The Secret Child (Axl Rose FanFic)

Part 8.

Axl's POV:

Where the fuck was she? As I woke up this morning I found and saw no Lily in sight. I'm still adjusting to the idea of being a dad, she's still adjusting to having a father after Steph died, I try to give her some freedom to not be overbearing like my step father was and now she's gone. Finally giving up and resting my elbows on the counter with my head in my hands, I felt my phone go off.

"What is it Slash?" I said almost aggravated
"You want to tell me why Lily is here?"
"What do you mean she's there?" I said standing up straight.
"Yeah, she's here, with Jake, asleep in his room" I felt myself grow furious.
"I'm on my way"

That was the last thing I said before hanging up the phone and grabbing my keys.

Lily's POV:

We both stirred to the light peaking through the windows. Barely able to sit upright, Jake sat up first.
"How are you feeling?" He asked eyes barely open.
"Like there's a knife going through my skull" I replied as I held the side of my head while I sat up and leaned against my knees.
"Come on...we should get up" he said pulled me out of bed after he stood.

We slowly slumped ourselves downstairs, me in one of his black Jack Daniels shirts and still in my shorts.  Slash sat there at the kitchen table with his arms crossed and his eyebrow raised.
"Fun night?" He asked in a bad mood.
"It wasn't like that dad we just ca..." Jake tried to explain before his dad raised his hand making him shut up.
"Save it, I'll let you explain that to Axl" he replied right as the front door flew open and my father stormed in. I've never seen him look like that, granted I have only been living with him for a few weeks but still, his face was red, his lips pierced together, it was almost as if he was a tea kettle ready to burst.
"Lily, get in the car" he said saying each word shorter than the one before. He was fuming.
"But if we could just exp.."
"I said get.in.the.car." He reiterated.
"But..."
"NOW!" He yelled out of no where pointing at the front door. I felt tears well up in my eyes as I twiddled my fingers in front of me looking down. Feeling Jakes hand on my shoulder, I looked up at him with a small, fake smile and gave him a hug whispering 'thank you' before walking out to the car.

I sat there for what seemed like ages going over each scenario in my head of how this would go down. Was I about to get screamed at? Was I about to get hit? Would he give up and tell me to get out of his life? I had no idea honestly. All I knew was that I was scared, I was scared of the reaction, and I was scared of the unknown. Being pulled from my thoughts hearing the drivers door shut I jumped as I heard him sigh.

"Jake explained what happened last night...." He said softly as I cautiously looked at him. Tears in his eyes, he pulled me into an unexpected hug as I began to cry.
"I'm so sorry" I blurted out repeatedly.
"It's not your fault Lils...it's not your fault" he soothed me.
"What do we do?" I asked him wiping my eyes.
"I will handle what happened...but I need you to understand that you scared the shit out of me this morning." He explained as I nodded my head.
"I don't mind you hanging out with Jacob, I would prefer you hung out with him honestly, but you can't just keep me in the dark if you aren't coming home." I continued to nod my head as he went on. He went on a dissertation about how he was going to handle the situation that happened with Brayden to how I just needed to be more involved in updating him on what I was doing. It was almost as if I fell asleep with my eyes open as we pulled into the house. I didn't really say much, I just walked in the front door and made my way upstairs laying back in bed falling asleep.