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Chapter Thirty
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Once Pietro and Wanda both had left Norah at the set of stairs that would lead her to her family, the twins went to the library to catch up on all the things they missed which was something they've been doing since they arrived at Stark Tower two or three weeks ago. At the moment the two were sitting on a couch watching some YouTube video's on the tablet that Tony had given to Wanda but rather than paying attention to what they were watching, something called Ted Talks, Pietro was distracted and worrying about Norah and how things were going with seeing her mother and sister once again. If Pietro did not truly think that this was something that Norah absolutely needed to do on her own he would have gone with her to the lounge where her family awaited her and would have been there with her for moral and emotional support, to be her…rock, as it is said and made sure that she went through with reuniting with them even if she was scared of doing so.
"You are distracted." Wanda accused as she turned and looked to her brother, a brow raised in his direction and a knowing smirk on her face. "Stop worrying, she is fine. You will see."
At that Pietro sent his sister a dark look, "I am not worried. I know she will be fine, she is with family, with sister and mother. Everything will be fine." He said to her, feigning indifference.
When he had said that Wanda could not help but grin wider, sometimes Pietro forgets that Wanda knew him almost as well as he knew himself. She knew the in's and out's of him, she knew what he could be thinking by a simple facial expression (Without the use of her powers) and besides, they were twins and have barely been away from one and another since they moment they were born. So, really, there was no point in Pietro trying to hide the worry he had for Norah and what she was doing at the moment.
"Pietro," Wanda admonished in a loving tone. "I am your sister and your twin, I know you." She pointed out to him. "You worry for Norah and that is good thing, it means you care for Norah. But she will be fine. She is with family, reuniting with her mother and sister who she has not seen in many years, this is good thing for her." She told him encouragingly.
Pietro nodded at that, "I know this, she needs to see family again, she needs to reconnect and…." He paused a moment to search for the right word. "Sort, she needs to sort things out with family. I know she needs to do this but she was very nervous, it is hard to not worry when she is like that." He stated as he grabbed the tablet out of Wanda's hands before she even realized what he was doing.
Wanda gave a halfhearted glare when Pietro began flicking through the tablet but didn't bother to take it back from him, with or without her powers. "Of course she is nervous and scared, she has not seen them since she was fifteen. That is many years to not see a mother or a sister, many things have changed for Norah and many things have changed for Norah's mother and sister. Norah is no longer a teenager, she is not same girl they knew. It will take time for them to adjust to each other, to know how to act without…awkwardness." She told and then playfully elbowed him in the side before taking the tablet back from him. "It is odd being on this end of things, seeing you worry over someone like this. I am used to it being me." She said to him and then gave a chesire grin. "I may have to tell Norah of how you act. It is quite funny."
Responding to that Pietro stuck his tongue out at his twin, "Like you are not worried." He stated, crossing his arms impatiently, wishing he could see or talk to Norah to be sure that she was all right seeing her family once again.
"Of course I am, I care for Norah. She is first true friend I have had in many, many years." Wanda admitted as she looked away from her brother and stared blankly at the tablet in her hands.
Back in Sokovia there were a few friends that Wanda had been close with but that had been when she was much younger, she was not close to many of the other girls once she hit the age of ten. Yes, she has always had Pietro by her side but that was not the same thing as having a close friend, he was her brother and he loved her unconditionally. Wanda has secretly always hoped and dreamed to have a friendship with another girl, like those long lasting friendships that they seem to show in all those TV shows and chick flicks that are always on TV. That was the kind of friendship Wanda wanted and hoped she could have with Norah eventually; she wanted to sit around and eat junk food and watch TV, share personally things that no one else knew, she wanted someone to talk about everything and anything with, go and do girlie things like shopping, getting their hair and nails done. That is something that Pietro definitely could not join in and do – not without a lot of complaining at least. Sometimes, a very few times over the years Wanda had wished that Pietro had been born a girl instead.
"And what am I? Chopped liver?" Pietro asked jokingly, but giving his sister a concerned look over how down she seemed to be at the moment.
Wanda looked up at her brother and gave a soft smile, "No, you are my brother. You have always been there besides me, I am thankful for that and love you for that." She said as she gently patted the side of his face in a sisterly fashion.
Pietro smiled at his sister and closed his blue eyes for a moment, "I will always be here for you." He whispered to her. "Always."
