Thursday July 4, 2030
"Kids, Teddy, come on." Spencer shouted. Today we are going to the lake to celebrate the fourth with Spencer's family and some of my family which includes, Gabe, Melanie, and Jaxon. We are going to the lake were Spencer's family speed boat is docked at so we should have a good time.
"Spencer, you do realize I have to make sure I have extra of everything for the baby." I said. "That takes a while to gather."
Spencer smiled when he saw me. "You look cute today." He gave me a kiss on the cheek. "Did you make sure to put extra baby sunscreen on Claire? We don't need her getting burned in the sun."
"Yes, Spencer. She is wearing a lot of sun screen, a cute little pink hat, and a cute little pink sun dress. She she should be fine."
The kids slowly came down, one by one until everyone stood in the living room. Once we were all here, we headed out to our rental car. We placed everything we are bringing in the trunk and we left since it'll be about an hour drive.
"Teddy, so I was thinking it'd just be cheaper if I just buy a car for out here instead of just renting one for who knows how long. What do you think, yes or no?"
"Uh, yeah, that sounds like a fine idea. Just don't get some expensive Mercedes or something since we'll rarely be driving it."
"Mom, baby's crying." Brendan said.
"B, please put her pacifier in her mouth."
"Where is it?"
"It should be hooked to her bib. But yeah Spencer, don't get some expensive car."
"Okay, I won't but I'm not getting a cheap ole car either."
"I'm not telling you to do that. We can go looking at cars together and decide on it together."
"Mom, I don't see it." Brendan said.
I sighed and took a extra pacifier out of the diaper bag. I reached into the back and handed it to my son. "Here, clip this onto her bib and put it in her mouth."
About an hour later, we arrived at the lake. The kids were relieved once we got there so they wouldn't have to spend another minute in the car together bickering. I saw Linda, Paul, Gabe and his wife and son already there. We all walked over to them and I placed the baby car seat carrier on the picnic table that was in the shade.
"Hey Gabe, hey Mel."
"Finally you got here. It felt so awkward being here with Spencer's parents without you being here." Gabe said.
"Gabe, I have five kids, you try getting to places at a decent time." I took Claire out of her car seat and laid her in my arms as I sat down on the bench. "So I have someone I'd like you to meet. This is your new niece Clarissa but I like calling her Claire for short."
"Aw, she's so cute." Mel said having Jaxon on her hip.
"She's cute and all but why did you have another kid?" Gabe asked.
"Gabe I was basically one of those woman who are on that show, I didn't know I was pregnant."
"What?" He said confused.
"Did I tell you everything that happened?" I asked.
"All you told us was you had preeclampsia and had to have the baby early." Gabe said. ]
"Oh then I gotta tell you the whole thing. So at the beginning of December I discovered I was pregnant. I didn't want another child especially since Spencer and I were in a fight and he was going to be leaving to film that movie. So I decided I was going to get a secret abortion without telling Spencer anything about it. He came into my old room since I was staying in there because we were fighting and apologized for what I was mad about and my morning sickness gave the pregnancy away."
"Wow Teddy."
"So the day before I was going to get the abortion, Spencer got mad and was trying to convince me not to get one. He told me to get out because I wouldn't listen to him so I stayed with PJ and Sky. That night, ten hours before I'd be getting it, I had a miscarriage. A few weeks later, Spencer was making fun of me and calling me fat so I went to the doctor to prove that I wasn't. She wanted to do a ultrasound just to be sure there was no baby inside me because I was gaining weight and we discovered little Claire."
"Wow, how could you not know?" Mel asked.
"I don't know… I just didn't think of it. The doctor thought I was pregnant with twins and lost one of the babies." I looked up and saw Spencer getting the kids on the boat. "Spencer, don't let the kids on unless they are wearing a life jacket!" I shouted.
"Babe, they will." He shouted back.
"Are you gonna go on the boat, Teddy?" Mel asked.
"Not right now. I'm just gonna sit here in the shade with my baby and relax."
"Mama, water." Jaxon said pointing out to it.
"I still can't believe he's already a year." I said.
"I know. It's crazy when he talks to you like just now." Mel said. "I'm gonna go take him to the water."
"So have you spoken to Charlie lately?" I asked.
"No."
"I feel like we should find her. I hate not knowing where she is in the world. For all we know she could be dead or in some pot house or homeless."
