Okay, this chapter was written based on my day. My friends and I all hung out and watched our home videos, so all of the videos mentioned her are actually what my friends and I did when we were younger.
OH, and someone had asked if I were a teenager or not, and yes I am. I turned 16 not even a month ago.
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"Okay everyone, squish together!" Brooke shouted as everyone stood in a group. She snapped a few pictures, and everyone headed for the living room.
"We got you one last gift," Kirsten said smiling evilly.
"What did you do?" October asked narrowing her eyes.
"We watched all of our home videos and got the ones that were amusing put on a DVD," Olivia replied, "Can we watch it?"
"Am I naked in it?" October asked.
"No surprisingly," Olivia replied.
"Then, yes, we can watch it," October replied.
The first video was of Brooke and October flying down a large slide at a carnival, with Kirsten and Olivia following shortly behind. Kirsten hit a bump and bounced into the air, and then flew down the rest of the slide. The next was of October and Gwyn swinging on October old red swing set, wearing towels as capes. Gwyn jumped off, landing on the grass, her cape flying out behind her. October then geared up to jump herself, and when she did the cape got stuck in the chain. The swing swung backwards taking October along with it.
"Hahaha," Kirsten said pointing at the screen, "You guys were dumb man."
The next video was of October who had bunny whiskers painted on her face. She was holding a baseball bat in her hand and swung and hit a tree. The branch flew back and whacked October in the eye. She stood there looking extremely grouchy.
"What are you doing?" Brooke asked.
October stared at the camera.
"Are you having fun?" Brooke questioned.
"I'm pissed off mommy," October giving her a glare.
"Why?" Brooke asked.
"The freaking tree poked me!" October before stomping off towards the road.
She sat on her tricycle and began riding down the sidewalk.
"Where are you going?" Brooke shouted.
"Away from the evil tree!" October shouted back, pedaling faster.
Kirsten bursted out in laughter, "Oh my god."
The screen flipped over to October, Olivia, Kirsten and Gwyn who were sitting on a sunny beach.
"Say hi guys!" a man said to the girls, from behind the camera.
"Okay daddy!" Olivia shouted back.
The four girls squealed hello, and then Olivia demanded that he buy them a popsicle.
"Why?" he teased.
"I thump ya if you don't," Olivia replied, raising her three year old fist.
Green grass filled the screen, as Kirsten awkwardly handled to video recorder.
"Go Gwyn!" she shouted loudly.
A ten year old Gwyn raced down the field, kicking a soccer ball with all her might. October ran quickly behind her, and then suddenly a tall girl from the opposing team kick Gwyn in the shin, causing her to topple to the ground. You could see October's mouth widen, and then she and Gwyn whispered a few words to each other. October helped Gwyn over to the sidelines and then ran back to center field.
The ref blew the whistle and the game began once again. Not even touching the ball, October ran and tackled the girl who had purposely kicked Gwyn to the ground, and punched her in the face.
October was then kicked out of the game, but she came closer to the screen and was smiling widely.
The screen darkened for a second before showing a close up of October's two year old face, which was covered in blue, red and purple paint.
"What happened beautiful? "Nancy, Gwyn's mother asked.
October stuck her bottom lip out.
The camera panned over to Gwyn who was sitting on a chair, paint brush in hand, grinning from ear to ear.
"What were you thinking?" Nancy demanded.
"Bad?" Gwyn asked confused.
"Very bad!" Nancy replied, as October walked over to Gwyn.
"Bad!" she exclaimed pointing at Gwyn.
The screen then opened to a farm. Brooke was now filming and Nancy was holding Gwyn's little sister Alexandra. Gwyn and October were walking along the pen for a group of sheep, wearing matching blue gumboots.
"'They're all dirty!" Gwyn exclaimed, in a five year old's attempt at a British accent.
The sheep made a loud baa noise.
"I'm scared!" October whined, running behind Gwyn.
