Epilogue (II): Queen of my heart

Kelvin Junior was a crybaby. He cried more than his elderly siblings but Leila loved her last child the same way she loved the twins. Asides from his crying, he could be a sweetheart. She watched with a smile as he crawled from one end of his playroom to the other. Camilla and Calvin were out there with Kelvin. Kelvin Jr stopped to pick up a toy, then he flung it in her direction. Leila picked it up and the waterworks began. 

“KJ, the crybaby,” she teased. 

At first, it felt like a joke to Leila until she realised he wasn’t stopping anytime soon. Lifting him off the ground, she bopped his back and moved from one end of the room to the other but he wouldn’t stop crying. She sang a baby tune, cooed but he cried harder. 

The door to the playroom opened, Kelvin’s head poked inside and the door widened to reveal the twins. She groaned at the stains on their shirts, they hobbled inside in their mismatched shoes and hugged t