At the Opening of the Cave:
"Can't we go any faster? They could be in danger." Complained Gina, who has been worried sick about Grace and her baby.
"Gina don't worry Grace and the Twins are fine. We're going as fast as we can." explained George as he hugged his wife close to him.
"I know I just need to know if she is ok! It has been almost 2 months." cried Gina, who was trying not to worry about her youngest daughter.
"I know honey! I'm also worried, Grace is also my daughter. I worry about her just as much as you do." replied George as he looked down at her. He didn't know whether or not his little girl was safe or if that his grandchild was also in danger.
"We all are scared for our kids. I mean Marilee over there was about to pass out. When she heard about the twins were gone, plus the idea that Grace was Pregnant with Michael's Child." stated Samual coming up to them from helping moving the rocks.
"We should have never yelled at Grace, she should be able to keep that baby if she wants to." replied Gina as she cried on her husbands shoulder.
"Well later on when we find her we can tell her that she can have her baby." responded George as he tries to calm her down.
"I think we found an opening!" responded Greg. "Dad come here and look."
In the Cave:
Meanwhile Grace and the Twins made it tot he spot where Matthew had come in. But to their surprise the rope had come undone from the branch that Matthew had tied it to.
"That's just great, now what are we going to do?" replied Grace.
"I don't know!" replied Michael. "Why are you asking me? I have no clue what to do next. We could just sit here and wait for somebody to find us."
"Michael will you please be realistic if we wait here for somebody to find us Grace and the baby could be in danger. You never once think about anybody but yourself. You should once in you life try to think of others." argued Matthew as he stood there trying to figure out what to do. "Wait did you guys here that?"
"Why? It sounds like rocks moving!" answered Michael, as he listens to the sound.
"That's my Dad's voice coming closer to us, oh thank god I get to go home. I have been in this cave for so long that I thought we would be stuck in here forever. I didn't want to, and now I can go home. I'll never leave again home again, Unless its to live somewhere else." explained Grace as she cried for joy.
"I hear out Dad also, Michael lets find them. Grace you stay here, we'll be right back." Replied Matthew, as he sat Grace on the ground and Michael started towards the voices.
Searching for the Kids:
"GRACELAND? Where are you?" hollered George as he walked through the cave.
"MICHAEL, MATTHEW, ARE YOU GUYS HERE?" hollered Samual as he stumbled through the cave to find his kids.
"DAD!! We're over here!" hollered Matthew. He and Michael had gotten to the gully's edge.
"Did you hear that Samual? I think that was Matthew, we need to hurry. I hope that Grace is with them, and she is ok." Replied George.
"I think that you're right! Matthew is that you?" hollered Samual as he ran towards the voice.
"Dad! We can't get across the gully, hurry!" responded Michael. "We can get across, but we need you to spot us."
George and Samual ran over to the twin's voices, when they got there, George was surprised that Grace wasn't there with them. Now he was even more worried, what was he going to tell Gina when they got out of here.
"My god, you guys ok? Where's Grace?" asked Samual.
"She's ok, she's just over there I'll go get her." Replied Matthew.
"We need to jump over that Dad! But we need to wait for Grace to do that." Said Michael after Matt left.
Outside the Cave:
"What is taking them so long?" asked the Panicked Marilee, who is pacing in front of the cave.
"They're coming, hear that?" replied Gina as she touched Marilee's arm.
When the kids and parents finally go together, there was a lot of crying and apologizing. Grace's parents kept on hugging and kissing her, asking if she was all right. The twin's parents did the same; Marilee was lecturing Michael about getting Grace pregnant and about how he should have known better then to do such a thing. Michael just stood there nodding his head in agreement while Marilee just kept on going like a broken record.
"Mom there's something that I need to tell you and dad. The baby isn't Michael's like I told you it was its Matthews. I never slept with Michael; I only said that because I was dating Michael and I was scared of what you would say or think. I should have told you from the start, but I didn't and I'm sorry about the whole thing." explained Grace as she stood before both families and explains her problem.
"Honey, It doesn't matter only that you safe and so is that child of yours. Right now we need to get home and let you rest." replied Gina.
"Mom before the baby's' born I'm going to live at Matthew's house. Matt and I are going to live together until we find a place to live. But right now I'm going home with you, to recuperate." explained Grace, as she and her parents walked to their car.
"Grace your father and I have talked about you and the baby, about how we both thought it would better to give the child up for adoption. While you were gone we got back to thinking and we came to the conclusion that you should be able to keep this child if you wanted to." explained Gina as she approached the car.
