Life As It Is

Problems

Chris' pov
I guess we're going camping. Scarlett walks up to my room. She's practically living here and I'm thinking of asking her to move in. Anyways, I go to my room and pack some stuff then the thought hit me. "Do they want to go real camping or stay in a cabin like yours?" I neatly fold my shirt and place it into my bag. "I don't know babe" she says wrapping her arms around my torso. "So what I meant by-" Olivia walks in then stops, seeing what's happening. It's nothing bad. "Liv?" Scarlett snaps her fingers in front of her. "Hmm sorry um what I meant by camping is to get a cabin because I don't think Ash wants to lay on the floor and you know her...she's crazy about things like that and-" Scar stopped her from talking.

"Your father has his own cabin if you quiet down" she says tucking some of her hair behind her ear. "That's so cool" Liv jumps in her arms and Scar spins them around. "So when are we leaving?" Ash walks in as Liv jumps on Scars back. "Whenever you guys want" I told them. "How far is your cabin?" Ash asks poking Liv on her way over to the bed, flopping down. "About 2 hour drive" I tell her and she nods her head. "It's only 11:24 so we can leave after lunch?" Scar suggested and we all agree on that. "Scarlett, can you come help me with something?" Ash asks her. Scar looks over at me surprised that she even asked her. Ashley is the type of person who likes to do things on her own. "Oh um yeah I'll be there in a minute" Ashley nods and leaves.

Scarlett's pov
"Okay I know you love me so much but you're going to have to jump off" I tell Liv but she clings on to me tighter. "I don't think so and who said I love you so much?" She pokes my cheek. "Wow rude" I said gently throwing her on the bed. "Hey!" "That's what you get" I see Chris laughing at us and I walk out to see what Ashley wanted. I walk in the hallway and see her door wide open so I look inside and see Ashley looking stress while packing her bag. "Ash? What did you need help with?" I ask her and she turns around. She looks sad but mad but worried at the same time. Okay somethings wrong.

I sit down on her bed and pat the spot next to me so she can sit down. "What's wrong?" I ask her. She doesn't say anything for a while. "You remember Jason?" She looks up at me with a sad face. Oh god. Did he do something? "Why? Did he do something?" "Well no not really and that's what I'm afraid about" I'm lost. "What do you mean?" She sighs and looks down at her hands. I place my hand on top of hers to calm her down and it seems like it helps. "Well um in the past he would constantly do things to make me get back together with him and sometimes they weren't good" what the fuck!? I swear to god this child will die. "Can you tell me what he did? You don't have too if you don't want too" I tell her and I can tell she's debating if she should tell me or not.

"Um just not good things" I nod my head. "Anyways, do you know where dads cabin is?" I nod my head. I tell her where it is and she looks more panicked now. "Ashley? Tell me what's happening" she's making me panic just by looking at her facial expressions. "He and his friends are going to be at the same camp ground" she tells me. She looks like she's about to cry. "Can I hug you?" She shyly asks. "Of course you can. You don't have to ask" she nods and hugs me tight and starts crying. I rub her back and gently brush my fingers through her hair. It seems to calm her down. "If you don't want to go I can stay here with you" I suggest to her but she shakes her head. "Liv really wants to go and I promise her if we ever went I would be with her" she tells me then Liv runs in the room.

"Ashley look!" Liv comes up to us and shows us a picture of Chris and I when we were young. "Oh my god! Is that you and dad!?" Ashley wipes her tears away and looks at the picture. "Yeah. Sadly" I say looking at it. "Ash why we're you crying?" Liv sets the photo down. "Because I...I hurt my foot on the way to my room" she lied. I mean she can tell whoever she wants but she should tell her dad. "Hm I don't believe you one bit but I'll let it slide. For now" Liv runs out to god knows where.
"Hey Ash" she looks up at me. "You should tell your dad what you told me so that he knows" "that he knows what?" I look up and see Chris standing at the doorway. I look over at Ashley and nod my head. "You'll be fine" I told her kissing her head and walking to the door.

Chris looks at me with a questionable look but I just nod my head to Ashley's direction and he nods and walks towards her and sits on her bed next to her. I walk out and see Liv bringing her suitcase downstairs with a sleeping bag in her arm trying to balance things out. I run over to her to help her. "You know you don't need a sleeping bag" I tell her setting the bag down next to the stairs. "So where are we going to sleep?" She asks looking hella confused. "In the beds?" "Really!?" I nod my head. "We have so much things to show you in the world" I tell her and she nods her head.

"Can we go to Paris!?" She sets her bag down. "I always wanted to go" "I mean if we aren't busy then we probably could" I bop her nose and she squeals and hugs me. "Wanna play Mario Kart?" She asks me and I nod my head. She leads me to the living room and sets the game. "Your gonna lose Romanoff" she says and I smirk. "You sure about that Mayfield?" She looks at me dead in the eyes. "100% sure" she says pressing play. This is going to be a challenge.