What He Expects

Epilogue #1

Pulling up to the large cabin I smiled at Thomas then looked back at the kids that were passed out in the car. Thomas stopped the car in front of the cabin and turned it off. I unbuckled and got out, and opened the back doors to wake up the kids. I gently woke them up and once they were out of the car they immediately were bouncing and running around the cabin. Thomas came over and put his arm around my waist and brought me closer to him.

"I've missed this place." I said looking at the old cabin we've known for a lot of our lives.

"Me too, I loved our last memory here." He smirked. I laughed and nudged him.

"Let's get in before a mountain lion eats our kids." I said walking towards the front door, ready to open it. Thomas ran up from behind me and made it to the door before I did. I shot him a playful glare and he just laughed. He opened the door and the kids piled in. I stepped in and closed my eyes and inhaled the beautiful, familiar smell. I opened my eyes and smiled. It looked exactly like it did for our honeymoon, and just like it did years ago. Thomas smiled and showed the kids to their rooms. I sat down on the couch and smiled at the still beautiful view of the lake and trees. It was gorgeous and could never grow old. Thomas came back, Will following behind him.

"Where are the others?" I asked.

"Playing in their rooms." Thomas chuckled.

"So Will how do you like the new house so far?" I asked when he sat down next to me. I wrapped my arms around his shoulders.

He shrugged. "How am I supposed to make new friends here? They won't like me, I have an accent."

I threw my head back and laughed.

"Will, girls will be head over heels for you because I'm just going to admit it, American girls love British accents, I mean how do you think I fell in love with your father?" I said. Thomas chuckled.

"His personality was amazing, he was funny, looks were the whip cream and the accent was the cherry on top." I smiled. He pecked my lips and sat down next to me.

"Yeah but what about making new friends? I'm going to an American school mum, I had a friend who had a friend who went to an American school and he said that she said it was different and really hard." He said.

"It'll take some time to get used to but you'll do fine honey." I kissed his forehead. "Now let's get yours and your brother and sisters stuff out of the car before the movers get here." I smiled. We got up, Thomas staying behind to watch the kids, and went out to the car. We grabbed about half of the stuff, mainly suitcases and bags and set them in the living room. Why are we moving you may ask. Thomas is acting in a huge multi-series of movies that is going to take possible years to make and instead of him leaving us back in England we decided to move to America all together, that was an easy choice. It just happens to be near Thomas and I's cabin that we've come to love and appreciate so we decided to buy it and live here. It was a very hard decision to move but we ended up settling for it. The twins were now seven, Arraya is ten and Will was thirteen. It was amazing how they were growing so fast. They had to go to a new school and everything. But they seemed to love the cabin and outside. Now we're here and I was excited to see how many adventures we could go on as a family. I was just excited in general.

"KIDS CAPTURE THE FLAG IN TWO MINUTES!" Thomas yelled. I shot up and smiled.

"YES!" I screamed. We laughed and split into two teams, boys against girls. This was going to be fun. Arraya Fea, Mackenzie and I huddled into a small circle and so did the guys. I explained the rules and they nodded their cute little heads.

"Ok so our secret word is going to be...." I told them and they giggled. We heard a bit of laughter coming from the boys group and we split apart.

"Ready?" I said. Thomas nodded his head and went into the back room. We hid our octopus behind the TV and got ready to play. We had our Nerf guns ready and loaded.

"3!" We yelled.

"2!" We heard them yell. "1!!!" We screamed together and all hell was let loose.

            We were tied at the moment. Three to three and the next round was the last one. I silently made my way towards the back of the cabin to find their flag as the girls distracted the boys. Hopefully Thomas was with the boys instead of guarding the flag.

"CHICKEN NUGGETS!" I heard our safe word being yelled by Arraya. I ran towards her voice and saw William trapping her in a corner. I walked up behind him and gently pressed my gun to his head.

"Put the gun down and no one gets hurt." I said in a serious but fun tone.

He lifted his hands in the air, the gun still in his hands.

"Say one wo-"

"PICKLES!" He screamed interrupting me. I instantly brought my gun back and shot his leg, knowing it wouldn't hurt him too much. He went to the ground, fake dead. I laughed and grabbed Arraya's arm and Will's to put him in our jail. But it was too late. Thomas was standing with Mark in his arms high in the air, holding our octopus.

"NO!" We screamed.

"Hahaha!" Thomas laughed. "We won!"

I shook my head and laughed. Thomas gently put Mark down and he ran off to find Mackenzie, who was hiding like I told her to. Thomas came up and pecked my lips.

"Don't worry love, I still think you're a winner." He said kissing my forehead.

"Shut up." I smiled.

"I looooveeee you!" He said peppering kisses all over my face. I laughed and tried to get out of his grasp but failed and ended up causing both of us to fall. He was straddling me and I tried to wiggle out of his grasp but it was useless.

"Thomas the kids." I said through gritted teeth. He looked over his shoulder and around him then looked at me with a smirk.

"They're gathering darts, they won't be back for a few." He leaned down and kissed my lips. I kept myself tense so that if the kids came in at any moment I could just sucker punch him off. Suddenly during our little make out session, the front door burst open and in came four mover dudes, staring at us. Thomas pulled away and we both looked at them shocked. My first reaction was to sucker punch Thomas off of me, and that's what I did.