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Chapter Fifty-seven:
Next Day:
The newly Hardy family is up making breakfast for everyone. Jeff is cooking on the stove, Lita is on the fruits while the children are on juice duty. Joan and Johnny are hand squeezing the juice.
"Mommy, Johnny keep squirting me with juices." Joan wipes her face again.
"Johnny, that is not good." Lita directs.
"It was an accident." Johnny says. "I didn't mean to."
"Buddy." Jeff looks at him in tell the truth way.
"Okay fine, I did it a couple of times." He admits. "I'm sorry Joan." He apologizes sincerely.
"It is fine, Johnny." She hugs him.
"I love you, my baby sister." He expresses.
"I love you, my older brother." She pecks his cheek.
"Aww, they are so cute together." Lita admits as they watch their precious moment.
"We did the right thing not spitting them up." Jeff admit adopting them both as a couple is faster, but separately was the best way.
"We definitely did."
"Fire." Johnny and Joan throw fruits their way. They chuckle as one strawberry hits Jeff in the face while another one hits Lita on her chest
"We are under attack, take cover." He turns down the stove as he continues to play their game.
"Ready." Johnny wonders. "Attack." They throw strawberries, blue berries, and small fruits at their parents. Lita and Jeff dodge all of them until Lita gets hit in the arm.
"Jeff, I have been hit." She holds her arm like a wound.
"No." He comes to her side. "You are okay, baby. You will be fine I have you." He acts like she is hit with bullet.
"I am bleeding." She shows strawberry jam on her arm.
"Don't worry you will make it." He plays along with her payback. "We surrender." Jeff grabs a white towel to wave over the counter.
"They surrender, we have won." Johnny calls it a victory.
"Something doesn't sound right." Joan is curious on why they admit defeat so fast. "We need to proceed with caution." She requests. They both slowly sneak around the counter to see their father having jam on his hand.
"Oh no mommy is bleeding." Johnny freaks out that she really is.
"Johnny, it is just strawberry she is not bleeding." She is on to her parents' game.
"You keep pressure on, don't fall asleep." He directs.
"They are not, mommy is bleeding. Mommy!" Johnny runs to her. "I am so sorry." He sincerely apologizes. "Let me see." He looks at her wound to see that Joan was right.
"Oh no." He looks at his parents to see a grin on their faces. "Joan, help." He bellows as he tries to run back, but Jeff has a hold on him.
"Come out, baby girl if you don't want your brother pancaked in the face." He bellows out.
"Okay I surrender." Joan puts her hands up. "I don't want to play anymore." She sniffles. "I just want to cook breakfast." She pouts.
"Oh princess, come here." He hands Johnny to Lita. Joan runs to her daddy's arms as they hug. "I am so sorry. We can go back to cooking breakfast." He says.
"Yes, we can after we win." She sprays whipped cream all over his face and head. "Victory is ours." She celebrates.
"You tricked me. You use daddy's feelings against him. You know he doesn't what his princess upset." Jeff speaks in the third person.
"Yes, I did just like you use jam on mommy's arm." She fires back.
"Okay we are even, you two win." They declare them the winner.
"Yeah." The children celebrate.
"Now it is time for your reward." Jeff looks at Lita with a smile. Before the children react, they start to tickle them.
"Ahem." Lita's parents say from the kitchen doorway.
"Hey mom and dad." Lita greets still tickling their children.
"Yes hi, what happen to my clean kitchen?" They heard some voices downstairs and wonder who it could be.
"We were just cooking breakfast for everyone." Lita excuses.
"Ah ha, you like to cook on the floor." She mentions the fruits on the kitchen floor.
"Ummm…"
"Gran, grandpa, we had a food fight that is why there is food on the ground." Johnny admit.
"We will clean it up before we continue to cook." He informs them.
"At least someone is honest." Mrs. Dumas acknowledges.
"Yup, come on Joan let us get the broom."
"Wait, you two are cleaning everything by yourselves." She shakes her head in disappointment at Lita and Jeff.
"Yup, we always do at the shelter. We like to pick-up after ourselves."
"That is great, but how about you let your parents clean up? You two can have a bath." Mrs. Dumas orders with a bit suggestion.
"Are you two going to run one for us?" They both inquire.
"Sure, it just water in the tub." They think it is a simple bath.
"Great, I need my clothes, my shampoo, and body wash." Johnny list down what he needs.
"I also need my own clothes, shampoo, and body wash. Moreover, my bubble machine I love making bubbles in my bath." Joan includes.
"Can't you two sit in the bath to get wash." They shake their heads.
