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All right here we are at chapter 13, not the last chapter in the story but the last I'm gonna do for a while I was gonna do the celebration in chapter 12 but chapter 12 got so long so I'm putting the celebration for the birthday in chapter 13.
This one's also an all-heroes chapter, but I mean all protagonists will be in this. I might have a few pops up for the meeting for the villains, but very little I might have the villains have their birthday celebration for Quasimodo and a separate chapter. Or maybe not have one at all for him at all anyway.
But this will be a 13th birthday party celebration for our heroes who are turning 13 this will be for Leanna, Liam, Ashura, Roger, and Alan we have one for Cera maybe next time since she's only 12 right now or 10 about the turn 12 12 sorry yeah 12 she's 11 turning 12 sorry sorry
about that
So let's get into this great chapter.
I see how they celebrate these birthdays this is another relaxed chapter somewhat.
And this is another mixed chapter.
This will be a Scarlet Luther Leanna Liam ash aura AC a lot of people will be in this chapter giving speaking roles. This will be a big deal and it might be as long as my other chapter was cause I'm gonna be seeing all the different prospectors of the party from each of the different characters it'll be done like a big ball so it'll be a big deal there was a birthday ball for the aura, not for aura before Leanna and Liam and maybe Laura and the others too.
So this will be probably another long chapter, but the last one but different. This one will be like I said a lot more lighthearted and the villains might comment all right then let's get into this. Don't push around the bush too much.
And we start with Scarlet
Scarlett
We got back from our trip to the bastard from the bastard region taking care of sandworms now time to celebrate my children's birthday with a birthday ball is the 13th birthday and it needs to be big and spectacular for the next big birthday. I'll have them celebrate will be their 16th right now it's their 13th. And it's gonna be spectacular, but I was tired after that trip so I want to lay down for a while. I needed to rest. My husband came to be with me, Luther. I said he came into the room Scarlett are you OK? I'm just so tired. I said rest my love he said as he sat next to me, why don't I lay and rest with you? You've been working so hard precious. You need to take a family trip soon not to the Bastard region but to the coast, we can't take the train though. I knew that we couldn't take the train to the coast because there was no train station there we'd have to take the team and the sled in the carriage.
Me and you, Liam Leanna and Alistair will go. We have more kids than that now darling. I said you're right I forgot about our adopted children. He said we still have Roger and Alistair I mean Roger and Alan and Sarah yes Sarah, what are we gonna do? We don't have a big enough pop-up house for all of us.
I talked to Jason Gwen. They still have their house out there. It's only a three bedroom as well. You're right I have to ask them. If it's bigger we don't own a mansion out there we don't we can't take a day trip to the coast and then drive back that's a lot for us, we want to spend as much time out there as we can.
I'd love to return to one of my favorite places that we went to when we were kids which was the coast when we went on the trip when we went on the road I love being at the beach. It was so relaxing. We had the pop-up house and it was nice but we have a bigger family now we need to make a bigger home.
I need to talk to mom and dad. I heard him say I needed to ask them if they had purchased a bigger house during the time of their rain. If they have, they will have a mansion out there. I smiled OK Also I'll get Dr. Crawford and Dr. Fuller in here. I'll have them check you out precious if you're being tired, there might be something more to it than that.
You're right I said, as I looked into his violet eyes I'll get them soon but rest now rest too. The party will be starting soon.
You're right I need to rest. I had a long day today going this morning all day in the bastard region. That's my girl he said as he wrapped his arms around me and held me close this reminds me of when you were pregnant with the twins I smiled knowing that this reminded him and how I had to protect you, remind me are you gonna make more swaddling clothes like you did last time? I don't know if I will or not if I am pregnant I hope you are darling because you are celebrating again. The twins would love to have another brother and sister to play with. Besides the ones we adopted, I mean a little one. It's been a while since we had a baby running around the castle this time when they're born, they'll be able to explore the castle more than they did when they were little, I know.
