Title: Power Of Love
Disclaimer: I own Alanna, Henry, Camille and Rosetta.
Summary: Evan's sister and her kids come to visit Evan unexpectedly. And Alanna has a surprise for her big brother…how will Evan react.
Dedication: To Shelby-thanks for getting me off my ass and posting more :P and to Haylz, Manda, Mandy, Blaire and Natty!
"So what exactly are you going to cook?" Jonesy was standing in Susie's kitchen, watching her grab some things out of the fridge.
"We are going to cook something really healthy."
"Healthy? Well what's the fun in that?"
"Jonesy, those girls are growing and they need a healthy and balanced diet to help them. I am going to teach you how to cook a nice vegetable stir-fry.
"Vegetable? Does that mean there isn't going to be any meat?" Jonesy's eyes widened.
"Exactly. Now I need you to start slicing these capsicums." She handed him a small plastic bag with three different coloured capsicums in it.
"What am I meant to do with them?" He asked.
"Slice them up." She replied with a laugh. "Please don't tell me you've never chopped a capsicum before."
"Umm…no." He bit his lip and Susie rolled her eyes.
"Come on I'll show you how it's done." She placed the capsicum onto the cutting board and began slicing it with the knife. "See, easy." She smiled. "Now it's your turn." She handed the knife to him and watched a he started chopping.
"No not so rough, gently and slowly. I don't want you cutting your finger off." She put her hands on his and started moving the knife up and down slowly. "Like this, nice and gently." Her mouth was so close to his ear that she had to whisper.
"I think I've got it now. You can let go." Jonesy smiled at her and she let go of his hand, blushing slightly.
"That's it, good." She replied. "Now just chop up half of each different coloured one and then let me know when you've done that." Susie quickly made herself busy by chopping up some other vegetables.
"Okay I'm done with these now." Jonesy announced once he had finished slicing the capsicums.
"Great." Susie had finished preparing the other vegetables and had started frying the onions and garlic. "Put the leftovers back into the bag and then they go into the crisper." She pointed to the fridge.
"Okay." He followed her instructions. "Now what?"
"Well, the onions are brown so its time to add the other vegetables. Once they have softened a little bit you add the noodles. Just make sure you keep stirring otherwise everything will stick to the bottom."
"Okay…" Jonesy looked at the frypan with a scared look on his face.
"Do you think you can handle that while I go and check on the girls?"
"I guess so." Susie held out the wooden spoon.
"Good. I'll be back in a minute." Susie walked out of the kitchen, leaving Jonesy standing over the stove, holding a wooden spoon. Jonesy looked wearily at the pan and sighed, placing the wooden spoon into the pan he started stirring slowly, making sure nothing got stuck to the bottom.
"Wow Evan Jones I'm surprised…you didn't burn the place down." Susie said with a laugh when she walked into the kitchen.
"Hey I may not know how to cook but that doesn't mean I'm going to burn the place down I'm not a child."
"Could have fooled me!" Susie teased.
"What was that?"
"Nothing." Susie bit her lip and smiled innocently at him.
"Yeah right. I'm going to get you for that!" He grabbed hold of her and started tickling her.
"No, stop it, that tickles." She cried in protest between her screams of laughter.
"That's the point." Jonesy laughed. He turned her around so she was facing him and tickled her more. Susie stopped laughing when she smelt something burning.
"Jonesy the stir fry!" Susie cried. Jonesy let Susie Go and quickly turned to the stove. He pulled the pan off the heat and then started stirring it straight away.
"Well I'm pretty sure it's cooked now!" He laughed and looked up at Susie.
"You idiot." She shook her head and laughed again. "Come on let's get it served up."
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"Well that didn't actually taste too bad considering you almost burnt the whole lot of it." Susie laughed as she placed her plate on the sink.
They had finished dinner and Jonesy had started on the dishes while Susie was settling the kids in to watch TV.
"I do believe it was your fault. You were the one that was teasing me."
"Well it's not my fault you're so immature!" She replied, poking her tongue out.
"Oh I'm the immature one am I?" He laughed. "Says she who is poking her tongue out like a 2 year old."
"Hey I'm more mature than you are!" She cried.
"Oh yeah?"
"Yeah!" She replied.
"Well…. take this!" He grabbed a handful of bubbles from the sink and threw them at Susie.
"Gee that's real mature." Susie laughed but in saying that she grabbed a handful and shoved it in Jonesy's face.
"Oi!" He cried and he grabbed more and put them into Susie's hair. Pretty soon they had started a massive bubble war and more water was going on the floor and on them than it was on the dishes.
"Take this!" Susie went to throw more bubbles at Jonesy when she slipped in the puddle of water. Jonesy reached out just in time and he stopped her from falling to the ground, however he slipped in the puddle too and they both went to the floor, Susie landing on top of Jonesy.
"You've got bubbles in your hair." Susie said, smirking at Jonesy.
"You've got bubbles in your hair too, and on your clothes, and on your face." He replied. He reached up and wiped the bubbles off her face, his hand lingering on her cheek for longer than it should have. They were looking in each other's eyes, so engrossed in each other that they didn't realize Camille and Rosetta had walked into the room. When the girls started giggling loudly Susie and Jonesy's heads both turned to the doorway.
"What are you doing on the floor?" Camille asked curiously.
"Are you going to kiss her Uncle Jonesy?" Rosetta laughed.
"Ooh Susie and Uncle Jonesy sitting in a tree K-I-S-S-I-N-G' the girls teased with laughter. Susie chose this opportunity to lift herself off Jonesy. However she put her hand in the puddle of water and succeeded in slipping and landing with a thump on top of Jonesy again. The girls burst into fits of giggles as they watched Susie and Jonesy scramble to their feet.
"Come on girls I think it's time we went home." Jonesy wiped the excess water off his clothes and turned to the girls.
"Aww but we want to see you kiss her!" Camille teased.
"Come on girls, let's go." Jonesy blushed bright red and ushered them out of the room. "Thanks for dinner Susie, and thanks for looking after the girls. The Boss has given me tomorrow off so I can go and find them a school."
"That's alright. It's been fun. Better than sitting at home alone. We've had a great day right girls?"
"Yeah! Can we come back again soon?"
"Of course you can. I think it's time for you to go home to bed now though. You've had a very long day."
"Okay. Bye Aunty Susie." Camille rushed over and hugged Susie's Legs, Rosetta followed behind her. Susie looked down at the twins and smiled. "Go on girls, off you go." Susie watched as they walked out of the kitchen.
"Sorry about the mess…" Jonesy smiled awkwardly.
"That's okay…I'll clean it up. you just get the girls to bed."
"Okay…night Susie."
"Goodnight." Susie smiled brightly at him.
"You were really good with them…thankyou."
"It was nothing. See you tomorrow?"
"Umm…."
"We're going shopping remember? To get all the things the girls need."
"Oh, right. Yeah…" he replied.
"Oh and Jonesy there's one more thing…" Susie said when he started turning his back.
"What?" He turned back to see her coming towards him. The next thing he Susie's lips were on his, kissing him softly.
"Ahhh…" he was unsure of what to say when she stepped away.
"Goodnight." She whispered.
"Ah…goodnight." Jonesy smiled. Susie followed him and as soon as he was out of the house she closed the door behind him. She had a huge grin on her face as she made her way towards the kitchen to start cleaning up.
Well I'm not too sure about the end of that chapter…but anyways. This one makes seven new chapters tonight Shelby lol. I expect a really big review from you Hehe! Hope everyone liked it!!!