1 The Lives We Lead
Chapter 8
7 p.m. Luke's Club
"Hey, guys congratulations!" Laura said as they walk in the room.
All of their families and friends are there including Summer, Nikolas, Mia, Adam, Mandie, Sly, Liz, Lucky, Jenna, her boyfriend Jacob, Georgie, her boyfriend Corey, Serena, with her boyfriend Neil, Jordan, Lulu, Brook-Lynn, Ethan, Alexis, Ned, Kristina, Chloe, Michaela, Robin, Jason, Sierra, Alison, Livvie, Jack, Jamal, Samantha, Caden, Kalista, Thomas, Gia, Aidan, Monica, Alan, Chance's parents, James and Kathy, Rylea, her boyfriend Cole, and they walked in with Chaeci and Austin.
"There's a lot of people here." Tia said
"Yup, and they are all here for you." Nikolas said as he and Summer walked up, and Summer hugged Tia and Emily.
They talked for awhile "Gosh guys I'm going to miss you all." Livvie said
"Well, we are going to miss you guys too." Tia said with tears in her eyes
9 p.m.
Lucky got up on the stage and grabbed the microphone "Guys, as all of you know, it's not forever, but we may loose our dearest Emily and Tia to the world of pop, but they are leaving on the TRL tour, we wish you all the best and we will be waiting on your return." Lucky ended as he handed the mike to a crying Tia.
"Well, he's right we won't be gone forever, and even if we fly with this, remember that we will never forget you, and that we thank you for all the support, we love you all." Tia said and then handed to mike to Emily who was also crying.
"Well, we will be back for the Nurses' Ball, and then we will be back in August, and we have the dresses and tuxes ready for you that will be in the wedding at the gatehouse with your names on them, so afterwards you know who you are just come to the gatehouse and get them. Said Emily as she was crying.
Later That Night about Midnight
"Tia, babe, what's a matter?" Chance asked when he heard Tia crying as they were lying in bed
"Chance, you know when Em and me used to worry about this working?" Tia asked
"Yeah."
"Well now I'm worried if it does, I mean, if it does, we will probably move to LA, me, you Emily, Zander, Austin, and Chaeci, and then you and Zander will take care of the kids, or hire a nanny, while me and Emily go all over the country, because heaven only know that we can't drag the kids with us, me and you will probably get into to many fights, and our marriage probably won't even last a year, and then if we were to get divorce, you would probably get custody of Chaeci, because I couldn't take care of her, Chance our life seems like it's crumbling before our feet, and I'm so scared."
"Tia, baby, it will be okay, we will fight tooth and nail to stay together, I mean ever since we met it's always been the fab four, me, you, Emily, and Zander, only now its six, and it will always be that way."
"Chance, I don't want to do this anymore." Tia said
"Well, just do it, and maybe it won't work out, unless you can get out." Chance replied
"That's a good idea." Tia said as she got out of bed
"W-where are you going?" he asked
"To talk to Emily." She replied, she went to Emily's room, "Emily, are you awake?"
"Yeah, you can't sleep either?"
"No, Emily, do you really want to do this?" Tia asked
"Hey, let's go downstairs, we don't want to wake up sleeping beauty." Emily said pointing at Zander, so they went downstairs, and sat on the couch in the dark
"Tia, I'm scared of what will happen."
"Me too, that's what I was talking about earlier with Chance."
"Well, we can give the position to the next girl group in line or we can do this, and maybe not fly, because Ned said that only 2 of the 5 new groups will get chosen." Emily said
"So do we want to give it up?" Tia asked
"Yeah, I do, I want to have a normal life and become a lawyer." Emily replied
"So do I, and I want to have a life with you guys, and Chance, and Chaeci." Tia cried
"That's how I feel, do we want to call Ned now?" Emily asked
"If you want." Tia replied as Emily picked up the phone and dialed to number
"Hello?" Ned said sleepily
"Ned, it's Emily I was wondering about the music career, can we give it up?"
"Well, if you really want to, but I want you to think about it."
