Lissie sat at her desk. She had just finished her English homework for the holidays.
Lissie wanted to get her homework out of the way as quickly as she could. That in mind she had only just finished it and she had been on holidays for 2 weeks so far.
She had been so happy to be home from boarding school though and had had to go and visit all the family.
Of course she had family and boarding school but all the Aunts and Uncle and cousins didn't all still go to school and some were not even in primary school yet.
"Lissie come down and greet your family," yelled Lissie's dad from downstairs.
"Coming dad," Lissie yelled back to her father Alex.
When Lissie arrived downstairs later she saw that only her father and uncle Nick were there.
"Where is everyone else?" Asked Lissie to the older men.
"Well, we all decided that we should give all our boarding students a so called welcome back barbie." Answered Nick Ryan to his niece's question.
"Really. Wow. Where is everyone else then?" Asked Lissie all exited and interested all at the same time.
"They are outside setting up. They are out the back." Answered Alex to Lissie and with that he went back to talking to his brother about life, wives and daughters (and in Nick's case a son). Lissie took that as her queue to go out the back and find the rest of her family.
As she walked out the door she firstly saw her cousins Sydnee and Louise playing chasse.
"Lissie!" Yelled Jodi. This was the first time in 10 weeks that Jodi and Lissie had seen each other.
Lissie and the other boarding school kids that lived on Drover's, Wilgul, Killarney and other properties had only arrived home the day before and Jodi had had a hard day and was resting so she couldn't go and welcome them back.
"Hey auntie Jodi. God you are really getting big. As big as a very large house soon. How long?" Asked Lissie as she hugged her aunt.
"Oh and you Miss Liss have to tell me all the gossip about school and your cousins. I heard from Fly that Wallis and you were quite popular last term. What is that I hear about you and a boy called Sam?" Jodi asked Lissie who started to blush.
"Oh no you don't. I am the oldest aunt so I get the gos first. Right Lissie?" Asked Tess in a joking way.
"Don't say anything Lissie. If you want a friend and cousin tomorrow I would shut your mouth." Yelled Wallis from the food table.
"Ok,ok." Lissie said as she put her hands up in defeat.
Half and hour later everyone was sitting down eating a lunch of snags and mashed spud.
Kate and Patrick stood up.
"A bit of sush maybe guys and gals?" Yelled Pat at the top of his lungs.
After Kate had given him a disapproving look she started to speak.
"Patrick and I have an announcement. I'm pregnant!" Kate said to the listening audience.
All at once all the women and girls ran to Kate to congratulate her, ask her a million questions and tell her a million things.
More slowly the men went toward Patrick and congratulated him with a pat on the back or a handshake.
This went on until they all heard a loud, ear-piecing scream.
They all looked for the source of the noise just as Jodi Morgan fell to the ground in pain.
"Oh god. She's gone into labour. Everyone inside. Tess, call the ambulance, Claire stay here, Regan go get Luke – he is at the house, Em, get some blankets and water!" Meg took charge.
The men were into the house as fast as lightning. The daughter's were a little slower but ran once they heard Jodi scream, "If I ever see a naked man in my life again it will be too sooooonnnnnn aaarrrgggggg!"
30 minutes later the cry of a baby girl could be heard through all Drover's.
Corrine Meg Ryan was sitting in her mother's arms while her father and older sister looked on.
Corrine had blond hair, blue eyes and slightly browned skin.
They had decided that her nickname would be Corrie.
Later that day Kate asked if labour was always that painful. All the women at the table said yes but in the end it was worth it.
After that Kate felt a little relieved.
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