Emergent

                                    

                                          
Logan's POV- 
One Saturday in October, Colin and Stephanie came over with Archie, Cameron, and Ava. The kids were all downstairs in the playroom, and the rest of us were in the living room. I had Aria on my lap and Rory was holding Willow. 
"Can you say dada?" I asked. 
"No, because they're gonna say mama first" Rory said 
"How old are they now?" Stephanie asked. "9 months?" 
"Yeah" Rory said
"You know that's how old Tori was when I met her" I said 
"God, it feels like yesterday that Tori was this small" Rory said. "I mean these 2 are smaller than she was because they're preemies, but you get the point" 
Just then we heard shouting downstairs. 
"Hey, what's going on?" Colin shouted
"Nothing!" Cameron shouted back
"Please tell me that he's not a total terror at school" Stephanie said 
"He's great" 
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Rory's POV-
I was watching over my students who were having silent reading time, when the classroom door opened. It was Evelyn, she worked in the office. 
"What's going on?" I asked quietly
"Your daughter is in nurse Rachel's office. She has a fever and she threw up so she needs to go home. And she's asking for you so since there's less than an hour left to school, I'll take over for you here, and you can take your daughter home" she told me
"Ok, thank you" I said. I grabbed my stuff and headed to the nurse's office. Tori didn't get sick often, but when she did it was usually pretty bad. I got to the nurse's office where Tori was laying down and I sat next to her. "What's wrong, baby?" 
She just moved to put her head in my lap and I brushed her hair out of her face. 
When we got home, I gave her a bath, some water, and some juice, before putting her in bed. 
"Is she ok?" Logan asked when I say down next to him on the couch. 
"She said her stomach hurts" I told him. "I think she probably just has a stomach bug because a bunch of the students have had it lately, but I'll keep an eye on her" 
He nodded. "I got you something by the way" 
"What?" 
"Kitchen counter" he said. 
I got up and he followed me into the kitchen where I found pumpkin spice Oreos. Fun fact: when I was pregnant with the twins, I ate a lot of those. 
"I saw them in the store today, so I thought I'd grab them" He said. 
"Thank you" 
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A couple of weeks after we moved, we started putting the babies to sleep in their own room at night, which meant that if Logan and I wanted to watch a movie before we went to sleep, we could watch it in bed without having to worry about bothering the babies. We were about halfway through a movie when we heard crying, but it wasn't the babies, it was Tori. She'd spent the afternoon going between her bed and the couch, before going to sleep a little earlier than I liked. She didn't want to eat. She didn't want to drink. She didn't want to read, or watch tv. She just laid in bed or on the couch doing nothing. I did get her to drink some juice, but she wouldn't eat anything all day, and I was also told that she hadn't eaten lunch.