Next to me

Fifteen

July:
"Logan! Wake up! It's moving day!" I chime as I poke him with my foot, I have Oliver in a baby wrap on my chest, he's sound asleep. "Brennan why did you choose a house in the suburbs again?" He asks as he rolls over on the air mattress, all of our stuff is at the new house already. "Because they are safe, our kids will have other kids to play with and I have always wanted to be a stay at home suburban mom." I tell him and a rock back and forth lightly, Logan gets up slowly with a groan. "Jesus I'm getting old." He mutters and I laugh at him. "You can't be old, if you are then so am I! And last I checked 31 wasn't that old." I reply and he gives me a chuckle. "In case you didn't remember, I'm eleven months older than you do you know I'm 32." He says pulling me into his chest, I breath in his smell that I have known since I was born. "Can't believe we are leaving this house." I mumble a hint of sadness in my voice.
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3 hours later:
"Hey neighbor!" I hear a ladies voice call over the white picket fence that surrounds our back yard. I glance up from my family as we eat our lunch in our new back yard, to see a woman with a man standing next to her with a little boy on his hip. "Let's go say hi." I murmur to my family and I stand up with one hand underneath the wrap with Oliver nestled inside. Logan stands up and picks up Gaia, Lennon grabs my hand. "Hi." I chime when we get over to the fence. "We saw you moving in and I thought I would make you some cookies." The woman says and she passes Logan a plate with some delicious looking baked goods. "Thank you so much! I'm Brennan, this is my husband Logan, our 6 year old Lennon, our three year old Gaia and our 5 month old Oliver. We're the Christiansen's." I tell them and her eyes brighten when she sees Oliver. "Awe I wish we had another little one! Anyways I'm Grace, this is my husband Cameron, and our 6 year old Jesse. We're the Samson's." Grace chimes with a bright white smile and I smile back. "Would you like to join us for lunch? We just started and I can set more plates." I ask and Oliver starts to cry a little. "Oh we wouldn't want to impose." Cameron says setting Jesse down. "Nonsense, you would be doing us a favor! Brenny always makes way too much food." Logan says as I take Oliver out of his wrap and start to rock him slightly. "Well alright then." Grace says and they make their way over to the gate in the fence. "I will go get some more plates while I get him a bottle." I say while they get seated at the table. "Could I hold him while you are in there?" Grace asks holding out her arms, she has a small smile on her face. "Of course, he likes to be rocked. I will be right back." I tell her and I place Oliver in her arms before walking back to the house. I grab the plates, glasses and silverware out of their cupboards and drawers and make Oliver's bottle, then I walk back out the French doors and into the back yard. Lennon and Jesse were running around the yard after each other, this sight makes me smile. "Hurry up Lemon!" Jesse yells as they run around the table, Gaia laughing with delight.
"Here's his bottle Grace, if you don't want to hold him anymore I can hold him." I tell Grace as I set the stuff down on the table. "Here you go little one back to momma." Grace says and she passes Oliver to me, I flip around the wrap a little and make it so that he is in sort of a baby hammock, then I give him his bottle. "Lennon! Jesse! Come eat." Cameron calls out to them and they run back to the table laughing like crazy. "Mommy, Lemon is my bestest friend!" Jesse says with a big smile on his face, we all laugh at his remark. "So Grace are you a stay at home mom or do you work?" I ask once we have all fallen into our own little conversations. "I work three days a week, the rest of the time I work from home." She replies after she takes a sip of her iced tea. "I'm staying home, I could watch Jesse after school on the days you work. That way him and Lennon can play for a while and you don't have to pay for day care." I chime and I glance down at Oliver, his little blue eyes focusing on my face. "Yeah, that would be nice. What school is Lennon going to?" She asks and I think for a moment before responding. "The private school near the university and then for high school she will go to the academy." I tell her and she smiles. "I got Jesse enrolled today." She states proudly and her gaze falls on our children sitting next to each other talking animatedly. "Well I can take them to school and pick them up. I'm assuming you will want to take him in his first day?" I ask and Grace nods attentively, and she gives me another bright smile.

"What are you chatting about Brenny?" Logan asks and he wraps his arms around me, I jump in fright causing him to let out a small laugh. "Possibly watching Jesse after school on the day's Grace works." I tell him and he starts to take Oliver out of his wrap. "Alright, that would be nice so that Lennon will have a playmate." he says giving me a quick kiss before walking over to where Cameron is standing under the large maple tree pushing Lennon and Jesse on the tire swing, it takes me a minute to realize he had taken Oliver with him. "Oh wow, this is the first time I have seen you without your little one attached to you. How did you lose your baby weight so quick? You are so skinny!" Grace asks me with a stunned expression on her face. "I'm not sure, I just lost almost all the weight I had gained right away." I tell her and she frowns. "I didn't, I was huge until Jesse was almost two and I tried everything!" she says and keeps her small frown. "Do you want to join me in the kitchen to make some ice cream?" I ask her, remembering that I had boughten stuff to make homemade ice cream. "You make your own ice cream?" she asks stunned, I nod and get up. Grace follows suit and we walk up to the house and into the air conditioned house. I smile thinking about how this could be the start of a beautiful friendship.

AUTHOR'S NOTE:

Hey guys! So what do you think about the new characters? I think that they will be a big part in the sequel to this. Just so that this isn't a shock to you the next chapter will be an epilogue, but fear not my lovelies, there will be a sequel! Comment, Vote, Tell your buddies!

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~Kaylynn