A/N: How long has it been since I've updated this story, like two months? It was probably longer, sorry for the long wait! I loved your reviews they were what inspired me to keep updating. So please R&R!
Previously On Love Me Always
Randy didn't notice since he was flipping through catalogs "Your Uncle Simon on the other hand was completely different. He was in love with a girl named Jeanette. He always came up with the cleverest ways to ask her out, was even going to propose, but she apparently always screwed it up. Then one day she vanished. Poof! No one ever saw her around here again."
-Brittney stood in between the boy and Jill. "I suggest you leave now" her eyes narrowed to daggers.
"And who are you?" Toby asked.
"I'm her mother"
-"Thanks. You can go now." Alvin said heading towards the stairs.
Brittney stood in his way. "Alvin, I want complete custody of Jill"
Alvin looked at Brittney in shock. "What gives you the right to have custody of Jill? Nine years ago you didn't even care enough to give her a name!" Alvin snarled.
"Alvin, she is my daughter, I am her mother. I spent nine months with her then I gave her away. Only, because I had no other choice. You've been keeping her from me for nine long, years. In fact Simon and Theodore see her every day, and they're just her uncles!" Brittney cried.
Alvin was about to respond when a small voice interrupted him. "So you weren't lying; you really are my mother?"
Brittney and Alvin looked up to see Jill clinging on to the rail; wearing her fluffy, pink robe.
"She's nobody important Jill. Are you alright?" Alvin asked.
"Yeah Dad, I'm fine. Now please let her answer the question." Jill slowly began her descent. Half way down she lost balance and went tumbling down the steps.
Brittney reached out to grab her daughter but Alvin reached her first.
He scooped her up and carried her off the stairs with Brittney following close behind.
"Dad you can put me down now" Jill said annoyed.
Alvin hesitated for a second then placed his daughter onto the ground.
Brittney motioned for him to give her a moment with her daughter.
Alvin glared at her but stepped back so Brittney could help their daughter onto her feet.
"Jill maybe you should head back up to bed and rest." Brittney suggested.
"No I'm tired of waiting. So will you just answer the question. I've lost my mom once, so if you're not her just leave, because I can't lose another mom." Jill began crying.
Brittney pulled her into a hug. "Shh sweetheart I'm not going anywhere soon"
Jill looked up at her. "So you are my mother?"
Brittney nodded and Jill grinned. "You want to see something that has won me tons of awards"
Alvin glanced at Jill like she was about to do something she shouldn't.
Brittney didn't notice his look. "I would love to Jill"
Jill stepped back. She pulled her foot back then kicked Brittney hard in the shin.
Brittney grabbed her leg trying to hide the pain.
Jill turned her head not looking at her mother and murmured something that Brittney could barely hear.
"What did you just say?" Brittney asked hoping she had heard her daughter wrong.
Jill turned and looked directly into her mother's eyes. "You heard me I hate you"
Alvin was about to step in but Jill stopped him. "I hate both of you!" She yelled before she began running up the stairs as fast as she could without becoming unstable again.
"Jill don't you dare talk to your mother and me like that" Alvin called after her.
He sighed and ran his paw through his hair. He looked at Brittney. "This is your fault"
Brittney was about to protest when they heard the front open. "Alvin I'm home"
They both looked to see Simon entering into the room. Simon looked up and his eyes widened at the sight of Brittney. "What are you doing here" he demanded.
"Simon wait!" A voice called and Theodore, Eleanor, and Jeanette all ran into the room.
"We're too late" Jeanette said.
"Obviously" Eleanor said.
"Sorry Simon the girls came to me at the restaurant and told me what happened; we tried to get here before you did." Theodore explained.
"What happened?" Simon asked.
"I got this. Jill passed out, Brittney brought her back here, Jill found out that Brittney is her mom, Jill gave Brittney one of her famous Jill Seville kicks, then she ran upstairs and probably locked herself in her room, you came home, then Theo and the girls got here, oh and did I mention that Brittney wants complete custody of Jill" Alvin stated folding his arms across his chest.
"What!" Simon yelled outraged he looked like he wanted to kill Brittney.
Alvin stepped in front of Brittney as if he were protecting her. "No matter what Jill is still going to live her and we will always be a part of her life."
Theodore crouched beside Brittney and examined her leg. "She gave you the kick" He asked. Brittney nodded and Theodore pressed down gently. Brittney flinched and Theodore got up.
"I'll go get an ice pack" Theodore said as he got up.
"I'll come to. I need to get Jill a red velvet cupcake" Alvin said.
"With cream cheese frosting?" Theodore asked.
"Of course!" Alvin said like it was obvious.
"Red velvet with cream cheese was always your favorite" Brittney recalled.
"You remembered'" Alvin was shocked.
Brittney nodded and Alvin smiled at her before he followed Theodore into the kitchen.
Simon glared at her for a moment before he grabbed one of her paws and helped her to her feet.
"That hurts" She protested as she began standing.
"Then wrap your arm around my neck, it will help you" Simon ordered.
Brittney did what Simon told her with a bit of difficulty since Simon was so much taller than her.
They hobbled over to the couch and Simon helped Brittney lay down.
"Why are you helping me all of a sudden? I thought you hated me" Brittney asked as Simon stepped back.
"It's hard to hate someone when their brother is still in love with them." Simon explained as he sat in one of the armchairs.
"Alvin still loves me?" Brittney asked in shock.
"Yeah he talks about you all the time. It really gets annoying, but I can't talk. I bring up Jeanette now and then." He smiled at Jeanette who was still standing at the door.
"Alright here you go" Theodore said as he came back into the room with Alvin right behind him.
He then placed an ice bag on Brittney's shin.
