"Kids!" Molly screamed from her room. Having just been looking at her baby bump in the mirror, she noticed stretch marks on her stomach.
"What's wrong, mummy?" Charlie asked as he ran into the master bedroom.
"Do you see that?" Molly asked as she traced a stretch mark that went along the side of her stomach.
"What is that?" Charlie asked as he went over the same stretch mark Molly had with his finger.
"That would be a stretch mark." Molly said as she smiled, liking the fact that she hadn't been the only one that saw the stretch mark.
"How do you get stretch marks mummy?" 9-year-old Charlie asked as he looked up at her.
"They would be from being pregnant with you and your brothers." Molly said as she softly poked the tip of Charlie's nose.
"I'm sorry mumma." Charlie said as he hugged his mum, "I didn't mean to." Taking Charlie into a loving embrace, she said,
"Awe sweetheart, it's not your fault." Charlie rested his head on Molly's ample bosom and started to cry. Feeling Charlie put his arms around her, Molly pulled him closer to her and kissed the top of his head softly, "Tell me why you're crying Charlie." She added softly as she felt Charlie's sobs die down.
"Because I left that mark on your tummy, mumma." Hearing this, Molly couldn't help but to laugh. "Why are you laughing?" He added as he glared up at his mum.
"Because it wasn't just you that left that mark." Charlie looked up at Molly confused,
"What do you mean?" Molly pulled away from the embrace Charlie and her were sharing and walked over to sit on the bed. She patted the empty spot next to her and said,
"Come sit down Charlie." Charlie followed his mum's order and sat down next to her, "You have 5 brothers right?" Molly asked and Charlie nodded. "And there's a baby girl in here right?" Again, Charlie nodded. "Then you couldn't have been the only one that gave me a stretch mark." Molly smiled as she watched Charlie realize what his mum was saying.
"So, I'm not the only one that left a mark like that?" Charlie asked as Molly, again, pulled up her shirt and pointed to another stretch mark.
"See I have more then one." She said after she traced the stretch mark. Charlie looked at his mum's stomach and found another one,
"Is that one mummy?" Molly looked at were Charlie was pointing and nodded,
"That would be another one my dear." Charlie looked up at his mum in amazement,
"So all of those were from all of us?" Charlie asked once again. Molly, again laughed,
"Yes Charlie, they're from all of you."
"When is the baby gonna come mummy?" Charlie asked after a few minutes of his hands resting on Molly's bare tummy.
"In a couple of months sweetie." Molly replied as she scooted back so she was leaning up against headboard. Charlie moved up on the bed and rested his head in the crook of Molly's arm and she wrapped her arm around his waist.
"I love you." Molly kissed the top of Charlie's head and replied,
"I love you two Hun." Molly took Charlie's hand into hers and intertwined her fingers with his.
Seconds later Fred walks in and says,
"Mumma. I'm hungry." Molly looks up from Charlie and says,
"Ok. I'll come down and start dinner in a few minutes." Molly hadn't realized it but George was standing behind him. Both Fred and George walk in and pull themselves up onto the bed and Fred immediately got to Molly's side and cuddled up close to her, opposite of Charlie.
"Fred! You always get to sit next to mum!" George whined as he stood in front of everyone.
"There's no whining in this household, now come here and sit on my lap." Molly replied as she put out her free arm to take George's hand. George smirked at Fred as he sat down in Molly's lap and leaned into her bosom and stomach.
"What are we having for dinner?" George asked.
"What do you want for dinner?" Molly said as she looked down at George.
"I want pasgetti." George replied ; only being 4 it was hard for him to say spaghetti.
"Ok, if that's what these two want then we will have spaghetti for dinner." Molly looked over at Fred and he nodded,
"I want spaghetti mumma." Charlie agreed.
"Ok, then lets go get dinner started." Molly said as she started to move.
"No mummy! I wanna stay here." George whined as he tried to stop his mum from moving.
"Ok. In five minutes we're all going to go downstairs and help mummy make dinner ok?" All three boys nodded their head and stayed cuddled up close to their mum knowing that they wouldn't get to much time like this after the baby came; with all of them thinking this, they all cuddled up closer to Molly and started a few small conversations before they all had to go down and cook dinner.