So I read The Reckoning and although I think it is a great book, I also think it wasn't as great as I hoped it would be. It also had some twists so I was glad about that. I enjoy twists in any story.
This story will continue and this is my alternate version of The Reckoning if Chloe was pregnant so anything that went on in The Reckoning WILL fNOT have a place in this story, I won't give anything away in case someone hasn't read The Reckoning yet but for the purpose of this story everything is as it appears to be in The Awakening, no hidden plotting underneath it all, none whatsoever, what you see is what you get.
Edison Group = BAD.
I was also asked what I meant by the whole 'boats' thing last chapter. It goes to when Noah had said that the babies maybe wanted to be airplanes, so if they wanted to be boats they might flood the house and make Chloe be super-swimmer or something and nobody wanted to get on her bad side so that way she wouldn't let them drown.
DISCLAIMER: *Decorating the baby rooms*
Me: So I think that we should go with a sunny, happy, spring morning type theme for one of the rooms.
Melody: For a werewolf baby? Derek's werewolf baby? That kid will take one look at the wall and play a game called 'Burn the walls down'
Me: That would risk harming the people in the house, one of the babies wouldn't do that.
Melody: Not yet... but with a little training...
Me: You will not train them to be evil.
Melody: They will not be evil, they will only be 'rude' to people. It's a werewolf tradition. *Looks toward camera as it zooms in on her* The Darkest Powers series, home of the werewolf Derek, owned by Kelley Armstrong. *Thumbs up*
Chloe's Point of View (6 weeks)
"So what's up?" Melody asked.
"My lunch." I answered.
"Besides that." Melody said.
"Well if it's not that, then it is the pretty white tile." I said, heavy on the sarcasm.
My current hangout spot, the bathroom. Normally when a person is frequently at the same place, most days, for long periods of time it is said that that spot is their favourite place to be. I, however, do not fit this pattern. If I could be anywhere else in the world right now, I would be.
"If you want I'm sure we can get Derek to remove the tile and install some nicer tiles if you want." Melody said.
"Nope, I'd probably hate that tile as well." I said.
"Well if you ever change your mind..." Melody said.
I rolled my eyes, it was just like her to offer other people to do things for me, but she did have a point. Derek would do anything for me right now. Ever since he started hearing the babies he turned a thousand times more helpful and more overprotective. That sounds strange, how could Derek of all people get any more overprotective? Trust me, he's managing it quite well.
"I should probably speak to Simon later." I said.
I gave Simon his space. A lot of space, as in I haven't even said a word to him in the past 4 days, space. Not that we were speaking that much since he found out but at least then I would say something and he would either glare or acknowledge my presence with a 'whatever' or No and Yes answers. Now, though, I have had enough. He wasn't speaking to Derek much either and Derek wasn't okay with that. Derek tried to hide it from me but I could tell. I wanted to clear things up so that way Simon would go back to speaking to Derek and maybe Simon and I could be friends.
"You sure you're ready?" Melody asked.
"Yea I have to. Derek needs his brother right now, and I know he wants the babies to have their awesome uncle, not a resentful one." I said.
I felt sick again and threw up.
"Do you want bananas?" Melody asked.
"Yes." I said.
Melody left to go get some bananas for me. It was strange but bananas helped with the morning sickness, so I was eating them all the time now when before I rarely wanted to eat bananas.
A couple minutes later, Jaron knocked and came in.
"How's the monkey?" Jaron asked.
"Melody will be back in a minute or two." I said.
"What makes you think I didn't want to know how you were feeling?" Jaron asked.
"Did you really want to know how I was feeling?" I asked.
"No."
"Exactly."
"Well, I was trying to find Melody." Jaron said.
"She's right behind you if you turn around." Melody said.
Jaron turned and muttered something I couldn't hear and Melody wordlessly passed me the bananas and both her and Jaron left.
I ate the bananas and waited for twenty minutes to make sure they were staying down and when I noticed that they were I got up and threw the banana peels in the garbage and went to go find Simon.
Sure enough I found him in his room.
I knocked on his door, I wasn't sure why I did seeing as the door was wide open. I think it was just to give him some advance warning to be ready for a conversation.
"Simon." I said.
Simon didn't even look at me, he just continued with his drawing.
"S-Simon." I said again.
More silence. I was beginning to wonder if it was possible to choke on silence.
"SIMON." I said, louder this time.
His eyes flickered towards me that time.
"Simon, can we please talk?" I asked. "Please?"
"What do you want to say?" Simon asked.
"I want to say that I am s-s-s-sorry f-for hurting y-y-you. T-T-That you shouldn't t-t-take it out on D-Derek. That I didn't m-mean for this to h-happen and that I-I d-don't e-expect you to forgive me, b-but I am a-asking that you try to forgive D-Derek first. H-He needs his b-brother. I d-didn't do any of this t-to hurt you." I said, mentally cursing my stupid stutter.
"I know you're sorry. I blame Derek as much as I blame you because he had the chance to tell me, at any time how he felt about you. This isn't just a one-night thing between the two of you. The both of you love each other and neither of you thought you should tell me until your relationship was like a big bright flashing arrow. I know you didn't mean to get pregnant, that is perfectly clear, if it wasn't before, after hearing you get sick all the time it is now. You didn't mean to hurt me, but you did. The both of you did, a lot. Whether I am acting stupid or not because of my hurt, fine, but I am upset, and I am hurt. You didn't deserve me getting as angry as I did when I found out or me treating you the way I have been but I don't know how to not act like this." Simon said, and by the end I felt like crying because his emotions were clear on his face. I think he was angry more because we didn't tell him. Almost like he feels as if we didn't trust him enough to tell him anything or we didn't care enough to, or even that we didn't tell him because we were trying to protect him, baby him.
