Chapter nine of Colorblind is here! I'm sorry it's taking me so long to update my story. This is my favorite story I'm working on with in fanfiction, so it means a lot to me. I don't get a lot of reviews for it, so I would appreciate if you would review after reading. ) Also, I just discovered that it takes a week for my stories to upload? I just started getting reviews and alerts today for my last chapter. By the way, today is Nov 26, where I am.

Three days later Phil and Keely were still really shaky after their uncomfortable talk. She had told Hillary everything the next day and Hillary tried to explain to Phil that she just wanted to get some things out. They hadn't really talked since, unless it involved the twins first birthday coming in less than a week.

Rolling over in her and Phil's king sized bed, Keely groaned as she looked at the clock. It was a Sunday and she could sleep in as late as she wanted, but it was still seven thirty. She pulled her self out from under the covers and slipped on her slippers. She slid her silk robe over her shoulders and snuck out of the bedroom without waking Phil. She entered the baby's nursery and stood in front of their cribs.

She traced her fingers over the babies protruding stomachs and smiled. She rested her hands there and watched them go up and fall down. Madison started to move and she scrunched up in a ball. She groaned and started to cry. Keely lifted the baby gently into her arms and rocked her soothingly the baby's eyes opened and she stared at he mother with shock.

"Mama!" She beamed. She pulled at her finger and stuck it in her mouth. She bit down hard, her new teeth penetrating her skin. Keely quickly pulled her finger from her mouth.

"How bout a teething ring, huh baby?" She kissed the baby's head and cringed. "I mean toddler." She sighed.

"Mommy bad!" Madison giggled and Keely couldn't help but smile.

"I'm bad, how am I bad?" She asked.

Madison shrugged and reached for her finger again. Keely carried the baby out to the hallway and down the stairs to the kitchen. She reached into the freezer and pulled out a blue ring and handed it to Madison. She took it in her hands and threw it on the ground. "Yuck."

Keely put the baby on the floor and bent over to pick up the teething ring. "No sweetie." She washed it off in the sink and got eye level with the baby standing on the floor. She handed it back to the baby and watched her closely. Madison stood there and didn't move. She glanced at the cold teething ring and stuck it in her mouth. Keely smiled and stood up to make some coffee. As she turned her back towards the baby she felt something hit her leg.

She turned back to see Madison's teething ring at her feet. Madison giggled again and held her arms up to her mother. Keely lifted Maddie and the teething ring off the floor. She threw the blue ring into the sink and carried the baby over to the couch. She fell carefully and held Madison in her arms. The baby squirmed out and stood in front of the couch. "Play!" The baby cheered.

Keely slid off the couch and kneeled on the ground next to Madison. "What do you want to play?" She put her hands on the baby sides and tickled. Maddie giggled and yelled her version of stop. When Keely didn't she yelled no! Keely stopped and looked at the baby.

Madison held up her hands and wiggled her fingers like her mother had done. She put her hands back down and sat in Keely's lap. "Maddie, you are so big!" The baby looked up at her. "So big."

The phone began to ring and Keely groaned. She stood with Madison in her arms and walked to the kitchen counter.

"Uh, hello?" Keely answered the phone and balanced Madison on her hip.

"Hey Keely, it's Mom."

"Hey mom, what's up?" Keely sat down with her back against the cabinets and let Madison crawl from her hands.

"Nothing, what are you up to right now?"

"Um, just playing with Madison."

"And how is she?"

Keely smiled. "She's fine, teething, but fine."

"Oh the poor baby!" Mandy said enthusiastically. "And how's Page?"

"She's good too." Keely said pulling Madison closer to her, after she got too far away.

"Well that's good." She paused for a minute. "How are you and Phil?"

"Uh, we're also fine." She bit her lip and turned to see Phil standing in the doorway with Page in his arms. "Hey mom, can I call you back in a little while?"

"Sure, I was just wondering if you wanted me to take the baby's tonight so you and Phil could go out and do something special?"

"I'm sorry; I have to work tomorrow morning. So a late evening wouldn't be appropriate." Keely stood with Madison in her arms. "But I will call you back later."

"Okay, bye sweetie." Mandy and Keely hung up the phone. Phil came up behind her and Page grabbed onto her hair.

"Woah, Woah, Woah, missy!" She said replacing her hair with her finger. "What's with the two of you today?" She asked shrugging.