At that Wanda smiled, "Yes, well you must learn to multi-task now, you have girlfriend." She teased and stretched her neck before she set the tablet on the table in front of her and Pietro and stood up. "Now come, let's go and see if there is anyone in common room. I know a lost cause when I see one, and you are a lost cause with being distracted with worry for Norah." She said and then opened the doors of the library with her power and began to walk over to the doors.
"All right, fine, fine. You are pushy," Pietro said to her as he reluctantly stood up from the couch he had been sitting on. "You know, I am thirteen minutes older than you." He teased.
Wanda pushed him playfully as they walked down the hallway, "You can only use same line so many times, it is, how you say, getting old."
"You can say that, but it does not change you will always be younger." Pietro said before he flung his sister over his shoulder and sped off in the direction of the kitchen/common room level.
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Though Norah was nervous at first and completely terrified to see her sister and Ma again, and had no clue what she was supposed to talk to them about once they got over the emotional stuff that they all needed to get off their chests, she was finding talking to them once again was going much more smoothly than she had expected it to. The three of them were talking like they used to, before Norah had ran away from home and it was bittersweet to experience once again.
Both her sister Niki and her Ma caught her up on things that have been going on in both of their lives; about Niki owning her own catering business which was quite successful in the twin cities area and some of the surrounding suburbs too, how Niki had gotten married to a man named David who did computers for a living to which Norah said he'd probably get along great with Tony. Niki told her about Aurora and how her pregnancy with her had gone, how she had damn near named Aurora after Eleanorah but decided to instead give her the middle name Rose after Norah instead – Norah nearly cried at that statement. Her mother had told her about things in her life as well, about how she has been dating someone for the last five years who does home renovations for a living, that his name was Samuel, she then told her about her extended family members and what has been going on in their lives and how everyone was doing and that they all demanded that they were going to have a family reunion sometime now that they know Norah is alive and well.
Some of what Niki and her Ma had told her, Norah already knew because of the files that Tony had on her family but it was nice to hear what had been going on with them straight from the source rather than reading about it from a piece of paper.
"I tried to find you," Niki said to Norah out of the blue, interrupting the topic that they had just been talking about. "I tried to search for you, it was about a year or less after you…after you ran away but no matter how much searching I did and how much digging I did I wasn't able to find you." She said as she furrowed her brows, and gave her sister a sad look for failing in finding her. "I wanted…needed to find you, I wanted to find you and to tell you that it was okay that you were a Mutant. That I loved you and wanted you in my life still. But…well."
Hearing those words made Norah's eyes nearly water again but she was able to reign in her seemingly fluctuating emotions. Knowing that all those years ago that Niki had still wanted Norah in her life and had still loved her even though she was a Mutant, well, that was music to Norah's ears and it almost made her wish that she would have headed back to Minnesota but at the same time the experiences that Norah had gone through have made her the person she is today and she wouldn't trade it for the world. Even the bad parts.
Norah looked at Niki and gave a small smile, "That means so much to me, you don't even understand how much that means to me. I didn't even know how you felt about me being a Mutant before I left, so thank you Niki, really, thank you for wanting to find me." She told her and pulled her into a tight hug for what she had just revealed to her.
"Why couldn't I find you?" Niki asked as she pulled out of the hug that her younger sister had just given her. "I mean I get that one of your powers allows you to move from place to place easily but still, you were only fifteen years old. A fifteen year old runaway can't hide that well." She said, feigning annoyance at the fact that fifteen year old Norah was able to stay off of her radar.
Giggling a bit at the childish look that was on her older sister's face, Norah replied. "I changed my last name when I arrived at Xavier's Institute." She said to them honestly and bluntly, okay she could have probably eased them into that bit of information a bit more slowly but she'd rather go about it as you would ripping off a Band-Aid.
Changing your last name was a big deal, especially at the age of fifteen and Cheri was a bit disappointed that her youngest daughter had decided to do so once she had run away from home. A name is a big part of a person, it is something that signifies who they come from and who their ancestors were and the fact that Norah had changed her last name made Cheri shake her head and give her daughter a look for doing so. She knew that Norah and her father had never really had a chance to have a relationship, she knew that they had barely talked when Tom had his weekends with her and that there was a lot lacking when it came to Tom and fatherhood but she never thought that Norah would change her last name from the name of her father to something else entirely. Sullivan was the name she was born with and Cheri just didn't believe in changing last names from that of your fathers and to something else, but then again Cheri was from a different generation and had no right to say anything on the subject.
