we choose our own pain, mine helps me remember

Chapter 16

"Me and Ash, when we first met, we loved each other and wanted to start a family, but I started to hit him every time he did something to annoy me, again, I don't know why. I didn't want him to have the very thing that I lost when I began to hit him." Annie said.

Everyone smirked, and Alexander Marcus and the jury came to a conclusion. "The jury believes that the defendant, Annie Louise Baratheon, is guilty." "You will be sentenced to 15 years in the New Zealand Federation Penal Settlement." Annie sighed, but didn't argue with the sentence. "This case is dismissed." Marcus smacked the gavel down and 4 security guards came to grab Annie take her to New Zealand.

"Alex, Alex!" Chris yelled out. Marcus turned around just in time to catch Sienna, as she ran and jumped into his arms with glee. "Hey Uncle Alex." "Hey my little genius." "I wanted to say  thanks for this Uncle Alex." "No problem, Chris, Ash, Kat, Gabe, shall we walk and talk?" Alex said, handing Sienna to Chris.

"Yes." They replied simultaneously. Chris then walked ahead of them at the insistence of Sienna. "Do you, Carol, and Jim want to come have dinner with us to celebrate?" Gabe asked. "We would love to. Where shall we meet?" "Say, 1900 hours at Madame Chang's Mandarin Cafe?" "Perfect, see you then."

At 1850 hours Gabe, Kat, Ash, Chris, and Sienna were getting. Sienna was was happier than ever since the Annie incident had blown over, and she was back with her dads. "Who's coming to dinner with Uncle Alex tonight?" Asked Sienna. "Well Carol and..." Ash said, not finishing the sentence. "And who Papa, who?" Sienna asked impatiently. "Stop teasing her Ash." Chris said. "And, it's Jimmy." Chris took over from Ash. "YAY!" Sienna yelled and squealed.

When they got to the cafe, they asaw Alex, CArol and JIm Kirk. "Jimmy, Carol!" Sienna yelled out and ran to Jimmy. Jimmy caught her and hugged her. Then she put her arms out to Carol to be held by her. ""Hi gorgeous." "Hi Carol." "Hi Peanut." "Hi Jimmy." "Shall we go east?" Gabe interrupted. "Yes, i'm hungry." Sienna announced. "Uncle Gabe?" Jam asked. "Yes Jimmy?" Gabe replied. Can Sienna sit on my lap?" "If she wants to, of course." "Yay, thanks dad.

They get inside the restaurant and Chris said. "Hi, I have a reservation for 8 people under Chris Pike?" "Yes, come, I will take you to your seats," the host said. After dinner, Sienna asked if she could stay with Jim and Carol. "I thought you were staying with us." Chris said, feigning sadness.

 "Dad, she is allowed, she is mine  tonight hahahaha." Jim said, wrapping his arms around and lifting Sienna up like he was a monster. "Ahh." Sienna squealed with Joy. "Alright, bye baby, bye Carol, bye Jimmy." "Bye Uncle Gabe, bye Ash." Carol said. "Let's go peanut." Yeah!" Sienna said  from on top of Jims shoulders. "Bye daddy, bye Papa." "See ya baby." See ya Baby girl." Gabe and Ash replied.

"So what do you want to do?" Jim asked. "Can we an old 20th century movie called Beetlejuice?" "Why Beetlejuice? "Because I started to watch it with Rhys, but fell asleep." "Oh, ok lets watch Beetlejuice." Do you want some popcorn and fries?" Carol asked, knowing Sienna's love for popcorn and fries. "Yes please Carol." "Alright, good manners." So while Jim was getting the movie ready, Sienna and Carol were getting bowls of fried, two buckets each of popcorn, drinks and some sweets for each of them.

"You two ready to start?" Jim asked. "Yep, lets watch Beetlejuice." Sienna said excitedly. "Computer, play movie" Carol asked the computer. Sienna snuggled in between both of them and settled back to watch the movie. "Time for sleep now Sienna." Jim said after Beetlejuice. "Ok," Sienna said. She put her arms up asking to be lifted to bed. Jim obliged and carried her to her bed. "Night Peanut." "Night Jimmy." "Night little bug." "Night Carol." Jim turned off the light after goodnights were said and Sienna went to sleep to the sounds of Celtic Music.