I know we're older and more mature than we were back then I don't say you weren't mature at 13 precious oh I was he said again. I had to protect you in this Palace back then I don't have to as much as I did back then I told him all about what happened in the master region about Crossy Moto, and there and her and his father showing up my brother showing up, his face what did he do his face with anger across his eyes how dare he gonna happen this time? We'll make sure of it.
Well, make sure there are more guards next time. Of course, Alistair showed him what was boss and who was boss good for him that's her love partner for her. If he hadn't shown up, I don't know. It would take us a lot longer to find a lover for her I know.
I guess it was fate. I guess you were right. It was fate Aaron Luther said he kissed me again. And then we rested for a while. People knocked on our door, but he got up and told them that we were resting. Can you leave us alone for a while of course your majesty?
Then we returned to flirting a little bit he kissed me and held me my love for you hasn't sold down yet. He said that never relaxed as I laid against him no longer children we were parents rulers of a kingdom and maybe even parents again soon, as Ezra answered our request to bless us with children again.
He got up for a moment, kissing me slowly and sweetly. I'll be right back, my darling. He says leaving me alone for a moment he can. He can travel to the Palace anywhere. We don't have to worry about evil working behind every corner of our beautiful home.
The children can go anywhere they want. It's the kingdom was the way it was before we wouldn't have this freedom. Well, I've just lived a simple life in Ravenswood hiding which would've been nice too But we wouldn't be free we have everything now and it's our villains that have to live in hiding even though they come out from time to time.
And we beat them every time.
Luther
I left my Scarlet for a while. She needed to rest through his tiredness. I think I'll have to get Dr. Crawford and Dr. Fuller to get her a check-up if it is what I think it is then I'm happy but I'm not sure.
I went to find them and there they were I need your help. Of course, the doctor said as they came into my lovely wife's room in my room our room we shared a room.
They came with me to check on her. Scarlet was awake. She slept for a while, but there she was fully awake looking even more beautiful and tired. All right Crawford said let us check her out.
Good news, Dr. Crawford said, and Dr. Fuller said nodding their heads. What is it? I asked.
Good news she is expecting another child soon a big smile came on my face and my third child wonderful child through birth not through children alone yes we adopted three and we were gonna have 36 kids altogether that was exciting.
I have adopted four kids if you count Iris so an AC as well even though he's a gentleman of the court alone but the three so with Iris and the three from Windsor, how that's for let's see that's 5 my two spelled six so we have seven all together that is fine.
Have a big family I smiled down at Scarlet. She smiled back up at me even if they weren't gonna be Ayres. I was fine with having as many kids as I wanted as many as my lovely Scarlet could have worried that she couldn't have any more after the two we had, and we had to resort route to just adopting all the time but that wasn't the case and I was happy.
Eileen down and kissed her lips seated we will make the child grow. I whispered she giggled after the party. I hold her tightly in my arms. I told her we don't need to worry about affairs.
No, I said rest but she said put the decorations for the party. I'll get Claire to do that and I'll get Claire to dress your beautiful daughter beautiful daughter, but I wanted to do her clothes for her 13th birthday, but you need to rest a little longer. Rest and you'll be ready for the party later the ball will be in success. Don't worry we'll get all decorated. We get the ballroom all decorated and in our beauty and I will be dressed in the most beautiful dress.
And I will get Liam ready. I'll make sure he has the outfit he needs. Scarlet smiled at me and we again kissed her her sweet lips tasted so good.
After all these years, I still love her after 12 years. I still love her so much.
Then I left and let her rest, my angel.
My bound partner forever and if we'd waited to get married, we'd been bound, which was good, but I wanted to marry her soon before I destroyed Volder now everything is perfect.
I went to go check on the party prep Claire I asked have you got everything yes sir I did Luther and she came up to me Mr. Timecrest Scarlet she's tired and she's expecting another one. Claire's face lit up. I'll get to be a nanny again. Yes, you're our nanny always, you know that I know.
How's the ballroom look? It looks great. I had help decorating obviously Nadia helped and so did Gwen. They helped out as well and helped with the decorations and your mother. I'm glad Mother is helping. I don't know what a mother will think when she knows she's gonna have another child's grandchild. She'll be happy though.
