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Love Is A Journey-Chapter 9

"Aunty Flo! Aunty Flo!" Sunny yelled at Flora, her hands and arms waving wildly in the air.

"Oh my gosh! Where is that girl!" Flora muttered to herself, on the verge of tears."Stella can't even pick up her own child! Like, what the heck?"

"Aunty Flo, I can hear you, you know that right?" Sunny asked, offended that her aunt had just said that.

"I know, I know. Jeez, I'm harboring a child, not deaf ears!" Flora retaliated automatically, feeling somewhat offended.

"Augh! Where is Sunny?!" Flora asked herself, looking through the crowd of first-graders.

"Aunty Flo, I'm next to you." Sunny said, sighing a sigh that was to big for her age.

"No your not, your out there somewhere!" Flora said to Sunny.

"Yeah...believe what you want, Auntyyyy Fwwwooooo." Sunny replied yawning at the end of her sentence.

"AAAAAAAHHHHHHAAAAAA! I finally found you! When did you get here?" Flora screamed at Sunny, who was in-between dreamland, and the real world.

"Seriously?" Sunny muttered,"I've been here the WHOLE FREAKING TIME!"

"What? For REAL? Oh, and before I forget, WATCH YOUR TONE WITH ME, and DON'T SAY THAT! THAT IS TOO CLOSE TO THE ACTUAL WORD FOR ME, YOUNG LADY!" Flora yelled at Sunny, who was sleeping.

"Hmmm...Wait, Barbie, come back, we need to finish building your Dream-house!... Ken...your so hot...Ken, your cheating on me WITH BARBIE? I HATE YOU!... Barbie, I hate you and Ken and all of your houses and boats and Dream-houses!...Your having a baby, Barbie?...Good-Bye, you big old pieces of poo lumps from a cow! I wish your baby will die in a pit full of horse poo!" Sunny muttered in her sleep, twisting and turning in her car seat.

In the time Flora had figured out that Sunny was asleep, she had been able to go to Wall-greens to bye some melted chocolate for her M&M, cherry, twizzler, turtle (candy), nut, and mint choco-chip ice cream sundae, complete with a cup of hot chocolate and a can of Ready-Whip.

Flora giggled to herself, stopping the car in front of Stella's apartment. Is that really what girls her age dream about? Flora thought, getting out of the car and going to the backseats to get Sunny.

Flora grabbed the spare key she knew Stella kept underneath her door mat (SO CLICHE, RIGHT?) and unlocked the the door, Sunny on her waist, still in a... not so peaceful slumber.

"Hello, anybody home?!" Flora yelled into the apartment, forgetting that Sunny's ear was right next to her mouth.

"Hmmmm,...Aunty Flo, where are-Mommy?!" Where are you?" Sunny called, noticing they were home.

"Honey, I don't think Mommy's home right now. Now, why don't we go pick out a couple of outfits. Seems like your going to be staying with me for a while, huh?" Flora says to Sunny, grabbing her hand and pulling her in the direction of Sunny's room.

"Really? I get to go home with you? I get to see Daisy? I get to see you and Uncle Helia kiss?" Sunny says excitedly, then adding solemnly "But what about Mommy?"

"Mommy won't mind. In fact, I think she'd actually want me to take you home with me. Come on, lets go find you a suitcase and some clothes to pack. Now, what's this I hear about me and Uncle Helia kissing?" Flora questioned her, walking to Sunny's room.

"Well..." Sunny began


"Hey Baby, how's the baby?" Helia asked Flora that day after he got home from his job at the hospital, kissing Flora right on the lips in front of Sunny, and then bent down and lifted Flora's "Harboring A Baby, So You Better Move" T-shirt , and kissed her big belly.

"We're good, thank you for asking Uncle Helia!" Sunny says, popping her head out from behind Flora's back.

"Sunny! When did you get here?" Helia asks, blowing raspberries on her stomach. (Sunny's, not Flora's.)

Sunny giggled "I've been here the whole time, silly! I even saw you and Aunty Flo kiss each RIGHT ON THE LIPS!" Sunny yells, giggling so hard that she was shaking all over.

"Well, would you like to see some more, Sunny-Bear?" Helia questions, glancing a Flora, who sat down on a near by stool.

"YES!" Sunny says, to excitedly for Helia's liking.

