A/N-This chapter is based off of the episode, 'The First day of the last Decade of the Entire 20th Century'. This episode is when Olivia was born, Charlene and Bill's daughter. The episode was full of guest stars and I started to go one way but...Charlene had mentioned to Bill and to her 'guardian movie star' which was none other than Dolly Parton that she wished her sister Pat who died and her grandparents were here for the baby's birth.
She didn't say how Pat died or her grand parents so...to me, Olivia was THE guest star on here and I want to include her late aunt and grand parents. I never understood the birth order of Charlene and her family so I will play with it.
WARNING-Hankies will be needed
Julia is alive for this but she won't be in this chapter.
It was a few weeks after Olivia was born and Charlene was in the nursery and she was looking at some pictures in little silver frames on top of the dresser and a tear rolls down her cheek then Bill comes up softly behind her so he doesn't awaken the little bundle of joy sleeping in her crib.
He puts his arms around her then asks,
"What are you doing?"
She turns her head and looks at him then at the pictures and points to them and says,
"I thought I would put a little bit of family in here. My grand parents and Pat"
Bill looks at them and says,
"Nice but what about the rest of us? She does have more"
She smiles then says,
"Silly. I just started. I'll get to our pictures but I wanted to put these out first"
He looks at the pictures and he smiles at the sight of a frisky 10 year old and the picture of a older couple and he says,
"You never told me how they died"
Charlene gets thoughtful then says,
"Let's go sit on the couch"
They both turn and look at the sleeping bundle in the crib and tiptoe out and Bill closes the door but leaves a little crack open so they can hear Olivia's cries and then they go to sit on the couch and they sit down and Charlene begins by saying,
"Well, Pat was older than me by a year but everybody said we were so much alike in looks and manners than we should have been twins. Boy, momma sure had her hands full !
Anyway, it was on a June day in 1970 and we were on a family picnic. It was such a beautiful day...Pat and I had climbed nearly every tree that day that was around my grandfather's pond. We were like wildflowers that day...we had so much fun!..."
A tear falls down Charlene's cheek and Bill gives her a hankie to wipe her tears and she says,
"Momma had to threaten us with the hickory switch to get us to come eat but wow, we were so happy when we got there to eat! It was a grand feast...we felt like princess's eating that meal. Things were hard so it was a treat to get fried chicken since momma saved them for selling eggs but that's what we had. Fried chicken, corn on the cob...macaroni salad and grandpa had bought a watermelon from his field. But we saved that for later..."
Charlene gets up and walks around a bit then turns around and smiles and says,
"Grandma had made one of her chocolate cakes so Pat and I wanted to get to that first...so we did!"
Charlene takes a deep breath then says,
"Momma was pregnant with Odell so a few hours later she was worn out and truth be told, so was Pat and myself!..."
Charlene laugh then continues,
"Pat went home with grandma and grandpa to spend the night but I wanted to go home with momma and daddy so were were just going to be apart for one night, wasn't we?"
She sniffs and blows her nose a bit then tells Bill,
"Witness's said that Grandpa's Nash...he still drove his Nash, kept it in good running order and everything but...something went wrong. They said the car went wild across the road then...nobody's really sure how, but the car went into the lake."
Charlene quits talking and Bill comes up to her and holds her and she says softly,
"But they are still here...with Olivia"
She turns around and hugs Bill tightly and back in Olivia's room, three pale images of a little 10 year old girl with red hair and a older couple stand around Olivia's crib and smile.
A/N-Please read and review!