Six Months Later (Christmas)
Brooke just had the baby, another girl, tall and skinny, and blonde, the first blonde, Aurora and Magdalene were brunettes and Fareeda was a redhead (which is an argument for another time,) her name was Tassia Kassandra Scott. Tassia meaning born on Christmas and Kassandra meaning inflaming men with love, Brooke picked out the name herself (as you can tell). She had quite a bunch, Aurora Luzette, Magdalene Mae, Fareeda Keely and Tassia Kassandra, not just ordinary names of people you see walking down the street, that's for sure. "Hey Luke, I beginning to think you're incapable of having a son, after four girls, your outnumbered." Brooke laughed.
"But no wowwy daddy I stiwl wub you," Aurora said reaching her little hands up to give him a hug, but he picked her up and started tickling her stomach making her scream with laughter and Magdalene growl like a wild animal, because she was jealous. She always did things like that when one of her sisters was getting more attention than her, growl, hit, bite, scream. Fareeda began to cry out of fear of Magdalene's growls, causing baby Tassia to cry, too, giving Brooke a headache.
"Luke put Aurora down, Magdalene stop growling, Luke quiet Fareeda, and Magdalene if you start again, you'll get a shot," Brooke said threatening the child, Magdalene hated shots, but aurora didn't care, just as long as she got a lolly after, if she didn't all hell broke loose. She was the star of her three year old class, the little gothic boy, wasn't gothic anymore, he was her friend, and she told him black is what mean boys wear and he said he wasn't mean and from then on her wore colors, and the large girl, whom everyone called fatso, she was nice to, and she said her name was Mary, and the boy was David, they all sat at the front, center table, along with others who admired her, because she set the four-year-old bully strait, and now he had a crush on her, and brought her dandelions, practically every day. Magdalene would bite her teacher and be sent to the corner where she would scratch the walls with her fingernails and kick it (and put a hole in it) with her feet. The teacher said it was terrible two's, Brooke said she got it from Peyton, whom had just recently left to pursue her art career in New York, and her and Magdalene were attached at the hip. Lucas had a horrible time trying to get all three girls ready for school, while he tried to get ready himself. "Magdalene, put clothes on, please, you can wear anything, that's something mommy doesn't let you do," Lucas begged the child, while the easiest was Fareeda, she had no clue what was going on. Aurora was spending hours picking out the perfect outfit, ad got mad when Lucas handed her a shirt and some pants, that didn't match, each other or her nail polish, that Brooke took her to get days before, and because of the fact that he came in her room without knocking, and gave him that look the Brooke gave him when she was mad at him. She finally decided on a hot pink V-neck, short sleeved, over a white long-sleeved shirt, and of course her shirt had a little pocket on it, then one of her new jean skirts, that reach her knees, instead of her thighs, white tights, and pink sneakers, and her little pink wristwatch (even though she couldn't really tell time) and spun around in her full length floor mirror like Brooke taught her and grabbed her backpack and sat at the counter to wait for breakfast. Soon after Magdalene came, wearing a cammo skirt with a black wife beater and her black tims, and Lucas following shaking his head "Daby I need my jackpet and hapt," She said pointing to a box on the top shelf in the closet that Lucas took down, and recognized the handwriting on it, Peyton's. He opened the box to find a small army helmet and a cammo jacket to match her skirt. He knew Peyton had connections, but not like that, he hadn't seen it before, but her gave it to Magdalene and helped her put it on, so she would eat breakfast. He put Fareeda in the counter and passed pop tarts around and juice boxes, food on the go, just to get them out the door, except Aurora couldn't find the new jean jacket Brooke bought her and couldn't wear her old one because it was a different color jean and went with her mini jean skirts that her teacher didn't like. Lucas really needed to have a talk with Brooke about how all of their clothes needed to match their accessories. "Maybe it's in the dryer," Luke suggested to Aurora about her coat.
"No, micowabe, mama warm jacpet in micwabe," Aurora said pointing to the microwave.
"Aurora, sweetheart, clothes don't belong in the microwave, here I'll show you," Lucas said opening the microwave and finding her jacket.
"Towld You!" Aurora said putting her hands on her hips and sticking her tongue out at him. He handed her, her coat and shut the microwave.
"Well Mr. Scott, long time no see, busy with school I presume," Fareeda's teacher asked him as he dropped off Fareeda.
"Ah, yes, Ms. Lass, very busy, and I have to more to drop off before I get there," Lucas said leaving with Magdalene and Aurora.
"Well why isn't Ms. Davis dropping them off like she usually does, we all love her cheerful side every day," Ms. Lass commented.
