Happily Ever Addendum (28 page)

Lilli was dressed and out of the bedroom
before me. Once I was dressed, I looked at the crumpled blankets on the bed and
smiled widely.

I could hear our guests before I reached
the living room; Dixon’s loud laugh, James yelling at Dixon, the girls
giggling, the sound of the children’s noises. Standing in the doorway of the
living room, I took the whole scene in. It was truly the picture of perfection,
even if a lot of craziness had just passed through our lives.

Phoebe, Celia and Elora were all rubbing
Lilli’s stomach as she swatted them away. Lilli reached over and rubbed Elora’s
stomach in retaliation. Elora simply laughed.

"You can rub Celia’s too."
Dixon smiled widely at Lilli.

"What?" Phoebe sat up straight,
looking at Dixon.

Lilli turned her eyes on Celia.

"Really?" Celia nodded
nervously and Lilli pulled her down into a large hug.

"Congratulations, Big Man." I
entered the room.

"Well, it’s about time you got one
in there!" James goaded with a chuckle.

"Hey…perfection takes time to
create." Dixon boasted. "Just because you fuckers are reproducing
like bunnies, doesn’t mean everyone else doesn’t know how to use a
condom." Dixon smirked at both James and me.

James scoffed.

"Why the hell would I use a condom?
I’m married. And, fuck, if my wife isn’t hot when she is pregnant." James
smirked back at Dixon.

I laughed and shook my head at them.
Then I turned my head toward Lilli, catching her eyes on me. With a small
knowing smile, she turned back to Celia. She knew that I felt the same way,
having just taken her upstairs in our room as everyone was arriving.

Soon, Liam and Viola entered with Abby,
Ryan, Maggie and Jason. Okay, I had been taking the whole Jason situation
lightly, but he seemed to be working his way in as a permanent fixture with
Maggie. I didn’t know if this was something I should just accept or if I should
intervene. The problem is, I’m not sure that I like the idea of her being in such
a serious relationship already. Lilli had had to calm me down the last time we
went to Viola and Liam’s for dinner. I walked in on Maggie and Jason’s full on
tongue battle.

I eyed him sternly and felt a little
smug when I could physically see him squirming next to Maggie as she talked to
Lilli and then to Celia. Liam was quickly a part of our little male group and
had a drink in his hand.

"So, Uncle Liam, you really approve
of this Jason kid?" I sneered.

He chuckled. "Aidan, I assure you I
have given that boy the ‘I have a shotgun and a shovel’ speech enough times for
you to calm down a little."

I shook my head. "Still…"

"Dude, Maggie is almost freaking
eighteen, would you prefer that she was dating a different guy every week?
Think about that!" James snorted out.

"No, but…"

"Think about you at that age."
Dixon raised a knowing eyebrow.

"Okay, I get your point." I
grumbled.

Liam laughed and patted my shoulder.
"Just wait till it’s your daughter."

I sighed at the thought and looked down
at the kids as they all played on the floor. Walsh and Livy always close to
each other, even if they were playing different things. Walsh was playing cars
with Jimmy and Livy was playing with her doll. Cole was playing blocks with
Adeline. Then, I glanced up one more time to the women across from us. All of
them attractive, smart, having created one of the little people on the floor
and a few that were currently carrying children. A content sigh escaped my lips
as I turned back to the conversation James and Dixon were carrying about
college days.

Rachel announced dinner and, as we were
heading to the dining room, Aunt Anne and Uncle Henry arrived.

Everyone sat down and started passing
food around the table. The conversation was pleasant and sometimes funny. Maggie
spoke of the colleges she and Jason had applied to. I internally did a happy
dance when I realized that there were a few that were far away from Maggie.
Lilli had made sure that Jay, Rachel, Alex, Kimberly and Peter all ate with us,
since they were a part of the family too.

After dinner, everyone headed back to
the living room. It was the most cleared out area for the children to play. We all
sat, continuing our former conversations; baby names, birthing plans, bottle or
breast. This was, of course, when Dixon jumped into the baby conversation.

"I have always preferred
breast." Celia smacked his shoulder. "What? It’s better for the
baby." He smiled slyly. She eyed him, letting him know she wasn’t buying
it.

After sitting, talking, and some of us
having a few drinks, the night began to wind down. The kids were getting tired
and Kimberly took the twins to bed, I followed with Cole. Lilli protested, but
finally agreed to just stay with our guests and relax.

One my way back to the living room, I
heard a crashing sound and quickened my pace. I got closer to the spare room on
the second floor and heard a knocking noise. Moving quicker to find out what,
or who, was in our house, I got to the door and threw it open.

"Who’s—?" I froze and then the
sight in front of me registered. "Oh, Fuck no!" I slammed the door
shut and walked away rubbing my eyes.

Before I could get down the hall, I came
face to face with James and Dixon.

"What happened?" James asked.

"You don’t want to know." I
shook my head.

"Dude, you alright?" I shook
my head and then heard a loud thud. I groaned again and rubbed my eyes.

I felt movement but, before I could stop
him, James had headed toward the spare room.

"James…" I warned. It was too
late.

"Fuck! Mom! Dad! What the..? Oh
God, I’m gonna throw up!" James ran to the bathroom.

"I tried to tell you!" I
shouted.

Dixon burst laughter. Tears forming in
his eyes.

"It’s not funny! I think my corneas
are burnt now!" I scowled at him.

"Oh…fuck…yes!" He exclaimed in
between fits of laughter. "This is the freakiest fucking family, I swear.
He lifted one hand in the air like he was swearing in and laughed louder. I
couldn’t help but join in laughing when I heard James throw up.

"What is going on?" Elora
appeared in the hallway. "Is that James?" Her eyes widened and she
headed toward him.

