One year later.

Easter.

"HOP! HOP!" Isla says as she hops around the yard.

"Isla, look! There are eggs right here, baby." Jessica says.

"Hop Mommy!"

"Oh I'm sorry I forgot." Jessica giggles and hops.

"Eggssss.. I gots lots of eggs."

"You do, good job!  Last year mommy had to help you and now you can do it all buy yourself!"

"Cause me a big girl, mommy."

"You are!  You need to slow down and stay a baby.  Can you do that for me?"

Isla rolls her eyes and nods her head.

"Did you see that?!" Jessica turns to Catherine.

"I did!" Catherine laughs. "Isla!  You stink bug!"

"I finding eggs!"

Catherine chuckles and kisses her cheek.

The twins ran around shouting and searching for eggs while Danny walked around holding Anjelica's hand and helping her with the egg hunt.

"Baby can share my eggs too!" Isla walks over to Anjelica and places a couple eggs in her basket.

"Aw Poopy, that's so sweet!" Danny says.

"Not da pink ones!" Isla makes a face at Danny.

"No, of course not! You keep those Princess."

"Yes I keep dem."

Danny chuckles and looks to Jessica.

"I can't take her in this bunny outfit."

"Isn't she cute?" Jessica laughs. "I'm so happy I found it! And next year Anjelica can use it!"

Danny looks down to his baby sister and she smiles up to him.

"I think she likes that idea." Danny chuckles softly.

Jessica smiles softly. Jessica has always liked Danny, but lately her crush on his has intensified. Jessica will be fifteen in three days and she feels it's time to take that next step with Danny.

A very simple date is all she wants.  But Jessica's mind is getting the best of her.  It's been so long since Danny shared how he felt about Jessica, and maybe he didn't feel that way about her anymore?

**

A little later Anjelica was down for a nap, and Isla was not..

"I'm gonna get you! I'm gonna get you!" Sarah chased her around the house.

"Sarah, she needs to take a nap."

"Say no I don't, Mommy!"

"No me don't, Mama!"

Jessica sighs and gives in.

Catherine catches Isla and puts her on her hip.

"Sarah, her mother wants her to take a nap."

"It's okay, Catherine.  She's having too much fun, she won't nap anyway."

"It's been a long day so far, she'll nap.  Here Isla, go with mommy."

"Gaga me play!"

"No, aunt Sarah is a bad influence on you."

Sarah makes a face and makes her way to the couch.

Jessica takes Isla and puts her down in her crib.

"Mommy I a big girl and big girls don't take naps!"

"Yes they do!  Mommy's gonna take one too."

"Uncle Danny not!"

"Yes he is!"

"No!"

"Yes he is, Isla."

"DANNYYYYY!" Isla shouts.

"Shh!  Isla, don't shout, the babies are sleeping!"

"DANNYYYY!" She shouts once again.

Danny walks in and asks, "What's wrong?"

"You take a nap?"

"Yes." Jessica gives him a look.

"Yeah Isla, I was just going down for one."

"Take me!" She lifts her hands in the air. "I nap wih you an mommy."

"Isla."

"It's okay!  Come on mommy, let's nap."
Danny takes Isla to Jessica's bed and Jessica chuckles.

"Come Mommy!" Isla smiles and pats the bed.

Jessica walks over and gets into bed.

"Cuddle Eye-yu!" Isla still couldn't quite say her name.

Danny and Jessica face towards Isla and place one hand on her.

"Mmm.. Dis nice, guys."

Jessica chuckles and takes in the beautiful sight in front of her.

**

Danny and Jessica napped longer than Isla.  When Isla woke up she stood on the bed and started jumping up and down.

"Nap over!  Nap over!"

Jessica stretches and takes a deep breath in.
"You're up, Isla bug?"

"Yeah, I weady for food!"

"Okay, hang on a second.  Let me just get up."

Sarah then slowly opens the door.
"Hey you're all up!"

"YEAH!" Isla smiles and lifts her arms.

Sarah giggles and picks her up.

"I hungwy."

"Me too!"

"To Gagaaaa!"

"To Gaga!" Sarah lifts her fist in the air and takes off downstairs.

Jessica chuckles and lays down, letting out a deep breath.

"You still sleepy?" Danny asks.

"Always."

"Having a two year old must be tough.."

"Very!  I love my daughter, but these two's.. holy cow! It's been the hardest two months of my life."

"I can't even imagine.  But you're an incredible mom, Jessica."

Jessica smiles. "Thank you.
.. Danny, I wanted to talk to you about something.."

"Yeah I want to talk to you about something too."

"Well you go first!" She smiles.  Jessica hoped Danny might bring up their relationship first.

"Okay.." Danny starts. "You um.. well.."

"Yesss?"

Danny sighs and says, "You know Claire Stewart?"

"Yeah.."

"Well we're going out next week."

"Oh."

"I just.. I felt I should tell you.."

Jessica shrugs. "You don't have to tell me anything, Danny.."

"Well we both said—"

"We were so young when we said that. That was a while ago.  Go and have fun." Jessica tried her best to hide her sadness.

"You sure?"

"Yes, Daniel!" Jessica says standing. "It was a long time ago when we talked about that.."

"Yeah.. it was.."

"So go.
I'm gonna go check on Isla."

"Alright."

Jessica walked out of the room and felt like bursting into tears. "She was ready, and now he's going on a date with another girl. The truth is, Danny didn't want to date this girl, but she kept asking so he gave in. He would rather be with Jessica, but her answer made him think she was over him. Danny took a moment alone before making his way to the living room."