"Thank you mom, I really love you. Oh there is another thing I need to tell you. Matt and I are going to be married, before the baby arrives." replied Grace as she hugged her mother in excitement.
"Oh that is such a good idea, I was worried if you were going to wed or not with the child being on the way. I thought that it was going to be trouble with you and Matthew living together and not being married. Matthew would probably be going out all the time and wouldn't be around for you and the baby." commented Gina, as she looked over at Matthew.
"I'll help you as well Graceland; I'll also be glad to add you to our very huge family. Even though you are to young to have this child." replied Marilee as she went to hug Grace.
"Mom don't start we have been through this all before, you just yelled at Michael for doing that when it was really his fault in the first place. I heard the whole thing, so you don't need to tell me what you already told Michael. You just need to understand that Grace and I are going to be married and having a family now. We both love each other very much and there is nothing that you can do to not let that happen." replied Matthew, as he stood in front of his mother and Grace.
"I will understand Gradually as time passes, but I will always except it for as long as I am a grandmother." smiled Marilee.
"Thank you mother it really means a lot to me. We just want to be happy together, we also want you to be happy. I hope all of you except our decision." responded Matthew, as he hugged Grace close to him. While his mother looked at both of them, and smiled.
"Your father and I have accepted it for about a week even though we thought it was Michael who was the father and not Matthew. We are just as well with the idea of Matthew as with Michael." replied Gina.
"Can we go home now, I'm starving!" complained Michael.
"Michael Aaron Aino you haven't changed a bit. Lets go home, Grace can move in later." replied Marilee as she laughed at his remark.
"That sounds good." Grinned Grace, as she hugged Matthew goodbye for now. "I need to sleep in my own bed, instead of a rock."
"Yep, I'll come by soon to help you pack." Replied Matthew as he led Grace to her car. "I can't wait to have you move in with us."
"Matthew, I just thought of something, we really don't have enough room at our house for Grace." commented Marilee, as she was about to climb in the car. "Our house is full enough already, I don't think that we really need another person in the house."
"Oh no what are we going to do? Matthew we need some place to live." cried Grace as she stopped in between the door and the inside of the car.
"Grace don't worry, Matthew can live with us, we only have four kids, what's just one more?" answered Gina, as she turned to Marilee. "Don't worry about a thing Marilee, we can have Matthew come live at our house."
"Are you sure? Gina I don't want it to be an inconvenience." replied Marilee, as she stood at her open door of the car.
"Sure no problem just send him over in a day or so to get settled." commented Gina. "Geoff and Greg can come over to help him."
"That's great I'll have him pack once he has rest." agreed Marilee as she climbed into the car, then she hollered, "Matthew, LETS GO!!"
"Coming," he yelled to his mother then to Grace, "I'll see you soon, but until then rest up you! I don't want that baby to be in any harm."
"Don't worry Matthew, I'll be fine and so will the baby!" smiled Grace, just before her parents drove off.
At the Aino's House:
A week after Grace and the twins escaped the cave. Matthew started to pack up his stuff, since he would now be moving into the Montgomery house. Michael and him have been a sleep most of the week. Matthew had heard from Grace's Mom that Grace and the baby were fine. Grace had been to the doctor in the week. The doctor had said that she was about 7 ½ months along, she was doing just fine, all she needed to do was eat and sleep more.
"Michael did you get that box packed? Greg's going to take it over now?" asked Matthew, as he packed a suitcase full of clothes. He was on his way down stairs with his stuff to put it in the car with Greg.
"Yeah it's packed, just bringing it down to Greg now. Need anything else to be brought down while I am at it?" asked Michael, who was carrying the box.
"Nope that's fine. I have a whole lot more to pack, but this will do for now. I'll be back for the other stuff later." Responded Matthew as he put his suitcases by the door.
"Matthew do you have everything you need for now?" asked Marilee as she came in from the garage. She had been working on the table for Mrs. Carter.
"Yep for now, I'll be back for the rest, thanks for understanding mom." Smiles Matthew.
"You know Matthew Im glad you found somebody to love forever." Cried Marilee as she hugged Matthew. "I'll miss you, and I just want you to know that I'm proud of you. I know your young but I'm, glad that you found that someone you love. You father and I always knew that Grace and you would always end up together. We just didn't think it would be so soon. Even though Michael was dating her, you would step in soon to start. Well all there is left to say is good luck Matthew Ryan Aino, my son."
