i miss you, i'm sorry / C.L.

Good to each other, give it the summer

Jo and Charles had spent the whole summer together. He had taken him to meet his family. They saw how much Charles loved her, so they did too.

Jo was in the kitchen with Pascale. She was telling her about the strawberry cake she had made.

"The frosting looks so nice. I'm so bad at decorating cakes." Jo spoke, letting out a small giggle.

"You wanna know my trick?" Pascale asked and Jo smiled nodding. "A plate." She whispered like it was a secret.

"A plate?" Jo asked smiling, her eyebrows raising slightly. Pascale nodded. "You need to teach me your ways. I would've never imagined." She chuckled and Pascale chuckled softly.

Lorenzo and Charles were putting plates on the table. The older Leclerc saw his brother's attention being drawn towards the brunette girl. He saw his eyes glistening and a small smile unconsciously appearing on his face, the look of love if he had ever seen it.

"Mom likes her." Lorenzo spoke up pointing with his head towards the pair and Charles smiled looking down.

"She was really nervous before coming here." Charles mentioned.

"Really?" He asked and Charles nodded. "Well, seems like she adapted perfectly."

"I made an incredible vanilla cake the other day. Charles loved it." Pascale kept telling an attentive Jo.

"You need to give me that recipe." Jo chuckled.

"I have a whole book I can give you actually." Pascale opened a drawer pulling out a book and handed it to Jo.

"Thank you so much. Now I can cook my way into his heart." She joked and Pascale laughed.

"You don't need to. He's already madly in love with you. He speaks wonders about you." She spoke and Jo chuckled, feeling her stomach flutter.

"He's whipped." Another voice spoke and Arthur popped up. Jo laughed. "Oh, nice cake." He tried going in for the frosting but Pascale hit his hand.

"Ow." Arthur looked at her offended.

"Never touch the cake." Jo joked and Pascale nodded.

"Take it to the table." Pascale ordered the youngest Leclerc who had no other option but to follow her mom's orders.

They all gathered at the table.

"This looks so good." Charles looked at the cake.

"Arthur was already going for the frosting." Pascale spoke and everyone laughed.

"So the important question. Who gets the strawberry?" Arthur asked looking at everyone as he pointed at the strawberry at the center of the cake.

"I'm good." Lorenzo spoke and Jo nodded agreeing.

"I want it." Arthur and Charles said at the same time and looked at each other.

"There's just one way to settle this." Jo spoke up.

"Fight." Charles replied and Pascale hit his arm. "Ow." He rubbed his arm.

"That would've been fun but no." Jo replied chuckling. "My money would've been on Arthur." She joked.

Everyone laughed and Charles looked at her offended.

"Really?" He smiled raising his eyebrows and Jo nodded.

"I'm joking." She chuckled and Charles laughed kissing her cheek. "Rock, paper, scissors duel." She continued her suggestion.

"Thank you for making it civil Jo." Lorenzo chuckled.