Adopted By Matthew Espinosa (Hayes Grier)

Chapter 23

CHARLOTTE POV.

I woke up in the arms of Hayes and the smell of pancakes. The 2 best things in the world. I rolled over to face Hayes who was still asleep. The couch wasn't very wide so I was holding on tight to Hayes just so I wouldn't fall off. I was watched him sleep for around 15 minutes until he woke up. "Good morning," He said with a raspy voice as his voice cracked which made me laugh. "Good morning," I replied with a smile. We made intense eye-contact for a minute or two until we were interrupted. "Guys, pancakes," I heard Nash say from the kitchen. I heard footsteps instantly, I turned my head to see dad and Taylor get up almost immediately.

I then got up first, Hayes got up second and I went to the kitchen. "Good morning," Everyone said at once. That happened regularly, everybody speaking at once, it was normal to me now. "Dad, what time do we have to leave?" I asked as I put butter on my pancake. "At 8:30, it's not too busy so we have to leave in an hour," He said before he poured his coffee. I then went and got dressed after my shower, well attempted to get dressed. I decided to wear a dress because it was the easiest thing to put on, well I thought it was.

It was dark blue silk with flowers on it that ended before the knee. I couldn't do it up at the back so I went downstairs to ask dad to do it up, the perks of not having a female in the house! "Dad, can you help me?" I asked as I walked to the living room where everyone was sitting. "Ah, yeah sure," He said with hesitant in his voice. I could feel stares across the room, especially an intense stare from Hayes. Dad finally did my dress up and I walked upstairs and just left my hair down.

It was time to go and dad drove me. We arrived at the hospital me looking cute in my dress until you look at my arm and my face. A girl's nightmare. We sat down in the waiting room when the nurse Christine called my name. Me and dad got up from my seat and went into the doctor's office. He shortly came in.

"How have you been?" He asked as he sat in his chair at his desk. "Good," I replied. "So, let's get straight to the point. In two days you will be having surgery done on your left arm to repair the ligament damage, the longer we wait the worst it will get. So once your surgery is done you will stay two nights just so we can keep track on you, you will then get discharged in the morning," He said as he looked at me.

I constantly kept looking back at dad, then the doctor, dad, doctor. We were in his office for not even 5 minutes until we leave again. "Hey, everything will be fine!" Dad said as he wrapped his arm around my shoulders as he saw the fear in my face. "I hope so," I replied as I looked up at him.

We then pulled in the driveway and I got out of the car and walked through the door. "Charlotte!" I heard a voice say before they came up and hugged me. I knew who it was by the hug. Joel. "Are you okay?" He asked as he tightened his grip on me. "Yeah, I'm fine," I lied as I looked over his shoulder to see Hayes staring at the ground. I was kinda hesitant, I knew that, he knew that, everyone in the room knew that.

But that didn't stop him. He leaned in and kissed me, aggressively. I pulled away. "What is wrong with you?!" I asked I walked away. I saw Hayes in the corner of my eye come in front of me. "I get it now, you guys have a thing," He said with anger in his face. "Well, I'll go, you guys have fun," He said before he walked out the door.

All the guys just stood there, dad, Nash, Hayes and Taylor until Hayes came up and gave me a hug. "Are you alright?" He asked as he kissed my forehead. "Yeah," I said before I hugged him tighter. His touch made me feel so secure, so safe, like nothing bad would ever happen to me. I forgot that other people were in the room, "Oh, sorry," I said with a tiny smile. "It's okay, I'm going out, be back soon," Dad said before he hugged me and left out the front door.