PGP's back with a bang (lol)!!!!! Hope you enjoyed the last chapter (8)!! If you found it too mushy or anything, I promise that this one's different. It's fun to read and there's a piece of shocking news waiting for you out there! And if now your curiosity's burning you up, then there's only one way to put it out…READ!!!!!
Happy reading-n-reviewing!!
--pGp
P.S.: If you don't want to go over the whole story of the Mediators again, then I suggest you give the fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh paragraphs a skip!
NineIT'S TIME TO ROCK!
Wow! I can't believe this!!!!!!! Paul and Christie popped over for a sherbet this noon, and they told us some TOTALLY SHOCKING NEWS!!!!! CHRISTIE'S TWO MONTHS PREGNANT!!!!! They said that they had a baby on their minds for a while, but it happened before they could actually give it a try from their sides. But they aren't getting all worked up about it, they've just decided to GET MARRIED!!!! Oh my God!! There isn't enough time to prepare a proper wedding, so they'll just be going in for a quiet church marriage with a few close people, like us, Paul and Christie's parents and grandparents, first cousins and good friends.
And guess what…Paul and Christie want me to be the baby's godmother!!! How cool is that. So basically he/she (Paul and Christie are going to the doctor to find out the baby's sex in the evening) will call Jesse and me aunt and uncle! Wow…I can't believe I'm going to be an aunt!! And Paul said that he's kind of hoping that the baby's a mediator, too, so that him and I can teach him/her some awesome ghost busting techniques together! LOL. Christie said that although she hasn't exactly seen me bust any ghosts, Paul's told her enough about all the ghosts I've taken care of (e.g.: Heather Montrose, Maria de Silva Diego, Felix Diego etc.)
"Hey," said Christie, suddenly. "Suze and Jesse! How did you guys meet? You never told me." I laughed. "Well," I said. "This might seem shocking, but Jesse's an ex-ghost." "Huh!" Christie looked shocked. "You mean…you brought him back to life?" "Yeah," I said. "Although we didn't quite mean for it to happen that way!" "What do you mean?" asked Christie. "Explain what exactly happened!" "Okay," I said, taking a deep breath.
"It was this way. I used to live in NY with my mom. My dad had died when I was a kid." "Oh, I'm so sorry, Suze!" said Christie. "Nah," I said. "That's okay. I got to spend quite a few years with him till he moved on!" "Oh! Okay. Go on." "Yeah. So after my dad passed away, a few years later, my mom met Andy, my stepfather. He was a widower with three sons. They fell in love, and got married. But Andy lived here in Carmel, so Mom and I had to move here. When I moved in to my new room, I found that there was a twenty-year-old, very hot ghost who had been dead for a hundred and fifty years – Jesse." Jesse went very red when I called him hot. Christie noticed the color in his face and laughed. Paul gave a weird eye-roll.
"Anyway. So, surprising as it may sound, Jesse and I didn't exactly start off our first conversation very nicely. I guess I was kind of crabby because of my jet lag and stuff, so I asked him to get lost. But thankfully, he didn't listen to me. I guess we got to be good friends over the weeks. And I got my first kiss from another guy, and you should have seen the look on Jesse's face! It looked like he wanted to lynch him!" Christie laughed. "I'm surprised! You received your first kiss from another guy in Jesse's presence!" "Uh-huh. Weird, isn't it?" "Totally!" "So, afterwards, this guy who I had kissed turned to be a big baby, so I obviously ditched him. By then, I realized I had fallen for Jesse. Hard. I tried to make myself fall out of love with him, because I realized that we could never have a future together. But it was useless to try. Whenever I needed any help or was in the slightest trouble, who came to my help?" "Jesse." Christie finished. "Yep," I said. "So basically, I loved Jesse silently for nearly a year, enjoying his company as best as I could." "Aw," said Christie. "That is so sweet! But then how did Jesse come back to life?"
"Hmm," I said. "That's a long story! Jesse was actually murdered, and things were not supposed to happen the way they did, so he hung about for such a long time. He was –" I was about to tell Christie how Jesse had been killed, but I figured that it would be unfair to say everything without asking Jesse first. So I softly asked him if it was okay, and he said go ahead. "Yeah," I said to Christie. "Sorry. So he had been murdered on purpose. He had been engaged to his cousin Maria, and was on his way to marry her, and had stopped for the night at a reputed boarding house, which was the older version of my house. But his cousin was meanwhile having an affair with a guy called Felix Diego, a servant of her father's who was also a slave trader. And she knew that if Jesse came to know and broke off the marriage, her reputation would be ruined. So before he had a chance to even find out, she sent Diego to the boarding house to kill Jesse. And that's how he got killed and hung around in his spirit form where he got murdered for a hundred and fifty years. Then I landed up there and began to help him…" "I'll take the story from there, Suze," interrupted Paul. "Okay," I said. "Go right ahead."
