David decided to be the one to pull on the string to make the bus stop once he saw the pizzeria come up. When he did, the bus slowly stopped and everyone got ready to get up and leave to get their grub on. Everyone smiled and they filed out of the bus to get to the place where they wanted to eat for a nice, early, and family dinner. LP and Miracle's eyes widened as they saw a familiar face.
"Hi, welcome to Ricky's Dine-" the dark blonde-haired girl greeted, then noticed the girls. "Hey, I know you two!"
It was then that Frank, Nation, and Cosmo could see how much this girl looked a lot like Columbia with Rocky fused in. They tried to not let it distract them, it could be a major coincidence.
"Liked our place enough, ya decided to come in and see for yourself?" the girl smiled to them.
"Erm... Yes..." LP replied softly and nervously.
The girl giggled. "Well, that was mature of you all... My name is Corrine, but you can call me 'Coco'."
Oh, gosh, not only does she looked like the groupie, but has the same first two letters in her name. This was going to be a big distraction. Coco counted them all and had them follow her to be seated in the diner.
"Mama, Daddy, we got new customers!" Coco called, then allowed them to sit at a big table together as opposed to a booth. "May I take your all's drinks orders? We have water, tea, juice, and Pepsi products."
The family gave their drink orders. Of course, Joey, Richard, Crystal, and David didn't get the connection everyone else was having about with Coco yet. They just sat down. Nation helped Joey into the diner's seat like a highchair. There was also coloring papers with crayons for Crystal and Richard.
"I sort of know that girl," Miracle spoke up to her family while her twins were distracted with the coloring. "Do you all remember vhen LP and I decided to visit Mark and Sara?"
Anyone else who wasn't LP, nodded, except for the distracted children.
"Vell, Uncle Steve decided ve should have pizza for our lunch," Miracle explained. "He told me this vas the best diner in Denton. We were given a pizza delivery by that vaitress."
"Did you ever find out if she's kin to 'Laura and Ricky'?" Frank asked.
Miracle shook her head. "I decided not to ask."
"But we could see it." LP added with a slow nod.
"Well, that Coco girl has to be related to them," Cosmo assumed as he pressed his huge glasses around his icy blue eyes. "She just has to be."
"Maybe we could ask after we eat if we could meet the owners." Nation suggested.
David nodded. That would be best so they don't intrude in a bad way on the new place they never even knew or heard of until today.
After a while, the family decided a pizza for all of them to share. Of course, being a baby, Joey couldn't have any pizza and would only have milk. Nation decided to eat what she could, then she excused herself to go into the bathroom to change Joey.
"I couldn't eat another bite..." LP mumbled as she held her stomach.
"I can't stop eating..." David mumbled as he ate yet another pizza slice.
"Must be hormones and cravings," Cosmo diagnosed, even if he wasn't the doctor between him and Nation, he only went with her to the TV Station for security reason, which is also why, unlike their cousins, slept in the same bed, he wanted to protect her from that creep Bert Shnik who offered for her to sleep in his bed with him. "Have you been eating a certain food where enough never felt like enough?"
David shrugged. "Not really..."
"He's still early, Cos," Frank looked to his brother-in-law. "Hopefully we'll all adjust."
"I still can't believe I'm pregnant with alien babies..." David chuckled sheepishly. "Regardless, I'm glad. Precious and I have wanted children for so long, why should we take them away from us?"
"You're really brave about all this, David," Miracle smiled at the boy. "I could never imagine any other human man to tolerate and put up with this."
"Well, as you know, I'm not like most humans." David stroked some of his ebony hair behind his ear. "I always felt like an alien..."
"Did you all get enough?" Coco came by, handing tiny bowls of ice cream to the twins.
Crystal and Richard loved the pizza, but this ice cream dessert looked even more promising.
"Yes, thank you," Frank grinned. "Also, if it's not too much trouble... May we meet the people in charge of this place?"
"My parents?" Coco questioned.
"Yes, exactly!" LP said, rather quickly.
Coco giggled. "Sure, just pay when you're ready and you can meet them." She put the bill down in the middle of the family, then walked off again.
This is it. This could be their time to find out whether their hunches or conclusions about Coco being kin to Laura and Ricky. Everyone was excited and shivering with anticipation. When Nation came back with Joey, everyone told her how they were going to meet Coco's family since they were the last customers of the day. Probably because it's so early in the week they close early and Coco must go to school. Crystal and Richard happily ate their ice cream.
"Don't eat too fast, Cryssy and Richie," Miracle advised her children. "You don't vant to catch brain freeze!"
Crystal and Richard stopped, their mouths full of ice cream as their blue eyes lay on their mother. "Bwain fweeze...?"
"Yes, it's a very serious condition with head aches of eating too much ice cream!" Cosmo added, ad-libbing an alert tone in his voice.
"How would you know?" Nation smirked, teasing her 'idiot' brother, making the twins giggle then.
Cosmo glanced at her. "I just know, okay!?" He stuck his tongue out at her.
Crystal and Richard giggled at the interactions of their father and their aunt.
"Silly man..." Nation smirked, then picked up Joey and bounced her a little.
"Ma!" Joey beamed.
The girl Coco came back. "Alright, you guys wanted to meet the family?"
