Disclaimer: I do not own any of these characters, I'm simply borrowing them.

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As I was dancing I heard Chris come out on the roof. I spun and stood facing him.

"Well hello, Christopher doll! Would you like to come dance with me?" I asked with a fixed smile on my face.

"No, Cathy. Get down from there, you might hurt yourself.!"

"I might hurt myself?!" I asked hysterically.

"Yes, You could, now get down, Cathy!"

"Why? This is all Your Fault!" I yelled. I was so angry at everyone! I ran at Chris ready to pummel him. All my hatred focused on him. I lifted up my hand to slap his face but he just stood there, not even bothering to back up or to defend himself. The look in his eyes were terrible in their sadness to behold. I lowered my hand and sank to the floor.

"What are we going to do?" I whispered, as Chris knelt down beside me.

"I'm so sorry Cathy. I'll think of something, I swear." he said while he embraced me.

"But what? Really what can we do? Mother never comes anymore, the grandmother wouldn't even listen to us, let alone help us." We both grew silent, thinking what the grandmother would do if she ever found out I was pregnant. Then Chris broke the silence.

"Well one thing we know is that we must not let the grandmother find out. She'd probably end up beating you to an inch of your life, after she killed me of course."

"Can we even tell mother then?" I asked

"Maybe we won't have to Cathy. I doubt she'll be able to do anything anyway, or even want to. We can stay a couple more months while I collect enough money to pay for your stay in a hospital, and medicine for Carrie and Cory. And then the night before we leave, I'll do a grand sweep of all mother's things. We can hock those things later on to pay for a place for all four of us, or all five of us now." he said as he looked down at my stomach.

"Chris, will our baby be o.k., normal I mean?" It was weird to say our baby, but I needed to know.

"I'm sure they'll be fine." Chris said, although it sounded more like a prayer than a statement of fact to me.

Over the weeks that followed, Chris followed through with his plan and every night our cache of money grew. If all our plans followed through we would be able to leave before I started showing. Chris had taken to reading the old medical books in the attic that concerned pregnancy. He told me that thankfully, most first time mother's didn't show until their later months.

However, everything wasn't going according to plan. The twins continued to get worse. It took time to notice though. Their aches and pains did not just occur one morning, their afflictions seemed to grow day by day. Until one morning I woke up first, as always. I turned to Carrie to wake her up, her skin was paler than usual and her breathing hardly noticeable.

"Carrie?" I asked, "you awake?" she slowly turned towards me and her eyes looked blood shot and she had dark circles under her eyes.

"Chris!" I called.

"Come here quick, Carrie looks worse." Chris hurriedly got out of bed and came and looked at Carrie.

"Chris, we're going to have to leave sooner rather than later."

"Yes, I agree. But we'll have to wait at least a month. We need at least five hundred dollars."

"Chris we can't wait any longer! Take everything tonight, please."

"Cathy, we need cash if we are going to buy tickets, we have to plan this!"

"Fine I said, I'll get mother here. She won't be able to ignore her two littlest ones."

"You can't Cathy, I know grandmother never looks at you, but mother might. She would notice!"

"I don't care! When grandmother comes, I'll make her get mother and hopefully she'll get them something for this terrible flu they have.

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Hehe, she still thinks it's the flu. But it's not muhahahahaha. haha anyways reviews are always welcome, hope you're enjoying the story!