired baby, huh?" She stood up and placed Madison on her hip. "Phil, I'm going to put them down for a late nap."
"I'll come with you; we can go lay down together or something." Phil suggested. She shook her head and made her way up two flights of stairs.
"Okay, but if they sleep for too long they'll never go to sleep tonight and I won't be here to help you." She kicked open the nursery door and genteelly laid Madison in her crib. Phil laid Page down in the crib next to Madison's and stood next to Keely, looking lovingly at both of the babies. "If anything ever happened to you or the babies, I don't know what I'd do."
Phil pulled her out of the nursery and into the bed room. He pulled her down on top of him and kissed the top of her head. "We're too careful with them for anything to happen, and you don't have to worry about me. I'm not going anywhere."
"So Keely, can we be expecting you back anytime soon?" Carla, the script director for LD11 news, asked her politely.
Keely smiled as she held open the door to out side for her friend. "I'd hope so; it's been really hard trying to figure out what I'm going to do with the twins now that I really have to go back to work."
Carla stopped in front of her car to take her keys out of her purse. "If it helps Keely, my sister is currently looking for job and she took child development all through high school and college."
Keely stood by the door to her black Lamborghini. "Hm, do you have a number I could reach her at?" She pulled out her self phone and noticed that she had one text message from Phil and a two week late message. She'd cheek it later. "I won't call her until tomorrow after work, but let me add it anyway."
"Yeah, I'll give you her cell phone number." She thought for a moment. "Uh, 555-9327, she lives about ten minutes from Pickford. I don't think you need the area code."
Keely smiled and shoved her phone in her pocket. "Thanks Carla, I'll see you tomorrow, bright and early." She pulled open the car door and sat inside for a few seconds before starting it up. She would have used the Hummer, but it brought back her nightmares from last night. Pulling the seat belt across her chest she shifted into first and pulled out of the parking lot. She drove for about five minutes before getting bored. She then thought about Phil and his message/ Instead of checking her text message she put her wireless ear phones on and called Phil.
She listened to it ring and Phil picked up just as she stopped at a stop light.
"Hey Keel, I checked my caller ID this time, you like?" He joked.
She smiled at her husbands comment. "Yes I like, now why did you text message me before. I don't feel like checking it."
"Are you in the car?" He asked.
"Uh huh, I'm on my way home." She turned the wheel and pulled onto Griffin Street.
"Well, come over to your mother's house I thought it would be nice to spend the night here." He said, a bit suspiciously.
"Uh, okay, but any particular reason." She said angrily while pulling a safe Ue. She groaned at the thought of working her way back toward the station and to her mothers.
Phil shrugged to himself. "I don't know, your mom offered before, and I dicided to take her up on it."
"Uh, okay then, but you do know I have work in the morning and I'll need to shower and stuff."
"I got your clothes and stuff here. The baby's have diapers and everything too." He said as Keely made her way back toward her mother's house. "Oh yeah, your mom also offered to baby-sit tomorrow morning."
"Uh Okay, I'll be there in like ten minutes."
"Okay, Bye loves you."
"You too!" She said aggravated as she snapped the phone shut. He mind wandered for a minute and she thought of Alice. "Fuck no!" She said out loud. "This is so he won't have to face Alice tomorrow." She groaned and pushed back into her seat. She picked up her cell phone again and looked at the late message. Her face went pale and she groaned again.
At the Teslow residence, both Phil and Mandy were having a hard time getting Page and Madison to fall asleep. Keely was right, if they slept for too long they would never go to sleep later.
"Will Keely be here soon?" Mandy asked. Phil nodded his head. They both sighed as Madison and Page jabbered to them.
"I-I think so." Phil pulled Madison onto his lap and begged her to go to sleep. "She sounded pissed on the phone."
"After you told her to come here, or before?" Mandy asked.
"I don't know maybe after. She must have been really close to the house already before I made her turn around." He shrugged. "Hopefully mommy will be here soon he said out loud." Madison slapped at his face upon hearing mommy.
"Momma?" She questioned him. Mandy smiled.
"That is so cool." She beamed. "My babies are parents." She said pinching Phil's cheeks.
"Yeah, going on nine months." Phil said patting Page's hair down.
"I can't believe it more than you can son." She lifted Page in the air and gently let her fall into her lap.
They sat in silence just reminiscing on the past. Foot steps were heard coming up the front porch and soon Keely was standing in the hallway. "Hi cuties," she said bending down to kiss the babies foreheads. She lifted Page from Phil's arms and smiled happily at the baby. "They can't get you to sleep, huh?" She tickled her stomach and watched as the baby giggled and rolled in her arms. "Hi mom, long times no see!" She joked.
