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Chapter 1
My brother, Nathaniel, and I, Guilianna (JU*LEE*ANNA) ran down stairs at 5:57am quietly, we weren’t supposed to wake them until 6 o’clock am.
We sat around the Christmas tree. There were at least 40 presents around the tree. We were a middle class family but rich at the same time. Well, my dad explains it better than I do.
While sitting there, I got up and got the old radio from the cold basement that belonged to my great grandma and turned on the Christmas station. The song “Rocking around the Christmas Tree” was playing and I was singing along to it. Everyone said I had I nice voice but I didn’t believe them. Them meaning my two, still in love parents.
My brother said, “Look at this present it’s HUGE!” He grabbed a present that was as big as nightstand and had his name written in black permanent marker, it looked a lot like my mom’s cursive hand writing but I didn’t bother to tell him because I was trying to concentrate on my singing and because I knew he would find out that Santa wasn’t real. I did and I knew it all along.
He started to open it, but I smacked it from his hands, and snatched it. “No, not yet!”
Then he yelled loud enough to get our mom to come downstairs, “MOM! Guilie (JU*LEE) hit me!” We were an Italian and German family, and all the usual.
“No I didn’t! He’s lying!”
The hallway light beamed on the upside down L stair case and I saw my mother’s skinny shadow getting closer to the wall.
She came downstairs, tying up her blue silk robe. “What is going on here?” she asked in an irritating voice.
“Guilie hit me. Hit me baaad, momma,” he whined.
I rolled my eyes. Mom walked over and picked up my 3 year old brother and told me, “Guilie go in your room and take a shower, and get ready for church.”
“Fine.”
I followed my mom upstairs; Nathaniel was starting to fell asleep again because my mom was singing a lullaby and rubbing his back.
At the beginning of the top of the staircase, was the 1st bathroom, were my dad was shaving.
“Judy, wake the boy up, we can’t be late for church today.”
My mom turned her head to me and said, “Go get ready,” in a strict tone. I walked into my bedroom and started to notice that my parents weren’t much in love.
12 minutes later I was in the shower and my mom was knocking on the door but I couldn’t pick up what she was saying
“Guilie, telephone!”
“What?!”
“Guilie telephone…NOW!”
“WHAT?!”
“TELEPHONE!’
“Oh, coming!”
I stepped out the shower, grabbed my pink cotton robe, opened my bathroom door, grabbing the phone and passing my mother by.
“Guilie turn off the shower,” she demanded.
“I can’t I have a phone call.”
“Oh please, it’s just your aunt.”
I rolled my eyes jumping on my bed.
“Hello this is Guilianna Helios”
“Hi, it’s your aunt, Ashley.”
“Oh, hi, are you coming to church?” I asked in a very bubbly voice, I always felt calmer when my aunt was there to settle things.
“Um, no not today sweetheart. I have to go to the hospital.”
“Why are you hurt?”
“No just your normal check-up.”
“Oh, well are you coming with us to pick-up grandma Rosemaria after church?”
“Yep. You guys will go home, get out of your church clothes, and your mom and I will cook breakfast. So I’ll see you there after you guys get back.”
“Okay,” I alleged in a sweet voice.
“I guess your upset that you can’t open any present’s yet, huh?”
“Yeah.”
“Well I have a present for you.”
“Really? Can I open it now?”
Ashley laughed. “Of course not sweetheart.”
I looked at my mom she was standing in the doorway of my bathroom leaning her head against my door, holding a dirty cleaning rag and staring at me in a weird way. The shower was still on.
“Ashley, I have to go.”
“Okay hon, bye.”
I put the black cordless, heavy phone on my nightstand.
“Mom, are you okay?”
She snapped and shrugged, “Yeah, turn off the shower please, and you still have soap on the back of her head.” She left my room closing the door.
Why was everyone acting so weird? I asked myself. I put that question aside, dried off my hair slowly, and went into my closet picking out a black baby doll dress that stopped and a half an inch above the knees, and black ballerina shoes, putting my long brown hair into a ponytail. After I was done I went downstairs, and watched TV until the rest of my family came down.




“I think I see a parking space right over there,” pointed out my mother looking around the busy church parking lot. Cars of all sizes were moving in, barely any moving out, families of 2,3,4,5, etc were getting out of there cars and walking across streets to get into the church, which slowed down cars even more.
We drove around the parking lot for five minutes but found a spot right by Green family, who lived in another county but didn’t have a church in their county.
Both families got out and met up by the front door. And I tell you it took a very long time because of the traffic.
“Good morning, Mr. and Ms.Green,” greeted my dad half way bowing. The green family included the 37 year old parents, Tom and Claire, their two twin daughters Emily and Emma, my best friends, and my boyfriend, josh, who’s only two years older then me 14.
My mom was smiling with her lime green suit with skin color sandals. My brother was playing with Josh; they were both dressed in black tuxedos. Emily, Emma, and I started talking and wives chatted with wives and husbands chatted with husbands.
While Emma, Emily, and I were chatting about Ashley’s new boyfriend, Kevin, Josh snuck up behind me and gave me a surprise kiss on my cheek.
“We’ll leave you alone,” said Emma.
“No stay!” I yelled, catching jus in time before they walked off.
“So, what were you ladies talking about?” asked Josh
“Kevin.” I replied.
“Oh…that super MEGA hot-tie!”
All of us girls laughed.
“Shut up,” I demanded playfully, gently hitting him. “He is just my aunt’s boyfriend.”
“Yeah, your aunt’s hot boyfriend.”
They all laughed, except for me, I stood there calm yet nervous just smiling.