"Thank you mother if we have a girl I'll talk to Grace about naming her after you." smiled Matthew, before he left his house.
At the Montgomery House:
"Grace is sleeping now Matthew, but you can put your things in her room. Just make sure you don't wake her, Grace has made room for your stuff in some drawers and her closet." explained Gina, who was making lunch for them all. "Georgia Can you please show Matthew the way? Then you can show him the places to put his things."
"Yes mother," agreed Georgia, as she walked to the stairs to lead Matthew to Grace's room. "Come on Matthew."
"Right," agrees Matthew then starts to follow, but turns around to say, "Mrs. Montgomery, I'm sorry for what I put Grace through, but I'm also sorry for what I'm putting you through. I just want you to know that I would never do anything to hurt Grace or that Baby."
"I Know Matthew, I Know." whispers Gina as she continues to make the lunches.
In Grace's Room:
"Here we are Matthew, you are to stay in here with Grace. You can put your clothes in here (shows him the drawers) and hang your shirts in here (opens the Closet)." whispers Georgia as she stands in Grace's room, while Grace was sleeping in her bed. "I'll leave you now."
"Thanks Gia," whispers Matthew, as he watches her leave.
Georgia just smiles as she shuts the door. Matthew put all his things away. Then walks over to the Sleeping Grace, Matthew places a kiss on her forehead. Matthew leaves Grace and goes down stairs to have lunch. Grace was lying on her moon print bedspread, which she was wearing a pale orange sundress. That was a maternity dress obviously.
"Matthew, come sit done and have Lunch. Grace can eat later, she has been so tired lately. Being pregnant sure can take it out of you, I know I have had four kids. Plus you get very hungry as well." explains Gina, as she ate her ham and cheese sandwich.
"Thank you, I'm starving!" replied Matthew as he sat down to eat. Since he never had anything to eat since breakfast and he was packing all day.
"Hello, everybody, sorry I slept so long. I was really tired. Hey Matthew when did you get here?" asked Grace as she sat down to have to have a very huge Roast beef Sandwich with chips. Plus some pop to go along with it. "Did you get most of your stuff here? Should I help you unpack?"
"Nope all ready done, all my stuff is already in the drawers and Closet. I still need to go back over there in the next few months or days." explained Matthew as he took a bit out of his steak sandwich. "So Im here to stay for awhile that is until you and I can find an apartment."
"When will you be doing that, I mean looking for an apartment?" asked George as he looked at Matthew with the look that said 'You better have a good explanation, if you don't the you are going to answer to me'.
"Uh...I'll start looking soon as the baby comes, we don't want any harm to come to the baby before then. Then as soon as the baby come will be staying here for a few more months until the bay is able to travel and when we find a suitable apartment. If that is ok with you sir, I don't want to be an intrusion." explained Matthew, trying to choose the right words.
"That's good, don't want to be stressful with Grace, since she is pregnant. We don't want any harm to come to the Grandchild of mine." commented George, as he relaxed a little, he was really worried about Grace.
"Don't worry sir, I wont do that to Grace or the baby." replied Matthew.
"Dad don't be so hard on Matthew, he's doing a fine job." reprimanded Georgia.
"I know, I was just checking, no harm in that is there?" replied George.
"Matthew, come on up to my room I need to show you some stuff." comments Grace as she looked at her father knowing he going to lecture Matthew about responsibility and loyalty and such. "Mother thanks for lunch, I'll be in my room if you need me."
"Alright dear, don't be to strainuess." replied Gina.
Matthew and Grace went up stairs to her room, where Grace showed Matthew some pictures of the baby clothes that she was going to get that were in a magazine.
"What do you think of this Crib?" asked Grace as she leafed through a magazine.
"That's nice, I think that we should get it later." agrees Matthew as he gets up to change into shorts and a T-shirt. He had been wearing a red long sleeved shirt and blue jeans. Matthew stripped down to just his boxers and went to choose some shorts.
"OOO, I would like the big strong man to come over here!" giggles Grace, as she sees Matthew change.
"Right and I'm going to why?" asks Matthew as he puts on his shorts.
"I'm not going to do anything I was just going to lay down with you." Pouts Grace, as she lies on the bed.
"Grace come on, don't be sad. I thought you meant something else." Whispered Matthew as he climbed into bed with her. "I know let's go on a walk together over to my house or to the park and just sit and talk."
"Can we go to the store down the street and hang out and talk?" questioned Grace as she sat up.
