Survival 6 B- Making The Arrangements
Derek was sitting in his living room thinking about Penelope when there was a knock at the door, he looked down at his watch and said, "that must be baby girls brothers". He got up and walked across the room and opened the door, Payton held out his hand and said, "Derek"?, he nodded his head and said, "yes".
Payton said, "I'm Payton, this is Paul, Peter and Parker", he shook all of their hands as they headed inside, he said, "you all must be exhausted, would you like to freshen up and rest for a while"?, Payton said, "yes please". He said, "follow me", they grabbed their bags and followed him up the stairs and headed toward the bedrooms.
A few minutes later they were all heading back downstairs, they saw Derek in the kitchen and headed in to talk to him, he looked up and said, "would you all like something to eat or some coffee, or tea"?, the brothers said in unison, "COFFEE PLEASE". He poured 4 more cups and put them in front of them at the table.
He sat down and Payton said, "you have been around our sister more than we have, do you have any idea what kind of service she would like"?, he said,
"I would say that she would like a ceremony where people told their favorite memories of her, she wouldn't want any tears". Peter said, "yeah that does sound like squirt".
They all sat there talking about Penelope and it didn't take long before they had all of the arrangements made, Paul said, "when squirt would visit she would talk alottttttt about you, it was hotstuff said this or my chocolate drop did that". He s miled and said, "really"?, they all laughed and nodded their heads and said, "YES".
Derek and the brothers spent the next hour or so talking about the team and how they were doing, Derek sighed and said, "Em and JJ will both make full recoveries, I just wish that baby girl could have to". Payton said, "so do we Derek, so do we", Patrick said, "do you think Emily and JJ will be able to make it for the funeral"?, he said, "oh yeah they will be there no matter what they have to do, Penelope was their best friend and the godmother to their sons Henry and Jack".
Paul said, "we get pictures of them and they are adorable she loves those kids and she would have made a great mom", he nodded his head and said, "yeah she would have, she definitley would have. Patrick said, "we always figured that you and squirt would get together", he sighed and said, "I promised that I was going to tell her after her surgery and then she didn't make it, I could kick myself for not telling the amazing woman how I truly feel about her".
Payton said, "she felt the same way about you", he smiled as he took another sip of his coffee and before they knew it several hours had passed and they were still talking about his baby girl. Paul laughed and said, "there was this boy that we teased her about ohhhhhhhhh what was his name Pay"?, Payton thought for a minute and said, "Sherman Misner wasn't it"?, he said, "ahhhhhhhhhh yes that's his name".
Derek said, "what did he do to baby girl"?, the brothers all laughed and Peter said, "he was head over heels in love with squirt but she didn't care about him that way and it took foreverrrrrrrr for him to get the point". Patrick said, "yeah it's just to bad that it took her flopping him over her shoulder and him landing on his butt to figure it out", again they all laughed.
It was well after midnight before Derek and the brothers headed upstairs and it took Derek several more hours to even be able to drift off, he couldn't believe that the woman that had owned his heart was gone. He sighed as he finally gave in to his exhaustion about 4:00 because he knew that in a few days he was going to have to say goodbye to his baby girl forever.