Mediator Mom
By: ChocolateEclar
Disclaimer: I don't own anything that has to do with the Mediator Series by Meg Cabot/Jenny Carroll, including Jesse (please?), Suze, Paul, Father D, CeeCee, Adam, etc.
Claimer: I fully own Shaun, Charisma, Carmen "Carmenita" De Silva, Rosalinda "Rosie" De Silva and her pets, Tobias "Toby" De Silva, Jacob "Jaco" De Silva and his dog Hiei, and Dominique "Unique" De Silva. I also own the plot. I may not own the fact that Jesse has five sisters (ages 6-16 when he died), but I do own who the five girls are – i.e. their personalities and names. In short, I also own Juanita "Nita" De Silva, Estefana De Silva, Felicidad "Felly" De Silva, Dolores "Dolly" De Silva, and most of all Carmen De Silva.
To Clavel: Rosie, huh? She's my second fave because she's so much like me, but I don't know if I'd work up the nerve to sneak out of the house to meet a bad boy. (laughs) Thanks for the review!
To UnangelicHalo: Who says Carmenita is a shifter? Hehe. You'll learn more about Shaun and Rosie…eventually, but first, lots of Suze freaking out. Thanks again.
To lindsay & Luna Gypsy: Ah, more Rosie fans. Thanks for reviewing!
To Allimba: Toby? Okay. Thanks for reviewing.
To SweetestReject: I like Unique the best too. She just seems like a very strange child at first…and then she just gets stranger. (laughs) Thanks for the review.
To happydrummergal: Ah, a vote for Jaco. Good. Thanks for the review.
To gatorchick007: Another vote for Rosie… Thanks for reviewing.
To Enelya Tinuviel: Suze is sure to react more… (laughs) Thanks for the review!
A/N: The poll is now closed. Here's the final result:
1. Carmenita - 1 vote (10%)
2. Toby - 1 vote (10%)
3. Rosie - 5 votes (50%)
4. Jaco - 1 vote (10%)
5. Unique - 2 votes (20%)
1st Place – Rosie
2nd Place – Unique
3rd Place – Everyone else (Carmenita, Toby, and Jaco)
Thanks for taking the poll! Now enjoy!
Chapter 4: Negative
I am calm. I am not freaking out…
Why isn't Jesse freaking out?
"I expected as much," said Jesse with a slightly worn expression. That's it? You expected as much? Ahhhhh!
I mean, when Jesse found out I kissed Paul he freaked out. Why not now?
"Are you sure he isn't using you though?" Jesse asked. Now that sounds more like him.
Rosie smiled slightly. "We'll just have to wait and see, Papá," she replied.
A small groan escaped from my left. Unique was standing in her bedroom doorway in her over-sized T-shirt for pajamas, rolling her eyes. "Figures," she grumbled. She looked like her usual self apart from the gold hoop entwined around her ankle. She hid it behind her other ankle, making a faint clinking sound. Where on earth had that come from? "Are we going back to sleep now?" she asked.
"Yes," answered Jesse. He looked directly at her and added, "But in the morning any secrets had better be revealed at breakfast."
More secrets? Argh.
"You first, Carmenita," Jesse said at the kitchen table over breakfast the next morning. It was Saturday and, as such, no one was moving very quickly except Jesse. He's used to getting up at dawn to herd cattle or pick crops or whatever though.
"What?" Carmenita gasped. "I'm not hiding anything!"
Jesse gave her a critical eye and asked me, "Is it in fashion to wear scarves in May, Susannah?"
Oh. I saw what he meant. Carmenita's neck was swathed in a feathery, black scarf, which meant… "Argh, Carmenita, not again. Why can't your boyfriends stop biting your neck?"
Toby snorted into his orange juice, while Jaco and Rosie burst into peals of laughter. Unique just smirked at Carmenita's red face.
"Okay, okay, so I'm not innocent," she admitted, "but atleast I'm not dating my parents' arch-enemy's son."
Scowling, Rosie snapped, "Atleast I have a steady boyfriend."
"You've been dating for a week!" hissed Carmenita. "I've had month-long boyfriends!"
"Dominique," Jesse interrupted – he always calls all of them by their full first names except Carmenita.
"Yes, Papá?" Unique queried.