We got back at 10 o’clock. My feet and throat were sore, I sung a solo in front a huge crowd of 1,000 people, and I was almost standing the whole time praying.
As my dad opened the door, a huge thing of a snow storm came rushing in. It was a blizzard outside.
“Okay, Guilie, go upstairs and change out of your church clothes and help your brother,” stipulated my mom.
My brother and I ran downstairs while, my father and mom chatted in their bedroom, changing…gross.
“Judy, you have to tell her. I mean I want to have another baby of our own again I can’t believe Nathan was our only one.”
“I will…”
“You keep saying that-“
“I know-“
“I’m GETTING OLD!”
I was unbuttoning Nathaniel’s blue shirt when I heard my father, little did they know, I was getting old of hiding something. After I was done with getting Nathaniel dressed, I went into my bathroom and held up my sweatshirt and t-shirt and touched my stomach. I had 3 pregnancy tests lying at the end of my bathroom counter, they all said yes. A tear shed down my cheek. I heard a bedroom door open then close.
“Guilianna, are you ready?” bawled my mom.
“Yes!”
“Let’s go.” We all scrambled downstairs and into the car to go pick-up grandma Rosemaria.


The car was loud even though I was listening to my iPod and my mom and dad were talking, and my brother was listening, like normal. We still didn’t open any presents.
“For 12 years we kept it a secret, from a child that’s even ours…for 12 years I’ve had to say I love when I didn’t mean it.”
“She’s my sister’s child; I had to take her in. Ash was too young to have a kid. Unfortunately, Guilianna was her kid. Ashley put her up for adoption and she told me that she wanted to adopt it, so I did.”
“GUILIANNA’S ADOPTED!” screeched Nathaniel, loud enough for me to hear. Little did they know that he was pretending to be asleep?
I took my headphones off of my ears and said, “What?”
“Nothing,” held my mom.
“Judy tell her!” insisted my dad.
“Guilianna, I’m not really your mom. Ashley is. She got pregnant when she was 24 and she was still a party all night drink all day every day. She finally went to rehab when she found out she was pregnant and after her boyfriend broke up with her…She came out and she put up for adoption and she said she wanted me to adopt her. I was in the birthing room. I cut your umbilical cord…”
She started to cry covering her mouth.
“Oh, shut up!”
“GUILIE!” shrieked my dad.
“Please, she’s not even my mother, why should I listen to her?!”
“As long as you’re under our roof, you will follow our rules!”
“Oh, Mark, don’t yell at her!”
After I angrily put my headphones back on, turning up the music louder and louder as she kept calling my name.
“Guilie…”
“GUILIE…”
“Guilie!!!!!!!!!”
Nathaniel cried, “Gudie not my sister!” He cried very hard, all the way their.
I cried too.




Judy pulled up into Grandma Rosemaria’s driveway, there was my mom playing with the Golden retriever, Scoot.
I got out of the car while it was still moving.
“Guilianna!” yelled Judy.
As I walked pass my real mom I said, “I can’t believe you didn’t tell me!” but I stopped walking furiously to give my grandma a hug. “Could you go get my bags, dear?”
“Of course,” I replied. I stopped smiling and stormed in the house with Scoot following me. My mom’s smile faded.
Once Nathaniel was free from his car seat he ran to my mom and said, “Gudie’s not my sister anymore!”
“Oh.” She put him down. Nathaniel ran in the house to play with Scoot. Mark and Judy stood in the driveway. All faces were different and unexplained. I was watching from my grandmother’s upstairs bedroom window holding her medication bottle. Nathaniel was also in our grandma’s room, except he was rubbing Scoot’s tummy.
My mom’s arms were crossed; she sucked in her tan cheeks, and inquired, “Why the hell did you tell my daughter…now.”
“Nathaniel heard.”
“Even I know, he’s an eavesdropper Judy!!”
“Oh, so now you’re telling me how to raise my kid!”
“NO…just…never mind! You promised me that you wouldn’t tell her until graduation. We would tell her together. This was supposed to be happy. This was the plan and you didn’t stick to it!!”
“Oh, like you had a plan! Having sex with complete strangers then getting pregnant with a girl who is TOTALLY gifted and smart and-and-beautiful!!”
My face light up and softened.
“You know I went to rehab and tried to do everything for her!”
“YEAH, well leaving her to your sister and acting as her aunt I really just showing you tried. Really.”
Judy pulled Mark into the house.
“Guilie AND Nathaniel LETS MOVE IT!”
“Okay! “ Nathaniel and I said at the same time. I was happy as I came downstairs holding my grandmother’s bag of medications and blankets.
I was the last kid to come down stairs and I hugged Judy and kissed on the cheek.
“I love you,” she said.
“I love you too. Both of you,” I replied back. I couldn’t believe what came out of Mark’s mouth next. “Even though I never had the uncle and niece relationship. The one we have now is even better. I love you too. “
My mom stood in the doorway. She clapped her hands together and announced, “Grandma Rosemaria is in the car, is everyone ready to go?”
“I need to make a phone call.”
Ashley: “Okay, Guilie. Take you time.”
Judy: “Yeah we’ll be in the car waiting.”
As soon as the family of three walked out, my mom grabbed my face and tried too kiss m but I rejected it.
She went out to her car looking mad, and disappointed…
I went into the bathroom and closed the door and dialed speed dial #2 on my phone.
Josh: “Hello?”
Guilianna: “Josh?”
Josh: “Hey, what’s up, babe?”
Guilianna: “Um, I have something I need to tell you.”
Josh: “Okay…”
Guilianna: “You know I love you…right?”
Josh: “Right. Of course!”
Guilianna: “And you love me, am I right?”
Josh: “Yes...”
It was dead silence except for Josh munching on some breakfast.
Guilianna: “Um…I’m…”
Josh: “Naked?”
Guilianna laughed hard. He thought they were about to have phone sex!
Guilianna: “No you a--!”
Josh chuckled embarrassingly.
Josh: “Oh, then what were you going to say?”

