Saving Stella - A Stellaride story

Just wanted to Play (51)

Stellas POV

it's been 2 weeks since the day at the zoo, as I promised Kelly, we did return home as a family of 5 that night. Kelly goes back to work tomorrow. I wish I could go back, I miss working I'm requesting to go back to work sooner depending if my doctor clears me for duty. 

Kelly and I were sat on the sofa with a baby in each of our arms, Toby was sat in the middle of the floor watching paw patrol drinking from his sippy cup. he took it out of his mouth and placed it on the floor as he grabbed one of his fire truck toys he stood up and turned to us and slowly walked over to us, he looked at both me and then kelly. looking at the babies in our arms

"mama, dada up" he said as he tried to climb on the sofa but falling down as he lifted his leg

I move Eliza into one arm as I pull Toby up and put him in the middle of us and he smiles as he looks up at us both. He showed me and kelly his toy as he rolled it along Kellys leg

Eliza suddenly started to be sick so I placed her on my knee letting it land on the floor so we could easily wipe it up. 

"Ill clean it" Kelly said placing Elliot in his chair as he got up to grab a cloth 

"It's everywhere Kelly, I'm gonna need to bathe her and get her changed" I say getting up and walking with Eliza to the bathroom leaving kelly to clean the mess.

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Tobys General POV

Toby looks at the babies in his mum and dads arms and immediately felt left out, wanting to be closer to them he tries to climb on the sofa, he falls as he feels his mum help him up he smiles as he goes to show her his toy hoping they will play with him. he moves it along his dads leg showing him how it works until he felt his dad suddenly moved knocking his toy  out of his hand and onto the floor, as he watched it roll under the opposite sofa

he just wanted to play. he sticks his lip out as he points to where his toy truck has gone "twuck..." he says in his baby voice trying to tell his dad his toy has gone under the sofa

"not now toby, daddy is busy" he hears his dad say as he rolls onto his stomach and reaches his legs down to the floor, climbing off the sofa. he walked over to the other sofa and tried looking under it for his toy, he couldn't see it and started to get upset "twuck dadaaa" he screamed as kelly gave him another one of his trucks 

Toby looked at it and then threw it as he didn't want that one, the truck hitting Elliot on the head, Elliot started to scream as kelly turns around to see the truck in Elliots seat knowing instantly what Toby done 

"TOBY!" Kelly shouts causing toby to jump not expecting to hear the raised voice as he watches his dad quickly pick Elliot up out of his chair as kelly notices a little cut on Elliots head and he turns to Toby, kelly tries not to punish him but this time he has hurt the baby 

"That was VERY naughty Toby, you hurt your little brother" Kelly says raising his voice at Toby. Toby watches his dad hold Elliot in his arms as he holds his arms up wanting to be cuddled to

"No naughty boys dont get cuddles" Kelly says as toby puts his arms down, as his lips quiver, almost crying but he stands up and goes to his toy box to find a toy knowing toys help him feel better he went over to his dad who was now in the kitchen to give him the toy as his way of saying sorry but Kelly ignores him as he wipes the baby's cut. 

Toby hears his mum coming down the stairs "what happened I heard shouting" Stella says as kelly explains what Toby done 

Toby then proceeded to get another shouting at from his mum this time, he didn't like all the shouting, He walked away from them both as he sat on the floor, looking at his mum and dad talking in the kitchen, he just wanted to play, they never want to play anymore.

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Stellas POV

I watch Toby walk away from us as I turned to kelly

"can you tell hes a toddler, they did say the toddler years are harder, tantrums all the time, could they not stay this small forever" I joke as we look at the babies in our arms.

"toby makes the newborn stage look easy, hopefully when they're older and he can play with them he will calm down" Kelly said as I smiled and kissed him as we both walk back to the living room.

Night time soon falls, all the kids are laid asleep in their beds as me and kelly decide to head to bed also. We lay in bed talking when we hear a creek at our door and see Toby standing there with his teddy and blanket looking sad

"Hey baby, what are you doing out of bed" I say as I go over and pick him up he wraps his arm round me as I turn to kelly confused as I walk over to our bed with him.

"did you have a bad dream buddy" kelly says placing a hand on tobys back 

"do you think we have been neglecting him a little, maybe thats why hes been acting up" I say to kelly as he shrugs "I dont know, maybe, we have been shouting at him a lot and barely spent our time with him, he probably feels left out" Kelly says as Toby sits up and looks at us both and shows us his teddy "wook...teddy" he says in a high pitch voice as he bounces it on my chest and giggles...I wrap my arms round him realising now how all along he just wanted us to play with him like we used to.

"we've been so busy with the babies we forgot to realise how toby is feeling" I say feeling guilty as Kelly wraps his arm round us

"we both did, but that's all going to change now" Kelly says as he looks at Toby. I watch as Toby bounces his teddy from me and on to Kelly, Kelly grabs him and stands up lying him face down in his arms and holds them out to make Toby feel like hes flying. 

His giggles fill the room as I realise we haven't heard his giggle in a while. I can only imagine how upset he must have been every time we pushed him away or made an excuse to not play with him.