Raising Amber Marie

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Chapter Eleven


When Serenity came to the Manor to live and be near her daughter, she discovered that just because she gave birth to Amber, she had a lot to learn about being a mommy.

The first thing she found out was that sometimes Amber didn’t want to be held by her, she wanted her Uncle Joey, and Serenity got jealous because Amber was her daughter not his.

Even if she didn’t recognize how it was making her feel, Joey did and one day while Amber was sleeping Joey asked Serenity, “Can we go outside, the garden is so beautiful.”

So they went outside and as they walked amongst the flowers, they ended up at the gazebo where Joey asked her to sit down. “Rene, I need to talk to you about something and I hope that you don’t get mad.”

Serenity looked at him and she said, “Why would I get mad at you for wanting to talk?”

Joey sat down beside her and he said, “I know that since you’ve been here Amber has been kind of moody, what I mean is at times she’d rather have me hold her and it hurts your feelings.

But what you’ve have to understand is, you’ve only been here for a short time and I’ve been taking care of her since she was a little baby, she has to get use to you.”

Tears filled Serenity’s eyes as she listened to what her brother was saying, and then she said, “I know, but at times I think, hey I’m her mother and Joey is her Uncle, she’s suppose to love me more.”

Joey put his arm around her and he said, “Give her time to get use to you and before you know it, she’ll think of you as her mommy, and I’ll be just her Uncle.” Serenity hugged him and she said, “Joey, you’ll never be just her Uncle, you are the one who raised her when no one else would and I’ll be forever thankful for that.”

Seto came outside holding a very fussy Amber, both Serenity and Joey started laughing, and Joey said, “You go ahead and change her, I want to talk to Seto for a little while.” Rene kissed Joey, walked over, took Amber from Seto, and went inside.

Seto walked over and sat down next to Joey and he said, “What’s going on?” Joey wiped the tears from his eyes and said, “Rene was feeling a little jealous because at times Amber would rather have me hold her then her own mother, I told her to give Amber time and before long she’d rather have her mommy take care of her then her Uncle Joey.”

Seto took Joey into his arms and he said, “You’ll never be just her Uncle Joey, you’re the one who walked the floor with her when she had colic and who woke up at all hours to change and feed her, you’ll always be special to her.”

Joey looked at Seto and he said, “I guess I’m a little jealous myself, I don’t want to let her go, but then I’m happy that they are together like their suppose to be.” Seto then kissed him and he said, “Joey will you marry me.”

Joey did a double take and he said, “Please run that by me again, I thought I heard you ask me to marry you.”

Seto chuckled and then he said, “I did ask you to marry me.”

Joey threw himself into Seto’s arms and they tumbled off the bench and onto the floor of the gazebo. Joey landed on top of Seto who groaned because he was erect and it hurt when Joey fell on him. Joey laid there looked down into Seto’s blue eyes and said, Yes I‘ll marry you.

Then Joey kissed him and when Seto returned the kiss, well let’s just say that things nearly got out of control, if it wasn’t for Roland who was walking past and saw what happened, who knows what would have happened.

They heard “Ahem” and then they looked up, there stood Roland looking at them, and he said, “I understand that emotions can get out of control, but for now please try not to get caught in the garden, Helga may not like you frolicking around beside her flowers.”

Joey got up, he helped Seto getup, they both started chuckling, and Seto said, “I guess we got carried away, I just asked Joey to marry me and he said yes.”

Roland then said, “Congratulation and maybe you both might want to tell everyone at dinner tonight, and for the sake of the flowers, please keep from getting grass stains and flower petals on your clothes and possible your bodies.”

About that time, they heard the back door open and Helga came out to get some flowers for the place sitting on the dining table, all three men started laughing, and as they walked off Helga stood there wondering what got into them.

When they got inside, Serenity was coming down the stairs carrying Amber who was giggling because Rene was making funny noises. Serenity looked up and when she saw Joey and Seto standing there with goofy smiles on their faces she said, “What’s going on?”

They walked over to where she was and Seto said, “Can you keep a secret?” Serenity said, “Yes.” Then Seto said, “I asked your brother to marry me and he said yes.”

Serenity went over to Joey and she said, “I’m glad that you found someone to love you.” Then she turned to look at Seto and she said, “If you ever make my brother cry, you’ll wish you were never born, do you understand me?”

Seto then kissed both Serenity and Amber and he said, “Why would I hurt him, I love him and I want us to be together for the rest of our lives.”

Just then Amber looked at Seto and she mumbled something and Rene said, “Amber’s telling you to be nice to her Uncle or else, aren’t you my little one?” Joey had tears in his eyes, he walked over to his sister and he gave each of them a kiss and hugged them both, and he said, “Seto loves me as much as I love him so don’t worry.”

Just then, the door opened and in walked Mokuba, he stormed into the room, his clothes were dirty and he had a black eye and his upper lip was busted, Roland just walked into the room and he asked, “What in the world is wrong?”

Before he could say a word, the door opened and Jeffery the man who drives Mokuba to school said, “When I got to the school, there was a fight going on, and when I broke it up, Mokuba was sitting on this other young man and he was saying, “If you ever say that again, I’ll kick your ass again.”

Roland turned to look at Mokuba and he said, “What happened that made you mad enough to fight someone?”

Mokuba looked around the room and then he said, “I can’t talk about it now.” Then he ran upstairs to his room. Seto said, “I’ll go talk to him.” So he went upstairs and he knocked on Mokuba’s door, when Mokie opened it, Seto said, “Can we talk?”

Mokuba walked over and stood looking out the window and Seto went inside, closed the door, and said, “Mokie, what’s wrong?”

Mokuba then said, “Kenny, the one I beat up was saying that his father said, that Joey’s sister should have stayed away, she doesn’t deserve to be able to come back and pretend to care about her daughter, so I hit him and I’ll do it again if he opens his mouth again.”

Seto walked over to where Mokie was, he put his arm around him, and he said, “Listen, people are going to talk and yes sometimes it isn’t very nice, but you can’t go around fighting everyone who says something that you don’t like.”

Just then, there was a knock at the door and when Seto opened it, Joey stood and he asked, “Seto, what’s going on, why Mokuba was fighting?”

Seto let him in and when he closed the door, he said, “If we tell you, you can’t go off half cocked looking for someone to beat up.” Joey looked at Seto and he said, “Alright I promise; now why was Mokie fighting.”

Mokuba told Joey, you could cut the silence with a knife, then Mokie said, “Seto told me that sometimes people talk and that we can’t go out looking for a fight just because we don’t like what they say, is he right?”

Joey closed his eyes and then he said, “That’s right, then he turned to leave and Seto stopped him and said, “Come on, let’s go so that you can cool off.” Then Seto opened the door and Mokie said, “I’m sorry for fighting, I promise that if Kenny says anything I’ll ignore him and walk away.”

Joey stopped and he turned around and looked at Mokie and he said, “What you did today to defend Serenity, it was really nice, and if it happens again, come to either your brother or me and we’ll take care of it.” Then he and Seto left and went back downstairs.

Joey looked at Seto and he said, “Who in the hell is this kids father and how did he know that Rene was coming here and that she had a daughter?”

Roland walked up then and he heard what Joey said, and Roland turned to Joey and he said, “That’s one thing that I’m going to find out, I need you both to leave it to me and don’t and I mean don’t try to find out who it is by yourselves.” Joey said, “We’ll stay out of it, but if you can’t find out who the man is, then I’m going to do it.”

Please R&R..

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