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Post by Tiff on Jun 14, 2011 3:53:23 GMT -5
"He knows, I talked to him yesterday while you were still in the hospital. He doesn't want to see it my way and the thing with staying here and still staying away from girls. It just wouldn't work because the three of you are so close. The temptation isn't removed. If Selena finally decides she wants to forgive him, he won't say no. And heaven forbid if Aya lost her current guy and went to find solace in Monte. He'd snap any relationship with Selena in half just for one more tumble in the hay with Aya. Then she could just walk away and say thank you and he'd be back where he is now. Dragging his feet, slave to one night stands wishing he'd left as soon as he got here." Avery lifted his head. "What girl would want Monte after Selena and Aya wrung him out? He's not used to being the one left sitting by the phone he's usually the one doing the leaving and heartbreaking."
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Post by Kelli-wa on Jun 14, 2011 4:04:03 GMT -5
Oh, I'm number three... she thought as he explained why staying in Riverside wouldn't work. She shook her head as he explained. She just hated that. She wished she hadn't made the mistake of that night with Monte. It just screwed up their situation even more. Swallowing she shook her head. "Well, then tell him if he isn't going to be a part of our lives after you come back he might as well just leave now. What's the point?" She didn't mean it, at this point she was just mad. How could he just walk away from his family? His twin brother? His brand new gorgeous nieces? She moved her arms from around Avery's neck and walked over to the sink, starting to wash the baby bottles out, out of frustration more than anything. "I bet he won't go for some other girl? What if we set it up so that he breaks some other girl's heart? Could we get the old Monte back?"
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Post by Tiff on Jun 14, 2011 4:27:04 GMT -5
He'd been thinking the exact same thing, it would be better all around if Monte just left after graduation, but as his twin brother he wanted nothing to do with telling him to get lost and though he knew Gracie wasn't trying to be mean it just kind of resonated in the air and in his heart as pain and grief. Avery moved uncomfortably in his seat and played with Harper's tiny toes. "I think that part of him is gone." Monte had fallen too hard for Aya to return to his dirty coniving ways. He might fall for another girl, but having to look Aya and Selena in the face as he held another girls hand would somehow depress him more. "Maybe he should just go." Something in his chest heaved and he was sure it was his heart breaking and sinking in his chest. "I don't know..." He got up and put his plate in the sink, wrapping his arms around Gracie and putting his head on her shoulder. "I love you." He took the bottles out of her hand and turned her around gently. "You're an angry cleaner, it's cute."
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Post by Kelli-wa on Jun 14, 2011 4:38:05 GMT -5
Gracie tried to keep the tears away from her eyes as she cleaned the bottles. She didn't want to be the one crying over his brother leaving but she was just so angry at him. What gave him the right to just walk out on Avery like that? Just because he couldn't handle his issues. She continued to stare into the sink, cleaning and reclining the same spot on the first bottle over and over. She licked her lips as he spoke. She hadn't meant to make him give up hope for Monte, she'd really just been saying whatever her messed up hormones were telling her to. She swallowed hard as he walked up behind her. She smiled at his words. "I love you too, which is why I hate that he's acting this way." She was a bit shocked when she was turned around, but looked at him and shrugged lightly, "I was unaware of that. But thank you I guess?"
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Post by Tiff on Jun 14, 2011 18:48:01 GMT -5
Avery smiled and kissed her forehead. "Let's leave these, I'll do them later, let's go put the girls in their cribs and relax a little. I'll deal with Monte and his stupidity tomorrow. Maybe if I tell him he can't have anything to do with his nieces if he's planning on abandoning them, he'll change his mind and just figure out how to make things work with Selena and Aya or another girl if he chooses."
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Post by Kelli-wa on Jun 15, 2011 1:11:58 GMT -5
Gracie smiled lightly and nodded, agreeing to his wishes. She was tired of it too, and she was ready to relax as well. She listened to him as he told her his plan and nodded again, "Alright, that sounds good. But what if he doesn't change his mind? I don't want him to think that he's not welcome here ever, you know? I mean, what if he left but wouldn't come back if he needed us because he was afraid that we wouldn't let him back in?" She took a huge breath and sighed.
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Post by Tiff on Jun 15, 2011 21:16:08 GMT -5
Avery shrugged. "I don't know, I'll figure out a way to tell him he's always welcome but that he can't just act like we exist one day and that we don't the next. It's not fair to the girls or any of us for that matter. I'll figure it out, I promise." He lifted the two girls up in their car seats and carried them upstairs to the nursery. He gave each of his girls a kiss on the forehead and turned on the baby monitor. "Go get comfortable, hun, I'm going to put the food away and then I'll be right back up."
