I tried to make this chapter as fast as I can. But my life is crazy as usual and I was watching anime. Hope you enjoy~! (I just realized I knew little to nothing of planning baby showers and for some reason, the tabs automatically closed and I didn't even do anything and everything I wrote got erased. T^T. Sorry for the late update. HOPE YOU ENJOY! *Says it while running away from an angry mob*
Emily was overly-excited about planning the baby shower. Alexis would be so surprised. She had asked a bunch of people to help her. They all agreed to make this the best baby shower ever. She asked Joel and her father to help her make the banner for the baby shower, but they couldn't decide the color and what kind of print style they should use.
"Maybe we should get a yellow banner and the color of the words should be pink?" Emily suggested.
"Not what I had in mind. I was thinking about light blue and the words should be brown." Joel said.
"The last time I remember about a baby shower was with your mother." Her father said. "And the banner was just regular white and the colors were just pretty much rainbow-ish."
"Yeah, but. . . ." Joel started.
"But what?" she asked.
"i was thinking that white is too plain. It should have more color in it." Joel finished.
"Color for what?" Tom asked.
"Tom. What are you doing here?"
"I just happened to be passing by when I heard your conversation. Are you planning the baby shower now?"
"Yeah, we're figuring out what color the banner should be." Emily explained.
"Well, I have a suggestion, but you might not want to hear it." He said sheepishly.
"it's okay. What is it?"
"Well I was thinking about having the banner with pink outlines and the inside will be white and the writing will be sky blue."
"That's actually not a bad idea." Emily said. "Come on! Let's go ask the water nymphs to help us make the banner." (: I put this in because in Book 2, the water nymphs embroidered Emily's . . . I forgot what it was, but anyways I thought they could help make the banner.
~With Paelen~
Paelen had absolutely no clue for what he was supposed to do. He didn't even what a baby shower was. All he knew was Emily had assigned him, Diana, Earl, and Frankie in getting supplies they needed for the baby shower. Though he was happy that everybody was back to their usual self, he was still upset that Lorin had died. She was gone and there was nothing he could do to change that.
"Paelen, did you even hear what I said?" Diana asked.
"Yes, no, sorry, what was that?"
"I asked, do we have what we need for the baby shower?"
"Do not ask me! I do not even know what we were supposed to get. This was a bad idea when Emily assigned us to get the supplies." Paelen groaned.
"Don't worry!" Earl said. "The supplies for the baby shower are the same as the regular parties. They pretty much celebrate the baby when it's close to it's birth by giving presents to the mother."
"I do not understand. They celebrate the baby before it is born?" Paelen frowned. "That is not much of a party if the baby cannot experience it."
"It's also to celebrate the mother too." Frankie quietly spoke. "I think."
"You ain't too far off." Earl said. "The mother gets presents for the baby."
"But I am pretty sure that even a baby will not know how to appreciate such a gift." Paelen said.
"Never mind. Let's just get some supplies for party." Earl said.
The four people discussed what to get, but Paelen felt like he wasn't much of a help. He didn't know how to add on to their creativity. They had said something about getting streamers, balloons, and . . . diapers?
"Why would you need diapers in a baby shower?" Diana asked.
"It's to make it into a shape of a cake." Frankie said.
"I do not understand. They make cake out of diapers?"
"Well not really. They make it into a shape of a cake. But that's literally all there is to it."
"Well now that everybody knows what's going on, let's get started." Earl said.
~With Emily~
Emily was amazed by the work of the nymphs. The banner was extremely soft and silky. The designs were better than Emily could've imagined. The nymphs really out done themselves. Emily thanked the nymphs for their hard work.
"It was nothing." one of them said. "It's what we're good at."
After that, Emily headed to Saturn's . . . no Jupiter's palace. They were planning to hold the baby shower in the dining room. It was massive and the perfect place to hold the baby shower. While Joel and her father were busy trying to get the banner in place, Emily supplied Olympian food and then some extremely sweet Earth food. Since the plates and cups were already set, she just had to set up the food from her food pouch. As she was busy setting things up, Jupiter came by.
"Emily. Why hello there. Setting up for the baby shower I presume?"
"Yes. We're almost done."
"Is there anything I can help you with?"
"No thank you sir. We have everything under control."
"Alright Emily. If you need help, just ask." With that Jupiter left.
After a few minutes, Paelen, Earl, Frankie, and Diana had returned. "You're back!" Emily said. She raced over to them and rummaged through the supplies they had retrieved. "Paelen, can you help me put the streamers up?" Emily asked.
"Where do I put them?"
"Where the banner is." She gave a handful of streamers to Paelen, who hung ordered his sandals to take him to the banner. She climbed up the ladder, that her father had used. She was doing her best to make the streamers curly and tied them to where they had hammered the banner in. The colors were bright and colorful and it stood out.
She grabbed the balloons and filled it with air with her powers and tied near the streamers and some of the balloons were floating in the air with happy faces on them. The diapers . . . well she had to ask for help on that one. She didn't know how to make a cake. But they had resolved it right away.
Once they were done with the preparations, Emily had asked everybody to come to the dining room. So far, Pluto, Saturn, Jupiter, Neptune, Juno, Vulcan, Mars, basically everybody she knew was here. Except for one person. Riza.
