The Kids Grow Up by Trish Hanan (novel24 .TXT) 📖

play board games and cards and Violet took every opportunity to flirt with Jake much to Harry’s amusement.
“If that girl wags her tiny titties at Jake one more time, I swear I’m going to punch her,” Kathleen remarked as they sat in the shade watching the kids play in the sand. Harry laughed and handed Emma a plastic star. She filled it with sand and dumped it out over her feet and giggled. Adam and Jackson were filling buckets and dumping them out and making a big pile of something only they knew was.
“She’s only embarrassing herself, Jake’s not even paying attention to little Miss Violet and her little titties,” Harry said and the wives laughed. April frowned.
“You’d better watch her, Harry, you never know with men, just when you think they won’t stray, there they go, look at David and Edna, she never thought he’d leave her and look what happened,” she warned him. Harry shrugged.
“If Jake really wanted to leave me there’s nothing I can do to prevent that, all I can do is be the best husband I know how to be,” he told them and they all nodded. Then the men returned with fresh cold drinks and Jake handed all of his kids a drink. He looked at the big pile of sand and then looked at Harry.
“What is that do you think?” he asked. Harry laughed.
“Whatever they want it to be,” he said and Jake grinned and kissed him. He looked at the bassinet in the shade.
“Do you think Ryan is up?” he asked. Harry grinned again.
“Probably, he’s most likely sucking on his toes, he found them this week and he loves sucking on them,” he told the others who all laughed.
“Megan found hers last week and she’s been sucking like crazy,” Kathleen said. Jake went over and picked up his son who was indeed sucking on his toes. He changed his diaper and brought him over to where everyone was and Harry handed him a bottle. Jake kissed his sweet little face.
“Sweet little baby, don’t you know how much your daddies love you,” he cooed and everyone smiled.
“You’re such a good dad, Jake,” Kathleen gushed loudly so Violet could hear. The girl made a face and rubbed lotion on her naked breasts flashing them to the group but Jake didn’t pay her any attention, his attention was on his son. He glanced up briefly but that was to look at Harry and exchange a smile with him.
“Have I told you today that I love you, babe?” he asked softly. Harry smiled and leaned towards him so they could kiss.
“I love you too, honey,” he said and they kissed. Kathleen smiled as Violet made a face.
In February Jan and Joy had their number ten child, a son they named Jeff, now they had Jamie who was seven, the six year-old twins Jason and Josh, five year-old Jon, four year-old twins Jenny and Jasmine, three year-old Jonah who was Harry’s contribution, two year-old Jeramy, one year-old Jean and now baby Jeff. Their family was complete and everyone breathed a sigh of relief. Wendy had her sixth and final child, a son they named Christopher. Now she had three from each man; Luke, Rachel and Matt from Roger and Ray, Debra and Chris from Zach. They were the only babies born in February and once they were born the group decided to try skiing again and headed for the slopes. The kids loved playing in the snow as much as they loved playing in the sand. Jackson got a little cold and fever though and Harry had to heal him. Jake laughed and said it was a good thing he was around, otherwise he would have worried.
The next night Harry was called to Carl and Jenna’s by Dr. George, little three year-old Victor had picked up a virus with chest congestion.
“He’s really sick, Harry, please heal him,” Carl said when he opened the door. Harry smiled and took off his coat.
“That’s what I’m here for, Carl, don’t worry, he’ll be fine,” he assured him. He rubbed his hands together and took Victor from his mom and hugged him. “There, sweetie, it’s going to be alright, you’re going to be fine,” he cooed, putting one hand on the child’s forehead and the other on his back. He closed his eyes and felt the illness leave the little body. Then he tickled him and Victor laughed. Jenna’s eyes got wide and she smiled. Harry jiggled the boy and laughed.
“See all better, now, I bet your mom has some pudding or something good for you to eat, don’t you, Mom?” he asked her and held her son who was laughing and smiling, quite an improvement from the sick, coughing child he had been seconds ago. Jenna grabbed him.
“I have vanilla pudding and Victor loves that; don’t you, honey?” she said and he nodded. Carl had tears of relief in his eyes. He reached for Harry and hugged him.
“Thank God for you, Harry,” he whispered. Harry patted him on his back.
“That’s what I’m here for, Carl, I’m only glad I could help,” he said and Dr. George thanked him for coming. He was called out eight times that week as eight more kids of various ages picked up the same virus. Each time the parents were happy to see Harry and thanked him.
