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The Gang Today

Season Two

The Christening

Chapter One

Crystal Turtle, was the best dressed baby in LA, but no one would expect any less with Lisa Turtle for a Mother. It was a warm LA day in early June and Crystal Turtle, who had been born one month premature was now three months old and the centre of attention at her christening.

To everyone's surprise, especially Lisa's, she had taken well to motherhood. The nurses back in the hospital had said she and Darren were natural parents. Yet Lisa and Darren had been so overwhelmed when Crystal was born that they were suddenly responsible for this tiny little person. They had both taken two months off work when Crystal was born, but now their live-in nanny Sheila had been with them a few weeks. Sheila had been recommended by a designer friend of Lisa's whose children were going away to boarding school, so they wouldn't be needing Sheila anymore.

Lisa had a lot of new collections to work on right now, but she made sure she took breaks throughout the day to be with Crystal. Darren was home from Chicago most weekends and they gave Sheila her weekends off. Lisa and Darren were so in love with and fascinated by their beautiful daughter.

Lisa's pregnancy hadn't been an easy one, she had been tired all the way through, suffered with high blood pressure and when she was almost eight months pregnant she had got a severe kidney infection and they had rushed her to hospital and given her an emergency c-section. Born weighing barely five pounds Crystal had spent the first two weeks of her life in an incubator, her parents at her side twenty four seven, just wanting to be able to take their daughter home. Lisa had spent most of that two weeks still in the hospital herself recovering from the c-section and the kidney infection. But looking down at her daughter now, Lisa knew every minute had been worth it.

Lisa's parents had come up from Florida for the christening of their only grandchild and it was the first time Darren's parents actually had the chance to meet them.

Lisa and Darren had decided to make it a small ceremony for only family and close friends, despite the many offers from magazines offering thousands of dollars for exclusive pictures.

'Our baby daughter is not a show thing', Lisa had insisted on about the fifteenth such call she had , had in a day.

Lisa and Darren had then gone to a lot of trouble to find an out of the way small church and paid a fortune for some security guards to keep the press out and it had worked, they got the nice, small ceremony they wanted.

For once in his life Berry Dawson, one of the proud godparents, had shown up without a date, much to Lisa's surprise.

'No man on your arm today Berry?'

'No Lisa. This is a special occasion for you. I wasn't going to bring someone along that will be insignificant to it in a few months time.'

'Weeks more like', Lisa joked, secretly pleased about Berry's decision. She didn't want anyone in the pictures that wouldn't mean anything to her family in the future.

Lisa had wanted to design a christening gown for Crystal, but she just hadn't had the time, but luckily she had been able to use the family christening gown she herself had been christened in and her Mother and Grandmother before her.

They were holding the party after the christening in the function suite of a nearby country house hotel and they had decided to take the photo's outside the church before they went on there, as the scene outside the church was far prettier.

Making the decision of who to ask to be godparents had been difficult for Lisa and Darren, except for Berry of course. Lisa had promised Berry years ago he could be a godparent if she ever had any children. She couldn't ask all her close friends, but she had wanted to ask some of them. But in the end, the decision had been partly made for her. Zack and Kelly were already godparents to two sets of their friends children and had told Lisa, although they would be honoured, they wouldn't be offended if they asked someone else, even though she was a godmother to Sophie herself. Screech had told them he was too busy still trying to catch up on nearly sixteen years of Fatherhood to be a godparent as well.

Lisa had already wanted to ask Jessie and Slater but hadn't been sure how they would feel about it. Considering they couldn't ever have children of their own, she hadn't wanted to rub salt in to the wound.

In the end Lisa had decided to ask them anyway. She had gone round to see them on one of the rare evenings they were both home early and had taken the then six weeks old Crystal with her, even though Darren had been home.

'Look guys, listen. I don't want to upset you, neither am I trying to blackmail you, by bringing Crystal with me. But I was just wondering how you would feel about being Crystal's godparents along with Berry.'

'What about Zack and Kelly', Slater had asked surprised.

