Honeymoons are meant to be sweet and certainly this one was sweet…even when some of that sweetness of lovemaking came back up for her to taste it again. Knowing from seeing her mother like this before and even her father, no thanks to his stargazing, she knew as soon as it happened. As soon as she got the conformation from the doctor, she didn’t wait to tell him. “Sid, oh Sidney, I have something to tell you,” Candice said in singsong voice with a smile that could make the biggest grump happy. “Guess what I got?”

“Hmmm, you got joy, the joy of the Lord in you, radiating in and out of you, hallelujah, I’m happy you’re happy!”

“Oh I got joy alright, but do you want to know where it’s coming from?”

“Sure. Lay it on me!”

“From the morning sickness I’m having! It’s not so bad, so I’m thankful of that.”

“You’re happy, you’re sick… wait, did you say, morning sickness… then that means, you’re having a, a baby, you’re pregnant, we’re expecting?!”

“We sure are!”

“Is it a boy or girl?!”

“I don’t know, I’m not even showing yet!”

“Ha, ha, ha, right, of course! Duh! I forgot! I’m just so happy to get the news, I got stupid there for a second! We got to start picking out names!”

“Ha, ha, ha, ha, yes, that too, and a crib, and a changing table.”

“My mom’s going to be a grandma, and my dad a grandpa…”

“Again, they already are grandparents. My parents will be grandparents however for the very first time.”

“I know, I was just going to say that! Ohh, I’m so happy,” with happiness of a new life in his wife’s womb and the thoughts and joys and worries of being coming a father and a daddy for the first time, overridden his mind and thoughts for the next little while, so the Tricou’s were forgotten, but not the promise.

“Hmm, Jennifer, hmm, Tammy, hmm,” thinking of baby names she cooed a bit with the thought of each new name that popped into her head. Going back upstairs to make the bed that was forgotten about due to an urgent need for the bathroom and breakfast, she there found Sidney standing near the crib and the changing table he had picked out and gotten free from his business, pleading his case with God. Sidney’s pleading was half-indiscernible since it was heavy-laden with sobs and tears. Not wanting to irrupt him, she went on her way to make the bed then cleaned the bathroom up, and just about the time she had done that Sidney had switched over to thanking God, believing his prayers to be answered in his heart. “Sid, are you okay, you were upset a few seconds ago, are you okay now?”

“Oh, I don’t know, yes, I guess so. I’m just a little worried is all. Tell me the truth, do you think I will be a good father. I’m so freaked out. I don’t know what to do. We have a new life, and new responsibilities coming. The responsibilities I can easily handle, it’s just the…I’m just so freaked out I’ll do something wrong, you know. I don’t know what to do anymore, when I think of it all. It’s the first time I’ll be a dad.”

“It’s okay, I’m freaked out too to be a mom for the first time. You’ll make an excellent father, you’re loving kind, always thinking of others before yourself, you’ll be a great daddy to this one or two, and to all of our other ones we will have. You know what, I’ll bet your big brother Nate was freaked out too, when he and Kate were expecting little Nathanial. Ohh, honey, it’s going to be all right, all new parents go through this, I’m sure. I know I sure am, but look on the good bright side of things. We both got experience with kids, right. I’m the eldest first child of my family and so I helped my brothers and sisters, and you being the second eldest child in your family, you too, helped to raise your younger siblings too, right. So we both know what to do, but, yes, I don’t dismiss that it will be scary, after all, this will be our first baby, our very own baby or babies, and will be our first time, so yes it is scary, yet very exciting too as well. We’ll know what to do when the time comes, we have experience on our hands, feeding, changing, and caring for our younger siblings.”

“I suppose so. Sniff, but do all new fathers, feel like they have to use the bathroom, every 2 hours, and eat like they’re eating for two, like they’re the one who is pregnant, not their wife?”

“Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, uhh, yeah, some do. My dad got that once or twice, uh, what was it, oh yeah, Couvade Syndrome. The doctor said it’s perfectly normal to feel that way. Of course, that other time, he couldn’t be excused from that, he really was eating for two, while he was pregnant.”