The group all gave nods and declarations of approval of how that was what they wanted to do. Could this be it? Coco smiled at them, then called for her parents and other family members to come out. Everyone's eyes widened as they saw a brown-haired woman with a youthful face and a light brown-haired man who was thin, but had a bit of muscle in him. It was them alright, no mistaking.
"Nat, Mac, what a surprise!" Laura beamed to the sibling doctors she knew all too well.
Cosmo grinned a bit.
"Hello, Laura!" Nation beamed herself. "I didn't think we'd ever see you again!"
Nation and Laura engaged in a very tight hug. Even if Nation wasn't as close to Laura as when Magenta was to her back as Columbia, they were still in a good bond.
"So, I guess Ricky meant his proposal in our big finale show then?" Nation asked once she pulled out with a hug.
"Oh, yes," Laura smiled, remembering that since Dentonvale was going to get cancelled due to people attending the Rocky Horror Show, Ricky had proposed to her before the cameras shut off permanently. "We got married about, oh, I'd say six months after you, Mac, and your family went home. As you can see we have a loving result." She smiled to Coco.
"Are these your friends, Mom?" Coco asked, smiling.
"Yes, they are, sweetie," Laura replied with a smile. "They can also be family if you and your little brother or sister would want."
"Little brother or sister?" LP questioned.
"Yes," Laura nodded, she then put her hand down to her stomach and it was then everyone realized she had a baby bump. "I don't know if you've noticed, but I'm currently pregnant."
"Oh, what a coincidence!" LP beamed at that.
David looked sheepish, but decided not to talk about his pregnancy. It might be weird for this woman. "Congratulations, Mrs..."
"Oh, you can call me Laura," the human woman insisted. "And this is Ricky!"
Ricky didn't say much, but waved. Cosmo and Nation gave a nod, Ricky never really talked to anyone except for Laura when they were all TV Stars.
Laura then noticed an infant held against Nation. "Ohmigosh, you had a mini one!?"
"Yes, Laura," Nation smiled as she held her daughter.
Frank smiled, very proud. "This is our daughter... We named her Joey."
"Oh, Joey!" Laura beamed as she came to take a closer look at the little endless bundle of joy. "Hi, Joey... I'm your Aunty Laura~"
Joey clutched to her mother, but seemed to like Laura. The human woman silently asked if she could hold Joey, once she was allowed to, she held Joey in her arms and cooed to the baby, who happily giggled and squealed in response. Laura smiled, she saw the strong resemblance in both Frank and Nation, dark red hair with loose curls and she seemed to have Frank's smile whenever she was excited.
"She's so darling!" Laura beamed as she held the baby close and looked down. "Oh, more kids, huh?" She could see Crystal and Richard huddling behind their mother.
"Yes, Cosmo and me had tvins," Miracle smiled. "The boy is named Richard and the girl is named Crystal."
"Oh, hello there," Laura bent down to their heights, smiling, she seemed to adore children. "Hi, Chryssy, hi, Richie!"
Crystal and Richard remembered to be social with strangers who knew their family. They came out from behind Miracle and walked toward her to meet her. After all, this woman seemed friendly enough.
Laura smiled at them. "You two look so grown up... Maybe someday Joey will be big and strong like you two!"
Richard and Crystal giggled, they liked Laura so far too.
"It's really nice to see you all," Laura smiled, then looked to Nation as she said this. "After you and Cosmo left, we all made new plans. Bert moved back to Germany, the last I heard, Betty and Ralph went to a marriage counselor... I don't know what happened to Macy though, but she was destroyed the week before you all went back home."
"Poor Macy..." Nation rolled her eyes as she said that, she never really did like the blonde woman.
"Luckily I set her straight that one time." LP smirked.
Nation playfully hit LP's arm, then smiled as she took Joey back into her arms. "You like seeing your Aunt Laura, Joey?"
"Yeah!" the baby giggled and squealed in her mother's warm and loving arms.
"When is your baby due?" David asked the other humans.
"Oh, could be a long time," Ricky spoke up this time, it excited him when he became a father for Coco and he was going to do it again. "We don't know, but once Laura is ready, we're going to close the shop for a while since this is a family business."
"What's the family name?" Frank asked, curious.
"Restihaus," Laura made up that last name when she got married to Ricky and her last name changed from Ansalong into that. "Like Rest Home. Fortunaly, no one's really noticed the difference."
"Yes, we're Mr. and Mrs. Restihaus." Ricky said proudly.
Frank smiled back. "Well, I'm happy for you two. I'm happily married to Nation, Miracle's gone with Cosmo, and my baby girl's gone with David Jenesis."
"David, huh?" Laura smirked, playfully teasing LP. "Did Riff Raff and Magenta ever have a happily ever after?"
"Yes, they vere officially married," Miracle informed with a smile. "I'm so happy for them... They've been together all their lives and now they can make it official, siblings or no siblings."
"Isn't it nice how we all earned our happy endings?" Cosmo smiled.
Laura looked at the clock. "Well, we better catch the bus home... This was fun, we should do it again sometime."
Ricky nodded in agreement. Everyone gave one last hug to Ricky and Laura and said it was very nice to meet Coco. They all then decided to catch their own bus back to the hotel. They really had to do this again sometime.
