What Have You Learned?

They ended up with seven kids. How that happen they would never know. Well, yea they did, but not in that kind of way. They just didn't know how in the world they got four boys and three girls. Not one set of twins to their joy. They loved Darcy's kids, but they know they couldn't handle sets of twins. They could barley handle the one kid at a time on there own. She looked up to her sister for doing that one.

Ella, of course being the oldest, was now sixteen. She looked just like her mother at that age. Not one thing about her was different. She looked like her and acted like her. Was in to writing and everything. You couldn't ask for a better little girl. Which is why, don't tell her siblings this, she got a way with a lot more then they did. Eli couldn't be prouder of his daughter. She even had the purity ring, which he was thankful for.

Daniel was the next one in line. He was now thirteen. He looked just like Eli and acted like him too. That scared both his parents at times. You just couldn't help it. It was a very scary thought that comes to there mind everytime they look at him. After all Eli went through in high school they prayed to god that Daniel would turn out safe.

The next one was Andrew. He was now ten. He was a good mixture of Clare and Eli in the looks and the way he acts. Some day's he reminded his mother of Eli and other's he reminded Eli of Clare. Of course, Clare would just laugh. It really just depended on him and what his mood was for that day.

After him they had another little girl. They had little Bella. Now, don't think nothing of it. Clare was drugged when she named her and Eli didn't really wanna fight it. She was now eight. She looked identical to her older sister and acted just like her father. She was going to be the hard one to raise in teenage years. Clare and Eli could just see it now.

The next one was six year old Levi. He looked just like Eli and was super shy. Clare didn't remember being that shy when she was little, but Darcy assured her she was. Clare would just shake it off and pray to god he didn't stay that shy. She couldn't handle it if he got picked on in school for it.

After that was was three year old Adam. They, of course, had one kid named after their best friend. Mainly cause he made them promise him in high school that they would. Adam looked just like Clare. They had everything the same. He, like all the others, was an identical copy of his dad in personality. He was Eli's baby boy and nobody messed with him.

The last of the Goldsworthy family was little Alli at age one. Since Adam got a child named after him then Alli thought it was only fair if she got one named after her too. Alli, unlike her sisters, looked just like her father. Everything was the same in baby pictures. The one thing he was thankful for was that he could tell she was gonna act like Clare. At least, that's what he hoped for anyway.

All in all, the kids looked identical to each other in some way. Clare and Eli couldn't deny those kids even if they wanted to. It just wasn't possible for them to do. They loved there family and wouldn't have it any other way.

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"Daddy?" Ella ask her father batting her eyelashes knowing it would get her father to putty in her hands. She was a mothers child, but a huge daddy's girl.

"Yes?" He ask her and turned to look at her from his writing. He sighed when he saw the look she was giving him. "What is it and how much is it going to cost me?" He ask her and she laughed.

"Its nothing big. I just want to go on my first date already. You've met my boyfriend, and you said that was the deal. Can I please go?" She ask him folding her hands together like she was begging.

"No you can not. I didn't like him cause he was very disrespectful at the dinner and didn't have any manners. That was the deal. I like him then you can go. I won't stop you from seeing him, but I sure as hell won't let you go on any date with him." Eli told her and she just stood there calm. This was what amazed him about her. She could still be so calm no matter the situation.

"Please dad. I won't let him take control of me and you know that. Just one date is all I ask. And my first date at that. Please just let me have this." She begged him and he sighed knowing she was right. "I'm sixteen dad. Don't you think you should trust me a little more now?" She ask him and he smiled.

"I trust you one-hundred percent. Its the boy I don't trust." He told her and she laughed. No matter what she would always be a Daddy's girl, she just had to get him to see that.

"Please daddy? I won't go off and be a stupid teenager like Addison who does a different guy every week. You know that." She told him and he sighed once more. "Please?" She ask one more time.

"Fine you can go, but you have to be back by ten." He told her and she smiled real big. She sat on her dad's lap gave him a real big hug and a kiss on the cheek. He smiled in return.

"Thank you daddy. Your the best ever! I promise I won't let you down." She told him and ran up to her room to call the boy. He just smiled up at the stairs.

"You could never let me down." He whispered to no one really. He jump when Clare came by and gave him a kiss on the cheek. She laughed.

"Its hard to watch them grow up, but you have to. Its just a part of life." She told him and he sighed for what felt the thousandth time in ten minutes. He pulled on her shirt to make her sit in his lap. "Besides, I trust her."

"Oh I'd trust her with anything. She takes after you." He said with a smirk and she laughed. "I just don't trust the boy. I know he's not right for her. Besides, it seems like just yesterday she was thirteen and begging me for a camcorder that does video and takes pictures. Now she wants to go on a date?" He just sighed and Clare smiled.

"Yea, but she's a very smart girl for only being sixteen. She has to help with four brothers and two sisters. Its not gonna hurt for her to go out a little while." She told him and he nodded. Just then Bella came in.

"Why is Ella so excited?" She ask her parents and Clare just smiled down at her middle daughter.

"She's going on her first date." Clare said and the little girl just nodded her head. She sat on her mothers lap who was still sitting on Eli and looked her strait in the eyes then her father.

"Can I go on a date yet?" She ask and Clare laughed at how Eli was looking.

"Hell no!" He said and Clare slapped him upside his head.

"Watch your mouth!" She scowled him while Bella just got up shrugged her shoulders and walked off.

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All five of the younger kids were crowed around the window waiting on the oldest to arrive. Little Alli was in bed sleeping right now. It was just Daniel, Andrew, Bella, Levi, and Adam. Daniel had gotten a text from his older sister saying she would be home early and that she would explain once she got home. Not to tell their parents. Daniel just sent back okay and that he would be waiting with the rest of them.

