Eli: Hey all! We have reached the final chapter! *Shudders as Mako-Chan
Wolf snaps on party hat* Sorry to be making anyone cry, I didn't mean it,
honest! Yeah, Ashy, it me. As for a sequel. *evil gryn* for the last time,
here's the next chapter, Enjoy!
The living room was filled with laughter. The kids were all happy and chatting. School had finally ended a week ago, and they were more than happy about it. As usual, they celebrated the end of it on Teresa's birthday, as they celebrated the end of summer on the twins birthday.
Currently Nicky, Ben, Emma, and Dominic were battling out in 'Mario Party Ten' as Gracie and Chris argued over who got to take over whose controller when the battle was over. Jamie and Beth were on the couch, totally quiet since they both had gotten a scolding from their mother minutes before. Teresa was looking over her birthday presents. When she got to the one from Bethany and Jamie, she smiled. She studied it, trying to think of what it could be.
Teresa glanced at the adults and then looked to Bethany. "Beth, what's in here?" She asked.
Bethany just smiled. "You're gonna have to wait and see." She said with a shrug.
The birthday girl pouted. "Brat!"
Beth stuck out her tongue. "Bigger brat!"
"Biggest brat!" They both declared.
Gabe looked over. "Hey, get away from those gifts." He told her. He came over and took the gift from her. "Little punk, you know better." He said playfully. He looked at the gift and who it was from. He immediately went very serious as he began to examine the package. It was in the shape of a box and had pink and red wrapping paper, Teresa's favorite colors. He shook it, but it had no sound. Gabriel looked over his shoulder at who he knew had really gotten what was in the box. Ian smirked and Gabriel felt the need to reach for the Excedrin.
Just then, Emma beat the boys and the room was filled with them groaning and her shouting "Oh yeah, I rock!" The three boys winced and handed over their controllers over to Gracie, Chris, and Jamie. Dom went over and sat down next to Bethany as Nicky and Ben scooted back against the couch as the others began to play. "Hey, where's your friend, what's her name, Jenny?"
Teresa scowled. "She is not my friend anymore." She said bitterly.
"Why?" Ben asked.
"Because she likes to steal stuff! She stole my Mulan barbie and wouldn't give it back!" She said angrily as she sat next to Bethany on the couch.
"But you're Mulan Barbie is in your room! I saw it earlier." Gracie called out, not turning her head away from the television. "If she wouldn't give it back, how do you have it now?" She asked curiously.
Teresa, Bethany, and Dominic looked at each other and smiled. Beth leaned forward toward Gracie. "Oh, we took care of it before school went out." She told Gracie playfully as the other two laughed.
Sara shook her head at her daughter's comment. 'Yeah, Beth, you certainly did take care of it.' She thought to herself. As Danny looked at her. "Is that why you had to leave early the other day?" She nodded and he laughed. "What did she do to the poor girl?"
She sighed. "You don't want to know. Just be glad your children aren't trained up like little assassins." She told him. "At least she got my sense of revenge and not her father's. Lord know what would happen if she had THAT, slitting peoples throats and tossing them down stairs." Sara shook her head at the idea.
"Well, be glad she isn't a pair of demon twins who managed to get sent to the office the last day of school."
"Close enough." She mumbled out as she glanced back at the kids. "Beth, don't throw the controller at Nicky. No, I don't want to hear it. Just cut it out." She scolded.
Meanwhile, after several minutes of severe staring at one another, Joey and Jake went up to each other and shook hands. They hadn't exactly gotten along since their first meeting, one of their last crossings almost resulting in a fist fight. After at least an hour of Vicki scolding them, they both had decided to get along.
Vicki came up to them and smiled. "So you two do learn. Good boys!" She complemented as she leaned her head against Joey's shoulder. "I was getting tired of yelling at you two." She told them. They both laughed at that, making her pout and punch them both.
"Ow! I take it back." Joey said quickly, making her change from a fury to his girlfriend once again.
