Me: I'm. . . B-a-c-k!

PPG & RRB: AP!

Me: HEY Guys! How's it hanging?

Brick: Nothing much. *Fist bump*

Butch: Where the heck have you been?

Buttercup: Yeah you've been very . . . inactive.

Boomer: Come on she's back.

Blossom: But the question is how come she's back?

AP: Well, guess what!

Bubbles: What?

Me: It's the one year anniversary of me posting Babysitting. So I decided to honor it by oh I don't know. . . maybe a sequel?

PPG: AHHHHHHHH!

RRB: SCORE!
Me: I know I left all my readers dangling, but I've had this planned for awhile and I couldn't say anything. But now I can! Shall we get started?

Everybody: Heck yeah! AP doesn't own us just her story!

Me: Sweet I didn't even know I had to say disclaimer. Moving on for what you have been waiting for, for . . . well . . . a year.

Previously on Babysitting:

"Blossom? Who was that?"

"Oh Brick, it was Bonnie."

"I'm so glad we stayed in contact with her and see her most of the time. I can't believe that she still loves to see us."

"We did basically raise her and we still babysit her."

"She said that she is starting to have dreams about you and me when we were taking care of her. You know when we were keeping her from Ace. I'm kind of worried. I don't want her to find out who her father was."

"We will get through this again."

"Brick, I. . . umm. . .I'm pregnant!"

"What!?"

"Hay Boomer!"

"I'm coming, Bubbles! . . . Blake! Brook! . . . What do me and Bubbles owe this special visit?"

"OH MY GOSH!"

"How did you know?"

"We've just been having dreams like this a lot now."

"It's always the same. A young blonde women holding a baby in a gray blanket."

"And a young blonde boy holding a baby in a white blanket."

"Never mind we can talk about it later. . . I can't believe I'm saying this, but. . . We're going to have a baby!"

"WHAT!"

"Buttercup, you're crazy,"

"If I'm crazy then you're a maniac for marrying me, Butch."

"Buttercup! Butch!"

"Beck!"

"How's your sports store doing, Butch?"

"It's doing great. I'll need you to come by."

"Physical therapy? It's going good. . . But in a couple months, I'll have to take off for awhile."

"She is going to be having a baby."

"Buttercup, there is one more thing I need to ask you."

"He had a dream about a girl and a boy, under a tree in the middle of the woods, holding a baby in a black blanket. . . . Let's eat and we'll talk some other time, okay?"

"Where are they?"

"Brick, they are on there way."

"I'm sorry Blossom, but I'm worried."

"I know. No one is as worried as me. Brick, she's like a daughter to me."

"Hey guys."

"Bubbles! . . . Hey Boomer."

"Sorry guys we are late."

"How's it going guys?"

"Nothing much, Buttercup."

"Sup bros? Long time no see?"

"Ain't that the truth?"

Butch took a seat across the table with Buttercup taking her rightful spot by her husband.

Blossom also thought that it was time to get on with why they were together again so she slid into the booth by Brick.

Bubbles also got the drift of what was going on so she went and sat by her hubby.

There was a moment of silence, before Blossom let out a huge sigh looking up at Brick. Everyone turned serious in that moment and looked at the two red headed leaders once more from when they were teens. When Brick grabbed Blossom around the waist she continued looking at everybody, "It's time to talk."

"What are we going to do about the kids?" Brick went on, starting the long put off debate.

"I say we just tell them," Bubbles shrugged.

"Are you crazy? What do you expect us to say when they ask where he is?" Buttercup countered, "Oh sorry, Butch, Brick, Boomer, and I killed your daddy, but it's okay because he was trying to kill you at the same time."

"But we need to get them back together. They are still the only things they have left in each others' lives whether they know it or not," Boomer reasons, "That would be like having all of us not knowing each other since birth."

"What do you expect us to tell them, though Boomer?" Butch asked, bringing up the question that is keeping everything under hush hush.

"The blues are right, but so are the greens. We need to tell the kids the truth while keeping out some details until it is the right time to do so," Brick stated sternly.

