The next two weeks go by calmly. Today I'm picking up Phoebe and Teddy's costume. Phoebe was with Kate and her mom two weeks ago and Mrs. Kavanagh wanted to design their costumes. Both kids agreed on being vampires so I'm excited to see what she's come up with.
Jessica has of course been a great mentor to me and even talked to Christian about making me part of the financial team and have more say in everything. Christian agreed and my position isn't no longer a paid internship and Jessica's assistant I'm her partner now. It feels great! About two weeks ago I met her family an they are all amazing people.
Today, Dad was nice enough to pick up Phoebe and Teddy today from school. Christian was grateful, his mom and sister are busy and his brother is out of town. The only option he had was taking him to work or leaving him with Gail. I told him my dad offered to take Teddy till 5pm and I think Christian just fell in love with my dad.
When it's time for me to head out Christian joins me. He follows me behind in his car to my dads place. When we arrive he takes Teddy and heads home but before he does he lets me know to come over tonight for dinner with Phoebe. I take Phoebe and head over to Kate's place to pick up the costumes.
Mrs. Kavanagh really did outdid herself. Phoebe dress is beyond beautiful. It's black, red and gold and it's Victorian style. There's also a black crown and a black cape. For Teddy she made a black and red Victorian suit with a black cape. Phoebe is with Kate as I view the costumes. I want to surprise them on Friday.
When Phoebe and I arrive home Phoebe wants to see her dress but I tell her it's a surprise about five times until she gives up. We quickly get her homework done then I take her a shower and get her dressed. I love doing homework with her in all honesty. I love seeing the proud look on her face when she writes a word.
We head out to Christians place and she's excited. I know she adores Christian and Teddy is now one of her closest a friends.
When we arrive he head straight up to his place where Teddy and Christian are both waiting by the elevator.
"Hello, ladies." Christian says. "Food is ready"
"What are we eating?" Phoebe asks.
"Pizza and chicken wings"
"Yay!" Phoebe squeals and runs with Teddy to the dinning table.
"Pizza and chicken?" I ask.
"Yup," he smiles. "Home made pizza and chicken wings. Thanks to Gail."
"she is heaven sent."
"Absolutely." He pulls me close to him and gives me a quick kiss. "So I was thinking.. Tomorrow we should leave work early and have some alone time?"
"How early?" I ask.
"12pm early."
"Oh no mister," I laugh "I can't just leave that early!"
"You can because I'm-"
"Stop!" I cover his mouth with a smile. "Not happening. I like my job."
"Babe pleaaaaaase" he begs "I need to be inside of you soon if not I'll explode" he whispers.
"Keep it in your pants, sir" I wink and walk away and he groans. Seconds later his arms wrap around my waste from behind and he kisses my cheek.
Oh how I love this feeling.
"Let's eat" I say and he nods.
Throughout our meal Phoebe and Teddy kept asking to see their costumes after I showed a picture to Christian on my phone. I told them to wait till Friday but Phoebe argued that Friday is the party and if they didn't like it they had no time to change it. Teddy, who's sitting next to her, was nodding at her argument. I shook my head no and laughed.
Teddy then tells me what cake we should do.
"We can do a.. a.. a.. cementary-
"Cemetery sweetheart," I correct him with a laugh
"Yeah that!" He smiles "and we can put one of those rock thingies and instead of saying R-I-P it can say something else"
"Hmm like caution or beware?" I ask
"Yeah!" He nods in excitement "and we can have a skeleton hand coming out of the dirt and eyeballs everywhere-"
"Why!?" Christian asks.
"I don't know.. I just think it would be scary" Teddy shrugs and I laugh again. "We can put worms too!"
"Alright! I think we're all set then. Now, what kind of cake?"
"Chocolate!" Christian and Teddy say at the same time and I shake my head.
"Men!" Phoebe says looking at me and I wink at her.
Since it's only 7:30 we decide to go to Christian's room and watch some cartoon with the kids.
"Mommy, we're still having my princess birthday party right?"
"Of course,"
"Where are you doing her party?" Christian asks.
"No sure yet.. I was looking into venues"
"Leave that to me" he says
"What? No-"
"Leave that to me" he says once again and I nod. No point in arguing that he's going to get his way anyways. I search around for my phone to check the time but can't fine it.
