Emma Nelson sat waiting in the dot for her younger cousin Rebecca to appear. Out of the blue last night Becca had emailed Emma begging for her help with something she wouldn't say and asked Emma to meet her here at 5:00 o'clock.
Hearing the bell above the door ring as the door was opened, Emma turned to see who was coming in when she suddenly spotted a very big and very pregnant Becca.
She watched as her little cousin looked around for her and was tempted to just leave when she saw the look of pain and worry in her eyes. "Becca over here!" she called out, and watched as the young girl finally saw her big cousin. "Uh Emma thank God!" she said as she ran over to the cousin she barely knew.
The two girls had only met each other a few times in their lives' being related on Emma's dads side who didn't really like to acknowledge the fact her parents had had her in junior high. Still the girls were surprisingly close. Texting and emailing each other all the time. Emma couldn't help but feel a little hurt, as she hugged Becca, that she didn't tell Emma about the pregnancy.
"Becca what's going on are you okay?" oooo bad choice of words Emma thought as she watched her little cousin start tearing up again.
"I'm okay if you call being knocked up at fifteen and being forced to go live at some secret teen mom facility not to mention my parents disowned me and said I am the biggest disgrace to our family, so yeah I'm okay Em." Rebecca sobbed as she was pulled into a hug.
The girls sat there for twenty minutes just hugging each other until Emma pulled away. "Becca why didn't you tell me sooner?" it took a minute for the young girl to stop crying and answer Emma.
"When my parents found out they immediately sent me away to the teen mother's home that Grandfather and Grandmother wanted your mom to go to. They didn't want to be embarrassed by me so I wasn't allowed to call or email anybody. It was horrible being there Emma", she said shuddering at the thought. So many rules to follow and if you didn't you were punished. We were on a fieldtrip when I finally ran away. I stayed at a shelter last night and that's when I was able to email you."
"I'm glad you left Becca," Emma said reaching across their table to take her cousin hand in hers, "And I'm glad you came here whatever I can do to help I will I promise you that." She stated smiling at the relief appearing on Rebecca's face.
"Oh Emma thank you, I was so worried that you wouldn't want anything to do with me like the rest of our family." Rebecca said.
"First off Becca those people aren't my family, I only consider you to be since you don't treat me different for being the bastard of two teen parents. Second Becca I could never feel that way towards you, you've been like my little sister since I met you seven years ago. So you're stuck with me sweetie." Emma said jokingly.
"Haha Emma well I guess you stuck with me too, and I'm sorry for how the rest of them treated you. I'm glad I came to you." Rebecca said for once in a long time happy.
"I'm glad too, now come on." Emma said standing and waiting to help her cousin to her feet.
"Where are we going?" Rebecca said slowly getting up and following Emma out of the Dot and down the street.
"To talk to Spike and Snake and tell them what you told me." Emma replied turning down an unfamiliar street.
"Who are Spike and Snake?" Rebecca asked as she stopped and look quizzically at her cousin.
"Oh right you haven't spent much time her. Well Spike is really my mom Christine it's just her nickname since well forever, and Snake is my stepdad Archie who you haven't met yet I don't think." Emma said the turned to continue down the street.
"Interesting nickname, but how do you think they'll react to this." Rebecca said gesturing towards her stomach."
"Well mom will probably get pissed like she does every time dads side of the family is mention, then she'll probably really understand. I mean she went through the same thing but was younger than you even. Now Archie well it's hard to say how he will react, but mom wears the pants in the relationship." Emma said guiding Rebecca farther down the street passing house after house.
The rest of their walk was in silence as each girl had a lot on their mind. Final after ten more minutes of walking, Emma turned and opened the gate to the yard of one of the biggest houses on the street. Emma grabbed arm Rebecca and led them down the short sidewalk path, up the steps to porch and to the front door of the house.
"What's with all the boxes?" Rebecca asked as she followed Emma inside, taking notice of all the boxes piling around the spacious room that held three brown sofas and a TV.
"Oh we just moved in a week ago, the old house was really small I even had to sleep in the basement for the year." Emma stated walking into what seemed to be the living room. "Mom I'm back, come check out who's with me!" Emma shouted turning to smile reassurance at her extremely nervous cousin.
"Who is it Emma?" Spike said walking in and surprised to find a nearly crying and pregnant teenage girl standing next to her daughter.
"Mom you remember my cousin Rebecca right, she Patrick's youngest!" Emma answered, and the sitting down on one the comfy brown sofa.
"Of course I do." Spike replied gesturing for the pregnant teen to take a seat.
"Thanks Mrs. Nelson." Rebecca said as she took a seat next to Emma on the comfy brown sofa.
"Please call me Spike or even Aunt Christine, anything but Mrs. Nelson, makes me think my mother's here." She said smiling at the obviously nervous girl. "Now tell me what's going on here girls."
"Emma seeing how Rebecca was about to burst quickly filled in Spike on everything she had been told.
"Ugh those people I can't believe their doing this again and to their own daughter and granddaughter," Spike said angrily, "You know this is exactly what they wanted to do with me but luckily I had my mom on my side, and lucky for you Rebecca I'm going to be on your side. We have more than enough room now that we've moved to this house. I know firsthand what it feels like to be in your situation Becca."
Spike moved to hug the now crying Rebecca, "oh thank you so much Spike thank you." Emma couldn't help but join in their hug and pretty soon all three of them were sitting there crying.
The girls looked up when the front door open to see and confused looking Snake holding Jack and staring at them
"What did we miss?" Snake asked taking in the scene in front of him and his son.
Spike stood to go and kiss her husband, "Snake meet our newest family member Rebecca." Spike said daring him to argue with her.
Snake looked at his wife in surprise and seeing the 'this is final so don't bother arguing' look on her face, he moved to shake the girls hand. "Welcome to the family then." He said with a smile on his face.