Hey guys, thanks for reviewing the last chapter. Hope you like this one, please read and review :) Dannielle xoxo
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BELLA POV
I was slightly shocked that there were so many people here for my homecoming but touched all the same. I hugged Charlie and Ruby and took Mckenzie from Charlie's arms, she pressed her little hands on my face causing me to laugh "show aunty Bella what you learnt today" Charlie said shaking Kenzie's hand, I looked at her as she flashed a toothy grin "dada" she said giggled "what she never said that earlier!" Brax gasped as I laughed "clever girl" I smiled kissing her nose "Kenzie, can you say Bella?" Ruby asked her sister "wuby" she said causing us to laugh "no Bella" Ruby repeated "Bwel-a" she said "YAY!" everyone cheered and Mckenzie laughed throwing her hands in the air causing us all to laugh at her as we made our way outside.
Ruby had just passed me a drink when she started to ask about the trip "how was it? What was it like?" she asked "oh it was great, the place is gorgeous – the best waves ever!" I laughed "hot guys?" April asked and I laughed "well yeah but I have a boyfriend" I smiled "yeah but you can look" she laughed as the boys bought over trays of food. We took our seats and dug into the feast that lay before us.
CHARLIE POV
Later that night Brax and I were watching a movie in bed, I was snuggled up under Brax's arm. "hey can you believe that our little girl is talking!" I said smiling "I know it's insane and she is picking up words so easily" he replied "Oh I forgot to write it in her baby book" I said bouncing out of bed and into the wardrobe and returning a few minutes later with Mckenzie's baby book, I jumped on the bed and Brax laughed "you're going to do that now?" he asked sitting up slightly "yeah well why not?" I laughed as I opened the book to her first words page "first words were; mamma, blocks, Ruby, dada and Bella" I said as I wrote the words on the shiny paper "she's worked up quite a vocabularly hasn't she" Brax joked and I lightly slapped his arm "oh come on she is doing well" I said as a crackling came over the baby monitor beside the bed "duck-duck" said Mckenzie "ah another word!" I giggled as I quickly wrote it down "I can't believe how fast she is growing up" he whispered kissing my hair "I know, hey have you ever thought of how many kids you want?" I asked looking up at him "yeah I guess, why? What about you?" he asked carefully "well before we got together I didn't know if I ever wanted to have kids again, I mean after being pregnant with Ruby I could never imagine myself going through that again, it was so stressful and I just thought that any pregnancy afterwards would be exactly the same. Mckenzie changed all that, I am definetly open to more kids" I smiled taking his hand "how many do you want?" he asked smiling lightly "um I dunno, maybe another two or three?" I said and Brax grinned "yeah? You want three of four kids?" he said "yeah, I mean if you are" I said looking at him seriously "yeah babe, I would have 30 kids with you if you wanted to" he said causing me to laugh "30 is a bit high for me" I smiled as I continued to fill out the baby book.
I woke up the next morning wrapped in Brax's arms "mamma, mamma" I heard and I smiled as I untangled myself from Brax and climbed out of bed, I tiptoed down the hall knowing that Ruby and Bella would be asleep still and hurried into Mckenzie's room. I looked over the rail of the crib to see my beautiful baby girl staring back up at me "hey little princess" I smiled as I lifted her into my arms "mamma" she said gently tapping my face with her palms "that's right, I am your mamma" I smiled kissing her forehead and sitting down on the chair in the corner, drawing the blind up to see the beach and feeding Mckenzie. After I finished feeding her I quickly changed her and carried her into our bedroom, I placed her on the bed just beside a sleeping Brax and lent down to Mckenzie's ear "wake dada up baby" I whispered and she giggled quietly before she lifted her hands in the air and slapped them down on the side of Brax's stomach, I knew it wouldn't of hurt him but his eyes flicked open and he looked down, a smile spread across his face when he saw Mckenzie giving him a giant toothy grin "morning little one" he smiled as he lifted her onto his chest "dada" she giggled as he started to tickle her "that's right, I am your dad" he smiled as she laughed and flapped her hands around while Brax tickled her. I reached into my beside drawer and pulled out my silver camera, quickly turned it on and took a picture of Brax and Mckenzie, the flash went off and they both turned to look at me "mamma" Mckenzie said tilting her head "it's a camera baby, to take pictures" I said and she looked back at Brax "smile baby" I said holding the camera up, Mckenzie turned at looked at me flashing her two tooth grin and I laughed quickly taking the picture before she got distracted.
