Chapter 3
“Gwen…” The girl asked as she walked up “Is this him?”
“Yeah, this is my big cousin, Scott…” Gwen said “Um… Scott this is my girlfriend Laura…”
Scott shook the other girl’s hand before leading them inside.
“Unfortunately, you missed the housewarming party last night, though some bits of the party stayed.” Scott said, stepping over Skye again.
“Um… is that.” Laura asked, pointing to Skye.
“Oh, no, that’s Skye, her sister…” Gwen said, looking down at the passed out woman.
“But I thought…”
“Scott will probably explain later.” Gwen told her
“So… um… I take it this has to do with Nana being Nana?” Scott asked
“Yeah…” Gwen said, taking Laura’s hand “We met at school. I… brought her home to meet the family and… I would have though after what happened with you and Daisy… Nana would be fine with it. But no, she threw a fucking fit…”
“Does she not understand how this works?” Scott asked before Gwen gave him a look “…I should have answered my own question…”
His cellphone started ringing in his pocket. It was their grandparents home number.
He answered it, taking a deep breath in anticipation of this not going well.
“Hello, Scott?” A voice asked. Scott looked up at Gwen and mouthed “Granddad”
“Hey, Granddad… what a surprise, what’s up?”
“Look, um, Scott… Have you heard from Gwen recently by any chance?”
“No…” Scott lied “Is something the matter? She alright?”
Scott heard a rustling sound and some muttering on the other end of the line, the telltale sign of two old folks fighting over the telephone.
“She’s run away.” His grandmother said, having pulled the handset out of her husband’s hands.
“Nana… hi… I mean, Gwen is an adult now. I’m pretty sure that means she doesn’t need to tell you what’s she’s doing or where she’s going. She’s probably just mad about something. It’ll be fine. Don’t worry.”
“Your mother did the exact same thing to me at this age and look what happened!”
“Yeah… Me. I happened.” He reminded her.
“Just… If she contacts you, you MUST tell her she is to come home at once.” His grandmother said sternly.
“Right…” Scott said as he heard the line cut off.
“so… what did Duchess of Crazy pull out of her hat this time?” Scott asked as he put his phone down and looked Gwen in the eye.
“Well… for one thing, she didn’t like the fact I’m Jewish.” Laura said before Gwen could speak up.
“Oh, you have to be fucking kidding me…?” Scott asked, “THAT’S what she’s upset about?”
“Well… that and the fact I’m from South London.” Laura added. ‘Um… is there…”
“First floor bathroom is behind the front stairs. If someone is puking it in, there are two upstairs, one second door on the left and the other in the master bedroom” He said as she thanked him and walked towards it.
“Gwen… Do you have any idea the situation you’ve put me in?” Scott asked, putting his hands on her shoulders.
“I know… I just… I figured I’d be safe here.” She told him, shifting her feet
“Safe from what? Gwen… what happened? Really? Come on, tell me.”
Daisy heard someone flush the bathroom and walk back out towards the front of the house. Curious, she followed the sound of footsteps and found Scott talking to Gwen.
“Gwen? Hey, what’s going on? Why are you here?”
“Oh… Hi Daisy.” Gwen said. Gwen had gotten more comfortable being around her and no longer panicked. “This is my girlfriend, Larua.”
Laura waved.
“You two sit down and rest. I’ll handle this.” Scott told them.
“So… is there anything you want to be telling me?” Daisy asked him as the two girls collapsed on the living room couch next to a still snoring Barry.
“Scott, what’s going on?”
“Gwen got her girlfriend pregnant and Nana blew her top… again…”
“She did what?” Daisy asked, flatly.
“Oh… right… I don’t think I ever told you.” Scott said, slightly nervous.
“Never told me what?”
He led her across the way into the TV room.
“Does the ‘All cards on the table’ rule still count when you’re trying to respect the privacy of someone else that you care about?” Scott asked, looking over into the other room to see Laura lean her head on Gwen’s shoulder. “Because there is something I’ve been keeping to myself out of a promise to Gwen.”
Daisy face shifted from one of disappointment to to a look of concern “Actually, I never thought about that…” she told him
“Okay, look, here’s the deal. The God’s honest truth is Gwen is transgender.”
“Oh…” Daisy said, surprised.
“She never had any kind of surgery downstairs” Scott continued “and her girlfriend is now pregnant with their child.”
“So… wait…” Daisy interrupted “Before we go any further, that absolute lunatic was upset about me, but is fine with a trans grandchild?”
“Remember what I said about my mother?”
Daisy nodded.
“Now imagine you have four grandsons and no granddaughters. Then imagine your youngest grandchild tells you they’re a girl…”
“Oh God, I can see where this is going.” Daisy said, shaking her head. “That woman is crazy.”
“Tell me something I don’t know.” He said. “So anyway… Just like with me, Nana seems to have had a spouse all picked out for Gwen… and once again ‘the four of us have conspired to ruin everything.”
Daisy tiled her head in confusion slightly.
“It’s an in-joke between the twins, Gwen and I.”
“So… would you like to explain why we have two extra houseguests?” Daisy asked.
“History kinda repeated itself. Gwen brought Laura to meet the family… at what turned out to be the same time Nana was going to introduce Gwen to the man she was supposed to marry. Fight breaks out. Things got thrown. Gwen and Laura ran away and came here.”
“Why us?”
“She didn’t say… honestly it more seemed like she didn’t want to say. I’m not sure. She looked absolutely terrified. I think there’s something else going on here.”
“What makes you think that?”
“Would you fly three thousand miles on a whim to stay with your super powered relatives if you DIDN’T feel your life was in danger?”