"Sunny, what did we talk about in the car?" Flora asks, knowing that Sunny would stop asking her and Helia to kiss if she asked that question.

"Well...Ummm...Pizza?"

"After you answer Aunty Flo." Helia replies, a hint of amusement in his eyes. He wanted to know about this little 'talk' Flora and Sunny had had at Stella's apartment.

"...You...said...anyone want a pizza? I sure do, so let's go. Aunty Flo is probably hungry anyways, right Aunty?" Sunny rambles on nervously, trying to walk through the kitchen doorway, which was guarded by Helia.

"Well, now that you mention it, I haven't eaten in 30 minutes, so I-Hey! You do NOT trick a hungry, hormonal lady who is carrying your future godbrother or godsister, do you understand, missy?" Flora yells at Sunny, angry for being extremely hungry and extremely pregnant and annoyed that Sunny had managed to get her off topic.

"Y-yes, Aunty Flo...ra,?I-I understand..." Sunny looked down, ashamed at herself for doing what she did.

"Now, answer the question before I send you to your room for the rest of the night, with only one slice of pizza, young missy!" Helia re-enters the conversation, getting impatient with Sunny.

"Only ONE slice of pizza! Are you out of your gosh-darn minds! Are-" Sunny quickly stops her hysterics when Helia gives the "Look," and mumbles "OK, I'll stop stalling. But, before I go into the story can I ask Aunty Flo a question?" After getting a brief nod from Helia, she turned to Flora, and said "I'm sorry for what I said. Can you forgive me?"

"Oh, Sunny! It's OK, I forgive you. That was just me being my hormonal self. I'm sorry,too!" Flora bends down, crying, and gives Sunny a kiss on the forehead and hugging her as well as she could, based on how pregnant she was.

"I forgive you. But, anyways, are you still up for that pizza?" Sunny smiles up innocently at Helia and Flora, who both had angry expressions on their faces.

"Or...you know, we could just order in?" She questions nervously, and then suggests "How about I go to my room now?"She replies to Flora and Helia's angry faces, which are both nodding furiously.

"But when am I going to get that pizza, though? Really?" Sunny yells, running up the stairs with two angry adults right behind her.


"Layla, I'm telling you, Sunny is a handful! She has been pressing my buttons all morning, starting with when she decided it be funny to put Daisy in her room, and take all my make-up, and play "Pretty Ladies." Flora moaned to Layla on the telephone, locked in her and Helia's bathroom at 11:00 p.m.

"I know, right! I am so sorry you have to deal with all this with no woman around. I still don't understand why Maya couldn't watch Sunny. I want you to be able to relax, though, because to much tress is bad for my soon-to-be niece or nephew, which is why, I scheduled a prenatal masseuse for you at "You Know You Want To for tomorrow."

"You Know You Want To" was the best spa in all of Gardenia, and it was super hard to make reservations at. Especially for a prenatal masseuse. On a Sunday.

"Oh my gosh, I love you so much! But, what about Sunny? Helia can't watch her since he's working tomorrow, and Maya almost burned down the house the last time she babysat Sunny, and that was Thursday. So what am I going to do with her?" Flora's grief was obvious, though short-lived.

"I'll watch her."

"You'll WHAT?" Flora yelled, the grief coming back like her nausea had this morning.

"Flora, Babe, are you OK?" Helia questioned from their room.

"I'm FINE! Just talking to Layla!" She replied, covering the phone with her hand.

"Well, tell her I said hi, and tell her to tell Nabu that we're supposed to hang out tomorrow after work."

"Tell Helia I heard, and I'll tell him." Layla said.

"She heard, Helia! She said OK!"

"OK, Love you!"

"Love you too!"

" But, anyways...I'll...Watch...Her." Layla said to Flora like she was Daisy's age (2) and couldn't understand what she was saying.

"I heard you the first time, you idiot! I just, I don't know. Do you think you can handle her?" Flora asked.

"Oh, no Flo-"

"Then why-"

"I know I can handle her."

That was the biggest mistake of her life.


"Bye Aunty Flo! I'LL MISS YOU! See you after your retaxation!" Sunny yelled out to Flora, who was getting into the cab that would take her straight to "You Know You Want It."

