Chapter 11
After the a few minutes they rang the bell again and as still nothing happened they wondered if they were at the right address.
At that moment a Landrover dashed up behind the Bristol breaks squeaking. A young quite obvious pregnant woman jumped out coming over to them:
"Oh you´re already there. I am so sorry, Sam just rang me 30 minutes ago to tell me that he had to look after some sheep and as Liam and his mom are at a meeting in Edinburgh that I should come up to be here. Then half way up here the alarm on my mobile got off reminding me of the scones in the oven so I had to drive back to get them out and come back here."
Opening the door she let her two quite astonished visitors in.
"If you don´t mind to come through to the kitchen I make some tea and I also brought the scones, I am not completely scatterbrained, bugger I am for sure! Where are my manners, I am Mona Fraser, Liam´s wife, fully it´s Desdemona, don´t ask my parents love Shakespeare, but I can be happy seeing that my sister and brother are named Cressida and Demetrius. Oh, sorry I definitely talk too much."
Tommy noticing that Barbara felt a bit driven over answered: "No need to worry, we are just glad that we arrived at the right place, had us in doubt for a moment."
While talking Mona managed the tea and had Tommy and Barbara sit down at the big table in a comfortable country kitchen.
You are if you are Barbara and Tommy. Welcome to Scotland! And Liam was right, the eyes gives you away immediately Barbara." Smiling at Barbara Mona sat down too pouring tea.
"Yep, I guess that was what confused me about him when meeting him first, seeing something familiar which I couldn´t place at that moment." Barbara answered accepting the offered cup of tea.
"Oh, da…., I left the scones in the car, please excuse me a moment," Mona said getting up again, but Tommy was faster: "Is the car open, I get them then?" he asked.
"Oh that would be lovely, sure the car is open," and when Tommy had left she smiled at Barbara. "I am so sorry about this mess, Sam was furious that he had to leave but it was necessary due half of the sheep found their way through the fence somehow and I am not able to go up there at the moment." Mona said apologetically.
"Oh, yes obvious. How far are you…," Barbara trailed off wondering if that was a too personal question. Mona got the plates, cream and strawberry jam out and turned beaming at Barbara: "I just have three weeks to go, I know it didn´t look that far but it is. It is really exciting as we don't know if it will be a boy or a girl we didn´t want to know. As long as it is healthy everything is fine. And don´t worry about asking, in a weird way we are family. I hope I haven´t scared you off now."
Thinking about it Barbara shook her head as as weird as it was she somehow liked Mona in her outgoing way, she seemed to be the perfect lively counterpart to Liam who had been easy to talk to and friendly but also a bit more reserved than his wife.
Tommy came back with the scones and they were just getting on to the second one when a voice said from the backdoor: "There you are and already well taken care off as I can see."
A/N: Okay, I know it is quite some time that I started this one and I really wanted to finish my cross-over first, but plot bunnies can be funny creatures as they somehow got me back to this story now. I hope that they will continue coming and that both storie get on from now a bit faster. Thanks for your patience and still reading my stories!