[3rd POV]
Sitting on one of the couches in the living room of Cam and Mitchell's home, Billie was playing uno with Alex, Haley, and Luke. The three of them were in a heated battle for the victory. It was a best of three, and at this point, all four of them have one once now.
Billie narrowed her eyes as she glanced at her opponents, she had two cards left in her hand, a yellow 8 and a plus four. All she needed was to place the single yellow down and wait, then she'd win.
Haley had three cards, Alex 4, and Luke had 11.
They stacked three plus twos onto him after they caught him trying to look at Alex's cards without her noticing.
Payback.
"So...you all ready to admit defeat yet?" Billie asked, as she saw Luke place down a yellow 3, allowing her to place her own card, while also making sure to say "Uno".
"Nope. I'm confident that you will not win" Alex said with a grin, glancing at Luke who nodded with his own grin, same with Haley.
"You're so doomed" Haley said with a grin, as she placed down a plus four. Then Alex stacked hers on top of that, with Luke coming after.
"Hah...man, you guys just...really wanted me to win, huh?" Billie said with a shit eating grin, slamming her plus four onto the table with a victious laugh. The others groaning as they saw her place the four.
"Ah man! You are way too good at this!" Luke whined, a pout on his lips as he put his cards back on the table, Alex and Haley doing the same.
"She got lucky. The chances of her having that plus four was astronomically low. In pretty much any other case, she would have had to draw twelve cards" Alex said, as Luke looked at her.
"We still lost though" Luke grumbled, as they heard a voice echo, the voice of Claire.
"Guys, everybody, come on down to the TV room. I've got something really special to share" Claire said, as Billie glanced at Haley who shrugged. As they all began to funnel into the TV room.
"Okay, how's everybody on drinks?"
"If this is Alex's graduation again, just leave me the bottle" Gloria said, as Billie blinked at the words, finding them to be a little...well, mean.
"I'm good, Cam" Jay added, a sigh escaping him when he heard Gloria's words.
"You want anything Billie? We've got juice" Cam asked, as she shook her head with a small smile.
"No I'm good Cam, thanks for offering though" Billie responded, as the man only smiled in response, obviously tense about something. Most likely about the fact that he wanted to reveal that they were going to adopt another child, a boy.
Moving into the TV room, Billie stood next to where Haley sat, as Alex and Luke joined her on the couch. Phil joining them a moment later as they all stared at Claire as she put a dvd into the dvd player.
"Okay everybody...showtime" Claire said with an almost excited tone, as she turned the tv on.
It was a...security cameras footage?
"Oh, my gosh. It's us at the market. How did you-" Phil started, a little horrified before Claire cut him off.
"Uh huh. Yeah, it's security camera footage" Claire said with a small grin, the man staring at her in slight horror.
While everyone else was just completely lost.
"I don't understand. What are we watching?" Mitchell asked.
"Yeah this is a little...creepy to be honest. How did you even get the camera footage in the first place?" Billie added, with Jay continuing.
"And that definitely ain't the Godfather, I can tell you that much" Jay grumbled, thinking they were going to watch a movie or something.
"Okay, look, I fell yesterday at the market, and Phil and I have been having a little disagreement as to what happened. Just watch. Okay, right here" Claire said, pointing at the screen as they all watched.
"I stop to fix my shoe, and then Phil-right there. Okay" Claire said, looking back to the family as in the video he was talking to a woman.
"He makes way for this very attractive woman, whom he conveniently leaves out of his retelling of the story. Now right here, Phil backs up, pushes his butt into the cart, pushes me into the cans! Do you see that!? It's all his fault, just like a said! I was right!" Claire yelled with a victorious grin on her face, the others just looking at her.
"Suck it!" Claire added, pointing at them.
"When did you get this-" "Oh, my God. That's why you wanted to come separately" Alex cut her dad off, everyone looking at Claire, more concerned than anything a t this point.
"You went through all that trouble just to prove you were right? That's...just kinda weird" Haley said, giving her mother a very open, judging look.
"...I'm more confused on how this isn't illegal. Or is it?" Billie asked, glancing at Mitchell.
"Yeah, pretty sure this is illegal" Mitchell agreed, wondering if his sister was crazy or not.
"It really wasn't that much trouble. I just went to the store, found one of Haley's old friends, Jordan the bag boy, who then got me the manager. He gave me the address of the off site security office. I filled out some paperwork. Sally faxed it to corporate. Three minutes later, I'm buying a pack of DvD's and burning a copy. Cake" Claire said as if it was nothing.
"It's like a sickness" Luke said as everyone looked at her in concern.