"Teddy she's only what, twenty? I doubt she's dead. But you are right, dad would want us to find her, to be with her."
"Where do you think she could be?" I asked.
"Who knows but it shouldn't be hard to find her. I bet she is still in the Denver area or at least somewhere in Colorado."
I shrugged.
Brendan's POV
"Daddy, I'm scared." Cara said as our dad tightened her life jacket.
"There, now if you fall out you will float and mom won't kill me." He smiled.
"Fall?" She said sacredly.
"You won't fall Ally. Dad is just joking around." I said.
"Daddy I wanna sit on your lap."
"Cara, you can't sit on my lap."
"Why?"
"Because I'm gonna weight board."
"Ally, you can sit on my lap." I said.
"Yay."
Teddy's POV
"Teddy, why don't you give me the baby and you go on and have some fun in the water with the rest." Linda said.
"No, I'm fine but if you'd like to hold her you can." I handed her the baby and stared out into the lake. "It's so nice out here, real peaceful unlike the city."
"Have you and Spencer ever talked about moving back someday?"
"Someday we'd like to but I don't know. I think the kids would prefer the city than here."
"They just don't see how truly great it is out here."
"That is true, they don't." Clarissa started to make a little noise so Linda handed her back to me. I reached into my diaper bag and took out a bottle since she's probably getting hungry. She kept moving her head away from the bottle.
"Looks like she's not hungry."
"No, she is, it's just she prefer the real thing instead of the bottle. But guess what sweetie, you don't get it right now." I finally managed to get the bottle in her mouth and she sucked on it.
"Does she sleep through the night yet?"
"Not yet. She cries about three or four times a night. Spencer of course rarely will get up and get her but it's fine. I'd rather just do it myself."
"He should be helping you at night with her."
"I mean he keeps the older ones busy so I shouldn't expect much from him. What I love is he'll play dress up with Cara. Her favorite is pretty princess and Spencer is always the pretty pink princess." I laughed.
Linda laughed. "What are your daughters turning my son into?"
"I think it's cute. I remember my sister when she was Cara's age would make our brothers dress up as princesses."
"No wonder where she gets it from."
"I see a lot of my little sister in her when she was her age. I just hope she won't act how she does right now, distant from us all."
"She'll come around. You just have to understand how hard it must have been with your father dying and then your mother re-marrying."
"Yeah, I know."
Brendan's POV
"Okay Brendan, ready to try?" Dad asked.
"I'm not gonna lie, I'm kinda scared dad."
"B, don't be a coward, it's fun. It's just like snowboarding but you're being pulled by a boat." Dad made sure my feet were strapped tight on the board. "There." He helped me out into the water. "Just lean back."
"Yeah…"
My grandfather started the boat back up and we went. I was weight boarding for twenty seconds before I fell off.
"B, you good?" Dad asked.
I wiped the water out of my eyes. "Yeah."
My dad pulled me in and I unstrapped the board from my feet.
"Dad, I wanna try. It looks fun." Braeden said.
"You're still kinda young, Brady. I don't want you to get hurt.
Teddy's POV
Later that day, everyone went to the spot where they show the fireworks. I sat down on the grass with Spencer wrapping his arm around me. Clarissa was fast asleep in her car seat next to me. The kids went with their grandparents to get closer to the fireworks since Spencer and I are far back so it's not that loud for the baby.
"How much you want to bet she'll scream her head off?" I asked. "Everyone's gonna give us dirty looks for bringing her."
"Who cares, it's not like they never brought their baby before."
"Look how peaceful she is. I don't want her to wake up."
Spencer gave me a kiss on the cheek. "She'll be fine."
Fifteen minutes later, the fireworks went off. Of course I was right and my daughter woke up from the loud boom. I took her out of her car seat and rocked her in my arms.
"Shh… mommy got you." I wiped her little tears that came down her cheek with my thumb. I continued to rock her and put a pacifier in her mouth. "I'm gonna go take her to the car. Can I have the keys?"
"I'll come with you."
I nodded. Spencer grabbed the car seat and we walked back together to the car and finished watching the fireworks from it.
Okay, so I decided instead of stop writing the Spencer and Teddy Got Talent story to just put it on hold until I gain interest on it again. So as of right now it's on hold. I hope you liked this chapter and thanks for reading!