HIS KIDS

THE BIRTHDAY PARTY PART ONE

LUPES POV

I GOT UP EARLY AND HEADED TO THE BEAUTY SALON AND OPENED UP FOR THE GIRLS BEFORE LIVING AND REMINDING THEM ABOUT THE TWINS PARTY, I THEN HEADED TO THE STORE TO PICKUP THE CAKE AND THE ICE CREAM FOR MY BABIES. AFTER PUTTING THE THINGS IN THE CAR I HEADED TO THE HOUSE AND I ASKED MARIA IF SHE COULD HID THE CAKE AND THE ICE CREAM IN THEIR FRIDGE SO THE TWINS WOULDNT GET INTO IT LIKE THEY DID WHEN THEY WERE ONE, AFTER THAT I MADE THEIR FAVORITE BREAKFAST AND ALL THREE OF US WENT UP TO WAKE THE TWINS UP.

WHEN WE GOT TO THEIR ROOM THEY WERE NOT THERE AND I STARTED TO FREAK OUT, WHERE COULD THEY BE MARIA CAME UP TO ME AND HELD ME WHILE DEREK TRIED TO SMELL THEM OUT. HE THEN LOOKED TOWARDS THE CLOSET AND WE ALL WALKED TO THE CLOSET AND SAW THAT THEY WERE BOTH THERE FAST ASLEEP HUGGING THEIR TEDDY BEARS, MARIA GRABED JOSE AND I GRABED JOSEFINA AND PLACED THEM ON THEIR BEDS BEFORE WE WOKE THEM UP AND WISHED THEM A HAPPY BIRTHDAY BEFORE TAKING THEM DOWN TO EAT BREAKFAST BEFORE WE STARTED TO GET THE HOUSE AND BACK YARD DECORATED FOR THE PARTY

AFTER BREAKFAST DEREK AND TWO OF HIS FRIENDS TOOK THE TWINS TO THE STORE TO KEEP THEM OUT UNTIL WE GOT THE HOUSE READY FOR THE PARTY, IT WAS GETTING DARK OUTSIDE WHEN EVERYBODY STARTED TO ARRIVED AND HELPED US FINISH GETTING THE LAST DETAILS PUT UP FOR THE PARTY. WHILE SOME WERE ON THE GRILLS OTHER WHERE IN THE KITCHEN FINISHING DO THE SALADS, MASH POTATOES, GRAVY AND THE YEAST ROLLS. ONCE WE WERE ALL READY MARIA CALLED DEREK AND TOLD HIM TO BRING THE KIDS BACK, ABOUT TEN MINUTES LATER THEY ARRIVED AND WERE BROUGHT TO THE BACK YARD WERE EVERYBODY SCREAMED SURPRISE.

I WALKED UP TO THEM AND GAVE THEM A TIGHT HUG AND WISHED THEM A HAPPY BIRTHDAY BEFORE THEY RAN OFF AND WENT TO PLAY WITH THEIR FRIENDS, I WALKED AROUND TALKING TO MY FRIENDS AND TAKING PICTURES OF THE PARTY TO PUT IN THERE BABY BOOKS. WHEN IT WAS TIME FOR THE CAKE DEREK AND MARIA WENT INSIDE AND BROUGHT THE CAKE AND ICE CREAM OUT AND PLACED IT ON THE TABLE NEXT TO THE PRESENTS, I WENT INSIDE AND GOT THE NUMBER TWO CANDLE AND PLACED IT ON THE CAKE BEFORE LIGHTING IT ON. WE ALL SANG HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THE BOTH OF THEM AND WATCHED THEM BLOW THE CANDLE OUT BEFORE CUTTING IT AND PLACING A PIECE FOR EACH OF THEM WITH SOME ICE CREAM BEFORE WE CUT A PIECE FOR EVERYBODY ELSE, WHEN THEY HAD FINISHED EATING THEIR ICE CREAM AND CAKE THEY WENT TO TAKE THEIR PLATES TO THE TRASH AND THEN CAME UP TO DEREK, MARIA AND ME.

