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Date Posted: 12:31:27 04/11/06 Tue
Author: Alysia
Subject: *At the Jacksons*

She had given her mother a quick call to let her know she was coming around 'to talk', so she knew her mother would have shoo'd her father out of the house for a few hours and would have gotten rid of any visitors. She climbed the steps to the front door of the house she had grown up in, letting out a soft sigh as she let herself in. Her mother insisted they all keep their keys and dropped by when they wanted. Alysia brushed her soft blonde curls back from her face and closed the door behind her, calling out to her mother as she headed into the to family room "Mom?"

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Aly had sounded upset on the phone, so she was in the kitchen, making headway with a pair of margueritas. She had never gotten DRUNK with her daughter, but she enjoyed sharing a social drink with any one of her kids and Aly just happened to be the one who was usually the most game for it. She wiped her hands on a dishtowel tucked into the waistband of her pants, and then tugged it out, dropping it on the counter before pouring out the drinks into two glasses. "In the kitchen honey!" (NT) -- Echo, 12:34:13 04/11/06 Tue
She made her way into the kitchen and smirked a touch as she saw the drinks being poured, settling herself at the counter and leaning herself over it, propping up her pretty face with a cupped hand. Everyone had joked about how perfect Charlie and she were together and how they never argued- only her mother and her brother really knew what they had been through together- and these days- more and more- it was her mother she was coming to- rather than her brother. Her mother was just better at the relationship stuff it seemed. She let out a sigh as she reached for her drink, sucking the contents through a straw as she waited for her mother to get settled. This was their first falling out as husband and wife. "He wants babies- right now- as soon as possible." (NT) -- Aly, 12:38:59 04/11/06 Tue
She smiled quietly to herself, and then shook her head, putting the bottles and other waste from making the drinks in the sink. "Of course he does. Feel lucky that you have one that wants them at all." She returned to the table, seating herself opposite her daughter and stirring her drink with the straw she had put in, and crossed her arms on the table before her, letting out a long sigh. "What do you think?" Aly hadn't given her the whole story, and she hadn't pried then but she had become, during Aly's adolescence, the queen of pushing and prying. (NT) -- Echo, 12:49:55 04/11/06 Tue
"I think... that when it all comes down to it... I'm just not ready to have babies yet... I feel so young still... and theres so so much I wanted to do first you know?" She glanced over at her mother and sighed "Its selfish but I really want to give dancing a go... and I really want us to enjoy our marriage for a while before we bring children into it... I just don;t understand what the big rush is... you know?" She rested her forehead in her hand and chewed at her straw idly. "Charlie doesn;t understand any of that at all..." (NT) -- Aly, 13:02:40 04/11/06 Tue
"Mhmm.." She looked at her drink thoughtfully for a moment -- there wasn't enough of a difference between Aly and Charlie, and he wasn't old enough that he would feel his biological clock ticking out. She let out a long breath. "And you told him this? And then what happened?" She and Adam had been busy on the childmaking thing pretty much since they had gotten together -- she had not been young, but she hadn't been with either Josiah nor Adam very long before they had had children, and she didn't regret it one bit, but by that time she was long out of her own "performing art". (NT) -- Echo, 13:25:55 04/11/06 Tue
She frowned and shrugged her shoulders "He said I was putting 'my body' infront of what was important to him... said he didn;t want to be gray by the time our kids graduated and then got in a sulk." She rolled her eyes a touch and sipped at her drink. "I'm just got ready for the baby thing... and if I want to take my dancing career seriously- which I really really do- then a baby just can;t be on the cards yet. Doing both just wouldn;t work... I'd be away all the time and out late doing shows all the time... thats if I ever managed to get my body back in shape." (NT) -- Aly, 13:35:21 04/11/06 Tue
She listened quietly, nodding and adding interjections like 'mhm' and 'right' while her daughter spoke. Pursing her lips a bit, she really grasped and rummaged for that 'motherly' advice to give to her daughter, but ended with a sigh. "At least he only sulked, right? I'm sure he'll come around. For a guy who wants something like that, it can't be easy for him to see what's going on with Malia and Danny and NOT think about it." She shrugged her shoulders a little bit. "He's probably just a little stung that you don't feel the same way now, but you told him you don't mean never, right?" (NT) -- Charlie, 13:54:30 04/11/06 Tue
She nods softly in agreement, letting her brow furrow a touch as she nodded her head a touch more vigorously at her mothers question "Of course... I told him when im done witht he dance thing- when im like 27, 28 I'll completely be up for as many babies as he wants... And I'll do the real mom thing- stay home and make crafts with them and bake cookies..." She smirked a touch at that and shook her head a little. "I really want the whole family thing, like he does... just not yet." (NT) -- Alaya, 13:57:23 04/11/06 Tue
Again she nodded -- really, there wasn't a lot she could do to fix the situation for her daughter so the best she could do would be lend a sympathetic ear. "Then he'll come around. He married you, didn't he? Obviously he cares about more than just babies. You can get babies anywhere." She smiled a bit at her daughter and reached across the table to squeeze her hand. "You two have a lot going for you and I'm sure that when he thinks about that in depth, he'll realize it. What about his music career?" (NT) -- Ech, 14:01:36 04/11/06 Tue