One-Shot 5: Bows and Ribbons

"Look what I've got!" Jana Stoll squealed as she ran over to her cousin, Hailey Stoll.

She shoved over a box full of clip on ribbons and bows. "Where did you get these?" Hailey asked in awe as she picked up a blue one that reminded her of her love interest Alex. Jana jumped on the balls of her feet before saying anything.

"Grandma gave them to us! Do you want to put them in our hair?" the younger girl squealed. Jana was younger by one year.

A small smile spread across the older girl's face. "No… I have a better idea."

Jacob Stoll sat in his room drawing trying to distance his contact with girls. He lived with too many girls. He wished that either his parents or his aunt and uncle would decide to have a baby boy so he could play with him. But his parents said that Rose was the last baby they were ever going to have together and Aunt Naomi apparently almost died giving birth and was too scared to do it again.

But didn't storks deliver babies? He could understand why his parents didn't want a baby. Babies could be expensive! His parents probably couldn't afford another one. But at that time he didn't bother to count how many 0's both of his parent's had on their pay checks. Plus having Hailey was tough enough.

But he didn't understand how Uncle Connor and Aunt Naomi didn't want a baby. Sure, she had to go through nine months of being cranky, throwing up, having a big belly, getting stretch marks and so. And when the time came her tummy had to hurt a lot, but at the end you had a baby, right? How could you possibly die from your tummy hurting?

One day he asked that question to his father. "I don't know," Travis replied. "Why do you ask?"

"Well, Aunt Naomi almost died from having a baby, but don't storks give you the baby? I mean you just have to sit there with your tummy hurting for a few hours and then the stork comes and gives you your baby right? So I don't understand why she would almost die," Jacob explained.

Travis just looked at his son for a while before calling for Katie Stoll because he didn't know how to respond. Katie Gardner just kissed her son on the forehead and told him how silly he was before leaving to do anything else.

It was weird how his mother could do that and everything would be fine, no questioned would be asked, it would just be peaceful inside his mind.

He looked down on his paper and discovered a drawing of a stork on his paper. Just as he was getting back to getting lost in his thoughts his bedroom door was swung open violently and his twin sister and cousin were standing there.

"Wha—"

Before he could finish on what he was saying Hailey put a bow on his short hair. "Awww," Jana cooed behind her as the younger girl attentively started putting on other ribbons and bows in his hair.

He let go of his pencil and tried to take one off of his head but Hailey swatted it. "Don't you dare!" she squeaked as she continued to apply more bows and ribbons on his hair.

"Why can't I take them off?" he asked.

"Because if you do I'll bite your hand off,"

He looked at her skeptically. She couldn't really do that, right? But then he remembered her eating steak and shuddered at the thought. "Which hand?" he asked with a gulp.

She smiled. "You know which one,"

He stared at her for a while. If his six year old self would know the word 'bitch' then he would have used it in a sentence that would go like this: You cruel, cruel bitch.

And of course Hailey would have just smiled and continued on what she was doing.

He looked at Jana to try to use the guilt look that she always fell into when you gave it to her. But she just avoided using eye contact with him.

I wanted to think that Hailey was kidding when she was going to chop off his hand but a creeping thought always got into his train of thoughts of if she was actually going to do it. But she couldn't do it, right? His mother would be mad at her if she did so anyways. He didn't really know about his father. He'd probably just react in a way that Katie would find inappropriate and then she'd slap him and tell him it was his fault that their oldest daughter was crazy like she always did when Hailey did something harmful or crazy or something that Hailey or Travis would do.

He gulped as Hailey applied the last ribbon. "Aw! You look so pretty!" she cooed.

"I'm not supposed to look pretty!" he yelled. Being pretty was definably not in his life agenda. He would have winced if he ever found out in the future when they were 14 she would try to paint his nails while he was passed out.

Just then the door opened.

"What—" Katie Gardener walked into the room with a baby on her hip. Her eyes widened when she saw her son's head covered in bows. A small smile crosses her lips before Jacob yells out.

"The crazy girl was going to cut off my hand!"

Hailey winced as her mother let out a shrill, "HAILEY KAREN STOLL!"

As her mother drags her out of the room to give her a stern talk she yelps out, "I was only kidding," she pauses a little bit before saying. "Ok, maybe I was kidding."

I don't know why I felt like crying when I was writing this one-shot. I seriously don't know why. So here is the introduction of Jana to the one-shots! If you don't read my trilogy then Jana is basically Connor and his wife's daughter. YEP.

I don't really have anything to say. But today I found out that people who are from the mid-west (like me) say you'll like yull like bull. I learnt that in choir when we were singing Over The Rainbow and my choir teacher us that we can't say you'll like the way we usually say it because it sounds lazy. :P. But then again people from the mid-west also have nasally accents. Trust me sometimes when I hear my own voice I think, wow, so freaking nasally.

So this is a weird question but how do you say you'll?