False Start (Love and Skate) by Felix Lila

Author:Felix, Lila [Felix, Lila]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2013-11-19T23:00:00+00:00

Falcon

My heart was now happily crowded with four beautiful women. My wife, my mother, and the two tiny girls we’d all waited so long to hold.

She was crying again and worried didn’t begin to cover the emotions I felt about it. Reed wasn’t a crier normally. I expected it during the pregnancy but two days after the birth of our girls, I wasn’t ready to hear her whimpers almost twenty four hours a day.

Everyone had finally left and the babies were asleep.

“I need a shower, but damn it all to hell if I feel like taking one.”

I lay next to her, “I’ll run the water. Why don’t you take a long, hot bath?”

“What if they wake up,” she asked looking over at the bassinette in the corner of the room.

“Then I’ll deal with it. Really, Poppy, you’re wound tighter than a spring. You’d feel better with a bath.”

“Okay,” she got up and started to take off her robe and then stopped.

I thought maybe she’d forgotten to get her clothes, “I’ll get your clothes.”

“No, it’s fine. I’ll get them.”

She reached into her dresser and got clothes out. I went into the bathroom, turned the water on, pouring tons of the orange/honey bath beads she liked in. She still hadn’t come into the bathroom.

“Reed?”

“Yeah,” she came in, stiff, standing by the door.

“It’s ready.” I stalked over to my beautiful wife, even in her sleepy, worn out state, she exuded love. I reached out to the belt of her robe and pulled the ends.

But she snatched them from me, almost mean.

“Can I get a little privacy?” She asked in a stale manner, not cold, just empty.

“Sure, I’m sorry.” I left the room. She was acting a little off kilter. But then again she’d just given birth to twins, so I didn’t know if that was normal or what. Those damned pregnancy books didn’t say jack shit about that.

Veyda stirred in her sleep and I pushed the bassinette gently and she grunted. We hadn’t slept much, and I felt like I was a shadow dragging my real self around by a leash, making sure I kept up. It was late in the morning and we hadn’t eaten so I decided to make us some breakfast. I quickly heated up some breakfast casserole Journey had made for us and made coffee for me and tea for Reed. Holding the tea steady, I tip-toed back into the bedroom and turned the handle on the bathroom door. It was locked.

“Reed, I brought your tea.”

“I’ll be out soon, Falcon. Thanks.”

She’d never locked the bathroom door—ever. In fact, we were both convinced the twins had been made in that very bathroom.

Ella was due to come over that day and I knew she would see Reed and know something was up.

I hoped.

Rex called, wanting to see if he and Hayes could come over and see the babes, but I didn’t think it was a good day, so I asked if he could postpone.

Storey and Nellie came over sometime later and fed the babies bottles after Reed said she needed to take a nap instead of feed them.

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