Guilianna: “I’m preg…”
Josh interrupted.
Josh: “Nant!!”
Josh’s mom shrieked, “WHAT?!”
Josh: “Oh! I’m talking to one of friends, you know…Patrick James.”
Josh’s mom: “That boy is always getting into trouble, what kind of trouble is he in now?”
Josh: “MOM!! I’m talking to Guilianna Helios…my girlfriend?”
Josh’s mom: “Oh…”
Guilianna giggled. It was cute to her when he was embarrassed especially when his mom caused it or older sister.
Josh: “Listen, what I don’t understand is…”
Guilianna: “I know. I’ll explain all of this later, just listen…please.”
He sighed frustrated as an answer.
Guilianna: “Here’s what we’re going to do. Come over to my house for dinner because I know your mom is going over to her boyfriend’s house, and we’ll announce that we’re pregnant. As a Christmas present or gift or whatever.”
Josh: “Guile!” he whined.
Guilianna: “Trust me. I’ll take the blame, the truth cannot be revealed yet especially during this ‘happy time’…it’s…”
Josh: “Very confidential, you say this all the time.”
Guilianna: “Thanks.”
Josh: “So, you’ll tell me the ‘truth’ soon?”
Guilianna: (speaking German) “Versprechen. Ich liebe Sie.” (Promise. I love you.)
Josh: (speaking German) “Ich liebe Sie auch. Tschüs!” (I love you too. Bye!)
Guilianna snapped her phone shut and said, “Ach lieber Gott, werde ich erbrechen!” (Oh dear god, I’m going to barf!)
And she did.
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2008-03-24 11:04:31 by kay2013