"I guess if you want to but why the store? Don't you want to somewhere else?" questioned Matthew as he looked at her.
"You'll see why only if you take me to the store." commented Grace.
"Ok sure lets go come on." agrees Matthew as she helps Grace up grabs a shirt and leaves to drive Grace to the store.
At the Store:
When Grace and Matthew pulled up to the store, Matthew got out to help Grace out. Grace turned to Matthew as he was walking to the store. Grace went the other direction; She was going to the sub place for food. Matthew turned around and noticed that she wasn't there and saw her go into the sub way.
"Grace what are you doing here? I thought we were going to the store. You said that you were going to the store not to subway to eat." replied Matthew, as he went to stand next to her.
"Matthew we came to the place where I wanted to go!" commented Grace a she went back to placing her order.
"Grace you just ate about 2 hours ago, why are you hungry again?" replied Matthew, as he stood watching Grace.
"I know but I need to get out of besides I was hungry. I have been cooped up in that house for a week. It was about time that I got up to do something." explains Grace as she waited for Matthew to place an order.
"I'll have the Steak sub with every thing on it." replied Matthew to the employee. When he was done making the subs, Matthew paid for both of them and also got them drinks. They sat down at a table with their snack. The table was round and only had two chairs. When they sat down Grace dug in right away into her sub. "Ok what do you want to talk about?"
"I just wanted to get out with you my mother is being a pain with all this, she doesn't want me to do anything but sit and sleep. I don't mind the sleeping part, but the sitting part is annoying as hell. I also wanted to thank you for..." replied Grace, but before she could finish one of their friends showed up.
"Hey Matthew what's up? What have you been up to? How's your summer going so far?" asked Ethan La Pierre, who came up to both of them. Ethan was 16 had black hair and Grey with yellow eyes. Ethan loves to play music in school with the band.
"Everything has been great! That is until about a month ago." Replied Matthew as he took a look at Grace.
"Oh what happened?" asked Ethan a he sat down to listen to Matthew's story about their disaster.
"Oh we, Grace and I that is, were." he started to say but got cut off by Grace when she said.
"We just had a bad month lets just say right Matt?" replied Grace.
"Uh right," agreed Matthew.
"Ok sure well Grace how's everything with you and the baby?" asked Ethan calmly.
"Oh just fine, I can't wait till it comes. I have bee so exhausted being pregnant is so over rated." replied Grace.
"That is interesting, my mother enjoyed being a mother although she didn't like being pregnant. Well its been fun talking to you, I just thought I'd stop by to say hi." replied Ethan, just before he left.
"What was that all about? You really don't need to tell everybody everything that happened this past month, Matthew!" whispered Grace harshly as she took a drink of her water.
"Grace I was just going to tell him because he's a friend. I'll tell him just about everything. Grace I'll sorry that I was going to tell him about the cave." Explained Matthew as he got up to throw away his sandwich wrappings.
"I'm sorry that I yelled at you about this whole thing. But you have to understand that the whole experience with the cave. It's the worst thing that has ever happened to me, I never want to think about it again or even talk about it." explained Grace as she leaned back in her chair.
"Fine Grace I won't bring it up again." agreed Matthew, as he took Grace's hand and pulled her to the car.
On the way home the two of them drove in silence, neither of them wanted to talk. Grace seemed to be deep in thought looking out the window. Matthew was doing just the same but he was staring straight a head. Matthew drove all the way to his house to grab something. When he got out of the car he didn't even say a word to Grace. Grace was watching him in amazement, she was now worrying if Matthew was always going to be mad at her. When Matthew got back in the car he put some stuff in the trunk then got in the front seat. Grace just watched him doing this, then when he started to drive to her house she had to break the silence.
"Are you going to stay mad at me for the rest of our lives?" questioned Grace looking at him.
"No just thought that you wanted sometime to your self." commented Matthew as he pulled into the driveway.
"Sure, I wanted to think some but I also thought that you were mad at me." whispered Grace as she got out of the car.
"I'm not mad!" stated Matthew as his cell phone rang. "Yes ok we'll be there."
"What was that about?" asked Grace, as she walked up to him.
"The Tsukino's need our help, Samantha wants us to come. We need to tell the others." explained Matthew as he hugged Grace.
Ok, well I'm going with you, there is nothing that you can say to change my mind." replied Grace as she went walked with him into the house.
A few days later the Montgomery's and the Aino's went to Treno. Their parents stayed home and to see if they could be of any help to Steven and Serenity Tsukino.
