𝘧𝘢𝘭𝘴𝘦 𝘨𝘰𝘥 //𝘣𝘢𝘥𝘦

growth

hi everyone! so i've been wanting to do a chapter like this for a while now and i'm finally doing it- logan is 18, nina is 16, and that makes augusta 14! (those numbers are their ages btw)

"beck please get in here" she whined to the other room.

"what's up babe"

"it's crooked" she pointed to a banner hanging in their living room.

"it's not crooked"

"i'm looking right at it, it's crooked."

"you've been looking right at it for an hour now."

"because i don't want it to be crooked."

he sighed at his wife, kissing the side of her head as she melted into his arms.

"what if she doesn't like it?" jade asked suddenly and beck frowned.

"have you met nina? of course she's going to like it" he scoffed and jade nodded in agreement.

it was nina's sixteenth birthday today. and in all but a few hours their house would be packed to the brim with teenagers who were surprising their daughter. it had been augusta's idea to throw a surprise sweet 16 birthday party for her older sister, and beck and jade were starting to regret agreeing to the decision.

the banner, in question of crookedness, read happy birthday across, which had been logan's job to paint earlier in the week.

"logan will never forgive us if we hang it crooked" jade pointed out and beck laughed and nodded.

"how much time until she gets home from the movie?" jade asked, looking around for her phone to check the time.

"the movie finishes in an hour and then clara is taking her to dinner and then back here you can stop worrying jade" he teased her and she sighed. tori and andres 17 year old clara, who had become close to nina as they grew up, had taken nina out before the party to keep her suspicions low.

"hey guys?" a voice from the stairs took their attention as their youngest stood at the bottom with a dress in each hand.

"which one do you guys like better-" she started, holding up the dresses for her parents to see.

"the blue" she held up a low cut blue dress, which jade recognized from a mall trip augusta had taken with keira earlier in the year.

"or the red" she held up the second dress, a slim fit cocktail dress with thin straps that jade had admittedly never seen before.

"neither" came becks immediate response and augusta rolled her eyes.

"dad" she groaned, hanging the dresses on the side of the hand railing and glaring at him.

"aug, you're going to your sisters birthday party, not a strip club." he told her, raising an eyebrow and jade tried not to laugh.

"mom tell him" she whined out and jade sighed and smiled.

"i like the red one auggie" she said and augusta smiled smugly, turning around and heading back upstairs.

"ok what happened to 'we are on the same team'?" beck scoffed, following jade out to the kitchen.

"she's 14 beck. we have to trust that she can choose what she wants to put on her body." she told him flatly and he took a deep breath.

"it's not that i don't trust her it's that i don't trust all the guys in the world who are gonna see a young girl and think she's an easy target" he shot back, watching as she bit down on her lower lip.