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Chapter 1
My brother, Nathaniel, and I, Guilianna (JU*LEE*ANNA) ran down stairs at 5:57am quietly, we weren’t supposed to wake them until 6 o’clock am.
We sat around the Christmas tree. There were at least 40 presents around the tree. We were a middle class family but rich at the same time. Well, my dad explains it better than I do.
While sitting there, I got up and got the old radio from the cold basement that belonged to my great grandma and turned on the Christmas station. The song “Rocking around the Christmas Tree” was playing and I was singing along to it. Everyone said I had I nice voice but I didn’t believe them. Them meaning my two, still in love parents.
My brother said, “Look at this present it’s HUGE!” He grabbed a present that was as big as nightstand and had his name written in black permanent marker, it looked a lot like my mom’s cursive hand writing but I didn’t bother to tell him because I was trying to concentrate on my singing and because I knew he would find out that Santa wasn’t real. I did and I knew it all along.
He started to open it, but I smacked it from his hands, and snatched it. “No, not yet!”
Then he yelled loud enough to get our mom to come downstairs, “MOM! Guilie (JU*LEE) hit me!” We were an Italian and German family, and all the usual.
“No I didn’t! He’s lying!”
The hallway light beamed on the upside down L stair case and I saw my mother’s skinny shadow getting closer to the wall.
She came downstairs, tying up her blue silk robe. “What is going on here?” she asked in an irritating voice.
“Guilie hit me. Hit me baaad, momma,” he whined.
I rolled my eyes. Mom walked over and picked up my 3 year old brother and told me, “Guilie go in your room and take a shower, and get ready for church.”
“Fine.”
I followed my mom upstairs; Nathaniel was starting to fell asleep again because my mom was singing a lullaby and rubbing his back.
At the beginning of the top of the staircase, was the 1st bathroom, were my dad was shaving.
“Judy, wake the boy up, we can’t be late for church today.”
My mom turned her head to me and said, “Go get ready,” in a strict tone. I walked into my bedroom and started to notice that my parents weren’t much in love.
12 minutes later I was in the shower and my mom was knocking on the door but I couldn’t pick up what she was saying
“Guilie, telephone!”
“What?!”
“Guilie telephone…NOW!”
“WHAT?!”
“TELEPHONE!’
“Oh, coming!”
I stepped out the shower, grabbed my pink cotton robe, opened my bathroom door, grabbing the phone and passing my mother by.
“Guilie turn off the shower,” she demanded.
“I can’t I have a phone call.”
“Oh please, it’s just your aunt.”
I rolled my eyes jumping on my bed.
“Hello this is Guilianna Helios”
“Hi, it’s your aunt, Ashley.”
“Oh, hi, are you coming to church?” I asked in a very bubbly voice, I always felt calmer when my aunt was there to settle things.
“Um, no not today sweetheart. I have to go to the hospital.”
“Why are you hurt?”
“No just your normal check-up.”
“Oh, well are you coming with us to pick-up grandma Rosemaria after church?”
“Yep. You guys will go home, get out of your church clothes, and your mom and I will cook breakfast. So I’ll see you there after you guys get back.”
“Okay,” I alleged in a sweet voice.
“I guess your upset that you can’t open any present’s yet, huh?”
“Yeah.”
“Well I have a present for you.”
“Really? Can I open it now?”
Ashley laughed. “Of course not sweetheart.”
I looked at my mom she was standing in the doorway of my bathroom leaning her head against my door, holding a dirty cleaning rag and staring at me in a weird way. The shower was still on.
“Ashley, I have to go.”
“Okay hon, bye.”
I put the black cordless, heavy phone on my nightstand.
“Mom, are you okay?”
She snapped and shrugged, “Yeah, turn off the shower please, and you still have soap on the back of her head.” She left my room closing the door.
Why was everyone acting so weird? I asked myself. I put that question aside, dried off my hair slowly, and went into my closet picking out a black baby doll dress that stopped and a half an inch above the knees, and black ballerina shoes, putting my long brown hair into a ponytail. After I was done I went downstairs, and watched TV until the rest of my family came down.




“I think I see a parking space right over there,” pointed out my mother looking around the busy church parking lot. Cars of all sizes were moving in, barely any moving out, families of 2,3,4,5, etc were getting out of there cars and walking across streets to get into the church, which slowed down cars even more.
We drove around the parking lot for five minutes but found a spot right by Green family, who lived in another county but didn’t have a church in their county.
Both families got out and met up by the front door. And I tell you it took a very long time because of the traffic.
“Good morning, Mr. and Ms.Green,” greeted my dad half way bowing. The green family included the 37 year old parents, Tom and Claire, their two twin daughters Emily and Emma, my best friends, and my boyfriend, josh, who’s only two years older then me 14.
My mom was smiling with her lime green suit with skin color sandals. My brother was playing with Josh; they were both dressed in black tuxedos. Emily, Emma, and I started talking and wives chatted with wives and husbands chatted with husbands.
While Emma, Emily, and I were chatting about Ashley’s new boyfriend, Kevin, Josh snuck up behind me and gave me a surprise kiss on my cheek.
“We’ll leave you alone,” said Emma.
“No stay!” I yelled, catching jus in time before they walked off.
“So, what were you ladies talking about?” asked Josh
“Kevin.” I replied.
“Oh…that super MEGA hot-tie!”
All of us girls laughed.
“Shut up,” I demanded playfully, gently hitting him. “He is just my aunt’s boyfriend.”
“Yeah, your aunt’s hot boyfriend.”
They all laughed, except for me, I stood there calm yet nervous just smiling.


We got back at 10 o’clock. My feet and throat were sore, I sung a solo in front a huge crowd of 1,000 people, and I was almost standing the whole time praying.
As my dad opened the door, a huge thing of a snow storm came rushing in. It was a blizzard outside.
“Okay, Guilie, go upstairs and change out of your church clothes and help your brother,” stipulated my mom.
My brother and I ran downstairs while, my father and mom chatted in their bedroom, changing…gross.
“Judy, you have to tell her. I mean I want to have another baby of our own again I can’t believe Nathan was our only one.”
“I will…”
“You keep saying that-“
“I know-“
“I’m GETTING OLD!”
I was unbuttoning Nathaniel’s blue shirt when I heard my father, little did they know, I was getting old of hiding something. After I was done with getting Nathaniel dressed, I went into my bathroom and held up my sweatshirt and t-shirt and touched my stomach. I had 3 pregnancy tests lying at the end of my bathroom counter, they all said yes. A tear shed down my cheek. I heard a bedroom door open then close.
“Guilianna, are you ready?” bawled my mom.
“Yes!”
“Let’s go.” We all scrambled downstairs and into the car to go pick-up grandma Rosemaria.