"We can't we get bored."
"Jeff and Lita, why don't you let them have a bath and we will clean up."
"Are you sure?" Joan grins in she can't believe it worked.
"Yes, off you four go." Mr. and Mrs. Dumas agree.
An hour later, the door rings. "I'll get it." Mr. Dumas opens the door. "Hello."
"Hi grandpa." Jamie greets with a hug. With Michelle like a daughter to the Dumas, Jamie calls them grandma and grandpa.
"Hey sweetheart, are you here for the big surprise?"
"Absolutely, I don't want to miss a moment."
"Great, wait in the living room breakfast will be done soon." After cleaning up, Mr. and Mrs. Dumas continue cooking breakfast.
"Great." They utter.
"It won't be better than yours." Edge kisses Michelle's cheek. Michelle accidentally burnt their breakfast, so they arrive at Lita and Jeff's house to hopefully be in the time for breakfast.
"That is right, Mr. Adam."
"Jamie." Joan greets with Johnny behind her.
"Joan. Johnny." Jamie hugs them. "Did it work?" She asks quietly.
"It did." They all snicker.
"Hello." Edge and Michelle greet. "We are here too."
"Yes, you are hello." They both hug them. "So, did it work?" Edge asks as well.
"Joan and Johnny turn the Jamie. "You told them."
"It was their idea." She smiles sitting on Edge's lap. Joan and Johnny look at them in amazement.
"It is true, where are your parents?" Edge questions.
"They are cleaning the tub. Now they you say that, they have been up there for a while." Joan notices.
"Maybe they are showering." Jamie suggest.
"Yes maybe they are." Michelle agrees as Edge chuckles knowing it is not the reason.
"Anyways, we need to tell everyone something." Jamie excitedly acknowledges.
"What is it?"
"It is about all of us." She points to Edge and Michelle.
"Jamie, not right now. This day is for surprising their parents not our announcement."
"Please, just them." She frowns. "I need to tell them they are my big brother and sister."
"I don't know do you remember the last time you said that?" Edge reminds her. When Edge arrived in Atlanta, he showed Jamie a ring to propose to Michelle; she promises to keep it a secret. At the moment when Jeff is about to ask her, Jamie almost spilled the beans when talking to Joan and Johnny about it."
"This time is different, mommy please." She pleads.
"Adam." Michelle says innocently using his birth name.
"No, this is about them not us. Tomorrow we will tell them." He stands his ground. Michelle moves closer to him to whisper something in his ear. Edge sits up straight.
"If and only if you let her tell them." She finishes.
"Fine, go princess tell them, but if it leaks out no more nothing will change my mind." He huffs not liking that they persuade him.
"Thanks daddy, you are the best." She kisses his cheek.
"See don't you feel better that she is happy." She wraps his arm around her.
"Yes I do, but I would be grateful if you give me a kiss for it." Michelle rolls her eyes as she does what he wants. The kiss is innocent at first, however it intensifies the longer it goes.
"Michelle!" Lita calls out like a mother which makes Michelle and Edge stop.
"Hello." She innocently greets.
"Nice Job, man." Jeff congrats him.
"Jeff, they are kissing on our couch." She disapproves this.
"We do more than kiss there, so what is they big deal?" He acknowledges.
"Well, they fine…" She storms off.
"What is with her?" They inquire.
"I don't know she is in a mood right after the food fight with Johnny and Joan."
"I am going to go apologize." Michelle goes to find Lita.
"Did you plan it already?" Jeff inquires.
"Not yet, although I did propose to her. However, she doesn't know about that yet."
"Congrats man."
"Thanks, sorry about everything. I guess being revenge seeking made me do some bad stuff to all of you."
"Hey, don't worry about it you have redeem yourself."
"I have." He is surprise.
"Well not fully, but you are showing you care and trying. That is what we thought Matt was doing, apparently it wasn't."
"I have a motive to be a better person." He refers to his girls; Michelle and Jamie.
"And that is how it usually starts."
"Lita." Michelle greets upstairs. She doesn't hear anything except some noises from the bathroom. "Lita." Michelle opens the door to find Lita's head in the toilet. "Lita, are you okay?"
"Fine, I just might have got something on our honeymoon." She wipes her mouth. All around the counter, she sees equipment to clean her mouth. In the midst of that, she sees something interesting."
"Why are you hiding this?"
"I want to surprise him. I want to announce it to him in front of everyone. Please don't tell anyone until then." Lita throws up again.
"Okay, come on let us get to bed." Michelle helps her to the bed to rest for tonight.