"Oh, she just had the baby, healthy, another girl, all her fingers and toes, Tassia Kassandra Scott, another one of her name inventions, and I really must be going, but I'll talk to you later," Lucas said leaving to Magdalene's class.
"Good Morning Ms. Knowle, how are you today," Lucas asked trying to be nice to the woman who had to put up with his monster of a child.
"Great till you brought the wild thing, she is sure one piece of work, that Magdalene, but I've heard wonderful things about your sweet Aurora, you must be proud of her," Ms. Knowle said, "Magdalene, please put your coat and hat in the coat closet where they belong and join the rest of us on the story carpet, we're about to read 'The Princess and the Pea' together," Ms. Knowle said, while Lucas was still there to prove her point, but Magdalene did as she was told, she didn't do that with Brooke there, something about her father.
"Mr. Scott, do you beat Magdalene?" Ms. Knowle asked him.
"No, why would you ask that, where would you get such a crazy idea," Lucas asked getting a little mad.
"Well, for me and Brooke little Magdalene always acts up, but you're here and she's doing exactly what she's told, maybe you did something that makes you seem in power over her," Ms. Knowle stated.
"Listen lady, Magdalene, well she's Magdalene, her own person, she has days where she'll be a completely and total angel, then days she's the devil, she'll grow out of it, now I need to get Aurora to class, good bye," Lucas said leaving before Ms. Knowle could say another word.
"Aurora, you're here, we thought you weren't coming, and who are you?" Miss Carry asked looking at Lucas, she'd never seen him before.
"Mr. Scott," Lucas said extending his hand.
"Yea, you and about fifty other guys, nice try," Miss Carry said eyeing him.
"It otay daby, she dopt twusts manys peoples," Aurora said reaching up so he would pick her up, which he did. "Put her down, I could have you arrested, young man," Miss Carry said stepping closer.
"Listen lady, Aurora is my kid, and I can pick her up anytime I want to you understand," Lucas said hold Aurora closer to him, knowing her teacher wouldn't dare hit him while he was holding her.
"Daby, camb I goes plays wif my fiends pwease?" She said looking at him.
"Sure sweetie, have fun, stay away from those boys, okay?" Lucas asked her as he put her down.
"Otay daby, byebye," she said walking away, and Lucas turned and left, before Miss Carry said anything else. He came back to pick her up early, after he got Magdalene and Fareeda, so they could go get Brooke and Tassia and bring them home, when he got there she wasn't her perky self, she was sad.
"Hey, what's wrong?" Lucas said bending down to her level.
"Daby, I dompt wike Mis Cawy, she meam daby, shes says thats yours a bad daby causes shes nevwer seem yous before, amb shes says thats I dompt looks prettyful, cause I skimmy, ands you dopts feeds me," Aurora tried her best to tell him what Miss Carry had told the helper parent about her. True, the other kids were rather large and bulky, her friend Mary, larger than the rest, but she was naturally skinny, she could eat all day, and wouldn't gain a pound, just like Brooke, but she was also short, and she thought it was the best thing in the world, she was a little bigger than Fareeda, Magdalene was tall, and had some bulk to her, and an attitude to go with it.
"Aurora, let's go, we hafta go get mommy," Lucas said ushering her out the door before Miss Carry noticed she was gone.
They arrived to get Brooke at three on the dot, like they promised. Aurora, who had gotten her perk back from ice cream, was running through the hospital hallways, saying hello to all the old people she made friends with, and they all smiled at her, they were lonely old people in that ward they had to pass and Aurora'd stop in every room and say hi to everyone, they'd wave or smile, and she'd move on, running with her little legs, Fareeda a few feet behind her, always wanting to be like her big sister, behind Fareeda was Luke, watching them and waving to the people Aurora said hello to, and of course behind him Magdalene was marching with a strait face. She said she wanted to be a solider. Aurora reached the elevator first and jumped to press the button, since she was so short, and the elevator arrived immediately, and her and Fareeda got on and Aurora pushed the button, she'd been there so many times, she knew exactly which one to push, and went up, leaving Lucas to wait for Magdalene to catch another elevator, Magdalene sat on the floor in the elevator with her arms folded on her chest. Aurora ran down the hall to Brooke's room.
"MAMA!" she screamed running to her.
"AURORA!" Brooke screamed back, picking her up, as Fareeda walked into the room, "Hey babe," she picked Fareeda up too, "Aurora where's daddy and Magdalene?" 'In elebator, Magwene march, shes sowder, daby waited fors her causes shes swow,," Aurora explained as Brooke put her on the bed, "Were tasya, Mama?" Aurora asked looking around.
'She'll be here in a minute, okay Aurora.