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18. is work more important than us?

Ava's pov
School is over for today. I'm currently at my locker throwing my books in that I won't be needing for tonight. "Math, check. Science, check" I tell myself as I place those books in my backpack. I grab Isla's water bottle that she left in there. I then close my locker and to my surprise, Kayla was standing there with Theo. "Jesus, you scared me" I cover my heart trying to breath again. "Sorry. Now come on or we're going to be late" Theo says as he grabs my hand. "Hey, hands off" Kayla says as I laugh. "I'm sure it's fine" he says as he drags me outside to the field.

Theo and I are sitting on the bleachers so that we can watch Mya, Asher and Isla's soccer practice. "Number 8 is pretty good don't you think Kay" I ask but don't get a response. "Kayla?" I look around but can't find her. "Where's Kayla?" I ask Theo has he looks around some more. "She's probably still inside" he shrugs and I elbow him.
"You're fucking stupid" I hiss at him as I get up to get her. "Me?! Stupid?! I'm the smartest one in the group" he says as I flip him off.

I enter the school and see Kayla standing there, looking at some posters. "Kay, why didn't you come?" I ask her and she smirks. "That's what she said" she laughs and I roll my eyes. "I was just letting you two have your moment" I heard jealousy in her voice. "Kay, I don't like him like that and you know that. Besides, I like someone else who's hotter, funny and cares about me" she raises her eyebrow and leans on the wall.

"Who's that?" she smirks. I pretend to think about it. "Laura" her jaw drops and I laugh my ass off. "I'm joking. It's you duh" she pulls me into a tight ass hug. We pull back and she looks at me all lovingly if that's a thing. "I like you very much" she says then pulls me into a deep kiss. I sigh and pull away. She pouts and I giggle. "Let's go" I take her hand in mine. We rush outside and sit down next to Theo. "Love birds finally made it back. I thought that you were going to do a quickie" I choke on my saliva. "Shut up and watch them practice" Kayla says as she grabs both of my hands to warm them up. It is a little chilly outside today but it's not bad.

I get cold easily. "So are you guys dating yet?" Theo ask and I roll my eyes. This man does not shut up. "No" "why not?" "Because" "because what" oh my god. Kayla slaps the back of his head and that shut him up so quick. "So why aren't we?" She whispers into my ear making me shiver.
"You didn't ask" I smile at her. "Will you be my girlfriend then?" She whispers. I turn around a cup her cheeks. I lean in and kiss her. "Of course I will" she smiles and hugs me for the rest of the time.

Isla's pov
Practice is over and now Kayla is driving us to moms work. She wanted to see us or something. So that's what we're doing. "Here we are" Kayla stops at her work. "Thanks" I quickly get out of the car so I don't have to see what's going to happen. I walk inside and smile at Daisy. She's the receptionist. She's really nice. "Hi Isla. Is your sister coming too?" She ask. "Yeah she's right behind me" she nods and we wait for a while. "Sorry. I'm here" Ava rushes in. "Great. Your mom is waiting for you in her office. You know where to go" we thank her and use the elevator to get to the floor. We step out of the elevator and see mom rushing around with people following her and she's giving directions and stuff. "You sure she wanted to see us?" Ava whispers into my ear. I shrug and make my way over to the massive tv. "Wanna play Mario Kart?" I ask my sister as I set it all up. "Sure" we sit down on bean bag chairs and start to play.

We played for an hour now and mom doesn't seem to notice us or anything. She didn't say hi yet. I had enough of this so I walked up to her and tapped her shoulder. She turns around and looks surprised. "What are you doing here? Your supposed to be here after school" she says and looks at her watch. She curses under her breath and looks at me. "Where's your sister?" I point to the chilling area. "Okay. I should be done in 30 minutes. Sit tight okay?" I nod and she kisses my head and goes back to work. I sigh and go back to Ava. "Should we start walking now?" She jokes. "Give her 3o"

1 hour later...

"Let's just go. I texted dad to pick us up" Ava tells me. I sigh and grab my stuff. We go to the elevator and ride all the way down to the main floor. "Tell mom that we will see at home" I tell Daisy and she gives me a sad look. "I will. Stay safe" "we will" we say at the same time. We walk outside and see dads car. I race Ava so that I can sit at the front. "Bitch" she whispers and I laugh.
"So?" Dad ask already knowing the answer. "Didn't even come over to say hi or anything. Like always" Ava tells him and I agree with her.
He sighs and we drive home. When we arrived, there was pizza waiting for us. "Ohhh yummy" we all sit around and start to eat.

Ava's pov
About halfway through supper, mom walks in and joins us. "How was work?" Dad ask as Isla and I roll our eyes. "Busy" she sighs. No one else talked during the whole supper until Isla had to break it. "Wasn't it really that hard for you to just take a break and say hi to your daughters?" I look over at mom and she sighs. "I'm sorry but I was really busy and-" "but you said you were going to be ready to leave in 30 minutes which turned into an hour" she continues. "Isla look. This company is important to me and-" "so this company is more important than us?" I ask her while tears are threatening to leave my eyes.

Mom doesn't say anything which answers my question. She looks at dad for help but he shakes his head. He's on our side trust me. "Well we have a mother-daughter dance next week and we were going to bring you but now we will ask Lizzie and Flo to take us" Isla says then looks at dad. "May I be excused?" Dad nods his head and she leaves. "Me too?" I ask him. He also nods and I grab mine and Isla plate, which still had pizza on it, and walk upstairs to her room. She's laying on her bed with tears rolling down her face. "Isla wanna finish your food?" I ask her as I set the plate down. She shakes her head and I sigh.

"Finish it or we aren't going to watch your favourite movie" she sighs and eats. "You know, sometimes I feel like you should be my mother instead of our actual mother" I laugh at that and we cuddle under the blankets. "So, you and Kayla huh?" She jokes and I throw a pillow at her. "Hey! Rude" she slaps my arm and we laugh. We then hear a knock at the door and we tell whoever to come in. "Hey girls. You didn't get to have dessert so here it is" dad says as he walks in and hands us ice cream. "Scarlett went back to work because there was an emergency" we both sigh.

"Whatever. I don't care at this point" I tell him but deep down I do. "Anyways. Movie time!!!" Isla jumps on the bed and turns the tv on. "Dad. Stay and watch" I beg him. He nods and we all lay together and watched the movie. Is it really that hard for mom to take a day off and hang out with us?

I guess it is.

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