"C'mon guys let's go get Jill" Alvin said as he and his brothers headed upstairs.
Jeanette and Eleanor both stared at their feet. Brittney hated them not talking. "Guys look I can understand why you hate me but…"
The other two girls looked up shocked by their sister's words."We don't hate you Brittney" Eleanor said.
"We have just been having a hard time believing that you didn't tell us that you were pregnant" Jeanette told her.
"I'm so sorry but I felt so alone. I didn't think that, actually I wasn't thinking at all" Brittney apologized close to tears.
"No we're sorry" Jeanette said coming close to tears too.
"How about we stop saying we're sorry and hug each other already!" Eleanor cried since she was on the verge of tears also.
The three sisters hugged making sure to avoid Brittney's leg.
"Girl what do you say we have a little talk with my daughter" Brittney suggested to her sisters.
The girls entered Jill's room to find Jill lying on her stomach crying into her pillow, with Alvin rubbing her back.
Simon and Theodore were leaning against the wall near the door.
"Guys can you give us a minute?" Brittney asked.
Simon and Theodore both looked at Alvin. "I trust her" Alvin told them.
"C'mon Si" Theodore muttered as he and Simon both left the room.
Alvin was about to walk out but he stopped. "Let's go get some of those delicious red velvet cupcakes"
Jill raised her head from her pillow long enough to shout, "Alvin Seville if you eat all of those cupcakes you're dead!"
Alvin chuckled. He looked at Brittney for a moment before he left the room.
The girls walked over and sat on her bed. Brittney began rubbing Jill's back just like Alvin had been doing earlier. "Hey Jill can we talk"
"Go away" Jill said.
"Not until we talk" Brittney told her as she stopped rubbing her back.
Jill sat up still avoiding her mother's gaze. "What do you want to talk about?"
"Why did you say that you hated me and your father?" Brittney asked.
"I don't hate him I just hate you" She replied.
"Why do you hate me?" Brittney asked again.
"You think I'm ugly" Jill murmured.
"I don't think you're ugly Jill" Brittney said like it was the most ridiculous thing she had ever heard.
"You're beautiful" Jeanette backed her sister up.
"You might be even more beautiful than your mother" Eleanor told Jill.
"Where did you get an idea like that" Brittney asked.
"The kids at school. My whole life they teased me because my model mom Brittney Miller gave me up to my dad because I wasn't beautiful enough" Jill cried tears flowing down her cheeks.
Brittney pulled her daughter close to her and allowed Jill to cry on her chest. "Jill I gave you up because I thought I wasn't a good mother. You would have died living with me." Brittney comforted her daughter.
Her daughter pulled back and looked at her mother. "So you gave me to 18 year old Alvin Seville"
Brittney chuckled. "He was the only other person who I could trust you with."
Jill smiled. "So do you really want to gain custody of me?"
"Yeah I want my little girl back. Hopefully you can live with me part time and with your father part time." Brittney told her little girl.
"We can be just like the guys and you but instead it's just us four girls" Eleanor squealed.
"That sounds like fun. Hold on one moment" Jill said smiling at first but it was replaced with a thinking look.
She got up from the bed and went over to the door.
She pressed her ear against it then pounded her fists and kicked it.
Three choruses of Oww could be heard from the other side. "Can't a girl get some privacy around here?"
The girls all laughed as they listen to the boys pain.
"Now who wants to get a homemade red velvet cupcake before Dad and Uncle Theo eat them all?" Jill asked.
"Your father and your uncle couldn't possibly eat all of those cupcakes" Jeanette told Jill.
"Have you just met Alvin and Theodore Seville?" Jill asked her aunt.
"Good point" Eleanor said as the three sisters got off the bed and joined Jill so they could go downstairs.
Jeanette knocked on the door to Simon's office.
Something had been bugging her all day and she needed to know the truth.
"Come in" Simon's voice called.
Jeanette entered Simon's office a bit nervous. "Hey Si"
Simon looked up from the stack of papers he was grading. "Hello Jeanette what brings you here?"
"Simon I was wondering something. Today Jill took us to a store and a man named Randy said some things" Jeanette stated nervously.
Simon sighed. "The mouth on that guy. What did he say?"
"He said something about you going to propose" Jeanette started again.
Simon got up from his desk, grabbed Jeanette by the wrist, and pulled her out of the room and down the hall.
"Simon where are you taking me?" Jeanette asked as Simon dragged her.
"You'll see" He said.
He finally stopped in front of a closet. He opened it up and pulled out a small box that had a J on it.
"What's this?" Jeanette asked as Simon placed the box in her paws.
"My Jeanette box" he said simply. She gave him a confused look. "We each have a box to remember you guys by. Theodore has an Eleanor box, Alvin has a Brittney box, and I have a Jeanette box." He explained.
Jeanette opened the box.
Inside there were pictures of her, items from their dates, and a small blue velvet box.
Simon picked up the box noticing that Jeanette was staring at it. He opened it to reveal a diamond ring.
"You were going to propose" Jeanette whispered.
"Yeah" Simon whispered as he took the finger out of its box.
"I would have yes in a heartbeat" Jeanette whispered again.
"Would you now" Simon asked his volume increasing a bit.
"What?" Jeanette asked startled by the question.
"You heard me" Simon said as he dropped onto one knee and held the ring out to Jeanette.
Jeanette dropped the box she was holding in surprise.
"Jeanette Miller would you do me the honor of becoming my wife?" He asked.
"Yes" Jeanette said grinning.
Simon slid the ring on her finger and they kissed.
They looked around to see everything from Simon's Jeanette box scattered on the floor around them.
"We'd better clean this up" Simon said.
"Yeah" Jeanette agreed.