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chapter thirty four

Alesha

"Girls, meet your new siblings," I spoke softly, cradling Abel and Hollie in my arms after they were breastfed for the second time since they were born. Amanda had helped me shower by watching the twins for me before David and Simon came to the hospital with Lexi, Azura, and Theo. The twins were only a few hours old, almost seven hours old after being born shortly after one in the morning.

"Why are they so small?" Lexi asked, climbing into my hospital bed to look at the twins.

"They're newborns. Theo was this small when he was born I bet," I replied.

"Theo was a little bigger," Amanda responded.

I smiled as the twins tried to burrow deeper into me, their heads in the crooks of my elbows and my hands were supporting their bottoms. They were small because they had entered the world three weeks early but they were healthy.

"The one in your left arm looks a lot like you, Alesha," Simon said. "Which one is that?"

"The one in my left is Abel and the one in my right is Hollie. Would you like to hold Abel, Simon?" I replied. He nodded and took Abel from me carefully.

Abel did look a lot like me already. He had my skin colouring, my nose, lips, ears, and my long legs. His eyes were his father's though but they were the same shade as Amanda's brown eyes. He had gotten my face shape and Piers' arms. Hollie looked like Amanda somehow. Her hair was somewhere in between brunette and blonde and her skin was lighter than my own.

Amanda had remarked that Hollie had gotten my eyes and Piers' nose, ears, and fingers. The rest of her was me. She was sleeping peacefully against my body as I cradled her.

"Can I hold Hollie, Mummy?" Azura asked.

"Have Amanda help you on the bed so you can hold your little sister," I replied. Amanda lifted Azura onto the bed and she crawled to my lap. I set Hollie carefully into Azura's waiting arms and she stayed sleeping.

Hollie already slept more than Abel did. Abel was alert again while Simon held him as he attempted to grab Simon's index finger. He cried when Simon removed his finger and was passed back to me to comfort.

"Shhh, shhh," I comforted, holding Abel against my chest. "Mummy's right here." He hiccuped and calmed down as I rubbed his back.

"Can I hold him?" Lexi asked, sitting next to me in the hospital bed.

"Of course," I replied. I gave her Abel carefully as Azura passed Hollie back to me. I asked David if he wanted to hold her and he responded yes. I gave David the baby girl and he cradled her.

David looked a little strange holding a newborn. He was extremely tall and broad. He looked as though he would never be caught holding a newborn but yet he was. David had been the one to cut Azura's umbilical cord when she had been born and he was te one who got to hold her first while I was being stitched up after the c-section. I had seen him holding different two newborns now countless times.

"Can Simon and I steal Hollie, 'Lesha?" David joked.

"Not going to happen in a million years, David," I replied teasingly. David laughed and woke Hollie up. She looked up at the man holding her and shrieked. She kicked the blanket that was wrapped around her and got  it loose. She was silent for a couple of minutes after this but then shrieked  again.

"I think she wants you, Alesha," David said. He gave me Hollie and she put her head next to my breast when I cradled her.

"Do you want to nurse, baby girl? Is that what you're shrieking about?" I cooed at her. Hollie continued to shriek so I made the men turn around as I got Hollie situated with nursing. She latched on wrong the first time and second time but she got it correct on the third. "It's safe to turn around now," I joked.

Amanda was now holding Abel as he tried to play with the necklace she was wearing. Amanda had run home to tell David and Simon in person that I had given birth and get her own shower so she could bring the girls to see me and the twins. Simon and David offered to bring them instead but Amanda had gone with them.

"You still think we should adopt a baby after we get married, David?" Simon joked as I breastfed Hollie.

"Maybe not if one baby can make that much noise," David joked back. "Hollie's got some powerful lungs."

"She was loud when she came out," Amanda added in. "She's got her mum's lungs then."

I blushed red. Amanda had made a reference to us in bed whenever she made me cry out her name with pleasure loudly.

"Amanda!" I chastised. She grinned wickedly at me and sat down in the chair next to my hospital bed.

She held Theo in her lap now but he was trying to get free so he could run around the room.

"Should we take that as our cue to leave, David?" Simon asked. He looked a little uncomfortable seeing me breastfeed but I had a blanket over my shoulders to hide Hollie nursing.

"I suppose so," David agreed. They said their goodbyes to us and they took the girls and Theo with them to bring them to school and to nursery for us. Amanda took Lexi's vacated spot on my bed and kissed my cheek gently.

"It's just us and the twins now," she spoke. She was holding Abel as Hollie stopped nursing and I burped her. Hollie closed her eyes contentedly after filling her stomach with breast milk.

"It won't be like this for long," I replied. "There's five kids in our house now."

"Maybe we could think about having a sixth baby," Amanda joked.

"Not going to happen yet. Let me recover and you're going to be the one to give birth if we have a sixth!"

[] hey guys! I hope that you liked this cute last chapter. What do you think is going to happen next in the epilouge and what did you love about this chapter? Bye until the next chapter!