'Lisa, Slater and I know nothing about kids or being godparents', Jessie had told her.

'It's easy. All you have to do is buy them nice presents on Christmas and birthdays, treat them occasionally, just let them know you care and look out for them. You guys can do that , I know.'

'Lisa, I'm still not sure, can we let you know tomorrow?'. Jessie had asked.

'Sure, but I really hope you are going to say yes. Why don't you come and say goodbye to Crystal?'

'Sure', Slater had got up and held Crystal for a bit 'Hello little lady, you are going to be a heartbreaker, just like your Mother.'

But when Slater had gone to pass Crystal to Jessie, Jessie had made the excuse of needing the bathroom and when she came out, Lisa had put Crystal in her carrycot ready to go home.

'I'll call you tomorrow Lisa', Jessie had waved them goodbye.

'Okay Jessie, what was all that about?'

'Nothing.'

'Jessie, you expect me to believe that?'

'Okay Slater, I was too scared to pick up Crystal okay.'

'Why, did you think you would drop her or something?'

'No, nothing like that. I was scared how it would make me feel. I feel bad, it was selfish. I wouldn't pick up my best friends baby because I was scared how it would make me feel knowing I'll never hold my own baby. Then seeing you hold Crystal, it made me feel even worse.'

Slater pulled Jessie close to him and hugged her hard.

'Oh honey, is that why you don't want to be a godmother to Crystal?'

'Slater, I would love to be a godmother to Crystal for Lisa. I'm just not sure I can do it.'

'I'll be there with you, you will do fine, we both will.'

'I'm being silly aren't I?'

'No Jessie, your just being honest.'

The next morning they had called Lisa and said yes and when the day of the christening had arrived, Jessie had made it through the ceremony fine. She had put aside her own heartbreak and held Crystal for the first time during the ceremony for a few minutes and she was fine.

At the christening party while Crystal was being passed around among all four of her proud grandparents, Lisa had taken time out to go and talk to Jessie, while Darren was off with Zack, Slater and Screech, talking about baseball as usual.

'Thanks Jessie. I know this was hard for you, but I 'm so glad you did it. With you and Slater and Berry as godparents, Crystal can't go wrong in life.'

'Thanks Lisa, its an honour, sorry I was funny about it to begin with.'

Jessie hugged her friend and then she and Slater had to leave as they were going to visit Lesley at the hotel for the night as the christening had been in a village on the way to Palm Springs.

Ben Morris was boring Lisa's parents silly talking about his upcoming auditions to a performing arts school for when he started seventh grade in the fall. As they were leaving, Mrs Turtle caught up with Zack and Kelly for a few minutes.

'If that kid of yours is as good as he says he is, he will play all the teaching staff out of that school he keeps talking about.'

'Good', Zack had joked 'Someone else can listen to him playing the same tunes over and over again everyday and with any luck he will also learn a lot more new ones.'

When the afternoon party was finally over and everyone had left, Lisa and Darren took their sleeping daughter home.

'I'm exhausted, that's the last lavish party she is getting until she turns eighteen', Lisa had said as they put her to bed in her cot when they got home.

'Lisa, I know you, you are probably secretly already planning her first birthday party.'

'How did you know', Lisa smiled , as she had secretly already been planning the occasion.

Back at Screech's place, Screech was talking to his son over coffee.

'Do you know if you were christened Paul?'

'I wasn't. My grandfather said I was illegitimate so had no right. The two adopted children were christened of course.'

'I guess unless you are really religious its not much of an issue.'

'But Lisa and Darren aren't religious.'

'No , but I know they both went to church when they were growing up and their parents still do. Lisa always said she would have any children she had christened. That was back in the days when being grown-up was still in the distant future and I still believed one day Lisa would be my wife. I had a massive crush on her when we were in high school. Actually I think the time we had almost finished high school it had become more of an obsession than anything else.'

Screech then spent the rest of the afternoon reminiscing , telling Paul about all his failed attempts to win Lisa's heart.