Sidney smirked and smiled, hearing that cheered him right up! He being a Knowledge aspiration, still, knew all too well, what happened to a male who was abducted, they came home in most cases, pregnant, and now even some females were too, who were abducted. “Couvade Syndrome, so, it’s all in my head.”

“Some of it I suppose. But do you know what, be it in your head or not, I love you for it, for being so sympathetic, so thank you,” she cooed comforting him with a cuddle cheering him right up, even more.

“You really are my better half, you know that. Where I start to get lost, you find me, and lead me back, thank you.”

The 2 Tricou ghosts were out along with the caretaker, Rainelle. Gvaudoin was upset as usual, and started to take it out on poor Fricorith, not being able to do much else about it. “I told you I told you, he lied to us! He hasn’t even bothered to bring us back. He doesn’t care anymore, he’s like, her!”

Fricorith being the much more sensitive type, cried, although he did his best to hide his tears from Gvaudoin, least he be teased of it by her. He didn’t believe it was Sidney’s fault in forgetting about them. He tried to remind Gvaudoin about that, as they both knew about most, to all of, the goings on inside the house. “He did not. If you knew you were having a baby, wouldn’t that distract you for a time, give him a chance. Babies are a lot of work.” He didn’t know where that came from but as soon as it exited Fricorith’s ghostly mouth he knew after he had said it, that it was true, he didn’t know how he knew, but he knew, that it was true. He vaguely remembered a crib, a potty chair, and some toys, lots of hustling and bustling around, being alone and not liking it and crying about it. Something about crawling to find mommy and daddy, some ah, yes, that statue in that yard, he remembered daddy holding him and he looked down. Flashes came to his mind, and terror and fear, he couldn’t put the pieces together no matter how hard he tried, he wasn’t allowed that, he was dead and at peace now, he didn’t need to know why. He just knew that this wasn’t who he was supposed to be, as he realized that finally as he looked at himself for the very first time, to really realize it, the truth. “I’m big, right, I’m big now, right, I remember now, I’m not supposed to be big, yet.”

“What are you talking about? Never mind! His chances are up, are you with me? Let’s just see how much he likes to be spooked by ghosts.”

“Gvaudoin--I, I don’t know, if we should.”

“Grow a backbone, chicken baby! Her fault, if she hadn’t moved in here, we might be alive now! I can’t see my parents, and neither will you ever see yours!

“Don’t say that, it’s not true,” wandering off on his own, he was greatly upset by his cousin’s words, and this time there was no stopping his tears, as he cried out loudly. “He didn’t forget us, I know he didn’t, it’s just the baby, distracting him, that’s all, that’s all it is, the baby, not that it’s the baby’s fault, or anything.” He had to wait though until later that night when Sidney came back from working to try reminding him that they were still here, and were still waiting for him to, somehow, make good on his promise. He was dressed in his pajamas now, and had come out here for some reason. Whatever reason it was, Fricorith didn’t care, he just had to let Sidney know it, he was upset and needed for him to know that. He was not happy, he desperately wanted to see his parents again, he may have others around now, which was a good thing, but it still didn’t help him, he still was homesick for his parents. “Oh please forgive me for this, Sidney, okay, I really, don’t want to hurt you.” Going invisible, Fricorith jumped out in front of Sidney and spooked him. “Boo ahhahh!”

Sidney had his very first look at Fricorith Tricou, and was double shocked at what he perceived as he went to pick up the old newspaper to put it in the composter and take in the one from today. “Aaah, ohh, ha, ha, I was right, you are cute as a button. What the, you, you’re a Teenager, how is that even possible, I thought you were a Toddler or a Child, but…” Sighing he remembered. “No matter, I’ll bet you are upset, I forgot all about you, with the thoughts of having a family. I’ll make it all up to you. I’ll bet you miss your mom and dad. I don’t know, what parents, go with each of you, precious kids, but I do know, what I can do, to, try to, hopefully, make you happy. I just, hope, it’s the right thing, to do.”

