Two plus six plus five equals family

Chapter 22

Lena smiled as she revealed paperwork to Kara, which she'd been dying to show her. Her children's birthday was coming up in a week, but she had one big surprise for everyone.

"What's this?" Kara asked silently, sitting up against the headboard in their bed.

"Read it," Lena encouraged, sitting next to Kara.

Kara skimmed through the papers, eyebrows shooting up. "This is the deed of a house," she concluded. "What...? Did you buy a house, another house?"

"I did," Lena confirmed, smiling. "When I bought this beach house, it was a quick solution. Meanwhile, I have spent months looking for another house until I found one I find quite appealing, so I bought it. I figured we could continue to live in this beach house until summer is over, you know, being near the beach and all."

"R-right," Kara replied, a bit taken aback. "I'm not sure what to say."

"We'll still keep the beach house," Lena whispered reassuringly. "I don't intend selling it during the winter. This will be our vacation house," she explained, having thought it all through. "The house I bought is near the park and near a decent school. Now I know our children aren't ready for school yet, but someday they will be and then we won't need to homeschool them anymore."

"I see," Kara whispered, paging through the pictures of the house Lena bought.

"Our new house has twelve bedrooms, twice as much as our beach house."

"Our?" Kara asked, frowning. "Lee, you bought this beach house and the new house."

"I did, but they're ours," Lena argued, smiling while she reached for Kara's hand. "Alex, Maggie, Jamie, Lucy and Astra will be welcome to move with us once summer passes. With the amount of bedrooms we have there, I think we can use one of them as a guestroom in case Lilith and Vladimir want another sleepover sometime."

"Good luck getting Lilith to sleep anywhere else other than next to Lyra," Kara whispered, chuckling. "Those two are like two peas in one pod."

"True, they are," Lena agreed. "Oh and our new house has an indoor pool."

"Oh Rao, that's awesome," Kara replied, already excited to move in. "So we move around October or something then? In four months from now?"

"Something like that, yes," Lena answered, not sure on a date yet. "It also has its own library, which I assume our children will appreciate."

"You spoil everyone way too much," Kara whispered, shaking her head. "It's sweet you took my sister, my sister in law, my niece, my aunt and my friend into consideration when you went house hunting, but I think Alex and Maggie will move back to Spain with Jamie at some point."

"Either way, Alex, Maggie and Jamie will always be welcome to stay with us."

Balloons were all over the beach house. J'onn had shape shifted into a clown, red nose, curly hair and all. There were seven large birthday cakes with candles on each one of them. The guest list was very limited and included DEO agents for the most part, to supervise the party.

"Happy thirty-fifth birthday, beautiful," Kara whispered to Lena, who groaned in response.

"Don't remind me of how old I'm getting," Lena whispered, sighing. "I believe you owe me thirty-five kisses," she said, smiling, which was one of the few perks of getting older.

Kara smiled and began kissing Lena's cheek, counting in her mind until she reached thirty-five. She'd rather kiss her best friend on the lips, but that wasn't exactly a friendly thing to do.

Lena hoped she wasn't blushing. "Happy birthday, sweethearts," she said to her children, in sync with the other adults.

Kara wished time would slow down. Her youngest daughter turned three years old today, Lyra turned six, Lucius turned eight, Lorraine turned nine, Larissa turned eleven and Logan turned thirteen already.