Dear Mrs. Darbus
Chapter 4: We Need To Sleep In Separate Rooms
Summary: Ryan and Martha's letter. They're writing it together but their friend from Broadway, Sebastian is the one writing (ties in w/ the whole Wicked thing. Trivia for those of you who like Wicked: Who did Sebastian play?). This is a shorter chapter than the others.
I haven't heard from my sister in a long time. Not since we were in Wicked together. I've tried to call her but she hadn't called me back. She did plan my wedding but we didn't really talk. Besides that was five years ago, so it doesn't really count. I've done a few things since then, but she doesn't know about them. So imagine my surprise when I picked up the phone and heard my sister's voice coming out. She said something was wrong with Mrs. Darbus and since I didn't want to recount the conversation to Martha, I put her on speaker phone. I didn't understand how writing about our lives would help Mrs. Darbus, but if Sharpay was going to write something and call me then I guessed I should at least try. Even if I couldn't do it, Martha's a genius so I figured she could help...or write most of the letter. I'm not so good at the writing thing.
It turns out we're having Sebastian write our letter. He was here to help us with cooking for all our kids. Well, Stephanie was supposed to come, but Annaleigh's in town, so she ditched and forced Sebastian to come. The letter went like this:
Dear Mrs. Darbus,
It's Ryan and Martha Evans. Yes, we did just write Evans. We're married and we've got a couple kids. When we say "a couple" we mean six kids and Martha's pregnant with twins. But we're going to back up a bit because that's probably a lot to take in. So here's how all that happened.
Well, after college, we bumped into each other in New York City. Ryan was there for an audition in Wicked and Martha was there for a dance audition. Ryan got the part (Boq) but Martha didn't get the dancing part. That suited her fine though because we wanted to catch up. We talked all night and Ryan was almost late for his first practice because he had trouble waking up in the morning. Again that night, we met up and talked late. When Ryan's first performance came up, Martha came to surprise him, even though tickets were expensive. From that day, we spent every moment with each other.
One day, Martha's family came to visit. She said she wanted him to meet them. Naturally, he was nervous (note from Ryan: nervous? Understatement of the year, I was beyond nervous!), but he got through it. Martha's parents kept hinting to her about what a sweet boy Ryan was, and how they should get together (note from Martha: get together, get married, have kids, they just kept going. I was mortified). The visit might have been embarrassing but it was a turning point in our relationship: Ryan asked Martha out officially the next day. They went to the Life Café because as it turns out, they were both huge fans of RENT. They stayed until the manager kicked them out. Then they went back to Martha's place to talk more.
Martha found out about another dance audition. It was a year-long tour. Martha tried out mostly because she didn't think she'd get it, but she did. So off Martha went on a year-long tour. Ryan left Wicked and moped around his apartment and pined for Martha. He missed her more than anything. With three months left Ryan asked to be Boq again, and the director said yes. Ryan soon learned that his sister Sharpay was working there as Galinda/Glinda and was happy that he was there. She left after a while to go back to New Mexico and Martha came back. He was very happy and proposed to her right in the airport. She said yes and they asked Sharpay to fix the wedding. After a few months they were married.
Chad was the best man (his second time- the other time was for Troy) and Taylor was Martha's matron of honor. It was a beautiful wedding and then they went to a small island that Ryan's family owned (note from Martha: small?! That island was huge! How the hell can your family own an ISLAND!?) About two months later Martha found out she was pregnant. They found out it was going to be a girl. Then the issues came in: naming the baby. Charlotte, Cheyenne, Brooklynn, Kennedy, Catherine, Madison, Anneleise, Elizabeth, Emily, Melanie, Cassandra, Seryna, Sarah, and Ashley were just some of the names they came up with. Many more were suggested. In the end they wound up going with a name neither of them had thought up. It was Chad that suggested it at the hospital after looking at her.
"She looks like the baby sister of a girl I went out with. The baby's name was Alicia but I thought that was a really bad name for her. I thought she should've been named Jocelyn," he had said.
So they named her Jocelyn Belle Evans. She was a beautiful little girl and their first daughter. Next came a boy named Nicholas Charlie Evans and later another girl named Madison Claire Evans. After that another problem came up: the twins. When the sonogram came up with twins Martha was just a little mad.
"I thought you and Sharpay were the only twins," she said
"Well...actually, we're not the only twins. My mom's a twin, my dad has twin sisters, my grandmother is a twin, my great grandma is a twin and my great-great-uncle is a twin," Ryan said. Martha looked ready to kill him.
"YOU'VE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME! WHY WOULDN'T YOU TELL ME THAT THE ODDS OF US HAVING A TWIN IS THAT GREAT!" she screamed at him. They both wanted a lot of kids, but this was ridiculous. Martha didn't want twins. So when the two of them were born, she wasn't ecstatic but after a while she grew to love having twins and wouldn't have it any other way. Their names are Max Alicia (girl) and Thomas Jason (boy). The next two kids to be born were also twins named Alexander Christopher and Alexandria Alexis (note from Zeke: they decided to be evil because those two look a lot alike especially since they're both still babies so they have the same amount of hair. You call one and get both because they're names sound so alike). Now Martha's pregnant with twins again (note from Martha: we're sleeping in separate bedrooms, there is no way I'm getting pregnant again!). Ryan teaches dance on the weekends and Martha is the drama teacher at a school in New York. It gets a little hectic, but they work at it and love it.
We miss you Mrs. Darbus and we hope you get better,
Love,
Ryan and MARTHA