"I'll be back, I think I left my phone on the table" he nods and I make my way out. When I reach the dinning table I retrieve my phone and head to the kitchen to get a cup of water. When I head back up I stop and hide the moment I hear someone talking on their phone near by.
Why do I have to be so god damn nosy!?
"No baby I know that, I do... I am back to working part time, I'm not her security detail anymore. Haven't been for almost two weeks now."
It's Sawyer.
"I can't this weekend. After Halloween I might be able to... Mia no! We're not going back to California let's go somewhere new."
Mia!?
Mia was talking to someone named Luke a few weeks ago and now Luke is talking to someone named Mia.
Oh god. I was not suppose to listen to this oh god no no no. I'm freaking out now.
"Alright, baby. I'll see you soon.. I love you too." He hangs up and walks my way. I run back to the kitchen and pretend I was there the whole time. "Oh hi, Miss Steele."
"Hi, Sawyer" I smile "see you around" he nods as I walk away.
Oh god this is what I get for being nosy!
When I get back to the room I notice Phoebe is half asleep and so is Teddy. When I check the time it's 8pm.
"It's time for us to go, Phoebe, say bye." I tell her
"Bye Christian" she gives him a hug and a kiss on the cheek "bye Teddy" she hugs him too then jump into my arms. Teddy stand on the bed and kisses my cheek and Christian comes over and gives me a kiss. This is the first time we kiss in the front of the kids and I'm pretty sure I'm blushing. But they seem oblivious to what just happened.
"Text me when you get home" I nod "goodnight ladies."
I smile and head home but I wish I could've stayed.
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It's Friday afternoon and in leaving to pick up Phoebe and leaving for the day. Jessica said it was fine.
The kids already came out of school already so when Teddy and Phoebe both see me they run to me. I take each of their hands and head to my car then head home. Christian has to stay at work till 5pm so I'll have Teddy with me.
"Are we gonna start the cake?" Teddy asks.
"We are!" I says.
As soon as we get home the kids set their things down.
"Mommy can I help too?" Phoebe asks.
"Of course!" I says.
We all head to the kitchen and get started on the chocolate cake. The kids help me put the ingredients in and mix it. Then we put it in the oven to bake.
"You guys want to see the tomb stone and skeleton hand I mad last night?" I say and the both nod. I head to the refrigerator and take it out.
"Whoa that's so cool!" Teddy says.
I should be a baker because I do a pretty damn good job.
"Mommy that's awesome"
"I'm glad you both like it."
I get started on the vanilla frosting. We use food coloring to make some of it brown and some of it red.
When the cake is done I set it to cool down for a while.
Once it's cool down I dig a bit off the top off and set the skeleton hand in it. Then the cake I dig off I place it back to make it seem like the hand is coming out of the ground.
With the brown vanilla frosting and with the help of the kids I frost the whole cake. I know I could've just used chocolate frosting but I don't like too much chocolate. The cake is already chocolate. After its frosted I put the tomb stone in. I then take out the candy eyeballs and gummy worms and with the red vanilla frosting I glue the eyeballs down. Then the kids place the gums wherever they want.
"We're done!" Teddy says "I like the blood around the eyes"
When I look at the time it's 4:30
To kill a bit more time I take the kids out to eat.
At 5:30 I take out the costumes. The excitement in their eyes when they see them makes me so happy.
"Alright let's get you both dressed."
"I can do it," teddy grabs his and runs to the bathroom.
"Missy don't even think about it, I have to help you" Phoebe nods and we walk into her room.
I help Phoebe into her dress and tie it in the back. The moment I finish putting on her dress there's a knock on Phoebe's bedroom door.
"Ana.. I need help.." I laugh and go open the door. Teddy only has his pants on.
I kneel down and put the shirt on and tuck it into his pants then I button them up. I help him with the vest and then put his cape on.
"Go on and wait for me in the living room and I'll help you with the shoes." He nods and runs off.
I continues to help Phoebe and I brush her hair and put her little crown on. I then put on her flats and cape on and she looks absolutely adorable. I walk to my room and grabs my red lipgloss and fangs I bought for them and head to the living room with Phoebe. I put Teddy's shoes on and then apply red lipgloss to Phoebe.
"I got you both fangs." They both yell excitedly and they put it on. "You two look absolutely adorable!"
I grab my phone and take a photo of them. I notice I have a text from Christian. He sent it about ten minutes ago.
I'll be there in about twenty minutes.