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Post by Kelli-wa on Jun 16, 2011 2:05:07 GMT -5
Gracie nodded, and smiled lightly. She just hoped that he wouldn't take it the wrong way. She loved Monte, not romantically of course. She loved him like he was her brother as well and he was being horrible to the man she loved, and that wasn't okay with her. She sighed and followed him upstairs, watching him put the girls where they went, but didn't let her help. She bit her lip and nodded as he told her to go lay down, but she wasn't going to go down there right away. She walked over to the cribs and touched the girl's hair very softly. She bent down and kissed her forehead before she put the side of the crib up, doing the same to the other baby. Only then did she or would she go to she and Avery's bedroom. She changed her clothes, getting into a pair of soffe's and a t-shirt, removing her bra for comfort. She tossed her dirty clothes into the laundry basket that was serving as a clothes hamper for now. She then laid down on the bed on her stomach, getting close to sleep and resting on the edge of consciousness.
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Post by Tiff on Jun 16, 2011 19:43:03 GMT -5
Avery finished putting the food away and gave the sides a quick rinse before putting them in the dishwasher. He wiped down the counter and checked the doors to make sure they were locked before heading back upstairs. He peaked into the nursery and then slipped down to his and Gracie's room. He shut the door behind him and pulled his shirt over his head. He walked over to the bed, ran his hand through Gracie's soft curls and stripped down to his boxers. He climbed into bed with Gracie and pulled her gently toward him. "Hey, first night together in our home." He kissed her temple and sighed, aside from Monte his life was going relatively great, his only regret being that he'd signed the next six months permanently over to the government.
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Post by Kelli-wa on Jun 16, 2011 21:52:42 GMT -5
Gracie heard him come in, but couldn't force herself to open her eyes until he stripped into his boxers. She grinned lightly as he pulled her close and she let out a giggle, "Yeah. It's kind of exciting," she said with another giggle. She loved that she could say our home now. It was theirs, they were the ones in charge and they could do what they wanted. Their home, their daughters everything was theirs and she loved that. "I love it. The house. I don't think I told you that yet. I love it."
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Post by Tiff on Jun 17, 2011 16:33:04 GMT -5
Avery kissed Gracie's temple again. "I'm excited, I'm so happy I got to close on this place before I left, I like that you and the girls have a permanent stressless place to come home to. You're my world, you know." He kissed her temple again and ran his fingers through her hair. "I want you to be as happy as you can possibly be and I'm just going to take a stab in the dark now, but I think you're happy and I'm assuming I had a part of that."
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Post by Kelli-wa on Jun 18, 2011 0:03:34 GMT -5
Smiling as he spoke of the house, Gracie nodded, "Yeah, I'm definitely happy. I would've hated living at home with mom while the girls were with me. Can you even imagine? She'd be up my ass all the time. She probably will be now too, but not as much as she would've been." She stretched a little and nestled back into his arms. "Of course you had a part in my being happy, Ave. I love you. I don't think I could do anything without you. I mean, I obviously couldn't have created or carried those gorgeous little girls if it wasn't for you and I wouldn't be sleeping in this bed if it weren't for you."
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Post by Tiff on Jun 18, 2011 0:36:59 GMT -5
Content in the world Avery leaned over Gracie and kissed her on the mouth, parting her lips with his own, silently reminding himself that that was as far as he could go with her. His body wanted more of her, to celebrate their good fortune, but he fought against the urge and simply continued to kiss her. Slowly he came out of it and stated down into her crystal blue eyes. "I love you and you've made me a happy man." He curled back beneath her to settle in for the night, to let her get some rest before their first mid-morning wake up call.
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Post by Kelli-wa on Jun 18, 2011 0:46:22 GMT -5
Gracie took the kiss, glad to have him there for the time being. She wanted this more than anything, she wanted him more than anything, but she knew it was semi-impossible and it would probably not feel as good as she anticipated after shoving two babies out. She smiled lightly as he pulled out of their kiss, finally and opened her eyes, only to see his shocking silver ones looking back at her. She smiled, "And you've made me a happy woman." She kissed his nose and settled down to get some rest as well. Seeing as she was exhausted from all the happenings of the past three days, she was asleep within moments.
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Post by Tiff on Jun 18, 2011 0:51:09 GMT -5
Are we continuing this or leaving it here?
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