First Love

Chapter 1 - First Snow

Author's POV

"Mama! Look, it's snowing"

A little boy rushes to the glass door to see the falling snow outside in the backyard. He turns around to stare at his mother for permission to go outside, the mother only nods her head before the young boy quickly wears his shoes to go out. His smile gets brighter and wider as he runs around collecting snow petals in his tiny hands.

"Sweetheart, you need to wear your coat before going out now since it is getting colder. Come here, let me put it on you"

A young lady with gorgeous red hair flowing down her petite back gently put the coat around her cute son as he is shivering from the cold. She smiles as he immediately continues to run around the backyard with their recently adopted puppy as she waits until her son finally grows older to take care of others.

"Look, Blacky! It's snowing! The white snow looks like the color of your fur. It's so beautiful"

Thomas eagerly showed the snow petals that he have been gathering to the clueless puppy. The puppy just barked as if it agreed with Thomas.

"Thomas, we need to get going now"

Penelope calls her son to get inside to finish up their packing for the holiday. They going to spend this Christmas holiday at the Bridgerton family house. Last year, they spend the holiday with Grandma Portia as Phillipa and Prudence finally have the time to gather at the Featherington house.

"Aww, Mama. I want to play in the backyard with Blacky. The snow just started to pile up, I want to make a snowman. It's not Christmas without a snowman, you know"

Thomas pouts his pink little mouth when he walks slowly toward his mother. Penelope gently shook her head as she watched him pouting while crossing his arms as if to show his dissatisfaction. His action reminded her of that certain special person in her life.

'Colin, if only you are here to see your son behaving similarly to you. He is the exact copy of you. People can't resist his charm and cuteness. How time flies, it seems like yesterday I held him in my arms after the delivery. And, of course, the time when you see him for the first time while crying your heart out watching him stare at you with his tiny eyes'

Penelope's POV

"I know, sweetheart. But you have promised Grandma Violet to be there as soon as possible, right? She will be sad if we arrived later than we promised. Don't you want to meet Penny? She going to be there tomorrow, as well as your other cousins. You can make many snowmen with them in the huge backyard at Grandma Violet's house"

Thomas's face light up when I mention his cousins, especially little Penny. Penny is the nickname for Eloise and Philip's daughter since both of us have been given the same birth name which is Penelope.

Eloise named her newborn after me since I'm her first dearest friend and newest sister-in-law as I married her older brother, Colin. Gregory is still in university therefore I'm the latest addition to the Bridgerton family in terms of sister-in-law as the newest family member should be Francesca's husband, Michael.

Flashback start~

"Why do children grow up so fast, calm down for a bit. I just starting to adapt to her sleeping schedule but now that she is older, the schedule also changes. Luckily Amanda and Philip are there to help me whenever I need any help. How can people manage to take care of many babies at the same time? I'm sleep deprived with only one baby"

To Eloise's despair, her daughter finally turn one-year-old last week as kids that age act quite different from when they are younger. With all the curiosity, crawling, walking, mumbling, and much more.