"Can't we go any faster? They could be in danger." Complained Gina, who has been worried sick about Grace and her baby.
"Gina don't worry Grace and the Twins are fine. We're going as fast as we can." explained George as he hugged his wife close to him.
"I know I just need to know if she is ok! It has been almost 2 months." cried Gina, who was trying not to worry about her youngest daughter.
"I know honey! I'm also worried, Grace is also my daughter. I worry about her just as much as you do." replied George as he looked down at her. He didn't know whether or not his little girl was safe or if that his grandchild was also in danger.
"We all are scared for our kids. I mean Marilee over there was about to pass out. When she heard about the twins were gone, plus the idea that Grace was Pregnant with Michael's Child." stated Samual coming up to them from helping moving the rocks.
"We should have never yelled at Grace, she should be able to keep that baby if she wants to." replied Gina as she cried on her husbands shoulder.
"Well later on when we find her we can tell her that she can have her baby." responded George as he tries to calm her down.
"I think we found an opening!" responded Greg. "Dad come here and look."
In the Cave:
Meanwhile Grace and the Twins made it tot he spot where Matthew had come in. But to their surprise the rope had come undone from the branch that Matthew had tied it to.
"That's just great, now what are we going to do?" replied Grace.
"I don't know!" replied Michael. "Why are you asking me? I have no clue what to do next. We could just sit here and wait for somebody to find us."
"Michael will you please be realistic if we wait here for somebody to find us Grace and the baby could be in danger. You never once think about anybody but yourself. You should once in you life try to think of others." argued Matthew as he stood there trying to figure out what to do. "Wait did you guys here that?"
"Why? It sounds like rocks moving!" answered Michael, as he listens to the sound.
"That's my Dad's voice coming closer to us, oh thank god I get to go home. I have been in this cave for so long that I thought we would be stuck in here forever. I didn't want to, and now I can go home. I'll never leave again home again, Unless its to live somewhere else." explained Grace as she cried for joy.
"I hear out Dad also, Michael lets find them. Grace you stay here, we'll be right back." Replied Matthew, as he sat Grace on the ground and Michael started towards the voices.
Searching for the Kids:
"GRACELAND? Where are you?" hollered George as he walked through the cave.
"MICHAEL, MATTHEW, ARE YOU GUYS HERE?" hollered Samual as he stumbled through the cave to find his kids.
"DAD!! We're over here!" hollered Matthew. He and Michael had gotten to the gully's edge.
"Did you hear that Samual? I think that was Matthew, we need to hurry. I hope that Grace is with them, and she is ok." Replied George.
"I think that you're right! Matthew is that you?" hollered Samual as he ran towards the voice.
"Dad! We can't get across the gully, hurry!" responded Michael. "We can get across, but we need you to spot us."
George and Samual ran over to the twin's voices, when they got there, George was surprised that Grace wasn't there with them. Now he was even more worried, what was he going to tell Gina when they got out of here.
"My god, you guys ok? Where's Grace?" asked Samual.
"She's ok, she's just over there I'll go get her." Replied Matthew.
"We need to jump over that Dad! But we need to wait for Grace to do that." Said Michael after Matt left.
Outside the Cave:
"What is taking them so long?" asked the Panicked Marilee, who is pacing in front of the cave.
"They're coming, hear that?" replied Gina as she touched Marilee's arm.
When the kids and parents finally go together, there was a lot of crying and apologizing. Grace's parents kept on hugging and kissing her, asking if she was all right. The twin's parents did the same; Marilee was lecturing Michael about getting Grace pregnant and about how he should have known better then to do such a thing. Michael just stood there nodding his head in agreement while Marilee just kept on going like a broken record.
"Mom there's something that I need to tell you and dad. The baby isn't Michael's like I told you it was its Matthews. I never slept with Michael; I only said that because I was dating Michael and I was scared of what you would say or think. I should have told you from the start, but I didn't and I'm sorry about the whole thing." explained Grace as she stood before both families and explains her problem.
"Honey, It doesn't matter only that you safe and so is that child of yours. Right now we need to get home and let you rest." replied Gina.
"Mom before the baby's' born I'm going to live at Matthew's house. Matt and I are going to live together until we find a place to live. But right now I'm going home with you, to recuperate." explained Grace, as she and her parents walked to their car.
"Grace your father and I have talked about you and the baby, about how we both thought it would better to give the child up for adoption. While you were gone we got back to thinking and we came to the conclusion that you should be able to keep this child if you wanted to." explained Gina as she approached the car.
