Chapter 16 - Gen 6 - Lyric

Forrest is not happy, he had seen Mel flirting with me and I'm having a hard time convincing him that is all that it was, Mel flirting with me and not the other way round.  Mel has got us into this mess and she is just stood there saying nothing with a half smile on her face like she is enjoying watching us arguing, enjoying Forrest being as mad as hell with me.  I really felt like slapping that grin right off her face, but of course I wouldn't.  After yelling for a while Forrest started to calm down a little but in the processes he has made me feel like a naughty child and he really is not listening to what I'm trying to tell him.  Berry help me if he ever found out this is not the first time she has come onto me.

Lilac:  "What is all the shouting about??"  Lilac appeared, she had been sleeping after their trip to the hospital for their AI, but I guess we must have woken her.
Melon:  "Maybe we should leave them to it."
Forrest:  "OH NO YOU DON'T MEL - you can stay right there!!"
Lilac:  "Come on guys it's not like you two too fight, what's up??"
Forrest:  "I caught Mel and Lyric flirting with each other!!"
Lyric:  "I am getting angry now how many times do I have to tell you ........... "
Melon:  "Forrest, Lyric didn't do anything - it was all me."
Lyric:  "Finally!!!"

Forrest never once took his eyes off my face,  he is stood there glaring at me, like he wasn't listening to what Mel had just said to him.

Lilac:  "You're an idiot Mel you said you would control it!!"
me and Forrest spoke at the same time  "What?!" "What!!"
Lilac:  "This has been coming for a long time - you boys are blind if you've never noticed!!!  This has been going on in her head since before the triplets were born!!!."

So Lilac spills the beans, apparently they have been sleeping in separate rooms since the triplets have been babies and neither me or Forrest have even noticed, Mel and Lilac have been over for a long time, we never noticed that either, although we did think there relationship was not too good.

Then she said something that totally floored me, the minute that Lilac saw me, she knew she should have walked away, she knew they shouldn't be doing this - Mel somehow managed to talk her into it against her better judgement - and Lilac is supposed to be the insane one!!  Now this is the shocking part - Mel had a crush on me before she even met me - you know the crushes you get on the unobtainable famous people - they knew this but still they carried on with it when they found out it was actually me.  Why me?  This sort of thing just doesn't happen with me - does it??!!  Thinking back I should have seen the signs, the flap she had the very first time we met, if that wasn't a big red warning sign I don't know what was, I could think of a few things now that made sense now but didn't at the time - it had been there all the time, why had me or Forrest not spotted it - obviously we wouldn't have been looking for it - shes supposed to be gay why should we!!!

We stood and watched as Mel and Lilac started bickering, my mind was swimming with the things there were throwing at each other.  The only reason they had carried on the pretense, for Mel obviously so she could stay with me and our children and Lilac in the hope she would get her own child out of this.

Forrest:  "And you let me go through with the Artificial Insemination - what a joke!!!"  He said to nobody in particular, I think it was aimed at all of us, we were all playing a part in the problem.   Forrest, head down kicking at the floor, I watched the expression on his face, I could see he was starting to get angry again.  Mel and Lilac just carried on bickering.  How had it got to turn from something good to a nightmare virtually over night?

Forrest:  "What a fudging mess!!!!"  he shouted quite nastily and loudly making the girls suddenly go quiet.  He looked at Mel then he looked at me, but said nothing, then turned and started walking away.  As soon as his back was turned Mel and Lilac resumed their bickering while I just stood and watched him walking towards the house kicking everything in his path or close by.  He launched an innocent gnome flying across the garden kicking it like he was kicking a football then disappeared into the house, slamming the patio doors a little too hard behind him.

I spent the rest of the day in the park away from everyone, especially Forrest, I needed to give him some space to calm down, besides I am really not in the mood to be arguing with everyone, too worried about where we were going to go from here, how can we even carry on with this from here - the kids - how is this going to affect them.   After Forrest finished work he turned up in the park, which surprised me.  I just ignored him, now after having time to think I'm actually pretty mad that he could even THINK that I would have been flirting with Melon - where is the trust?  He didn't make any attempt to talk to me so I just carried on singing.

He went and sat down away from everyone looking very sorry for himself, making no attempt to speak to me or even watch me, he sat with his back towards me.  Why did he even bother to come here if he was just going to sit there sulking.  He carried on sitting there for hours, even after I had stopped singing

Lyric:  "Don't worry, she's not here if that's what you came here for!!"
Forrest:  "Now you're just being childish!!"  he snapped
Lyric:  "Only because you are - I'm going home, I'm not doing this here the newspapers are probably already going to be full of rubbish tomorrow - you sat there sulking like a child for everyone to see!!" 

I walked off and he followed me, we rode home together but in total silence, neither of us attempted to speak to each other.

Lyric:  "How long are you going to keep this stupidness up for?
Forrest:  "You tell me!!  How would you feel if you were in my shoes?"
Lyric:  "You are being an idiot - I am not stupid enough to think you would be interested in a woman - you need to try being in my shoes right now - and if you don't trust me ...."
Forrest:  "I do trust you!!"
Lyric:  "Yeah right, if you did you wouldn't have doubted me, and why else are you being a moody git??"
Forrest:  "I'm scared, she loves you, she lives in this house and it makes me nervous, I know Mel remember, I've seen her in action, when she wants something she gets it no matter what she has to do, she ....." 

