Scene 8
May 2015 Charlotte and Cooper's four year wedding Anniversary
CJ (Cooper Junior) is two and a half.
Ella (Charlotte Elizabeth) is 11 months old.
Setting: Eleven pm in Charlotte and Cooper's bedroom.
"I finally got Ella down to sleep. She was so cranky. I think she's teething." Cooper tells Charlotte.
Charlotte is waiting in bed in a lavender and lace nightie. "Poor baby." Charlotte tells him.
Cooper gets dressed in his nightly t shirt and shorts. "I'm glad we decided to celebrate our anniversary this weekend instead. I'm exhausted between work and the kids."
"We're going out to dinner this weekend but that doesn't mean we can't celebrate tonight if you know what I mean." Charlotte tells him.
"Oh." Cooper says. He knows what she means by celebrate but he's exhausted.
CJ busts in the room and jumps on the bed. "Momma I can't sleep." He tells Charlotte.
Saved by the bell. Well not a really a bell but his son. Cooper's grateful. His eyelids are heavy and he just wants to shut them now and sleep.
"It's after eleven CJ you shouldn't be up." Charlotte tells her son.
"I scared of da snake." CJ tells Charlotte.
"What snake?" Charlotte asks.
Cooper is already resting his eyes closed on his pillow but manages to tell Charlotte. "I took him to the pet store today and he saw a snake eat a mouse."
"Cooper!" Charlotte scolds. "He's too young to see something like that. No wonder he is having bad dreams about snakes tonight."
"Sorry." Cooper says. He just wants to go to sleep.
"Can I sweep wif you tonight momma?" CJ asks
"This is momma and daddy's bed. You can't sleep here. Momma will take you back to your bed. I'll stay with you until you fall asleep." Charlotte tells her son.
Charlotte says to Cooper. "Try not to fall asleep while I'm gone. We need to celebrate our anniversary still." She tells him.
"Ok." Cooper answers already half asleep.
Charlotte carries CJ back to his room and rests with him until he falls asleep. When she returns to Cooper in the master bedroom he's snoring. She thinks about waking him to celebrate but decides she'll wake him up early in the morning instead.
The next morning Charlotte wakes Cooper up with kisses to his neck one half hour early than normal. Not two minutes after he opens his eyes to look at her Ella begins screaming from her crib down the hall.
"Who's turn is it to get her?" Charlotte asks.
"I rocked her to sleep last night so it's your turn." Cooper says.
Charlotte sighs and goes to see the baby.
Cooper grabs his extra half hour of shut eye until he is woke up by CJ jumping on the bed.
"Hey little dude, knock it off before you fall." Cooper tells CJ as he opens his eyes.'
CJ doesn't listen and a few seconds later he bounces off the bed and hits his head and starts screaming. Cooper picks him up and carries him down to the kitchen to get ice.
Charlotte is in the kitchen. She has Ella in the high chair and is feeding her oatmeal and mashed bananas. They are all over Ella's face and her high chair tray. "What happened?" Charlotte asks.
"He fell off the bed and hit his head. He''ll be fine. He just needs boo boo bear." Cooper pulls an ice pack in the shape of a bear out of the freezer and holds it against CJ's head.
"We never got to celebrate our anniversay last night." Charlotte tells Cooper.
"Sorry I fell asleep." Cooper says.
"Put CJ down a minute and come upstairs with me I have a surprise for you." Charlotte tells him.
"We don't have time for that Charlotte. We have to be at work in an hour and we both need to shower and get the kids dressed." Cooper tells her.
"I don't mean that." Charlotte tells him. "I know we don't have time."
"Then what?" Cooper asks.
She pulls him up the stairs and smiles. "I think you're going to like this surprise."
"What is it?" Cooper's starting to get excited.
She pulls him by the hand to the bathroom and hands him a pregnancy test stick. He looks at it and his eyes go very big. He looks at her. "You're pregnant again?"
"Surprise!" She says. "I knew you'd be happy."
Cooper raises his eyebrows and nods. Things are about to get even more hectic in the King-Freedman household he thinks as he hugs her.