"...Your mom is kinda scary" Billie said, glancing at her girlfriend who nodded.
"What? None of you believed me, so I got proof. You should all be sucking it right now"
"Yeah, please stop saying that" Billie said with a deadpan.
"Agreed, stop with the "Sucking It" Claire. The children!" Gloria said, with Cam agreed.
"Yes, children are very impressionable. You'll never know what they'll pick up" Cam said, referencing the rude behavior that Lily had been picking up, mostly thanks to Mitchell. Well, according to him at least.
"Okay, Cam, I'm sorry that I blamed it on you, okay? But we both need to look at our actions. I mean, if we're thinking about adopting another baby, then we need to-" Upon hearing this, everyone looked at them in shock.
"You guys...you're adopting another kid?" Phil asked, shock on his face.
"No, no no!"
"Congratulations!" Gloria said as everyone began to clap except Billie who silently watched the two.
At the same time, Cam moved to let down a banner that said "It's Gonna be a boy" and music began to play. A song from Footloose, if Billie remembered.
"What the hells happening here?" Jay asked, lost.
"Is that from Footloose?" Phil asked, remembering the song.
Seeing the look on is boyfriends face, Cam turned the music off with a hurt expression.
"Really Mitchell? You couldn't even share telling your family!" Cam said, borderline breaking into tears.
"But why are you upset, this is such good news?" Gloria asked, confused.
"No, we're a little on edge because Lily has been acting out, like she doesn't want a sibling and-" Mitchell began to explain, before Cam cut him off.
"Yeah, because Mitchell taught her to hate sharing" Cam informed, before Mitchell began to continue again.
"And/Or because Cam wears her like a fanny pack"
"Oh, stop blaming each other. No Kid wants a sibling. I mean, Claire hated you so much she stuck you in a dryer when you were 2" Jay said, as Billie stifled a laugh.
"You put me in the dryer?"
"I did, but it wasn't because I hated you. It's because my friend Marci said that it wouldn't run with a kid inside it, and I knew it would. I was right" Claire explained, her own victorious smile forming again.
Once again creeping everyone out.
"Good governor...it's been going on since you were 5?" Phil asked, concern clear on his face.
"Oh my god...it is a sickness. What would make me have that need at such a young age?"
"How long was I in that dryer? Because I-is this why I'm afraid of tumbling? I had to quit gymnastics, Claire!" Mitchell exclaimed, staring at her, evidently mad.
"A childhood without tumbling? You knew this and stood by and did nothing!?" Phil asked raising his voice as he looked at Jay.
"Okay, okay. What's done is done! All you can do is learn from your mistakes. And in that spirit, I would like to propose a toast...to Manny. This week, he did something he wasn't supposed to do, like we all do-" "Like we all do!" Gloria finished raising her glass.
"Salud to Manny!" Gloria exclaimed, before Jay stopped her.
"Uh, not yet" Jay said, before continuing. "But Manny stood up like a man. He admitted he was wrong and he took his licks, and I'm damn proud of him"
"Ah, now we clink!" Gloria said, trying to do it again.
"No, we clink when I say we clink. So Manny made a mistake, but he didn't take the easy way out. He's got guts, he's got integrity. As far as I'm concerned, he's the best little b-" "Okay, stop! Stop! I didn't do any of that!" Manny exclaimed, shooting up as the nerves became too much.
Billie just watched this all, honestly lost on what was happening. But she was thankful that she was not the only one. As pretty much everybody was confused on what was happening.
She had a feeling that was going to become increasingly normal.
"Mom broke into the locker and threw the necklace inside, and then we ran away like cowards. I'm sorry, Jay! I'm sorry!" Manny said, as everyone looked at Jay.
"I knew it! I was right! I was right!"
And when everyone heard that, realization settled in.
"Ooooh!" They all said, understanding now why Mitchell and Claire were the way they were. They got it from Jay.
"That explains a lot" Billie said, the others agreeing.
"Yeah, I mean, it was kind of right in front of us wasn't it?" Haley said.
"Yeah, literally in this case" Alex added, causing the two to giggle slightly.
Eventually the get together began to melt back into it's fun atmosphere, the family talking and just...enjoying their time together. Acting as if Billie had always been a member of their family, like she was not an outsider.
It was...really nice.
And as she stood next to Haley, looking over everyone that was talking, Billie smiled softly, one thought on her mind.
'...Looks like I've gotten more than just a girlfriend...I've gotten a family'
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That's the end of the chapter!
Basically just the second episode of season 3, with Billie talking and doing her own thing in parts of it. There'll be a lot more shenanigans coming up.
Anyways, have a good day!