Your name is [name_f]Isabella[/name_f] [name_m]Norton[/name_m]. You are 21 year old third-year college student attending the United States [name_f]Air[/name_f] Force Academy and are in need of a summer job. You complain about this to one of your teachers, Professor [name_f]Trudy[/name_f], and she tells you that her cousin, [name_m]Isaiah[/name_m] [name_m]Beckett[/name_m], is looking for a new nanny. While you do like kids, being someone’s nanny doesn’t sound appealing to you. But student loans need to be paid, so you swallow your pride when your professor puts in a good word for you and you go in for an interview with the man’s secretary.
Two weeks after the first interview, you are called back in for follow-up questions. You passed the first part, now comes the real test: how you interact with the boss’s child, [name_f]Elisabeth[/name_f] [name_f]Jolie[/name_f] [name_m]Beckett[/name_m] (4).
To your surprise and delight, [name_f]Elisabeth[/name_f] [name_f]Jolie[/name_f] is sweet and well-behaved. She takes an instant liking to you and you like her as well. According to the secretary, Mr. [name_m]Beckett[/name_m] is pleased and you’re scheduled to start as soon as school lets out as the family’s new live-in nanny.
The [name_m]Beckett[/name_m] house is old fashioned but in good condition, with a large neatly-trimmed yard and a dark interior.
The family lives in [name_u]Colorado[/name_u] Springs, an hour’s drive away from the town where you school is located. The first day you start you meet your boss, Mr. [name_m]Beckett[/name_m], an attractive, well-dressed businessman in his late thirties. He’s nice to you and pays you well, as well as gives you all the necessities to look after the children during the day. But you’re simply the nanny. [name_m]Isaiah[/name_m] works normal business hours and is always home before his kids go to bed. You like him–a lot.
While your boss takes the kids out for a day to give you some time off, you use the opportunity to interrogate the housekeeper, [name_m]Ben[/name_m]. You’ve never seen Mrs. [name_m]Beckett[/name_m] and you’re wondering where she is. The housekeeper tells you that the misses left the boss for a former business partner two years ago. She signed over all her parental rights to her ex-husband and no one has heard from her since. The housekeeper also mentions that before the divorce, the boss was so caught up in his family’s business firm he hardly paid attention to the kids. But since their mother left, he feels awful, as he feels it’s his fault, and indulges the children with whatever they want.
For the rest of the summer, you go on day trips with the kids and, more often than not, their dad tags along. But as the new school term approaches, you talk to your boss regarding your work schedule. You want to continue to be the children’s nanny, but you’re worried it could interfere with your schooling. He understands and you two come to an agreement: you’ll be a back-up for the new nanny, who was the runner-up after you, in case she gets fired or is on vacation.
Two months into your final year of college, you get a surprising phone call from [name_m]Isaiah[/name_m]. He asks if you’re doing anything [name_m]Saturday[/name_m] night. You say no, you have the night off from your new job, a waitress at a local coffee shop. He wants to know if you would like to go out to dinner with him. You’re caught off guard, no clue to how to respond to something as ironically cliche as dating the nanny. He admits he’s been thinking a lot about you lately and apologizes if he’s bothered you. You reassure him it’s OK and say yes to dinner. You date for five years.
After you graduate from college, you move in with [name_m]Isaiah[/name_m] and his kid, but as his new girlfriend, not the nanny. [name_f]Elisabeth[/name_f] loves you and you love her, as well as their father. He lets you have your own career in missile maintenance and doesn’t expect you to come work for him at his family’s firm or be a trophy wife, which makes you love him more. On a special holiday, he asks you to marry him, and a year later the two of you have a large, glamorous vacation wedding. He proposes on [name_u]Christmas[/name_u] day and you honeymoon in [name_f]Barcelona[/name_f], Spain. The engagement ring is a diamond enveloped by a criss-crossing silver band. Your dress is long and white with a sweetheart neckline.
You and [name_m]Isaiah[/name_m] stay another week for a small honeymoon when the guests leave for home and the children stay with your in-laws at their house in Boulder. Three months after you come home, you find out you’re pregnant. Of course, you and [name_m]Isaiah[/name_m] weren’t planning on having kids so early, but why would you wait any longer? You have a baby boy named [name_m]Elijah[/name_m] [name_u]Finn[/name_u] [name_m]Beckett[/name_m].
3 years pass after your baby is born. Your oldest step-child [name_f]Elisabeth[/name_f], now 12, comes home from school very, very upset. She swears she saw their mother watching her as she was leaving school. Sure enough, an hour later, your husband’s ex-wife, [name_f]Renee[/name_f], is at the front door. She is eight and a half-months pregnant. She says that her latest husband left her after she found out she was pregnant with triplets. She doesn’t want the babies, but feels that they should be with its half-siblings. You can tell this woman is trouble and leaving children with her would be a bad idea. [name_m]Isaiah[/name_m] agrees and you adopt [name_m]Jacob[/name_m] [name_m]Simon[/name_m] Sartre, [name_m]Nicholas[/name_m] [name_m]Levi[/name_m] Sartre, and [name_u]Sam[/name_u] [name_m]William[/name_m] Sartre after they are born. The mother disappears, but 3 months later, your husband receives word that the woman accidentally overdosed and died. Then, 6 weeks later, you find out you’re pregnant with twin girls, [name_f]Clementine[/name_f] [name_f]Ivy[/name_f] [name_m]Beckett[/name_m] and [name_f]Cordelia[/name_f] [name_f]Violet[/name_f] [name_m]Beckett[/name_m].
5 years later, an event stirs up your family. You discover you have a teenage half-sister, [name_f]Angelina[/name_f], who is in need of guardianship. You take her in. [name_f]Angelina[/name_f] is wild and rebellious, but you expect that since she’s grown up in foster care for most of her life. Your mom is mad at you for taking in your father’s illegitimate child, but you know you did the right thing. Once your sister realizes she’s not going anywhere, she settles down and her behavior changes. Then, she finds out she’s pregnant–and she doesn’t know who the father is. You and your husband don’t know what to think, but you support her decision to keep her baby and promise to do whatever you can to help her. The day after your sister finds out she’s pregnant, you find out you’re pregnant with a son, [name_m]Oskar[/name_m] [name_m]Sebastian[/name_m] [name_m]Beckett[/name_m].
Your nephew is named [name_m]Joshua[/name_m] [name_m]Christopher[/name_m].
