One-Shot 7: Soul Mates and Coitus

(A/n: Just a note, this does not involve any graphic coitus, just the implication that it happened.)

Katie Stoll paced the living room floor with her arms crossed. It was four in the morning. Where the hell was he?

Hailey Stoll sat at the last step leading to the hallway watching her mother. Jacob sat next to her watching too. She hasn't seen her mom this worried since, well since never. Jacob had told her about the time their mother was in labor. He was awake when their mother's water broke and she started freaking out.

"It was clear to me that she wasn't ready," he told her. "She kept swearing and saying she didn't want to have Rose, Dad kept telling her in order to not have a person living in her she had to get it out one way or another," he smiled but then his smile disappeared as he looked back at their mother. "Then she swore him out and told him once she was done giving birth she was going to kick him in the fucking balls,"

"Did she end up kicking him in the balls?" Hailey asked.

Jacob shrugged. "Probably not, she was in freaking labor and her hormones were going crazy. Probably right after she popped Rose out she was all relieved and happish,"

Katie Gardner kept pacing the room. Where the hell was he? She hoped to the gods that Drew didn't have to do anything with his disappearance. Drew swore one day she was going to do it. She kept telling herself that he'd never leave her for that slut but she had her doubts.

She sat on the couch and started biting her fingers. She cursed out loud and threw both hands on the couch. She didn't usually freak out like this, but usually he called her or texted her if he was coming home late. Like really late.

She swore if he was cheating on her she was going to kill him, bring him back to life somehow, then kill him again, and etcetera. Then suddenly the door swung open. She looked up and saw a bloody Travis Stoll.

"Travis? What happened?" she asked.

Travis just laughed and stumbled over to the couch. "Monsters, a whole goddamned bunch of them,"

"Did they attack you by finding you?" Katie asked.

He gave her a crooked smile. "No, I just stole a bunch of cell phones and started to call random people so I could just fight them,"

Katie Stoll just glared at him for a long time. Her hands balling into fists and she kept blinking extensively to try to prevent the tears from coming. She swore under her breath as she stood up to try to heal him.

Hailey watched as their mother hurried out of the living room. She came back into the living room with a jar full of ambrosia. "Eat this," her mother said.

"What?"

"Gods, do I have to freaking repeat that? Eat the goddamned ambrosia!" she hissed as she shoved the ambrosia at him. She was crying.

Jacob watched closely as their father looked up. He stared at Katie for a while before taking the piece of ambrosia from her and eating it. After fully healing he asked, "Gardner, are you crying?"

She hit him. "No Travis, it's just some mysterious liquid pouring from my tear ducks! WHAT DO YOU THINK!"

"I take it you're crying then,"

"Yes I'm crying!" she exclaimed. "I'm fucking crying because I don't know, my HUSBAND decides to go on a thrill ride and get attacked by monsters without even calling me! Gods Travis it four in the fucking morning! I thought you were out cheating on me with that slut!" and with that she kept rambling on about this 'slut' that Jacob and Hailey didn't know about.

"Katie—"

"And I—"

"Katie—"

"You fucking bas—"

"KATIE!"

She shut up.

"What are you guys doing up so late?" A small voice said behind the two twins. They both turned around and saw a small six year old girl standing there in her pajamas and messed up bed hair. Hailey silenced her and continued to look on.

They just stared at each other for a long time. Then he reached for her waist, pulled her close to his own body and then full on started making out with her.

Hailey had a look of wonder on her face, Jacob had a look of disgust, and as always Rose had a look on confusion to what was going on. "Okaaay, let's go," Jacob got up from sitting and pushed Rose back to the direction of her room. But Hailey stayed there and watched as her mother muttered something as she tried to get rid of her father's shirt.

She felt an empty pit as she watched. Was that what love was supposed to feel like? Because this voice—Gaea—was telling her that love wasn't worth it. That one day she'd see that love hurt. Sure, love could hurt, but it could pay off, right?

"Come on Hailey," Jacob said gently pulling at her arm.

"Why? They don't even know we're here!" she cried.

"They're about to have sex, now let's go!" He pulled her to her feet and ushered her away.

Her father was right; he was way too much like her mom.

As she headed in her room she stared at the blank ceiling. Something felt strange. It was like there was a pit at her stomach and all there was in the pit emptiness. Gaea told her that it wasn't worth it, but why would she say that?

She remembered this old myth from camp that when Zeus first made humans they had double the features they had today. So then he was afraid that the humans would be stronger than him and shit and split them up in twos. And in a romantic way he made the halves yearn for each other and one day meet together and complete each other.

It made her want to throw up that you wanted to have sex with yourself though as the myth was implying though.

But yet Gaea was telling her that she wasn't meant for anyone. That she was just a spare piece that had no pair. And as far as she was concerned, she didn't really want to be a spare.

But, it couldn't be true. She had Alex. And as far as she knew Alex liked her too. And if that relationship didn't work out there would be others out there. Like the saying, there were plenty of fish in the waters. She was going to take a chance in saying that she was probably going to live until she was an old lady and in that time she was sure to find that soul mate.

But she shouldn't be thinking of love right now. She had far more important things to do like sleep.

And with that she slept not knowing about the future and its cruel nature.

Rose Stoll woke up and rolled out of bed, got dressed, brushed her teeth and hair, and headed downstairs.

She stopped walking when she saw her mother and father in the kitchen. As usual in the Stoll house hold, Katie was drinking tea as Travis was drinking coffee. "You know, sex isn't going to solve anything all the time," Katie yawned as she took a swig of coffee.

Rose just stood there confused like always. Looking back on her life, she was a confused child.

Travis smirked as he replied, "Really? Because last night it seemed like the case,"

She smacked him.

"OW! You really have to stop doing that!"

Katie smiled. "No, I won't. My theory of smacking you is inferior to your theory about coitus solving problems,"

"Did you really say coitus?"

"Yes Travis Stoll I really did say coitus, I'm a fucking scientist so I have an excuse,"

Rosie Stoll just walked away with a question in her mind that she was going to save for dinner.

Dinner…

As Rose Stoll was mushing her peas with her fork she blurted out something, "Mommy, what does coitus mean?"

Katie Gardner almost choked, Travis smiled, Jacob just stared at his younger sister with a look of confusion and humor, and Hailey burst out laughing.

Let's just say that Rosie didn't get her question answered until she learnt the scientific term for sex in high school.

Hello Yellow everybody. This is Marykate3000. Haha a little bit of livelavalive in there. So I lied about the whole thing coming out tomorrow. It's just that I needed more inspiration for this and there it came in a few days.

And I'm probably going to add to the one-shots of how Hailey feels about being alone. It might break the rules but oh well. But who knows, I might NEVER put it up BWAHAHAHA! I've noticed that I use the word 'and' in the beginning of sentences a lot so I'm trying to stop the habit.

So thanks for reading and peace!