bubba || c.b

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Morgan's POV

All 5 of us cram into the Uber. Sam sitting in the passenger seat, Kat, Colby, and I in the backset with Mia sitting comfortably on Colby's lap, her head in the crook of his neck, her fingers playing with the chain around his neck.

"So where are we going?" I ask for what felt like the hundredth time, hoping that somebody would respond or at least give me a hint.

"I would tell you, but I very much like my life." Sam chuckles from the front seat and my gaze lands on Colby, shooting him a dirty look, causing him to laugh. Little shit.

"Come on Colby, pleaseeeee." I pout, making my eyes big, batting my eyelashes, and jutting out my bottom lip.

"Don't try and pull that with me. Doesn't work." he says rolling his eyes.

"Mia, sick him." I say dramatically, pointing at him.

She wiggles and straddles his lap, giving him an identical look. I nudge our heads together, inches from his face and grab his chin, forcing him to look at us.

"Pleaseeeeeee" we whine in unison.

I watch his eyes flick between the two of us with a small grin.

"Not happening ladies. Now behave." he says sternly, grabbing my wrist and dragging it away from his chin and down to my lap. He gives us each a kiss on the cheek and averts his gaze toward the window again.

"Fine. I give up." I hum in fake annoyance. I grab Mia and try to bring her over to my lap, but Colby's grip around her waist was vice like, making her giggle.

"Give me my sister Brock." I huff out.

"Nope." he pops, pulling her closer to his chest.

Mia has exploded into fits of giggles as we fight over her, causing the whole car to erupt in laughter. I love them all.

"Can I play some music Sam?" Kat asks, reaching for his phone he had connected to the charger/bluetooth. He hands it over and I look over her shoulder as she scrolls through his Apple Music.

"Wanna see something funny?" I whisper so only she can hear.

She nods excitedly and hands the phone over to me. Wrong choice Kat, wrong choice.

My fingers tap against the screen and I tap Sam's shoulder asking him to turn it up. This poor uber driver, we are going to have to tip him well.

With a devilish smile I hit play and automatically turn my head in Mia's direction. The first note comes on and her head immediately pops from Colby's shoulder startling him.

"Hurry Kat. Record this." I say quickly.

She pulls her phone from her bag quickly and hits record as the first lyric comes on. Mia is literally bouncing on Colby's lap in anticipation, reaching for me.

There I was again tonight
Forcing laughter, faking smiles
Same old tired lonely place
Walls of insincerity
Shifting eyes and vacancy

Shit is about to get real.

"ALL I CAN SAY IS IT WAS ENCHANTING TO MEET YOUUUUU" we sing together, our faces inches from each other with big goofy grins on our faces.

"THIS NIGHT IS SPARKLING, DON'T YOU LET IT GO, I'M WONDERSTRUCK, BLUSHING ALL THE WAY HOME."

I hear Kat start to sing along behind me between giggles, I am now holding Sam's phone up to my mouth pretending it is a microphone. Mia has her hands on my shoulders as we sing at the top of our lungs.

I peek over at Colby, half expecting him to look terrified. But he has the prettiest smile on his face watching us. I twist my body toward him, Mia following suit, and I wrap my arms around his neck- Mia gripping his shirt in her little fists as we continue singing.

I feel his arm slowly wrap around my waist, pulling me closer to him.

Mia is still going willy nilly in his lap but I have gotten quieter.

"This was the very first page, not where the storyline ends, my thoughts will echo your name, until I see you again, these are the words I held back, as I was leaving too soon, I was enchanted to meet you..." I sing, holding eye contact with him. Hoping he would understand what I was trying to say to him with this goofy song.

"Please don't be in love with someone else, please don't have somebody waiting on you." I whisper, small tears in my eyes, but I keep the small smile on my face.

The song has ended and has started playing again and Mia starts her show all over again. But Colby's attention is still on me. His face his red, his eyebrows scrunched, his mouth open slightly, while searching my eyes for answers.

He blinks, breaking our eye contact, and hides his face in my hair.

"Nobody else Morg." he says lowly, placing a kiss on my collarbone, that ignites my body with goosebumps.

When he pulls his head away and turns his attention back to the singing little girl in his lap, I turn toward Kat who is still recording. I gasp and grab her phone out of her hand, stopping the video. I ignore the smirk on her face and toss the phone into her lap with rosy cheeks and a smile that makes me look like a love sick puppy.

I am so fucked

Colby's POV

We listen to that song on repeat the rest of the ride and normally I would be annoyed. But Mia singing her little heart out in my lap, and my arm wrapped securely around Morgan's waist, my forearm flush against her bare back, my fingers fiddling with the hem of her silk dress- I can't seem to wipe the damn smile off of my face.

I have never felt like this before, never have I been so infatuated with someone. My little blue eyed devil, she is trouble. Her little sister just being an added bonus, as I think I am equally as obsessed with her.

Morgan and Kat have drifted into their own conversation, she has turned toward her slightly, leaning her back into my side and has her head tilted back onto my shoulder. Her legs crossed over one another- my hand greedily follows. I smell her shampoo and realize I am becoming slightly obsessed with coconut. Mia's has the same scent, which is probably why I decide to pull her into me and give her a small kiss on top of the head.

Admittedly, I have never really liked kids. I was happy to be the youngest child in my family, no little siblings. When I thought about them all I saw was responsibility, having to care and provide for them. Not something I had ever wanted to do, selfishly I wanted to poor all of my love and money into myself. I never wanted them either, but my mom always told me when the time was right and I found the right person, I would change my mind.

I am very much aware that Mia isn't Morgan's, but in my own fucked up head we had been playing house for the past 3 days. Waking up together, eating together, going about our day together, sleeping in the same bed. Hell, if I hadn't been stopped in the elevator by the two of them at the beginning of this trip, I would be going out every night getting shit faced and partying with my friends. But I found myself just wanting to stay back with them. And fuck... I never wanted it to end.

Although Morgan would never take credit for it, I am amazed by what an amazing girl she has raised. Sure, she has her moments- as every 11 year old does, but Mia is such an amazing little girl. So well
mannered and polite, loving and happy.

My mind drifts even deeper and I picture Morgan and I living together in a cute little house in the middle of nowhere with a couple of kids, a girl and a boy- their looks a perfect mix between the two of us. We sit on the porch, wrapped up in each others arms, and watch them chase a couple of dogs around the yard with smiles on our faces.

I snap myself out of my daydream and see Sam looking at me through the rear view mirror with a knowing smirk on his face.

"Fucked." he mouths.

I roll my eyes in return, but he is right...

I am so fucked.