We played around taking photos and trying to get Mckenzie to say new words for about an hour before Ruby poked her head around the door "hey I heard voices" she smiled "yeah come in we are just trying to get Mckenzie to talk" I said waving her over "oh well Bella is making breakfast" she said sitting on the bed "wuby" Mckenzie said holding out her arms, Ruby scooped her up and blew a loud raspberry on her cheek "wuby, wuby" Mckenzie laughed gently patting Ruby's cheeks "morning little talkative one" she smiled as Mckenzie reached out to Brax "dada" she said "b-woks dada b-woks" she said and I laughed "does someone want to play with her blocks?" I asked and Mckenzie nodded "b-woks mamma b-woks" she repeated causing me to laugh "okay maybe Ruby will get them for you if you ask her nicely" I said and Mckenzie spun her head to Ruby "wuby b-woks for kenzie b-woks" she said nodding a flinging her arms about "she can say her name?" Ruby said smiling "yeah we taught her to before" I said "B-WOKS!" Mckenzie squealed "Mckenzie Isabella Braxton speak nicely" I said firmly and Mckenzie lowered her voice "b-woks wuby b-woks" she said clapping her hands "okay little one" Ruby said tapping her nose and heading out of the room to return a few mintues later with the clear bag of blocks "B-WOKS!" Mckenzie cheered playfully before her mouth dropped to an 'O' shape and she quickly covered her mouth with her hand "oops" she said "no baby it's okay when your happy but not when your being mean okay" I smiled ruffling her growing hair, Mckenzie nodded as she picked up the foam blocks and threw one at Brax.
We padded downstairs a short while later to find the table laden with pancakes, bacon, eggs and toast. Bella turned around and smiled "oh hey guys, I was just going to call you down" she said walking over to the table and sitting down "hey cheeky monkey" she said gently pinching Mckenzie's cheek "Bwel-a" she laughed reaching out for her sippy-cup, I filled it half with juice and half with water before tightly screwing the lid on and passing it to her "want some toast?" I asked and she nodded eagerly as I broke a piece of toast into four and placed it on her plate. There was a knock at the door and we all looked up "I'll get it" Ruby said picking up her toast and heading to the door while we all continued dishing up and eating, suddenly Ruby let out a squeal causing us all to turn to face the door and we were shocked at what we saw. I the doorway with Ruby in his arms was Casey "Casey what are you doing here mate?" Brax asked getting up and walking to the door pulling Casey into a hug and slapping his back "they let me out" he smiled as he returned the hug "why didn't they tell me?" Brax asked "cause I wanted it to be a surprise" he laughed "I can't believe your back" Bella said as Casey hugged her lifting her off the ground "I know it feels so good to be out" he said looking at me "hey Charlie" he smiled as I walked forward and hugged him "hey Casey it's great to have you back" I smiled as we walked back to the table "hey Mckenzie" he said kissing her forehead "hey" she repeated cutely still staring at her toast "what did she just say?" he asked shocked "yeah she started talking yesterday – didn't ya little one" Brax smiled as Mckenzie looked up "hey" she repeated causing us all to laugh "sit down and dig in" I said gesturing to the chair beside Ruby, Casey took it as we all began to eat breakfast, laughing and catching up on all that we had missed.
What did you think? Are you glad that Casey is home? I have really been struggling to write the chapters where nothing major happens, I started this chapter this morning and I have just finished writing it now at 11:16pm Australia time! If any of you have some ideas of things that could happen in these chapters where nothing major happens (I call them filler chapters) then please put it in your review - or if you are too shy to do that then just tell me what you thought of the chapter and send me a PM with your ideas! I would really love to hear what you want to see and happen. Are you all finally happy that there is more CHAX, this entire chapter has been about CHAX so I hope that will keep you happy :) Please review and tell me your thoughts Dannielle xoxo (or send a PM xx)