Chapter 482.
"Happy B-Day, Christina Éclair."
- In collaboration with Avenger44.
(February 17.)
We now go to the one place we thought we'd never go to, and that place is the Éclair Mansion, the home of the girl who we knew from season 1. Christina Éclair.
Here is where the party is happening, we see that Lynn Sr and Kotaro have setup everything for the food and even the cake, there are no servants or any workers within the mansion, I guess they don't need any extra help.
The whole party is in the backyard and the entertainment has been setup, in the form of Luna, Sam and the rest of their band.
The parents of Christina are there to see how well the party is going and the couple are happy to see just how much fun their little girl is having, who are her parents?
Chris Éclair – Tall, muscular build, long dark brown hair tied into a ponytail and no other facial hair. He's wearing a light blue t-shirt, dark blue jeans and brown shoes. He is a former marine, and now he works as a business man for construction work.
Belle Éclair – A tall adult with fair skin, two pairs of eyelashes, brunette curly hair, a pair of white sunglasses, black earrings, a small jacket with an orange dress and long black boots .She is a former supermodel for Royal Woods, now she's a lady in charge of a fashion company known as Reiningers.
As the song and games keep going, Rusty takes notice of Christina's mom. "She sure is hot right guys?"
They all remain silent and look to him. "What? What did i…?" Then Christina goes towards him.
"Spokes, that lady is my mom and hearing you say that is making you sound creepy all over again! Stop it!" She is so close to slapping Rusty in the face.
Rusty is confused by this. "What? All I did was say she looked hot, and also she looks familiar, like from the magazines in the waiting room of my dad's work place…"
Then Polly grabs him by the ear and drags him off. "Not another word from you." She looks towards Christina. "I'll talk to him, and make sure he understands."
They watch as Polly drags Rusty away for a good word in the ears.
Christina sighs and she looks to her friends. "Yeah, I know my mom is good looking. How else did I get the cute looks from before, I practically look like my mom back when she was a kid."
Lincoln thinks about this and looks between Belle Éclair and Christina Éclair. "Yeah, chances you're gonna look like your mom when you grow up… Sorta. But not every daughter looks like their mother when they grow up, Lori and the other girls don't seem to share much similarities to mom."
"He makes a good point there, Christina" replied Jordan. "Heck, the only thing I have with my mom is the hair, and the dominant and intimidating stuff from my dad, along with some great grandparent tactical skills. World War 2 Veteran great grandpa, after all."
"We know that one" replied Zach. They then see Christina talk to her mom and dad and then she goes back to the others.
"What was that about?" asked Sadie.
"My parents said that we can go to the house and check out some of the rooms, come on and I know Jordan will try and figure out the big surprise and why it's like that." Christina goes towards her mansion with the others.
While her parents wave to their daughter, then Chris goes over to help Lynn Sr and Kotaro who nearly slipped when trying to move the large cake onto the table.
Christina looks towards the white-haired boy she heard about. 'That's the boy… The one who had a crush on my daughter, and then with the help of Rosato, they found my daughter last year when she went missing. I don't know how else to thank them… Also, that boy looks cute.'
(Inside the mansion.)
They don't know what Christina has to show them, but then it turns out she's giving them a tour of her home, well the newly arranged parts of the Éclair mansion.
They see that the second floor has 8 rooms and two are bedrooms for Christina and for her parents, and one is an office room. The other two rooms are guest rooms.
One room is a theater room, where she would have movie nights with her parents, or if she feels like watching a movie that they have on DVD.
Another room is a library and there are tons of books within the place, almost as big as the local library in the town.
And lastly, there's the third room, which is a large collection of fashionable clothes, and to the girls seeing this… It is like heaven, of course Leni and her friends are there and stars can be seen in their eyes as they look into this bedroom sized walk-in closet.
The guys decide to leave them be and check out the movie theater room and see the films they have, and they have a lot and most are either romance or science fiction.
(Later.)
They all leave the mansion and begin talking to Christina. "How the heck did you guys get all those clothes in there? And where did they even come from?" asked Mandee.
Christina is kind enough to answer. "Well, you all know my mom is the leading figure to all branches of Reiningers, so she has gotten one sample of a new fashion line and managed to try some of them on, and she still does photo shoots for the new outfits, of any kind… And at times, either me or my dad join in."