“I miss them like you wouldn’t believe,” Fricorith sniffled, as he wailed out, crying, as he remembered them, and how his heart ached and longed for them as well as his aunt and uncle and grandparents as well. “You think I’m cute, sniff, awww, you’re sweet to say that,” he said shyly, between his sniffles, regret over what he had done frightening him emanating from his ghostly body. He hated the fact that he did what he had done, or the very real fear he could cause harm being a ghost and frightening people to death after seeing Gvaudoin doing that Rainelle. Fricorith became more wary and more watchful of Sidney though after that night, he however had no idea what Sidney was up to when Fricorith watched him when he left the next afternoon to go somewhere.

“Please God, is this the right thing to do, moving them, here, I’m sure this is their home, so please let me know if this is the right or the wrong thing to do.” There was not a bit of an inkling of wrongdoing in his heart, he felt at peace to do this. Walking across the street to Gothier Green Lawns he took each grave and transferred them all back to their original home, The House Of Fallen Trees. “Here you all go, back home, assuming this is your home, considering your children are resting here. So be good ghosts now, and don’t spook Candice too much. You can haunt me as much as you like however.”

Later that day some of the ghosts came out, namely Fricorith, first, as he had a look around and saw more gravestones. “Mommy, mama, sniff, ooh I want my mommy,” Fricorith regressed again, back to his true age, in a tantrum act of anger as he boiled over in an angry huff. He could not handle well begin alone, he hated that feeling of being alone, that lonely feeling, and he just plainly missed his mother and father.

It wasn’t long after that that his father came out and was startled at what he saw, this was not Gothier Green Lawns, he could; scarcely, believe what he saw. “Where am I? What the, I’m home, I, I’m back home again, but how, how did I get here?!” Half-angry and disturbed, but yet so very happy to be back home, Kvornan had a good look around the place, things had changed, he wasn’t too thrilled, but not that angry about the changes either.

Sniffling he looked over overjoyed as he recognized that black sweater vest, grey sweater, and black pants, even from behind and in its ghost form. “Ohh, daddy, daddy, is that you?!”

Kvornan knew that voice and spun around to see his son there ghost tears running down his young face, his own starting to fall as well. “Ohh, Fricorith, you’re, ohh, I missed you so much, son!” Although they could not hug each other, both knew if they could have, they would have been for hours on end. “I never thought I would see you again, I missed you so much, being stuck at Gothier Green Lawns. I could only look at our old home and hope you were okay, and dream maybe someday I may see you again, even just as a ghost. If I could hug and kiss you, I would, I would son; I would.”

Tears poured steadily more now from Fricorith’s young face at his dear loving father’s words, he had felt the exact same way, for both him and his dear mother. His words were tear-stricken and emanating a child’s voice when he finally spoke, using childlike words, again, reminding Kvornan exactly what had been done to him and Gvaudoin. “Oh, daddy, I missed you too! Is mama here too?”

“I don’t know, I think so, looks that way, there’s her gave, she’s just not out yet, she might be later though. I’m upset to be moved back here, but I’m so glad of it as well. I finally get to see you.”

“Me too, I think he did it, for us, he keeps on taking like we will be resurrected soon. Gvaudoin doesn’t think so, but, I believe him.”

It took Kvornan a few seconds for it all to come to his mind what he had tried doing a few years ago, it took time, he realized, a lot of time, but it had worked, since he was here, that Sidney had moved here, to their home. He had thought he had failed, but by the grace of God, yes it had worked! “Then that means it worked, that’s why we’re all here. It worked, it worked; it really, really worked! Sidney, his name is Sidney, and yes, he will be able to bring us back. Now I know he will be able to help us all accomplish that, now that he’s here. It’s just a matter of waiting now, son, it’s just a matter of time and waiting. Don’t be too harsh with him, once you get to know him you will see he is a really kind soul.” His mind worked up with the concern of how things would work around it, this promise to their family, he remembered how he and the other adults had all died, that concern manifested in the ghostly trait he had. “I just hope they have food.”

“Yeah, I guess that’s important, now, they have a baby on the way.”

