Chapter Fifty-eight:
Everyone is in the backyard. Jeff and a feel better Lita are surprise on how they decorated the backyard. There are tables with the lawn that is mowed and planted flowers along the fences.
"Surprise!" Everyone cheer out.
"It is part one, the next part is this." Joan puts a piece of paper down. Jeff and Lita both read to figure out that Child Services already official made them parents to Joan and Johnny last Wednesday.
"What is this?" Lita inquires.
"When we got home last Wednesday, Child Services called. They saw the situation on Raw and wanted to speak to us." Mr. Dumas explains.
"They gave us the lecture that if you two every get injured, who would take care of the children? We all say we would as a family. Then she complains on Joan and Johnny involvement in the storyline. Joan and Johnny confess that they decided to participate they weren't force to participate. She admires the children guts and honours their decision. With that their decision with them caring so much about you two, Susan bump the probation up."
"Also Edge confess that he did everything to prevent the adoption process." Joan includes.
"Since last Wednesday, you have been official parents to them." Mrs. Dumas finishes.
Lita is speechless can't believing that they are official parents to them for that long.
"Mommy, we are legitimate a family, isn't that great?" Lita just runs off back into the house. This shocks everyone with her action. They thought she start to hug them or at the most cry of happiness. "What did we do?" Joan wonders. "I thought she would be happy."
"She is baby." Jeff comforts his daughter.
"She ran away from us. I am going to find out why." Johnny marches into the house to look for his mother. He can't believe that she ran from them. He won't tolerate someone making Joan upset.
"Lita, you have to calm down you can do this. You can be a parent to them like you have before." Lita gives a pep talk to herself in the mirror of the bathroom. With them saying it is official, her anxiety went high. Now she is the approved mother to them, she is doubting if she can do this. "Come on, you have been doing this for a few months already, you can handle this responsibility." She recites again for confidence. Afterwards, she makes sure she doesn't look distraught before heading out to join everyone else. To her surprise, she sees Johnny sitting on her bed.
"Hello." She addresses his presence.
"Hello." He greets more calm now than before. He heard the last end of his mother's conversation with herself.
"What are you doing her, baby boy?" She smiles sitting next to him.
"I came to tell you that you adopt us to just run away from us." He huffs. This statement makes her feel worst. She never wanted them to think she is not happy with this. "However, I heard you talk to yourself. You are doing great as a parent; we both love you. You are our mother and want to be with you. We set this up so we can surprise you. We thought it would make you happy." He confesses.
"It did make me happy."
"If you did, why did you run off?" He is confused on her actions.
"I needed time to make sure I can do it. Yes, I want to be your mother, but now that it is approved I have doubts to be the best mother for you two. You two deserve the best." She declares.
"You are the best. You have known Joan maybe all her life. I have seen how you are with her, you get her, and make her have a family." He compliments.
"So do you." She reverses the compliment.
"Yes, but I know she cares about you more. I never seen her so happy than with you. When she was depressed, no one could talk to her to come not even me." He reveals. "Only you were the one who brought back the fun, loving Joan from her depressed state." He enlightens her.
"I thought she just came out for dinner, lunch, and breakfast."
"Yup, she will however it would be easier to bring the food to her room. Joan needs you around because she always tells me about being a family with you. She turned down seventeen families just hoping to have you walk in to say 'I am adopting Joan'."
"And what about you?" She knows that Joan wants Johnny to with her as well.
"What do you mean?"
"Do you think I will be a good mother to you?"
"I don't know you can be overprotective." Johnny teases. "Of course you will be." He chuckles. "You will the best mother I know." He hugs her. "Never doubt that we love you." Johnny comforts her. Lita laughs a bit with the current situation. "Why are you laughing?"
"Who is the parent in this situation?"
"You are I am just a child with a lot of wisdom." He smiles big.
"You sure are, how about we rejoin everyone downstairs?"
"Let's go." He jumps off the bed.
Backyard:
Jeff is soothing Joan, who is quite upset by the whole situation. She has been spitting out negative comments that Amy has second thoughts, she doesn't want us, and etc.
"Just calm down, baby girl." He rubs her back.
"Hey everyone, we are back." Lita greets with Johnny in front of her. Everyone shoots a glare at her as they proceed with a silent treatment. "Hey sweetie." Lita beams a smile at Joan who snuggles more into her father's shoulder. "Where is the agreement I need to sign to make it legitimate?" She asks to have no one answer. Johnny picks up the agreement to give to Lita. "What is going?" Lita ask Johnny.
"I am guessing they are all upset about you running off."
"I never want them to think I don't care about this. I love you two I just feel like I am going to fail and you two will hate me."
"Remember we both love you. How about you wait in the living room while I talk to them?"
"Again, who is the parent?" She grins as well as Johnny before she heads back into the house.
"Mommy!" Joan calls out to have Lita stop her pace. She turns around to have her run to her.
"Oh my baby girl." Lita extends her arms to embrace her tight. "I love you so much don't ever doubt that I don't." She wishes she never doubts herself again.
"Why did you run off?" She innocently asks.
"I doubted myself as a mother to take care of you." She reveals to everyone's dismay. They have all seen how great she is with both of them.
"That is not all of it, what are you hiding?" She knows there is more to her doubts.