The car was loud even though I was listening to my iPod and my mom and dad were talking, and my brother was listening, like normal. We still didn’t open any presents.
“For 12 years we kept it a secret, from a child that’s even ours…for 12 years I’ve had to say I love when I didn’t mean it.”
“She’s my sister’s child; I had to take her in. Ash was too young to have a kid. Unfortunately, Guilianna was her kid. Ashley put her up for adoption and she told me that she wanted to adopt it, so I did.”
“GUILIANNA’S ADOPTED!” screeched Nathaniel, loud enough for me to hear. Little did they know that he was pretending to be asleep?
I took my headphones off of my ears and said, “What?”
“Nothing,” held my mom.
“Judy tell her!” insisted my dad.
“Guilianna, I’m not really your mom. Ashley is. She got pregnant when she was 24 and she was still a party all night drink all day every day. She finally went to rehab when she found out she was pregnant and after her boyfriend broke up with her…She came out and she put up for adoption and she said she wanted me to adopt her. I was in the birthing room. I cut your umbilical cord…”
She started to cry covering her mouth.
“Oh, shut up!”
“GUILIE!” shrieked my dad.
“Please, she’s not even my mother, why should I listen to her?!”
“As long as you’re under our roof, you will follow our rules!”
“Oh, Mark, don’t yell at her!”
After I angrily put my headphones back on, turning up the music louder and louder as she kept calling my name.
“Guilie…”
“GUILIE…”
“Guilie!!!!!!!!!”
Nathaniel cried, “Gudie not my sister!” He cried very hard, all the way their.
I cried too.




Judy pulled up into Grandma Rosemaria’s driveway, there was my mom playing with the Golden retriever, Scoot.
I got out of the car while it was still moving.
“Guilianna!” yelled Judy.
As I walked pass my real mom I said, “I can’t believe you didn’t tell me!” but I stopped walking furiously to give my grandma a hug. “Could you go get my bags, dear?”
“Of course,” I replied. I stopped smiling and stormed in the house with Scoot following me. My mom’s smile faded.
Once Nathaniel was free from his car seat he ran to my mom and said, “Gudie’s not my sister anymore!”
“Oh.” She put him down. Nathaniel ran in the house to play with Scoot. Mark and Judy stood in the driveway. All faces were different and unexplained. I was watching from my grandmother’s upstairs bedroom window holding her medication bottle. Nathaniel was also in our grandma’s room, except he was rubbing Scoot’s tummy.
My mom’s arms were crossed; she sucked in her tan cheeks, and inquired, “Why the hell did you tell my daughter…now.”
“Nathaniel heard.”
“Even I know, he’s an eavesdropper Judy!!”
“Oh, so now you’re telling me how to raise my kid!”
“NO…just…never mind! You promised me that you wouldn’t tell her until graduation. We would tell her together. This was supposed to be happy. This was the plan and you didn’t stick to it!!”
“Oh, like you had a plan! Having sex with complete strangers then getting pregnant with a girl who is TOTALLY gifted and smart and-and-beautiful!!”
My face light up and softened.
“You know I went to rehab and tried to do everything for her!”
“YEAH, well leaving her to your sister and acting as her aunt I really just showing you tried. Really.”
Judy pulled Mark into the house.
“Guilie AND Nathaniel LETS MOVE IT!”
“Okay! “ Nathaniel and I said at the same time. I was happy as I came downstairs holding my grandmother’s bag of medications and blankets.
I was the last kid to come down stairs and I hugged Judy and kissed on the cheek.
“I love you,” she said.
“I love you too. Both of you,” I replied back. I couldn’t believe what came out of Mark’s mouth next. “Even though I never had the uncle and niece relationship. The one we have now is even better. I love you too. “
My mom stood in the doorway. She clapped her hands together and announced, “Grandma Rosemaria is in the car, is everyone ready to go?”
“I need to make a phone call.”
Ashley: “Okay, Guilie. Take you time.”
Judy: “Yeah we’ll be in the car waiting.”
As soon as the family of three walked out, my mom grabbed my face and tried too kiss m but I rejected it.
She went out to her car looking mad, and disappointed..

It's a good story. There are quite a few small typos that need to be fixed. Sometimes you use a word that is very close to what you mean but not the right word like; were vs. where, fell vs. fall, light vs. lit, that sort of thing. In a couple of places you change tense from first person narrative to third and I don't think you meant to do that. You say Josh is two years older than Guilie and he's 14, or is it Guilie who's 14. That's definitely unclear. Either way, isn't she awfully young to be pregnant. Shouldn't she confide in somebody? Does Josh know? This is a very important part of your story and could use more attention. It needs some polishing but it's basically well written.

