Chapter Twelve

Jason POV

We are currently patiently waiting for Cleo to wake up and while we wait Lucas was reading one of Cleo's messages.

"What about the rest of them and how many are there anyway?" Elizabeth curiously asks.

"About 2000 of them and most of them are of her checking in on us and a birthday wish for each of us there is even of one to Michael which means she saw him on the news when you two introduced him I can send each of you the letters she had written to you all" Lucas says and they all agree. I wasn't planning reading any of mine because I don't to unlock the past feelings I buried away.

"What was the last letter she wrote and when was it" Matteo finally talks.

"Oh yeah let me see, oh yeah found it, it was last sent 5 days before the memorial service and it saus ( Hi I can see all over social media how you all have changed in so many ways and how you guys have moved on it's probably why you haven't come to get me but it's okay, it's okay that's life none of you would have ever guessed that I would awake from the dead. I just wanted to let you know you won't have to worry about me bugging your happy lives I'm just coming there to see my babies is all. Love Cleo for the last time.)"

Elizabeth wraps her arms around Matteo were she starts silently crying.

"What kind of a best friend am I. If we had swapped places she would have never give up on me at all but here I was living my life while my best friend and sister was getting beaten up" she sobs while Matteo tries to calm her down.

Lucas begins rubbing Scarlett's back gently as she too wanted to cry.

" Hey hey don't cry Cleo would never have wanted to wake up and here you crying. There is no turning back time now because what's done is done all we have to do now is just show her that we do in fact love her and care for her she's here now and we will make sure she still remains here alive with us so how about you wipe your tears and we can go and call the kids over to the mansion and surprise them with Cleo's arrival huh?" Matteo says and she sadly nods I head to my office along Lucas and Zack following behind so we can further work out these codes. Scarlett tags along with Elizabeth and Matteo to head to Matteo's parents house were the kids are.

Cleo POV

I begin hearing the sound of a beep and it continue to go on and on and I open my eyes right before shuttimg the closed again and slowly adusting to the light.

I look around to see I'm back home and looks like I'm back into my old room. Everything Is just how I left it. I try getting up but my body denies approval and I slouch back.

I look on my arm to see number of tubes connected into it. The bandages on my body don't go unnoticed which they saw them, all of them.

I sadden at the thought but get interrupted by some movement on my left I turn to see a little boy seated on the chair facing my bed. He looks like his 3 years of age. He continues to stare at me.So this Elizabeth son, I saw him on the news.

"Hi who are you I've never seen you before" I ask him giving a smile.

"Hi my name is Michael but mommy likes to call me Mikey" he shyly answers and looks up at me.

" That's a really cute name I'm Cleo you mommy's best friend" i answer smiling at him.

"Yes mommy told me about you." He answers slowly getting comfortable and I could finally see his real self behind his now melting wall of fear.

"Yep and did she tell you how I am an amazing chef"I happily tell him.

"No she told me about how you talked a lot maybe a little too much as she put it and I can see what she meant" my instantly drops for a three year old this kid sure is talkative and acting like a brat which proves that he is Elizabeth's son.

I continue asking questions about him and he to me. And I guess I just had to get to know him because his just a cutie pie under all that cockiness and sass. I think I just found my new best friend. Sorry Lisa Bisa Bisa and Letty.

We talk and talk for what seems like hours and the door opens to reveal Elizabeth coming in she smiles widely at seeing the two of us and comes carrying Michael and taking his place and then putting him in her lap.

"So I see you guys have meant and are getting along nicely".

"Yep I love Aunty Isa she's funny" Michael happily says and smiles up at his mother.

"Ooohhh that's wonderful but your cousins would love to see their mommy so how about we head out so Aunty Letty can bring them in and then we can go and make something special for Aunty Isa?"

Mikey nods his head wildly before giving me a big hug and running out with Elizabeth following behind.

The door opens and Scarlett comes in pushing a baby stroller that is now being covered with a blanket.