Lita looks at Michelle who nods for support. "There is something I need to tell all of you, especially Jeff." She starts. Jeff is confused on what it could be. It could be about what happen earlier when she ran to their room. "As Jeff knows, I ran away from a situation involving Edge and Michelle. I got mad at them for making out on my couch." Everyone makes kissy faces at them. "The reason I ran away was because I had to throw up. No one knows that I would throw up in the morning. You guys didn't because I would make my breath minty fresh so you all wouldn't notice. Michelle followed to the bathroom to hear me throw up. What she found in the bathroom was my cleaning supplies and something very interesting."
"Are you sick? Do you need to go back to the hospital? Are you having side effects from the treatment?" Jeff panics on what Michelle found.
"No baby, it is not anything bad, well I hope it isn't."
"What is it, I am going to freak out?" Jeff paces back and forth.
"Jeff, my husband, I am pregnant." Everyone is speechless; there is no sound for a good two minutes.
"That is great mommy." Joan is so excited. She is going to have a baby brother or sister soon.
"Me too, we are going to have a bigger family." Johnny agrees on the excitement. With them being the first to congratulate them, everyone else joins in. They all hug her being very surprise by this announcement. As they celebrate Jeff is still in his spot shock and speechless. He can't believe he has a baby on the way. Of course he is excited, but this is overwhelming with just being approve parents to Joan and Johnny.
"Jeff, are you delighted about this?" Lita asks noticing that he didn't budge from his spot.
"Lita, hand Joan to someone." He suggests just in case.
"What?" She doesn't get why she has to do that action.
"Please just hand her to someone else." He repeeff'ats.
Lita hands Joan to her mother. "What does this have to do with-" She gets cuts off by Jeff's lips. Lita is surprise by this until Jeff picks her up to kiss her hard. The children all giggle a bit at this romance. After a while it gets uncomfortable, so they head outside to leave the newly announce parents to be.
"I love you." Jeff declares after they break of the kiss.
"I love you too. Are you sure you are okay with this?" She just wants to make sure.
"The kiss didn't convince you that I am okay with us having a baby."
"Oh that is what it is, I thought you just want to kiss me my mistake." She giggles.
"I do every day of my life." He pecks her. "Now let us rejoin our family and friends."
"Yes we should."
"Hi everyone, we are sorry-" Lita and Jeff see everyone sitting with huge grins on their faces. This concerns them because they are just sitting there not acknowledging their presence.
"What is going on here?" Jeff cautiously inquires really creeped out by this.
"Jeff, Lita take a seat." Michelle and Edge stand up to take their place. They reluctantly do, very freaked out by all of this. "Since it is the day of announcement, we have an announcement to make. Some of you already know, but no one knows everything. Michelle and Edge have discussed that we want to be a family and have more children. No, she is not pregnant." Edge squashes that idea. "Michelle and I are getting married." Michelle shows the ring on her finger. Everyone gets up to congratulate them on their engagement.
"Thank you, but that is not all. I have a secret that I have kept from Edge until today." She nervously smiles at him.
"Oh my, Michelle are you really pregnant." Lita questions.
"No, we haven't even have-" Edge covers her mouth.
"No one needs to know that." He utters.
"Edge has been on probation this whole time for being a father to Jamie." She confesses.
"What?" They all are in awe that is announcement.
"When Edge bailed on his adoption for Jamie, I put both our names on mine. Susan warn me that my chances could be in danger if I proceed with this. Edge actions since then predict if I was going to adopt Jamie. His actions prove he could be a good father to Jamie, so they made it official to me be a mother to Jamie. Furthermore, they needed to make sure Edge would be a good influence on both me, Jamie, Joan, and Johnny. He had to put his anger with Lita and Jeff to rest. He proved that he can when he fought on our side. His probation was up yesterday." Michelle concludes.
Edge is astonished by this revelation. "What, why, you-" He can't seem to find the question he needs to ask her.
"Adam, Jamie loves you I can see it in her eyes. When she found out you left, she was devastated. I knew that you can't be missing from her life. I did what I did because she needs both of us to take care of her. If you think this is a bad idea, I am sorry. If you are mad at me, it is okay. I will not regret putting your name on the application. I will not-" She gets interrupted by Edge's lips.
"I am not mad just amazed that I found a woman who would to that for me."
"I would do anything for you." She kisses him back.
"Does that mean Mr. Adam is my daddy?" Jamie wonders.
Michelle goes to her bag to fetch the agreement. "Yup, all he has to do is sign this agreement and it official." Edge reads it to make sure this is not a joke or a dream. "It is real." Michelle assures him. That is what he wants to hear and signs it.
"It is legitimate Edge is Jamie's father and Lita and Jeff are Joan and Johnny's parents." Susan speaks behind them. "Sorry, I let myself in to give you an update on your brother, Matt Hardy." She mentions.
"What happen?"
"He is out of jail. They couldn't hold him up for too long because there is no more room for him, well for his offensive. They want to put more severe offences in there first. Furthermore, he is not a free man. He is on house arrest at his home. He can't step off his property unless accompanied by an official guard. He will serve two years like that. After that he has community services at certain charities as well anger management classes. During that whole time, he is to stay away from all of you and Mickie. If he violates it, he will start all over until he finishes it."
"Thank you Susan for this information." Jeff appreciates the update.
"You are welcome, have a great afternoon to celebrate." She lets herself out.
"Wow, that is intense." Edge reacts to the whole day of surprises.
"It is what he deserves." Lita agrees with Matt's consequences.
"What do we do now?"
"I want to hug my new daddy." Jamie runs to Edge.
"Us too." Joan and Johnny also run to their parents.
"Family hug." Both Lita and Jeff's parents join in the hugging spirit.