Luke and Lily were in the corner of the Living room, half with the kids, half with the adults. Luke sneaked his arm around his girlfriend. Stefan was looking over at them every five seconds, glaring daggers. When he saw the teenager out an arm around his niece, he shook his head. "She's too young a lady to be dating." He mumbled out.
Danny came up next to him. "Don't care for your niece to be dating my kid?" He asked.
He shook his head. "It's nothing personal against your son. She is so young, just sixteen. Dating at sixteen! Zu was kommt die Welt?" (what is this world coming to?) He tried to keep his voice down, even as he went off in another language.
Danny smirked. "Hey, don't worry about her. He was raised to be a gentleman." He assured him. Stefan looked at the teenagers once last time, before he nodded.
"Ja. He's a gentleman. He's a gentleman." He mumbled to himself, over and over again. Danny shook his head and turned to his wife.
"Luke's a good boy. He's way too worried, don't you think?" He told her.
Lee tilted her head. "No, actually I was thinking about the first time Una had a date. Now, who was it that had her date run away from our house?" She asked sarcastically. "I believe that was done by you." He glared at her and joined Stefan on the other side of the room.
The kids soon tired of playing video games. They had been playing them non stop the whole week before, and were now getting bored of them. Soon, only Emma and Ben were playing. The rest of the kids were sitting around the Living room. "I'm bored, what ya wanna do?" She asked them.
"Don't know. We just video gamed away everything we learned all year." Chris murmured as Nicky gulped down a soda and collapsed onto the couch.
"Caffeine... Good...." He mumbled as he snuggled into the closest person, who was Teresa.
"Nicky, off! You drool after you video game yourself out! And my Daddy will kill me if I ruin my new dress!" She told him as she attempted to shove him off. Unfortunately for her, he was too tired to pay any attention to her. She moaned as she tried to escape from under his arm. Bethany came over and turned him onto the other side for her. "Thanks."
"Welcome." She said quietly as she sat back down.
"So, what should we do? It's finally summer!" Teresa exclaimed. She wasn't tired from playing video games or too full from the food and cake and she wanted to do something.
"Teresa, we're tired." Gracie complained. "Really tired. I haven't been this tired since the day I had to go to court with Mommy and Daddy and the judge man was so boring I feel asleep at that big chair."
"Or the day Daddy made me train extra for super gluing the ninja stars to my ceiling so that I could have constellations to look up at." Bethany added.
"Or when me and Nicky had to clean up the garage by ourselves because we shot water balloons filled with pudding at cars from the front porch using one of our mom's bras." Chris told them as Gracie put her legs up on him so that she could lie down to take a nap.
"She didn't like that." Nicky muttered out, now half way between sleep and the real world.
Teresa pouted and wasn't satisfied with their excuses. "C'mon, guys, let's do something."
Dominic looked from Bethany, who was trying not to fall asleep next to him, to Chris who had Gracie partly over his lap falling asleep. "We're too tired, Teresa, so why don't you open your presents now?" He asked her.
She smiled. "Yeah!" She said happily as she looked behind her shoulder and called out to her father. "Daddy, can I open my presents now, plllllllleeeeeeeeeaaaaaaasssssssseeeeeeee?" She begged. She jumped up and down with joy when he nodded. She went over to the presents and sat down right next to them and started ripping them open. She didn't care if anyone was awake or not to watch her do it. 'Oh well, just means I get to play with everything first.' She thought to herself as she opened the gift from Gracie first, smiling even wider when she saw that it was a new Barbie doll.
"Yay! Doctor Barbie variant 251!" She said happily. 'Only about 25 versions more to collect!'
"How many more of those do you think her room can hold?" Ian asked Gabriel.
He shrugged. "I don't know, but I'm sick of them. If she gets another one, I'm going to gather them all up and have a couple of huge Barbie bonfires, sorted out by friggin' professional." He shook his head when his friend laughed. "Oh, you think I'm joking? Your kid can count how many Barbies she has on one hand. She has more Barbies in her collection than there are kids in her school. I hate those things."
"Hey, one day she'll be all grown up and moved out and you'll be missing those Barbie dolls." Ian reminded him.
