Summerland: 15 Years Later
Chapter 2 - Christmas Eve: Part 2
10:00 a.m. – Christmas Eve
Nikki and Cameron lay in bed. Both still sound asleep. That soon changed when their 4-year-old daughter, Melanie came running into their bedroom. She bolted through the door and ran over to her parent's bed. Nikki and Cameron woke up right away.
Nikki sat up. Picking her daughter up from the side of the bed, and placing her in-between her and Cameron.
"Good morning, Sunshine." Cameron said to Nikki and kissing her on the cheek. "And how is my princess?" Cameron asked Melanie.
"Very good. It's Christmas Eve! Mommy, Daddy, did you know that Santa's going to bring me presents tomorrow?" Melanie asked excitedly.
"Yes, but he will only bring them if you are very good. That means that today when we go to Aunt Ava and Uncle Johnny's house, you have to behave." Nikki said.
Melanie took this very seriously and replied with, "I will. I'll be good, I promise. When's breakfast time?"
"Let's go downstairs to the kitchen, and see what we have." Nikki suggested.
Nikki, Cameron, and Melanie got out of bed. Cameron took both Nikki and Melanie's hands as they walked downstairs into the kitchen. Once they got into the kitchen, Cameron placed Melanie on the counter, with her legs dangling. Cameron stood next to his daughter, while Nikki opened the fridge to see what they could have for Breakfast.
"Okay. The choices are Eggs, Pancakes or Waffles." Nikki announced.
"Pancakes!" Melanie shouted excitedly.
"Pancakes it is." Nikki said.
While Nikki was making the Pancakes, Cameron and Melanie went into the family room to watch Sesame Street. When the theme song came on, Melanie got off of the couch and started dancing and singing along.
"Daddy! Daddy! Watch me!"
"I'm watching, Mel."
30 minutes or so later, Nikki called them into the kitchen for breakfast. A while later, they finished eating, and Cameron went upstairs to take a shower, which left Nikki and Melanie in the kitchen, clearing the table from breakfast.
"Mommy? When is the baby going to come?" Melanie asked.
"The baby will come out in about 6 months, but he or she can't come out too soon, because he or she wouldn't have thing people need to live, and might not live." Nikki explained. Melanie walked next to her mother and put her hand on her mother's stomach.
"You hear that? Mommy says that you have to be ready to come out, so come out only when you are ready, and you have everything you need." Melanie said to the baby. Nikki just laughed a little, and took her daughter upstairs to give her a bath.
At the Westerly household, things were going everything but easy. Bianca was riding her tricycle and fell and scraped her knee outside, and Ryan was supposed to be taking his nap, but was screaming and crying from his crib. Callie was outside with Bianca, and Bradin was in the den, working on some paperwork for his next case.
"Hi honey, I know you're working, but could you please take Bianca and clean her knee off?" Callie asked, walking into the den with Bianca.
"Sure. B, what happened?" Bradin asked concernly. Grabbing his daughter's hand and bringing her into the bathroom.
"I… I was riding my bike, and I fell and hurt my knee." Bianca said.
"Okay lets fix it." Bradin said as he washed all of the dirt off, put some cream on it and put a band-aid on it. He kissed it softly.
"Better?" Bradin asked.
"Yes. Can I go see if Annabelle can play?" Bianca asked. Annabelle was a little girl Bianca's age, who lived next door.
"Sure, but in a few hours we need to leave to go to Grandma & Grandpa's house for Christmas Eve." Bradin said.
Bradin walked next door with his daughter. Annabelle wasn't home, so of course Bianca was upset.
As they were walking back home, hand in hand, Bradin got an idea that he thought would cheer his daughter up.
"How about you help daddy with his work? We can be partners." Bradin told Bianca.
"Okay. Can we have lunch after?"
"Sure, Angel. We can have whatever you want."
Bradin and Bianca walked into the den. Bianca sat on the little couch in the room, while Bradin sat at his desk.
