The Only Hope For Me Is You

Part 17

RIP to the eleven people who died in the house fire last night that was three minutes away from me <3 my thoughts and love go out to your family <3

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Emma’s POV:

I found my way to Wren and Frank’s house that resembled Leda and Gerard’s, possibly because they were basically in the same neighbourhood. Even in California I still got weird side glances for my outrageous hair but I kept my chin high and a stupid, cocky, teenage grin on my face.

 I was loving the LA sun and people but at the same time I was missing the skyscrapers of NY, I didn’t feel too obliged to rush home seem as how mom had been the one to kick me out to start with… I still hadn’t told anyone from my ‘new family’ the reason yet, I found it hard believing myself… According to my mom I was a bit of an alcoholic. I didn’t think I was, I couldn’t be, I was almost always sober. I only drunk before bed and at parties…

  I knocked on the front door that was open and Frank ran up and smiled at me before gesturing for me to come in, I headed in to see everyone sitting in the kitchen with… Sandwiches.

   “Auntsy Emma! I made you a sandwich!” Percy said happily and jumped down from the counter and almost threw a sandwich? at me, I was pretty sure there was more peanut butter on the outside than there was on the inside… How cute?

I smiled and Percy before bending down and hugging him, “Awesome job little man.” I mumbled and he smiled before running back to Pansy and eating the rest of his sandwich.

I stood next to Leda and Poppy who smiled at me, Wren nudged me, “If you don’t want that one… I made a spare.” She whispered and I smiled before shrugging and taking a bite of the sandwich. I instantly pulled a face and spat out my mouthful to find a cookie between the bread slices… Umm… Creative.

    “… Wow, not even I saw that coming.” Wren’s eyes widened a little and she laughed, I got the idea that once you had kids next to nothing fazed you.

    “I wish I had of…” I shook my head and tried to hide my disposal of the sandwich before starting on the spare Wren had made.

    “So how’d the job hunting go?” Gerard asked and sat Taffy on his lap, I shrugged… To be honest I had only put my resume in one of the million stores at the mall, I had only ever worked once and the idea of working made me freak a little. I had been fired from my last job because the boss had cracked onto me and I had told him to go and fuck himself.

    “It was… Progress…” I shrugged and focused on my sandwich, Gerard nodded slowly, his ‘daddy senses’ kicking in. He didn’t say anything though.

Gerard’s POV:

  I was growing fond of Emma, she was a good sister but there was just something about her that I knew was off. I didn’t say anything about it to Leda because she loved having Emma around… But it was something familiar, nothing to do with the fact that we were siblings… Just something I knew was up but I couldn’t put my finger on it.

After lunch was over I put my chin on Mikey’s shoulder and put my nose to his neck which made him squirm, “Quit it Gee!” He muttered and shuddered, I laughed before grabbing his arm.

  “Come on, a little brother to brother chat is needed.” I mumbled and pulled Mikey outside into Frank’s back yard, I pulled him around the corner of the house and toward the fence before stopping and eyeing him. “How’s things?”

   “Normal.”

   “Come on Mikey, what are you thinking man? What do you think about Emma? How is life with Poppy and Freddie? What is going on in that thick skull of yours?” I asked and tapped his head, he slapped my hand away.

Mikey sighed, “I don’t know. I guess Emma is alright… I just have tried not to think too much about the facts she’s my sister because it makes me angry… I don’t know what’s going on with me and Poppy… Or Freddie for that matter.” Mikey shrugged and kicked the ground.

I swallowed, “You have time with Emma, try to get to know her… But Mikey… I’m afraid for you and Poppy and Freddie, Poppy is a girl and she’s not going to want to just live off you as a friend for the rest of her life. You may be Freddie’s dad but this is Poppy and sooner or later she’s going to feel like she’s too close to being the centre of attention and she’s going to run.”

Mikey blinked, he hadn’t thought about that obviously but I knew Poppy hated being spared too many thoughts. I knew that if one of those two idiots didn’t declare their bloody love for the other soon then all hell was going to let loose and hearts were going to be broken.

Before Mikey said anything else I added something on the Freddie topic, “Freddie doesn’t think you like him…” I mumbled and Mikey’s eyes widened, he stared unbelievably at me.

  “What? Why?” He questioned.

  “I don’t know, I heard him talking to Emma and he said that he doesn’t think you like him, he also didn’t sound awfully sure about you being his dad.” I mumbled and Mikey swallowed, “… Come on Mikey, it’d be different if you were being a slack ass with your emotions and it was just Poppy, she’s a woman now… But you two have to worry about Freddie, Freddie is confused and you need to try and fix that… So what are you going to do about you and Poppy?”

    “I don’t know what I’m going to do…”

    “Then what do you want to do?” I pushed.

Mikey stood silently for a second, “I want to marry her Gee… I want to fucking marry Poppy.” He was quiet again before he sighed, “But I don’t know if she loves me anymore…” He sighed.

I smiled and put my arm around his shoulders, “Then you’ve got to-”

   “She does Mikey.” I heard Wren say and both Mikey and I looked around before noticing Wren through a window. She was standing on something and leaning against the window.

Mikey looked confused and happy about what she just said, “Are you snooping?... And how do you know?” I questioned.

    “I’m not snooping… I’m just… Hanging curtains… Anyways, Poppy told me. Don’t tell her I told you that she told me, just keep it as common knowledge… I’m disappearing now…” Wren did some flappy moves with her hands before she dropped out of sight and I shook my head with a smile, that sure as hell was our Wren.

    “Well you heard the woman bro. Poppy loves you, now all you have to do is marry her.” I shrugged and patted him on the back.