It's 6pm and we have to leave in about thirty minutes.
"Mommy! You need to put your costume on too"
Yup, parents have to wear a costume too. I talked to her teacher about it the day after the kids told us about the party and her teacher said parents have to get dressed up as well. So Christian and I are going as vampires as well.
"Alright you two, be calm okay?" They both nod and I head into my room.
I put on a knee length black dress that has lace all over and put on red heels. I apply deep red lip stick and put on fangs. My hair is really straight so I leave it loose and just put on my cape.
"Alright I'm ready!" As soon as those words come out my mouth there's a knock on my door. As soon as I open I choke on air. I'd let this vampire bite me any day.
"My my, look at this" Christian says. "You look hot."
"So do you," I says. He looks hot wearing all black. And that cape with his shirt unbutton at the top makes we wanna... wow.
"Come on kids time to go," I go in and grab my bag and then the cake.
"Well damn, look at you two. You both are gonna steal the spotlight."
The next few hours go by flawlessly. The kids are having fun playing games and dancing. The costume contest is about to begin and I see Phoebe frantically looking for Christian, her escort. I can't help but laugh she's really running around looking for him and he's right next to me.
"Stop being mean and go get the girl" I tell him but he's too busy laughing as well. "Christian!" I shove him.
"I'm going I'm going! She looks too cute and funny running around" Christian gets up from his seat and runs to her. From the looks of it she's lecturing him! I can't with this little girl. When the contest starts they're each called up to the mini stage. Teddy is by my side watching with me. When Phoebe goes up with Christian she models her dress and I let out a giggle.
They begin to announce 3rd and second place. Then they announce Phoebe's name as first place and she jumps around and squeals. They give her flowers and a goodie bag of candy and toys.
Phoebe runs to me with a smile and I give her a big hug. I love these moments.
Christian POV
I love these moment. Spending time with Teddy, Phoebe and Ana. My girls and my little man are my everything and I cherish each moment I spend with them.
Ever since Ana and I said I love you to each other our relationship grew. It's like we got closer to each other.
I love that women.
Phoebe is delighted that she won the contest and I knew she would. She's the best dressed. I'm not being biased.
Okay, maybe I am. But I do believe she's the best dressed.
The cake contest is coming up. Teddy and Ana head over to where their cake is at. I take Phoebe's hand and go sit by some chairs near by to watch Teddy and Ana.
"Christian" Phoebe says.
"Yes?"
"I want you to be my daddy. You make me and mommy really happy."
"Do I now?" I smile and she nods.
"Mommy and I love you very much!"
"Well I love you and your mommy very much" I sit her on my lap and kiss her forehead.
"I'm going up to see mommy, okay?" She said and I nod. She then runs off but I keep and eye on her.
"Oh, Christian Grey, right?" A blonde lady comes up and asks. "Would have never thought you'd be here." She says in a wanna-be seductive voice.
"Why wouldn't I? I have a son."
"Right, it's nice to see single father step up"
"Yeah," I answer. I'm trying to ignore her and pay attention to them announcing the winners but this lady is literally in the way.
"So who was the little girl you escorted? Did some mom beg you to do it?" She laugh and I can feel my anger rise. "Some women here can be very thirty for male attention"
She really isn't one to be talking..
"Daddy! Dad! We won!" Teddy runs to me. "We did it!"
"I'm so happy for you buddy!" I hug him.
"I'm going to play with my friends now okay?"
"Alright" he runs off and I see Phoebe go run off with some little girls. Ana walks my way.
"Your son is precious, he did the cake contest? Did you bake?"
"Yup, and no I didn't. My girlfriend did." She frowns.
"Hey babe," I pull Ana to me as soon as she gets close. "You and Teddy won."
"Well duh, our cake was the best!"
"Blondie meet my girlfriend, the little girl I escorted mom. By the way I'm not interested. Oh, and you shouldn't be talking about thirsty mom wanting male attention. You're desperate for some as well." The lady looks pissed. Oh well.. Ana is all that matter to me.
"That's was interesting," Ana says with a giggle.
"Very," I say. I pull her close and give her a quick kiss. "I love you so much"
"I love you so much more," she smile.
"I don't think so.."
"Oh, but I do" she replies
God, I'm happy. She makes me happy.
Next chapter might or might not be Phoebe's birthday ;) like I said before there will be short time skips for now :) I hope you guys enjoyed this one.