"SO WHAT YOU TWO LITTLE RASCALS WISH FOR YOUR BIRTHDAY" DEREK ASKED

"FOR DADDY TO COME BACK TO US" JOSE SAID

"WHY WOULD YOU WISH FOR THAT" MARIA ASKED

"BECAUSE WE WANT OUR DADDY BACK" JOSEFINA ASKED

"OH MY BABIES WHAT CAN MOMMY DO TO MAKE YOUR SMILES COME BACK TO YOUR FACES" I ASKED

"WHY DID DADDY LEAVE US MOMMY" JOSE ASKED

"BECAUSE HE FOUND SOME ONE ELSE AND HE LEFT TO GO BE WITH HER" MARIA SAID

"IS THAT TRUE MOMMY" JOSEFINA ASKED

"YES IT IS SWEETY" MARIA ANSWERED FOR ME

"WHO WANTS TO OPEN PRESENTS" DEREK SAID

THEY STARTED TO OPEN THEIR PRESENTS AND GAVE THEIR THANX TO EVERYONE AS THEY OPENED THEIR PRESENTS, WHEN THEY GOT TO MINE I WAITED TO SEE HOW THEY WOULD REACT WHEN THEY OPENED IT. AS SOON AS THEY OPENED MY PRESENT THEIR EYES WENT WIDE WITH EXCITEMENT, THEY TOOK OUT THEIR STUFFED WOLF THAT LOOKED JUST LIKE THE ONE I HAVE TATTOOED ON MY BACK THEY ALWAYS SAID THEY WANTED ONE BUT THE ONLY THING CLOSE TO WHAT I COULD DO WAS TO GET TWO MADE JUST LIKE THE ONE THAT I HAD TATTOOED. THEY RAN TOWARDS ME AND I KNEELED DOWN TO THEIR EYE LEVEL, THEY HUGGED ME THANKING ME OVER AND OVER AGAIN.

THEY RAN BACK AND HUGGED THEIR STUFFED WOLF AND THEN RAN IN TO THE ROOM AND I GUESS UP TO THEIR ROOM, THEN CAME BACK OUTSIDE AND KEPT PLAYING AROUND UNTIL THE PEOPLE STARTED TO LEAVE. MARIA AND DEREK TOOK THE TWINS INSIDE AND STARTED TO GET THEM READY FOR BED WHILE I STARTED TO CLEAN THE YARD, BY THE TIME I WAS ALMOST DONE CLEANING MARIA AND DEREK CAME OUT AND TOLD ME TO GO ON MY WALK THAT I ALWAYS TAKE AFTER ANY SPECIAL OCCASION.

AS I WALKED ON THE BEACH I COULDNT HOLD THE TEARS ANYMORE, AFTER JOSE AND JOSEFINA SAID THAT THEY WISHED THEIR FATHER WOULD COME BACK TO US WITHOUT THEM KNOWING THAT THEY HAD BEEN INFRONT OF HIM NOT SO LONG AGO. I CONTINUED TO WALK ON THE BEACH UNTIL I GOT TO THE SPOT WHERE I ALWAYS SAT DOWN, AS I LOOKED AT THE MOON SHINNING ON THE WATER I CLOSED MY EYES AND STARTED HEARING THE WAVES CRASH ON THE SHORE WHILE I LET MY TEARS FALL DOWN MY FACE NOT CARING WHO SAW ME ALL I WANTED WAS FOR THIS PAIN TO BE GONE FOR EVER SO I COULD MOVE ON. WHEN I WAS ABOUT TO GET UP AND WALK BACK TO MY HOUSE I FELT SOMEONE WIPE THE TEARS FROM MY FACE, I STARTED TO OPEN MY EYES SLOWLY AND I SAW IT WAS ZEUS WHO WAS NEXT TO ME.