Page 10 of Big Island Sunset
Paige blanched. “Jun and Cody did that? That’sdisgusting.”
“So did Mom and Dad,” Piper taunted her, deliberately blasé.
“Ew!”
“At least twice.”
“Stop it!”
Tara sighed and pressed her hands to her temples, fighting off a headache.
“I’m not old enough to be an aunt!” Paige exclaimed, spinning to look at her again.
“Aunts don’t even do anything,” Piper scoffed.
Paige turned to glare at her. “You aresoannoying.”
“Could you two just… not?” Tara sank wearily into a chair.
Piper sat across from her and sighed, looking wistfully at their unfinished game.
“Is Juniper going to live with us?” Paige asked worriedly.
Tara’s eyes went wide. The thought hadn’t even occurred to her.
“Are they gonna have to get married?”
She took another breath as her headache ramped up.
“Mom? Are they?”
“This is a surprise to me too, sweet pea. I don’t have any answers yet. But no, I don’t imagine Juniper will want to move in with us. She’ll probably stay with her aunt.”
“So we’ll have a baby right next door?” Paige asked, perking up. “I always wanted you to have another baby.”
“But this isn’t Mom,” Piper muttered. “It’s Cody. That’s mega weird.”
“Well, yeah… but a baby’s a baby. Right Mom?”
Tara could only grin as a tired laugh bubbled up in her chest.
“Yeah,” she agreed. “A baby’s a baby.”
She was exhausted and dizzy and worried and overwhelmed… but even with all of that churning through her heart and mind, her love for her children eclipsed all.
However this situation developed, they would figure it out.
Tara would do her best to support them.
A baby was a baby, after all.
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Lani
“Ready to go?” Lani asked, poking her head into the girls’ room.
“Ready!” Olivia chirped. She spun in a circle, making her blue dress twirl. The cast on her arm was a riot of rainbow color; Lani had covered it from top to bottom in art.