“Do they,” inspecting it for himself, he saw Candice soon, as she came out to try her hand at doing something he had never seen before-- jump rope, to help keep her trim figure-- but Candice soon stopped it, as her pregnancy was making her tired out faster, and retired back inside to read with Sidney. Recognizing her and Sidney instantly, he saw for sure now they were full Adults now, and that oh yes indeed Candice was quite pregnant. Being his death trait; as well as his concern, for their wellbeing; he checked in the fridge, a bit disappointed in seeing that it wasn’t overstocked. “Ohh, they had better not run out of food, or I will not be very happy.” Trying to get their attention, he waved his hands hopefully trying to alert them to the situation at the refrigerator. “Don’t forget about the food, you need to get lots of food, to survive, get more food! If you’re having a baby you will need more for both yourselves, and for the new baby you’re having!”

“Oooh,” Candice shuddered.

“What is it, the baby kicking.”

“Well that too, it’s just this odd feeling I’m having.”

Sidney noticed it now too, he could sense their presence, and he could hear them too, recognizing that distinctive noise from his experience in the Paranormal career. “The ghosts are out, that’s what you feel, dear. Maybe you should have taken this job rather than me,” he joked, half seriously, but huffed at his own joke, now that he thought about it. “I’m reading up on them, ghosts, I grabbed it before quitting my Paranormal job.”

“You quit your job, just so you could go into the Natural Science career with me. I don’t get it, do you have to take the same job as me,” she playfully teased.

“That’s part of the reason, yes, another is the part of not wanting to have anything to do with being a cult leader. I was happy being an exorcist, I would have been happy to stay as that and not be promoted, I hate the idea of begin a cult leader of anything, it’s demonic, and I will not be any part of it. Just as I wouldn’t like to stay as a rock god, for the very same reason, if I had taken that career path, they should really change that to Rock Star, there’s only one God. That’s why I had to quit. The other reason is that I have feeling that we will need the Cow Plant, and having 2 of them couldn’t hurt. I just keep getting inklings from God and possibly the ghosts. I think they know that I want to help them be resurrected and are helping me along with that task. Huh, and well, as long as it’s nothing evil, I’m more than happy to go along with it.”

“Is that what you’re reading up on there, ghosts and their strange doings and activities?”

“Yes, for more than one reason. I seen Fricorith, and I was surprised to see he was a Teenager, not a Toddler or a Child as his gravestone lead me to believe his true age to be. I figured I might be able to figure out this mystery by reading through this. It even tells me you can usually tell how ghosts died by their color. Like here, red is by fire, the girl for sure died by that. Yellow is electrocution, oh it says a pinkish orange color indicates being frightened to death, so that’s probably how that boy, Fricorith, I believe that’s how you say his name, died. He probably saw or watched his sister or his cousin, dying in a fire, and was frightened to death by it. Ah, here’s another interesting one, if you catch your refrigerator being opened and shut and find some food rations missing from it, suspect that the ghost has died of starvation.” Looking over, Sidney spotted Kvornan’s ghost, as he got up with a start, to see him at the refrigerator, and ran right over to him, as he headed out the door and outside again! “Whoa, gee, yeah, Kev-ron, you died of starvation!” Quick-witted in his mind, he instantly made the very real connection, to what he just read, and why Kvornan’s ghost would be looking inside the refrigerator, perhaps a warning. It both chilled him to the bone, to know and to realize, that, and it warmed his heart, all at the same time, that although being dead, Kvornan was somehow watching over them, and he was concerned for them. “So, to appease you, I guess we better keep it stocked, and check that we have enough food, or… ahh, ohh!”

“It’s Kvornan,” he shouted in his ghost voice before popping out and spooking Sidney, “Aahh, whoo-ahhahh!” After startling Sidney, he floated off, happy chucking away, mostly to himself, happy in a way, that he had gotten one of their attentions to get it through to them, to warn them of his concerns. He was glad to know Sidney truly took his Aspiration seriously, to realize just why he had done that, hearing what he just said. “Yes, you are quite right that is how I died, of starvation. So yes, you best keep that refrigerator stocked full of food, or I will not be very happy, and I will do more than just spook and haunt you, if it gets too low! I will be checking it, you can bet on that, so you best keep it stocked up, or else.”