I couldn't help it, I'd heard enough, I started to laugh - how could he be so stupid?

Lyric:  "Just shut up - you stupid idiot!!!"  still laughing because he was being really stupid and not even thinking straight.
Forrest:  "Stop laughing - this is serious"
Lyric:  "In your head maybe, have you forgotten the performance we had with the baby making - or would you like me to remind you??"
Forrest:  "No!!"  he went quiet like he was thinking about it and reminding himself, then he started to look sheepish  "I'm sorry, I'm being stupid aren't I!!"
Lyric:  "Yes!!"

Sulk over -  he snapped straight out of it.  I hate the fall outs but the making up after is always the best part.

I am not sure though that Mel was very happy to see we were back to normal and no longer fighting.

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Jazz started to become a handful.  He keeps trying to skip school, refusing to do his homework and is being downright awkward, he seems to be taking every opportunity he can to cause trouble, fighting with Celo and Melody and he is being very disobedient, doing the total opposite of whatever we tell him.

That's when I noticed he is Neurotic, but still that is not an excuse for his behavior, I tried talking to him but it was no use, he was answering me back with attitude like he was looking for a fight, he made me very angry and I had to walk away before I totally lost my temper with him.  I was scared - I hoped it was only my mothers pink hair and eyes that he had inherited, I was frightened he had also inherited her attitude - his mouth was reminding me so much of her lately.

Putting him into time out didn't seem to have been doing any good, the next day we would find him skipping school again.  So now he is permanently grounded, not that he will take any notice of that, I just know he will try and sneak out the first opportunity that he gets.

Me and Melon are hardly talking, or should I say I am not talking to her, I do everything I can to avoid her and ignore her when she tries to talk to me, probably a little childish on my part but she has made me so angry - she has made a mess of everything - she let this mess happen, and I'm sure the atmosphere between the four of us is what is unhinging Jazz to suddenly be behaving the way he is.

The grounded Jazz tried to sneak off like I expected, but Forrest caught him so he has now gotten into even more trouble.  I am beginning to struggle to know what to do with him.

Lilac announced she is pregnant.  She told Forrest and he just walked off and away from her without saying a word, he really didn't look happy about it at all.  I remembered how I had felt when Mel found out she was  pregnant, I was really happy,  looking at Forrest now I could see he was far from that, I should never have encouraged it, I knew I was making a mistake letting them go through with this, now I am angry with myself, I could only see our bad situation getting even worse.

Lyric:  "We have made a right mess of this haven't we!!"
Forrest:  "No Mel has!!" 
Lyric:  "Why were we stupid enough to think our little plan would ever work out??"
Forrest:  "On principal it should have - Mel suddenly deciding she wants to play with the other side, was never supposed to happen - what did you do to make her fall in love with you??"
Lyric:  "NOTHING and you know that!!!!"

We sat talking for hours about anything and everything, some of the good stuff, some of the bad stuff, but eventually the conversation swung back to Melon and her sudden gender preference change.  Maybe sudden not being the right word, if it has been coming for as long as Lilac says it has.

Forrest:  "I wander if its having your children inside her - its done something to her hormones??" he said half laughing
Lyric:  "You want to hope not - Lilac is having your baby remember!!"  I started to laugh

Forrest:  "DON'T!!!  I think I'd hang myself if she ever got infatuated with me!!"
Lyric:  "OMG!!  I could just imagine what she would be like ..... she's already insane."

Laugh, we haven't laughed so much for ages - then suddenly Forrest abruptly stopped laughing.

Forrest:  "Shit!!  You don't think the baby will be insane do you?"

Suddenly we heard the side gate bang and the sound of running feet.  Seconds later Jazz came running round the side of the house and skidded to a stop when he saw me and Forrest sitting there.  We both leapt to our feet shocked at the sight of him.

Lyric:  "What time do you call this Jazz??  You should have been in bed hours again!!  AND you are grounded, you snook out again didn't you!!"

He tried to grovel his way out of it, but I'm getting to the end of my tether with him.

Lyric:  "NO!!!!  Forget the grovelling, it's not working anymore - consider yourself grounded for the rest of your life!!!  Now get to bed before I really lose my temper with you!!!"

Jazz started screaming and shouting, a hurl of insults flew at me and Forrest.  I bit my lip to stop myself from losing it with him.  Where on earth would he have learnt half of these swear words, the words coming out of his mouth one after the other were making my toes curl.   Lilac came out hearing the noise.

Jazz:  "And don't you start Lemon!!"  he spat at Lilac as he ran past her and into the house.
Lilac:  "I'll get him to bed - we've been looking for him, Mel just noticed he was missing."
Lyric:  "No get Mel to do it, your pregnant, the mood he's in I wouldn't put it past him to thump you!!"

Forrest:  "What are we going to do with him??  He knows some serious swear words, did you hear him!!"
Lyric:  "I don't know, what can we do with him - I'm running out of idea's, I really don't know what is wrong with him!!"
Forrest:  "I think I do - he called us faggots and he called Lilac a lemon - I think he's got a problem with us all being gay."

As soon as the words were out of Forrest's mouth I knew he was right.  Why hadn't I thought of that? - why hadn't I seen it?  Something else we had never even considered might happen!!

Its at times like this when I really wished that Grandad was here - I don't have a clue how to handle this - I just know he would have been able to help me fix this mess!!!

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Chapter 17 coming soon

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