The DVD continued on showing random videos of the girls playing, Olivia stabbing dolls with doctor equipment, October playing with play dough, the girls as babies all laughing at each other, the girls as newborns all crying, except for October who was sleeping and the last video was of Olivia and October at the age of 6 singing the whole song of Baby got back.
"Were we neat kids?" Olivia asked Lilly.
"Much more amusing then my home videos," Lilly replied.
"Yeah, you can't really beat that, and those were only from 3 tapes, I wonder what else we've got," Olivia said, staring off into space, as if she were thinking of the possibilities.
"What should we do now?" October asked.
"I wanna go swimming!" Isabella exclaimed.
"I do too!" October exclaimed right back.
"Should we head for the beach?" Haley asked, kinda hoping for a yes.
"Yeah, sounds like fun," Brooke replied.
Once at the lake, Haley and Nathan walked along with beach with Isabella, checking out random shells, while Lilly, James, Olivia, Kirsten, Gwyn and Karen attempted to bury October in sand. Lucas and Brooke sat on a beach towel silently.
"She's having fun huh?" Brooke asked quietly.
"Yeah," Lucas replied.
"I don't think I've ever seen her so happy," Brooke whispered.
"Well...that's good," Lucas replied.
"Yeah," Brooke said, "Thanks for being so great towards her, I was really nervous that you two wouldn't connect or something."
"I like her a lot," Lucas laughed, "She reminds me of you in so many ways, but it's scary when she reminds me of me. I still can't believe I'm a father, and I've had 16 years to get used to the idea."
"It's kinda hard to when you don't ever get to see the kid," Brooke replied, "And I've spent so much time with her, and even I still can't wrap my head around it. It honestly doesn't feel all to long ago that I was taking her home from the hospital, or helping her learn how to walk to taking her to kindergarten. I sometimes just want her to stop for awhile."
"I just wish I could've seen her grow up, watching those videos made me realize that she's lived this whole young life, and I don't know anything about it. That scares me," Lucas replied.
"What do you wanna know?" Brooke questioned.
"What's her favorite color? Her favorite ice-cream? Her favorite food? What does she want to be when she's older? What's she afraid of? Just...everything," Lucas said.
"Favorite color is red, favorite ice-cream is anything Dairy Queen, mostly smarties blizzards though. Favorite foods are rice, kraft dinner and waffles. She wants to be a surgeon, or a teacher or a writer. She's terrified of spiders and ants, and hates flies," Brooke replied without thinking.
"Hellllppp," the couple could hear someone shout. October had gotten out of the sand, and she, along with Olivia, Gwyn and Lilly, were holding Kirsten by an arm or leg, and were swinging her through the air.
"Be careful!" Brooke shouted.
The girls dropped Kirsten to the ground and they all took off into the water.
James and Isabella headed off to the concession stand for ice-creams, Isabella on James' back.
Brooke and Lucas' continued talking about random things, like his classes or how Brooke's store was doing.
"October! October! Where'd she go?" they could hear Lilly shouting.
Brooke looked out into the water, the waves had picked up and October was no where in sight.
Lucas stood up, followed by Brooke and they took off towards the water.
"October!" Olivia screamed, frantically swimming towards a spot in the ocean.
"Livy where is she?" Gwyn yelled.
"I can see her, she's underwater deep!" Olivia screamed back, scared.
Nathan ran out into the water and quickly began swimming out. He got beside Olivia, and quickly spotted October who was fairly far down. Lucas was now floating beside Nathan. Nathan popped underwater and swam grabbing October's arm, yanking her to the surface. With Lucas' help, Nathan dragged October to shore.
"What's going on?" Karen said her eyes huge.
"Has someone called an ambulance?" Lucas' asked looking around.
"I did," Kirsten said meekly, as sirens belted throughout the air.
Within a matter of minutes, October turned blue, was put onto a stretcher, hooked up to a heart monitor and had a tube pushed down her throat, pushed into an ambulance, which then sped away.
"What the hell just happened?" James asked, walking back to the ground with Isabella.