"Bye Sunny! And it's reLAXation, sweetie!" Flora called as the car drived off.

"So, Sunny-Bear, what do you want to do with me today?" Layla asked Sunny after Flora's car had driven off.

"First off, do not call me Sunny-Bear, that's Uncle Helia's name for me." Sunny said, annoyed at Layla, "And would you like to play hide-n-seek with me, Aunty Lay-Lay?" Sunny ended with a grin.

"I would LOVE to play hiding go seek with you!" 'Aunty Lay-Lay' said with a smile.

"OK, I'll go get Daisy so we can all play hiding-n-seek!" Sunny runs to the playpen in

the kitchen.

"Hey, Daisy, do you wanna play hide-n-seek with me and Aunty Lay-Lay?" Sunny asked the 2 year old girl.

Daisy giggled and nodded her head, as if she understood what Sunny had just said.

"OK, Aunty Lay-Lay, Daisy is going to hide with me!. You be the counter person first. You have to count to 100! I'm going to hide now!" Sunny's voice was heard down the stairs.

"1...2...3...4...5" She began.

"97...98...99...100! Ready or not here I come!" Layla shouted into the house.

Layla looked in the den, all the rooms in the downstairs part of the house, and in Sunny's and Daisy's room 3 times each, but she couldn't find them. She was about to dial 911 when Sunny and Daisy walked into the house holding a baseball bat, a baseball, and a pitchers glove.

"Where have you been! I have been SO worried about you!" Layla screamed, crying happy tears that they hadn't been kidnapped or anything like that.

"Cry,why, Ant La-La-a-a-y?" Daisy struggled to pronounce 'Lay-Lay.'

"Because you guys were missing that's why! Daisy you are going down for your nap as soon as I give you a bath, and you, Little Miss Sunshine Stellar Solaria! I will be dealing with you later! For now, get your skinny, white behind in the tub, and go say your prayers, because you sure will be needing them!" Layla yelled at Sunny and Daisy.

Sunny stared at Layla fearfully, and silently, the baseball gear forgotten on the rug where they had fallen when Layla was yelling while Daisy just sat there, playing with her bright yellow socks.

"I SAID NOW!" Layla yelled at Sunny, her voice bouncing of the walls.

"I'm going, I'm going!" Sunny yelled, running up the stairs, increasing slightly when Layla heard her grumble "Meanie-Face" and took another step threateningly towards her.

After Layla had taken care of Daisy, which included giving her no bedtime stories, not letting her play in the tub, and getting hit on the hand with a belt, lightly, Layla had gone to the kitchen, and made herself some Herbal Tea to calm her down before she strangled Sunny.

"Sunny! Come into the living room. And I mean NOW!" Layla yelled from the bottom of the staircase that was located, quite conveniently, in the living room.

Sunny walked wordlessly into the living and sat down in front of Layla in her Barbie and Ken PJ's, waiting for her punishment.

"Yes?" Sunny asked in a quiet, timid manner, which was QUITE unlike her, as she was always loud and bubbly like her mother.

"I want you to answer me one question, Sunny, OK?" Layla said calmly.

"What is it?" Sunny replied.

"Why?"

"Because you called me Sunny-Bear." Sunny answered carelessly, almost angrily.

"Because I CALLED YOU SUNNY-BEAR? What kind of mess is that?" Layla yelled at Sunny, outdone by what she had just said.

"It's MY mess! And MY mess is the truth! Uncle Helia is the only one who can call me Sunny-Bear. Not even Aunty Flora, or Mommy call me Sunny-Bear. They know what lines they can cross and what lines that are just forbidden to even think about crossing. CLEARLY, you didn't know this, so I decided to teach you a lesson." Sunny said, as if she were grown.

"You are a child, do you here me? A CHILD! Unless you can turn 18, get your own house, and get married right now, you do not disrespect me in my own home, DO YOU UNDERSTAND ME?" Layla yelled at Sunny,getting out her belt, and whooping Sunny on the backside and back 50 times each. Sunny was screaming and crying the whole time it was happening.

