Because I Love You || Braddison + Lucas

Six

Bryce's POV
"Addison?" I whispered gently shaking her to wake her up. "Come let's go for a walk I need to talk to you." She rubbed her eyes and sat up. "Do we have to go for a walk? Can't you just talk you me here?" She asked still half asleep hugging her arms around my waist sitting down in front of where I stood. I looked at Lucas who was sleeping and I wouldn't be surprised because it's 5 o'clock in the morning. "I really think we should go walk." I told her squatting to meet her at eye level.

I stood back up took her hand and we walked out of the hospital. We walked hand in hand around the perimeter of the building. "Addi, I have to tell you something. It's really really bad. But I figured you would take it better from me than from the nurses." When she heard that she stopped in her tracks.

"No, not Enzo, please tell he's okay." She begged with her eyes already tearing up. I just hugged her again. "It wasn't only Enzo." I whispered to her tearing up myself. "What?" She asked. "Your mom was going through a medical surge. She got better right before she got worse. She flatlined a few minutes before I came to wake you up." She's going through so much.

After a few minutes we went back inside to find a social worker in Lucas's room. "What's going on?" I asked walking in with my arm around Addison. "This boy currently has no parents. We have to put him into the foster care system." The social worker explained. "What? No! He's all I have left! Why can't he stay with me?" She asked going to sit next Lucas who was still sleeping and I stood next to them.

"You're not old enough. You have to be 20 to adopt a child." She explained. "I'm going to be 20 in 3 months, can't you make an exception? And he's my brother why do I have to adopt him?" She asked. "We're not allowed to make exceptions. He doesn't have a legal guardian. Your parents never gave him one." She just turned back into me and cried in my hoodie.

I put my arm around her. What Sheri told me popped into my head. Take Addison and Lucas and live a long happy life together. "If I wanted to adopt him, would I have to do?" Addison looked up at me when I asked. "Bryce, you don't have to." She told me. I ignored her.

"You would have to come to the agency and we have to have to interview you to make sure you can even take him." I nodded. "When can I go?" I asked again. "How's tomorrow morning for you?" She asked me. "I'll be there." I shook her hand and she left.

"Bryce?" Addison called me. "Yes?" I answered. "Thank you." She hugged me burying her face in my neck. "Anything for you." I said back to her. She pulled back and looked at me in my eyes. Her face just inches from mine. I cupped her cheek with one hand and kissed her.

"You really mean that?" She asked resting her forehead against mine. "Of course I do. I would give the world for you, any day of the week, without question. You know why?" I asked her. "Why?" She looked me in the eyes again. "Because I love you. Always have, always will. You and Lucas are my top priority now." She pulled me into a tight hug. We fell onto the little bench sofa thing she was sleeping on earlier, laughing. "I love you too." She said getting up and going back by Lucas.