Gabriel rolled his eyes and glanced over at the kids. "Yeah, yeah, yeah, and one day your daughter will be all grown up and moving out.... Right into Dominic's apartment." He said as he nodded his head toward Bethany, who was half asleep and leaning against Dominic.
Ian sighed. "He's just lucky he's her protector..." He mumbled as he glared at the nine year old. "She couldn't be civil to boys her own age that she knew all her life. She's known him for less than a year, and he turns her into a snuggle bunny."
"Alot sure did happen. Beth got the witchblade, Vicki and Jake got a divorce, and Irons is finally dead. It's hard to believe that it was just another year gone by." Gabriel said as he watched his little girl start to open her last gift. "And yeah, by the time she moves out, I will be missing her at this age, Barbie dolls and all. I'm just glad they don't grow any faster." He said in the most parental-person-watching-their-child-grow-up voice he had in him.
Meanwhile, Ian glanced at him and smirked. "Glad you feel that way." He said as he watched Teresa open the box she had just de-wrapped and pulled out a card.
Teresa looked at the card curiously and opened it. Her eyes went wide open as she ran over to show her father what it was. "Daddy, Daddy, look what Beth got for me!" She said excitedly.
Gabriel took the card from her hands and looked at it and found that it contained a gift card. "Good for a dozen Barbies plus accessories." He read out loud. He looked down at his daughter and smiled weakly. "Great, sweetie." He looked behind him and scowled. "Just great."
Sara watched as Teresa roused the kids up again, tempting them with her new toys. She saw how Beth woke up, but stayed glued to Dominic's side, the same thing happening with Gracie and Chris. She watched as her husband and best friend threatened each other with what they would give to each other's child in birthdays to come. She saw Lily and Luke try to sneak a kiss in the hallway as both of their guardians burst in on them and pulled them out into the Living room. And she saw the eye of her bracelet on her wrist glow brightly in anticipation to see what the children of witchblade would do next.
She glanced at each child, starting with Nicky and ending with Andrew. She smiled as she thought to herself. 'I have a feeling it's going to be another long year....'
The End
Coming Attractions:
High School Hell
Eli: Yeah, there's a sequel. Thank-you everyone for reviews! Bye!
The living room was filled with laughter. The kids were all happy and chatting. School had finally ended a week ago, and they were more than happy about it. As usual, they celebrated the end of it on Teresa's birthday, as they celebrated the end of summer on the twins birthday.
Currently Nicky, Ben, Emma, and Dominic were battling out in 'Mario Party Ten' as Gracie and Chris argued over who got to take over whose controller when the battle was over. Jamie and Beth were on the couch, totally quiet since they both had gotten a scolding from their mother minutes before. Teresa was looking over her birthday presents. When she got to the one from Bethany and Jamie, she smiled. She studied it, trying to think of what it could be.
Teresa glanced at the adults and then looked to Bethany. "Beth, what's in here?" She asked.
Bethany just smiled. "You're gonna have to wait and see." She said with a shrug.
The birthday girl pouted. "Brat!"
Beth stuck out her tongue. "Bigger brat!"
"Biggest brat!" They both declared.
Gabe looked over. "Hey, get away from those gifts." He told her. He came over and took the gift from her. "Little punk, you know better." He said playfully. He looked at the gift and who it was from. He immediately went very serious as he began to examine the package. It was in the shape of a box and had pink and red wrapping paper, Teresa's favorite colors. He shook it, but it had no sound. Gabriel looked over his shoulder at who he knew had really gotten what was in the box. Ian smirked and Gabriel felt the need to reach for the Excedrin.
Just then, Emma beat the boys and the room was filled with them groaning and her shouting "Oh yeah, I rock!" The three boys winced and handed over their controllers over to Gracie, Chris, and Jamie. Dom went over and sat down next to Bethany as Nicky and Ben scooted back against the couch as the others began to play. "Hey, where's your friend, what's her name, Jenny?"
Teresa scowled. "She is not my friend anymore." She said bitterly.
"Why?" Ben asked.