"You changed your name?!" Niki exclaimed a bit shocked that Norah was able to do so at such a young age, and for the fact that she never took into consideration that her sister might have taken on a different name after the fiasco of her Mutant abilities coming to light. "To what?"
"Sjoholm," Norah responded immediately. "I'm now known as Eleanorah Rosabelle Sjoholm." She explained. "It's actually one of our ancestors names, I found it when I was younger and looking through family history stuff. It was a name that stuck with me and so I took it as mine." She said with a shrug of her shoulders.
Niki shook her head at herself when she heard that, "So no matter how much searching and digging I did, I would have never had a chance of finding you?" she questioned.
Norah gave a small laugh, "Basically." She said with a shrug of her shoulders. "After everything that went down, after running away and making my way as far away from Minnesota as I possibly could get I just needed to change. I needed to change who I was, the person I was and I needed to change my name. I wanted to reinvent myself to be the person that I wanted to be. A Mutant. A strong Mutant who wasn't afraid of the fact that she was different." She said grinning proudly and looked sideways at her mother and knew that her mother was not happy with this new bit of information but knew that her mother wouldn't say anything on the subject either, thankfully. "Even if I had kept Sullivan you wouldn't have been able to find me because of Xavier's. They are very protective of their students and will do everything in their power to insure that their identities do not get out, to make sure that they are safe and secure from anyone who may be hateful towards us because we are Mutants."
It was terrifying for Niki to realize, to actually realize, that there were people out there in the world who hated what her baby sister was so much that they would not hesitate to kill her and other people like her. Sure, there have been hate groups in the world as long as there have been human beings but you'd think in the modern world that people would not hate nearly as much as they do, but sadly racism is still out there in the world and probably always will be. All they can do is hope someday people would get over the fact that there are Mutants in the world.
Cheri knew that she had been gullible back when she had first found out about Norah being a Mutant, believing what the media said about them being dangerous and needing to be kept in check. She realized years later that it was very similar to what Hitler had done to the Jewish people, what the white people had done to the Native Americans and so on and so forth. It was unfair of her to judge based on a few opinions in the news. She could not believe how strong her daughter was, how much stronger she was than anything that Cheri has ever imagined for her to be. She was proud of Norah, so proud of her for how strong she has had to be over the years and how strong she was for being able to take all the hate that Mutants get.
"I want you to meet my family," Niki said to Norah as broke the comfortable silence that had settled between all of them once Norah had explained that she had changed her last name. "My husband David and my daughter Aurora, we call her Rora though. She's been begging and pleading to see you since we told her we were coming here to meet you." Niki said, a slight blush on her cheeks. "I've told her about you over the years. About your stubbornness, that you're a Mutant and how much you loved Otters." She said and then suddenly looked at Norah wide eyed. "You still like otters, don't you?" she asked her with a tone of concern, as if she thought that something was wrong with Norah if she answered that she didn't like otters anymore.
"Of course I do!" Norah exclaimed, a laugh on her lips as she shook her head at her sister. "Otters are amazing." She told her.
"Good," Niki said. "I was scared for a moment that you might have changed so much that you no longer liked them." She said and then shook her head. "Stupid idea really."
Cher sat on the couch and watched her two daughters interact and banter with one and another and shook her head, no matter how old they were it seemed that they would always end up acting a bit childish. She supposed they deserved to do that once in a while, Tom was not really that much of a parent and didn't look after them much when she had been working.
Slapping at her legs, Norah stood up and then grinned down at her sister and then at her ma. "Well, come on. Let's go meet the rest of my family." She said with a face splitting grin on her face, happy that her and her family had talked and worked things out and were now on the road to rebuilding the relationship that they had once had.
Niki stood up, "How are we supposed to find them, this place is humongous." She said as she gestured around to her. "I mean I'm sure you know it pretty well, living here and everything but it's still pretty massive." She said to her.
At that Norah smirked, "Did you forget about the A.I. already Nic, come on." She said with a playful roll of her eyes and then looked towards the ceiling. "Friday?" she questioned.