"Page was going crazy this morning. I was hoping that you would go get her, but you were already gone." He teased.

"Yeah, I couldn't sleep in very late because I've been up so early every morning." Phil leaned in for a kiss and she awkwardly obliged.

"Um Keel, are we, okay, now?" He asked nervously.

"Yeah, I think so." He rubbed her back with his empty hand while handing Page over to her. "Oh my god, they're so heavy." She semi joked.

"I know, we should weigh them as soon. We haven't gotten a chance to do that lately" He walked toward the coffee machine. "Okay, I thought you would have made coffee already, Miss Addict."

"I would have if Madison hadn't had been throwing things at me!" She exclaimed.

"What she throw at you?" He asked laughing.

"Her teething ring. She threw it at me while my back was turned." Madison and Page giggled. "See and they think it's funny."

"Well I would rather suck on you're fingers than a blue teething ring also." He said pushing the on button on the coffee pot.

"Ha Ha, that's cute Phil." She placed the babies in their high chairs and strapped them in. She sprinkled a few Cheerios on their small table and watched to make sure they didn't eat too many at a time. She walked toward the cabinet to grab selective baby food and pulled out to plates and baby spoons.

"Do you want me to feed one of them?" He asked.

"Of course. Can you feed Maddie? I haven't seen much of Page this morning." She explained. Phil smiled and sat down in front of his daughter and Keely did the same. She handed him two jars of Gerber's baby food and a plate and baby spoon. He dished it out carefully and began feeding Madison.

"How do you feed both of them at the same time?"

"Most of the time they're on different schedules so I never have to feed them at the same time."

"Well that's a relief. Luckily, every time I'm left to feed the babies either someone else is here, or they're both sleeping." Phil sighed. "I guess I'm never really around much."

"Phil, it's not your fault." She put a hand on his knee. "We've both worked really hard to have the house and family that we do and we both had to make sacrifices. I had to take time off of my job, which I loved, and you had to work more often. But I know, no mater how much we feel guilty about doing what we had to do to keep a strong and healthy family, nether of us would turn back."

"I love our family and you're right, I would never think about changing anything that's ever happened to us because every rut and bump in our relationship has made us stronger and Madison and Page will need that comfort and stability as they grow up." Phil wiped the falling baby food from Madison's mouth. Keely knew what he was talking about, but dicided not to go back to the events from the following night.

"Do you think Madison and Page are going to be our only babies?" She asked innocently.

"I don't know Keel; you said you wanted four, so?" He shrugged and continued. "Also, you just started going back to work full time taking the led, so, I don't know."

"Well, how many kids do you want Phil?" She asked, taking her eyes off Page to look at her husband.

"I don't know, I've never thought about it much. You see, I was one of two and you were an only child, so we don't even have anything to base experiences on." He ran a hand through his hair.

"Well my cousins were one of eight and they always seem to love it, except for when they were fighting." She bit her lip. "I think what we need to figure out, is how is this going to work? I mean right now we can work our hours because we have Hillary as our nanny, but how long do you think Hillary's going to be our nanny for?"

"I don't know. That's what we're going to have to ask her. We need to know her plans before we can have ours." Phil threw Keely the phone, making her drop the baby spoon to the plate.

"What, now?" She asked.

"Sure, go ahead, but don't jump on her." He laughed and Keely sat back in the chair, while dialing Hillary's house number. She leaned the phone against her shoulder and continued to feed Page.

"Hello?" A peppy Hillary answered the phone. "Oh wait, Hey Keel."

"Nice to see you're using your caller ID, Hill." Keely laughed.

"Yeah well, I was running from the bathroom."

"Oh are you done doing whatever, then?" She asked hoping that she wouldn't have to call back later.

"Nope, I just finished showering and getting dressed." She let the towel fall from her head to the floor.

"Oh, are you going out?"

"Nope, I was actually about to see if I could come over?" She laughed. "Isn't that sad?"

"Yeah, just a little bit."

"Even when I don't have to be there, I want to be there." She bit her lip, how bad did that sound? "Can I come over in a half an hour?"

"Well, we love you over here, so yeah, come on over." Keely hung up the phone so that she left Hillary on the deep end. She turned back towards Phil and smiled.

"I'm going to go get Page and Maddie dressed and take a shower. Do you want to take one while I get them ready?" Keely asked lifting Page from her highchair and bringing her over toward the sink. She grabbed a wet wash cloth and wiped Page's face and hands. Phil came over and did the same for Madison.

