Drawn Together - A Lams Fanfiction (Collab With E_musician)

Chapter 11

He checks his phone to a text saying “ Susan is right here, what’re you two up to”. Welp that plan failed. “I don’t have any more avoidance plans”, I quietly admit. I don’t know what we should do honestly.

"Maybe we should end the stream.." he mumbled and clicks end as soon as I nod. "Call Liza." He then says into his phone and it starts to ring. "What's going on with you two?" She immediately asks when she answers the call.

 “We uh sorta adopted another kid which makes it harder to hide the fact from streams that well yknow we’re dating with two kids.”, I say. “You adopted another one already?”, she asks.

"She showed up at our door and asked for our help." John explains and logs off his computer at the same time. I'm so glad speaker phone exists. I decide to leave out the fact that Frances is his ex's daughter. I guess it's not important.

“Well it was a good reason to adopt but your viewers are getting awfully suspicious”, she says and sends us screenshots of the chat. “You guys don’t have a long time before they figure it out or you have to tell them”

"Well we don't want the kids on the streams. But I guess we could tell them. We were planning too- just not soon." I tell her and put away a couple stray papers.

 “How about tomorrow is more of a blog stream”, John suggests, “we update them on everything that’s happening which also gives us more lenience on the streaming schedule” “I can agree to that”, I respond.

"I don't need to be here anymore. Bye." Eliza says then hangs up, making John and I burst out laughing. She always knows how to put a smile on anyone's face.

 “Well I suppose we should get to bed too”, I say, “we’ve got a long day ahead of us tomorrow with the stream and house er- apartment hunting” “Today’s been a long day too slew sounds like a wonderful idea- but should I be concerned you’re the one suggesting sleep”, John says while joking around.

"No because I get to sleep beside you tonight." I say and blush a little. He blushes too and we both make our way to his room and cuddle each other until we fall asleep in each others arms on the bed.

[Time skip to morning brought to you by the baseball turtle]

 I wake up in the morning to John’s alarm. I wonder for a second why he set an alarm before realizing that we had a stream planned for this morning to get all of the announcements stuff out of the way. We both get up and set up for the stream quickly.

 "Ok for the last time, do we want Franny and Pip on the stream just this once?" I ask. John shakes his head. "No. I don't want them to be bombarded at school or even kidnapped-" he says. Wow he really thought this through.

 And I’m glad that he feels the same way I do about having them on the stream. John gets his laptop and starts it. “Hey guys so today is going to be a bit different than my normal streams. It’s more of a blog one to update y’all on what’s going on”, he begins.

I check the chat and as expected, they're all asking if we're dating. I take a deep breath and take my turn to talk. "So, John and I have started dating. About 2 weeks ago I think. And our lives have changed drastically since then." I say quickly.

 “Due to unavoidable circumstances we’ve adopted 2 kids and them and Alex are the lights of my life”, John says, “but streams may not be as set in stone schedule wise anymore due to well being parents and looking for a new apartment.”

"No, our kids will not be on the stream and we will not tell you where we live 'blopismyfriend'." I say quickly, noticing how fast the chat blew up.

 I don’t know how to handle the chat when it’s going up like this. And I’m the chat monitor, ironic isn’t it. Welp very eventful so far is all I have to say about this.

"Alright you can chat amongst yourselves while Alex and I check on our kids who should be waking up soon. We'll leave the stream on for like 5 more minutes so you can chat." John says and turns off the camera but leaves the mic and stream on.

 Once we wake the kids up we head back to the living room and end the stream. We can read through those comments later. Right now, I just want to enjoy the peace of not being pestered about it every stream.

"Daddy can we watch a movie?" Frances asks while cuddling on my lap. I internally scream because of how cute this is but externally, I nod and give a quick "mhm."

 She decides on a movie while I think about all the events that have happened recently. There truly is good in the world, you just have to know where to look. And for me it just happens to be with pip franny and John.

"Hey Franny- do you mind if I call you that?" I ask before asking my original question. She nods and focuses on the movie. "Do you like it here? With John and I?" I ask. She finally pulls her eyes away from the tv and nods at me again. "I love it here. Much better than old family."

 “That’s great to hear you're happy”, I respond. Pip is playing on the floor with his toys. I’m still concerned about the fact he hasn’t said a single word or started walking yet. But I don’t want to pester John about it. There's enough on his plate right now.

"Pip-squeak, do you want to watch the movie with us?" I ask. He looks up then looks back down to play with his toys. Does he even understand us? Is it possible he doesn't?

 That doesn’t help with my concern. This might be worse than I thought. A worried look spreads across my face and John asks me what’s wrong. I don’t want him to think I’m overreacting again-.

"Nothing is wrong baby. I'm fine. I'm totally fine." I lie. He doesn't believe me, which makes sense because even I don't believe me. "You can tell me." He whispers and sits on the floor with Pip.

 “Fine- I’m worried about pip still and now I’m worried he might not even be able to understand us.”, I whisper back. “Cmere”, he says quietly. I nod then go to him and he pulls me into a hug. “Everything is gonna be alright ok?”, he says.

I quietly nod and hide my face in his neck. "I still think we should get him tested…" I whisper. "And I said when he's nearly 2." John says. I sigh and nod. Maybe I should listen to him?

 All I can do is calm down and try to forget about it for now. Both of us are too stubborn for this. So might as well try to move on off the topic and hope I’m overthinking this all.