2008-03-15 12:36:48 by kay2013

It's not done but i want some REAL criticc judgements and comment on it so far. THX SO MUCH!! LOVE YA! Here it is:

Chapter 1
My brother, Nathaniel, and I, Guilianna (JU*LEE*ANNA) ran down stairs at 5:57am quietly, we weren’t supposed to wake them until 6 o’clock am.
We sat around the Christmas tree. There were at least 40 presents around the tree. We were a middle class family but rich at the same time. Well, my dad explains it better than I do.
While sitting there, I got up and got the old radio from the cold basement that belonged to my great grandma and turned on the Christmas station. The song “Rocking around the Christmas Tree” was playing and I was singing along to it. Everyone said I had I nice voice but I didn’t believe them. Them meaning my two, still in love parents.
My brother said, “Look at this present it’s HUGE!” He grabbed a present that was as big as nightstand and had his name written in black permanent marker, it looked a lot like my mom’s cursive hand writing but I didn’t bother to tell him because I was trying to concentrate on my singing and because I knew he would find out that Santa wasn’t real. I did and I knew it all along.
He started to open it, but I smacked it from his hands, and snatched it. “No, not yet!”
Then he yelled loud enough to get our mom to come downstairs, “MOM! Guilie (JU*LEE) hit me!” We were an Italian and German family, and all the usual.
“No I didn’t! He’s lying!”
The hallway light beamed on the upside down L stair case and I saw my mother’s skinny shadow getting closer to the wall.
She came downstairs, tying up her blue silk robe. “What is going on here?” she asked in an irritating voice.
“Guilie hit me. Hit me baaad, momma,” he whined.
I rolled my eyes. Mom walked over and picked up my 3 year old brother and told me, “Guilie go in your room and take a shower, and get ready for church.”
“Fine.”
I followed my mom upstairs; Nathaniel was starting to fell asleep again because my mom was singing a lullaby and rubbing his back.
At the beginning of the top of the staircase, was the 1st bathroom, were my dad was shaving.
“Judy, wake the boy up, we can’t be late for church today.”
My mom turned her head to me and said, “Go get ready,” in a strict tone. I walked into my bedroom and started to notice that my parents weren’t much in love.
12 minutes later I was in the shower and my mom was knocking on the door but I couldn’t pick up what she was saying
“Guilie, telephone!”
“What?!”
“Guilie telephone…NOW!”
“WHAT?!”
“TELEPHONE!’
“Oh, coming!”
I stepped out the shower, grabbed my pink cotton robe, opened my bathroom door, grabbing the phone and passing my mother by.
“Guilie turn off the shower,” she demanded.
“I can’t I have a phone call.”
“Oh please, it’s just your aunt.”
I rolled my eyes jumping on my bed.
“Hello this is Guilianna Helios”
“Hi, it’s your aunt, Ashley.”
“Oh, hi, are you coming to church?” I asked in a very bubbly voice, I always felt calmer when my aunt was there to settle things.
“Um, no not today sweetheart. I have to go to the hospital.”
“Why are you hurt?”
“No just your normal check-up.”
“Oh, well are you coming with us to pick-up grandma Rosemaria after church?”
“Yep. You guys will go home, get out of your church clothes, and your mom and I will cook breakfast. So I’ll see you there after you guys get back.”
“Okay,” I alleged in a sweet voice.
“I guess your upset that you can’t open any present’s yet, huh?”
“Yeah.”
“Well I have a present for you.”
“Really? Can I open it now?”
Ashley laughed. “Of course not sweetheart.”
I looked at my mom she was standing in the doorway of my bathroom leaning her head against my door, holding a dirty cleaning rag and staring at me in a weird way. The shower was still on.
“Ashley, I have to go.”
“Okay hon, bye.”
I put the black cordless, heavy phone on my nightstand.
“Mom, are you okay?”
She snapped and shrugged, “Yeah, turn off the shower please, and you still have soap on the back of her head.” She left my room closing the door.
Why was everyone acting so weird? I asked myself. I put that question aside, dried off my hair slowly, and went into my closet picking out a black baby doll dress that stopped and a half an inch above the knees, and black ballerina shoes, putting my long brown hair into a ponytail. After I was done I went downstairs, and watched TV until the rest of my family came down.




“I think I see a parking space right over there,” pointed out my mother looking around the busy church parking lot. Cars of all sizes were moving in, barely any moving out, families of 2,3,4,5, etc were getting out of there cars and walking across streets to get into the church, which slowed down cars even more.
We drove around the parking lot for five minutes but found a spot right by Green family, who lived in another county but didn’t have a church in their county.
Both families got out and met up by the front door. And I tell you it took a very long time because of the traffic.
“Good morning, Mr. and Ms.Green,” greeted my dad half way bowing. The green family included the 37 year old parents, Tom and Claire, their two twin daughters Emily and Emma, my best friends, and my boyfriend, josh, who’s only two years older then me 14.
My mom was smiling with her lime green suit with skin color sandals. My brother was playing with Josh; they were both dressed in black tuxedos. Emily, Emma, and I started talking and wives chatted with wives and husbands chatted with husbands.
While Emma, Emily, and I were chatting about Ashley’s new boyfriend, Kevin, Josh snuck up behind me and gave me a surprise kiss on my cheek.
“We’ll leave you alone,” said Emma.
“No stay!” I yelled, catching jus in time before they walked off.
“So, what were you ladies talking about?” asked Josh
“Kevin.” I replied.
“Oh…that super MEGA hot-tie!”
All of us girls laughed.
“Shut up,” I demanded playfully, gently hitting him. “He is just my aunt’s boyfriend.”
“Yeah, your aunt’s hot boyfriend.”
They all laughed, except for me, I stood there calm yet nervous just smiling.