Dixon put an arm around my shoulder and
we headed back to the living room. On our way down the stairs we could hear
James and Elora in the bathroom.

"Baby, are you okay?" Elora’s
voice was full of worry.

"No, baby, come here. Please, just
make it all go away." He groaned.

Dixon was biting back more laughter. By
the time we got to the bottom step, we both burst into laughter again.

"What the heck is going on up
there?" Lilli asked me from her lounged position on the couch.

"Ummm…." I rubbed the back of
my neck.

"Aidan and Jimmy boy both walked in
on Anne and Henry doing the horizontal mambo." Dixon chocked out with
laughter.

Lilli’s eyes widened before she covered
her mouth and started laughing.

"Really?" She looked at me and
laughed out. I nodded and moved to sit next to her. Her body was shaking with
giggles.

I could hear Oz snort and Phoebe
laughing her tinker bell laugh. Celia was chuckling with Dixon as he hung onto
her, laughing uncontrollably.

Liam snorted and started to laugh.

"It’s about damn time she listened
to me!" Viola blurted out and sipped her wine with a sly smile.

"You put them up to this?"
Liam looked at her with a smirk on his face.

She shrugged. "They really needed
to get laid, and I don’t mean ‘soft, make love to me sex’. I mean dirty, hot,
fuck me sex!"

"Viola!" I groaned loudly and
put my head on Lilli’s knee, she ran her fingers through my hair as she laughed.

"That’s my girl." Liam leaned
over and kissed Viola’s cheek.

I didn’t think Dixon could laugh any
harder, but I was wrong.

"I’m gonna pee my pants!" He
laughed out and, with that, I had to chuckle.

James and Elora returned to the living
room, James still white as a ghost and Elora trying not to laugh too hard.

Aunt Anne and Uncle Henry appeared
briefly to say good night, their clothes disheveled and wrinkled. The image
that flashed through my head was like torture. I groaned and covered my face.

"Have a good evening." Liam
spoke with and evident smirk.

"I believe we already have."
Uncle Henry quipped back. James groaned and Dixon kept laughing.

"Well, if your night is already
through then what the hell are you leaving for?" Viola snorted.

"No one said it was over."
Anne blurted and then turned red before excusing themselves for the evening.

"Baby, we need to go home
too." Elora said softly to James. "Jimmy is already asleep."

James nodded and stood up.

"True, plus your job tonight is to
fuck that image out of my head." He growled and Elora gasped. Turning
bright red, she went to the nursery to get Jimmy.

"Now, that’s my nephew!" Viola
cheered and laughed loudly.

"My entire family is made up of
freaks!" I exclaimed and put my head back on the couch. I felt Lilli pat
my knee.

Then she whispered, "But, you have
to admit, it is highly entertaining." She laughed quietly.

"Maybe for you." I winked at
her.

"Viola, I do believe that we should
retire for the evening." Liam stood up and offered his hand to Viola.

She took it and stood, bringing her body
close to his.

"I hope that little Liam isn’t too
tired for a ride tonight…" she pouted at him and I choked back the urge to
throw up.

"Never, you know that you—"

"Alright, enough!"

"Fuck man. Let them continue…it’s
like foreplay for Celia and me!" Dixon laughed out and Celia covered her
mouth.

I turned my scowl on Lilli when I heard
her laughing hard. She quickly pulled her lips into her mouth. Too bad her body
was still shaking with laughter.

"You two, take it out of here."
I ordered, Viola and Liam laughed at my reaction.

As we were walking Viola and Liam to the
door, James and Elora appeared, James holding Jimmy in his arms. We said our
goodbyes, kissed and hugged before closing the door as the last of our guests
left, including Celia and Dixon.

"Well, that was…entertaining."
Lilli smirked.

"I’ll entertain you if you require
entertaining, Mrs. Iverson." I raised one eye brow at her suggestively.

"Don’t you ever get enough?"
She feigned annoyance and giggled as she headed up the stairs.

"Of you? Never!” I exclaimed, quickly
following her up the steps.

I had plans for her once we got to the
bedroom.

~ ~ ~ ~ ~
Lilli

Aidan had become insatiable in the
bedroom. He claimed that he always felt that way about me, but somehow I think
that he was turned on by pregnancy. If he thought that I was going to be
pregnant all the time, he was fucking crazy. This was it. Four children were
enough for me.

 Monday morning, following the dinner, I
started to not feel well. Aidan was just climbing out of the shower and I could
hear him as he entered the bedroom. I tried to sit up, but there was a pain
that jolted from my hip to my shoulder. At first, I thought my sciatic nerve
was just acting up. I quickly realized that this was different when I felt wetness
gushing between my legs.

"Aidan…" I started but then
groaned from the sharp pains that were stretching up my back to my shoulders.

"What’s wrong?"

"It’s time." I croaked out and
his eyes shifted to my stomach.

He grabbed his cell phone and I could
barely make out the words car, hospital, now, won’t, and schedule over the
moans that I was releasing from the pain.

Kimberly appeared in front of me and
pulled my now wet nightshirt off of my body, replacing it with a dress.

"Can you stand?" She put her
arms out for me and I stood on wobbling legs. A pain hit and caused me to
slouch down to the bed again. "Aidan, you need to get going."

I gasped to catch my breath from the
contraction.

"These…aren’t like." another
pain hit fiercely. "Fuck!" I groaned out. "These aren’t like
with the twins." I spit out quickly before another pain hit.

Aidan had his arms underneath me and carried
me to the door. Kimberly was behind us with my hospital bags, yelling out to us
that everything would be fine here with the kids.

Once we were in the car, the driver sped
off and Aidan was rubbing my back as another contraction took over my senses.

"We’ll be there soon, baby."
He pushed some stray hairs out of my face.