"Sure, let me clean up the table and I'll bring up the coffee with me also." He handed Madison to Keely in her free arm. She headed for their nursery while carefully walking up the stairs.

"You guys got so heavy!" She laughed. She placed them on the floor in the nursery and went through their closets. "Okay, Page first." She looked through Page's clothing. She needed something that was good for summer. It was mid August and there was a chance of rain. She took out a pair of flare jeans and a cute black and pink polo. She moved over towards Madison's clothing just as Phil walked in the door bearing coffee. "You're a god!" She held out her hands and took the coffee from him.

He walked out of the room shouting, "You know I am.", behind him. She sipped the coffee happily and turned to make sure Page and Madison were still okay. She pulled out another pair of jeans for Madison and a black and white striped shirt with a pink bow. She pulled open a drawer filled with baby shoes she took out two pairs of black and pink baby converse.

"Alright girlies, time to get dressed." She pulled the two, almost toddlers, in front of her. She stripped them or their clothing and replaced their pj's with day clothing. Then she pulled them over toward their little mirror in the corner of the room and pulled their hair back into little pigtails with what hair she could.

She stood up and looked at her two girls perched on her hips. "Momma!" Madison said smiling. She made a small kissy face and Keely smiled.

"You want a kiss?" She leaned in and kissed her daughter.

"No!" Page yelled. She pulled on her mother's hair.

"Oh, you want one too?" Keely kissed Page's forehead and the baby giggled. She carried the babies into the bedroom and placed them gently on the bed. She lay down next to them and let out a breath of air. She turned her head and looked at the clock.

Nine thirty.

She'd been up now for two hours and truth be told, it didn't feel like it. She loved spending time with her family. Every time she was with them time would just fly by. And that's what scared her the most. Page and Madison were turning one. Sure they could still be carried, but they weren't rock able anymore. They were starting to speak understandably and she didn't have to guess at what they needed anymore. She missed that.

Madison crawled on top of Keely's stomach and soon Page joined her. Keely groaned and laughed. Both of them rested their head on her chest and pretended to be asleep. So Keely closed her eyes also and soon Page and Maddie began smacking at her arms.

"Watedup!" Maddie shouted. Keely opened her eyes and closed em again.

"NO!" Page said pulling Keely's hair.

"Alright I'm up." She kissed the babies foreheads and playfully tickled their stomachs. Phil came out of the bathroom wearing jeans and a blue tee shirt.

"Alright, you can take a shower now if you want to?" Keely carefully pushed Page and Madison off of her.

"Okay, I'm going, but don't get any ideas you two." She said playfully glaring and her children.

"Why, are they being bad?" Phil asked.

"You could say that; just always keep an eye on them, because you never know when they're going to get ya." She joked. She walked over to her closet and pulled out clothing for after her shower.

Two hours later Keely realized what a waist it had been taking a shower because now she was totting Madison around the pool with Hillary. "It's so hot out and the pool water isn't making me any cooler." Hillary complained.

"I know, I can't believe I had the girls in jeans before." Keely held onto Madison's floaty tightly to prevent her from getting away from her. "So much for rain." She mumbled under her breath.

"This is the most amazing thing I've ever seen." Hillary laughed and pointed to Page's yellow floaty. She held on tightly also and played with Page's blonde hair. "Does their hair turn green in the chlorinated water?"

"Um, the tips sometimes do a little, but not really." Keely brought Madison over towards the pool steps so she could sit down. Hillary came and sat by next to her. "So Hill,"

"So Keel." They both laughed and played soothingly with Page and Madison.

"What are your plans for this job?" She asked innocently.

"Well, what exactly do you mean?" She turned to look at her.

Keely Stood up and lifted Madison out of the floaty. "Do you have any other plans or goals? Do you plan on being our nanny for a while, or is this just a replacement job?"

"Well, I haven't really thought about it much. I mean, ever since high school this is all I've ever wanted to do. So yeah, I guess I am planning to be Page and Madison's nanny as long as you need me." Hillary brought Page up and stood next to Keely.

"So, you're going to be out permanent nanny, no joke?" She asked excitedly.

"I guess it's finalized in stone now" She joked and wrapped Page up in a towel.

"Okay, then I have a few questions for you. Harmless ones, I promise, I just want to know what you want to do." She explained.

"Okay Shoot."

