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The snow lay thick on the earth once more; December had arrived and with it came the celebration of the twins 1st birthday. The house had been decorated with blue and pink balloons, Erza had made colourful paper chains that hung over each wall, while Jellal had fixed flashing lights that danced in harmony with the melody of the music from the self-playing piano.
Everyone had come together to celebrate, Natsu and Lucy, Mira and Lisanna, Gray and Juvia, friends new an old gathered in the main sitting room ready to sing the birthday lyrics as Erza entered with the huge iced cake with little bears which sat on its sugar coated top.
"Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you…" the guest sang in harmony with one another as the twins watched in amazement at the flickering lights that rested just in the middle of the dessert.
Ayoko reached out from Lucy's arms as she tried to grab the whole cake for herself, laughter filled the room as she in printed her hand into the soft icing.
"Blow the candles out" Erza encouraged.
Kiyoshi clapped his palms together and began to bounce on his father's lap as he admired the little light.
"Blow, Kiyoshi…like this" Jellal demonstrated.
Ayoko watched the action, before taking a deep breath and copying her dad.
"Yay!" everyone cheered as the lights vanished.
Kiyoshi eyes filled as people clapped.
"Awww" Lucy rubbed her hand over his check, catching the small tear that slid away from his crying eyes.
"You can have some cake now" Erza tried an attempt at calming him down but his screams got louder.
"Kiyoshi, look" Jellal lifted his son onto his side and carried him over to the lights that filled the room.
The boys cry faded as he absorbed each glow, Jellal brushed his son's hair back, wiping his wet face with his sleeve.
"Who wants cake?" Erza question the guest as her son settled in his father's arms
Everyone raised their hand as the cake was sliced; Natsu helped himself to one of the bears while Mira required the ribbon that was wrapped round the beautiful mould.
Ayoko spent the whole evening on Lucy's lap, she was mesmerised by her keys. Lucy removed some of the better tempered keys out of her satchel.
"Open the gate of the dog…" Lucy held out her key, with a puff a smoke a small snowman stood in the middle of the room.
Ayoko stared at the funny little object before attempting to wiggle away towards it.
"Is she ok to go down" Lucy restrained the child.
"Erza…?" Lucy called out again.
"She's fine" Jellal smiled.
Lucy looked over to him with concern in her eyes
"But she can't crawl can she?"
Jellal walked over to his friend, carefully holding his son he took hold of Ayoko's hand.
Ayoko gently slid down Lucy leg and began to walk towards Plue with the aid of her dad.
"She can walk!?" Lucy cried out in amazement.
Erza walked over with a slice of cake in her hand.
"She started last week, they grow up so fast, I can't believe their already one!" Erza smiled.
"Ha-ha awesome, she'll soon be fighting with me and Happy!"
Natsu laughed as he placed his hand up to the little girl, attempting to learn her the high five action.
"She learns quick Natsu, be careful what you show her" Jellal warned as Ayoko smashed her palm into his face.
"Hey that's not how you do it!" Natsu pulled his tongue out to the youngest, which she also copied.
"Ok I think that's enough teaching from Natsu!" Erza picked up her little girl, while Lucy pulled Plue back into the celestial world.
"Can Kiyoshi walk?" Mira asked from where she was sitting.
Jellal shook his head, while Erza finished her cake and rushed off into the kitchen.
"His not started crawling yet, but he'll get there" Jellal smiled.
"Maybe he just needs a little more encouragement" Makarov spoke out, before pulling weird faces at the baby.
Kiyoshi pushed his face into his father's jacket, refusing to look at the old man.
"His getting tired" Jellal wrapped his arm around his son.
"We should be getting off then" Makarov turned to his children with a smile.
"Just one more plate gramps!" Natsu groaned as he pilled more food on to his paper plate.
"There is more to eat back at the guild, let the twins sleep" Lucy walked over to him with a smile.
"Alright, but it's not going to be anything compared to Erza's cooking!"
"Thank you Natsu, all of you for coming and celebrating this first year of our babies life's, you're all such loyal friends, me and Jellal are truly grateful for all the wonderful gifts you have given our children and for taking time to come and see us all"
The guest said their goodbyes before making their way home, the night had been wonderful. Laughter had filled the room, friendship had warmed their hearts and their baby's smiles had made it all worth it.
Kiyoshi lay sleeping in Jellal's arms; he had not left his father's side since the guests had arrived. Ayoko sat on the floor rubbing her eyes but refusing to be defeated by her on coming dreams.
Erza scooped her little angel up, Ayoko didn't protest to the hug from her mother's arms.
The twin's room was the biggest out of the two; Erza had decorated it with tiny stars, pale blue, yellow and green. While Jellal had left the right hand wall where you entered a plain cream with just the music lyrics from the nursery rhyme twinkle little star, the letters were a deep blue but wrote in old English, they had found Kiyoshi liked anything to do with the night sky.
Erza slowly placed Ayoko into her crib; she wrapped the soft blanket around her tiny body before kissing her baby and turning on her lullaby which hung over her cot.
Jellal placed his boy into the crib at the end of the room. Kiyoshi slowly opened his eyes as his father's arm placed him down, he let out a small cry as Jellal walked away from sight.
"His not ready to sleep in here Jelly, let him come sleep in our bed tonight, well try settling him in here again tomorrow instead"
"It's alright, he'll be fine" Jellal tried to reassure him.
"His going to wake Ayoko up with his cry let him sleep with us, his afraid!" Erza tried to get to her sons side.
"If we give up every time he cry's he'll never sleep in here, go to bed, I'll make sure his settled" Jellal kissed her soft lips before she agreed with his words and left to go to their room.
Kiyoshi began kicking his feet, removing his sheets and throwing his bear. Jellal walked back over to the crib as soon as the boy saw his father's face the cry's stopped.
"There's nothing to be afraid of" Jellal reassured his son.
He again tucked the sheets around his tiny body before placing the bear by his side.
"Look Kiyoshi" Jellal walked slowly away from the bed, his son turned his head, watching his dad through the bars.
Jellal slowly opened one of the curtains, allowing the light from the moon to touch the walls of the room, further up into the sky the stars twinkled, Kiyoshi looked up to them.
Jellal sat on the rocking chair which lay between the two cribs, he watched his baby as he drifted off into his dreams. The room fell silent, just the breaths of his children could be heard now.
"Goodnight" he whispered into the room before leaving the room.
Erza was already asleep by the time he got to bed, he quietly moved around the room, ensuring that everything they may need through the night was ready before climbing into the sheets with her.
Erza lay facing away from him; he snuggled in close to her, resting his arm over her body. He softly kissed her cheek.
"I love you" he whispered as he placed his head on her shoulder, closing his eyes, he fell into the deepest of sleeps.
A/N: Hey lovey people from around the world! I just want to take a quick second to thank the people who reviewed the last chapter: Erza Titania Scarlet, erzashea1, BlackCatNeko999, Shadowmaster2013 THANK YOU GUYS! ^.^
I am so happy for the amount of views that this sequel has received so I also want to thank those who took the time to read my words :)
The next chapter will be posted on here on Friday 5th April 2013 and the teaser for it will be posted on my Facebook page on Tuesday 2nd April 2013, if you wanted to add the page all you got to do is search Jerza forever.
See you all again soon, remember…
Stay awesome, eat oreos and
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