Before you read this chapter, I'd like to make you all aware of something, celrock, a writer in this fandom brought it to my attention in her review for chapter one that Miss O'Keates may not be in the memory of a lot of people, being that a lot of the people in this fandom weren't as big fans of All Grown Up! as to the extent of Rugrats, either because they'd outgrown it, or they didn't like the show, or whatever. Anyway, for any of you wondering "Who the hell is Miss O'Keates?" well, take a look at the cover art, and you'll know. Now... On to chapter 3!
The next morning, the four siblings woke up in the basement, Chuckie, having barely had any sleep, tripped while stepping off of the fold out bed.
"Oww!" The oldest of the Finster children grunted, as the other kids got up to help him
"You tired?" asked C.J.
"Yeah, it as way too cold down here, how have you and Kimi been able to take this for 5 months?" he replied
C.J. & Kimi, like Chuckie and Kirk, shared a room together, as the house wasn't all too spacious. When they found out how long their maternal grandparents were going to be staying in America, they decided to have a small video game competition to see which room Kira's parents would be staying in. And despite the "girl power" taunting the sisters made, the brothers won, and got to keep their room.
"Simple, after acknowledging how long we were gone be here for, we got over it." Kimi said
"Are you still looking at that photo?" C.J. asked
"Yup, either this is a twin, or possibly nothing and it just looks like something." Chuckie replied
"I'm not sure how that can make any sense, but okay, maybe you can ask your school's nurse." Kirk suggested
"I just might do that." Chuckie replied
"Do what?" asked Kira, who startled Chuckie coming out of no where.
"Gaaaaaah! Uhhh... nothing, just, um, ace my in-class assignment in Biology."
"Well good for you, and good luck on that Chuckie-san, as for all of you, let's go, breakfast is ready."
"So what do you see Nurse Connors?" asked Chuckie
"I'm gonna be honest with you, this is in fact an ultrasound that shows twins." Nurse Connors replied
"Ahh Jeez!" Chuckie said under his breath
"More than that, I can tell you that these twins are different gendered, that one is male, and that one is female." pointing to the twins, indicating which was which
"Alright then, well, thank you for the info Nurse Connors. I'm gonna take this news to some consideration." Chuckie replied, he then went off to tell Nicole, hoping she could help him some how.
"So your Dad has a long lost sister? A twin?" Nicole asked
"Not long lost, more like... dead. Maybe it was like a miscarriage or something." Chuckie replied
"Maybe they gave her up for adoption."
"What sick couple values one twin over the other to that degree?"
"I guess you're right, but why haven't you ever found this out?"
"Beats me, but I'm gonna have to get to the bottom of this some how. But does that even ever happen? One baby dies, the other lives?"
"Yeah, that happens, sometimes a baby can be born brain damaged the other not from a malfunction in the distribution of nutrients, stuff like that. Always remember, they're born at the same time, but not the same person, still two bodies, two faces, two brains, two lives. They're equal, but still separate, remember that." Nicole explained.
The pair heard the bell ring and sat at their desks in the biology lab, took out their books and prepared themselves for class.
"Good morning students, update on your teacher's absence, won't be back until end of winter break, so I'll be substituting for a the rest of the week, as well as giving you your tests on thursday, also, you must hand in you genetic family tree assignments by friday. And the in-class assignment/experiment will have to be a two-day long experiment, the company is late in delivering the DNA equipment." Miss O'Keates explained.
"So we're just gonna do the research today?" asked Chuckie
"Unfortunately, yes. That seems to be the situation." O'Keates replied
Everyone split into the groups, grunting about this new situation. Chuckie and Nicole grouped together, and went to the first experiment station. As they worked, O'Keates joined tem as they were only two people, while they were at work, Nicole decided to investigate her theory.
"So Miss O'Keates, where do you think most of your genes come from?" asked Nicole
"Oh, well, um, let's not talk about me." O'Keates replied
"Why not, it's a simple question?"
"Well, um, my father was quite tall, which explains my height, and my mother had a long nose like mine, and.." as she continued, the teacher's tongue started to twist as if saying a tongue twister.
"Miss, I can tell your lying, you're getting tongue tied." Chuckie cut in
"Alright, I don't like to talk about this because I don't like making people feel bad for me, but, I guess I can tell you if you promise to never tell anyone." she warned her students
They nodded, then Miss O'Keates inhaled and spoke.
