Seeing Her Again
She walked up to her sister's room and stood outside the door. She listened carefully and heard her little sister quietly talking to someone and then heard giggling in return. This confused Madison. She took a deep breath, before opening the door and getting a great shock. There laid her little sister on her bed, with a baby in her arms. Melinda quickly looked up shocked, as there stood her sister, staring at her, with both a shocked and confused look on her face.
"Melinda?" Madison asked.
"Who gives you the right to just walk right into my room like this?" Melinda asked, her anger covering up her shock.
"Mel, who is this?" Madison asked. She walked over to the side of the bed and looked down. Melinda quickly stood up and walked away from her sister and over to her closet where the nursery was built. Madison followed and stared in amazement at the nursery. It looked like a beautiful spring day. The ceiling was painted a light blue with white clouds. The light blue continued down the sides of the walls about a foot before it slowly turned from a light blue to a white color until it was met with the green paint that had represented the grass. There were trees with bright color green that had represented the top of the tree and the leaves. There were all different colored flowers all over the wall right above the green grass. There were birds and butterflies painted on the walls. There were pictures all over the walls of Melinda and the baby and some pictures of the baby alone. There was a white dresser against one wall, the white crib, with pink sheets, a light pink blanket, and a couple of bears along the side of the crib, against the next wall, a light white rocking chair next to the window facing the street where she could sit and watch all the other kids in the neighborhood play outside. Against the last wall, there was a toy box built from the wall and extended outward and above that, there were shelves that had little knickknacks sitting on them. She stood in the doorway and watched as her sister laid the brunette, brown-eyed baby down in the crib, before she turned around.
"It is none of your business who she is," Melinda replied to Madison.
Madison took a long hard look at Melinda before saying, "What happened to you? You were never like this before. You use to love hanging around me. You never acted this way before or ever talked to me that way before." Melinda looked up at her and said,
"Yeah, well, you know what, having you leave and never come back for 8 years didn't help. Plus, having a baby at 19 does change someone. Ok? There, now you know. She is my daughter ok. Her name is Grace Astrid Halliwell and she is my 3-month-old daughter. I am 19 years old and I am a single mother. Her father left the day he found out I was pregnant, ok? Now you know everything that happened to me. Aren't you just so happy now?" Melinda yelled at her sister, before breaking down and crying. Madison stood there for a second, before pulling her sister into her arms. After a couple of minutes Melinda stopped crying and looked up at her sister.
"I know what it feels like," Madison said to her. She stared in her sister's eyes, before Madison explained what happened to her. After about 20 minutes, they heard someone calling them.
"Who is that?" Madison asked. Melinda listened for a minute, before a smile crossed her face.
"I know who that is. But, I'm not telling you. You have to come and see for yourself," Melinda replied, as they both quickly cleaned up their faces and Melinda checked in on her daughter, only to find her asleep. She smiled, as she put the blanket on her and grabbed the monitor, before walking out the nursery and then out of the bedroom with her sister behind her. Melinda and Madison walked down the hallway and down the stairs; talking and laughing just like old times. When they finally made it to the hallway near the front door, Madison stopped where she was. Melinda smiled when she saw the look on her sister's face, before walking over and joining her three brothers standing in the doorway between the hallway and the living room. They stood there, smiling at all three of them. Madison stood there, staring, tears slowly coming to her eyes.
"Madison?" she asked. She just stood there for a second
"Mom?" Madison asked, before running to her. Both her parents immediately pulled her into a hug. They stood there, refusing to let go, as Piper and Leo cried and hugged their daughter.