Here is another Easter chapter. I put a twist on it and we'll have some trouble with Madeleine.
I want to let you know that I deaged Madeleine a little bit. She's 16 going on 17 now and was around 15 when Jacob attacked JJ.
Thsi chapter is for HaleyAlex2013.
"Mom," JJ calls out as she enter the kitchen. She's dressed in her pajamas as she has yet to eat breakfast. "Can I call Emily and see if she wants to come to church with us?"
"l guess you can. But Emily may already be planning to go to church with her mom and dad."
"Ok." After dialing her number, JJ sits down to talk.
"Hello?"
"Hi Em! Happy Easter!"
She hears Emily laugh over the phone. "Happy Easter, baby. What are you up too?"
"Mommy says I can ask you if you can to church with us."
"I guess I can do that."
"Yay! Can you come over right now?"
"Sure, let me tell my dad and then I'll come over, ok?"
"Ok, I'll see you in a few minutes." JJ hangs up and then finishes her breakfast.
"Mama, Emmy says she needs to tell her dad and then she's coming over. Can I go unlock the door for her?"
Sandy looks up from the eggs she's cooking. "Sure sweetheart. When you're done, go brush your teeth and wash your face okay? Then I'll be up to help you put your dress on."
JJ goes and unlocks the door and just makes it back the kitchen when Emily walks in.
"Hi Em!" JJ repeats.
"Hey bug."
"Oh, Emily you're here. Could you help JJ put her dress on? I'm still cooking breakfast."
"That's not a problem. Come on, butterfly, let go get your dress and then you can show me what the Easter bunny brought you." The two go upstairs and JJ finishes her routine of getting ready.
Once that's done, JJ and Emily sit back down her bed.
"The Easter bunny brought me some candy and a bunny. Look he even has blue fur, the same color as my eyes." JJ holds the stuffed animal out for Emily to see.
"That is a very pretty bunny rabbit. What are we going to do at church?"
"We're gonna have an Easter egg hunt."
"Really?" JJ nods. "Well that sounds like fun."
Half an hour later the Jareaus and Emily leave for church.
At church. 11:10 a.m. Sunday School.
"Em, can you come to the park with me?"
"Sure, bug. Is that where the Easter egg hunt with be?"
"Yes. My friend Alexis and Taylor are coming with their big brother Jonathan."
"Well, I don't know if I will be able to actually go on the hunt with you, but I can see if I can watch. How's that sound?"
"Ok, I guess that's alright." JJ sits down in the room filled with other young boys and girls. There's a few teenagers who are there to help with the toddlers in the egg hunt.
After a few more minutes, the Sunday school teacher walks in. They talk about what the rules are such as don't wander off, stay on your side of the hunting area, and play nicely. After the morning prayer, the teachers load the church bus and head over to the park.
At the park the kids were separated into three groups: toddler, ages 1-3, pre-k, ages 4-5, and elementary, ages, 6-10.
"Em, can you help me?"
"I think I need to help one of the little kids, but I'll help you with egg hunt at your house, ok?"
"Can I help too?" JJ asks. She's standing next to her friends, Alexis and Taylor, waiting for the whistle to be blown signaling the start of the egg hunt.
"You don't want to go with your group?"
JJ shakes her head. "No, I can get eggs at home. I wanna help Lilli get some eggs." Lillianna (pronounced like -Anna- in Arianna) is a little girl who is 20 months old. This year is the first year she will be old enough to participate in the egg hunt.
"Ok, but you need to ask your Sunday school teacher first." JJ nods and runs off to find her teacher. A monent later she comes back but goes to stand beside Emily who moved to the toddlers' group.
"Ok, does everyone have their baskets ready?" The teacher, Ms. Riley, calls out. She's met with enthusiastic groups of kids yelling. They take off in different directions.
"Come on, Lilli." JJ says excitedly. "Let's go get some eggs!"
"Eggs! Go!" The toddler wraps her fist around JJ's finger.
"Yeah! Eggs! Let's go!" The eggs for the toddler group aren't as spread out as the others, making picking them up a lot easier.
It only takes half an hour for the egg hunt to be over with. JJ helped Lilli get nine eggs in all.