"Daddy, what do I do?" Bianca asked her father.
"Well, come over here, and I can show you what do to." Bianca walked over to Bradin and he placed his daughter on his lap. "Okay, see these papers over there?" Bradin said, pointing to a table with a bunch of papers on it. "I need you to put them each in a separate pile. Put the Blue one's in one pile, the Green in another, and the Orange papers in another pile." Bradin told his daughter.
"Okay, that's easy." Bianca said, getting off her father's lap, and sitting down at the other table.
20 minutes later, Bianca finished separating the papers and walked over to her father.
"I'm done, daddy."
"Okay, let me see what else you can help me with."
"There you two are, I've been looking for you all over." Callie said, entering the room.
"Mommy, I helped Daddy with his work." Bianca told Callie.
"That's great, honey. Can I talk to Daddy for a second? I think Rugrats is on. You can go into the family room to watch it."
"Yay!" Bianca yelled, running out of the room.
"Come here." Bradin said, grabbing her arm and pulling her lightly onto his lap. "How are you today? How is the baby?"
"Good. No morning sickness, so that's good. Uh oh, I hope I'm not jinxing it." Callie said seriously. Bradin laughed a little bit.
"Did you talk to my Aunt Ava? What time are we supposed to be heading over there?" Bradin asked his wife.
"Yeah, I talked to her earlier. She said to head over there around 4:00, so we have awhile to get everything ready."
"Okay. I can't wait to see everyone!" Bradin said. Callie nodded in agreement.
"Hey, Brae, can you do me a favor, and take the kids out to lunch? I need to make the food Ava told me to bring, and I still need to wrap some of the kids' presents." Callie asked.
"Sure. I'm just about done anyways." Bradin said, walking out of the den with Callie.
"Bianca, come here please." Bradin called out to his daughter from the kitchen. "Yes, daddy?" Bianca said, walking up next to Bradin.
"You, Ryan and Daddy are going out for lunch. Where would you like to go?"
"Petey's Playhouse!" Bianca said enthusiastically. Petey's Playhouse was similar to Chuck E Cheese.
"Okay let's go." Bradin said. He kissed Callie goodbye, and loaded the kids into the car. It was about a 15 minute drive to Petey's Playhouse. Once they arrived, Bianca started to run around all over the place.
"Bianca Marie!"
Bianca ran back over to her father. They ordered their food, and all three of them went over to the jungle-gym to play. Two and a half hours later, Bradin, Bianca, and Ryan left Petey's Playhouse and headed home.
4:00 p.m At Ava & Johnny's House:
"Is everybody ready?" Ava called to everyone in the house.
One by one, Johnny, Lexi, Danny, and Tommy all came down in their fancy Christmas clothes. Ava and Lexi were wearing matching dresses that Ava designed, and Johnny, Tommy, and Danny were wearing dress pants & shirts.
DingDong"I got it." Lexi said, running to the front door. The rest of the family quickly followed her. She opened the door, and Jay, Erika, Lauren, Alyssa, Nicholas, Matt and Melissa stood on the other side of it.
"Hey, everyone." Erika said, entering the house with her family.
Matt introduced Melissa to Ava, Johnny, and the triplets. A few minutes later, Bradin, Callie, Bianca, and Ryan arrived. This time, Ava was the one to answer the door. She immediately engaged them all in huge hugs and kisses.
"Wow. Callie look at you, very beautiful as usual! How far along are you?" Ava asked.
"Thanks. I'm going to be 6 months on January 8th." Callie answered.
Next came Nikki, Cameron, and Melanie, and last but not least, Susannah and Jared arrived. About an hour later, they sat down for a wonderful dinner. Everybody was talking and enjoying themselves, when Susannah and Jared stood up, getting everybody's attention.
"Everybody, I have an announcement to make."
Haha! Cliffhanger! I love them! Please R&R! Oh yeah, and I don't own Chuck E Cheese lol xoxo
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