The Next Step: 6 Years On

Family Survival

Brittany pov
I wake up on this early Monday morning at around 8. I shuffle around in my bed until I hear Trevor starting to wake.
"Morning babe" he says and I smile
"Morning. Ready for camping?"
"More than ever gorgeous. Come on we better start getting the kids up." He says and I kiss him a couple times before stretching out and standing up making my way to Riley's room
"Morning beautiful. Time to wake up princess" I softly say to her as I stroke her head. She slowly starts to wake and I smile making my way to Emma's room
"Good morning my precious baby" I coo going over to her crib and taking her out and putting her in my arms. Trevor soon comes in and I immediately start to worry
"Brittany."
"Yeah Trevor"
"Put Emma down. It's not good for you- you're 7 and a half months now that's 30 weeks. I don't want you to hurt yourself" he says giving me a side kiss on the cheek from behind.
"Ok ok. Here you go" i give in, handing him Emma before rushing off with the other kids

"Come on kids!!! Up and Adam. Big today. James you get to see your wife again sweetie. But first we need to drive 5 hours south. Who's in for the ride?" I announce at the kitchen table moments later while everyone starts eating their cereal
"Me mummy!!" James agrees. Probably as soon as he heard "wife"
"Yeah me too" Riley agrees and Trevor chuckles
"Great. We got 4 movies for you all to watch each. 2 there and 2 back as well as some family games and karaoke singing. It's going to be a lot of fun!!" Trevor says and Emma squeals
"That's right." I say to her as I feed her her strawberries.
"Mummy are we sleeping in beds?"
"No darling. In sleeping bags, on mattresses in tents" I say and she looks confused
"What are tents?"
"They're like little sleeping huts"
"Oh that's cool. Will Emily be there?"
"Yeah she will sweetie. Everyone will be" Trevor replies and she smiles
"Yay!!" She squeals and I smile

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"Mummy are we there yet?" Riley asks as we reach the 5 minute mark.
"We have 4 hours 55 minutes left gorgeous. Just hang in there" Trevor announces and I chuckle
"Do you want to take a selfie of you three on the back Ri?" I offer
"Yeah!!" She says excitedly and I grin, passing back my phone
I hear the camera go off and Riley soon passes back my phone
"Wow. You took a great picture Riles" I comment sarcastically but not enough so then she doesn't realize. I look at the photo of my three children- James looking out the window with his palm of his hand squashed up against his face, my eldest daughter smiling sheepishly and my youngest asleep.
"Adorable" I laugh showing it to Trev
He chuckles "oh my god. That's one for her 21st Britt"
"Definitely" I agree
"And one for Instagram too" I add and he laughs

I take out my Instagram app and post photo Riley took and caption it:
"When you hand your 6 year old your phone and as a result get an adorable selfie. Love you Riles #OneForThe21st #ImProudTheseAreMine #FamilyRoadTrips @trevorflanny"

I smile and Trevor chuckles as he reads the post over my shoulder and I press post.
"Kids. Do you want some music?" He asks them and Riley shoots up her hand
"Yes yes yes. Frozen daddy!!" She begs and I laugh as I turn on my voice recording app- this is one for the internet too.
"Frozen 1 sweetie?"
"Yes please" she asks as Trevor changes to the Bluetooth overhead speaker
"Let me guess- Let It Go?"
"How did you know Daddy?!?" She giggles and Trevor chuckles
"I just knew you too well Riles" he smiles as Let It Go comes on

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"Daddy. I'm hungry" James complains as we are on the highway
"Yeah daddy. I want something to eat" Riley adds and I turn to Trevor. We have just reached 3 hours and the kids have finished their first movie. I have been texting the other to see where they are and as its 12pm in the afternoon I have now had lots of comments from Instagram too from my post.
"Maybe we should stop over at a nearby restaurant Trev?" I suggest
"Ok ok. What about Inside Out Burger?" (A/N: I know this is American and that it may not be Canadian but it's the only restaurant I know hats over there haha. Thank 'Sam and Cat')
"Yeah ok. The kids will love that" I agree as we pull off the highway and into the car park for Inside Out Burger
"What are you going to have Riley?" I ask her

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Victoria pov
"Maddie. Sweetie. Make sure you don't spill the pastry everywhere" I warn her leaning back from my chair to check on her. It's currently 1 pm and most of the cast are driving now with only 1 hour left. We have gone through this drive through bakery thing where we had a sausage roll and right now Maddie is having one.
I decide to call Alex as we keep on driving just to see where she is.

"Hey Alex"
"Oh hey Vic. Where are you?"
"Currently back on the highway- around 1 hour left of driving"
"Oh ok cool. We are driving too. We have around 2 hours through cause we left at 9:30 and we had a lot of traffic at one stage so we were delayed for about half an hour"
"Oh how annoying. How are you and +1 going?"
"Good. Can't wait for a week under the open stars. How's your driver? Tired yet?"
"Haha he's good. Been entertained with miss Maddie here for a while. What about yours?"
"He's fine. Same with Em actually he's--" she is cut off by a sort of yell and scream coming from the back of the car.
"Oh my god Victoria I'm so sorry I have to go."
And then she hangs up.

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