A/N: HAHA! You guys probably thought I was gonna take another long ass hiatus. Nope! I'm here, don't worry. So this chapter is really just a filler only a little over 1500 words. Also I've decided to stop naming my chapters after song titles. I mean if I find a perfect song that goes with a chapter then I'll use it. If not then I'm not going to stress over it.
Disclaimer: I do not own Degrassi. Nope
I wonder what it was like the day I was born. I wonder if someone had gotten back together with the love of their life that day. I wonder if someone found out their ex might have been infected with HIV. I wonder if on the day I was born some lesbian out there gave her ex's boyfriend a black eye. I bet the day I was born wasn't as exciting as today has been so far. Alex and I will have to tell our little brother about the very exciting day he was born. If he's born today that is.
Ellie, Marco, Alex, Beth, and I are still in the waiting room, waiting. It's been two hours since the whole Alex punching Griffin fiasco and we're still waiting. It's about 7pm and I'm pretty sure all of our stomachs are growling since it is dinner time.
"Who knew child birth would take this long," Marco groans.
"When my mother had Simón she was only in labor for two hours," Beth tells us.
"Well no offense but when your mother had your brother she wasn't as old as dirt," Alex says.
The others snicker at Alex's comment and I'm just giving her an annoyed look.
"I can't believe you just said our mother is as old as dirt," I say seriously. "The woman who has put a roof over your head and food on the table for you for the past five months, the woman who gave you a car for your birthday, the woman who is helping pay for your college education, the woman-"
"Ok Jordan!" Alex exclaims, interrupting me. "I'm sorry. Mom isn't as old as dirt. She's just middle-aged."
"I'm never having kids if this is how long you're in labor for," Ellie says out-of-nowhere.
"I never wanted kids," I announce.
Beth is looking at me with a shocked expression on her face. "What?"
I take Beth's hand. "I want kids," I tell her. "I just don't want them coming out of me. I don't handle pain very well."
"You have a tattoo," she says bluntly.
I raise my hands up, one high and the other. "Child birth," I say indicating to the higher hand. "Tattoo," I indicate the lower hand." "Two very different kinds of pain. Also when you have a baby your vajayjay is never the same."
"Ew, thanks for that Jordan," Marco says.
I shrug my shoulders.
"Well I can't wait to have kids," Beth tells us. "It must be amazing having a tiny life growing inside of you."
"You make it sound like a parasite or alien growing inside of your body," Alex says. "A life form is growing inside of you, changing your body, making you eat a hundred pounds of food every day, making you pee every ten minutes, causing you to have major mood swings every five minutes, and pretty much making you crazy."
"Alex, only you would make pregnancy sound like an alien invasion of the human body," Beth says.
Alex shrugs her shoulders as if it's not a big deal.
"Jordan, Alex," a nurse call out our names. "Your mother is having the baby now."
Marco throws his hands up in the air. "Finally!"
Alex and I get up to walk to the room. I slap the back of Marco's head as I walk by.
"Hey!"
I continue walking, ignoring him. As Alex and I are getting closer to Mom's room I can hear yelling. Alex and I enter the room. Oh my God! Close the door! Close the door!
"Close the door!" I yell.
Alex quickly shuts the door. I've just been scarred for life. I saw… I saw…
"That was a part of your mother I never wanted to see," Alex says.
"How do you think I feel?" I have my hands over my eyes hoping I can block out the image I just saw.
"Well, now you got to see where you came from."
I take my hands off my eyes and start hitting Alex. "Why would you even say something like that?" I ask as I continue hitting her.
"Ok, ok," Alex says while trying to shield herself. "I'm sorry."
I stop hitting Alex. I slide down to the floor and sit with my back against the wall. Alex sits down beside me.
"We'll go back in when the baby is actually out," I tell Alex.
Alex is nodding her head. "Agreed."
"So… I know we kind of talked a little about it before but maybe we should talk about it again, explore it a little bit."
Alex gives me a confused look. "What are you talking aboot?"
"You going ape-shit on Griffin."
Alex sighs. "I punched him once," she says. "It's not like I beat the shit out of him."
"Maybe so but you still punched your ex's current boyfriend."
Alex throws her hands up in the air angrily. "So what!" she shouts. "He deserved it."
"Obviously you're not over Paige." Now I sound like a psychologist.
Alex looks at me. "Of course I'm over Paige. I'm with Sage now, my girlfriend, the girl who's coming up here next month to see me."
I'm shaking my head. "You're not completely over Paige, which is ok and understandable. I mean she was your first love. You two went through a lot together. Paige helped you realize your true potential; she brought out your inner lesbian; she-"
"Enough Jordan," Alex says forcefully.
Alex is looking at me. She doesn't seem pissed, just tired. Alex runs her hand through her hair.
"Do I care about Paige? Yes, of course I do. I'll always care about here. However, am I still head-over-heels in love with her? No, I'm not. I'm over Paige, I have Sage now. Paige moved on and so did I. I'm over her."
That was a nice little monologue, too bad it didn't convince me. I don't believe what Alex just said and I'm not sure if she actually believes it either. Looking into her eyes I can tell Alex isn't 100% over Paige. She's saying it to me and herself in hopes that one day it'll be true."
The door to Mom's room opens and a nurse pokes her head out.
"Girls, the baby is here," she tells us with a smile on her face.
Alex and I get up and walking into the room. Mom is holding a small baby in a blue blanket while Brian is standing next to her beaming.
Mom looks up, noticing us. "Girls, come meet your brother," she says.
Alex and I approach the bed slowly. We get to the bed and I peer down, looking at the bundle of joy. Aw, it's a baby! It's a tiny cute little baby.
"He's so tiny," I whisper. I take his hand and he immediately wraps his tiny hand around my finger. "Strong too."
I look up at Brian and he has tears in his eyes. Aw, he's crying.
"What's his name," Alex asks.
"Matisse," Brian says. "Matisse Allen Johnson."
"MAJ as in major?" I ask. "Nice Dad, nice."
Brian smiles and shrugs his shoulders. "I was thinking MJ because that could be his nickname but if you want to call him Major…"
I'm shaking my head, slightly laughing.
"Do you want to hold him?" Mom asks me.
I'm nodding my head. I lean down as Mom begins to hand Matisse to me.
"Make sure to hold his head," she tells me.
"Not my first time holding a baby," I mutter.
I'm holding Matisse and I'm just in awe. He's so tiny but his head is kind of big. He has a lot of black hair on the top of his big head and his eyes are closed. He's still holding on to my finger.
"Hi Matisse," I whisper. "I'm Jordan, you're cool big sister. I'm going to teach you how to play guitar and basketball. You're lucky you have me as a sister buddy. I'm going to protect you because that's what family does for one another. Family protects each other."
I swear I just felt his grip tighten. Nice to know he agrees with me.
"Hey, stop hogging him," Alex says.
I roll my eyes. She can be so childish sometimes. I carefully hand Matisse over to Alex.
Alex sort of gasps in amazement. "Hey buddy," she greets Matisse quietly. "I'm your other sister, adoptive sister, Alex. Let me tell you Matisse, you picked the right family to be born into. Your parents – I mean OUR parents are really great and pretty cool and I know you're going to be a pretty cool kid."
Alex smiles and looks up at me and then looks at our parents. I turn around to also look at them. Brian is still crying but he's smiling and although Mom is exhausted she's also smiling. This day went from me being sad and depressed, to getting back together with Beth, to Alex punching someone, and ended with a new edition to the family. I hope Matisse is ready for the craziness.
A/N: I should have the next chapter up sometime this week. Next chapter Paige and Sage will meet! *evil laughing* please leave reviews =)
