Memories

A Nanny fanfic

Hey this is my first fanfic!!! So let me know whatcha think!!!!!!!

Oh….The Nanny isn't mine **Sob Sniffle Cry*** Please Don't Sue!!!!!

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11 Year old Eve Sheffield was so excited for her first REAL school dance. She had school dances in elementary school, but really, how much fun is a dance with dozens of parents crowded everywhere?

Now that she was in junior high, they had real dances, where your parents left after they dropped you off. She had gotten her entire outfit together, except for accessories… She looked everywhere for earrings, but had no luck. She decided to look in her mother's room

"Hmmm…this looks like it could be a jewelry box.." said Eve. On her mom's night table she saw a pink box that said "Shade of the Orient." When she opened the box, all she saw was some old photos of an unfamiliar house, and a soda can tab.

Just then, Max came into the room.

"Eve, Darling, what are you doing in here?"-Max

"Daddy, what's a `Shade Of The Orient`?"-Eve

"Uhm, Er, It's sort of a long story. FRAN!!!"-Max

"Max, what's wrong?"-Fran

"Would you help me explain to Eve what a `Shade of the Orient` is?"-Max

"Um, Well, Eve honey…. Shade of the Orient is a make up company that I used to sell door to door. After my ex-boyfriend Danny fired me i started selling make up door to door. I happened to arrive at your father's door selling make up. He needed a new nanny, and I was there, so I got the job...."-Fran

"I was in need of a nanny because your sisters Grace and Maggie, and your brother Brighton needed someone to take care of them."-Max

"Why didn't they have a mom to take care of them?"-Eve

Maxwell got a strange look on his face, like this was still very hard for him to talk about even so many years later.

"Honey, its okay, you don't have to talk about this if you don't want to." - Fran

Max takes a deep breath. "Its okay Fran. Eve, sweetie, they didn't have a mom to take care of them because my first wife, Sarah, died a few months earlier."-Max

"Oh, daddy, that's horrible! I never knew that you had another wife before mama.....I always thought mama was Grace, Bighton and Maggies mom, too."-Eve

"Oy, Eve, how old do you think I am?"-Fran

"Okay, back to the story. In a way, your mother kind of is their mother as well as yours and Jonah's. She raised you and Jonah and your brother and sisters for as long as Grace and Brighton can remember. Your mother had a very interesting style of raising your siblings, she was different from every other nanny that I had ever had. For the first 3 years, she was strictly the nanny. We had ups and downs in our friendship, but always managed to work it out. Then there was the flight to Paris and back..."-Max

"What happened next????"-Eve

"Well, your father had a buisness trip to France. He picked up the bag with Aunt CC's dog in it instead of his breifcase, so I followed him to the airport to try and give him the right bag. I wound up stuck on the plain, on my way to Paris with your daddy. When we got on the plane to go home, it felt like we were going to crash. Your father, in the heat of the moment, told me he loved me. Then we got back home, and he took it back." -Fran

*Eve its her father on the arm* "Daddy, how could you?"-Eve

"Hey, you didn't let us finish the story!"-Max

"Well, for the next two years, wwe had an on/off hot and cold relationship. About a year and a half after Paris, we went on our first real date. But I Screwed it up by dressing up as Yetta so Elton John wouldn't recognize me. A few weeks later, Gracie was going to Koorestan with her friend Billy over spring break. Your father had just started calling me Fran, and I wanted Niles to go with Grace so that I could spend some time with him. But, I went to Koorestan with Grace.."-Fran

"Wait, daddy, are you telling me that you told mama you loved her BEFORE you started calling her by her first name?"-Eve

"Well, um, yes. Well, in Koorestan, your mom thought that the sultan proposed to her, when in reality he just asked her to be his nanny. I came to Koorestan to get her thinking that he had asked her to marry him. When I got there, I told her that I loved her, and didn't take it back."-Max

"Wait, are you saying you waited 5 years to tell mama that you loved her....Why did ya do that?"-Eve

"Well, Maggie, Gracie, and Brighton were so attched to Fran I was worried that If our relationship didn't work out, it would hurt them."-Max

"A few days later, your dad was ready to proposeto me. He had a ring and everything, and the only person he told was Uncle Niles. He wanted him to keep it a secret, because he wanted me to be suprised."

"He wanted Uncle Niles to keep a secret?"-Eve

"Yes I know, not my finest moment. Well I told your mother I had dinner reservations and told her to invite all of her friends. Right before I was going to go home to go to dinner with your mother and her family, I was mugged outside of my office. They stole the engagement ring, and left me sitting in a pile of garbage outside the building. When I didn't come home, Fran was so worried that she went out looking for me. When she found me, I propsed to her using a soda can tab as a ring."-Max

" Aww, daddy, thats so sweet!"-Eve

"Right before we got married, your Uncle Nigel visited. At your father's bachelor party, Nigel accidently let it slip that he had asked me to marry him about a year and a half before the wedding. Your dad was angry, but he forgave me. On the day before the wedding , I went with Val, and Grandma Sylvia to New jersey to get some outfits for after the wedding. The car broke down, and after Val's mom let Daddy know that we were lost, he came looking for us. Then their was the wedding. It was almost perfect, except for the fact that Aunt Jocelyn upset me when she told me that 1. Grandma Elizabeth wasn't coming to the wedding because she didn't approve of your dad marrying me, and 2. That she and her husband were divorcing. I was upset that she and husband were divorcing because, like your father and I, they were from two different worlds. But we proved that a marriage like ours can work."-Fran

"Mama, I don't understand how grandma couldn't like you." -Eve

"Well, sweetheart, Grandma thought that mom wasnt right for me."-Max

"One last question. What Are these pictures?"-Eve....*Talking about the pictures of the unfamilar house*

"Those are the pictures of our old house in New York. I was a Broadway Poducer. Then they turned one of my plays into a sitcom and now we live in California. We moved right after you were born."-Max

"Thanks mom, thanks daddy. By the way, I need a pair of earrings for the dance tonight. Can you help me find some mama?"-Eve

"Sure honey, lets go look."-Fran

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Okay please review. I need to know what everyone thinks!!! Oh, and this isn't a one shot. Next time, Jonah asks Uncle Niles and Aunt CC about their relationship!!!!

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