"Yeah Keel the same to you. So, can you get these two rug rats to sleep?" Mandy asked with a begging tone.
Keely half smiled at her. "I could try. It depends on whether they're willing to cooperate." She handed Page back to Phil without staring looking at him. "Just let me go get some comfortable clothes on." Mandy nodded her away and she ran up to her old bedroom which had been turned into a guest bedroom.
Mandy gave Phil a funny look. "What is she gunna do?"
Phil shrugged. "Honestly, I have no idea. She does something different each night."
"We'll she's a gifted person I tell you." Mandy wagged her finger at him.
"Don't I know it? I bet she already knows the real reason we're staying here tonight." Phil let Page play with the collar on his polo.
Mandy widened her eyes at him. "What that Alice De Luce girl?" She waved her hand at him. "Phil I bet she wants you to stand up and fight for her. I remember the night she was working at the restaurant where you were having your date with that girl and Keely was running around the house trying to figure out what she could do to break the two of you up."
"She did, but we weren't ever together. It was just a date." Mandy patted his leg.
"Sweetie, Keely was crazy about you the second you became friends." She paused. "And now she wants you to through it back in her face."
"We'll she's been through so much in the past two days, it's crazy."
"Phil, just tell her you'll fight for her some other time.
"So what, she's ashamed that I'm running away from my problems?" Phil felt his cheeks go red.
Mandy shrugged. "She could be, you'll just have to wait and see." She looked up and saw Keely standing impatiently in the door. "How long have you been standing there?"
"Long enough to know you were talking about me, again." She sat down next to them. "Here hand me the babies."
"Alright Keel, you put them to sleep and I'm heading off to bed." Mandy genteelly put Madison in her arms and stood up. "See you when you get back from work."
"Night mom," She said plainly.
"Yeah, night," Phil said also. He handed her Page and helped her stand up. "So, what are you doing?"
"I don't know, let's just go lay in bed or something." Phil supported her back as she walked up the stairs with a baby perched on each hip.
She stopped short. "Phil, I'm perfectly capable of walking up stairs without your help." He pulled his hand away quickly.
She walked into the guest room and laid herself down next to the babies. They curled themselves in her arms. Their eyes grew heavy and they soon fell into a deep sleep. "I don't know how you do it?" Phil whispered. She lifted the sleeping babies into her arms and carried them into their cribs which Mandy kept at her house.
"It's just a talent I guess." She flipped on the baby monitor and carefully walked down stairs with Phil in tow.
"Hey Keel," He put his hand out to touch her shoulder as she sat down at the kitchen table. "Look, I understand why you're upset and you have every right to be. I wanted to make this easy for you because you've been through so much in the past few days and"
"Phil!" Keely cut him off. "I was pissed off about the whole Alice thing, but that's not why I'm mad."
Phil pulled her onto his lap. "Why are you mad?" He pushed her forehead back so it would rest against his shoulder.
"It's nothing really, I got this message on my phone today, it was a reminder, and it was telling me about, er uh, my period." She bit her lip and Phil stopped rubbing her back.
"And?" He forced her to continue.
"Nothing, I didn't have it then, but I just got it. The whole thing just got me thinking, you know?" Phil kissed her head. "I mean I really want to go back to work again, but I also want to have more kids one day so I don't know what to think about this whole thing."
He stood her up in front of him and pulled her back up so she was straddling his legs. "So, you want more kids, but not now?" He asked her.
"No, well yes, no!" Phil shook his head in frustration. "No, I want more kids now, but I want to go back to work too."
"Why don't we wait two or three months to start trying again?"
"Okay, I don't really care. It's not a big deal." She laid her head against his chest. Standing up he took her in one arm and together they walked up the stairs. (I'm not a sexual writer, because I can't even get in any kind of mood to want to write that sort of stuff.)
Slamming her hands down on the table she looked at her babies who were looking back at her. "Damnit!" She cursed angrily.
Three weeks had gone by and Keely had just gotten home from three hours at work. Carla's sister Hillary had begun babysitting for her eleven days ago. Keely really liked her. She was twenty three, just a few years younger than her, and she was great with the babies. Madison and Page got along with her real well. They still cried everyday when Keely left for work, but they made due. Hillary had dark brown hair just like Carla and hazel eyes. She was normal and she did everything just like she was supposed to. Hillary had always wanted to be a nanny or an aupair so she was having a blast working for Keely and Phil.
"What happened is Phil going to be late again?" Hillary asked coming from the living room with two bottles in her hand. She stuck them in the sink and began to clean them.