Yes, Helena will be very happy indeed only had two kids, but she's gonna have a lot of grandchildren I laugh. I smile too. I know I'm having as bad a big family as you have Claire as your parents have yes I know.
Is Scarlet going to make baby clothes again like she did last time? I don't know the joy was her to make the baby clothes. She might do it again and we have plenty of children's clothing from our kids for hammy downs if we want to and also depends on having a boy or a girl, I'm glad I had one of each with Scarlett so I don't know probably another girl since mother mostly had boys except for Riley.
Are you gonna invite everyone in the kingdom most of everyone also invite Porsche and the masters of course you invite the masters and Porsche and Era I don't know. I don't know if Ezra will come.
But I hope he will, but I doubt he'll come. He doesn't come for a lot of public things like this except for a binding ceremony and maybe the birth of our child but I don't know if he'll come to the birthday party.
Are you almost done with the decorations? I asked Claire not at her head. Yes, I will go and help Leanne address and I will go help. My son I think is going to help the other girls that's nice Mother would be glad to help.
Good then we separated and took on our tasks and I let my Scarlet sleep a little longer then I'll help her get ready or she can get ready I went to go help. Decorate the ballroom after I worked on helping Liam get ready.
Liam
Father came in to help me get ready. I told him I could on my own but he insisted it's your birthday. I want to help mother your mother's always done your clothes. You have an outfit picked out right and my head. Yes, I hope I have the best outfit. Let's see that looks great some of these are hammy downs from myself when I was your age, but I'm not letting you wear something like that for the party no, I want a lot of these things in the quarantine zones. Father explained when I met him when I was with your mother.
Also, a lot of these I wore when I was in the palace when I was trapped here, you were trapped here at the age of 12 right Father yes, I heard him say.
Now we can live in the castle in the in the kingdom luxury more.
That sounds great. Will probably sell a lot of these clothes. I heard Father say yours in Lannis cause a lot of these clothes you've been wearing have been mine and your mother's clothes we just recycling their sides. We don't want our children your siblings to have hammy downs. What do you mean I asked your mother is pregnant again father explained she's expecting another child. My face lit up sibling to play with.
Yes, you have a new sibling to play with soon that made me happy Leanna too. If she found out that means you have to be a good big brother I already am. I am to our adopted siblings and I am to my little sister. I love you so much I know you love her.
Asked are still on the clothes because we're down with gold no selling and get rid of these clothes because we don't need them anymore we can give them to the poor or we can give them to Porsche for the orphanage But I think Scarlet wants to do something else with them. If she doesn't do that with his mom want to do with them I asked her to make a quilt. I mean, she made your baby clothes out you know as far as you know, I'm not mother and father told me that they made our baby clothes for us. They were neutral colors because she didn't know she was having males or females go to merchants and buy clothes. After all, they were so far away.
And because we were trapped in the palace.
You don't need to worry about that anymore.
But I think she's wanting to make a quilt that sounds great. I said no let's see here. Father said as he helped me find my clothes that I was wearing today tonight I didn't need to wear a complete royal garb today. I didn't need to wear my sword or anything, I had to wear a suit today which was fine.
They'll be guards anyway I had to wear a similar outfit to what I wore on the day of my sister's wedding ceremony except different. This is our birthday party.
For that, our gifts were our nice new outfits.
Nothing will be wearing royal is our crowns my prince's crown and her tiara.
After I was finished eating ready, Father said I looked great. I'll be ready to go to the ballroom soon. All right I said, as I walked onto the ballroom.
Leanna
Claire knocked on my bedroom door and he finished getting bathed, dear Claire. I asked where Mother was resting dear. She was tired so she was taking a nap. OK, she's gonna have another baby soon. Said she walked into my room which dress do you wanna wear today look through my dresses I had some pretty ones also hung in here. I wore them from time to time, even though they were 413-year-old her I like them, but that's not what I was wearing today.
