23. Chapter 23 (1/2)

a/n: posting a day early as a belated birthday present for ana! :) reviews please! i'm pretty close to 100 and would love to get there by the final chapter!

posted 2 new addisam oneshots 'we could get lost' and 'i know you have a little life in you yet' so if you haven't read and/or reviewed please do so! kelly :)

2 months later.

"aunty addison!" olivia beamed from next to maya as they opened their front door to sam, addison and carson.

"hi sweetie" addison laughed softly, reaching down to hug her tightly "i cannot believe it's your 8th birthday tomorrow"

"me either" maya sighed.

"hi honey" addison smiled, giving her a hug "how are you?"

"i'm great" maya smiled.

"and where are my hello's?" sam said, tickling olivia and making her laugh loudly.

"hi grandpa" olivia laughed.

"hi dad" maya smiled "did you grow carson? you look even taller than you did 2 months ago"

"mom says i'm growing too fast" carson said with a smile "but i can't even see over the top of the kitchen counter unless i'm on my tip toes"

"i'm sure you'll be tall enough in no time" maya smiled, ruffling his hair gently "olivia are you going to say hello to your, uh…uncle" she laughed.

"yeah, that will never not be weird" addison smirked.

"he can't be my uncle mom, he's only 5" olivia said, rolling her eyes with the attitude of a teenager, making sam and addison laugh.

"go and show carson the garden, and play nicely" maya said, giving olivia a gentle push.

"come on carson" olivia smiled, addison nodded a little with a smile as carson looked up at her, he took olivia's hand and they ran out towards the back yard through the kitchen.

"how was your flight?" maya asked as she led addison and sam through to the kitchen.

"carson talked the entire time but it was good" addison said with a soft laugh "this is a lovely house maya"

"phil's promotion really helped us out" maya smiled "we could finally get a house of our own, it's great, do you want coffee or juice or tea, or something else, we have pretty much everything"

"coffee would be great, thank you" sam smiled as they sat at the kitchen table, which had a great view of the garden "so phil is at work?"

"yeah, but he'll be home in time for dinner, and uh, mom should be getting here around the same time" she said with a small smile.

"maya we might not be best friends anymore but, we're civil now" addison smiled "we spoke when we were last in la and we're good, you don't have to worry about anything happening"

"i wasn't worried"

"try and sound a little more convincing baby girl" sam smirked, maya rolled her eyes and

ought over their coffees, sitting down as they thanked her.

"so are you all set for tomorrow?" addison asked "do you need anything?"

"no, we're all set" maya smiled "we sat together this morning and put together the party bags, phil's going to do the balloons before we go to bed tonight, i've got banners and party games and one of the mom's from liv's school owns a bakery so she's

inging the cake and extra cupcakes for the food table, i think i have enough food to put 100 children into a food coma so, with the 30 that are coming i think i'm putting them in danger" she laughed lightly.

"well that's the point of birthday parties" addison laughed "giving the kids so much sugar and then letting their parents deal with the aftermath, they get to repay you for it at their kids parties"

"do you remember sofia's party? carson ate so much" sam laughed "he lay down on the sofa and went straight to sleep when we got home"

"well then, maybe we'll get some peace tomorrow night" maya laughed.

"we'll see i guess" addison laughed, looking outside to where the kids were running wild around the garden.

~x~

"i think we're going to head upstairs" maya said with a yawn as all of adults sat in the living room "tomorrow is going to be one hell of a day"

"just think of the smile on olivia's face baby girl" sam smiled.

"i will" she said with a soft laugh, she kissed sam, addison and naomi on the cheek before heading up to bed, phil following behind her after saying his own goodnights.

"i think you should go up too old man" addison smirked as sam yawned loudly.

"hey" he pouted "we're the same age y'know"

"but i'm still so young at heart" she laughed "i'll be up soon, go before you fall asleep on my arm"

"ok" he sighed "night babe" he whispered as he kissed her softly.

"night" she smiled.

"goodnight naomi" sam said quietly.

"night sam" she smiled, he stretched out a little as he stood and then headed up to the guest room.

"so" naomi started with a small smile "how are you addison?"

"i'm, really good" addison smiled "how about you?"