“Daddy, please, don’t be angry with him. If you scare him too much he might die, just like that lady who was here before them; Gvaudoin sacred her, to death.”

“Dear Fricorith I’m not, and I wouldn’t dare do that, no, not at all, my sweet loving little boy, I’m just warning them. I was only a little annoyed that he’s an Adult now and he still can’t seem to get my name right. I care for him just like a brother, I don’t want the same thing happening to them that happened to us. I’m concerned for them and their wellbeing, that’s all. Let daddy know when Jon Smith comes out, we need to talk.”

“Okay. I love you daddy.”

“I love you too, my sweet baby boy.”

Time passed and Jon Smith finally came out of his grave. “He’s out, daddy, grandpa is out,” Fricorith called and his dad jumped out of his grave and floated over to him.

“Thanks son. Jon, we need to talk.”

“Oh, do we, nothing bad I hope.”

“No, it’s about getting us all resurrected, and concerning your distant relatives.” Jon Smith nodded. “We all need to know what they look like so we can all watch out for them. We will all take shifts to look and watch for them, day or night. I’m sure one of them will eventually come by here, at some time, and then…”

“SIDNEY, GET UP, IT’S TIME!!!”

Looking up to the upstairs bedroom a light was now on, the baby was coming in the late part of the night, as he heard Candice starting to scream from the pains of the childbirth and labor. “Do they still say that,” Kvornan asked wondering if they really had been dead for years, since the standard ‘the baby is coming’ or ‘it’s time’ was still very much used. “I guess the baby is on its way.”

“Ohh, I can’t wait to be able to hold it.”

“You can’t, I know you love babies and children, I do too, but you can’t physically do that, as much as you would like to, you can’t, you’re a ghost.”

“I want to hold the baby, I want to hold the baby,” Fricorith went off, his father could only sigh, his son though a teenager was still very much a young child in his mind, and especially when he got an idea in his head. The disturbing fact was, both Fricorith and Gvaudoin were both children, toddlers actually, though both physically teenagers in bodily form but young children in their minds.

“Damn those Social Services, and what they did to you, to you, and to Gvaudoin, damn them all to Hell.”

“Now now, you know you don’t mean that.”

“No, I don’t, hell is no place for them. But a good swift kick in the rear-end in there for 10 minutes just to know how much pain they caused us and who knows who else, to pay for their sinful deeds in full, would make me feel better about it. Provided it made them all change their ways. What they did to my son and Gvaudoin, ugh, they need to pay for it, it isn’t right, or fair, to them especially.”

“You’re angry because they did it to you as well.”

“Yes that too, but the only difference is, I grew up as an orphan all my life there, and I had a fairly normal life as far as being an orphan child and teen is concerned. The big difference is I choose to be childish, mostly due to my aspiration, Fricorith still is a child, because of what they did to him.”

“Aahaa here it comes”

“Ooh easy, easy, push, push, sweetie, you’re doing great!”

“Hmmm, well, looks like we will have our hands full times two now, watching for your decedents as well as for the Social Services, to make sure they keep their grimy hands off this little one.”

“Can and will do that, my children, and children, are my life.”

“Hmm I’ll bet it will be cute, both Candice and Sidney are good looking, I’ll bet the baby will be adorable. I’ll have to have a look at it after it’s born. Hmmm, I wonder what they’ll name it.”

“Ohh, hello baby, ohh, my little one, finally you’re here,” giving her newborn kisses she checked its sex and smiled, surprised at what she discovered. “It’s a boy, Sidney, and I have no idea what to name him. I was thinking all along that it was a girl. Ohh, but I’m so happy you’re a little boy.”

“Ohh, awww, oh, Gabriel, you’re finally here, yes, I’m a daddy now, finally,” Sidney sniffled tearing over in tremendous pride and joy, over his pride and joy, as he cheered loudly over his son.

“Gabriel, like after the angel?”

“Yeah, just like, he is an angel and I have a feeling he is going to be helping us here in announcing some new life in here, very soon. Wow, he sure looks a lot like you with that blond hair and bright green eyes. You’re going to melt a lot of hearts with those adorable good looks my sweet little son.”