"Yes, Ms. Norah?" the voice of Friday said throughout the room. "What can I do for you?" she asked.
"Can you tell me where my sister's husband and daughter are right now?" Norah asked politely, it may be an A.I. but the thing still had feelings, at least with how Tony made it the thing did.
"Mr. Paaverud and Little Paaverud are in the kitchen with Pietro, Wanda and Thor." Friday answered without a moment's hesitation. "Is there anything else I can do for you Ms. Norah?"
Norah shook her head at that, "No, thank you Friday. Tell Tony you need a day off." She quipped to the A.I.
"I am an A.I. Ms. Norah. I do not get days off." Friday responded.
Hearing that Norah gave a sigh, "Jarvis was more fun to joke around with than you are Friday, you disappoint me." She said with a shake of her head.
"I am sorry to hear that Ms. Norah." Friday responded.
Cheri looked at her daughter and gave an amused smile, "You know you are talking to artificial intelligence, right?" she questioned her.
"Yes, yes I do." Norah responded before she linked each of her arms through her mother and sister's before leading the way out of the lounge, down the stairs and to the closest elevator so that they could make their way to the kitchen/common room level.
Norah was excited about meeting her brother-in-law and niece, but she was also impatient on seeing Pietro again. After the emotionally exhausting conversation that she just had with her Ma and sister for who knows how long she needs a bit of his support and to just decompress so to say after all of that talking and heart to heart that she just had. Maybe Norah was still in the new relationship lovey dovey phase of her and Pietro's relationship but she truly felt better when she was near him, he didn't have to say anything really but just being near him and being able to do something as simple as touching is hand or face just helped her calm down and just be for a few moments.
"Pietro! Wanda! Thor!" Norah called out as she led her mother and sister down the hallway and into the common room/Kitchen level where the Avengers and friends spent a good deal of their time when not in their rooms or in the training area or out in the city exploring. "Are you guys here?!" she yelled out once again as her mother and sister followed right behind her and further into the common room level that they barely had a chance to see before Pepper had whisked them off to meet up with Norah in a random lounge in the tower.
"Lady Norah, the brave! And her family!" Thor greeted loudly from the kitchen island where he was seated with who Norah assumed was her brother-in-law David and her niece Rora, as well as Wanda and Pietro was –
Before Norah had a chance to finish that train of thought there was a sudden blur heading straight for Norah, and within seconds Pietro was suddenly in front of her with a playful smirk on his face. Not even hesitating or caring that they had an audience, Pietro leant down to reach Norah's shorter stature and placed a light kiss upon Norah's lips before pulling away.
"Everything is well Moj mali bik?" Pietro questioned as he looked down into her dark colored eyes, a look of concern and care in his eyes.
At that Norah gave a soft smile and gave a small nod, "Yes Pietro, everything is okay." She said, a happy smile on her face as she looked at Pietro and then behind her at her mother and sister who both had gaping mouths while looking at Pietro. "Ma, Niki. You'll catch flies if you keep on hanging your mouth open like that." She said as she pushed her sister's mouth shut.
Shaking her head, Niki looked at Pietro and over towards where he had been standing halfway across the room not even moments before and then looked to Norah and then at Pietro again. "How..how did you do that? Are you a Mutant too?" she questioned. "I just, that, that was awesome!" she said, her mind finally seeming to catch up with what just happened.
"Something like that." Pietro responded and then smirked down at Norah who gave a snort of amusement when he said that, words that she had said to him not but weeks before. "I am able to move very, very fast." He explained as he looked from Norah's sister and then to her sister.
Studying the two for a moment Pietro was only able to see that Norah shared eye shape and color with her mother and maybe few facial characteristics that made it seem that Norah and Niki were related in some way but otherwise Norah did not look much like her mother or sister. In fact, they seemed to look quite opposite, or at least in Pietro's opinion they did.
"Norah," Cheri said speaking up and looking at her daughter curiously, and smiled a bit when she saw her granddaughter looking at Norah excitedly, impatiently waiting for them to come over and introduce her to her. "Who is this?" she asked politely.
Smiling widely at her mother and sister Norah clasped her hand with Pietro's and stepped a bit closer to him, "Ma, Niki this is my boyfriend Pietro Maximoff. Pietro this is my mother Cheri, and my older sister Niki." She introduced.