Sunday at church Reverend Milo thanked God for sending down his Savior Harry to heal the little children. Harry sighed and hugged his daughter and thanked God for giving him the gift of healing so he could heal the little children.
Spring came and after the crops were in Harry decided to build two houses on the farm and make them craft housed for the children to get together and have some place to get together and paint and do clay and other crafts. The other farms thought this a great idea and they built craft houses too. It gave the older kids a place to hang out and he made things nicer for all the kids by building a bike path through all the farms and to all the farms and to the community center and to town. Now, even the adults could ride their bikes to town if they wanted to and the athletic ones loved him. Once again Harry was the man of the hour. He sweetened the deal when he and Jake handed out really great scooter bikes to all of the older kids so they could get around town easier. They really loved him then. Their parents thought he was a really nice guy too.
“Oh, Harry’s everyone’s sweetheart but we’re still banned, I hate his guts,” Violet snapped as she watched the kids riding their scooters. Susie groaned, all the kids had gone out to the Disney store and Sunglass Hut and Amy promised to get her a pair but if she couldn’t pick them out, what good would they be?
“I’m going to try to apologize again and see if that works,” Susie declared. Violet snickered.
“That’s not going to work, as long as you’re friends with me, he’s never going to let you in his stores,” she told her. Susie sighed.
“Why does he hate you so much?” she whined. Violet sighed.
“I told you, he’s threaten by me, he knows that Jake would leave him for me in a minute so he keeps me as far away from Jake as he can, but one of these days, I’m going to steal Jake away from him and Macy’s going to be my store,” she said. Susie snickered.
“Jake will never leave his children, he loves them too much,” she told her. Violet shrugged.
“They’re not really Harry’s, they’re more Jake’s than his, so if they got a divorce, David will make sure that Jake gets full custody and Harry will only get visitation,” she said smugly. Susie grinned.
“What are you going to do with all those kids running around the house, you hate kids,” she said. Violet shrugged.
“Fran can watch them, we’ll get the house, whoever gets the children gets the house and me and Jake will spend all of our time together,” she said with a dreamy look on her face. Susie wondered what drugs she was taking. Then she decided to visit her brother for a while, Violet was getting boring with all this Jake crap.
September twenty-seventh Jake and Harry flew to Mykonos to make their fourth baby there in the field by the waterfalls. It was a magical place and with the time difference they would be back around two in the afternoon. They laid a blanket by the shores of the crystal blue waters and looked around them at the six cascading waterfalls. The sun was shining and birds were singing and the smell of flowers was in the air. Harry smiled at Jake and threw himself into his arms. Wrapping his arms around his neck he breathed into his neck.
“Make a baby with me, Jake, I want a son,” he whispered harshly and Jake groaned.
“I love you, Harry,” he whispered just as harshly and they did it with the sun hot on their bodies and sweat pouring off of them. It was hard and fast and so passionate that they screamed with the released. Then they walked down to the warm waters and lazily swam in them. It was a beautiful day. They ate food off of each other’s bodies and drank wine, at least Jake drank cold wine; Harry drank cold green milk and laughed over it. His purple pixie eyes glowed and his movements were graceful and so damned sexy Jake took him again and again; he couldn’t get enough of him. They feasted on each other.
“Now, I know this one is a son, I can feel it,” Jake declared softly and laid his hand gently over Harry’s belly as they lied on the blanket, a cool breeze coming off the water to cool their heated bodies. Harry laughed and put his hand over Jakes.
“Oh, you know that, do you?” he teased him and turned his head for a kiss and received on. He laughed. “You haven’t been wrong so far. What do you think of the name Sean?” he asked. Jake smiled.
“I like it, Sean Talbert, that sounds nice, babe,” he said. Harry smiled.
“I like Daniel too, if we name this one Sean, let’s name the last one Daniel,” he said and Jake nodded and kissed him again. With a sigh they washed off in the lake and flew home.
The next day they took five kids in for check ups and Harry got his scan and Dr. George broke into laughter and shook Jake’s hand.
“You the man, Jake, it’s another boy,” he informed them. They both grinned. Jake leaned down to speak to Harry’s belly.
“Hello, Sean, your Daddy loves you,” he said loudly. All the kids leaned down to say hello to Sean. Dr. George thought that was cute.
“Good thing you two are so young, you’re going to need all that energy to keep up with all these little ones,” he said and laughed. Harry grinned.
“Its really not that hard as long as you stay organized,” he told him. Jake laughed.
“Harry’s really organized, trust me on that one,” he teased and Harry stuck his tongue out at