PIXX’S WINTER LEGACY1.6

Candy looked down at her son lovingly, Noel Winter so far was lacking eyebrows and his eyes looked much the same as every other baby. She was already envisioning what her son would look like later on and she was pleased.

While Candy admired her beautiful baby, her husband and daughter were downstairs readying to eat birthday cake. Jack looked at his daughter from the corner of his eyes, taking in her final childhood moments. In a few seconds he would have a teenaged girl on his hands, he remembered the girls from his own time as a teenager, he was frightened and decided that perhaps it was time to purchase a gun.

When he saw the results of his daughter’s aging, he agreed with himself mentally, yes it was time to get a gun. Agnes’ gray eyes blazed out at him but those lips, they were his lips. In a few days time it would be clear that Jack had nothing to worry about, his daughter preferred to spend time to herself getting lost in books, in a few years time Jack would find himself begging her to get a boyfriend and spend time out of the house.

When she was not alone Snowie would be playing with her baby brother, it was clear that Noel was rather spoiled. His parents doted on him and so did his older brother and sister.

With his daughter nearly grown and his last birthday, Jack was beginning to feel old so he started to spend time with his older son. The two hardly hung out since Claus’ birthday and Jack just wanted to know what was going on in his son’s life. He found that the two despite being completely different, had a lot in common.

Strangely enough, Jack had started to love his job, it was just an added bonus that he got to meet lots of new people and spend time outside, when he went home he usually got caught up with his wife and children and had started to miss his alone time.

Despite all his snooping though, Jack missed his daughter’s infatuation with a much older man. Snowie was completely entranced by Thornton Wolff, he was an older man who treated her like a woman whereas her daddy still celled her his ‘Little Princess’.

As time went by Noel grew into a playful Jack clone (who scared me for a minute when I thought his eyes would be stuck like that). He had his father’s navy blue hair and pretty blue eyes.

Soon it was time for Claus’ birthday.

Claus grew into blue eyes and brown hair with Agnes’ lips. He and his older sister shared similar personalities but Claus was far more outgoing.

Jack immediately took to his son, suddenly there was a whole bunch of activities the two could do together.

Claus’ outgoingness was realized by every member of his family when he refused to leave anyone on their own, much to Snowie’s horror.

Snowie amused her father by complaining that Claus was stalking her. “It’s not just you Snowie, or even this household for that matter. Claus is just enjoying his independence.”“But I want some alone time.”Jack frowned, “You’ve been wanting a lot of alone time lately.”“I’m a loner Dad,” Snowie said getting up from the table. “It’s what I do.”

If there was one thing that Snowie got from her father it was his cunning. She kept two young men around to throw her father off her back, always claiming that she was going to Sam Sekemoto’s house or her other friend’s house. When he worried that she didn’t have any female friends her age, she found someone to hang out with, a girl named Madeline. Anything to get her cop father off Thornton’s case.

“What!” Snowie shouted at Claus when she caught him staring at her.Claus was taken aback by his usually quiet sister’s outburst. “I was just thinking that maybe its time for us to take Mom to the graveyard.”“Oh.” Snowie rubbed the back of her neck, she’d have to learn how to control herself, but with Claus, he always gave her the sense that he knew more than he did, and they way he socialized with everyone she couldn’t be sure that he didn’t.

Jack had heard the exchange between his older children from outside. Agnes was still haunting him although he had become so caught up with life that he hardly saw her anymore. And he was still preoccupied by Snowie’s outburst, she had been acting rather suspicious lately.

He waited patiently for Snowie to leave and cornered Claus in the living room. “What was that with Snowie?”Claus shrugged. “I have no idea, she’s been jumpy lately, do you know what it’s like sharing a room with her?”Jack rubbed his chin, there was definitely something going on with Snowie and he would get to the bottom of it.“By the way Dad, can I go to a friend’s house later?”“Yeah, sure.” Jack said absently.

Jack was right, Agnes was still haunting but she was calmer. She greatly approved of Candy and she adored the new little boy. She was nearly ready to rest.

Claus had happened upon his cousin Mortimer’s wife Bella while in town and she invited him over to their house. Claus was curious about why he hadn’t met his Uncle Gunter who told him about Aunt Cornelia. Bella smiled sadly, “Morty isn’t here Claus, I’m sure he would have loved to meet you. Perhaps you can come back and bring your sister with you.”