We got back at 10 o’clock. My feet and throat were sore, I sung a solo in front a huge crowd of 1,000 people, and I was almost standing the whole time praying.
As my dad opened the door, a huge thing of a snow storm came rushing in. It was a blizzard outside.
“Okay, Guilie, go upstairs and change out of your church clothes and help your brother,” stipulated my mom.
My brother and I ran downstairs while, my father and mom chatted in their bedroom, changing…gross.
“Judy, you have to tell her. I mean I want to have another baby of our own again I can’t believe Nathan was our only one.”
“I will…”
“You keep saying that-“
“I know-“
“I’m GETTING OLD!”
I was unbuttoning Nathaniel’s blue shirt when I heard my father, little did they know, I was getting old of hiding something. After I was done with getting Nathaniel dressed, I went into my bathroom and held up my sweatshirt and t-shirt and touched my stomach. I had 3 pregnancy tests lying at the end of my bathroom counter, they all said yes. A tear shed down my cheek. I heard a bedroom door open then close.
“Guilianna, are you ready?” bawled my mom.
“Yes!”
“Let’s go.” We all scrambled downstairs and into the car to go pick-up grandma Rosemaria.


The car was loud even though I was listening to my iPod and my mom and dad were talking, and my brother was listening, like normal. We still didn’t open any presents.
“For 12 years we kept it a secret, from a child that’s even ours…for 12 years I’ve had to say I love when I didn’t mean it.”
“She’s my sister’s child; I had to take her in. Ash was too young to have a kid. Unfortunately, Guilianna was her kid. Ashley put her up for adoption and she told me that she wanted to adopt it, so I did.”
“GUILIANNA’S ADOPTED!” screeched Nathaniel, loud enough for me to hear. Little did they know that he was pretending to be asleep?
I took my headphones off of my ears and said, “What?”
“Nothing,” held my mom.
“Judy tell her!” insisted my dad.
“Guilianna, I’m not really your mom. Ashley is. She got pregnant when she was 24 and she was still a party all night drink all day every day. She finally went to rehab when she found out she was pregnant and after her boyfriend broke up with her…She came out and she put up for adoption and she said she wanted me to adopt her. I was in the birthing room. I cut your umbilical cord…”
She started to cry covering her mouth.
“Oh, shut up!”
“GUILIE!” shrieked my dad.
“Please, she’s not even my mother, why should I listen to her?!”
“As long as you’re under our roof, you will follow our rules!”
“Oh, Mark, don’t yell at her!”
After I angrily put my headphones back on, turning up the music louder and louder as she kept calling my name.
“Guilie…”
“GUILIE…”
“Guilie!!!!!!!!!”
Nathaniel cried, “Gudie not my sister!” He cried very hard, all the way their.
I cried too.




Judy pulled up into Grandma Rosemaria’s driveway, there was my mom playing with the Golden retriever, Scoot.
I got out of the car while it was still moving.
“Guilianna!” yelled Judy.
As I walked pass my real mom I said, “I can’t believe you didn’t tell me!” but I stopped walking furiously to give my grandma a hug. “Could you go get my bags, dear?”
“Of course,” I replied. I stopped smiling and stormed in the house with Scoot following me. My mom’s smile faded.
Once Nathaniel was free from his car seat he ran to my mom and said, “Gudie’s not my sister anymore!”
“Oh.” She put him down. Nathaniel ran in the house to play with Scoot. Mark and Judy stood in the driveway. All faces were different and unexplained. I was watching from my grandmother’s upstairs bedroom window holding her medication bottle. Nathaniel was also in our grandma’s room, except he was rubbing Scoot’s tummy.
My mom’s arms were crossed; she sucked in her tan cheeks, and inquired, “Why the hell did you tell my daughter…now.”
“Nathaniel heard.”
“Even I know, he’s an eavesdropper Judy!!”
“Oh, so now you’re telling me how to raise my kid!”
“NO…just…never mind! You promised me that you wouldn’t tell her until graduation. We would tell her together. This was supposed to be happy. This was the plan and you didn’t stick to it!!”
“Oh, like you had a plan! Having sex with complete strangers then getting pregnant with a girl who is TOTALLY gifted and smart and-and-beautiful!!”
My face light up and softened.
“You know I went to rehab and tried to do everything for her!”
“YEAH, well leaving her to your sister and acting as her aunt I really just showing you tried. Really.”
Judy pulled Mark into the house.
“Guilie AND Nathaniel LETS MOVE IT!”
“Okay! “ Nathaniel and I said at the same time. I was happy as I came downstairs holding my grandmother’s bag of medications and blankets.
I was the last kid to come down stairs and I hugged Judy and kissed on the cheek.
“I love you,” she said.
“I love you too. Both of you,” I replied back. I couldn’t believe what came out of Mark’s mouth next. “Even though I never had the uncle and niece relationship. The one we have now is even better. I love you too. “
My mom stood in the doorway. She clapped her hands together and announced, “Grandma Rosemaria is in the car, is everyone ready to go?”
“I need to make a phone call.”
Ashley: “Okay, Guilie. Take you time.”
Judy: “Yeah we’ll be in the car waiting.”
As soon as the family of three walked out, my mom grabbed my face and tried too kiss me.