All the kids may have been spread out in ages but were real close and told each other everything. Well, most everything. None of them had told there older sister that they hated her boyfriend since she just seemed so happy and they didn't wanna take that away from her.

Once they saw her come up they all went with the plan and ran up stairs to her purple and blue bedroom. They had Daniel and Andrew sit on the purple bean bag while Levi and Bella sat on the blue one. Adam just sat on his sisters bed always the one to sit in her bed with her when she had a story to tell.

"So did you get your first kiss?" Bella ask once her sister opened the door. Bella's smile turned to a frown once she saw her sister had been crying. "What happen Big E?" She ask going up to her sister and giving her a hug. Ella pushed her back to her seat getting ready to tell the story.

"We were eating dinner having a good time then went to watch a movie. Well, he kept trying to do things while watching the movie so I just pushed him off." By now she was rubbing Adam to sleep. Something she did when the story got to ruff for him to hear. He would end up sleeping her bed tonight along with his older siblings. Thank god the bed was big enough.

"He wasn't wanting... Um..." Daniel said trying not to tell his younger siblings what was going on. Ella nodded her head. Bella being impatient just blurted it out.

"He wanted sex. Its okay to say it. I know what it is." She told them while Levi gave a confused look.

"What's sex?" He ask and Ella got a weird feeling in her stomach not knowing what to say to that.

"Ask Mommy and Daddy later." She said and he nodded his head. "Anyway I got mad at him and told him no. He got mad and said that I didn't have to be a daddy's girl. I got even madder slapped him in the face a good time yell we were over and got a ride home from Addison." She said and Daniel smiled happy that his sister did the right thing.

"That's good going Ella. Just so you know, now you can't date again til your thirty." He said and she laughed and rolled her eyes. "Besides we didn't like him anyway." He said and he eyes got wide.

"Is this true?" She ask her other siblings who just nodded. "Why didn't you guys tell me?" She ask them and Levi sighed.

"You just looked so happy and we didn't want to upset you if we said anything." Levi told his older sister and she gave him a hug.

"Thank you for wanting me to be happy. Next time, though, tell me what you think. Your opinions matter most to me then anyone else's. Got it?" She ask them and the nodded.

"We got it." Andrew said with a big smile.

"How about we promise each other something." She told her little siblings. They nodded there head. "From now on if you guys don't like something you tell me. Promise?" She ask putting her hand in the middle. The other followed in a chain reaction.

"Promise." Daniel said putting his hand in.

"Promise on my heart." Andrew said being dramatic and making his sister laugh.

"Promise on the sea." Bella said putting her hand in.

"Yea I'm like Daniel and I just promise." Levi said putting his hand in making Ella roll her eyes.

"Now, off to bed." She told the little one's as they went out one by one muttering a goodnight as they went. Bella was the last one to go and she gave her sister an unexpected hug.

"You have always been my hero." She whispered to her sister who had tears coming out of her eyes now. She just smiled and hugged her back.

"That means a lot now go to bed and I'll see you in the morning." Ella said and Bella nodded. Just then Eli walked in the room. He sat on the bed next to a sleeping Adam.

"So tell me what happen tonight?" He ask her and she went through the entire story again. After she was done he sat there quietly taking it all in. "I knew I didn't like that boy."

"Daddy, all I could think about was making you mad at me and my purity ring. I didn't want to break my plea. I know mom did once she found the 'right one' which was you. I just want to wait til marriage. Mom will still always be my hero though." She said with a smile and Eli looked at his daughter with a teary smile. "Daddy why are you crying?"

"Cause I'm so proud of you right now. You just made my trust in you go up even more, if that's possible, and I couldn't be prouder. Thank you for being the best daughter ever." He told her and she went to give him a hug.

"No thank you for being the best dad ever. I wouldn't be who I am today if it wasn't for you and mom." She told him and his smile got bigger. "Good night daddy." She told him as he picked up Adam.

"Good night Baby Girl." He said and took Adam to his room and layed him down. "Our daughter is growing up and I couldn't be prouder of the person she's becoming." Eli said once he got in bed with Clare.

"What did she do now?" Clare ask putting the book away that she was reading. Eli told her the story and Clare smiled. "I just new I could trust her. I told you she's a big girl and she can handle it all on her own." Clare said and Eli just smiled up at her.

"I know. Like I said, she takes after her beautiful mother." He said and she blushed but still laughed. And like that he knew it was coming.

"So what did you learn today?" She ask him and he smirked at the question they had called 'their question'.

"Well, I learned that I can trust my daughter with anything, and that boys are easier to take care of in there teenage years. I wouldn't trade it for the world though." He said and Clare laughed but smiled.

"I wouldn't trade either." She said and with that they kissed and turned out the lights going to bed. There kids waited for them in the morning. They couldn't wait to see there faces.


Okay, well here is the last chapter! I'm sorry for any mistakes, its midnight here and I'm freaking tired! I'm excited but tired!

Sometime this weekend, I think, I'm suppose to be getting me my own lap top so I don't have to use the family computer anymore! =) Its an early, very early, birthday present. My birthday Isn't til August 29th, so they decided to give it to me early!

I can't wait to get it cause then I can write more and get them updated quicker! Instead of waking up in the middle of the night and sneaking on here I can just write from the comfort of my own room! =))

I hope you all liked the last chapter! It took me like two hours just now to write so sorry if its rushed or anything! Tell me what you think of it!

Don't even get me started on the new Degrassi! Imogen is scaring me, but I have a feeling I'm going to love Katie on here! Jake is one of them I want to hate, yet I love his sarcastic remarks! :P I don't like those kinda people that much!

Welp, I'm going to stop ranting so you can review this chapter if you feel like it! I really do hope you enjoyed the short story as much as I enjoyed writing it! =) Let me know what you thought of it!

Bye for now! :)