A Love Like This (Stauren) {Book 1: Completed}

Chapter 1

A/N: If you don't read my Glaggie book then you wouldn't know that this is a "reverse" version of my walking dead book with the actors in real life! Hope you like it!

*Emmie's POV*

As soon as I heard the school bell ring, I jumped from my seat and gathered my things as quickly as I could. I needed to get home as fast as I could to see my second most favorite person in the world next to my dad, Steven Yeun. Today, Lauren Cohan is coming back to Los Angeles after being gone in England for a month now.

When I spotted he street I live one, I started to sprint with a wife smile spread across my face. My hand wrapped around the doorknob of my house and I swung the door open, not even bothering to close it behind me as I ran down the hall.

"Daddy!" I jumped up onto the couched and climbed onto my dad's back. "Is Lauren here?! Is she back?! Why isn't she here?!"

"Calm down Em, her flight just got delayed and she will get here tomorrow," he replied and I heard footsteps coming down the hall.

A small part of me thought it would be Lauren, but of course it wasn't. It was my dad's girlfriend Joana. Out of reflex, I instantly narrowed my eyes at her.

"What is she doing here?" I asked and got an evil glare from Joana.

"Nice to see you too you little twerp," Jo replied. Dad always think we are joking when we talk to each other like that, but I am in no way joking. Joana is possibly the meanest person I've ever met. She thinks she can do anything to me just because she is my dad's girlfriend.

Then phone suddenly started to ring. "How about you and Jo have a nice conversation and I'll go get that," dad said and left the room.

Great.

I let out a light chuckle. "What?" Jo asked and stepped closer to me, her tall heels clicking on the wooden floor.

"Nothing."

"What?!" She snapped.

"It's just that your name and the word nice don't belong in the same sentence," I said and instantly realized it was a mistake.

She quickly brought her ring covered hand up and slapped me....like always. I fell down and held my face. It was like a tom of little needles poking my cheek over and over again.

"Don't you dare tell your dad about this," she said and pointed her finger at me. She always says that after she hits me.

"What's going on?" Dad asked.

*Steven's POV*

I heard a loud smack noise come from the hallway so I quickly spoke into the phone and said, "Hang on Lauren, I'll have to call you back."

"Okay, talk to you then!" She said in her beautiful accent.

I pressed the end button of the phone and rushed out of the kitchen and into the living room.

Emmie was on the floor, glaring up at Jo. "What's going on?"

Joana's head snapped up and she looked at me. "Oh, poor Emmie fell," Jo said and Emmie got up and ran upstairs.

"Uh....you'd better go. I have work to do," I said and Jo nodded before walking out if the door with a huff.

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"Em?" I clutched my phone in my hand and used the other to knock on her bedroom door. Without getting an answer, I opened the door to find Emmie in her pajamas on her bed. "What's wrong?" I asked and plopped down next to her on the bed. "It's Friday night and you just want to lay in bed, that's not like my Emmie."

She sighed and played with her thumbs. "What's up with you and Jo? Why aren't you two getting along?" I brushed her brown hair from her face.

"I don't like her...she's mean," Emmie said

"Has she done anything bad to you?" I pressed.

Emmie hesitated before replying. "No."

"Well in a week we will go back to Georgia for filming and it'll be just you and me kiddo." She gave me a small smile. "Oh...I almost forgot. Guess who's on the phone."

Her face lit up 'cause she knew it was Lauren. I turned the phone off of mute so Lauren could hear her. Emmie quickly snatched it from my hands and pressed it to her ear.

"Lauren!!!" She squealed and I heard lauren laugh through the phone "I miss you too."

"Put it on speaker," I said and Emmie pressed the speaker button on the iPhone screen.

"Hey Laur, isn't it like one in the morning there?" I laughed.

"Actually it's two in the morning, but I'll sleep on the plane," she replied.

"You promise you'll come over tomorrow?" Emmie asked.

"Em, she'll visit when she can," I told Emmie who made a pouty face.

"No I'll come over, don't worry Em. If that is okay with you Steve?" Lauren asked and I replied almost too quickly.

"Yes! Yes of course!"

There was a moment before Lauren spoke up again. "So Emmie, how's third grade been treating you?"

"Ehh it's okay. At least I get to go to Georgia next week. There's too many photographers that bother us in Los Angles." Emmie grabbed one of her stuffed animals and started to play with its hair.

"Yeah, it'll be nice to go back to Georgia. When do you guys leave?" Lauren asked and Emmie looked up at me for an answer.

"Um...I believe it's next Friday," I told them. "When are you flying down?"

"I'm not sure yet. I haven't gotten a ticket yet since I've been in England." I felt a smile creep across my face.

"What are you doing?" Emmie asked me and laughed.

"What?" Lauren asked.

"Daddy's smiling like an idiot," Emmie giggled.

"That's because I already bought you a ticket to fly down with us!" I said and I heard Lauren laugh.

"Of course you did Steven, but you seriously didn't have to do that. I'll pay you back."

"No, you will not pay me back," I chuckled.

"Yes I will," she said in a little kid voice. Classic Laur. She then yawned and I heard it through the phone.

"Now you go to bed missy," I told her, earning anoth one of her contagious laughs.

"Ok, I won't argue with that, I'm exhausted. Bye Em, bye Steve, I'll see you tomorrow," Lauren said in her adorable tired voice.

"Byeee!" Emmie said and gave me the phone.

"Bye Laur," I said and hung up the phone. "Time for bed."

"Is Jo here?"

"No, she left a while ago," I replied.

"Then can I sleep with you." She stuck out her bottom lip and have me her puppy eyes.

"Sure." She reached up with a smile and I picked her up.

Finally, after a month I'll get to see Lauren again. My best friend.

A/N
I know this chapter is long and slow with practically no Stauren, but trust me, it will be here soon!! And also if there are any mean characters in this story, I don't mean anything against the person in real life, it's just how the story will go!