Eve

Chapter 2

After the dinner my dad cooked for us, everyone walked the short distance back to mine. Jordan looked happy. She was holding mine and also Noah's. She was looking up at him grinning, and he was looking down at her smiling with fatherly love in his eyes. She know's he is her dad. She was confused, but he told her that he was doing something for her, so she was fine with only knowing him now.

Once everyone had gotten comfortable in the living room. I was sat on the floor near the tree with Noah by my side and Jordan on his lap. I found the bags for Daisy, Dylan, Maddie and Max, and passed them over to each of them. I found ad's and passed it to him. 

Jordan had a look on her face of realization and ran upstairs. Oh yeah. She made cards for everyone. She came back moments later and I told her who to hand them to. She sat back down and I handed her the bag from me. I got her a few bears from Build-A-Bear Workshop, with a load of outfits. A couple weeks ago, me and Maddie persuaded Max to look after Jordan along with their two children, and we went Christmas shopping.

Her little face was so happy to see her gifts. Those bears are like £10-£20 each. I don't usually buy her a lot of expensive things since she's young. But I do spoil her on her birthday and at Christmas.

Dad did his next. Since I moved into this house two years ago, it was mainly cushions and stuff for the house, but there was some jewellery as well. 

"Oh dad! I almost forgot. You have one, and me and Maddie thought it was a good idea so.." I stopped as we walked over to him showing our wrists. We both had "Mum" in cursive font, with her birth day and death date on it. His eyes held water in them as he pulled us both into a hug.

"You girls didn't have to do that" he said, breathlessly.

"We wanted to. Its weird to say, but in a way its like she's with us always this way" Mad said.  He smiled and I wiped away a tear that escaped. When mum died, it hit him hard. Harder than we thought it would.

He stopped eating all together, and we didn't know until a month later, when he had hospitalized himself for not eating or drinking. From that day, me and Maddie made it our mission to be by his side as much as we could to make sure it didn't happen again. We still do to this day.

Maddie and Max then handed everyone their gifts. It was a bit awkward for everyone since no one knew Noah was going to be here.

They had gotten Jordan one of those Leap-pad learning tablets, and a couple of clothing items. I got some clothing and jewlery. People who didn't know me and Maddie, would think we were twins. She's a couple months younger than me, and found her mate before me. But, we do have that twin telepathy thing going on, even though were not.

"Thank's everyone" I said. 'Thank yous' and 'no problems' made there way round to room for a little, before we were stuck on decision on what game to play.

"How about Just Dance 4? I just spotted you Nintendo Wii and the stack of games" Noah said, picking the game from the pile. The last time I played it was last year.

There was some 'yeahs' around the room and I nodded in approval. The three kids wen't upstairs, probably to play with their new toys. Daisy and Dylan are twins, and two years older than Jordan, making them six.

Dad went outside to take the phone call. Noah put the disk in the console, and I handed Max, Maddie and Noah their controllers.

"How are we going to do this then?" Max asked with a sigh. Knowing me and Maddie. We grinned at each other and she nodded at me. Noah had a confused look, and Max was now grimacing, knowing what we were going to say. This happened any time we played a game on their Nintendo Wii console.