Neighbors

Chapter 4

"Morning Beautiful."

Liza looked around shocked and scared as she unlocked her car and couldn't find the source of the voice. Sighing in relief, she saw Marc heading towards her and Kiairi. "Hello Marc?"

"You got it," he chuckled. "Would you like to try my new coffee?"

"Oh coffee," she sighed happily. "How hot is it?"

"I made it iced because I didn't want you to burn yourself," he admitted.

"Oh you are a life saver," she beamed and took a sip then gasped, "oh this is amazing! I love it, thank you!" She took a drink and moaned happily, "it's my new favorite!"

"Thanks, Beautiful," Marc chuckled. "You off to work this early?"

"Yeah," She sighed and took another drink. "Well, first take her to daycare, then work."

"Oh there you are," Luke said as he walked over. "Here's your breakfast croissant," he handed a wrapped package to Marc. "Hey Cutie," he smiled at Liza and Kiairi who was trying to go back to sleep. "Perfect, I accidentally made too many, here."

"What?" Liza asked shocked.

"I wasn't completely awake and made too many. Now Kota won't get mad at me for feeding Max human food again. Here, it's ham and cheese."

"Thank you," She whispered as she shifted Kiairi to hold her better then took another drink. "I'm sorry but I really must get her to daycare so I'm not late."

"Why don't we keep her for you?" Marc asked. "I'm off today and so is Axel, Gabe, and Kota."

"Oh, no, that's okay," she shook her head, "I'm sure you have plans, it's fine really."

"We don't have anything planned," Axel said as the rest of the men came over. "We were just going to lounge around, it will be fun to have her stay with us."

"Max will love it," Kota nodded. "We would love to keep her today."

"Let them Momma," Kyler yawned as he came over. "I'll leave my number so they can blow up my phone with any questions and I'll call you on your breaks to let you know how everything is going."

"I don't know..." She mumbled as her phone pinged.

"Go Momma," Kyler said taking Kiairi from her, "you don't want to be late. I don't have class today and work is close by so I can rush here if I need to."

Her phone pinged again and she sighed, "Okay, thank you I appreciate it," She said grabbing her bag from the car and Gabe took it from her. She turned to Kyler, "give them my information and I mean it call me for anything."

"Yes Momma, now go," he nodded.

"Who's the parent?" She chuckled as she stood on her tiptoes and kissed his cheek then kissed Kiairi's forehead smiling at her sleeping daughter. She drove off and Kyler turned back to the group.

"You sure about this?" Kyler asked, "I can take the day off."

"We're sure," Axel nodded. "It's no problem at all."

"Just need to know if she has any kind of allergies?" Marc asked and Kyler shook his head.

"Not that we know of yet," he said. "Here's our numbers," he held out his phone after Silas took the sleeping little girl and held her. Owen took the phone and typed in their number then sent him all of their numbers. "Just send me occasional updates and pictures and I'll send them to Mom when she is on a break. Appreciate this."

A couple of hours later Liza sat down and pulled out her phone. She smiled when she saw the pictures of Kiairi sleeping on Gabe's chest while he watched TV and another photo later of her making a personalize pizza with Luke. She giggled at the short clip of her running around the backyard with Max and Kota.

She seems like she is having a blast. No nervousness about being there?

A couple seconds later Kyler replied back, Nope none whatsoever. I just got off the phone talking to her about ten minutes ago and she was fingerpainting while watching cartoons. She ate all her pizza and apples and drank all her juice during lunch. She is having lots of fun and has called me multiple times to babble. She's loving it over there.

Liza sighed in relief. Great, that's so good to hear. You aren't getting in trouble at work for it?

No, Momma, I'm fine. What about you?

I'm okay, about to get back to work. Thank you.

Love you Momma.

Love you too Son.

She put her phone back up and took anothercouple of minutes to gather herself then went back to work. Once that shift wasover, she quickly rushed to her other job and started that shift.