"Will you be getting them on the bus and bringing them to school and stuff like that, if need be of course?" Keely shuddered at the thought of her babies being in school.

"Can I just answer every single question from here on out?" Hillary asked implicitly.

"Sure, go ahead."

"I will do whatever you tell me to do!" She said smiling.

Keely wrapped her free arm around Hillary. "Good deal."

"Hey Keely!" Phil shouted from the deck. "Go out to the driveway for a second." He walked down the steps and out the picket fence to the driveway.

"Would you mind watching them for me for a second?" She helped Hillary get Madison on her hip and then she threw on her jean skirt and put her wet hair up in a pony before running off toward the driveway. She opened the gate and screamed.

"Vee!" She ran up next to Phil who was standing next to Via and Owen. "I can't believe you're here and with the baby." She squat down and peered into the car seat.

"Hi Christopher." She was careful not to drip water on the baby. "I would give you guys a hug, but I just got out of the pool with my girlies."

"It's fine, we just stopped by to say hi." Via announced.

"You should stay for a little while at least." Keely pulled her down into the back yard by the pool. "Via, you remember Hillary, right."

"Of course, hi Hillary." She said a little bit awkwardly.

"Hi Via." She said. Keely could feel the tension, but she didn't know why.

Phil walked up behind her with Owen and gave her a kiss on the cheek. "Here, I grabbed the mail."

"Oh, thanks!" Keely took the letters in her hand and placed them down on a chair next to the house phone and her towel. (I don't get mail on Sunday's but my cousins do, so, yeah!) "Oh shit, you know what I forgot to do?" She said to everyone. "I forgot to call my mom back." She answered herself, not waiting for anyone's reply. She lifted the house phone and pushed speed dial.

Within a second she could hear her mother's peppy voice on the other line. "Hello darling'!" She spoke happily. "Thank you for finally calling me back."

"I'm sorry, things got, big over here." She exaggerated. "If you want, Via and Owen are over with the baby right now, and Hil's her too; you should come over and hang out for a while." She suggested.

"Okay, that sounds good. I'll be over in ten, baby." Her mother hung up the phone and Keely shrugged. She threw the phone back on the chair and looked over at Phil.

"She's coming over, is that okay?" Phil nodded and took Page out of Hillary's arms.

"I feel like I haven't said a word to you yet today, Hi Hillary." He joked sitting next to her.

"Hi Phil." She said pretending to be angry.

"Hey!" He said glaring at her. "I said Hi as soon as I got a chance to."

"Don't tempt me Phil; I'm holding your daughter." She said kissing Madison's head.

"Okay guys chill." Keely held up her hand and pulled Page from her husband's arms. "So, are we just going to hang out? Is anyone hungry, or thirsty for that mater?" She asked.

"You know what? I'm just going to get some chips and sodas or something." She handed Page back to Phil and grabbed the mail from the chair before walking back towards the house.

"Is she, okay?" Owen asked. "Is it just me or did she seem out of character? I mean Keely always has a lot of energy and she's always talking, but I just don't know." He looked and Phil and then at Via who was holding Christopher in her arms.

"She has been a little crazy for the last few days, but I think it's just her way of handling things under pressure." He glances solemnly at Hillary who half smiles to show she understands.

"She's under pressure?" Via asked nervously.

Phil shrugged. "More like a blast from the past."

"Like her relationship with her dad?" Via questioned.

"Not really, high school stuff." Via and Owen nodded, pretending to follow along. "She's fine, I promise."

Keely pulled through the mail while standing in the kitchen. A particular stamp caught her eye and she flinched. She pulled out that letter and gasped, letting all the other mail fall to the floor.

Twenty minutes later everyone, including Mandy, is waiting for Keely to come back from inside with drinks. Everyone was convinced she was making food or something, but now everyone was tempted to go and check on her.

"Are you sure she's not making a huge deal about cooking something, Phil. Because you know how angry she'll get if we go in there and ask if she needs help." Mandy explained.

"Believe me, I know, but it's not like Keely to crawl away. You guys I'll be right back down." Phil hands Page to Mandy and walks up the deck steps into the house. He looked around the breakfast nook and didn't see Keely yet. As her walked closer into the kitchen he saw the mail flung out on the floor.

"Hey Keel," He yelled. "Keely" He walked frantically around the main floor of his house and couldn't find his wife any where. Walking up the stairs to the next floor, he knew he wouldn't find her there because the only room in use was the guest bedroom and a bathroom. He walked into the third floor hallway and poked his head in the nursery.