"Thank you mom, I really love you. Oh there is another thing I need to tell you. Matt and I are going to be married, before the baby arrives." replied Grace as she hugged her mother in excitement.
"Oh that is such a good idea, I was worried if you were going to wed or not with the child being on the way. I thought that it was going to be trouble with you and Matthew living together and not being married. Matthew would probably be going out all the time and wouldn't be around for you and the baby." commented Gina, as she looked over at Matthew.
"I'll help you as well Graceland; I'll also be glad to add you to our very huge family. Even though you are to young to have this child." replied Marilee as she went to hug Grace.
"Mom don't start we have been through this all before, you just yelled at Michael for doing that when it was really his fault in the first place. I heard the whole thing, so you don't need to tell me what you already told Michael. You just need to understand that Grace and I are going to be married and having a family now. We both love each other very much and there is nothing that you can do to not let that happen." replied Matthew, as he stood in front of his mother and Grace.
"I will understand Gradually as time passes, but I will always except it for as long as I am a grandmother." smiled Marilee.
"Thank you mother it really means a lot to me. We just want to be happy together, we also want you to be happy. I hope all of you except our decision." responded Matthew, as he hugged Grace close to him. While his mother looked at both of them, and smiled.
"Your father and I have accepted it for about a week even though we thought it was Michael who was the father and not Matthew. We are just as well with the idea of Matthew as with Michael." replied Gina.
"Can we go home now, I'm starving!" complained Michael.
"Michael Aaron Aino you haven't changed a bit. Lets go home, Grace can move in later." replied Marilee as she laughed at his remark.
"That sounds good." Grinned Grace, as she hugged Matthew goodbye for now. "I need to sleep in my own bed, instead of a rock."
"Yep, I'll come by soon to help you pack." Replied Matthew as he led Grace to her car. "I can't wait to have you move in with us."
"Matthew, I just thought of something, we really don't have enough room at our house for Grace." commented Marilee, as she was about to climb in the car. "Our house is full enough already, I don't think that we really need another person in the house."
"Oh no what are we going to do? Matthew we need some place to live." cried Grace as she stopped in between the door and the inside of the car.
"Grace don't worry, Matthew can live with us, we only have four kids, what's just one more?" answered Gina, as she turned to Marilee. "Don't worry about a thing Marilee, we can have Matthew come live at our house."
"Are you sure? Gina I don't want it to be an inconvenience." replied Marilee, as she stood at her open door of the car.
"Sure no problem just send him over in a day or so to get settled." commented Gina. "Geoff and Greg can come over to help him."
"That's great I'll have him pack once he has rest." agreed Marilee as she climbed into the car, then she hollered, "Matthew, LETS GO!!"
"Coming," he yelled to his mother then to Grace, "I'll see you soon, but until then rest up you! I don't want that baby to be in any harm."
"Don't worry Matthew, I'll be fine and so will the baby!" smiled Grace, just before her parents drove off.
At the Aino's House:
A week after Grace and the twins escaped the cave. Matthew started to pack up his stuff, since he would now be moving into the Montgomery house. Michael and him have been a sleep most of the week. Matthew had heard from Grace's Mom that Grace and the baby were fine. Grace had been to the doctor in the week. The doctor had said that she was about 7 ½ months along, she was doing just fine, all she needed to do was eat and sleep more.
"Michael did you get that box packed? Greg's going to take it over now?" asked Matthew, as he packed a suitcase full of clothes. He was on his way down stairs with his stuff to put it in the car with Greg.
"Yeah it's packed, just bringing it down to Greg now. Need anything else to be brought down while I am at it?" asked Michael, who was carrying the box.
"Nope that's fine. I have a whole lot more to pack, but this will do for now. I'll be back for the other stuff later." Responded Matthew as he put his suitcases by the door.
"Matthew do you have everything you need for now?" asked Marilee as she came in from the garage. She had been working on the table for Mrs. Carter.
"Yep for now, I'll be back for the rest, thanks for understanding mom." Smiles Matthew.
"You know Matthew Im glad you found somebody to love forever." Cried Marilee as she hugged Matthew. "I'll miss you, and I just want you to know that I'm proud of you. I know your young but I'm, glad that you found that someone you love. You father and I always knew that Grace and you would always end up together. We just didn't think it would be so soon. Even though Michael was dating her, you would step in soon to start. Well all there is left to say is good luck Matthew Ryan Aino, my son."
