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It had been five weeks since Helen and I had moved out of our family home and moved into Helen and Tommy's former home and we made it our home. Helen even put the photo of her and Tommy next to the pictures of me with my parents and brother, and next to the picture of us with Grace. Helen still thought of Tommy as family as did I and I just smiled.
The following week, Tommy and Barbara were engaged to be married and was also expecting their first child together. A couple of months later, we attended the funeral of Winston and I held Helen's hand as Grace sat on her knee and I placed a protective hand on Tommy's shoulder and he patted my hand. After the funeral, we had a celebratory drink at Albies, Barbara was now showing and she was happy.
A few months later, Barbara and Tommy were at our house when Barbara's waters broke and the baby was on its way. As Helen and I kept her calm, I had experience in delivering babies so I knew what to do, I helped Barbara to give birth to her baby which was a baby boy and I cleaned him up as he was crying. After cleaning him up, I wrapped him up warm and passed him to Barbara, 'He's beautiful.' Barbara said as she cried with happiness, I smiled at Helen and we kissed as Tommy gazes over his baby boy.
Barbara and Tommy decided to name their son, Winston Tommy Daniel Lynley, I just smiled at them as did Helen. After a while, Barbara and Tommy went to get their son registered and then went home to relax and settle into parenthood, luckily baby Winston was like Grace, a happy and smiley and he only cried when he wanted a cuddle or he was hungry.
Like me and Helen, Tommy and Barbara settled into a routine along with Winston, it was a seven months later, when we saw them again and Winston was growing up nicely, always smiling and laughing, which we loved.
In a way, I guess Helen and I each got what we wanted which was a loving family and neither one of us would trade it for anything else. Grace was still a happy child and protective of her cousin Winston, she visited her pony TJ and played with him. He was her best friend for life and she was the only one who could ride him.
The end.