"Oh, we have long and hard, we want out, we want a normal life." Emily replied
"Okay, well it's like 1 in the morning and I'm tired so bye." Ned said as he hung up the phone
"Okay, we are off the hook." Emily said
"Yesss!" Tia screamed as she and Emily hugged, they went back to bed
A Week Later April 15, 2004
"Well I think everyone knows that we aren't leaving." Chance said
"I'm glad we're not leaving, I would miss it here." Tia said, there was a knock at the door, "I'll get it!" Liz said, it was Lucy
"Hey, Elizabeth, you probably know what I came here for." She said
"Yeah, I do, I will." Liz replied
"Thanks, and Tia, are you and some of the girls going to do a number in the line up at the Ball?" she asked
"Yeah, I think that me, Emily, Mia, Liz, Mandie, and Summer, are doing Independent Women." Tia said
"And me and Tia are singing Outta my head." Emily said as she walked in the room.
"Okay, any other takers?" Lucy asked, then she left
"Chance, Adam, Zander, Sly, Lucky, and Nikolas are going to sing 'Numba One' by Nelly." Emily said "But Lucy already knows."
"How long 'til the ball?" Adam asked as he walked into the living room.
"Right about 6 weeks." Tia replied
"Hey, Jenna's birthday is in 6 days," Tia said "Hey, Jenna what are we doing for your birthday?"
"Um, can you take, me, Rylea, Georgie, and Serena to the city?" Jenna replied, referring to Manhattan.
"Um, maybe if Kristina wants to babysit." Tia said
"Of, course Kristina wants to babysit." Kristina said as she walked through the door and laughed "When?"
"Um, not this Friday, but next Friday and Saturday, 'cause I think that we are spending the night." Tia replied
"Yes, but who all will go with you?" Jenna asked
"Well, I think Mia, Emily, Liz, and whoever else wants to go, except for the boys." Tia replied
"Alright, this is going to be great, I have to go call Serena, Georgie, and Rylea." Jenna said
"Aw man, you mean you are leaving me for 2 days?" Chance said
"Well, hun, this is my sister's 15th birthday." Tia said
"But, I don't know if I can live without you that long." Chance whined
"Would you be willing to carry around all of our bags while we are shopping?" Tia asked
"Not really." Chance replied
"That's what I thought." Tia smiled
April 23, 2004 Gatehouse 6 a.m.
"Guys, I'm glad that you didn't have school." Tia said, as her, Emily, Rylea, Serena, Georgie, and Jenna packed their stuff into the back of Tia and Chance Xterra.
"Yeah, me too, otherwise we wouldn't be doing this." Emily added
"You think we can all fit?" Serena asked
"Rena, don't worry about it, if we don't we'll leave you here." Tia teased
"Ha ha very funny." Serena said
"No, we'll pack it in." Emily said, "Okay I think that's it, are we ready?"
"Yeah." Everyone said as they got in the car
"Let's go!" Tia said as she jumped in the driver's side of the vehicle, and pulled out of the driveway
2 Hours Later
"Gosh, it's been a long time since we've been here huh Em?" Tia said
"Yeah, since I guess the summer of 2000, that was our first summer together with you, me, Mia, Zander, Chance, and Adam." Emily added
"The only time I was here was when I came here with Karen, and our train collided with that bus." Serena said
"Yeah the one that we were on." Tia said
"I haven't even been here, except for when I was baby." Georgie said
"Me and Jenna, came here with Chance and Zander to pick out your engagement rings." Rylea told Tia and Emily
"Ryles, are you saying that you and Jenna had a part in that, and knew about it," Emily asked "And you kept it a secret?"
"Mmm hmm." Rylea and Jenna said
"Besides, they needed help picking them out, you know they have no taste when it comes to accessorizing." Jenna said
"True." Tia said laughing
12 Hours Later At Dinner
1.1 "I'm so tired." Jenna whined
"Just wait until morning, you will be so sore." Emily said
"Are we doing more shopping tomorrow?" Rylea asked
"If you want, but I thought that we could stay up late, and party in the suite," Tia said "And then sleep in tomorrow."
