And she’d got mud in her hair. She liked Tomás, and Pilar. She liked everything except spinach. Mummy said she’d like that when she was grown up. Samantha didn’t think so. When it got to nearly winter she’d be four, and quite grown up.
She stopped to stick her bright head in a pot of scarlet geraniums. The spicy smell made her sneeze. She liked that, too.
She stumped up the final steps. Now she was going to teach her twin brothers to talk. They were nearly one year old, so it was time they did. Then she’d teach them to read, and draw proper pictures.
They were crawling all over the terrace, blue-clad rumps in the air, under the watchful eye of Mummy and Daddy. Mummy and Daddy were lying on the loungers that they always pushed together, and holding hands again.
They were always holding hands and cuddling. Samantha didn’t mind that, so long as she got her share. She loved them very, very much. Ignoring her babbling, wriggling little brothers, she flew over the terrace and hurled herself into two pairs of loving arms.
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THE UNEXPECTED BABY
First North American Publication 1999.
Copyright © 1999 by Diana Hamilton.
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