As I walked through the abandoned town I noticed a house, door wide open. As a curious teen I wandered in, peering around to the dimly lit house. I walked slowly, cautiously, fearing I might disturb something I didn't want to. My right foot hit the...
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I wake up again, but this time the sun was high in the sky and I hear banging coming from somewhere in the house. I sit up and walk towards it. I realize the noise is coming from upstairs, so I begin walking up. As I get closer to the noise, I see Harry putting up shelves. Some already filled with baby books and picture frames waiting to be filled. Mason hung on the wall behind the new crib. Harry turns toward me with a big smile on his face.
"Good morning sleepy head!" He walks over to kiss my head, then my belly. "3 more days." His smile grows wider.
"The room looks amazing. I love it." I look around some more.
"So I wanted to ask you what you wanna do. As you know we have two rooms up here, that are practically empty. So I was thinking the smaller room be laundry and the bigger room be our room." Harry says looking down the hall.
"That sounds great." I nod and smile. "When's Penelope arriving?"
"I think soon. She is still fighting. But she's getting weaker." He frowns, looking towards her room.
"She'll be in a better place. Here with us." I smile and rub his back.
"Let's go downstairs, I made you breakfast." Harry says before I walk downstairs, him following closely. We get to the kitchen and I sit where my food is waiting for me. I begin eating and Harry sits next to me.
"Did you wanna build the high chairs after this?" I ask looking at the table. The circle table has two extra chairs that can be moved, and replaced by the two toddler chairs.
"Sure. I know they won't be sitting in them for a while but it's better to have them. We also need to finish shopping as far as clothes, blankets, baby stuff." He laughs.
"Of course, we can do that first." I look around at the house. "Do we need to baby proof anything? Considering our uh.. circumstances." I look at my ice cold skin.
"Because we are dead?" He looks at me.
"Yeah." I look at him, he smiles and shakes his head.
"No, we will be ok." He stands up and takes my empty plate. I watch him walk off. He's perfect, everything about him. I stare so long I zone out.
"See something you like?" I snap out of my trance and look up at his eyes.
"Of course I do." I giggle.
"Be lucky there's not too much I can do to you right now doll." He winks at me. I laugh and walk towards the bedroom to get dressed, I go to the bathroom to change and do my hair when I notice my stomach is even more swollen. I sigh and finish getting dressed. I walk out to Harry, he looks me up and down.
"I can only fit in the dresses right now." I look down. "I can't see my toes, so I need help." Harry nods and helps me put my shoes on. "Thank you."
"Well you still look gorgeous doll." He kisses my head before we walk out of the door. We walk towards the familiar town once again, this time to grab baby clothes, food, toys and some other things we might need.
"I think we should get them each a comfort stuffed animal." I pick up an elephant and a cat. "These two." I hold them close as we continue walking around. We finish our shopping and head home. As we near the house, I look over at Harry, getting a good look at him. I look back at the house just before we walk in.
"Go rest doll, I'm going to go ahead and start getting our room together upstairs. Tomorrow I'll move the washer and dryer upstairs." He kisses my head and I go to lay down. I drift off to sleep quickly.
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Leaves were falling and the once ghost town was filled with life. I walk around slowly passing everything that once was so dead. I see kids playing in the field nearby, I walk closer to them.
"Mason, Penelope. Dinners ready!" I yell as two of the kids look at me and begin running in my direction.
"Can we come back out after dinner?" The little boy says to me, grabbing my hand.
"Ask your father, you know there's school tomorrow." I say holding a hand of each kid in either hand. We walk to the house and Harry looks at our dirty kids.
"Go wash your hands. Your mother and I will get the table ready." Harry says kindly, our kids run off and we walk to the kitchen. "We have such a beautiful life." Harry turns to me, smiling.
"We really do." I kiss his cheek softly.
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I wake up and look around, everything but the bed is gone from the room. I stand up and walk out of the room to see Harry sitting on the steps.
"What's wrong dear?" I ask walking over to him slowly.
"We have a surprise." He motions for me to follow, I climb the stairs slowly. We get near Penelope's room when I hear a little giggle. I push the door open easily and walk up to the crib.
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"Well hello sweet pea. Aren't you just the happiest and sweetest little baby ever?" I ask lightly resting my finger in her hand. "She's so little." I say in a baby voice and Harry rests his hand on my back.
"I changed a very smelly diaper already." Harry pinches his nose and looks at Penelope. "She's our little stinker!" Harry then reaches down and tickles her. Her giggles travel through the house. "I wanna move the bed really quick, so give me like 30 minutes." He nods to me before walking out of the room. I look back down at my beautiful daughter and lift her slowly. I cradle her in my arms before walking to the rocker.
"You are just gorgeous." I kiss her head lightly. After a little while of rocking she falls to sleep peacefully, I lay her in her crib and leave quietly. I love my new life.