"Because she likes to steal stuff! She stole my Mulan barbie and wouldn't give it back!" She said angrily as she sat next to Bethany on the couch.
"But you're Mulan Barbie is in your room! I saw it earlier." Gracie called out, not turning her head away from the television. "If she wouldn't give it back, how do you have it now?" She asked curiously.
Teresa, Bethany, and Dominic looked at each other and smiled. Beth leaned forward toward Gracie. "Oh, we took care of it before school went out." She told Gracie playfully as the other two laughed.
Sara shook her head at her daughter's comment. 'Yeah, Beth, you certainly did take care of it.' She thought to herself. As Danny looked at her. "Is that why you had to leave early the other day?" She nodded and he laughed. "What did she do to the poor girl?"
She sighed. "You don't want to know. Just be glad your children aren't trained up like little assassins." She told him. "At least she got my sense of revenge and not her father's. Lord know what would happen if she had THAT, slitting peoples throats and tossing them down stairs." Sara shook her head at the idea.
"Well, be glad she isn't a pair of demon twins who managed to get sent to the office the last day of school."
"Close enough." She mumbled out as she glanced back at the kids. "Beth, don't throw the controller at Nicky. No, I don't want to hear it. Just cut it out." She scolded.
Meanwhile, after several minutes of severe staring at one another, Joey and Jake went up to each other and shook hands. They hadn't exactly gotten along since their first meeting, one of their last crossings almost resulting in a fist fight. After at least an hour of Vicki scolding them, they both had decided to get along.
Vicki came up to them and smiled. "So you two do learn. Good boys!" She complemented as she leaned her head against Joey's shoulder. "I was getting tired of yelling at you two." She told them. They both laughed at that, making her pout and punch them both.
"Ow! I take it back." Joey said quickly, making her change from a fury to his girlfriend once again.
Luke and Lily were in the corner of the Living room, half with the kids, half with the adults. Luke sneaked his arm around his girlfriend. Stefan was looking over at them every five seconds, glaring daggers. When he saw the teenager out an arm around his niece, he shook his head. "She's too young a lady to be dating." He mumbled out.
Danny came up next to him. "Don't care for your niece to be dating my kid?" He asked.
He shook his head. "It's nothing personal against your son. She is so young, just sixteen. Dating at sixteen! Zu was kommt die Welt?" (what is this world coming to?) He tried to keep his voice down, even as he went off in another language.
Danny smirked. "Hey, don't worry about her. He was raised to be a gentleman." He assured him. Stefan looked at the teenagers once last time, before he nodded.
"Ja. He's a gentleman. He's a gentleman." He mumbled to himself, over and over again. Danny shook his head and turned to his wife.
"Luke's a good boy. He's way too worried, don't you think?" He told her.
Lee tilted her head. "No, actually I was thinking about the first time Una had a date. Now, who was it that had her date run away from our house?" She asked sarcastically. "I believe that was done by you." He glared at her and joined Stefan on the other side of the room.
The kids soon tired of playing video games. They had been playing them non stop the whole week before, and were now getting bored of them. Soon, only Emma and Ben were playing. The rest of the kids were sitting around the Living room. "I'm bored, what ya wanna do?" She asked them.
"Don't know. We just video gamed away everything we learned all year." Chris murmured as Nicky gulped down a soda and collapsed onto the couch.
"Caffeine... Good...." He mumbled as he snuggled into the closest person, who was Teresa.
"Nicky, off! You drool after you video game yourself out! And my Daddy will kill me if I ruin my new dress!" She told him as she attempted to shove him off. Unfortunately for her, he was too tired to pay any attention to her. She moaned as she tried to escape from under his arm. Bethany came over and turned him onto the other side for her. "Thanks."
"Welcome." She said quietly as she sat back down.
"So, what should we do? It's finally summer!" Teresa exclaimed. She wasn't tired from playing video games or too full from the food and cake and she wanted to do something.
"Teresa, we're tired." Gracie complained. "Really tired. I haven't been this tired since the day I had to go to court with Mommy and Daddy and the judge man was so boring I feel asleep at that big chair."
