The Book Thief | Don't Leave Me

Goodbye

FYI: Wilhelm is a German form of the French name, William.

Death's POV

I can proudly tell you that Liesel and Rudy had their first children yesterday. It was a shock to them all when they heard it was going to be twins, but they were further more ready, knowing that they needed something big in their life, but not another sad one.

They were born on the eighteenth of February, in the year of 1952. A boy and a girl, to the given names of Rosa Annie-Lou and Williehelm Hans Steiner. Rudy has become accounted to call his daughter by Rosanna, and his son Will.

Each of them had small traces of blonde hair on their heads, and pools of brown under their squinting eyelids.

Rudy was hopelessly beside Liesel during it all, and was shortly visited by Max and Alex when it was over.

From the moment they were laid in her arms, Liesel has grown protective of her children, as it's expectant of a mother. She never forgets how they'd always melt into her arms the same every time. Rudy is already trying to get Williehelm to walk before Rosa, teaching him to follow in his father's footsteps of being competitive, and never letting a man loose to a woman.

On their first birthday, it had been very emotional for the parents, for how quick they grow up.

During their first year, they faced a Christening, the experience of their first boat ride, the beginnings of their first teeth, a short page of vocabulary, and their competing to the door of the fastest crawling.

On a side note Rudy has also quit his job, and now works as a voluntary fire-fighter, training to work for money. Max has co-established a clothing business along with his wife and brother-in-law, which has taken off across the state. Alex continues to live with Liesel and Rudy with the children, and takes odd jobs in town, taking the liberty of shining people's shoes, and working as a barman on Tuesdays.

I have only followed on for so long, it's already been fourteen years since I first encountered Liesel, but it's time I say goodbye to the Book Thief for some time. You see, I've just gotten caught up, that's all. This isn't goodbye yet, my dear reader. You'll just have to wait.

Follow me again soon, where I introduce you to the children properly, as I still have yet to get to know them myself.

Bye for now...

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Thank you all for sticking with me!