"Sounds like a plan." Serena said
"Cool." Georgie added
2 Ten The Next Day
"Hey, guys get up, me and Emily need to be back in PC by about 2 or 3, so get up, take showers, get dressed, put on make-up, fix your hair, whatever we need to get moving." Tia yelled, but none of them budged "Emily come on, move in, we need to move to plan B."
"Okay, I'm coming!' Emily yelled back, she jumped on Serena and Rylea's bed and Tia jumped on Jenna and Georgie's bed and the started tickling them, they woke up then.
"Okay, we're up we're getting ready." Serena said as they all piled out of bed.
"Okay, you can use our shower." Emily said "We'll go get some breakfast, and have your bags ready to go by 11:30."
"Okay, we will." Rylea said, Tia and Emily left
30 Minutes Later
"Okay, guys are we almost ready?" Tia yelled as they walked in the room
"Yeah, Jenna is in the shower in here, and Serena is in the shower in your room, we are almost ready." Georgie said
"Well we have about every cereal they had, every kind of muffins, we have sausage, bacon, biscuits, eggs of every kind, it's there if you want it." Emily said
"Okay." Rylea said
"Good, I'm hungry." Georgie said, about that time Serena came out of the bathroom
"Rena, there's food over there if you want some." Tia said
"Aight, I will get some." Serena replied, then Jenna came out of the other bathroom.
1 Hour Later
"Okay, so we are ready, let's get headed home, I want to see my fiancée and my daughter." Tia said
"Okay, me too, only I want to see my fiancée and my son." Emily added
Almost 2 Hours Later
"Serena, Georgie, am I taking you guys home, or are you going to the house?" Emily asked
"I'm going to Serena's." Georgie said
"Okay," Tia replied "Rena, are you going to your mom's or dad's?"
"Oh, yeah I forgot to tell you, I moved in with Mom and Kevin," Serena said "So, I'm going to the lighthouse."
"Oh, that's cool," Emily said "Do you like living with your mom or dad better?"
"Well, I like living with Mom, because of Christina, but I like living with Dad, because, you know, him and Bobbie live together, and I get to see Lucas, who is nice, but he gets on my nerves sometimes, and Christina is sometimes a brat, but she's cool, so I think I like living with Mom, because she understands." Serena replied as they pulled in Serena's driveway.
"Here, I'll help you get that." Tia said as she jumped out of the car.
"Thanks, Tia, and thanks for taking us." Serena said
"Yeah, we had fun." Georgie added
"Bye!" Emily, Rylea, and Jenna yelled from the car, and Tia got back in
"Okay, Rylea, are you going to the house with us or are you going home?"
"I need to go home to clean my room, Mom told me to do that before I left, and I didn't get a chance to so I'll probably be in trouble."
A few minutes later they pulled up to Rylea's, she got her stuff out of the back.
"Bye, Ryles, good luck!" Tia yelled
A few minutes after that, they pulled up to the gatehouse
"Goodness, I'm tired." Tia said
"And glad to be home." Emily added as they got their stuff out of the back of the Xterra, and headed in the house, Jenna opened the door and they walked in.
"Chance, Zander, we're home!" Tia yelled, as she walked towards the study to find Chance "Hey sweetie, where's Chaeci?" as Tia walked around the corner "There's my sweetie-baby, hey I have missed you so much, and I missed you." She said as she went and sat on Chance's lap.
"And I missed you too." Chance said as he kissed Tia and put his arms around her, then he carried her into the living room.
Emily walked into her room to find Zander and Austin asleep on her bed, she went and laid down beside them, Zander woke up.
"Hey." Zander said with a smile
"Sshh, hey what have you and this little guy been doing?" Emily said with a smile
"I'm glad that you are back, me and him, and Chance and Chaeci went to go see Gramma Alexis, and we went to see Gram, and we went up to the main house to go see Lila, and we just fed them about 30 minutes ago." Zander replied about that time Austin stirred a little and woke up and started crying Emily picked him up.
"Hey baby boy tell me all about it, just tell me all about it," Emily said as Austin's cry faded into a whimper "I missed you… both." As they got up and went into the living room.
