Page 109 of Dreams Do Come True

Lyric nods and eats some potatoes.

Once dinner is finished and the table cleared, Jodie brings over the desserts she made and dropped off before the egg hunt.

These desserts are massive.

“Mint choc chip cheesecake, strawberry pavlova and mixed fruit crumble, with cream or custard,” Jodie tells us.

“Ma, these look amazing,” Ernest says to her.

“Thank you, darling,” she replies happily, before dishing everything out. The desserts are so big, there is enough for us to have some of everything.

Kean puts a little of the crumble and custard in Lyric’s bowl and hands him a spoon. “Blow on it as it might still be hot.”

Sal does the same for Connie, but he feeds her.

Ebby looks at Enoch and grins. “Want me to feed you?”

“Only if you want me to hide the coffee,” he shoots back, grinning.

Ebby shakes his head. “That’s not even funny.”

“Yeah, it is,” Xander says, smiling and licking his spoon.

We all laugh at that, but to be honest, I wouldn’t find that funny either.

Once the desserts are eaten,literally, there wasn’t even a crumb left, to Jodie’s delight, we clear the table and grab the bags we brought for everyone.

It was decided via group chat that, as there were so many of us, each couple would get an egg to share. We’d all end up with a lot, but still.

Emily starts and hands all hers out. She hands us an alcoholic one. We both laugh at that, just what we need. Lyric got another chocolate button one, and River got a sleep sack.

“Thanks, Mum, these are all perfect,” Kean says.

“They really are,” I add, looking at the sleep sack and showing Kean.

I hear River start to cry and stand up. “I’ll get him.”

I walk into the children’s playroom and unswaddle him. “Hey, Baba. Did you have good dreams? Let’s clean you up and join the rest of the family, hey?” As soon as I pick him up, he stops crying. He starts again when I put him on the changing table. I quickly clean him up, change his nappy and redress him. I tidy everything up and pick him up, and he stops crying. “I see, you just want to be held now, don’t you?”

He snuggles into my chest and sighs as I walk back into the kitchen.

While I’ve been with River, more eggs have been handed out. Looking around the table, all the children have lots, and River has a pile of presents.

“Thank you, everyone,” I say, as I sit down.

Ebby picks up a bag and starts handing eggs around. I look at the one he’s given us. It’s a three-quarter egg, with chocolate sweets inside. It looks amazing.

“Ebby, this is fantastic, thank you,” Kean says, smiling at him. “I wish I had room to try it now.”

It’s a sentiment echoed by all of us. We’ve had Ebby’s before, and they really are a delight for the taste buds.

Looking around the table, all of us are going to be overindulging in chocolate for months to come.

“My turn,” Molly says, cackling out a laugh, and opening her bag, pulls out large-sized boxes. She hands them around and pulls out six medium-sized boxes and hands them to Nora, Xander and Enoch and little ones for Connie, Lyric and River. She then hands chocolates to the non-witches.

I open my box and it’s a box of delights. Sage sticks, crystals, incense, blessing stones, herbs and a mini cauldron.

“This is perfect, Molly, thank you,” Sion tells her before I can.