Chapter thirty- one
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Chapter thirty one plot- The Karev- Maidenway family find their place in this world.
One week later- October 22nd
"You can't be late home this afternoon. Remember?" Jo asks as she stands in the kitchen making school lunches for the girls.
"Whys that?" Alex asks joking.
Ahhh! Karev, don't do this to me today! You know very well why!
"Because we have family photos. You know that Alex," Jo says stressfully.
"Yes, don't worry. I know that and I will be there right on time," Alex says.
"Thank you," she replies.
"Refresh my memory. Where is it again?" He asks.
"Alex!" Jo says stressfully.
"I'm kidding, I'm kidding," Alex says before he walks around the kitchen counter and gives Jo a kiss.
"Jerk! Don't do that! This is stressing me out enough as it is," Jo says hitting him in the arm.
"I know. I'm sorry. But it doesn't have to be stressful Jo," he replies.
"Yes it does Alex. This is a family tradition, it started when Zara was born and I've done it every single year since. It's documenting how we as a family have changed and grown throughout the years. And this is your first one, it needs to be something special," Jo replies.
"Alright, just breathe. It'll be alright,"
"Are you still taking Lily and Ruby to daycare?" Jo asks.
"Sure am," he replies.
"Okay good. Because once I drop Zara and Ellie off to school I'm taking the twins and we're going to pick up everybody's outfits from the lay-by at Target," Jo says.
I can't wait to see this picture. It's going to be fantastic. I love documenting every year how our family has changed and grown. It makes for great memories.
"Alight, Ruby, Lily, let's go munchkins," Alex says.
"Okay Daddy," Lily says back. Ruby and Lily get down from the table and head over to Alex Lily grabs hold of his hand.
"Love you babies," Jo says before she gives the girls each a huge kiss. "Love you too. I'll see You at 4pm," Jo says to Alex before giving him a kiss.
"Love you," Alex says before leaving with Ruby and Lily.
"Mummy, can we stay home from school to help you look after Sabrina and Zach?" Eloise asks curiously.
"That's a very sweet thought and I love that you want to help mummy. But you have to go to school," Jo replies back smiling as she puts some of the breakfast dishes into the sink.
"But why? You get to stay home from work and you save people's lives. That's a very important job to miss Mummy," Eloise says seriously.
"Mummy gets to stay home from work because she's on Maternity leave," Jo replies.
"What's maternity leave?" Zara asks confused.
Okay, so that's not a question I was expecting to answer when I woke up today. But hey, I can't complain about them wanting to learn...
"Well, maternity leave is when a woman gets paid to stay home with her baby after she's had it," Jo replies.
"But you had the babies ages ago," Zara says.
"I know. But mummy told the government that this is when she wanted to take her maternity leave. So the government gives mummy six weeks of paid maternity leave to stay home with the babies," Jo replies.
"Only six weeks! That's a very short time mummy," Eloise says.
"Well, mummy can have more time if she wants it. But she won't get paid for it," Jo replies as she zips up Zara's lunchbox.
"But who's saving all the babies while your at home?" Eloise asks.
"Another doctor is saving them. Her name is Dr Lowe," Jo replies. "Now you girls need to grab your school bags otherwise so we can get going because otherwise we are going to be late," Jo says.
At the hospital
"Babe, what are you doing here?" Alex asks as Jo walks into his office wheeling the twins in the pram.
"Oh, well the twins missed you and wanted to see you," Jo grins. Alex gets up from his desk and walks over to the twins, who were fast asleep. He plants a kiss on each of their temples and admires them sleeping.
"Hi my beautiful babies, hi," he said in a childish tone. "Babe, they're asleep so what was this visit really for?" Alex asks grinning.
"Aren't I allowed to miss you either?" Jo asks grinning as she walks her way into Alex's arms to give him a kiss.
"Not when I know there's an alterer motive," he replies grinning.
Damn, he knows that's why I'm not really here. I thought I was doing an incredible job at acting. Well even obviously not. I guess I can scrap actress of my list of back up careers if surgery ever falls though...
"Damn, not subtle enough am I?" She asks.
"So, why did you pay me a visit on this fine day?" Alex asks.
"I just wanted to make sure that you know that you need to be home by..."
"4pm. I know," he replies.
Jo laughs and gives him a kiss, "I'm sorry. I'm being a pain aren't I?" She asks.
"You just want this to go perfectly. It's a family tradition and I'm happy to make it our family tradition too," he replies.
"How did I get so lucky with you?" She asks.
"Frankly I don't know," he laughs before kissing her.
At the photo shoot
The sun was setting and the wind was blowing to create a picture perfect moment in Lincoln Park where the Karev- Maidenway family were having their family photos taken.
This is perfect. I could not if asked for a better day to do this. Everything is just so great. How in the world did I get so lucky. When David died I never thought I'd be happy again, I never thought I'd see the sun shine again. But here I am and I'm happy and everything is just great. It's funny how life works out In the end.
"This is just perfect," Jo grins as she and Alex attempt to get the four very active girls into position. Jo was wearing a simple long white dress with a denim vest and a ring of flowers in her hair. Her long black hair was curled and free flowing down her shoulders. Zara and Eloise had a white dress on with subtle pink and yellow vertical stripes evenly spaces out on the bottom half of the dress. The girls both had a ring of flowers in their hair and their brunette hair was left flowing straight over their shoulders.
Ruby and Lily had simple Tan colour dresses on that had a ruffle skirt bottom. They too also had a ring of flowers in their brunette hair was styled the same way as Zara and Eloise's was.
Zach was wearing a cute grey and white onesie while Sabrina had a pink onesie with a ruffle skirt. Alex was wearing denim jeans and a white long sleeve shirt.
"Alright, are we ready for this?" Jo asks the kids.
"Yes mummy. I'm getting hungry," Eloise says.
"We won't be too mush longer. You guys have been amazing. Let's just let Mummy and Daddy get into position with Zach and Sabrina and then we're good to go," Jo says.
Jo and Alex get into position with the kids. Jo and Alex were sitting in the middle, with Jo holding Sabrina and Alex holding Zach. The pair were sitting with their legs to the side. Huddled into Alex's side was Lily and next to her was Eloise. Huddled into Jo's side was Ruby and next to her was Zara.
"Alright all say 'fluffy unicorns' on three," instructs the photographer. "One, two three!" He says.
"Fluffy unicorns!" They all laugh and Jo and Alex kiss as their perfect family portrait was taken.
End quote (authors narration) : We're not perfect, nobody is. Life is not perfect, nobody's is. Life is a messy unpredictable roller coaster with twists and turns and ups and downs. But we do the best with what we are given and somehow we make it all work. It's life darkest and hardest moments that define us, that make us who we are. When those dark moments happen and your met with so much tragedy that you can barley breathe, it feels like your heart has been physically taken out of your body. We find ourselves having to lean on family and friends to get through them. But when you start see the sun you have to start again, because no matter the luck it's never the end, and it only takes one step to make a whole new beginning. And who knows; That one step could be all you need to start over and to find a place in this world again.