the ultimatum

Boys are smelly

" sorry about that Lucy..I'll speak to her" Tim says quickly

"Avalynn Elisabeth Bradford!" Tim shouts at Avalynn following the young girl into her bedroom.

"I don't want another smelly boy!" She crosses her arms dramatically in the middle of the room looking up and facing  her father.
"Hey boys aren't smelly" Tim covers his heart pretending not to be offended.
"your not smelly daddy! It's..it's just not fair" she huffs and goes over to her pile of stuffed toys in the corner of her room and sadly takes a seat next to them.

Tim sighs and sits on the floor next to her.
"What's not fair sweetie?" He asks pushing her blonde hair behind her ear.
she shakes her head and grabs a stuffed toy and hugs it.

"Honey, ava baby look at me" he says softly thinking there's more to it.
Avalynns blue eyes meet her dads
"Tell me what's wrong honey." Tim says and Avalynn shrugs.

"Im going to be alone." She worries and Tim frowns in confusion but chuckles abit.
"No you're not, don't be silly" Tim replies.

"I am." She throws the stuffed animal into her dad's legs before crossing her arms again and frowning.
"your not. Tell me how?" He asks now fiddling with the stuffed animal, immediately recognising that it's one of the ones she had in hospital with her when she had a concussion due to Ashley.

"Well..you and miss lucy are a team..Jack and Arlo are a team right now..but when this new baby comes the new baby and Arlo will be a team too..and I'll be on my own.." she confesses and Tim sighs softly and opens his arms for Ava to climb into.

She climbs on Tim's legs and Tim wraps his huge arms around her small body and kisses her head.
"you are never going to be alone baby, never. I don't know why you would think that" Tim says softly and Ava sits back to look at her dad.

"P-promise?" She asks sticking out her pinky finger. Tim smiles "promise" he responds before wrapping his finger around hers.

"now. I want you to apologise to Lucy, you do not throw things at anyone or anything or at all okay? It's not very nice Avalynn." Tim says, and she nods. Both of them stand up and Avalynn reaches to grab Tim's hand as they walk into the living room.

They find Arlo and Lucy happily giggling about something, Avalynn hides behind Tim shyly, biting her finger.
"Lucy, Ava has something she wants to say." Tim says, Lucy stops what she's doing and glances back at Tim and Avalynn and steps forward.

"Go on Avalynn" Tim says pulling her from behind himself.
"Sorry" she says quietly.
"What was that Avalynn?" Tim says trying to get her to say it louder.
"I am sorry miss Lucy..mom..I didn't mean to throw the box at you." She says and Lucy smiles at Ava and opens her arms where Avalynn runs into them.

"I forgive you sweetie." She says softly kissing avas head.
Ava smiles and pulls away and looks back at Tim
"Boys are still smelly" she giggles

-

It was around 8 at night, Lucy and Tim were tucked up on the sofa with a laptop on Tim's legs scrolling through available houses.

They all went out for food after Ava apologised to Lucy. After they went for food they cleaned the living room and helped the twins to bed.

"Oooo what about that home?" Lucy points and Tim clicks on it.
"It's so close to a busy road..the twins could run on. Plus there isnt a very big back garden" Tim disapproves.
"Ah yeah..hmm" Lucy says as they look through a few more houses.

"Ooo what about that" Lucy says pointing to a house, it has four bedroom, two bathrooms, huge back garden with a pool and it's in our price range" she says and Tim falls in love with it too until he sees the address.
"It's four doors down from Lopez" he grumbles.
"And? You wanted to be close to her" Lucy laughs.

"Yeah but not four doors away! She would take advantage of that. She will literally send Jack over for us to baby sit all the time, she could walk in at any point..we will have no privacy" he sighs.
"It's fine. Come on, Tim that house is beautiful" Lucy says and Tim sighs and starts applying.

"Really?!" She squeals and Tim nods
"I thought you didn't want to live that close to Lopez" she asks and Tim sighs

"anything for you, and it will be beneficial living that close to her and I shouldn't really complain about living that close to her especially everything she's done for you while I...was gone. And forgiving me, and everything Wesley has done for me..so yeah." Tim says softly and Lucy kisses his head and smiles, tim looks at her smile with wide eyes and chuckles nervously

"Now you two are going to team up against me.." he states and Lucy laughs and hits his chest.
"Noo!" She responds quickly with a high pitch voice.
"Yeah" Tim chuckles.
"maybe. Hey it'll be fun living a few houses away from her though." Lucy shrugs.
"Suppose. We don't know if we will 100% get the house though, so let's apply for a few more" he says and Lucy nods.

They apply for a few more houses, until they got exhausted. So they decide to put the laptop away and cuddle into each other watching true crime..

-

Angela, Aaron and Wesley were sat at the Lopez-Evers breakfast bar with a bunch of wedding booklets, files, magazines etc etc.
Aaron sighs and throws one on the floor and both Wesley and Angela snap their heads to him.

"what? Why do we need to plan a wedding using these?? Let's give them a special wedding.." he says and Wesley and Angela look at eachother and nod
"That's a good idea..but we will still need these for inspiration" Wesley says.

"do you even know what they want?" Aaron asks and Angela sighs.
"They want it in September as you know. Not that many guests, they want it natural colours like sage, beige, white and at sunset." Angela says.

"okay. We start there. My cousin has a beautiful beach house, and a private beach. The sunsets are beautiful over there." Aaron tells the Lopez-Evers couple.

"that could work, do you have any photos and would your cousin mind?" Angela asks and Aaron nods and pulls his phone out and finds photos and shows the couple, they gasps in shock of how gorgeous the place is.

"nope he won't mind, he's never there anyway. It's gorgeous isn't it..and since im family and Lucy and Tim are my friends he would let the wedding be there for free at any time." Aaron says

"Okay we need a date." Angela says.
"Why don't we stop planning now, talk to Tim and Lucy at lunch tomorrow and see what they want..then we finish planning tomorrow night yeah?" Aaron asks and Angela agrees.

"I still want to know if they are having a girl or boy" she huffs.