She wasn't there.

The bedroom door was open a crack and Keely's skirt had been flung by the front of the door. He slowly entered the bedroom and sighed when he saw Keely curled up in a ball, sobbing, with a blanket draped over her. He knelt in front of the bed and looked into his wife's red and puffy eyes. "Keely, what's wrong?" He kissed her forehead and put his body carefully over hers.

"The letter…" She sobbed into his bear chest. She wrapped her arms around Phil's shoulders and ran her fingers through his hair.

"Keel, what letter?" He pulled away and looked down at her.

She took a hand and extended toward the nightstand. "This one." She put it against his chest and started sobbing again. "Just take it." She got out from underneath him and began to leave the room. He shot up after her and grabbed her wrist while reading the letter.

"Keely, come here. We have to talk about this." She shook her had and made him let go.

"I can't face him Phil!" She sobbed and took in a chest wrenching breath.

Phil paused in the hallway and fell back against the wall.

"I would really like to get to know you."

"I don't blame you for what happened. If it was anyone's fault, it was my own."

"Every baby comes into the world loved. I was loved by many."

"Please come and visit."

Phil rested his head against his hand. "Keely, this is a good thing." He ran down the stairs quickly and collided with Mandy who was carrying Page on her hip. Page and Mandy gave him the same wide eyed look. "I'm so sorry, I just have to get to Keely. Did you see where she went?"

Mandy put her free hand on her hip. "She ran to the bathroom. Is everything okay?"

Phil shrugged. "I don't know. It should be. We'll be out in a second." As if on a bad queue, the doorbell rang and Phil huffed. "Can you get that please?"

Mandy smiled. "Calm down Phil, go fix things."

Phil grabbed the bathroom key from off the top of the door and unlocked it. He pushed open the door and closed it behind him. "Alright I'd like to see…" He glanced down at his wife whose face was in the toilet. "Keely, are you sick?"

She pulled up her head. "I wish." He bent down and held her hair for her. "Just an anxiety attack." She said making up an excuse.

"I know what you mean. I wasn't expecting this at all." He smiled and grabbed a wet wash cloth and handed it to Keely. "Talk about a coincidence?"

"I guess you also call it mother's instinct?" She slumped against the wall after flushing the toilet. "Did you read it all?"

"Yeah." He said holding it up.

"Read it out loud to me please!" She begged.

Phil raised his eye brows. "Why?"

"Because Phil, your voice is real, and this letter really isn't." She explained.

Confused. Phil read the letter.

"Dear Mom and Dad,

I dicided it was time for me to finally try and make some contact with you. Well the truth is, the orphanage called my foster house and asked me to make contact with you. I guess I'll start by telling you a little but about my self. My name is Parker; I don't think you knew that. I've been in and out of foster homes now for eleven years. When I was four I was asked how I wanted to stay in the adoption process and I dicided that I wanted not to have a permanent family and I wanted to meet a bunch of different people. You probably know most of this, but I'm eleven and in sixth grade. I have a bunch of friends and I love football. I have blonde hair and blue eyes and I can run really fast. I don't really know if you wanted to see this letter, but I'm going to send it to you anyway. My foster house is in down town Pickford. Believe me, you've never seen me around before. I know where your house is. I've meant to stop by once or twice, but I always chicken out. I see you on TV a lot Mom. I know who you are and I guess you could say I know as much about you as the next person who watches the news everyday. I googled you once or twice, just to see what your life is like. I didn't learn anything I didn't already know. So, Page and Madison, those are my sister's names. Well, I guess they're my sisters. It's really up to you. I don't blame you for what happened. If it was anyone's fault, it was my own. I came at the wrong time and I'm sorry. I would really like to get to know you. Please come by and visit.

Parker

P.S. Every baby comes into the world being loved. I was loved by a lot of people even if I was unwanted at first."

"He's right, he was unwanted, and I feel terrible Phil." He leaned down and kissed her head. "The second we could have afforded it, we should have went to find him."

"There is only one thing we can do Keel."

"What's that?"

"Make it up to him."

There is a long pause.

"Phil."

"Yeah?"

"I'm…"

Tiny cliff hanger. So, how was that chapter? I really liked it. It made a good filler. Although most of my chapters are fillers ha. Don't forget, the doorbell rang and the weird tension between Via and Hillary. There could be something there? Please read and review!