Ch. 12 Celina and Stories
Disclaimer: None of the characters in this chapter belong to me except Celina and Shego's mom.
That evening Shego was helping her mom in the kitchen when a little girl who looked to be around four years old came into room. She had dark hair and blue eyes.
"Grandma!" the girl shouted running up to Shego's mom wrapping her tiny arms around Shego's mom's legs. Shego realized this was the little girl she'd talked to on the phone- her niece.
"Mom?" Hego shouted as he rounded the corner. He had two large grocery bags.
"Set those there Henry," his mom said pointing to the island in the center of the kitchen. Shego looked at the little girl. Suddenly the girl's eyes opened and she was staring at Shego.
"I'm Celina. I'm four," said the girl holding up four fingers. Shego looked at Hego he nodded to tell her it was ok for her to tell Celina who she was.
"I'm your Aunt Hailey," Shego told her.
"Really! I've never had an aunt before!" Celina said letting go of her grandmother's legs and grabbed Shego's legs. Shego tried to smile. Celina had a good grip- just like her father.
"Hey! You want to play Barbies?" Celina asked happily.
"Well..." Shego said. She'd never played Barbies. Being the only girl in her family she'd been more into sports. Then Celina made the cutest puppy- dog pout ever and even Shego couldn't refuse. Celina took off her backpack and pulled out two dolls she handed one to Shego.
"Hey Skipper! You want to go shopping?" Celina asked moving the doll.
"Sure let's bolt!" Shego said grabbing her purse.
"You're funny Aunt Hailey! Not really go shopping the Barbies go shopping!" Celina told her giggling.
"Oh right. So where's the mall?" Shego asked not really understanding.
"No where. this pretend!" Celina laughed.
"Oh okay," Shego said laughing at her own foolishness.
Celina and Shego sat on the floor doing the Barbies' hair for a long time. Celina listened to Shego's silly stories she 'made up'. The stories were really stupid things she and Drakken had done. She changed the names of people, places, and things so it would be untraceable to her or Drakken. Celina had crawled into Shego's lap and had fallen asleep by the time Drakken came in.
"Shhh. Do you know where Hego is?" Shego asked in a whisper.
"Dining room," Drakken whispered back .
"Thanks," Shego said scooping up Celina and carried her to Hego. When she came back to clean up the Barbies, Drakken was still in the room.
"Was that your niece?" he asked.
"Yeah. Soon to be yours," Shego told him as she cleaned.
"Yes, I know," Drakken sighed.
"So where were you?" Shego asked. Hego had come home before Drakken and nobody had seen Mego.
"Hego and I met up with Mego at the tuxedo store. Hego didn't tell me we were meeting Mego. If he had I probably wouldn't have gone. Then your mom called and asked Hego to stop by Smarty Mart so he went by himself so he 'wouldn't spoil our day'. Then Mego and I went by the catering place and we actually got along. Mego's actually pretty cool. I guess if you give your enemy another chance then you can be friends," Drakken told her.
It made Shego think about her run-in with Kim Possible. We promised no more lies or twisting the truth. Shego thought.
"Drew," Shego said softly.
"Hmm?" Drakken asked closing his eyes.
"You'll never guess who I ran into," Shego told him.
"Who?" Drakken asked offhandedly.
"Ron Stoppable," Shego told him. Which was the truth. She did almost literally run into Ron.
"Who?" Drakken asked confusedly.
"And guess who he was with," Shego continued.
"I give up," Drakken mumbled.
"Kim Possible," Shego said expecting the worst.
"What?" Drakken asked he was awake now.
"Yeah. I ran into her and she escorted me to the bridal shop," Shego prattled on knowing she had Drakken's full attention.
"What did she do when you stopped there?" Drakken asked to see how Shego dealt with this worst-case scenario.
"Followed me in," Shego said casually.
"And you didn't tell her to leave?" Drakken asked in an astounded voice.
"Nope. I figured if anyone in this world would be brutally honest on how I looked it would have to be her. So I took the opportunity to get a free fashion consultant," Shego explained.
Drakken relaxed a little Shego handled the situation better than he could have hoped for. With this off her chest Shego felt ten times better. Shego's mom called them down to dinner and Shego spent the evening listening to her family. You know, Shego thought they're actually pretty wonderful-my family.
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