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A soon as the door closed the phone rang. "Oh I'll get it!" Edith exclaimed as she jogged over to the phone. "Hello?" She asked into the phone.

"Oh Gloria!" Edith cried into the hone after a short pause, causing Archie to leap up from his chair.

"Is that our little goil?" he asked and Edith nodded as he came over to the phone, and leaned his head against his wife's with the phone between them, so he too could be a part of the conversation.

"How are you?" Edith asked

"How's Joey?" Archie asked

"How's Mike?"

"How are you?" Archie repeated the question Edith had asked

"How's Joey?" Edith asked taking her turn to repeat a question Archie had asked before.

Neither one of them paused between question so Gloria could answer. Suddenly they became quiet.

"You did? That's terrific!" the two said together off what Gloria had just shared with them.

"Yeah, yeah…" Archie said while obviously getting frustrated by the small area the two were standing in. "Edith!" he shouted, "Go sit down over there." He said as he motioned towards her chair.

"Oh alright." she said understanding why Archie wanted to talk to their daughter alone. "Bye Gloria!" she cried into the phone causing Archie to wince that famous wince.

"Alright little Goil, go on. Hopefully your mother didn't make me completely deaf." He said and Edith smiled from her seat.

"Alright…yeah…ah ha good…yeah…Oh ho ho very good! " He said into the phone, "Alright Gloria go ahead and do it. Yeah. We'll send the check to youse soon." He went on grinning from ear to ear as Edith watched. "Alright well tell Joey I said 'hi' huh?"

"Tell Joey I said 'hi' too!" Edith exclaimed from her seat and Archie winced once more.

"Jeeze Edith, the kid probably already heard youse without the help of the phone here." Archie told his wife, "Alright…ok" he said turning his attention back to the phone, "Ok goodbye Gloria." He said before hanging up.

"Edith we're buying a condo!" He said jovially shocking Edith.

"What?"

"Now Edith I know we ain't talked about it, but Gloria say's it's in an area we're gonna like."

"But…"

"I ain't done now. She says it's at an affordable price for us…"

"But…" Edith interrupted again

"I still ain't finished, she says it's close enough to her, the meathead, and Joey…and Disneyland." He finished and this time Edith remained quiet, "I'm finished now!" he hollered.

"Oh ok." Edith said nodding her head before going on, "But Archie…"

"Edith," Archie said stopping her from going on, "What could youse be 'butting' for?" I already told you what you need to know!"

"I know but…"

"There it is again!" he shouted pointing at her.

Edith thought for a minute before going on, "However," she tried and getting no response from Archie she went on, "I was 'butting' cause, how are we gonna buy it if we're over here in New York?" she questioned.

Archie dropped his head and stayed there for a few seconds until finally he moved over to his chair, "Gloria's gonna put the whatdaya call drown payment and we're gonna send the money over to her." He explained

"Ooohhh!" Edith as she got up from her chair, "My everything is really going well with the move to California!" she said happily as she threw her arms around Archie's neck from behind his chair.

"Yeah, and with no worrying going around here, maybe things can go back to normal." He said

"What do you mean?"

"I mean things…upstairs." He said wondering if she got the message and after awhile she did.

"Ooohh! Oh Archie." She said blushing some.

"What? The doctor gave youse the a-okay didn't he?" he asked looking at her through the corner of his eyes with a smirk playing upon his lips.

"Oh Archie we can't. Especially now." Edith told him, "What if Steaphy comes home?" she questioned

"Edith it's 12:30 that school don't let out till four o'clock."

"Three." Edith corrected him

"So we'll still have plenty of time right?" he questioned

"Right." Edith answered abit too quickly causing him to frown.

Archie however did continue to try and convince her, "Come on I'll take the rest of the day off." He knew that might please her. For awhile now Edith had been worried about his health and the stress he was under and after having a stroke it only increased.

A smile slowly formed on Edith's lips, before she stood up straight slowly she smiled and said, "Alright."