"Thank you mother if we have a girl I'll talk to Grace about naming her after you." smiled Matthew, before he left his house.
At the Montgomery House:
"Grace is sleeping now Matthew, but you can put your things in her room. Just make sure you don't wake her, Grace has made room for your stuff in some drawers and her closet." explained Gina, who was making lunch for them all. "Georgia Can you please show Matthew the way? Then you can show him the places to put his things."
"Yes mother," agreed Georgia, as she walked to the stairs to lead Matthew to Grace's room. "Come on Matthew."
"Right," agrees Matthew then starts to follow, but turns around to say, "Mrs. Montgomery, I'm sorry for what I put Grace through, but I'm also sorry for what I'm putting you through. I just want you to know that I would never do anything to hurt Grace or that Baby."
"I Know Matthew, I Know." whispers Gina as she continues to make the lunches.
In Grace's Room:
"Here we are Matthew, you are to stay in here with Grace. You can put your clothes in here (shows him the drawers) and hang your shirts in here (opens the Closet)." whispers Georgia as she stands in Grace's room, while Grace was sleeping in her bed. "I'll leave you now."
"Thanks Gia," whispers Matthew, as he watches her leave.
Georgia just smiles as she shuts the door. Matthew put all his things away. Then walks over to the Sleeping Grace, Matthew places a kiss on her forehead. Matthew leaves Grace and goes down stairs to have lunch. Grace was lying on her moon print bedspread, which she was wearing a pale orange sundress. That was a maternity dress obviously.
"Matthew, come sit done and have Lunch. Grace can eat later, she has been so tired lately. Being pregnant sure can take it out of you, I know I have had four kids. Plus you get very hungry as well." explains Gina, as she ate her ham and cheese sandwich.
"Thank you, I'm starving!" replied Matthew as he sat down to eat. Since he never had anything to eat since breakfast and he was packing all day.
"Hello, everybody, sorry I slept so long. I was really tired. Hey Matthew when did you get here?" asked Grace as she sat down to have to have a very huge Roast beef Sandwich with chips. Plus some pop to go along with it. "Did you get most of your stuff here? Should I help you unpack?"
"Nope all ready done, all my stuff is already in the drawers and Closet. I still need to go back over there in the next few months or days." explained Matthew as he took a bit out of his steak sandwich. "So Im here to stay for awhile that is until you and I can find an apartment."
"When will you be doing that, I mean looking for an apartment?" asked George as he looked at Matthew with the look that said 'You better have a good explanation, if you don't the you are going to answer to me'.
"Uh...I'll start looking soon as the baby comes, we don't want any harm to come to the baby before then. Then as soon as the baby come will be staying here for a few more months until the bay is able to travel and when we find a suitable apartment. If that is ok with you sir, I don't want to be an intrusion." explained Matthew, trying to choose the right words.
"That's good, don't want to be stressful with Grace, since she is pregnant. We don't want any harm to come to the Grandchild of mine." commented George, as he relaxed a little, he was really worried about Grace.
"Don't worry sir, I wont do that to Grace or the baby." replied Matthew.
"Dad don't be so hard on Matthew, he's doing a fine job." reprimanded Georgia.
"I know, I was just checking, no harm in that is there?" replied George.
"Matthew, come on up to my room I need to show you some stuff." comments Grace as she looked at her father knowing he going to lecture Matthew about responsibility and loyalty and such. "Mother thanks for lunch, I'll be in my room if you need me."
"Alright dear, don't be to strainuess." replied Gina.
Matthew and Grace went up stairs to her room, where Grace showed Matthew some pictures of the baby clothes that she was going to get that were in a magazine.
"What do you think of this Crib?" asked Grace as she leafed through a magazine.
"That's nice, I think that we should get it later." agrees Matthew as he gets up to change into shorts and a T-shirt. He had been wearing a red long sleeved shirt and blue jeans. Matthew stripped down to just his boxers and went to choose some shorts.
"OOO, I would like the big strong man to come over here!" giggles Grace, as she sees Matthew change.
"Right and I'm going to why?" asks Matthew as he puts on his shorts.
"I'm not going to do anything I was just going to lay down with you." Pouts Grace, as she lies on the bed.
"Grace come on, don't be sad. I thought you meant something else." Whispered Matthew as he climbed into bed with her. "I know let's go on a walk together over to my house or to the park and just sit and talk."
"Can we go to the store down the street and hang out and talk?" questioned Grace as she sat up.
