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april 7, 2023
"don't you think you've eaten enough," aj muttered to his girlfriend as they were sat having a late breakfast, causing her to quietly set the fork back down on the edge of the plate.
"lilli, hun," kate received a hum as her daughter promptly glanced up to her looking over the top level railing. "could you come up here please?"
"mhm," she nodded as she got up, noticing aj do the same. "i'm sure you don't need to come, i'll be back down in a minute.."
"well i'm not waiting down here."
"okay.." she started to wander of towards the staircase, him following.
"hey dude, aj," rick gained his attention. "you don't just come into someone's house and trash it," he signalled to the plates on the table.
as aj let out a huff and turned back around, liberty ignored the comments and swiftly made her way upstairs to her mother.
"and don't you dare tell lilli how to eat!" rick spoke through gritted teeth, standing beside the boy washing up their plates. "you don't have a right to that, no one other than her does."
"she's not even your daughter," he quietly scoffed.
"if you want to stay here, you better learn some manners in the next five seconds or you're out! and you're not taking lilli with you."
"sorry," he said with a small almost inaudible chuckle.
meanwhile upstairs, liberty and kate were sat in arlo's bedroom — a space that hadn't been changed in last five years since his passing. just being in there brought back so many memories, both good and bad.
"arlo, are you not ready?" liberty questioned her younger brother, softly smiling at the boy laying in his bed. "you know that we're going to dinner tonight, right?"
"i'm not feeling too well, mom said i can stay here.."
"i'll stay with you then," she sat down on end of his bed.
"no, lilli, you go.. daniel's here for once and your boyfriend planning on being there, so go.. i don't know why you'd want to miss it.." he continued to mumbled his words with next to no expression on his face.
"but my favorite sibling won't be there," she playfully pouted. ".. are you sure you don't want me to stay?"
"mhm, i'll be fine"
liberty softly stared at him for a few seconds without saying anything, she got up and wander around to the other side of the bed. getting on top of the sheets, laying down behind and cuddled into him as she wrapped one of her arms around him.