"Or the day Daddy made me train extra for super gluing the ninja stars to my ceiling so that I could have constellations to look up at." Bethany added.
"Or when me and Nicky had to clean up the garage by ourselves because we shot water balloons filled with pudding at cars from the front porch using one of our mom's bras." Chris told them as Gracie put her legs up on him so that she could lie down to take a nap.
"She didn't like that." Nicky muttered out, now half way between sleep and the real world.
Teresa pouted and wasn't satisfied with their excuses. "C'mon, guys, let's do something."
Dominic looked from Bethany, who was trying not to fall asleep next to him, to Chris who had Gracie partly over his lap falling asleep. "We're too tired, Teresa, so why don't you open your presents now?" He asked her.
She smiled. "Yeah!" She said happily as she looked behind her shoulder and called out to her father. "Daddy, can I open my presents now, plllllllleeeeeeeeeaaaaaaasssssssseeeeeeee?" She begged. She jumped up and down with joy when he nodded. She went over to the presents and sat down right next to them and started ripping them open. She didn't care if anyone was awake or not to watch her do it. 'Oh well, just means I get to play with everything first.' She thought to herself as she opened the gift from Gracie first, smiling even wider when she saw that it was a new Barbie doll.
"Yay! Doctor Barbie variant 251!" She said happily. 'Only about 25 versions more to collect!'
"How many more of those do you think her room can hold?" Ian asked Gabriel.
He shrugged. "I don't know, but I'm sick of them. If she gets another one, I'm going to gather them all up and have a couple of huge Barbie bonfires, sorted out by friggin' professional." He shook his head when his friend laughed. "Oh, you think I'm joking? Your kid can count how many Barbies she has on one hand. She has more Barbies in her collection than there are kids in her school. I hate those things."
"Hey, one day she'll be all grown up and moved out and you'll be missing those Barbie dolls." Ian reminded him.
Gabriel rolled his eyes and glanced over at the kids. "Yeah, yeah, yeah, and one day your daughter will be all grown up and moving out.... Right into Dominic's apartment." He said as he nodded his head toward Bethany, who was half asleep and leaning against Dominic.
Ian sighed. "He's just lucky he's her protector..." He mumbled as he glared at the nine year old. "She couldn't be civil to boys her own age that she knew all her life. She's known him for less than a year, and he turns her into a snuggle bunny."
"Alot sure did happen. Beth got the witchblade, Vicki and Jake got a divorce, and Irons is finally dead. It's hard to believe that it was just another year gone by." Gabriel said as he watched his little girl start to open her last gift. "And yeah, by the time she moves out, I will be missing her at this age, Barbie dolls and all. I'm just glad they don't grow any faster." He said in the most parental-person-watching-their-child-grow-up voice he had in him.
Meanwhile, Ian glanced at him and smirked. "Glad you feel that way." He said as he watched Teresa open the box she had just de-wrapped and pulled out a card.
Teresa looked at the card curiously and opened it. Her eyes went wide open as she ran over to show her father what it was. "Daddy, Daddy, look what Beth got for me!" She said excitedly.
Gabriel took the card from her hands and looked at it and found that it contained a gift card. "Good for a dozen Barbies plus accessories." He read out loud. He looked down at his daughter and smiled weakly. "Great, sweetie." He looked behind him and scowled. "Just great."
Sara watched as Teresa roused the kids up again, tempting them with her new toys. She saw how Beth woke up, but stayed glued to Dominic's side, the same thing happening with Gracie and Chris. She watched as her husband and best friend threatened each other with what they would give to each other's child in birthdays to come. She saw Lily and Luke try to sneak a kiss in the hallway as both of their guardians burst in on them and pulled them out into the Living room. And she saw the eye of her bracelet on her wrist glow brightly in anticipation to see what the children of witchblade would do next.
She glanced at each child, starting with Nicky and ending with Andrew. She smiled as she thought to herself. 'I have a feeling it's going to be another long year....'
The End
Coming Attractions:
High School Hell
Eli: Yeah, there's a sequel. Thank-you everyone for reviews! Bye!