Rosie O'Connor wasn't a nervous person. She preferred to take life by the horns. It was short so why waste it wondering if something might happen. No reason to live with regret either. It happened, move on. But all she could think about was the night she dropped Miracle with a scream. Maybe against her better judgment she'd stayed in touch with her sister. Amber was all she had and the thought of being completely alone had her calling her older sister in the middle of the night begging for forgiveness.
She tried to be civil around Mira, usually trying to avoid looking at the teen. Being around the strange looking child always made her uneasy. Mira had sandy light brown hair and blue-grey eyes same as Rosie, even her pointed chin. It was too much to even consider that the baby dropped on her doorstep was somehow hers.
But Amber's text had her hands clammy and breath short. She kept telling herself it wasn't possible. Stranger things had happened. She considered that time a giant dinosaur stormed into her apartment and dragged her to a holding facility.
She shook her head of the thought and knocked on the door before she could talk herself out of it.
"Rosie. . .You got my text?" Amber looked her sister up and down obviously surprised to see Rosie at her apartment.
Rosie's eyes shifted and squeezed past her sister to enter the apartment. "Yeah, I got it."
Amber knew her younger sister well and pulled out the DNA test Donnie had run just to double check and handed it to her sister.
Rosie stared down at the results angry tears welling in her eyes. "How the hell does this even happen!?"
Her older sister shrugged feeling guilty she couldn't give Rosie more answers. "We don't know," Amber replied softly not wanting to escalate her sister's anger further.
"Who the fuck is Mikey!?" Rosie demanded with tears slipping down her cheeks.
Amber pulled her little sister into her arms and stroked her hair. "I know," she whispered by Rosie's ear.
"I don't understand," Rosie hiccuped trying to stop the water works.
Amber led her sister to the couch knowing she'd need to be sitting for the story. "Mikey is Mira's dad."
Rosie looked at her sister wondering if she'd miss heard her. "I'm sorry, what?"
"Look, we don't know how it happened, but Mikey is Mira's dad. He's a mutant."
"A what?" Rosie wondered if her sister had lost it.
Amber continued, "I know this is a lot to take in. Mikey has brothers and each of them have kids, too."
"What!? There are more of them?" Rosie tangled her fingers in her already messy hair trying to imagine more kids like Mira. "You're lying!" She stood from the couch backing away from her sister.
"Rosie, please—"
"Do you hear yourself right now!?" Rosie's ranting stopped when she bumped into something figuring it was the wall. But a wall doesn't wear clothes. She turned slowly looking up to meet Mikey. "Oh my God." Rosie stumbled back away from the mutant in her sister's living room.
Amber stood and placed a hand on her sister's back just in case Rosie passed out. "Rosie, meet Mikey."
Rosie looked between her sister and the green mutant gaping for words.
"I'm nice, I promise," Mikey swore praying she wouldn't pass out.
"It talks," Rosie muttered slumping to the couch cradling her face in her hands.
Amber rubbed circle on her sister's back and shared a nervous glance with Mikey. She gently turned her sister's head to look at her wanting to make a few things clear. "Rosie, I'm not expecting you to do anything with any of this. Miracle is my daughter. I know this is a lot, but you deserved to know the truth."
Rosie looked up at her older sister and then over to Mikey. Her eyes shifted to Mira when the teen stepped out of the hallway. She looked between the Mira and Mikey feeling too many emotions.
Amber took her sisters hand seeing her distress. "How about you go home and take some time?"
Rosie stood with a curt nodded and left the apartment stifling more tears. She wasn't even sure why she was crying. It was just another thing she couldn't control. That realization bothered her more than she thought it would.
So I live in Texas and depending on how sever the hurricane is I could loose power. If I don't update for a few day go watch Shameless. Thanks for reading!