Riza had promized she'd be here soon. But she was getting late. Emily didn't think Tom would be able to stall Alexis anymore.
Riza, where are you?
Right beside you.
She looked beside her and saw Riza standing next to her. She nearly jumped out of her skin. "Whoa. You just appeared out of nowhere."
Riza chuckled. "You should see the look on your face. Anyway, now that everybody's here, we should alert Tom to come back to the dining room."
Emily nodded. Tom, can you hear me? We're ready. Tell Alexis to meet us in the dining room.
"I sent the message."
Emily looked outside to see night had fallen on them. Night already? Time sure passes by fast.
~With Tom~
Just when Tom thought he couldn't stall Alexis anymore, a voice filled his head. Tom, can you hear me? We're ready. Tell Alexis to meet us in the dining room.
Tom looked over to Alexis who was still gazing at the night stars. The outing was fun and kept Alexis busy for the whole day.
"Alexis, Emily sent me a message and she said that she needs me."
"For what?"
"I don't know, but when you're ready, meet me in the dining room at Jupiter's palace."
"The dining room?"
"Just trust me." With that Tom had flew off to the dining room.
~With Alexis~
Alexis was confused. Meet in the dining room? But Tom had said to trust her. And so she will. But she felt like looking at the stars. After this, I will go to the dining room.
When she was young, the stars gave her a huge comfort when she was lonely. She didn't remember her parents. She thought they had died. And when she was guarding the gate to Thebes, she never made any friends. She was just a fearsome, but lonely Sphinx, fated to be alone. But when she had met Tom, Tom had ended that loneliness and her life became much more meaningful. She finally felt eternal happiness. And it was all because of Tom.
Alexis snapped out of her thoughts. She remembered, to meet Tom in the dining room. She opened her eagle wings and flew. She felt the soft night air against her face and the cool wind blew. Jupiter's palace was in sight and she touched down to the ground. She padded inside the palace and the massive hallways and to the entrance of the dining room. It was completely pitch black. She walked inside and just as she was about to get ready for an attack, the room suddenly lit up and she heard.
"HAPPY BABY SHOWER ALEXIS!"
Alexis got startled and tripped over her paws and landed on her bottom.
"What just happened?"
"Happy baby shower Alexis." Tom said. He padded toward her and gave her a kiss on the lips. :( Oh god kill me! I'm horrible at romance! n
Emily walked over and hugged Alexis. "I hope you like it."
"Oh Emily. This is the best thing that ever happened to me. Thank you."
"Now let's go and enjoy it!"
As Alexis walked with Emily, Riza went over to them and said, "I am sure, you would be happy of your offspring. I sense they would be twins. One boy, one girl."
Tom and Alexis looked at her in shock. "How do you know that?" Tom asked.
"We are Xan." Riza said as if that explained everything. "Emily senses it too. Don't you Emily?" Riza nudged Emily playfully.
"I didn't tell them, because I didn't want to ruin it." Emily said. "But yeah. There are twins."
Alexis couldn't be happier.
"I'm going to go check up on Paelen." Emily said. "I'll catch up with you later."
~With Paelen~
Paelen was happy to see everything back to the way it was. Lorin would've loved to see this.
He was so engrossed in his thoughts, he didn't hear Stella come over on Maxine.
"Paelen. Why are you here by yourself?"
"Stella? It was . . . never mind. It is nothing important."
"Don't worry." She said. She put her hand on Paelen's."Lorin would've wanted you to be happy."
"How did you know I was thinking abut her?"
"Instincts, if you want to call it that."
Paelen saw Emily shove through the crowd. "Paelen, why are you all the way here? I thought you're going to go and enjoy the party."
He was prevented from saying something, when he saw a familiar blond girl at the entrance.
"Who is that?" Stella asked.
"It's. . . . Lorin."
Paelen ran up to her. "Lorin is that you?" Lorin turned around and tears sprung from her eyes. "Paelen!"
They ran up to each other and hugged. "H-how? I do not understand." He said, as Lorin and Emily hugged too.
"After you defeated the Titans, I was free."
"I thought you said you were dying."
"I was. I am dead. But because I am part of my powers, I still live on within it. And thanks to Emily and Riza, I am free."
"You are a spirit?"
Lorin nodded. "But I'll remain this way forever. I'll never grow up like you will now. My age will remain the same as I died. My powers have my consciousness and it will continue to manifest myself. I will remain as a shape of Lorin. But know this. I'm here, but I'm not here."
"What do you mean by that."
"It means," Emily said. "Even though she has a consciousness, she's just an energy that's taking in a shape of her."
"Emily!" Joel's voice called out to her. "I need you here."
"Coming!" Emily and Stella decided to let Paelen and Lorin have their privacy.
"I see. But that does not matter to me. I am content with it as long as you are here." He said when they had left.
"I love you Paelen." Lorin said softly.
"I love you too." Paelen said back.
With Lorin here, Paelen felt all the pain he had - when the Titans consumed her - disappear. He felt whole again.
GAHHHHHH! I SUCK AT ROMANCE-Y STUFF! I NEVER EVER DID ROMANCE OR PAIRINGS ON WATTPAD OR ANY OF MY OTHER STORIES! I LITERALLY HAVE NO EXPERIENCE WITH IT! Again, I'm very sorry for the late update! BAI!