"Huh, so that explains why your mom looked so familiar" replied Leni. "We've seen her poster in the break room a couple of times and I did not know she was the leading lady to all Reiningers across the country."
Christina chuckles. "Well, 50 states and the company only has multiplied towards 27 of them, and we're still going and planning to open one in South Dakota. My mom has a major record to being the best business woman around, even though she started as a supermodel, she was inspired from her mentor."
"And that mentor was the woman who once ruled the Reiningers Company, and she passed it on to my mom and things have been working out, heck first day on the job and no mistakes. My mom has been calm and chill through the whole thing."
Jackie giggles. "Wow. Your mom is one wicked cool leading lady and inspiration."
Christina then recalls something that Lincoln once said.
'My sister Leni… She plans to look for a college for her, one that could help her with her I.Q and her sense and talent for fashion, even though she has changed and gained some smarts and other lost needs in her head. She still wants to continue with her fashion line dream.'
Christina then recalls something. 'My mom said she's planning to open a school, one about fashion… No wait, it's a college! A Reiningers branch of education, for both business and other forms of talents. Maybe Leni can try there, or her boss might inform her. Wait, who's her boss again?'
Zach then asks. "Okay, well what about all those films? What the heck is with the vintage ones?"
"That one is something my grandpa and grandma gave to us two years ago" replied Christina. "After they… Well, kicked the bucket. They gave us the movies they had kept with them, because my grandpa was once the man who helped keep management of the Royal Woods Theater."
Lincoln chuckles. "I didn't think the mansion you lived in looked… like, Jordan's."
They all look to Jordan who figured it out and chuckles. "You gotta be kidding me?"
Christina chuckles. "Surprise! See, when you showed us the rooms in your home, I was inspired and wanted to do the same and when I asked my mom and dad, they were cool with it and we began the renovations and boom! We got some rooms that would be fun to use."
Jordan high fives and fist bumps Christina. "Glad to be the inspiration, and nice place you got here too… Also, what the heck?"
They all look to what she's looking at and see something on the tree nearby. "Yeah, we don't know how that thing got here" replied Christina.
By the branches of the tree and fast asleep, is a Pokémon from the Alola region: Komala.
Gretchen's Yamper and Hope's Rockruff look to the tree and circle around it, they then bark at the sleeping Komala, while the eagles and Raptor and Apollo have no idea what to make of this, or how that little guy even get to this place. They are really far from Ketcham Park.
Simon asks. "How long has he been there?"
"Around five weeks and we don't know how to get him back to the park without making him upset" replied Christina. "He seems to like it here and at times, he tends to roam or roll around while asleep. Is that normal?"
Lincoln and Simon respond. "Yeah, that's normal."
Then they hear Chris Éclair calling them. "Alright kids, time for the cake!"
They all go over and they all cheer and sing Christina a Happy Birthday. She seemed happy to look at the cake, it looked like a butterfly with ribbons on it, and so she blows out the candles and they all get a slice of the chocolate and raspberry cake.
Afterwards they all enjoy some party games, from twister, an eating contest, they take photos at the rented photo booth and enjoy the music Luna and her band is performing.
To top it all off, Lincoln, Jordan, Ryan, Gretchen and Hope show them all how far the training of the eagles has come and showing them the amazing tricks they can do and these tricks are what they plan to show when the Bald Eagle Festival begins.
They all watch in awe and Christina stands with her parents as they watch this avian air show.
Christina then looks to Lincoln and Jordan as they hold hands, she smiles even though she feels a bit upset.
'It's been so long… After all this time, he's just a sweet kinda guy who cares. I should've given him a chance and perhaps… Maybe things would've been different, but… If he's happy, then I'm happy. They deserve each other.'
She then thinks about what would come for her one day. 'Maybe one day… One day, I'll find that special someone. Someone who I can love as well, and possibly be as sweet as Lincoln could be.'
Christina continues to watch as the eagles fly around the sky, and show off their tricks and then Apollo and Raptor fly around with them combining air and fire moves to make the air show spectacular.
This is a birthday she'll never forget, with her friends and family, and a bright future in Royal Woods.
To be continued…
A/N: Happy 13th B-Day Christina, and she has some small feelings for Lincoln, but she understands and is cool with it. You all know who her mom is, we've seen her as a background character in most episodes. Leave a review and tell me what you all think.
Date made: 1/26/2021 – 1/27/2021.