Because I Love You || Braddison + Lucas

Eight

Once we pulled up to Sway opened up Lucas's door and opened the front door so that I could bring Addison inside. Lucas already made his way to my bedroom and was spinning in my computer chair. I laid Addi on my bed and put on a TV show for Lucas before walking back downstairs.

"Aye are you okay?" Noah asked when I walked into the kitchen. "Lucas asked when Momma and Enzo get to come home in the car." I said leaning against the island and running my hand through my hair.

"And thats not okay because?" He asked me confused on the situation. "Lucas is the only one of them that lived through the crash. He doesn't know about his mom and brother. And I have to tell him before Addison wakes up because that poor girl can not go through anymore then she already has. It's not fair to her." I explained to him.

"Wait if both their parents are dead doesn't that mean that Lucas is supposed to be in a foster home or and orphanage?" Blake, who was also in the kitchen, asked. "I'm in the process of adopting him so that he can stay with Addison." They both dropped their jaws.

"Bryce this isn't a pair of shoes or a box of chocolates. This is a child. You are adopting a child for a girl you're not even dating." My manager Michael walked in having heard the conversation. "Well if I didn't she would've lost him forever, and I'm not sure where we stand on the dating thing yet. We got a lot closer with this whole situation." I told him.

"Bubba, Addi's shaking." Lucas said walking into the kitchen to get me. He looked really scared. There goes telling Lucas before Addi woke up. I ran up the stairs to find Addison tossing and turning on my bed, violently, as if she was having a nightmare. I shook her to wake her up.

"Addison, wake up, Baby." I kept shaking her. She opened her eyes really wide and was breathing really really heavy. Once she saw me she hugged me. "Where's Lucas?" She asked me. "He's downstairs. He's okay." I stroked her hair as her breathing eased.

Lucas came back into the room. "Come here, Bubby." She reaches out to him. He jumped up on the bed and sat in her lap and his legs stretched into my lap. She squeezed him so tight.

"When are Momma and Enzo coming?" Lucas asked again. Addison froze. "Addi?" I asked her rubbing up and down arm. "Are you okay?" Her eyes had water welling you in them.

I picked up Lucas brought him over to my computer chair and went back to Addison who was still stuck in that same position. "Addison? Talk to me, what do you need me to do?" I held her face in my hands looking her right in the eyes.

"I can't tell him..." She whispered with tears forming in his eyes. "I will tell him. Don't even worry about it. I'll talk to him. Okay?" I kissed her cheek and pulled her into my chest.

After a couple minutes she lifted off my chest and kissed my lips. "Thank you, for everything. I don't deserve to have you in my life." I laid her back down on my bed so that she could relax.

"You wanna go for ice cream bud?" I asked Lucas. He violently nodded his head and jumped up out of his chair to put on his shoes. "Do you want anything, Gorgeous?" I asked Addison. She shook her head no and me and Lucas headed to the car.

Once we got to the ice cream shop I got Lucas his cone of cookie dough ice cream and took him to sit on a bench close in a nature park.

"Okay bud, now that you've had your ice cream, I have to talk to you." I said wiping his hands and face with a napkin. "You keep asking about Momma and Enzo. I know you love them so so much, but um. Bud, Momma and Enzo are with Daddy now. They passed away at the hospital." I explained to him.

"What?" He asked with tears forming in his eyes. I pulled him into a hug. "I don't have parents, or a brother?" He asked pulling out of our hug. "I'm sorry, Bud." I wiped his eyes.

"You're like my brother, right?" He asked me. "I guess I am, Me and Addi are gonna take care of you. You're gonna live with Addi, and I'm gonna come see you everyday. Okay?" I pulled him into another hug. "Okay" Lucas loved his family more and anything in the world, and now it's my job to make sure he still has one.

On the way back to the house I picked up some Chick-Fil-A for the three of us. It was around the time where Lucas would normally nap so when we got home I brought him inside and laid him beside where Addison was sitting on my bed.

I handed her, her food and sat down on the other side of Lucas. We ate our food and watched Addison's favorite show Pretty Little Liars while Lucas slept.

"Can I take a shower?" Addison asked me. "Yeah, of course. You want clothes?" I asked her getting up to grab her a towel. She nodded and I got out one of my shirts and a pair of shorts that she had left here.

She took the clothes and towel and went into the bathroom. I cleaned up a little bit and pushed Lucas to the far side so that when Addi comes out I will be in the middle of them.

25 minutes later Addison came out of the bathroom with her hair wet and wearing the clothes I gave her. I opened up my arm that Lucas wasn't leaning on and she came to lay down with us.

"Okay, so. Mr. Mitchell said that given my party animal background he's not sure I'm a suitable parent for Lucas, but then I went on this big rant about how no ones ever seen me with him. He gave me a week and he said if anything happens within this week that he's taking him in. So, we just have to be extra careful with him." I explained to her.

She sat back up and pulled me up with her. She sat in my lap and buried her head into my neck. Her hand held the back of my head and I wrapped both my arms around her.

"I don't know what I did to deserve you but I am never letting you go. I love you, Bryce Michael Hall, and I appreciate everything that you've done for me in the past....7 months that I've known you." She slightly pulled away and pulled back in to kiss my lips.

"I love you too, Babygirl. This little boy right here, he's lucky to have you. and we are gonna take care of him for as long as he will let us and even after then. Me and you in the long run." I pecked her lips one more time and pulled her into another tight hug.

We spent the rest of the day watching movies and laying down. I thought about how young Lucas is. Obviously he's still in school. When everything gets finalized I'll have to set up a homeschool online thing for him.

DAY 2

AFTER THE BREAK