"Yeah, like he's been everyday for the past three weeks." She sighed. "What is our marriage coming too? I mean he'll be home in ten or so minutes, but before he used to get home at six before I left for work."
"I'm sure he's just been really busy lately." She flipped the bottles upside down on the counter. She rubbed both of the babies head. "Well, I have to go, but I'll be back tomorrow morning at five." She grabbed her keys and coat.
"Hey Hill, you know if it's easier, you can spend the night when ever you want to. We have so much room and you're pretty much here twenty four seven anyway." Keely shrugged and smiled.
"I don't know, I'll think about it and let you know tomorrow. It's Monday so maybe I should spend the night every once and a while." Hillary waved a hand at Keely. "I'll talk to you tomorrow, bye." She exited the house through the basement, leaving Keely and the babies alone.
She sat at the kitchen table for a few minutes playing with their blonde hair. Madison swatted at her hand and smiled giddily her few baby teeth showing. She lifted both of the babies into her arms and began to carry them up stairs. As she lay them down in their cribs she pushed their lips up so she could look at their teeth. She wanted to make sure they weren't getting any infections. Both babies cheek out good so she kissed their foreheads and sat down in the rocking chair in the corner of the room. She looked the clock on the shelf under the changing table, quarter to ten. She sighed and hopped that Phil wouldn't come home drunk again. He had changed so much in the last three weeks. He stopped talking to Keely and being protective. He had friends, actually people that he went out with to bars every night. He went from Virgo to Aires.
The once over protective Phil had turned into a complete drunk. He was no longer a sensitive man, but a man.
Foot steps were heard coming up the stairs. It was Phil, it had to be Phil. He opened the door to the nursery and peered inside. He motioned for Keely to come out in to the hall. She stood up, looked at the babies and met him in the hall. Closing the door softly behind her she spoke angrily to him. "You're not drunk are you?"
"No Keel that was a mistake. We have to talk." He walked into the bedroom with Keely in tow. He sat down on the bed Keely sat down across from him. "I've changed Keel."
"No shit Phil, not once, ever, have you ever gotten drunk and angry like you have been every night for the past three weeks." Keely felt tears swell up in her eyes. "I Never know you to be abusive."
"I was never abusive!" He gave her tone.
"No, but I shouldn't have to be afraid that you are. Phil, what's been going on with you lately?" She let her hands to her stomach.
Phil shrugged. "I don't know, it's confusing and I don't want to worry you." He turned over to ignore her.
She slapped the bed with frustration. "No Phil, you haven't talked, and now you're going to talk." He turned back over to look at her red cheeks.
"Alice De Luce's father knows my boss and he's trying to get me fired." He said angrily.
Keely bit her lip. "But they can't fire you because you won't go out with Alice, can they?"
"No, but they can fire me for not attending meetings and getting drunk all the time!"
"So you're boss is trying to get you to go to meetings at bars where you get drunk?" She asked dumbfounded.
Phil nodded. "Keely this is becoming impossible."
"Have you tried to do anything about it?"
"Yes Keely!" He said harshly. "I went to the lawyers today and he's trying to handle a few things. What do you think I'm not capable of doing these things?" Phil stood in front of her.
"Phil, I never said that." She backed away from him. "What were you saying by it's becoming impossible. Am I not worth fighting for? I could have helped you if you had just talked to me."
"I don't want to get you involved, you'll just make things worse right now!" Phil whacked his hand at the clock on his nightstand. It slammed against the wall with a large crash.
"Fucking stop Phil!" She screamed. She left the room and quickly went to the nursery before closing the door, something hard it her leg causing her to scream. She fell against the door and looked at the book Phil had chucked violently at her. She sobbed into her hands and stood up to lock the door. She curled her self up into a blanket and sat back in the rocking chair. Her leg was throbbing, but she chose to ignore it.
Phil had fallen back against the bed. "What the hell have I done?" He shook with terror. He ran to the nursery door and whispered to his wife. "Keel, I'm so sorry, please comeback to me."
When he got no response he sobbed. "Keely baby, please come out." He stood there praying. "I'm an ass whole, I'm worse than an ass whole, please Keel, I'm so sorry."
Footsteps were heard approaching the door. "Keely, I love you so much and this is the biggest mistake I've ever made. I can't believe I did that. Please come out." Keely stood in front of him. Her eyes are glistening with tears and her hair loose about her throat and shoulders. They stare at each other then come together and kiss. He falls to his knees and presses his face into her stomach. Her eyes go blind with tenderness as she catches his head and raises him level with her. He snatches the bedroom door open and lifts her off her feet and bears her into the dark room.
So, what did you think of that chapter? The ending was really dramatic, but I thought it was good!
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