Rainbows Ever After (Rainbows 1.50)

“He’s hers all right. The little guy had no patience, so that’s proof enough,” I said, moving to take a seat beside her.

“Mom,” Thea said sleepily, and my mother went to her. “Make them stop picking on me. I’m too tired to fight back.”

She laughed and sat on the opposite side of her. “Next person to tease my daughter while she’s defenseless will get a shoe to the skull … good enough?” She directed that last part to Thea, who gave her a thumbs up.

“So what did you name him?” Bethan asked, now sitting Tristan’s lap, and Bellamy in hers.

“Ulric,” Thea and I said together.

Selene and Ben both smiled, obviously knowing why, but the rest of my family was a little confused.

“It was my grandfather’s name,” Thea said proudly.

“Ulric Black,” my father repeated.

“Ulric Pierre Black,” I corrected, looking at my mother as she held Thea’s hand.

“I’m guessing Ulric Oidhche Black didn’t have the same ring.” My father pouted, and my mother groaned.

“Oidhche?” Selene asked, trying not to laugh.

“Levi’s grandfather, on his father’s side, was Oidhche Black, and to this day, Walter still believes I should have named Levi that.” My mother shook her head.

Bethan laughed. “Oh, that would have been awesome! Why did you strip me years’ worth of puns?”

“Hey!” my father said to her. “It means ‘the night’ in Scottish.”

“Night-Black,” Thea, said nodding her head. “That’s kinda cool.”

“Don’t—”

“Ulric Pierre-Oidhche Black,” she cut me off already going there.

“What … is he a prince? Why does he need four names?” I asked her.

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sp; “Because it sounds cool, right?” She looked to my father, who was halfway to the moon.

“She’s the smart one.” My father nodded, now holding Ulric. “Listen to her.”

Thea looked up to me, hopeful, and I lost the fight the moment she’d said it out loud. “Ulric Pierre-Oidhche Black, it is.”

“In honor of the little prince, and everyone looking so dapper, let’s take a picture. It is a new year, after all,” Selene said, taking out her phone.

“We should see if a nurse can take the photo—” Ben said, but Selene just shook her head. Reaching into her coat and she pulled out what she needed.

“What are selfie sticks for if not for group selfies?” she replied.

“On three, everyone say, 'Oidhche.'”

Both my mother and I groaned.

THEA

“Umm…” I yawned tilting my head to see Levi resting with his left hand resting on Ulric’s tiny bed foot. It was just the three of us again. Everyone else left once the snow fall got heavier. By the time they called us to let us know they were home, the snow had come down even heavier. The doctors told us to stay until the blizzard was over. We were fine but the cold weather and the road conditions on top of it still beginning new year’s, it was just safer. I wasn’t going to risk it with lunatics driving or the black ice.

I’m such a mom.