"Meaning when they are older and better for them to understand. For now, we can tell them they are brothers and sisters and say that their mother died when they were a couple months old when we found them," Blossom explained to the group.

"What if they start questioning about their daddy?" Buttercup still argued rolling her eyes. It's not that she didn't agree with her siblings it's just she was worried about the kids reaction.

"For now we say that he died too," Brick thought rubbing his chin, "it's the truth and I'm sure they won't ask about how he died. If they do ask about him we just change the subject without raising suspicion."

There was a pause as they gather the information and process things that could happen, might happen, and ones they sure hope to avoid.

"Are we going to tell them separately or in a group . . . together?" Boomer asked thinking of another issue.

This brought everyone to rack every inch of their brain not sure if there would be chaos with breaking the news in a group or benefits.

Bubbles was the first to think of an outcome, "I think it would be the best to tell them in a group. That way they can hear the story together and we don't leave anything out. They can finally meet each other that way, too. I mean they are all in the same boat together."

"That's true. It would be better for them to meet before and hear the story from one source so there is no confusion," Blossom agreed before everyone fell silent once more.

"So it's settled then?" Brick asked open to any objections.

Bubbles and Boomer nodded in agreement happy with the solution. Buttercup, on the other hand, looked up at Butch seeing if he was complying with what Blossom and Brick were telling them. Butch looked down at her meeting her eyes to have an unspoken conversation. After a couple exchanges of gazes Buttercup sighed, "Alright. It makes sense."

"Then we gather the kids and tell them. . ." Blossom looked around the small coffee table at her sisters, brother-in-laws, and her husband. She gripped Brick's hand more firmly as she finished, ". . . as a family."

Brick smiled down at his wife, that is until he heard her words, "Speaking of family Blossom and I have an announcement to make."

Blossom smiled knowing good and well what he was talking about and at all the confused faces that started to surround her, "I can't believe I almost forgot about that little detail."

"What are you guys talking about Blossom?" Buttercup questioned raising an eyebrow at her red headed sister.

"Well, let's just say that Brick and I are going to be having a new member of the family in about 8 months," Blossom finally confessed unconsciously putting a hand over her slim tummy, for the time being that is.

Brick put his forehead into the side of her hair, smiling at the fact that he was about to become a father with the woman he loved dearly.

As for the rest of the table, they were put in shock for a moment, but only a moment.

"No way!" Bubbles squealed happily, "Congratulations!"

"I get to be an Uncle, sweet!" Boomer said excitedly.

"That's great news, bro," Butch smiled, giving Brick a fist bump.

Brick went back to his earlier position in Blossom's hair, "Thank you everyone."

"Brick, I'm going to kill you for knocking up my sister!" Buttercup stood up.

Brick and Blossom quickly looked up shocked to the raven black haired girl, who had steam coming from her ears. Brick wasn't worried though because Butch was there to calm her pretty quick.

"Buttercup, come on. You get to be an aunt now," Butch smirked, sliding a hand up Buttercup's back.

This gesture somehow calmed the girl and she sighed, "Yeah, I guess so. . ."

"Since Buttercup is calming down would this be a good time to say that I'm also carrying?" Bubbles added sheepishly cuddling into Boomer's side.

Boomer was more than willingly to have this action from his wife. He wrapped his arm around her rubbing his nose into her cheek causing her to giggle. He was still in shock from the news that his Bubbles was going to be having their child. Each time she said it, it sounded like he was hearing it for the first time all over again.

"What!?" Buttercup hissed, but before anymore was said Butch grabbed her around the waist pulling her down into his lap.

"Buttercup, calm down," Butch said in an unusual sing song voice, rubbing small circles into her back. "Besides," a smirk now took its place on Butch's mouth as he nudged Buttercup's neck with the news he was about to break, "you know that you're just as guilty as your sisters at being pregnant."

Buttercup shut up and flushed with embarrassment as her sister's screamed, "WHAT!?"

"You're pregnant, too!" Bubbles asked excitedly completely baffled.