"Hey, Zander." Tia said as Zander leaned down and hugged her.
"Hey, Emily said that y'all had a good time." Zander said
"Yeah, we had a lot of fun." Tia replied
"Where's my other sister?" He asked
"Um, I don't know, I think that she is on the phone with Jacob." Tia replied
"Oh, so I should leave her alone huh." Zander said
"Yeah, probably, babe." Emily said
"Hey, Emily, come on we have to go fill out those invitations." Tia said as she got off of Chance's lap, and her and Emily ran up stairs with Chaeci and Austin in hand.
"Gosh, they are getting more excited by the day." Chance laughed
"Yeah, they sure seem happy." Zander added
Upstairs
"Okay, so who all are we going to invite?" Emily asked as she and Tia put the babies in playpens.
"Well, there's no use in inviting the people that's in the wedding." Tia replied
"Yeah, you talk I'll jot."
"So, let's see there's Lucy and Kevin with Serena and Christina, then Luke and Laura with Lulu, Mom and Ned, James and Kathy, Kristina, Chloe with Michaela, Gram, Sarah…" Tia said, the list went on and on, then they started writing invitations.
2 Hours Later
"Okay, this is the last one." Emily said as she stuck the seal on it.
"Em, they're out of it." Tia said as she looked into Chaeci and Austin's playpens.
"Yep, I figured they would be." Emily said smiling as she picked up Austin trying not to wake him, Tia did the same with Chaeci, and they walked downstairs.
"Hey." Tia said to Mandie, Summer, Liz, and Mia as they walked into the living room
"Hey guys, where have you been?" Liz asked
"Up in my room writing out invitations." Emily said
"Ah, have fun?" Summer said
"Yeah." Tia laughed
"I swear, we have like about 100 of 'em, and most of them consist of 3 or more per family." Emily said "I don't know what we're gonna do."
"Um, if I'm not mistaken, I think you're gonna have a wedding." Mandie said sarcastically.
"Shut up." Emily said with a smile as she threw a pillow at her.
Chapter 8
7 p.m. Luke's Club
"Hey, guys congratulations!" Laura said as they walk in the room.
All of their families and friends are there including Summer, Nikolas, Mia, Adam, Mandie, Sly, Liz, Lucky, Jenna, her boyfriend Jacob, Georgie, her boyfriend Corey, Serena, with her boyfriend Neil, Jordan, Lulu, Brook-Lynn, Ethan, Alexis, Ned, Kristina, Chloe, Michaela, Robin, Jason, Sierra, Alison, Livvie, Jack, Jamal, Samantha, Caden, Kalista, Thomas, Gia, Aidan, Monica, Alan, Chance's parents, James and Kathy, Rylea, her boyfriend Cole, and they walked in with Chaeci and Austin.
"There's a lot of people here." Tia said
"Yup, and they are all here for you." Nikolas said as he and Summer walked up, and Summer hugged Tia and Emily.
They talked for awhile "Gosh guys I'm going to miss you all." Livvie said
"Well, we are going to miss you guys too." Tia said with tears in her eyes
9 p.m.
Lucky got up on the stage and grabbed the microphone "Guys, as all of you know, it's not forever, but we may loose our dearest Emily and Tia to the world of pop, but they are leaving on the TRL tour, we wish you all the best and we will be waiting on your return." Lucky ended as he handed the mike to a crying Tia.
"Well, he's right we won't be gone forever, and even if we fly with this, remember that we will never forget you, and that we thank you for all the support, we love you all." Tia said and then handed to mike to Emily who was also crying.
"Well, we will be back for the Nurses' Ball, and then we will be back in August, and we have the dresses and tuxes ready for you that will be in the wedding at the gatehouse with your names on them, so afterwards you know who you are just come to the gatehouse and get them. Said Emily as she was crying.
Later That Night about Midnight
"Tia, babe, what's a matter?" Chance asked when he heard Tia crying as they were lying in bed
"Chance, you know when Em and me used to worry about this working?" Tia asked
"Yeah."