Once they are back at church the Sunday school teacher puts in a movie and gives everyone a snack while the other teacher, Miss Lisa, put the group of toddlers and preschoolers down for nap time.
Back at the Jareau Household.
"Mom, when are Aunt Amber and Uncle Jack getting here?"
"I'm not sure, baby. They should be here in the next few minutes though. They're coming for lunch."
At exactly 12:30 p.m. everyone sits down for Easter Sunday lunch. After lunch the family sits down to rest before setting up the Easter egg hunt.
"Em, do you want to come outside with me?"
"Not right now, bug. Let's just rest for a few minutes okay? Then we can get the egg hunt ready."
"Ok." JJ walks into the kitchen to get her ice tea before a coming back into the living room.
At 1:30 the adults go outside to get the egg hunt started.
"Ok, this year we are going to do something different." Michael starts. He's sitting at the kitchen island surrounded by the little kids.
"This year we will have teams instead of everyone having their own baskets, there will be groups of two with only one basket. Does that sound okay to everyone?"
Michale is met with enthusiastic 'yeahs'.
"All then, Breanna and Elena, you will make up one team. Kay and Rayleigh, will make up another team and JJ, who do you want your partner to be?"
"I want Emily to help me."
Michael nods. "Ok everyone grab your baskets, the eggs are hidden and you can go outside now." The groups of little kids take off outside and start the hunt.
Surprisingly, it only takes about twenty minutes for the kids to find all of the eggs.
"Mommy, look! I got the golden egg!" JJ shouts. She opens it up and finds a piece of paper in it.
"What does it say, Jen?" Emily asks her. She pulls the younger girl into her lap and looks over JJ's shoulder.
"It says 'See Nana and Papa for you surprise.'"
"Well, go over there and see what we got."
JJ goes over and receives a ten dollar bill.
"That is for this weekend when we go to Toys 'R Us. You can buy anything you'd like too." JJ's grandma tells her.
"Yay! Thank you Nana. Thank you Papa." JJ gives her grandparents a hug and then goes back to Emily.
"Em, look! Nana gave me ten whole dollars for Toys 'R Us!"
"I see that. What are you going to buy? Do you know?"
"No, I don't know. Can you come with us?"
"I don't think I'll be able too, sweetie. I think my mom wants me to have lunch with her this Saturday."
"Aw." JJ scrunched up her nose.
"Hey, how about we go into the living and open our eggs and see how many we found?"
"Okay! Can I go get the ones the Easter bunny brought me?"
"Sure. Are they upstairs?" JJ nods and hops down off of Emily's lap. "Go get them and I'll wait for you in the living room."
As JJ skips up the stairs and the rest of the family go to the living room, no one notices Madeleine slipping up the stairs after her.
Upstairs in JJ's room. JJ's P.O.V.
I go upstairs and into my room to get my eggs. I look around my room and see them on my window seat. Once I have my basket I turn around and see my cousin Maddie.
"Maddie? What're you doing?"
"I want to make one thing clear to you, little girl." Maddie comes over and traps me between her and my window seat.
"You have ruined my life. If you had just kept your mouth shut about Jake, then he would still be here. He wouldn't have had to run from the police!"
"Maddie, leave me alone! I don't want to talk about that!"
"Well too bad, we're going to. It's all your fault. If you had just kept your mouth shut. He didn't even do anything! You were probably asking for it anyways!"
"Madeleine! Leave me alone!" I yell and try to push her away.
"No! I won't leave you alone! I'm going to make your life miserable just like you made mine miserable. You deserve every bit of it!"
Downstairs Emily realizes that JJ has not come back down stairs yet. She gets up from the couch and goes upstairs.
She reaches JJ's room in time to see the teen slap JJ across the face.
"Hey! What do you think you're doing?" I hear Emily yell. My cheek hurts a lot and I start to cry. Madeleine moves away when she sees Emily come into my room and I use that as my chance to run to her.
"She's your cousin Madeleine!"
"She's just a spoiled little brat that gets away with everything. She ruined my life! My parents treat me like shit and my boyfriend had to leave town just to keep from getting arrested for something he didn't do!" Madeleine yells at Emily.