"Yeah, I'm pregnant too," Buttercup admitted not looking at her sisters, but with a smile on her face.

"Well, this explains a lot," Blossom laughs.

"What do you mean Bloss?" Brick asks into her ear pulling her close.

"I mean look . . ." Blossom pointed to Bubbles and Buttercup's drinks as well as hers, "Normally, Bubbles has tea, but instead she has hot chocolate since tea depletes iron levels in some people, Buttercup has water rather than her chocolate covered mocha, and I have apple juice rather than my normal coffee. It should have been a give away there."

"Oh yeah, I didn't even notice," Bubbles smiled.

"Nice analysis Blossom! You still got it," Boomer verbally applauded.

"Still as observant as ever," Buttercup shook her head at Blossom's obvious truth.

"Smartass," Butch teased when he realized that it was no doubt unexpected.

Brick smirked at Butch when he got a slap upside the head from his wife so he didn't have to do it himself.

"Ow what was that for?" Butch whined rubbing the spot on his head where Buttercup hit him.

"For calling my sister a 'smartass'," Buttercup told him, putting an arm around him and the other on her hip.

"Oh come on! You were thinking the exact same thing," he countered wrapping his arms around her waist once more.

"Yeah, but I'm her sister. There is a difference," Buttercup replied, poking his nose hoping to get him a little angered. It didn't work, just made him chuckle.

"But she's my sister-in-law. So it counts," Butch reasonably responded for once in his life.

"But you've never gone thr. . ."

"Buttercup!" Bubbles and Blossom screamed with tinted cheeks. Boomer, Brick, and Boomer tried to stifle a laugh as they clung to their wives to stay in their seats.

"Why were you about to say that Buttercup?!" Bubbles screamed quietly.

"I was trying to make a point!" Buttercup screamed trying to defend.

"It doesn't matter. Remember we are still in public," Blossom told her leaning across the table.

"Aww who cares," Buttercup waved off, "Everyone knows what happens to a girl during . . ." Buttercup suddenly stopped when she caught a side glance of her sisters shooting her looks, which could stop any murder, robber, or even Buttercup's big mouth. "Alright I'll shut up."

"Good," Boomer whispered playfully in Bubbles ear.

"So have you guys got a sonogram yet?" Bubbles asked, changing the subject.

"Nope," Buttercup said simply taking a swig of her drink and moving to her own chair, much to Butch's pout.

"No. It's a little too early, we need to wait a couple more weeks before we go have one done," Blossom clarified.

"Oh Blossom we still have to tell your father. Have you two told the Professor yet?" Brick asks looking towards his two sister-in-laws.

All the girls choked on whatever was in their mouths, after coughing a few times, a few pats on the back from their husbands, the girls were finally able to clear their throat to look at each other, "Oh man!"

Me: What do you think? I hope ya'll aren't to upset with me for leaving ya'll at a cliffhanger on my last story.

Butch: Oh we weren't mad AP . . . we were pissed off!

Buttercup: No kidding! Who the heck does that to their readers.

Brick: Oh give it up you two.

Blossom: Don't mind them AP they missed you the most.

Me: I figured. =P Before I forget I might not be updating regularly, but I'll try. Bubbles you had something to say?

Bubbles: Yeah, so AP we were discussing the reviews you've been getting over the last couple months. What did you think?

Me: Oh yeah. When I was reading people's thoughts on how I left the story. Some people were like 'Oh my gosh! I can't believe you did that' Others said 'I like how you left it up to me' And I just laughed to myself each time thinking, 'They have no idea what is coming.'

Boomer: Oh and what are you going to do about your Life Lessons?

Me: Well, it's sad to say they are not going to be as redundant as my last story, but I will still have them. And to your luck there is one this chapter! May I start us off?

PPG & RRB: Go for it!

Me: AP's Life Lesson is . . . telling the truth. Now everyone has heard over and over again from their parents to always tell the truth, yada yada, but it is . . . the truth. Normally, the truth can be more powerful than a lie, but beware because sometimes the truth can sadly hurt.

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