A/N: This takes place maybe a year after Practical Magic, and I've added three characters: a cousin, Lexi Owens (13), her friend Kate McPherson (13), and her guy friend/ possible love interest Patrick Lennox (14). Oh, and nothing is mine (except for the new characters.
"I Have Something to Tell You"
Frances Owens was sitting in the kitchen of the Victorian house that she shared with her sister and two nieces, Gillian and Lexi. She was pondering on when to tell them about what she had agreed to do. The question seemed to have answered itself when Gillian, Lexi, Kate, and Patrick walked in.
"Hey, Aunt Fran," Lexi said as she walked to the fridge.
"Hi," she replied, somewhat distractedly.
"What's wrong?" asked Gillian, who always seemed to pick up on those things.
"Noth-," Fran began to say, when she decided that it was either now or never, "I have something to tell you."
"Do you have some life-threatening disease, like Lampington's?" Kate spat out.
"Uh…" Frances said.
"Sorry," Lexi apologized, "She's been watching Last Holiday one too many times."
"So, what is it?" Patrick asked.
"I-"
Just then, Aunt Jet walked through the door, coming back from the post office. Sally, Gillian's sister, her husband Gary, and their children Kylie and Antonia followed her in.
"What's going on?" Sally asked the group in the kitchen.
"Aunt Fran wanted to tell us something, and it sounded important," Kate said, "And don't worry, it's not Lampington's."
"Good to know," said Gary, giving her an odd look.
"What did you want to tell us?" Aunt Jet asked her younger sister.
"Do all of you remember my cousin Alice?" Aunt Frances started.
She was replied with mixed agreement.
"Well, she and her husband Frank want a child, but they can't conceive, so they asked me."
"To do what?" asked Kate, always the dim-witted one.
"To be their surrogate, you spaz," Lexi replied for her.
"So are you?" Patrick asked.
"Yes," Fran replied, "And I found out a week ago that I'm pregnant with their triplets."
TBC….