She found something though it was beautiful. Let's see she said this one. I smiled at Claire's suggestion of what dress she wanted me to wear today it was beautiful. I could wear whatever dress I wanted. I didn't even have to wear the colors of the kingdom which were blue and purple, which I still liked, the dress was blue and purple, obviously somewhere to the dress I wore to my binding ceremony the dress was long, but not too long. I had beautiful woven pieces of purple and blue. My headpiece and my tiara had the same colors. Claire helped me into the dress you look beautiful thanks I said, as I dried off and got into the dress.
After that she did my make-up and hair I smiled.
You're so beautiful you look more and more like your mother I smiled at Claire's words she had known her mother since mother was little. They were best friends. She never saw her as a teenager at this age because she was locked away in this awful home at the time she told me at the age of 16 mother was locked away in this castle, and her father was locked away. Here is sick at four at the age of 12. Riley had to Take Their Pl., Riley and Annalise.
But you don't need to worry Claire said as she finished up my dressing after she got me into the dress, she put me into my shoes. I'm finished with my hair and make-up now you look beautiful. You'll be dancing with your love tonight aren't you won't you? Yes, I said I'll be dancing with my bound partner tonight, that's wonderful. Your brother found a love yet but I hope he finds his queen soon. Mother and father are letting us pick our loves. I already have mine but the father is letting his brother pick suitors who are coming tonight, I think he has an eye on someone though, Claire asked who Laura was.
Thought about your uncle, doesn't he like her not romantically but he thinks of her as a friend which is nice but brother I think has an eye for her.
I think he wants her as his queen well, Laura is a nice girl Claire said and I think she would make a lovely queen.
I think so too, and I think she'll make a lovely sister-in-law. I said, joking and teasing my older brother who's only older than me by a few minutes brother loves me very much.
He calls me his favorite little sister and I love it.
And this ball party for our birthdays is going to be amazing.
I also celebrate others' birthdays, who also have 13 birthdays, even though their birthdays have passed or haven't come yet, and Alan Roger, and Ash too.
They're probably getting ready as well. Claire was finishing up her finishing touches on me there Leanna you look beautiful and not as I looked at myself in the mirror.
Ash
I was getting ready even though I was no longer an actual printed at the moment. I'm still a prince Riley and Annalise decided to stay in the palace or did they move back in with Mother and I and Dad I guess they moved in with us after Mother and Father retired obviously, we were going over for the party even though my birthday wasn't was a while back mother and father want to celebrate it with my nieces and nephews which I was happy with Ernie and nephews I should say mother niece or lady at the court Sarah wasn't turning 13 for another year.
But that was OK, but I had some nice clothes to wear. Luckily they weren't hammy downs of my brother's clothes much they weren't divided and I did get some of his as well just like my nephew Liam, who is the eldest of the kids besides the lovely Iris.
Word reached our house that the brother and sister-in-law were having another child. Scarlet was having another baby which was good news. It's been at least a few years since they had a child last time they had any children of their own through this process was 13 years ago and they only adopted the rest of their kids.
Just like mother and father did not know that Riley was my actual sister, but they adopted Annalise who turns out to be my aunt that is fine. She's my sister and my aunt and I'm happy for it. I love Annalise and Riley too.
And they're gonna be at the party as well. They said they wouldn't miss it Riley says she doesn't want to miss any of the baby's kids' parties. She loves us all very much and we love Riley.
Riley and Annalise share a room and I get a room all to myself. We live in the little house that mother and father lived in before they left to go out on the road and I forgot Zoe lives here too. The three of them share a room, which is very cramped. I'm surprised they didn't decide to use the pop-up house again for them to live in now that they're older.
It's crowded, but we love it My youngest I got to have my room, and would be awkward to share a room with my sister Zoe.
Ashli, Mom, and Dad built onto the house a little bit making a room for Zoe that way she has her room.
I'm happy about turning 13 or have turned 13 which brings me two or three years away from being part of the guild. Riley and Elise have already become members of the guild they're 16 already.