Already knowing who are inside it. I sit up quickly and smile happily running my hands together.

She removes the blanket to reveal my beautiful angels. And as surprisingly Jumpy Camila was the one asleep while Steady Cameron was wide awake which is a shocker because it was usually the other way around. You can already guess what the names meant, that Camila was the jumpy adventurous one and not to mention the dramatic cranky one.

While Cameron was just slow, steady,Very calm and a complete sweetheart.

And I wouldn't trade them for anything in the world.I grab Cameron who has his arms reached out. He smile and I steady him on my lap before grabbing Carols and placing her in the blankets next me and kiss her forehead and she smiles in response.

Which by the way was adorable. I place Cameron in front of me and study him. He has grown a lot and was really starting to look like his Father. His eyes haven't changed I can see some teeth now which is amazing.

I look down at Camila and she almost like a lot like me when I was her age. Her hair has grown a lot and it's now curly like mine and it's colour is a cross between dark brown like Jason's and light brown like mine. And she is absolutely beautiful.

I must say Jason and I made very gorgeous babies if I do say so myself.

Cameron and I play and play and later Camila wakes up and joins us and it turns out these two have a lot to say since they are 4 years old now.

And surprisingly they never argued for my attention not even once which is amazing saved me the trouble of noise.

The door burst open yet again and I'm faces with Ameilia, Rebecca, James and the little ones closely behind they all run to me in full speed.

And they ambush me into a big hug which really hurts. We catch up on everything we missed.

They told me all what happened in their lives like how Amelia now had a boyfriend. Rebecca discovered her love for art. James wrote new songs. And a whole lot of other things.

They all leave and I'm left with my twintastic angels. Emma comes in shortly and asks to sleep with us which I immediately allow.

Luckily this bed is ginormous so we all fit in perfectly with a lot of room left.

Once I know they've all fallen asleep I too fall asleep. Finally falling asleep happily knowing that I'm home.

Cleo POV

The awful enemy known as the sun makes its way into my room. I pick myself up before doing a few stretches. Yep you read right I did in fact pick myself up. And you wanna know where.

The floor

Shocking I know turns out these kids got their sleeping habits from me. I got knocked over in the middle of the night which btw hurt a lot due to the wounds on my body.

I tiptoe to the bathroom making sure I don't wake my babies up. I head into the shower. Once I'm done with my cleanup session I head to the closet and thankfully my clothes are still here where I left them.

I grab my favourite baby blue oversized t-shirt and sweatpants and along with my ankle length sneakers.Once I'm done untagling my unruly wild hair. I carefully and quietly sneak out the room to the kitchen to make some food for us all.

On my way there I took the time to carefully observe my surrounding. Everything has changed since I left. For starters the walls in the hallway have changed from a lovely beige colour to boring white.

like what the hell.

No one in this house likes that colour on the walls especially with kids around. So my guess is Jason's new girlfriend.

For the record one thing about me is I don't cry over a guy nor do I get jealous of one of my exes is seeing someone else. No that isn't me at all.

I will admit it hurt a lot when I first found out to the point I wanted to actually kill myself and be dead for real this time, but I was able to overcome it remembering that there are other people other than him who are very important to me.

Once I'm down the ginormous stairs I am met with some yelling immediately recognizing the voices as Jason,Elizabeth and Matteo.

I know I'm not supposed to ease drop but once I heard my name I just had to listen in.

"Why would you let her stay here let alone my house?" Jason asks trying his best not burst into anger mode.

"Why would you ask such a thing she's injured first of all, she's the mother of your children and third she is important to the rest of us" Matteo fires back which makes me smile proudly.

"I don't care about all that you can't just let her stay here especially when my fianceè is living here and with me already moved on" Jason quickly responds.

"What happened to you? Because the Jason I know would not say such things. My best friend probaby went through hell while we where here singing and dancing. I know if tables were turned she would never have given up on me so i will never do that same mistake ever again and so what if you're fianceè is here you have many mansions all over the world why not go to one of them because she is staying here with or wor your your concern or else I'm gonna tell mom what you just said" Elizabeth says and at this point my mouth is wide open in shock.