"Jen, go downstairs, ok? You don't need to be up here." Emily tells me.
I shake my head no. "I don't wanna, Em."
Emily bends down in front of me and lowers her voice. "I know, sweetie. But I need you to go downstairs ok? Just for a few minutes."
I sigh and realize that I can get my Uncle Jack to come up here. "Ok, I'll go." I run out of the room and down the stairs.
General P.O.V.
"What the hell, Madeleine?" Emily says, stepping into the room. "She's your cousin. She doesn't need for you to blame her for Jacob's mistakes, she needs for you to protect her. To understand that Jacob did something wrong and to be on her side for it."
"No what needs to happen is for JJ to quit being the spoiled brat she is. She needs to grow up. To fight her own battles." Madeleine moves closer to Emily.
"She's nine years old! She isn't supposed to cross the street without an adult present let alone is she able to fight her own battles. She-" Smily starts in but is cut off.
"You know, one of these days you're going to realize that's all she is. A spoiled brat who gets away with anything. You're going to get tired of her but when you decide to let go? Well, then you will realize she won't let you go."
"She's going to get you in trouble too one of these days. And you're going to wish you had done something about it."
Before Emily can reply, Jack makes his presence known.
"Ahem. Madeleine Christina Jareau. What's going on up here?"
Madeleine quickly sobers up and puts on the 'good girl' act. "Daddy," she smiles. "Emily and I were just talking."
"Really?" Jack raises a skeptical eyebrow. "Is that all?" The truth is, he was standing outside since she called JJ a spoiled brat and said she needs to stand up for herself, but wants to give Maddie a chance to come clean.
"Yes, that's all." Madeleine replies.
"JJ," Jack says and the young blonde steps out from behind him going over to Emily and holding her hand.
"Is that what was going on up here?"
"No," JJ replies. "She said I ruined her life and I deserved what happened. Then she slapped my face." JJ touches her right cheek which has a slight red-mark from Madeleine hitting her.
"Mhm. I thought so. Come on Madeleine. We're going home."
"But Dad!" Maddie starts to protest. "You're not even going to hear my side of the story?"
"Oh I will. Just not here. We can go home, discuss this, and your punishment if one is needed." Jack leads the teenager down the stairs and into the living room.
"Amber, honey, we need to go. It seems like we need to have a talk with our oldest child."
Amber sighs, she wishes Madeleine would just for once keep her promise that she'll be good.
"Ok, Brea, 'Lan. Let's go, get your baskets and go load up."
"But Mom," Elena protests. "Why do we have to leave just 'cause Maddie is being bad?"
"She's ringtone Amber." Michael speaks up. "Let her and Breanna stay for the afternoon. There's no need to cut their fun short just because you're having trouble with Madeleine."
Amber sighs and nods. "Ok you're right. Brea, you and 'Lena be good for Uncle Mic and Aunt Sandy, okay? And we'll see you later tonight."
"Ok Mama. Bye!" Breanna calls out.
"Come young lady. You, your father, and I are going to have long talk about what happened today." Madeleine is protesting, saying she didn't do anything wrong and that it was JJ's fault as she is taken out of the house.
"Jenny, baby, what happened upstairs. What did Madeleine do to you?" Sandy asks.
JJ, who is once again sitting in Emily's lap, raises her head from Emily's shoulder. "She said I ruined her life, and that I deserved what happened, then she hit me."
"Oh, my poor baby. Are you ok? Do you need some ice for your cheek?"
"No it doesn't even hurt that bad. But can we count my eggs now, Emmy? I wanna know how many we found."
"Sure we can. How about I go get the eggs this time." Emily stands and goes to JJ's room. Once she's back she dumps the basket of eggs onto the carpet and helps JJ count them.
Theres 16 in all, eight from the Easter bunny, and eight that were found in the yard.
Sorry if the ending seems abrupt. The arguing part isn't at all what I wanted to be, but it's after midnight, I'm tired, and I've put this off long enough.
HaleyAlex2013: I will have the chapter where Emily is injured or sick up soon! Hope you liked this one!
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