Pietro smiled at them, "It is pleasure to meet you, Norah has told many things of you both. Good things." He said with his heavy Sokovian accent, something which Norah found incredibly attractive.
"Hello," Cheri said and then studied him and Norah for a moment and was about to ask a questioned before her eldest daughter broke the silence.
"It's great to meet you and everything but no offense but I kinda want to introduce my sister to my family." Niki said to Pietro who just laughed at her bluntness. "So, come on Norah." She said as she grabbed her younger sister by the arm and basically dragged her over to the kitchen island which looked much smaller than it was because of Thor's massive form standing in front of it.
Norah looked over her shoulder at Pietro who was walking with her mother towards the kitchen island and gave him an amused smile and shrugged before she mothed 'sisters' to him and then turned back around and followed Niki to the kitchen island.
"Norah," Niki said excitedly once they reached the kitchen that seemed to be halfway across the room. "This is my husband David," she said and pointed at a rather skinny and not too terribly tall man who was pale with just a bit of blonde colored hair atop his head and a bit of blonde facial hair growing on his chin. "And this leopard print wearing six year old is my daughter Aurora, 'Rora' who has been waiting to meet you for a long time."
At that the medium brown haired girl who had straight hair just like her mother gave a whine, "Mom!" she said in embarrassment.
Niki gave her a look, "What? It's true." She said to her.
All Norah did was smile, "Well, it's nice to meet both of you." She said as she leaned up against the counter of the kitchen island.
"Yes!" Thor said loudly, his voice almost reverberating against the walls of the level they were on. "It has been wonderful to have the honor of meeting the brave Norah's family, I feel honored to meet you all and can only assume you all are just as brave as she. There are tales to-"
Before Thor could go off on a tangent Norah interrupted him, "Thor," she intoned, gaining the Norse God's attention. "Not every event needs to have tales told, I think it's safe to say that this is not one of those moments. Thanks for….the whole wanting to tell tales about this, but I think we should leave tale telling for battles. Yeah?" she asked him.
At that Thor got a sad, disheartened look on his face, almost as if he was a puppy dog who just got kicked but he nodded nonetheless. "Yes, I suppose I may agree with you." He said to her. "I will leave you now to reconnect with your kin, I will go in search of Steve. I heard talk of a deep fried bird by some army man. I wish to know more and consume it." He remarked before taking his leave.
Norah just shook her head at him and then looked at her family, "God's, I tell you." She said to them jokingly. "Well this is my boyfriend Pietro as I said, and his twin sister Wanda." She said as she gestured towards Wanda who was standing near the fridge at the moment and gave a little wave to Norah's family.
It was amazing to have family, blood family, to talk to once again. Norah of course thought of all of the Avenges as family and nothing would change that but being able to talk to her mother and sister again was wonderful and now she has gained two new family members – a brother in law and a niece. And it was just a wonderful feeling.
"So," Niki said with a shit eating grin on her face as she looked between Norah and Pietro. "How'd you two meet, how long have you been dating?" she asked curiously and waggled her eyebrows at the two teasingly, she was making up for lost time that she hasn't been able to tease her sister.
When Niki had asked that Norah glanced at Pietro for a moment with wide, panicked eyes, unsure of what to say but quickly managed to stutter out an answer. "Uh, we..we met in Sokovia, while trying to fight Ultron." She said a bit uncertain and then gave a sidelong glance to Pietro with a hesitant smile and a barely noticeable shrug, silently telling him that she had no idea how to answer that.
Pietro looked back at her with a shrug and then reached down and squeezed her hand, silently communicating that he had no idea how to tell them that he had originally been on Ultron's side till the day or so before they defeated him. It's not exactly something you bring up in casual conversation.
"How long have you two been dating?" Niki asked again, looking at them as if they were the most exciting thing since sliced bread.
It was Pietro who answered this time, "It has been few weeks we've been together, since she woke from her a coma." He answered as he smiled down at Norah softly; it was obvious for everyone to see that he cared deeply for Norah.
They were all making a bit of small talk in the kitchen when Rora suddenly gasped loudly and looked at Norah for a moment before looking at her mother and running over to her and tugging her down to her level and whispering in her ear, Niki nodded and then got off of the stool she was sitting on before heading for the couch where there was a small bag which they rummaged through for a few moments.
