My Love; My Life: Slipping Through My Fingers

Choices We Make

*sorry this is extremely late guys, I have no excuse ps this time round, I take full responsibility*
*Song mostly for the feel of the chapter, not all lyrics to song apply*

Setting: Still Mary's house...

     Bailey watches as her brother's group of friends-whom she to once called hers-walk through her and to the door of her mother's house...

"Did anyone else just feel that-that chill?" Bernadette's squeaky voice asks as she shivers slightly

"I felt it too," Erika adds in

"Strange," Leonard starts, "weather said it should be warm."

"Maybe it's Bailey's ghost," Howard teases, "oooo."

"Don't joke about that," Raj says quickly

"..." all stare at him

"You might make her mad," he explains as he looks around

"Oh stop being such babies," Penny chimes in, "it was probably just the wind."

     Bailey laughs at the conversation unfolding before her and her laughter becomes so hard and loud, that it's heard by even the living. The group of friends and their kids go wide eyed and quiet at the sound of a middle aged woman's laughing coming out of the air from absolutely nowheres. It comes from everywhere, and nowhere at the same time-yet no owner to it is visibly found anywhere. Bailey takes Leonard's glasses and puts them on her face-floating mid air to the living-and then takes Bernadette's glasses as well. She places the second pair on Leonard and puts his on Bernadette's face before she bursts out laughing again....

"I guess that answers that," Dalib says a bit shaken as the laughter dies down

"She didn't sound mad," Panchali notes-mostly to herself

"Maybe we kids should wait out here," Neil adds in

"No way," all the adults say at once

All go quiet again as the door suddenly opens and reveals and eight year old look alike of Amy. She looks to all of them, and then runs away from the door, back into the house...

"Howard, Leonard, Raj, Erika, Penny, Bernadette," Sheldon greets, now in the doorway, "children."

After some formal greetings-both normal and awkward-all enter he house; Mary fixes all the adults something to drink and leads all the kids accept for Holly and Ace out of the room. The kitchen is filled with painstaking quiet amongst the lot of them. They are unable to decide who should be the one to speak first-especially when most have a great deal to say. Time ever so slowly wriggles away as Bay watches them all sit there saying nothing and making Bay want to shove all their faces into the table. Getting rather annoyed with them all just sitting around, she decides to but in herself. She cases out of the kitchen and to where Zin is...

"Aunt Bay..." Zin whispers looking at her

"Go tell all of em that they'd better get ta chattin," She tells her niece, "or I'm gonna be Naw-Naw a heart attack."

"Ok," Zin replies in a small, timid voice, but also a look of determination

Bay fazes back into the kitchen as Zin goes running out of the room she had been in; she comes at such a speed that she is bumping and crashing into things. This causes all in the kitchen to turn their heads in her direction at the sounds of the noises, Zin enters the room breathing heavily and looking to her father...