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Chapter 9: Our 1st House

January 10th 2017

The dreaded alarm went off at 3:00am on the brisk morning in early January, as Gabi prepared to leave the warm cocoon of Troy's embrace were was a tiny cry was heard from the main living space of the Condo. Troy grunted and turned over as Gabi wrestled herself free and went to investigate.

She quietly opened the bedroom door and greeted the night nurses attending to her 6 infants. "Anything wrong, Linda?" She asked the lead nurse from the hospital.

"Everything's good, don't worry. But if you want to help I believe McKenna wants a little bit of love time." Linda motioned over to the pack 'n' play holding a girl wrapped in pink and a boy in blue. Gabi nodded and walked over to the makeshift bed of 2 of her 6 babies and picked up McKenna.

"Kenna, baby girl." Gabi cooed as McKenna turned her blue eyes in different directions - seeing the room at a different angle, she was fascinated. "Hey. Mommy's here." Gabi whispered and poked her nose trying to get her attention. McKenna's tiny nose crinkled as she gave a huge grin to her mother. Gabi just stared at her baby for moment before it hit her "Can someone pass a camera, quick." She demanded and a tired Taylor rushed over with the camera; that was constantly left of the side in case anything happened. "Kenna's the 1st to smile." Gabi announced after the quick picture had taken place. Around the room there were a lot of 'Aww's and surprised individuals as a baby of 2 months - if that - had just smiled to her mommy.

Gabi slowly made her way around her 6 infants and fed them all before she thanked the nurses and headed back to bed to savour the 2 and a half hours before she had to get up and prepare her 4 and 5 year old for school. She walked into the heated bedroom and cocooned herself back into Troy's embrace.

The 2 and half hours went like 5 minutes to Gabi and she groaned when the 7:00am alarm sounded. This time it was her grunting and turning over while Troy reluctantly removed himself from the bed and slipped some jeans and a top on before making his way to dress Freddie and Logan for school.

Outside the bedroom the night nurses were in the middle of exchanging to the day nurses, Troy greeted the morning nurses and thanked the nights before walking into the other bedroom that held the beds of Freddie and Logan.

"Lo. Time to get up." He said while patting her back. "Come on - time for school." He walked over to the window and opened the curtains causing both kids to pull the covers over their heads. Troy saw this and yanked the covers off the beds. "Guys, you have 5 minutes until breakfast." He walked out to prepare their toast.

It took 10 minutes before the door finally opened and Logan appeared and shortly after Freddie appeared too, amongst the nurses completing changing time for the sextuplets. "You have to eat quickly now - the bus comes in 10 minutes." Troy stated while checking his watch.

"Morning, babies."

"Morning mom." Logan and Freddie chimed and at the same time stuff toast covered in Nutella into their mouths. Gabi greeted the nurses then took a hair brush and put Logan's long blonde hair into a high ponytail. "Can you take them down this morning?" She asked Troy who was putting their lunch boxes into their school bag.

"Sure. After I'm going to get some gas in the car for house looking." He replied while collecting his eyes from the cabinet. "Come on guys, out the door." They kissed their mom goodbye before following Troy out to the bus stop. Gabi closed the door behind them and starting her round of morning kisses.

"Can we have a meeting quickly please?" Gabi asked the nurses later on in the morning, when Troy had returned from running errands. "Ok. So me and Troy are going to look at a house this morning - Sharpay should be coming soon with Zeke so they will be extra hands. If anything comes up call my cell or Troy's and we'll sort it out from there, but we are looking quite far away today so there will be limited things we can do. Thank you all again for the help." All the nurses nodded and resumed their duty of care to the 6 infants.

"Ready to go?" Troy asked. Gabi nodded, said one last bye and they both left to look at - hopefully - their new home.

"How far is it?" Gabi quizzed Troy once in the car.

"It's about 3 hours away." Gabi sighed "Sorry, Gabs - but I think this house has everything and it looks like a really good neighbourhood."

Gabi nodded "Hm ok. I'm not sure about leaving my babies but ok - what's the name so I can look it up?"

"It's a place called Oyster Bay. Perfect place to raise the family."

Three hours later and the car finally came to a stop. Troy shook Gabi awake before the estate agent walked over. "Hi guys, welcome to Oyster Bay. Lets go look round the house." The couple got out of the car and walked up the drive way covered in patches of ice. "Ok. So this house is has 3 bedrooms, 3 full bathrooms, a laundry room, playroom or study and a basement."

Gabi looked up at the black window shutters and the flowers at the front "Troy this looks perfect. I can see us living here." The agent walked them in through the front door.

"Ok. So this is the living room - brown carpet and the light grey walls." They both looked around and looked at each-other, they both knew this was the house for them. "Shall we move on." The agent waved them into the kitchen, dining space. "So this is the dining table and the kitchen, there is a island and double fridge."

"I think we'll need that!" Troy laughed while opening the door to the long pantry. "It's very spacious and there are loads of cabinets and storage areas." Gabi nodded and continued to look around the hard wood floored area.

"Next we have the playroom or you can have it as a study." She lead them into the cream room.

"This is a nice size." Gabi stated while looking at the size of the cupboard. "I'd want to have it as playroom, given the amount of kids we have." Troy smiled and followed the agent out to the laundry room. Gabi soon followed when she saw no-one was left in the room.

"Laundry room. Has space for a washer and dryer and hanging equipment and here is a sink. There is a door but you can put a drying frame there." The couple nodded and the adults moved on. "Opposite is a bathroom with everything, it has a bath that doubles as a shower. Now here is the master on the ground floor." Gabi and Troy once again nodded and began looking around. "There is a walk in closet and a en-suite." Gabi investigated this walk in closet, it was a small room suitable for a bit of storage but it would be nice to keep all her clothes in. She quietly chuckled; none of Troy's clothes would be in here.

The estate agent left the couple to look around the upstairs by themselves, all that was up there was 2 large bedrooms; on either side of the small landing, going from the front to the back of the house and slotted into the middle has a nice sized bathroom. "Troy, this house is amazing look at all the garden we get." Gabi pointed outside.

"Suppose the draw back is that Freddie and Logan would have to share with 3 of the six."

"It's better than the current situation - a 3 bedroom apartment in downtown New York, where the 2nd and 3rd bedrooms are tiny and barely fit the two kids in?" Gabi pointed out. "Were aren't even living there now, we now live in a 2 bedroom condo outside a hospital!"

"Hm. Yeah I think this will be perfect for the 1st few years. I just want this to be a stop gap home, you know that my ideal home would be in New Jersey, right babe?"

Gabi lifted an eyebrow "You never let me forget it!" She laughed while mentally placing the kids beds in the room. "I want to make an offer Troy!"

"Sure. I think this is good for us. Let's go back downstairs." Troy walked down behind Gabi and met the estate agent at the bottom.

"So what do you think?"

"We love it and want to make an offer." Troy stated proudly.

"Fantastic. The starting price is currently $240'000 but it's been on the market for a while and we could go in at $230'000 if you would like." The couple nodded their heads and she continued to make a phone call. "Hi. This is Emma French from New Home estate agents, I have an offer here for the home in Oyster Bay for $230'000."

Troy and Gabi listened intensely as a lot of 'urms' and 'ahhs' were passed over the phone, before Emma hung up and readdressed the couple "It's yours!" She said happily. "I believe you have sold your home so the deeds will be passed over in 4 weeks and here's your new home. Congratulations!" Gabi and Troy were over the moon, their 1st proper house together - even though they had 8 kids and it would be ruined soon, it was still their little heaven.