They all watched curiously as Rora took something out of the bag and then quickly hid it behind her back before she approached Norah who was watching her with a furrowed brow, wondering what exactly her newly found niece was doing. "Auntie Norah," Rora said as she looked up at her aunt. "I made this for you, Mom said that you really, really, really, really liked otters." She said and then awkwardly shoved a deep blue colored piece of paper at Norah.
Smiling, Norah took the piece of construction paper and opened it up as Pietro looked over her shoulder. Not able to help the grin that spread across her face, Norah looked down at the blue paper and saw brown colored construction paper cut out into the shape of an otter and it was a very well done job too at that, it looked like an otter than a somewhat shape of one like she had expected to possibly see. There were even a few cut outs and marker drawings of fish and rocks in the water.
"I love it!" Norah said before she bent down and drew her niece into a tight hug. "Thank you so much, I really, really love it. I've never been all that good at drawing otters or even stick figures. I mean, whenever I try to draw otters it comes out looking like a mix between a really sad looking dog and a snake." She said with a sad shake of her head which earned a laugh from Rora, her sister, Pietro and Wanda. "Shut up." She hissed, directing the comment at Pietro and hit him lightly in the stomach. "Drawing isn't my strongest suit, okay." She defended herself as she crossed her arms.
"Come Moj mali bik, I did not mean to insult." Pietro said as he kissed the top of her head.
Norah rolled her eyes, "You're lucky I like you." She stated and lightly bumped her hip against his.
Cheri watched as Norah interacted with her boyfriend, Pietro, and gave a soft smile. It was nice to see her daughter happy, confident, content and at ease with herself and she was happy to see that Norah was with someone and that they looked at her like Pietro was looking at her just moments ago. From how the two looked at one and another Cheri could have sworn that they have been together for years rather than less than a month. It was beautiful to see that there was still love, genuine love in the world.
"So," Nora said as she looked down at Rora before she turned to look at her family and Pietro and Wanda once again. "Who's thirsty? I'm craving hot chocolate, do you like hot chocolate Rora?" she questioned.
Rora nodded her head widely, "YEAH!" she almost screamed happily.
Pietro looked at Rora and grinned, "Tony keeps a stash of hot chocolate, many kind of hot chocolate, he say is for Norah but really is for him." He stage whispered making her give an adorable giggle.
Looking up at the strange man who could run faster than Rora's eyes could keep up with she gave him a funny look, "You talk silly." She said to him.
Before Pietro was able to answer Wanda came up and smiled at Rora, "Yes, it is because we are not from this country. We are from Eastern Europe. Do you know where that is?" she questioned curiously as she cocked her head to the side and looked into Rora's stormy blue colored eyes.
Rora thought for a moment, she thought long and hard on the question that Wanda gave her but eventually shook her head. "Nope. Where is it?" she asked, wanting to know.
"It is across ocean, I will sow you on map. That sound good?" Wanda asked.
Rora nodded at Wanda before she went over to her newly found aunt who was getting things out of the cupboard to make hot chocolate, now that Rora was finally able to meet her long lost aunt that her mom had talked about all the time she wanted to spend as much time with her as she possibly could. Hopefully every waking hour, or at least that's what Rora hoped for but was doubtful that she would spend that much time with her. It's a tad bit excessive.
They all continued to make small talk and getting to know each other a bit where there was some loud noises coming from the elevator, hearing the familiar voice of Tony made Norah sigh and wonder what exactly he's up to now.
"You can all stop worrying, I've arrived finally!" Tony exclaimed full of himself, his arms as well as Thor's and Steve's ladened with bags of food with a familiar colonel on the front of it. "The party can start now."
Thor gave a boyish grin, "We have brought food from the army Colonel. I have on good authority that this is, as Darcy said 'totes, best friend chicken' I do not understand what that all meant but I understand it is very good to consume."
"Friday!" Tony screamed suddenly. "Call Clint, Natasha and Pepper to the floor so they can join us." He said as he unceremoniously plopped the bags of food onto the Kitchen Island. "Otherwise feeding days is once every other day and I only feed assassins so many times a month otherwise people start to talk."
Norah shook her head at his antics and then looked at her mother, sister and brother in law. "Welcome to my crazy family." She said with a grand gesture.