"Then I moved into town," said Paul. "And got a major crush on Suze." Christie's jaw dropped. "You…had a crush on…Suze." "Yeah," said Paul, grinning lopsidedly. "Talk about it," I said, rolling my eyes. "This guy wouldn't leave me alone. It was like he'd kill to date me! But of course, I liked Jesse even before Paul moved here, so I totally refused to date him. In fact, he was such an asshole at that time, I didn't even wanna be friends with him." Christie looked at Paul as if he was three-year-old kid who had stolen candy. Paul grinned in a silly manner again. "So basically, I finally got so desperate," continued Paul. "that I decided to time-shift to Jesse's time and prevent Diego from killing him, so that Suze and Jesse would never meet. So she was bound to date me if he didn't even exist for her." "Wait a minute," said Jesse. "That's a part of the story that I haven't heard! Go on, Slater." "Paul!" cried Christie, playfully punching him in the ribs. "You're such a creep!" This only caused Paul to laugh harder, the Paul that he was.
"Yeah," said Paul, still smiling. "So I went into time to prevent Jesse from dying, and Suze came after me to stop me, because she couldn't bear to live without Jesse. But she wouldn't stop pestering me, so I tied and gagged her in the barn of the boarding house, where I had gone to warn Jesse. But then, the unpredictable happened – Jesse entered the barn and freed Suze. Suze then realized it would be selfish of her to not give Jesse a much-deserved chance at life he was getting. So, instead of stopping me, Suze transited to my side, and tried to convince Jesse to run for his life."
"We convinced Jesse that we weren't lunatics, and were telling the truth, and he succeeded in killing Diego. But to spoil things, a fire started in the barn. Suze got trapped in a ring of fire, and I wasn't able to rescue her, but Jesse was in a position to do so. So he jumped into the ring and both of them jumped out of a small hole in the side of the barn, while I escaped from another way. But in the chaos and confusion, Suze shifted back to our own time while she was still touching Jesse, and Jesse just got…caught. He was actually not a mediator at that time, so it was virtually impossible for him to survive the transition, because you know, two same souls cannot exist in the same dimension, and time-shifting is only for ghosts and mediators. But then the spirit Jesse came to see Suze at the hospital, where she was sitting by the barely-live real Jesse, watching him die. Then, by another mistake, Jesse, as in the spirit form of him, the one Suze loved, touched his dying body, and got sucked into it. And bammo. He's livin' 'gain."
By the time Paul was done narrating the whole story, Christie had a look of utter disbelief on her face, and her jaw was literally hanging down. I couldn't help laughing. "Wow." Christie said, still looking flabbergasted. "Do you guys realize how lucky you are?" "Trust me," I said. "We do." "Of course!" said Jesse. "Anyway," said Christie. "Good story. Quite…unusual!" She looked at her watch and gasped. "Oh my God!" cried Christie. "Paul! We have to go to the doctor's! It's already half past four!" "Oops," said Paul. "Gotta go, Jesse and Suze. We'll see you later!" "See ya," I said. "Goodbye," said Jesse. "Hey!" I said, as they got to the door. "Call us when you know the baby's sex!" "Obviously!" said Christie. "Bye!"
SAME DAY, 6.00 PM
I was doing my kickboxing tape in the living room, and Jesse was in his room, collecting all his stuff to move them in to the main bedroom. The phone rang, so I paused the video and picked it up.
Me: "Hello?"
Person on the phone: "Hello. Suze? This is Christie."
Me: "Oh, Christie! Hi!"
Christie: "Hi! I'm on my way back home from the doctor's!"
Me: "OOOHH!! Is it a boy or a girl?"
"Boy!" squealed Christie. "I'm going to have a baby boy! AAAIIIEEE!!!!" "Wow!" I cried. "The doc says that I'll be delivering late March! That means I'll be twenty-one by the time the baby's born, because my birthday is in Jan!" "Oh! Have you thought of any names yet?" "Um," said Christie. "Nope. I guess we'll be thinking! Wrack your brains too! Gimme some ideas." "Okay…" I said. "I'll have to think too!" We both laughed. "Okay, then," said Christie. "Bye! Catch you later." "See ya."
Jesse sauntered out of his room with a pile of T-shirts. "Who was it?" "Christie," I replied. "She's going to have a baby boy!" "Mm-hmm," said Jesse, nodding. "Have they decided what they are going to name him?" "No," I said. "I asked her. She said that they're still thinking. She's asked for some suggestions from our side, too." "Oh," said Jesse. "All right. How about Arthur?" "Ewww!" I said. "That's so old-fashioned, Jesse!" "Ha-ha," said Jesse. "Anyway. How much more time is your video going to last? I could use a little help with my things." "Um," I said. "I think, about another four-five minutes. But I'm going to go in for a shower after it, so you'll have to wait for at least a half hour." "Oh, all right," said Jesse. He turned to go into the master bedroom. "Hey!" I called. "I could use a little company!" "In the kickboxing video you're doing? No, thanks! I'm really no–" "No, silly!" I said, laughing. "I know that kickboxing isn't your thing. I meant to say that I could use a little company in the shower!" Jesse looked at me like I was crazy.
I hastened to put on my video again. "Never mind," I said, hurriedly. "Querida," said Jesse. "I didn't say no. Finish your kickboxing, and come inside." "Ooh," I said, shooting him a naughty smile. "All right. Finish taking in your laundry, I'll be done by then!" "All right!" said Jesse. "Hurry!" "Yeah!"
Okay people,
I know this chapter wasn't exactly eventful. Sorry for that, I guess I'm just suffering from writer's block! But I promise I'll be back on track soon. Anyway, PLEASE review!!!!
--pisceangirlpower