"You have been to the Shadowland since your mother told you not to, haven't you?" Jesse asked.
"Yes, Papá," answered Unique.
"Please don't do it again," Jesse said, slightly pleadingly. He didn't want to lose his smart, little weird "hija." How could anyone really? Unique was so cute in her own way, which was like no other eight-year-old. Her way of being cute, I mean.
"Jacob," said Jesse turning to Jaco.
"I didn't call Sister Ernestine a hag…t-to her face again!" Jaco argued.
"I know," said Jesse laughingly. "I mean, you kissed Charisma."
What? CeeCee and Adam's daughter?
"What?" shrieked Rosie.
"Holy Jeez!" yelped Carmenita, while Toby yelled, "Go Jaco!"
"She kissed me," mumbled Jaco, looking at his fingers.
"The point is," cooed Carmenita, "did you like it?"
"Well, I…yeah, I guess," Jaco muttered, turning redder.
"Awww!" Carmenita and I teased.
Toby ruffled up Jaco's hair, as Jesse let out a little sigh. Something else was wrong.
"Tobias," said Jesse.
"I'm innocent," Toby claimed, turning from Jaco. "Honest, Pop."
"Except for being considered more of a freak than me for doing a mediation in front of his homeroom class," Unique noted tightly.
"Wha? Oh, I…I," Toby stammered. "That's nothing."
"It's not nothing," Rosie said – suddenly stern. "Carmenita got detention for beating someone up for calling you a freak of nature."
"I can handle it," Toby insisted.
Oh, he handled it really well.
On Monday, I got a call at work from the Mission. Apparently, all five of my little angels had gotten suspended for a week for fighting. Oh boy.
But first, I called CeeCee right after the "confession breakfast" to talk about very important matters.
"Can you believe it?" I asked.
"A little," CeeCee replied. "I bet Jaco's not lying about Charisma kissing him though."
"No doubt about it with her having some of Adam's genes," I agreed.
CeeCee and I chatted about "the future wedding of Jaco and Charisma" for awhile longer. It was a lot of fun, but I felt old doing it. Ah, who cares? There's always anti-aging cream. I don't want surgery or botax though. Too many complications, and I like when I can move my face thank you very much.
Now, back to the fight. Apparently, a boy named Dan had got into Toby's face about being a freak at lunch, so Toby shoved him away. Dan's friend Connor swore at Toby and went to punch Toby only to be tackled by Rosie. What followed was Jaco and Unique tried to break up the fights between Dan-and-Toby and Connor-and-Rosie, only to get into the brawl themselves when Dan insulted the whole De Silva Family. Carmenita joined in shortly after hearing about the occurring scuffle, and my five children, Dan, Connor, and their friends Travis, Darryl, and Oliver were dragged to Father Dom's office.
Sister Ernestine called them all juvenile delinquents and sinners in the house of the Lord. Thanks for the kind and forgiving words, Sister, (not) but five of them are my sinning juvenile delinquents!
My delinquents turned out better in the fight though. Unique's wrist was broken and Jaco had a broken nose to accompany his already broken arm, but otherwise they were only bruised up. Dan and his friends were a bit worse off – each with a broken bone or two.
Hey, don't blame me. I only taught them to defend against dead people. I said nothing about the living.
Father Dom doesn't seem to agree. He said, "You shouldn't allow them to mediate until they know when to take action and when to stay back."
Thanks, Father Dom. I didn't take Parenting 101, so sue me, which reminds me, thank God Dan and friends didn't sue or anything. That's one plus. I'm still in the negatives though.
I can hear Jaco moaning about his nose in the bathroom. I would be too. A broken nose is so not fashionable. Carmenita, Toby, and Rosie are each using icepacks on various parts of their bruised bodies and watching an old black and white movie together in the living room downstairs.
"Ahhhh!" That would be Carmenita. I think Toby just dropped his icepack down her shirt. Sheesh.
Atleast, Unique is staying true to her promise to not go to the Shadowland right now. She's sitting next to Jesse – with her broken wrist in a cast – and talking about atoms. Fascinating… Snore.
A/N: Sorry this took awhile, but I had so many problems with it! I'll try to be quicker in updating next time! Please review! Bye!