Elizabeth was always the happy one rather than the talk back kind of gal. So hearing what she had said really touched my heart and left me starstruck.

Seeing that I have heard enough I run back up a few steps of the stairs and stomp loudly making my presence known and also to make it look like had just woken up.

They all stop what they where talking about and continues with what they had originally been doing .

Jason had already left the room along with Matteo trailing behind.

"Good morning" I happily greet her before heading to one of the chairs at the counter.

"Oh hey, did you sleep well" she asks and flips yet another pancake.

"Well the kids were kind of pushy but that's okay because I missed that"

"Yeah well they also missed that, those kids could not sleep so most of times they would sleep in your room and even sometimes wear your clothes that had your scent on it."

"Well I'm here now so there is nothing to be worried about"

"Yes you are here and I'm glad to have you back, anyways pancakes are ready time to call everyone down for breakkie"she says before making her way to the stairs but I call her back.

"You don't have to go all the way up those stairs to wake them up, I can use the bell to wake them up"

Elizabeth laughs at that before answering,"that bell was deeply missed let me go get it for you" she rushes to the kitchen pantry bringing back a very important object to this mansion and that is the bell.

I used to ring the bell every time it was time to eat. It was annoying to them at first but they all had gotten used to it and it became a very special object to us all.

I happily take it from her. I grab the nearby duster and quickly dust of the dust and con webs.

After the little clean up I start ringing it and it was as if I never left.

Very soon loud thuds can be heard and in come the kids followed by the grown ups. Jessica came down panicking.

"What what what's going on is there a fire" she quickly says while still in her pajamas and what looked like green gooey face mask.

"No there is no fire just the bell meaning it's time to eat that's all so you can relax now." I answer and I can hear Elizabeth and Scarlett who had just joined us trying not to laugh.

"Oh um well um I'll just go and get dreased then" she says with a red face of embarrassment and heads up the stairs.

"Once she is up the stairs Scarlett and Elizabeth burst out laughing at the scene that had just occurred.

"C'mon guys leave her alone she didn't know" they both roll their at my responsible manner. I hear my name being called by two little voices immediately recognizing them as my two little babies.

I head to the stairs standing at the foot of the stairs I look up to find the two of them along with Michael standing at the top if the stairs.

"Yes baby what's wrong?" I ask them.

And ofcourse Camilla is first to respond, " we need help down de staiyes mommy" she answers.

"Okay fine but why didn't get help from your big sister"

"Because we wanted youw help"she answers back.

I quietly laugh at her response before heading up the stairs.Once I reach the top I carry Michael since his the youngest. And hold each of the twins hands on either side of me and we slowly head down the stairs gently.

Once we reach the stairs I guide them to the table where everyone is waiting except for Jessica and Jason.

I head to the middle of the table away from where I used to seat which was at the head of the table with Jason.

I hand Michael over to his mom and head to my seat be for grabbing the twins high chairs which where also close to the head table.

I place them on either sides of my chairs. Once I've settled them in I sit myself in between them.

Not a moment after I had sat Jason and Jessica arrive and seat themselves down. He looks around probably looking for the twins and spots them with me and relaxes.

Food is brought in. I grab two pancakes quickly using the animal cutter i used to use for Emma and cut the pancakes into little animals.

I hand the twins their animal shaped pancakes and they smile widely. "Mommy do magic twick" Cameron gasps and so does Camilla.

They laugh loudly causing everyone to look in out direction most of the ie faces where also smiling well except for Jessica she was scowling.

After I hush them down I pour a little syrup on to their food. Michael soon asks for his pancakes to be like the twins and I happily do the same for him he thanks me and digs in as well.

After breakfast the kids went on to play and the rest went on with their lives, while the girls and I stayed behind to catch up on our lives. Well mostly their lives.