"Well now I'm worried if it does, I mean, if it does, we will probably move to LA, me, you Emily, Zander, Austin, and Chaeci, and then you and Zander will take care of the kids, or hire a nanny, while me and Emily go all over the country, because heaven only know that we can't drag the kids with us, me and you will probably get into to many fights, and our marriage probably won't even last a year, and then if we were to get divorce, you would probably get custody of Chaeci, because I couldn't take care of her, Chance our life seems like it's crumbling before our feet, and I'm so scared."
"Tia, baby, it will be okay, we will fight tooth and nail to stay together, I mean ever since we met it's always been the fab four, me, you, Emily, and Zander, only now its six, and it will always be that way."
"Chance, I don't want to do this anymore." Tia said
"Well, just do it, and maybe it won't work out, unless you can get out." Chance replied
"That's a good idea." Tia said as she got out of bed
"W-where are you going?" he asked
"To talk to Emily." She replied, she went to Emily's room, "Emily, are you awake?"
"Yeah, you can't sleep either?"
"No, Emily, do you really want to do this?" Tia asked
"Hey, let's go downstairs, we don't want to wake up sleeping beauty." Emily said pointing at Zander, so they went downstairs, and sat on the couch in the dark
"Tia, I'm scared of what will happen."
"Me too, that's what I was talking about earlier with Chance."
"Well, we can give the position to the next girl group in line or we can do this, and maybe not fly, because Ned said that only 2 of the 5 new groups will get chosen." Emily said
"So do we want to give it up?" Tia asked
"Yeah, I do, I want to have a normal life and become a lawyer." Emily replied
"So do I, and I want to have a life with you guys, and Chance, and Chaeci." Tia cried
"That's how I feel, do we want to call Ned now?" Emily asked
"If you want." Tia replied as Emily picked up the phone and dialed to number
"Hello?" Ned said sleepily
"Ned, it's Emily I was wondering about the music career, can we give it up?"
"Well, if you really want to, but I want you to think about it."
"Oh, we have long and hard, we want out, we want a normal life." Emily replied
"Okay, well it's like 1 in the morning and I'm tired so bye." Ned said as he hung up the phone
"Okay, we are off the hook." Emily said
"Yesss!" Tia screamed as she and Emily hugged, they went back to bed
A Week Later April 15, 2004
"Well I think everyone knows that we aren't leaving." Chance said
"I'm glad we're not leaving, I would miss it here." Tia said, there was a knock at the door, "I'll get it!" Liz said, it was Lucy
"Hey, Elizabeth, you probably know what I came here for." She said
"Yeah, I do, I will." Liz replied
"Thanks, and Tia, are you and some of the girls going to do a number in the line up at the Ball?" she asked
"Yeah, I think that me, Emily, Mia, Liz, Mandie, and Summer, are doing Independent Women." Tia said
"And me and Tia are singing Outta my head." Emily said as she walked in the room.
"Okay, any other takers?" Lucy asked, then she left
"Chance, Adam, Zander, Sly, Lucky, and Nikolas are going to sing 'Numba One' by Nelly." Emily said "But Lucy already knows."
"How long 'til the ball?" Adam asked as he walked into the living room.
"Right about 6 weeks." Tia replied
"Hey, Jenna's birthday is in 6 days," Tia said "Hey, Jenna what are we doing for your birthday?"
"Um, can you take, me, Rylea, Georgie, and Serena to the city?" Jenna replied, referring to Manhattan.
"Um, maybe if Kristina wants to babysit." Tia said
"Of, course Kristina wants to babysit." Kristina said as she walked through the door and laughed "When?"
"Um, not this Friday, but next Friday and Saturday, 'cause I think that we are spending the night." Tia replied
"Yes, but who all will go with you?" Jenna asked
"Well, I think Mia, Emily, Liz, and whoever else wants to go, except for the boys." Tia replied
"Alright, this is going to be great, I have to go call Serena, Georgie, and Rylea." Jenna said
"Aw man, you mean you are leaving me for 2 days?" Chance said
"Well, hun, this is my sister's 15th birthday." Tia said
"But, I don't know if I can live without you that long." Chance whined
"Would you be willing to carry around all of our bags while we are shopping?" Tia asked
"Not really." Chance replied
"That's what I thought." Tia smiled
April 23, 2004 Gatehouse 6 a.m.
