I love all of your reviews, I love that all of you have taken the time to read my story. Here's chapter 8 I hope you enjoy it. As always I own nothing.
"This is your apartment?" Alyssa frowned, dropping her backpack in the doorway.
"Yep, and you better move that somewhere that it won't trip us." I warned, turning on the lights and looking around my tiny bare apartment, had I really lived here it looked so empty. I guess there was a reason I spent so much time at work.
"Are we going to share a bed again?" Alyssa pouted looking down the hall.
"Yes, for a little bit until we can find a bigger place." I sighed, that flight had made all of them cranky at least Liam and Cass had fallen asleep.
"Liam kicks." Emily frowned.
"It's only temporary." I tried.
"Girls come on we'll take you're stuff to you're room." Jane walked in with Liam asleep in one arm, Alyssa suitcase tucked under the other with Emily's suitcase in his hand.
"I want my own room." Emily pouted.
"Me to." Alyssa nodded crossing her arms, she still hadn't picked up her backpack.
"Girls." Jane warned, "You are both going to grab your backpacks and bring them to you're room otherwise we might have to put your dolls in timeout."
"Our dolls in timeout?" Emily frowned.
"Yep if you don't behave we're going to have to put you're dolls in time out and you won't be able to play with them for five whole minutes." Jane nodded.
"But our dolls didn't do anything." Alyssa argued.
"So you don't want me to put them in timeout?" He questioned, and they both shook their head. "Well then we better get all of your things to your room." And oddly enough they sighed and followed him down the hall with their backpacks on their shoulder. Leave it Jane to do things backwards and get better results. By the time they marched back out all bags had been placed in the room I doubt they had been unpacked but that could be dealt with later. I had put together Cass's crib and brought in Jane and I's suitcases. Leaving Jane to get the last of the bags after he handed William off to me.
"How did you know punishing the dolls would get the girls to cooperate?" I wondered after the girls had gotten themselves settled in front of the TV and William was sleeping on a blanket next to them.
"Punishing the innocent usually makes the guilty party feel even worse." He shrugged leaning back on my couch, I should have realized that was something he had learned from experience. "No Lisbon that had been my parenting technique even before it was used against me so to speak." I just rolled my eyes, no point questioning him how or slapping him now I was too tired.
"The kids haven't ate anything since before we got on the plane, what do you want to do about dinner?" I sighed falling back onto the couch next to him.
"We can always order a pizza." He answered, "And then I'll cook you dinner tomorrow night after we can get to the grocery store."
"You don't need to do everything." I turned to look at him, and then to my surprise he wrapped his arms around me and pulled me closer to him.
"Did it ever occur to you that I like doing things for you?" He questioned, and it only seemed right that I lay my head on his chest. "Besides I enjoy cooking and if you haven't noticed I don't really have anyone else to cook for."
"Alright what type of pizza do we want to order?" I wondered.
"May I recommend pineapple and green peppers and possibly pepperoni." He suggested.
"Yeah you're going to get those three to eat that." I laughed.
"I think you'd be surprised." He replied, "but we can get a second one that's just plain cheese if you think they would like that better."
"I guess we can do that," I nodded, "Oh I don't have any milk or juice for the kids to drink with it."
"I can walk down to the gas station and pick some up while you order the pizza, it's not that big of a deal." He shrugged, "But if you tell me you don't have any tea in your pantry we might have a problem."
"You don't need to worry about that." I laughed, "I never kept tea around the house until I met you." And he just grinned. "We have a lot to do tomorrow." I sighed, looking down on the kids. "We need to find a school for the kids we have a little less than a month before school start and I don't even know if schools will accept students this late."
"Lisbon calm down." Jane laughed, "We'll find them a school, we can start with the school associated with the church you attend, and I'm sure if you explain the situation they'll find room."
"Your right of course your right, I'll order the pizza, you go get the drinks and we can try and make an appointment with St. Mary's tomorrow morning. Then we can do the grocery shopping, get Cass a real crib and one of those bathtubs made specifically for babies. Then I want to run by the office to check on things, I know I still have another week before we're expected back but I don't want to come back to a giant stack of paperwork."
"Lisbon." Jane smirked, "Order the pizza." He got up and threw me the phone before kissing each of the kids on the head and walking out the door. When he came back he had way more than just milk and juice.
"What on earth?" I exclaimed as he put the drinks in the fridge some ice cream in the freezer and a box of doughnuts on the counter.
"We needed something for breakfast tomorrow." He shrugged.
"Ice cream?" I questioned.
"Dessert." He answered.
"What's that?" I frowned, watching him lay a bottle on the top shelf of the fridge.
"Dessert." He smiled, "For after the kids go to bed."
"Jane," I sighed.
"Lisbon there is nothing wrong with having a glass of wine before bed, in fact some doctors recommend it." He laughed, and then there was a knock on the door. "Go ahead I'll get the dishes out. "
"Should I be worried that you know where I keep my dishes?" I shook my head, heading toward the door.
"Pizza's here, you have to the count of three to get to the table." Jane called, he didn't even need to start counting before three hungry kids rushed into the kitchen and crowded around the table.
"Why is that one pretty colored?" Emily asked, "What's on it?"
"Pineapple, green pepper, and pepperoni." Jane answered pouring milk into three plastic cups, before going back to the living room and bringing Cass in and sitting her in her carrier next to him.
"Can I try it?" Alyssa wondered.
"Of course." Jane smiled cutting a piece up for her.
"Me to." Emily nodded, so he cut up a piece for her as well.
"What about you little man?" I turned to William who was staring at the two pizzas in front of him.
"Cheese." He decided making a funny face.
"Good choice." I grinned, cutting up a piece for him. By the time we were done eating we still had two thirds of a pizza, which Jane boxed up and put in the fridge. "You want to give Cass a bath in my bed room? While I bathe William in the guest bathroom, then you can feed Cass while I make sure the girls take their baths."
"Sounds like a plan." He nodded, lifting Cass out of the carrier.
"Do you want to keep her crib in the living room or should I bring her into the bedroom?" I worried, cleaning the pizza off Williams face before starting for the bathroom.
"It's fine where it's at you'll be able to hear her from the bedroom, and I'll be sleeping on the couch anyway." He answered, "Girls why don't you go pick out a book for me to read to you after your baths."
The kids had been put to bed we had enjoyed a glass of wine and I had left Jane to sleep, well lay on the couch since he claimed he didn't sleep. I had been in bed a whole twenty minutes before I realized how empty it felt. Would I look desperate if I went down there and asked him to join me? I wasn't going to do it, I was a big girl I could sleep alone. An hour later I had enough. "Jane?" I whispered down the hallway. No answer, damn him I knew he could hear me. "Umm do you want to come to bed?" I tried.
"Oh I suppose, for you." He got up, walking down the hall with that obnoxious smirk on his.