Ever After ☼ Derek Hale

00; Living with Coach

I could be your perfect disaster, you could be my ever after

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"Finstock!" the teenager called, and the black haired man looked up from his newspaper. Bobby smiled at the sight of his niece.

"Shay!" he exclaimed, pushing himself up from the rusty chair that's been laying on the porch since forever.

Ronald passed his black haired daughter, leaving his wife to struggle with six suitcases.

"Bob, good to see you." He shook his brother's hand, looking at the house with slight disgust.

The two brothers grew up in that house, but Ronald never quite liked it.

"It's Bobby, Ronny." the younger brother said, trying to hit a nerve- unsuccessfully.

"I see you're still not taking care of the yard." Ronald said, walking past his brother.  Bobby mocked him, making Shay giggle.

"Hi Bobby," Shay said, looking at her uncle with a sheepish smile.

"How's my favorite niece doing these days?" he asked, hugging her.

"I'm your only niece."

"Don't be so technical with me."

Shay laughed, "help someone?" her mother called.

"Just a moment," Shay and Bobby called, both getting rid of anything they were holding, rushing to help her.

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"Why did you move?" Bobby asked Shay as the two finished the pizza, after escaping the horror of Ronald trying to make the house perfect. Or "presentable", as he put it.

Ronald was a clean-freak, and both Bobby and Shay were mess-freaks.

"Well..." Shay stared at the ceiling for few seconds. She took a bite, and after swallowing licked her lips, "I couldn't stay there; I just couldn't."

Shay straightened her beanie, "aren't you hot with that thing?"

"I'm hot with and without it," she winked at her uncle. Bobby and Shay laughed, and when the laughter settled down they both took another bite of their pizza.

The two ate in silence the last piece.

"How're you holding up?"

"Holding up. I miss him and it hurts," Shay rubbed her forehead, refusing to say the one name. "I don't know. I know I am holding up, but I'm not sure how."

"So why did they come?"

"No idea," she shrugged, "I told them that it'd be best if they'd send me here alone, but dear father missed his brother."

"Can't say that the feeling's mutual."

"Didn't expect anything else," Shay replied. "Wanna watch a movie?"

"Are you sure you want to be seen in public with Coach Bobby Finstock?"

"Are you sure you wanna be seen in public with Awkward Shay Finstock?"