"I never met my parents. Apparently, I was orphaned, my mother killed my father during her pregnancy in a hormonal rage, and she herself died in the childbirth. They both haf no family, so I was sent to an orphanage. As I grew older though, I found out that I'd been switched with a baby that died from it's own complications at birth. My parents were still alive, and that dead baby belonged to the couple they thought were my parents. They had no recollection of who the couple was, nor any documents, I wanted to look for my real parents, but realized how much I liked the orphanage, and didn't leave until age 18, when I went college. I earned a basketball scholarship and an arts one as well, so my education was paid for."
"Basketball? Say, Chuckie, you're a lover of that sport, and your family too?" Nicole asked towards the ginger
"Nicole! That has nothing to do with this. Look, Miss O'Keates, I'm really sorry to hear that, I personally could never imagine life without my parents, I know what It's like to never get to have any recollection of a mom, but if I were to ever lose my father, oh man, I could never imagine that." Chuckie replied
"But I thought your mother was Kira Finster?" O'Keates asked
"She's my Dad's second wife, she married him and adopted me when I was two, but before that, my mother was Melinda Finster, I learned about her when I was about one and a half on a mother's day when I gave my Dad a picture of my Mom, not knowing that she was even my Mother, I just thought she was an imaginary figure, and thought that my Dad was both my parents. It was kind of funny because my Dad was trying to hide the stuff until I was older. But i went into the closet by accident and showed him it. Everyone got so worried. He then just told me the whole story."
"Ah, well I love a happy ending, your lucky to have at least known who your mother is, but eough about that, let's finish this research, afterwards, maybe I could proof read the essay you have to hand in for me in third period."
"Alright Ma'am."
After class, Nicole was back to her explanation of her beliefs. "I'm telling you, this proves it, tomorrow, when that DNA machine comes, I can show you."
"Nicole, she won't let you do that, besides, I doubt she is my Mom. I told you time and time again. Why are you so stubborn." Chuckie asked
"It's just who I am, I can guarantee it. Who lives that kind of life, it's obvious she's made that up. You said your mother's birthday is September 13th right?"
"Yes, your point?"
"Remember? Who's birthday did we celebrate on September 13th this year?"
"It was Miss O'Keates', big deal, one coincidence and you think it's case settled? You might as well think that my Mom was also the female twin in that ultrasound since both my parents had the same birthday."
"Really? Weird. I don't know why, it just is. I guess I've just never seen it before." Nicole replied
"Look, I know you are really in to this, but I'll tell you one last time, O'Keates is not my Mom. Now let's get to second period."
That night, Chuckie finished his family tree, and then started working on the written work.
"So Dad, what kind of genes are prevalent in our family?" Chuckie asked his father
"Well, as you can see, your mother has red hair like me, but your father has black hair, so you might want to point out that that's the most prominent gene, although as far as style goes, your father has messy hair like me, which is why he always keeps it so short. On your mother's family, everyone is a redhead, and your shade of Orange, which is why you have Orange hair." Chas explained "Also, her family was really tall as you know, full of 6 footers, in fact, your grandfather one time accidentally broke his nose because he didn't bend down while walking and hit a door frame. He also had freckles, just like your Mom and you."
The twins walked into the living room, with a picture in their hand, and they looked angry, they showed their father Chas and Melinda's wedding picture, whichthey'd taken from their grandfather's wallet.
"Why'd you take that out?" Chuckie asked with an unusual sternness.
"Who is she, why are you cheating Dad?" Kirk asked
"Oh no, you don't understand, Kirk-"
"You're cheating!" C.J. accused
"No, Honey, I love your Mom, look, I'll explain this later."
"We want to know now." The twins ordered in unison
"Why are you doing this?"
"Because we saw this picture in grandpa's wallet, we want to investigate pictures like you." Kirk replied
"What?" Chas asked, turning to Chuckie
"Uhhhh nothing, just, uhhhmmm, maybe we should explain this picture to them right now."
After explaining everything to his siblings, Chuckie sent them downstairs so he could continue his report.
By the time he was finished, Chuckie knew his report was not only perfect, but that he could definitely prove Nicole wrong about her theory.
Hope you guys liked that, I might write a one-shot for Chuckie explaining the twins about his late birth mother in a completely separate story, I don't know, you tell me if I should do that or if you wanna see it.