Mom asked Ash, are you ready? Yes, Mother I said are the girls ready almost then we'll walk over to the palace and get ready to go into the ballroom.
Riley
I'm happy I was smiling from ear to ear. I got ready and my sisters too. Annelise and I shared a room and Zoe had her room. I didn't mind sharing a room with Annelise and Annalise didn't mind sharing a room with me. We had Scarlett's old room, which was nice, and Ash's old room which was the nursery never really got as much as a bedroom.
All the citizens here didn't mind being a new kingdom. The kingdom of Ravenswood was thriving. But today was a big day today all the younger children not all of them, but a lot of them are turning 13. They're no longer babies anymore. My babies are no longer babies They're older now, and they can take care of themselves.
This means I can focus on my studies in the guild. I'm fine with that too. In my practice with Dr. Crawford, I smiled at the thought of that too.
Annelise and I are copper level in the guild and that is good in a few short years will be at gold level and then sub master and masters on the council soon.
I put on my dress Annelise said you look lovely Riley thank you, Annelise. You look great too.
Annelise
We were dressing for this beautiful 13th birthday party for the younger children. This is great. I remember our 16th mother threw a big party for us. I still call her mother even though she's not my actual mother Porsche is Helena's sister, but I didn't wanna call her that because she raised me as a child of her own.
Riley and I complemented each other on our lovely outfits and we were so excited for this party Liam and Leanna and the other younger children were having their 13th birthday. Sarah won't be celebrating her 13th for another year that is OK.
There'll be lots of dancing and eating in merriment and that is good too. Riley told me that Scarlet was pregnant again. I smiled. That is good news. You've been trying to have a baby for a long time since Liam and Leanna. They've been trying to have children again now they're going to.
Their little family has grown and I'm so happy.
I also heard they were going to go to the coast and they wanted us all to go there that mother has purchased a big mansion there for us to use instead of taking the pop-up house since we all can't fit inside of it. There
Was a beautiful mansion on the beach, that was nice.
And most of us will get to go, which is gonna be good too. I have never been to the coast and neither has Riley so this will be great. But wonder if Scarlet will feel like going well we'll have to see.
Zoe
A party I'm so happy I'm not a child anymore either I'm a mid-late team now I am five years younger than most of everyone at least not five years younger, but I was five years old when I was five years older than most of the younger children who are participating in this party which is great we're gonna have a great time just like the binding ceremony. This is gonna be like a big dance a big party and we're gonna have a good time.
All right kids are you ready to go? I heard Mom call out to all of us. We know it as we watch the palace.
Cera
This was a big day for me, Alan and Roger.
It was their birthday not mine well not their birthday they're still 12 or did they turn 13 today I don't know. I can't remember. I think they told us that the same day is the twins that is fine. My brothers, which I have no romantic connection to I was dressed and ready to go to the ballroom and I met them as we walked to the ballroom. It looked great too, and I met up with the other kids as they walked to the ballroom.
Scarlett
I finally got up and got dressed. Luther helped me. I was glad of it. It was already ready. He finished up getting me dressed and let me sleep while he got ready. He helped me into a dress that I could wear for the time being ready to go I nodded yes I can't wait one time to announce my pregnancy you will, darling he said as we walked to the ballroom I was still able to walk. I wasn't as tired as I was earlier.
Luther
Help Scarlet to the ballroom she's dressed and beautiful as all my daughters and her brother are ready to go as well. They only found their group and they started walking together as a group.
The kids were giggling and having a great time ahead as we walked into the ballroom, the room was decorated beautifully. The ball was ready to go.
ending here
I know I'm ending here without the actual celebration but I think it's best if I did chapter 14 next and I'll do it right after this one I said I wouldn't but I'm going to because I want to celebrate and ball in the next chapter chapter amongst the different characters and I think I got a lot done and getting them ready and announcing Scarlett pregnancy again but I hope you enjoy it and I hope you enjoy this chapter as well. Also, this book is almost halfway done. I am gonna do a separate book for their time in the guild because I think the younger children being in the guild should be in a separate book. Don't you think all right then I'll see you then.
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