Sunny looked up tearfully and then smirked, saying ,"Actually, NO, I don't, so would you care to explain what you mean, because 1, this is NOT your home, it's Aunty Flora's and Uncle Helia's home, so I can disrespect you all I want, and 2, I can do whatever I ant to do, which includes disrespecting you, so shut up, and be the smart, quiet Aunty again so we don't have these problems again, OK?" Sunny's smirk turning wider, and turned around to leave, only to face an angry Helia and Flora, who both looked like they wanted to bury her alive, then dig her up again and have her for Sunday dinner.

"What the (bleep) did you just say?" Helia said. Sunny had never seen him so angry before, so she tried to go up and hug him, but he pushed her away and said one sentence,"I said, what the (bleep) did you say? ANSWER ME!"

"I said that I love Aunty Lay-Lay, and that I forgive her for calling me Sunny-Bear and that she shouldn't call me that again and that I love her"-Sunny turned around and said to Layla, "Did I mention that I love you? If I didn't, then I LOVE YOU!"-"and that she is the 2nd best favorite Aunty in the wide world. The first is Aunty Flora. I'm a little tired, I think I'll be heading up to my room to sleep now. G'night!" Sunny said really, really fast,. Faster than the author of this talks, and she talks so fast that she has to repeat what she says at least 3 times before anyone ever understands her. And that is fast!

Sunny sidestepped Helia, said good night to Flora, and completely ignored Layla.

"Wow...did I hear her correctly?" Helia, Flora, and Layla said simultaneously, staring wide-eyed at each other.

"Can you please explain to me what happened, Lay?" Flora asked kindly, while Helia looked like he wanted to strangle Sunny.

"I am way to tired to do so. Sorry Flo-Bug,. Just check the camera's if you want to see what happened." Layla replied, her voice giving away how tired she was.

"What camera's?" Flora asked, confused. Since when did her house have camera's?

"The ones right here." Layla said, and snapped her fingers, making camera's appear in them.

"Oh, yeah! I forgot about those...They gave them to each of the Winx, right? The Invisi-Cam or something?" Flora asked, suddenly remembering about the cameras that were forgotten long ago.

"Yea, that's what they were called, I think. Everything that is on there dates back to the day you and Helia were first moving in. It has everything you need to know on it." Layla said, grabbing her jacket, and purse from the kitchen counter.

"Bye!" Layla said, giving Flora a hug and a kiss on the cheek, and a hug to Helai.

"Bye! See you soon!" They replied as she disappeared into thin air, traveling back to the Oceanna Kingdom, where Nabu and the twins awaitied her,

"I hate it when she does that! It makes me dizzy and gives me a headache whenever I watch her do it, not to mention when I do it." Flora moaned, sitting down on the same kitchen stool she had sat on the previous morning.

"Well, lets go check on Daisy, because I think that if I face Sunny, I'd have a life-long sentence in jail for killing a minor." Helia chuckled a humorless chuckle.

"Whatever, Babe. Hey, when we get back to the bedroom, can you rub my feet for me because they are so swollen. Not to mention my back." Flora complained.

"Well-" Helia started.

"And the fact that I'm carrying your child." Flora added.

"OK, you win!" He gave, smiling and rubbed her stomach.

"Now lets hurry up and get to Daisy's room, because I want those massages, and I ant them soon!" Flora said, rushing towards the stairs.

"OK, here I come." Helia said, his hand making their way to Flora's back.

"I don't understand how Layla went through this." Flora thought aloud.

"I don't understand how Nabu went through. All the petty mood-swings, and-" Helia muttered under his breath, but quickly stopped when Flora's pretty, green eyes glared at him with the infamous "Pregnant women angry/I'm gonna kill you if you finish that" glare that Flora had used so often, as it was coming to her 9 month mark, and she was super irratable and cried easily for everything/everyone.

"Don't you think we should hurry to Daisy, because I thought you wanted that back massage and foot rub..." Helia said, trying to get Flora up the stairs quickly.

"Just shut up!" Flora said to him, angry at him for trying to rush her up the steps.

"Yes, Honey." Helia said automatically, his head hanging down.

As they made their way up the steps, they didn't seem to notice the girl with brown hair and hazel eyes, sitting on the opposite staircase, peeking out of the stairwell, shock evident in her little, magical, powerful eyes.


That was my chap! Sry if I put Sunny's middle name wrong. I might update again this week, since it's my Spring Break and I'm allowed on the computer for the time being, so yeah, but DON'T COUNT ON IT! Luv~Danny-Boy