PLEASE..TELL ME how were you able to post all that??

2008-03-15 11:53:34 by kay2013

I have been using the Nuvaring birth control for almost two years now. My doctor put me on a pill called fluconazole to clear up a lil skin problem that I was having. This pill messes up the effectiveness of the birth control so prescribed me to take it once a week but on the package i read that it lasts an entire week in your system. I took it for two weeks until the following...

I had my withdrawal bleeding from the 1st-5th October. I was supposed to but the ring back in on the night of the 5th but I forgot and didn't put it in until around 3pm on the 6th. My husband and I had sex on the 9th. About a week and a half later I started having a lil nausea, shortness of breath, a gurgling, weird, eerie movements in my stomach, gas and bloating. On the 20th I took the ring out and decided to go see my doctor. A urine test came back negative. I got another withdrawal bleeding on the 23rd from taking the ring out. It was like a red orange funny color which I have never seen before and was so light that I could use pantiliners after a day and a half of bleeding. It was just too weird. My breast are not only getting bigger but the areolas are definitely getting larger and darker. I have a lil beauty mark on one breast so I knew when I saw my areola outside of this mark. I also started to have Montgomery gland showing up and verry prominently. About the 28th the same things but now added was lower back pain, lower abdominal pain, constipation and cloudiness in my urine though it is almost clear white every time. Since the 28th Oct up until now, I'm having a tugging type of sensation in my stomach. My breast nipple are sore; even my fuzzy cotton robe causes it to hurt. It seems to be getting worse by the day.There seems to be lil white stuff in the gland around my nipples. I having pain on my lower side every now and again, gas, bloating everyday and my lower insides hurts just from the action of walking. I have never experienced anything lil this before even before I went on birth control. I have taken 2 hpt at four weeks and it was negative. I have taken even in the morning but my urine is still almost clear then so I don't know how accurate the reading will be. Most of the symptoms can be attributed to me coming of the birth control but I the enlarged areola and montgomery gland does not sound like a birth control side effect. What does this sound like to you?

pregnancy..

2009-11-10 18:33:28 by

Graco Pack 'N Play with Posture Plus Changer
Graco Snugride Infant Car Seat
Jogger Stroller
High Chair
Convertible Car Seat
Boppy Cradle Bouncer
Four Piece Bedding Set
Diaper Stacker
Hamper
Extra Fitted Sheet Blue
Moisture-proof mattress pads
Night Light
Changing Pad & Accessories
Crib Gift Pack
Boppy with Cover
Drying Rack
5 Pack Bibs
Steam Sterilizer
Dishwasher Basket
Burp Cloths
Koala Baby Blue Luxe Baby Blanket
Carter's Flannel Receiving Blanket - Frog
Carter's Sweet Baby Blanket - Blue
Gerber 2-Pack Thermal Receiving Blanket- Sport Print/ Blue
Gerber 5-Pack Flannel Receiving Blankets - Sports Print
5 Pack Receiving Blankets
Dino Towel 3 Pack
Koala Hooded Towel & Wash Cloth
Wash Cloths - 8 pack
Infant Tub
Johnson's Bathtime Essentials Gift Set
Boudreaux's Butt Paste - 4oz.
Baby Kisses Lip Balm
Sea Creatures Robe
Wash Cloths - 8 pack
Wash Cloths - 4 pack
Pampers Newborn
Pampers Size 1
Pampers Size 2
Pampers Size 3
Disposible Changing Table Pads
Travel Wipes
Big Wipes Pack
Sleep Sack
Onesies
Newborn (Cotton feeted pajama thingys)
0-3 Months (Cotton feeted pajama thingys)
Humidifier
Grooming Set
Ear Thermometer
Diaper Bag
Boppy Shopping Cart Liner
Snug Rider with Mesh
Diaper Genie II Elite
Diaper Genie II Refills
Baby Monitor
Hangers
Crib
Changing Table
Rocker/Glider
Mattress

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~_~.

Hi Red -

How are you 2??

We happen to love the Genie! But then it was both me & my daughter tending to my Grand daughter.

I THINK the ONE THING, I didn't notice being mentioned is...

A BABY WIPE WARMER!!! Imagine it were you @ 2:00 in the morning and some one wiped your lil'tushy with a cold wet clothe!!
I think your lil'fella would appreciate it!

You 2 take care!! Lillsoma

_________ ~_~.

[edit]
Did anyone mention a swing?? Gotta have a swing!!

2009-05-26 12:04:04 by Red