The Secret Daughter

Chapter 7

Louis sits in the front of my mother's SUV and revs up the engine.

"Can you stop that please," I snap, and Liam shoots me a pouty look with his big brown eyes. We take off down the driveway.

"We going to the park!" Lux shouts, bouncing in her car seat. Harry chuckles. We fly out of the driveway and speed down the road.

"In 1 kilometer, turn right." The automatic voice says.

"Shut your arse," Louis mumbles.

"Louis! There's a child in the car!" Harry reminds him.

"Yeah, we don't want Mica hearing that kind of language,"Liam smiles at me.

"Hey!" I protest. "I'm almost 17!" I flick the boy on the ear.

"Hey Liam, did you know if you switch the 'i' and the 'a' in your name it spells 'lame!' " Louis chuckles.

"Louis... that's not how you spell 'lame.'" Niall tells him, looking at him like he's crazy.

"Yes it is."

"No, it's no."

"Yes, it is!"

"No, it's not!" 

"YES IT IS!" Louis shouts swerving to the side of the road.

"Woah woah woah! Calm yourselves!" Liam reasons.

"They're a bit off their trollies today," Zayn adds.

"I'd agree." I say, leaning against the window.

"Can we get food soon?" Niall asks.

"I will pull over once you admit that I spell 'lame' correctly." Louis says, sticking his nose in the air.

"Never." Niall mumbles, crossing his arms.

"I'll look it up." Harry says, pulling out his phone.

"Hey guys watch this!" Louis jerks the wheel back and forth so he's driving on the wrong side of the road into oncoming traffic. "I'm an American!"

"You're not fat enough," Liam laughs.

"L-A-M-E." Harry spells. I drop my head into my hands.

"You little-" Louis reaches into the back seat and grabs Harry's phone from his hand, "bugger." He rolls down the window and chucks the phone out. "See who corrects me now."

"Louis!" Harry turns just in time to see his iPhone crushed by a large truck.

"You don't need a phone." Lou says.

"Hey look, there's the sign!" Zayn points to the community park sign. We drive in and Lou picks a parking spot.

"This place is dead!" Liam remarks plopping on a pair of shades and a baseball cap.

"I know. It always is." I tell them helping Lux out of her child seat. She rubs her eyes sleepily.

"This is awesome!" Zayn takes off toward the playground.

"SWINGS!" Harry yells. He let's Lux onto his back and takes off.

"Shall we?" Liam holds out his arm.

"No." I say, walking towards the playground.

"Come on, Mica!" He laughs throwing his face up toward the sun. I smile a bit. We head off toward the boys and start to play on the equipment. We eat the lunch we packed and finally I head back toward the car for some bottled water. Liam follows me. 

"This is fun, Mica." He smiles. The sun behind him is setting.

"Yeah, it is!" I say happily.

"HEY!" Louis shouts at us. "Come on! We're playing manhunt!"

"Oh yeah!" I say out loud.

"What?' 

"I'm amazing at this game!"

"What version?"

"Widespread."

"Don't tell them. I'm awesome too. Tell them you're horrible and then you can be on my team. We'll whoop their sorry arses." I smile at Liam and nod.

"Okay!" Liam shouts, and we jog toward everyone else.

"Okay, teams," Louis says. "Zayn, Me, and Mica are blue." He tosses me a blue hat. "Harry, Liam and Niall are red."

"And Lux!" Harry says.

"Aw, I stink at this game." I moan. Louis jerks the hat from my head and tosses it to Niall.

"Okay, Niall Zayn and Me are blue. Harry Liam and Mica are red." Louis says.

"Blue call being the hunters first!" Niall calls.

"We should go over rules first," Harry says. (I'm just doing this to clear up that this is just a slightly modified version of what Americans call 'cops and robbers'/Capture the Flag.)

"Hunters," (Cops) "go searching for the red team and try to catch them and bring them back to jail which in our game will be the swings. You can be tagged out of jail. If the hunted capture all of the hunters, they win." Louis says.

"Can we go in the woods?" I ask motioning to the forest behind me.

"Not too far."

"How about cellphones?"

"I suggest you exchange numbers now."  

"I don't have a cellphone." Harry mumbles  

"You shouldn't have thrown it out the window." Louis says. 

"I didn't!" Harry protests, but Louis folds his hands and looks away. "Shall we begin?"

"The sooner the better." I call my team around me and I exchange numbers with Liam. I've never played manhunt with all guys before. Most definitely not megastar boy band boys. Well, this should be Fun.