"Simon, we didn't tell you because we didn't know what to say. We didn't know what we were. We didn't even know for a while what we felt. I thought I liked you that way but I don't." I said.
"I know. Trust me, I know." Simon muttered.
"S-So w-w-w-what do we d-do?" I asked.
"I try to forgive the both of you and for the time being don't get all lovey dovey relationship in front of me or start picking baby names near me, or whatever you do please make sure Derek does not name one of the kids Simon." Simon said.
"I think Derek and I can manage that." I said. "So are you going to talk to Derek? Minus the arguing?"
"After dinner. I have to think of what to say first." Simon said.
"You rehearse what you say?" I asked.
Simon gave a slight smile and said, "Sometimes."
"That's very strange." I said.
"Most definitely." Simon said.
Simon's head turned to look at the doorway and he said, "Hey Derek."
I looked at the doorway and then from Simon to Derek and said, "I-I should go."
I made my escape in less than 20 seconds, a new record for me because I didn't fall, trip or stutter a reason for my escape.
I went to the kitchen and saw that Melody and Jaron were talking in hushed whispers but I couldn't hear anything, must be a silence spell, and a good one at that.
"Hello? Can you de-silence yourselves?" I asked.
"Okay, we just did." Melody said smiling.
I rolled my eyes and asked what they were talking about.
"Nothing, Nothing. Just our present for you and Derek." Melody said.
"We get a present? Wouldn't it make more sense for the babies to get one?" I asked.
"It's a present you can all share." Jaron said.
"Okay... is this 'present' in any way going to make me want to cause you some harm sometime in the near future?" I asked.
"Only if you don't like the colours." Melody said.
"Okay, is this present a secret and when can I collect?" I asked.
"Yes, and you can collect once this is all over." Melody said.
"Can I guess at what it is?" I asked.
"You can, but we won't tell you if you guess right which kind of defeats the purpose." Jaron said.
I frowned but nodded. I wouldn't get the gift until I had the babies or until this was all over with The Edison Group, both was my bet.
Noah walked in and I noticed he was staying as far away from Melody—and her fists—as much as possible.
"Did you know that Simon and Derek are talking? I think I even saw a few smiles when I passed by." Noah said.
"Smiles? That's a good sign." Melody said.
"Does this mean Simon gets his uncle title back?" Noah asked.
"Well you can still have the uncle title just you are now sharing the title with Simon." I said.
"But I don't want to share." Noah said pouting.
"Deal with it." I said.
"Ah, whatever." Noah said, waving a hand at the end.
"Do you think that everything will be okay between the two of them?" I asked, biting my lip and looking towards the doorway.
"I think that it will take a lot more to tear those two apart." Jaron said.
I knew that Jaron was right. After everything was all said and done Simon and Derek would always be brothers despite the fact that Simon behaved like a whiny, spoiled, little boy and the fact that Derek behaved like a robotic, self-sacrificing, person which if you ask me was something they both should work on. I mean really, who needs to be that concerned about people they care about so much? It's just not healthy if you ask me.
"You're right." I mumbled.
I wished my mother was here, she would know what to do, she always did when I was younger.
I saw a faint shimmer behind Jaron and heard a voice but didn't understand a word of what the voice was saying.
"H-Hello?" I asked.
"Is there a ghost somewhere in the room? Because if there is please tell me I don't want to walk through someone, It's very rude." Noah said.
"Like you care about being rude." Melody said.
"To the dead, I do." Noah said.
The same voice, a little stronger, but all I could make out was that the voice was female.
"E-E-Excuse me? But can you please show yourself?" I asked, trying to remain calm.
Nothing.
The shimmer, the voice, it all went away. It was strange but it felt like with the loss of the voice and shimmer that I had lost something more important.
"Are you alright?" Melody asked me. I was getting quite tired of people asking me if I was alright, but I just nodded in response despite my sudden feeling of emptiness.
"You're sure?" Jaron asked, looking at me with concern.
"I am sure... I think." I said.
"Did the ghost say something?" Noah asked.
"Nothing I could hear, I am not even completely sure it was a ghost to be honest. Normally ghosts try to mess with you for a little bit and then let you see them or you have to make them show themselves, this felt different." I said.
"Try calling for the ghost or voice or spirit or whatever the hell it was." Melody suggested.
I nodded and imagined in my head the shimmer and the tone of the voice and put in a little power asking to see it. Nothing.
Why can't the thing show up already? I wanted to see it. I needed to see it.
I tried and tried but I couldn't.
"Why can't I just see the damn thing?" I asked.
"I'm sorry." Melody said. "I found a penny if you want to make a wish?"
Melody smiled.
I rolled my eyes, took the penny and said, "I wish to see whatever that shimmer was before."
A few seconds later a woman was standing in front of me, I swore I was about to go into shock, it wasn't the fact that everyone else could see the woman, it wasn't the fact that she was breathing, it wasn't the long strawberry-blonde hair, the blue eyes, or the clothes, it was who this woman was that was shocking.
"M-M-Mom?" I asked, stuttering.
"One hell of a magic penny..." Noah said.
"Be careful what you wish for..." Jaron said.
Melody just stared open-mouthed.