Archie quickly got out of his chair and the couple left upstairs. Once they were gone there was silence down stairs the only noise heard was the sound of the upstairs bedroom closing. Well that is until the front door came bursting open. "Aunt Edith, I'm home for lunch!" followed the sound.

Stephanie was home.

Noticing her aunt wasn't in the living room she left for the kitchen to see if she could find her there. As she did so Archie and Edith came down the stairs in a hurry. Edith tightening the rope that held part of her dress and Archie wiping the lipstick from his lips. Stephanie walked into the room looking abit puzzled.

"Where were you?" she asked confused to find her aunt and uncle in a room she was in just seconds before.

The couple exchanged looks, "Um we were upstairs." Edith told the young girl.

"Yeah, yeah upstairs…packing…uh hey Edith there why don't youse tell the kid the news?" Archie asked, taking a seat in his chair, trying to change the subject as quickly as possible.

"Oh right!" Edith said remembering before she took a seat in her own chair, "Steaphy guess what!"

"What?"

"Oh no you gotta guess." Edith told her and Archie groaned.

"Jeeze just tell her or we'll be here till Christmas."

Edith looked over at her husband and smiled, "Oh alright." She then looked over at her niece her smile never fading, "Steaphy you can move to California with us!"

Stephanie's once happy smile dropped. "I don't wanna move to California." She told them

"What?" both asked one more upset then the other.

"I don't wanna move to California." She repeated and then added, "And you can't make me!" after saying that she dashed into the coat closet closing the door behind her. Archie and Edith looked at each other.

"Jeeze" Archie groaned, "What dose that kid have against California?!" he asked his voice becoming higher with each word.

"That's just like Gloria." stated Edith and Archie stared at her with a confused look upon his face

"What are youse talking about? She moved out there didn't she?!"

Edith shook her head, "No, I mean remember when Gloria was a little girl and she wouldn't eat her vegetables, so she'd lock herself in the closet?" Edith explained as an idea popped into Archie's head.

"You gotta point there. We'll just do what we use to do with Gloria, when she did this here." He quickly told her.

"But Archie…"

"Dummy up, Dummy up." He told her as he got up and walked over to the closet, Edith followed behind him having a strong feeling that her husbands plan wasn't going to work out too well.

"Alright come on Edith, let's go out for lunch. Just cause the kid wants to skip lunch don't mean we have to." Archie said not just to Edith but Stephanie too.

"I don't believe you." Stephanie's muffled voice said from the closet, "Aunt Edith's coat is in here."

Archie glared at his wife, "Can't youse do nothing right?" he hissed

"I'm sorry Archie." Edith apologized and Archie simply waved his hand while trying to come up with another plan.

Finally he came up with something, "Don't worry 'bout your Aunt Edith kid, she'll youse my coat." He said leaning closer to the closet door.

"Ohhh Archie, I don't think I've worn your jacket since youse was courting me!" Edith stated while smiling as she remembered.

"Yeah, yeah, yeah just get out there." He instructed pointing to the front door.

"Then what are you gonna wear?" Steaphy asked from the closet.

"I…" Archie struggled for an answer, "I don't gotta tell youse!" he finally exclaimed before turning to Edith, "Come on let's go."

"But Archie…" Edith tried to stop him once again.

"Let's go." He said as he opened the door and slightly pushed Edith out before going out the door himself.

Seconds passed before Stephanie opened the closet door and pocked her head out, looking both ways.

"Ah Ha!" Archie, who had been looking through the front window, exclaimed before both he and Steaphy ran for the door. Stephanie obviously got there first, because when Archie got the door it had been locked.

"Gloria did that too." Edith stated with her hand over her cheek.

Archie glared at her, "Would you stifle yourself?" he half asked half stated. "Well is she's like Gloria then she musta forgotten the same thing Gloria did." He said mostly to himself, he then looked over at Edith, "Come On."

Well there you go! Chapter 12 of As Time Goes By! Thanks for Reading! Hope you liked! Please review! Until Next week! Have a Nice Day! And Have a Safe and Happy Thanksgiving!