It took a good few months for Taylor and Travis to feel at least the slightest bit okay after Harper's death. They had lost such a huge part of their life and their family but it was time to focus on what the most important thing was. Mal and Evie. Since Harper's death, they had built an extension which gave Mal her own room, this allowed them to make Harper's room back to how it had always been.
Taylor slept with Harper's Billy bear every night and carried her blanket around everywhere, desperately looking for some form of comfort from the item. One morning she got a special letter through and smiled weakly, heading upstairs to find Mal and Evie. She was exhausted but she had two other kids to look out for. "Evie, Mal. Something came and I need you guys to come downstairs please." She told them both, also telling Travis to follow too.
Evie came down holding Mal who was clinging tightly to her slowly making her way over. Taylor pointed to the sofa and held Travis' hand, walking over to stand in front of them. "So we umm... We started a tradition with... with Harper and we decided that every time we adopted a child we would do it this way. We don't plan on having our own children and we wanted to keep it the same every time. We have been secretly getting a lot of paperwork done to try adopting you both." Taylor told them She had tears in her eyes at the thought of the day they fully adopted harper.
Evie looked over in shock, her mind trying to process what was just said. Taylor handed Evie the letter with her name on and Mal the one with hers before Travis handed them both a small box each. "Welcome to the family. Those are your adoption confirmation papers." Taylor whispered.
Evie picked hers up the tears starting to fall. Taylor pointed to the little boxes. Inside both girls had their own heart shaped locket with K.S engraved on the front. "Look inside your boxes." Travis told them.
Taylor had Harpers necklace around her neck which had the exact same engraving on the front. In the back harpers read "baby Kelce- Swift" the lockets were made to match Taylor's locket that she wore with similar engravings and Travis' bracelet that he wore. Taylor's had an "S" for swift and Travis had a "K" for Kelce. Neither of them ever took them off and Harper was never allowed to take off her necklace. That was the rule for the other two. The necklaces don't come off unless they leave the family.
On the back of Evie's it read "Evie Kelce- Swift" and on the back of Mals it read "Mal Kelce-Swift". Evie slowly nodded, carefully opening up her box and helping Mal to open hers.
"Do you know what it stands for?" Taylor asked them both. She was now kneeling down on the floor in front of them both.
Mal shook her head while Evie just read it, the tears continuing to fall. This didn't even feel real and didn't feel right. "It means Kelce-Swift and on the back it says your name with your new last names." Tsylor told them both, bringing out her and Harpers necklaces from under her shirt to show them.
Travis got up and took their necklaces from the boxes and put them on them both. Evie smiled a little bit looking down at hers and Mal did the same.
Taylor looked down at her own then at the one that sat just above it. Harpers. It was a tiny bit smaller due to her being so small and Mals was smaller too. She missed her so much but at least she still had some of Harper's most prized possessions with her. "So, you guys can choose what picture you want in there. With ours and harpers we got family pictures taken and had them put in before we gave her it, but I want you to decide because obviously we can't make them all match. It can be you and one other person or a few of us. I'm not sure if we've got one of us all or not." Taylor told them both.
Mal looked down at hers tears starting to fall as she thought about what she wanted in hers. "I wan Hawpew," Mal whispered, starting to cry a little more. Mal hadn't known Harper for long but she really missed her. Things didn't feel the same without her.