"Guys, I'm glad that you didn't have school." Tia said, as her, Emily, Rylea, Serena, Georgie, and Jenna packed their stuff into the back of Tia and Chance Xterra.
"Yeah, me too, otherwise we wouldn't be doing this." Emily added
"You think we can all fit?" Serena asked
"Rena, don't worry about it, if we don't we'll leave you here." Tia teased
"Ha ha very funny." Serena said
"No, we'll pack it in." Emily said, "Okay I think that's it, are we ready?"
"Yeah." Everyone said as they got in the car
"Let's go!" Tia said as she jumped in the driver's side of the vehicle, and pulled out of the driveway
2 Hours Later
"Gosh, it's been a long time since we've been here huh Em?" Tia said
"Yeah, since I guess the summer of 2000, that was our first summer together with you, me, Mia, Zander, Chance, and Adam." Emily added
"The only time I was here was when I came here with Karen, and our train collided with that bus." Serena said
"Yeah the one that we were on." Tia said
"I haven't even been here, except for when I was baby." Georgie said
"Me and Jenna, came here with Chance and Zander to pick out your engagement rings." Rylea told Tia and Emily
"Ryles, are you saying that you and Jenna had a part in that, and knew about it," Emily asked "And you kept it a secret?"
"Mmm hmm." Rylea and Jenna said
"Besides, they needed help picking them out, you know they have no taste when it comes to accessorizing." Jenna said
"True." Tia said laughing
12 Hours Later At Dinner
1.1 "I'm so tired." Jenna whined
"Just wait until morning, you will be so sore." Emily said
"Are we doing more shopping tomorrow?" Rylea asked
"If you want, but I thought that we could stay up late, and party in the suite," Tia said "And then sleep in tomorrow."
"Sounds like a plan." Serena said
"Cool." Georgie added
2 Ten The Next Day
"Hey, guys get up, me and Emily need to be back in PC by about 2 or 3, so get up, take showers, get dressed, put on make-up, fix your hair, whatever we need to get moving." Tia yelled, but none of them budged "Emily come on, move in, we need to move to plan B."
"Okay, I'm coming!' Emily yelled back, she jumped on Serena and Rylea's bed and Tia jumped on Jenna and Georgie's bed and the started tickling them, they woke up then.
"Okay, we're up we're getting ready." Serena said as they all piled out of bed.
"Okay, you can use our shower." Emily said "We'll go get some breakfast, and have your bags ready to go by 11:30."
"Okay, we will." Rylea said, Tia and Emily left
30 Minutes Later
"Okay, guys are we almost ready?" Tia yelled as they walked in the room
"Yeah, Jenna is in the shower in here, and Serena is in the shower in your room, we are almost ready." Georgie said
"Well we have about every cereal they had, every kind of muffins, we have sausage, bacon, biscuits, eggs of every kind, it's there if you want it." Emily said
"Okay." Rylea said
"Good, I'm hungry." Georgie said, about that time Serena came out of the bathroom
"Rena, there's food over there if you want some." Tia said
"Aight, I will get some." Serena replied, then Jenna came out of the other bathroom.
1 Hour Later
"Okay, so we are ready, let's get headed home, I want to see my fiancée and my daughter." Tia said
"Okay, me too, only I want to see my fiancée and my son." Emily added
Almost 2 Hours Later
"Serena, Georgie, am I taking you guys home, or are you going to the house?" Emily asked
"I'm going to Serena's." Georgie said
"Okay," Tia replied "Rena, are you going to your mom's or dad's?"
"Oh, yeah I forgot to tell you, I moved in with Mom and Kevin," Serena said "So, I'm going to the lighthouse."
"Oh, that's cool," Emily said "Do you like living with your mom or dad better?"
