The Brady Six

by Chelsea Oz

This is something I've been wanting to do. Have little secrets about the Brady's that only they would know. I was going to do ten but only came up with six, which is perfect with the number of kids. If I think of more, I will definitely update with six more each chapter. In the meantime, give chapter one a whirl and tell me what you think!

2. Chapter 2

7) The House That Haunted Me- Peter suffered from night terrors ever since the day of his mother's funeral. They occured once or twice a week and it had taken a toll on both Peter and Mike, who would be awake half the night trying to comfort him. It wasn't until they moved to Clinton Avenue that they finally stopped. Mike was not one to believe in ghosts or spirits but he couldn't help but question the situtation sometimes.

8) Mall Rat- Greg gasped when he saw Marcia for the first time. It was not due to her beauty, althought there was no doubt she was a beautiful girl. It was because he realized that she was the little girl that got her hair pulled by him. She was with one of her friends standing in line to see Santa and so wasn't he. His friend ribbed him to do it on a double dog dare with the promise of a dollar. Greg couldn't refuse so he went through with it. People could here her screaming a mile away as Greg and his friend skidded off to the store next door. Greg never told her it was him, but he would always feel guilty about that.

9) Meat Man in the Santa Suit- The Brady's have always had a weird connection to Christmas. Even Sam Franklin couldn't get away from their Christmas curse and he was only the family's maid's lover. Years ago before he even started seeing Alice he was in big trouble financially. He just bought his meat shop and his first year wasn't a good one at all. It was hanging on by a prayer. To make ends meet that holiday season, he took a job at the department store as Santa Claus. He had two pictures that he kept over the years of that one desparate job, one of a boy on his knee and the other a girl. The boy was Peter Brady and the girl was Jan Martin.

10) Someday My Prince Will Come- The Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs play was ridiculous. All that work with it being all their family, all their yard and all their time. Mike was pretty much resentful of it all and hoped that teacher of Cindy's appreciated it. He was so in the present for much of the day just trying to get through it all that he obviously never really stopped to look at Carol. It wasn't until he found a poloriod picture a few days later lying around the house. It was the scene where "Prince Charming" had to kiss "Snow White". He never realized how much Carol looked like his deceased wife with that dark wig on. He was so moved that he immeadiately went into the bathroom and wept.

11) Where art thou, Marcia?- Marcia had a diffucult time coming back to the play after volunteering to understudy the part of Juliet's mother. The other kids wanted nothing to do with her. She had treated them poorly and pretty much alienated everyone and she never realized it until they finally kicked her out. Right before she went on stage, she looked at herself in the mirror and saw herself clearly for the first time in a while.

"You deserve this," she said bitterly to her own reflection.

12) My Funny Valentine- Most husbands give their wives flowers for Valentine's, or maybe chocolate, but that was not Mike's way. Mike every year would give Carol a bottle of red wine and every year Carol would laugh about it. The kids never knew the story behind it until they were old enough. It was a reference to their first date where Carol had spilt red wine on herself. Mike said that when he knew he loved her, but he nor Carol of course would tell them the wine was spilt in Carol's cleavage!

*Author's Note: You like it so far? Yes, number 12 is a reference to my story "Scenes From an Italian Restaurant."