Say Something // CaptainSparklez ff

one

Ever since I was young, I had a fascination with children.

Growing up in a family of four, I was always the runt of the family. I was the odd one out. My family was made of tall blond's, I was a five foot two ginger. My family was athletic, I read a lot of books. It had always been this way, and I had never understood why my parents never tried to get me into other things.

I never understood until I was a parent, to two opposite personalities. My son is an introvert, even at six years old. Getting him a PlayStation three was the worst mistake a parent could make. My daughter is one of the most outgoing children I know. Every day I go to pick her up from school and she's with different people on the playground laughing happily.

I just never thought I would be a mother so young.

I always thought that I would meet a boy, fall in love, get married, and have children in that order. Not meet a boy, have children, with nothing in between. Although I wouldn't trade my children for nothing, I was still surprised when the result of the pregnancy test came positive.

Do not get me wrong. People have been there for me. My parents were very supportive, letting me live with them in Massachusetts until my older brother, Jake, announced he was moving to Santa Barbara for law school, asking me to follow him.

That was four years ago. Now, my brother is a successful senior associate at a law firm, and I'm a nurse. My kids are in school. Everything is going well for us. Except for the fact that my children have no idea who their father is. And to be honest, neither do I.

That is a really terrible thing to say, but I honestly don't.

Six years ago, I went to a party. I had went to Santa Barbara with my brother for some reason even I can't remember. Probably a graduation thing. But I remember getting wasted with this guy, and accidentally fucking him in a room upstairs, leaving in the morning with no note. And three weeks later, I was pregnant. Not the best decision I have made in my life of twenty-four years, but still.

My children were the best things that have happened to me.

They are.

"Mommy, do you have some water?" My daughter, Evangeline broke me out of my thoughts, and I nodded, handing her a water bottle from next to me. She had a twin brother named Finn, who was probably reading somewhere. She hopped up on the bench with me, wrapping her small arms around my neck, standing up on the bench to kiss my cheek.

"What are you doing, Mommy?" She asked, before sitting down next to me.

"Waiting for Uncle Jake to come back with whatever he was getting for you and Finn." Her eyes lit up at the mention of Jake, someone she had a close bond with, ever since she was born. Finn and him were close, but he had a bond with me especially. I loved both my kids equally, but Finn and I had something I did not have with Evangeline.

"Mommy?"

"Hmm?" I asked, raising my eyebrows at my daughter. She didn't look the slightest bit like me to the common eye. If you looked closely, we had the same nose shape, and the same lips, but other than that, she was all her mystery father. If you put him in a line with forty other people, I could probably point him out, due to seeing his features on my children every day.

"I love you." She hopped off the bench and ran toward's her brother's direction, also a carbon copy of his father, more so than Evangeline. I smiled and went back to my book, hearing laughter from another direction that didn't sound like Jake. Looking behind me, I saw a brown haired man, less than average height, with a little girl, maybe a little bit older than the twins. He gave her a high five and she went in the direction of Finn and Evangeline. It was a relatively small park, and the only bench out of the sun was the one I was sitting on. California sun was unbearable, even when you were in a tank top and shorts like I was. The man sat down on the other side of the bench, watching his own girl carefully.

"Jesus, it's warm." He breathed, and I nodded absentmindedly, looking at the twins happily begin to play with the young girl. Evangeline was laughing at a comment, and Finn was swinging on a swing, obviously trying to hit his sister with his feet.

"Are they yours?" I turned towards the man, who was pointing towards the twins, and I nodded.

"Yeah. Is the girl yours?" I was being polite, as I shut my book and took my sunglasses off to watch the children.

"No, she's my niece. I'm Jordan, by the way." He held out his hand for me to shake, and I did so, before seeing Jake come around the corner, holding some sugary thing for the twins.

"Aspen. Nice to meet you, Jordan." His eyebrows creased at the name, but he shook it off, as Jake came to the bench, the twins following him.

"I brought them popsicles, since before I left, they were complaining of how they were warm." He came up to the bench, handing me it. "I'm not sure if you want half and half, or to let them each have their own." He turned to Jordan, raising his eyebrows as the twins came up to me. "Hi, I'm Jake. And you are?" He held his hand out to shake, and Jordan took it, shaking it before putting his hands in his lap.

"Jordan. Are you two..." He pointed to the twins, and then us, and Jake began to laugh."

"No, I'm her brother." He laughed, before opening one of the popsicles and handing it to Evangeline. "Sit down on the grass, I don't think Mom here trusts you with it just yet." I opened Finn's, and directed to the patch of grass beside me, where they both sat down, Evangeline in her printed sundress, and Finn in his overalls. They both had brown hair, something nobody in our family had.

"How old are they?" Jordan asked, seeing Faye skip up to him and give him a hug, Jake handing her a spare popsicle that he probably got for himself.

"Six." His eyebrows raised at that, and he opened his mouth to speak, but he said nothing.

"It's actually pretty funny," Jake began, looking at the twins, and then Jordan. "They look a lot like you." He told Jordan, and his eye's widened.

"Aspen Morgan." He breathed out, and my face turned red.

"Fuck."