"Well, I like living with Mom, because of Christina, but I like living with Dad, because, you know, him and Bobbie live together, and I get to see Lucas, who is nice, but he gets on my nerves sometimes, and Christina is sometimes a brat, but she's cool, so I think I like living with Mom, because she understands." Serena replied as they pulled in Serena's driveway.
"Here, I'll help you get that." Tia said as she jumped out of the car.
"Thanks, Tia, and thanks for taking us." Serena said
"Yeah, we had fun." Georgie added
"Bye!" Emily, Rylea, and Jenna yelled from the car, and Tia got back in
"Okay, Rylea, are you going to the house with us or are you going home?"
"I need to go home to clean my room, Mom told me to do that before I left, and I didn't get a chance to so I'll probably be in trouble."
A few minutes later they pulled up to Rylea's, she got her stuff out of the back.
"Bye, Ryles, good luck!" Tia yelled
A few minutes after that, they pulled up to the gatehouse
"Goodness, I'm tired." Tia said
"And glad to be home." Emily added as they got their stuff out of the back of the Xterra, and headed in the house, Jenna opened the door and they walked in.
"Chance, Zander, we're home!" Tia yelled, as she walked towards the study to find Chance "Hey sweetie, where's Chaeci?" as Tia walked around the corner "There's my sweetie-baby, hey I have missed you so much, and I missed you." She said as she went and sat on Chance's lap.
"And I missed you too." Chance said as he kissed Tia and put his arms around her, then he carried her into the living room.
Emily walked into her room to find Zander and Austin asleep on her bed, she went and laid down beside them, Zander woke up.
"Hey." Zander said with a smile
"Sshh, hey what have you and this little guy been doing?" Emily said with a smile
"I'm glad that you are back, me and him, and Chance and Chaeci went to go see Gramma Alexis, and we went to see Gram, and we went up to the main house to go see Lila, and we just fed them about 30 minutes ago." Zander replied about that time Austin stirred a little and woke up and started crying Emily picked him up.
"Hey baby boy tell me all about it, just tell me all about it," Emily said as Austin's cry faded into a whimper "I missed you… both." As they got up and went into the living room.
"Hey, Zander." Tia said as Zander leaned down and hugged her.
"Hey, Emily said that y'all had a good time." Zander said
"Yeah, we had a lot of fun." Tia replied
"Where's my other sister?" He asked
"Um, I don't know, I think that she is on the phone with Jacob." Tia replied
"Oh, so I should leave her alone huh." Zander said
"Yeah, probably, babe." Emily said
"Hey, Emily, come on we have to go fill out those invitations." Tia said as she got off of Chance's lap, and her and Emily ran up stairs with Chaeci and Austin in hand.
"Gosh, they are getting more excited by the day." Chance laughed
"Yeah, they sure seem happy." Zander added
Upstairs
"Okay, so who all are we going to invite?" Emily asked as she and Tia put the babies in playpens.
"Well, there's no use in inviting the people that's in the wedding." Tia replied
"Yeah, you talk I'll jot."
"So, let's see there's Lucy and Kevin with Serena and Christina, then Luke and Laura with Lulu, Mom and Ned, James and Kathy, Kristina, Chloe with Michaela, Gram, Sarah…" Tia said, the list went on and on, then they started writing invitations.
2 Hours Later
"Okay, this is the last one." Emily said as she stuck the seal on it.
"Em, they're out of it." Tia said as she looked into Chaeci and Austin's playpens.
"Yep, I figured they would be." Emily said smiling as she picked up Austin trying not to wake him, Tia did the same with Chaeci, and they walked downstairs.
"Hey." Tia said to Mandie, Summer, Liz, and Mia as they walked into the living room
"Hey guys, where have you been?" Liz asked
"Up in my room writing out invitations." Emily said
"Ah, have fun?" Summer said
"Yeah." Tia laughed
"I swear, we have like about 100 of 'em, and most of them consist of 3 or more per family." Emily said "I don't know what we're gonna do."
"Um, if I'm not mistaken, I think you're gonna have a wedding." Mandie said sarcastically.
"Shut up." Emily said with a smile as she threw a pillow at her.