"I guess if you want to but why the store? Don't you want to somewhere else?" questioned Matthew as he looked at her.
"You'll see why only if you take me to the store." commented Grace.
"Ok sure lets go come on." agrees Matthew as she helps Grace up grabs a shirt and leaves to drive Grace to the store.
At the Store:
When Grace and Matthew pulled up to the store, Matthew got out to help Grace out. Grace turned to Matthew as he was walking to the store. Grace went the other direction; She was going to the sub place for food. Matthew turned around and noticed that she wasn't there and saw her go into the sub way.
"Grace what are you doing here? I thought we were going to the store. You said that you were going to the store not to subway to eat." replied Matthew, as he went to stand next to her.
"Matthew we came to the place where I wanted to go!" commented Grace a she went back to placing her order.
"Grace you just ate about 2 hours ago, why are you hungry again?" replied Matthew, as he stood watching Grace.
"I know but I need to get out of besides I was hungry. I have been cooped up in that house for a week. It was about time that I got up to do something." explains Grace as she waited for Matthew to place an order.
"I'll have the Steak sub with every thing on it." replied Matthew to the employee. When he was done making the subs, Matthew paid for both of them and also got them drinks. They sat down at a table with their snack. The table was round and only had two chairs. When they sat down Grace dug in right away into her sub. "Ok what do you want to talk about?"
"I just wanted to get out with you my mother is being a pain with all this, she doesn't want me to do anything but sit and sleep. I don't mind the sleeping part, but the sitting part is annoying as hell. I also wanted to thank you for..." replied Grace, but before she could finish one of their friends showed up.
"Hey Matthew what's up? What have you been up to? How's your summer going so far?" asked Ethan La Pierre, who came up to both of them. Ethan was 16 had black hair and Grey with yellow eyes. Ethan loves to play music in school with the band.
"Everything has been great! That is until about a month ago." Replied Matthew as he took a look at Grace.
"Oh what happened?" asked Ethan a he sat down to listen to Matthew's story about their disaster.
"Oh we, Grace and I that is, were." he started to say but got cut off by Grace when she said.
"We just had a bad month lets just say right Matt?" replied Grace.
"Uh right," agreed Matthew.
"Ok sure well Grace how's everything with you and the baby?" asked Ethan calmly.
"Oh just fine, I can't wait till it comes. I have bee so exhausted being pregnant is so over rated." replied Grace.
"That is interesting, my mother enjoyed being a mother although she didn't like being pregnant. Well its been fun talking to you, I just thought I'd stop by to say hi." replied Ethan, just before he left.
"What was that all about? You really don't need to tell everybody everything that happened this past month, Matthew!" whispered Grace harshly as she took a drink of her water.
"Grace I was just going to tell him because he's a friend. I'll tell him just about everything. Grace I'll sorry that I was going to tell him about the cave." Explained Matthew as he got up to throw away his sandwich wrappings.
"I'm sorry that I yelled at you about this whole thing. But you have to understand that the whole experience with the cave. It's the worst thing that has ever happened to me, I never want to think about it again or even talk about it." explained Grace as she leaned back in her chair.
"Fine Grace I won't bring it up again." agreed Matthew, as he took Grace's hand and pulled her to the car.
On the way home the two of them drove in silence, neither of them wanted to talk. Grace seemed to be deep in thought looking out the window. Matthew was doing just the same but he was staring straight a head. Matthew drove all the way to his house to grab something. When he got out of the car he didn't even say a word to Grace. Grace was watching him in amazement, she was now worrying if Matthew was always going to be mad at her. When Matthew got back in the car he put some stuff in the trunk then got in the front seat. Grace just watched him doing this, then when he started to drive to her house she had to break the silence.
"Are you going to stay mad at me for the rest of our lives?" questioned Grace looking at him.
"No just thought that you wanted sometime to your self." commented Matthew as he pulled into the driveway.
"Sure, I wanted to think some but I also thought that you were mad at me." whispered Grace as she got out of the car.
"I'm not mad!" stated Matthew as his cell phone rang. "Yes ok we'll be there."
"What was that about?" asked Grace, as she walked up to him.
"The Tsukino's need our help, Samantha wants us to come. We need to tell the others." explained Matthew as he hugged Grace.
Ok, well I'm going with you, there is nothing that you can say to change my mind." replied Grace as she went walked with him into the house.
A few days later the Montgomery's and the Aino's went to Treno. Their parents stayed home and to see if they could be of any help to Steven and Serenity Tsukino.