Filed To Story: The Lingering Kiss of Farewell Novel
They both turned and looked at her, mischief written all over them. “You might have forgotten how to walk.” They yelled at her and ran off laughing when she tried to swat them.
They came back a few minutes later and were jumping and hopping from stepping stone to stepping stone as they made their way up to the cliff with her. She stood up there with them as they sat on the bench, exhausted themselves, finally having hopped and jumped all the way up here. A smile touched her face as she looked out at the ocean and breathed in the fresh sea air.
“Mum?” they asked her.”
“It is beautiful up here,” she stated, and sat down next to them. Still, it amazed even her. It was barely 1pm and though it was winter, the sun was bright in the sky and the breeze, though a little bit on the chilly side, it was still nice, not cold enough to make her want to leave.
“What do you think boys?” she asked.
“We love the house.” Callum smiled at her.
“The view silly?” she asked. “That’s the Gulf of Mexico out there.” She told thern, “We were going to drive down here and see it the last time we were in Texas, remember.” She reminded them. Plans that had gotten waylaid due to her encounter with Calvin.
“You could have gotten your memory back sooner,” Vin stated, “If we’d stayed and come here.”
She didn’t know about that, but anything was possible, though with what Calvin had done to her there was no way she had been willing to stay or move about after just that first encounter. Had only been there for that second one to happen because she didn’t want him to know where she lived and having him come to her home to sort it out.
Lisa had convinced her to stay and deal with him there in Houston, so that way he’d not know where she was when she left. She sighed to herself, and watched the boys run about up here. She took some pictures of them, and they liked that idea, wanted one of all three of them on this bench.
“Hey mum, do you think you were pregnant with us and sat here at some point?” Vin asked her as they took that photo.
“Hmm, it’s highly likely, I did come out here often, got the photos to prove that, and I was seven weeks when I woke up in the hospital, so yeah, it’s likely.” She nodded. She’d never really thought about that, but yes now, as she did think about it. It could well have been something she did daily.
“Come on boys, let’s go and unpack. Your father will be landing in like 30 minutes and Wil is of the opinion he’ll come right here to get that phone, because he’ll think it was shipped to the wrong address.”
They smiled at her and nodded were once again off running down the path. Still full of energy, they’d had a five-minute rest and that seemed to be enough for them. She wondered once again where they got it from. She wasn’t even exactly sure about their temperament, though really it could only be her, seeing as she was the one raising them. They liked to tease her about her amnesia and she liked to torment them right back.
Likely it was herself that had instilled that tormentative nature in them. She looked at her phone as it rang as she walked, and smiled. It was Anabell. “Have you arrived yet?” Anabell asked right away.
“Yes, and the twins have gotten the full tour, just about to unpack. How are you doing?”
“On a court recess, no morning sickness today thankfully. Got my sonogram tomorrow a little excited, were you when you had yours?”
“Hmm, I was still in shock, didn’t even know whose they were. And in quite a bit of pain, so I guess more anxious about whether they were going to survive the ordeal of the accident.”
“Oh, that can’t have been very nice.”
“It is what it is,” she stated simply, I was much more excited by the following one, and got the news it was twins.”
Anabell chuckled. “I don’t want that, one baby is fine.”
“You’ll be fine regardless, and you won’t know until your next one anyway.” Marilyn smiled.
Calvin
The plane landed, and he spoke to Maeve about that trip to Virginia tomorrow morning, an early flight so she could be back here with her family for Christmas Eve dinner, and for her to come and collect him, probably the day after Boxing Day. Though he wanted her to wait for his call, he was hoping that Marilyn would see her way to agreeing to let him stay, and spend time with the boys for their entire school break, which if he could, she wouldn’t have to come and pick him up until the New Year on the 3rd.
Maeve nodded and stated she’d log the flight plan for 7am, which would see him get there just before lunchtime and her back in the late afternoon. She smiled at him and thanked him for being so considerate of her own family life. He just nodded. “You’ve been my loyal pilot for over a decade, Maeve. Of course, I will see you spending the holidays with your family.”
He stepped off the plane and headed for the car that was waiting for them. Wil was already texting, likely to Anabell. Now that they had a child on the way, he was very diligent about telling his wife where he was, and when he got on and off that plane. Wil had told him, “I don’t want her to worry about anything. Best she just knows.”
Clavin had told him to hook her up to the app, and she could watch his every move. Apparently, he’d already offered that to Anabell, and she’d shaken her head and stated, “I don’t need that, I also don’t want you to know my every move. How am I to surprise you with things if you can track me every moment of the day?”
Lou took his luggage and Calvin nodded his thanks as he got in the car, ‘one more day. He told himself and hoped that the package had made it to his mother’s already, so he could go and pick up the phone. It was nice to talk to the boys on their mother’s phone, but he’d limited himself with that, so it didn’t seem to Marilyn that he was bothering her too much.
He knew the boys had the other phone all the time, and so texting them any time he liked wasn’t bothering her, and the boys always answered him back. They liked talking to him, he was getting to know them and they him. He thought it was going well and wanted it to stay that way.
He frowned as he logged into the tracking app and saw the phone was out on the Texas coast. He zoomed it in and kind of just stared at it. As he realised, the phone was out at Cliffside. That was not his mother’s address.
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