Down The Aisle

Chapter 3

Sofia's P.O.V

The twins were now six months old.

I was still finding it hard to come to terms with Bailey's HME.

But I guess we were coping okay.

she had to have an operation in a month’s time to remove the exostosis on her head, it was a pretty major operation, but I guess we were trying are best to stay positive

Nikki had been very supportive and had found several support groups for young children with HME.

Josh and Jakob's 17th birthday was fast approaching and they would be graduating in the summer, then hopefully the summer after Caleb and I would be getting married.

I was going to a HME support group next Thursday, Bailey and I were going to visit my dad in the hospital, then go to the support group afterward.

Caleb and I were lying in bed, it was a lazy Sunday afternoon.

Caleb had Bailey cradled in his arms and Paige was in between my legs.

"Babyyyyyy?" I asked

"Whattyyyyy" he said

"Do you ever think that the apartment feels, empty?" I said

"No, Sofia, we have twins! The house is buzzing all the time" he said

"Yeah, but, maybe, just maybe, we could get a pet?" I said

"Yeah, sure" said Caleb "we can't really get a dog because this is a flat and we don't have a garden, but we can get a kitten. “he said

As he spoke my smile grew wider and wider, I was like a little kid in a sweet shop.

"let's go to the pet shelter tomorrow," he said

"Wait, so just like that, yes," I said

"Yep, anything for my princesses," said Caleb

I grinned and squealed

"Yayyyyy I'm getting a kitty" I shrieked

Caleb grinned and leaned over.

"Don't I get a thank you kiss?" He said

"You get more than that, later," I said winking at him.

Caleb's face brightened up

"Let's put the twins to bed," he said "Right now"

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We got up the next morning and headed about our day as usual

Caleb did lifeguarding at the pool, he left at 6.30am, as usual

I got the twins up at 7.30 and dropped them off at the crèche, and went to college.

I was doing my finale part of teacher training, to be a kindergarten teacher.

I was hopefully going to teach at the local school "Mayflower primary" when I got my degree.

I sat through my classes and lectures, just thinking about getting a cat all day

You may think it's stupid, a grown woman, being crazy just about getting a kitten

But I've never had a pet before, and I'm really excited.

I finished school at 1.00 and then went to the coffee shop and worked a 2hour shift

I then picked up the girls and headed over to the shelter.

Caleb was meeting us there at 2.45

He finished work at 2.00 but had to clean and pack up around the pool, and usually have a briefing on the next day, so he usually came home at 2.30ish

I checked my watch as we drove into the car park

"2.43"

"Daddy should be here pretty soon" I said

Just as I said it Caleb drove up beside me.

He got out the car and opened my door

"Hello, my princesses" he said "how was your day?" he kissed my cheek

"Pretty good, stop stalling, let’s go get my kitty" I said

he smiled at me and walked over to the back of the car and opened the boot, getting out the stroller.

I put Bailey in the stroller and Caleb agreed to carry Paige.

Caleb swung Bailey around his head, she giggled and made a lot of weird noises

as we walked through the carpark people smiled at us, I suppose we were the typical young American family, we had two beautiful daughters, and we were always having a good time together.

Caleb’s favourite thing was making the girls laugh when I was feeding them, he thought it was hilarious when the giggled so much that the banana or whatever they had been eating came back up again.

One time Caleb was messing around the kitchen whilst I was feeding Paige her milk, Caleb slipped on some water I had spilled earlier and fell on the floor, Paige laughed so much that the milk came out her nose.

I held Caleb’s hand and pushed the buggy along

we walked into the pet shelter together

there was an instant wave of noise and people before me.

the reception was packed, filled with little children, tugging on their mother’s dresses and their fathers coat tails, just as excited as I was about getting there first pet.

we walked over and stood in the queue

just in front of us there was a beautiful young woman with blond hair pulled into a knot at the base of her neck, she had bright red lipstick on, at first, I didn’t notice, but she wasn't speaking English, but something that sounded like French.

I couldn't speak a word of French and it seemed as though the receptionist couldn’t either

the woman started to become distressed

Caleb stepped forward, tapping the woman on the shoulder gently "Désolé Madame, Est -ce que je peux vous aider avec?"

I started at him in awe

the woman started to ramble to him and he spoke back in perfect French.

Caleb smiled and turned to the receptionist "Her name is Eloisa Devert, she recently moved here from France of course and she found two kittens in her apartment" Caleb inclined his head towards the box she was holding.

I hadn't noticed it a first but she held a big brown box, soft meows came from the holes in the lid.

The receptionist took a look at the box, "can you tell her to open it?" she said to Caleb

"yep" he turned to the Woman "Pouvez-vous ouvrir la boîte se il vous plaît"

she smiled and Opened the box

two little kittens were curled up in the bottom, one Black with green eyes, one white with blue eyes.

The white one only had three legs

the receptionist shook her head

"I can't take the white one, we need to know exactly how the injury happened, or it might infect the other animals" said the receptionist

Caleb the spoke in French to the Woman

she started to ramble on in French again and Caleb nodded

"she says that the kittens must stay together and if you can only take one, you shall have none" he said

and with that the woman turned on her heel and walked out the door.

Caleb sighed and turned to talk to the receptionist.

"Wait babe" I said "those kittens, what will happen to them now?"

"I don't know, the woman said she couldn't keep them so I suspect they will go to a pound or something like that" he said

I knew it was right

"no, they won't, there coming home with us" I said.

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Just like with Bailey and Paige, Caleb had got more than what we bargained for.

we had been expecting one baby and had ended up with twins

we had been expecting to come home with one kitten, and know I was lying in bed with two little kittens on my lap.

"it’s funny how life just works out like this sometimes" I said to Caleb as he walked in after putting the twins to bed.

"oh yeah" said Caleb

"yeah, things just fall into place nicely, don't you think" I said

"a bit more than just nicely my Darlin, things couldn't be better" he smiled

I leaned over and kissed his cheek, he sighed and laid down next to me

"thought of names yet?" he asked

"I think so" I said

"hit me" Caleb said

"okay, so I thought I’d call my little Black one Oreo cause I love Oreos and he is super cute yeah" I said grinning

"good choice, and nice reasoning" he grinned at me "and ye old three legs?" he asked inclining his head towards the little white kitten

"well, she is special, I can tell so I wanted to call her something that had a meaning" I said

Caleb nodded

"so, I choose Isis, it means Magic in Egyptian" I smiled

"do you like them?" I asked

"I couldn't have named them better if I tried" he smiled kissing my cheek softly.