This Love (A Stemily Fanfiction)

12. Tied Together With A Smile

Emily's POV

"I dis-invited her." He answered simply.

I furrowed my brows and turned him back towards me. "You disinvited your sister to your daughter's first birthday party! You can't do that!"

"Are you forgetting that she's the reason you ended up in the hospital?" He questioned.

I shook my head. "No. I did not forget that, but I would've ended up there anyway, sooner rather than later, so what does it matter. Andrea didn't make me have this condition, but her saying the things that she did made me stress out and the damn thing was caught early."

"Are you saying that you're thankful for what she said to you? Even though I still don't know what it was, I know how Andrea can be."

"Look. I'm the new one here, I'm the one that invaded everyone's lives, so I understand why she would be upset, any sane person would be." I answered.

He rolled his eyes. "Babe, come on. She has absolutely no ground to stand on and she knows it."

I shook my head. "Stephen, I don't want things to be like this with you and your family. She will come around to the thought of us together, but only if we keep her in the loop, if you keep her out of this she is only going to grow further away from you."

He put his head down. "Fine. I'll text her."

I gave him a stern look.

He sighed. "Okay. I'll call her. Geez."

I smiled triumphantly. "Thank you."

I joined Italia in the kitchen where she was finishing up the cupcakes. Mavi was now in the living room with Stephen and Robbie.

"So what time is Cassandra going to be here? I figured she would show up a little early with the cake." Italia asked.

I shrugged my shoulders. "I actually don't know what time she's coming. I haven't talked to her in over a week now. I hope she does come through though, for Maverick's sake."

She nodded in agreement and I helped her finish loading the cupcakes onto the trays.

I was carrying trays onto the dessert table with Italia when there was a knock on the door. Boo and Daisy immediately started barking uncontrollably.

Robbie opened the door to reveal no one.

"What the hell?" He said and walked outside.

I finished setting up the trays as I heard Robbie's voice. "Oh hey. You need help?"

I joined him outside to see Cassandra, she was unloading a bunch of bags out of her car, and there were a couple boxes from a bakery in her backseat.

"I'll get Stephen to help." I said and walked back inside.

"Babe!" I shouted and he ran towards me.

"What?! Are you okay?!" He said looking me over to make sure for himself that everything was fine.

I laughed. "Yes I'm fine. I just need you to go outside and help Robbie bring stuff in, Cassandra is here." I explained.

He took a breath. "That's it? You scared the hell out of me."

I rolled my eyes. "Well you need to calm down. Nothing is going to happen, you don't need to be on high alert all of the time."

He kissed me quickly before going outside.

I sat down on the couch in front of Mavi who was playing with her new play kitchen that Robbie and Italia had gotten her.

"Mommy!" I turned to see Cassandra standing there with a huge gift bag.