Floral&Fading(PTV fanfic)*Completed*

Five

Mike's POV

Once we were in San Diego, we drove to the airport where we would be saying goodbye to the boys of sws since none of them live here.
Pulling into the parking lot, we all got out, leaving Scarlett in the back since she was sleeping, and said our goodbyes. Our drum tech Casey is also theirs so he's taking over their white van until the next time they go on tour since he lives here.
"Until next tour boys" Vic said hugging Jack Fowler.
"Till next time. Guess we gotta hold on till may am I right?" Kellin asked winking at me and hugging hime.
"Stop" Jaime said pushing the raven haired boy away from him causing us to laugh.
"Let's go Kells" Gabe said pushing his friend to his bag. Their flight is in 45 minutes which is the first out of all of theirs so they had to leave early. We all said our final goodbyes and hugged before the four of us headed back to the bus and drove to Jaime's place then Tony's. 

Walking into my brother's apartment for the second time-we made two trips to the bus to grab our bags-, it was offaly clean now that I take a good look at it so I looked around and saw a note on the kitchen counter.

'Welcome home babies.
While you four were gone, I missed my boys so I came here and decided to clean this disaster. I also fixed up the extra bedroom and turned it into Scarlett's room thanks to Jess and Erin for helping out.
Come over when you're are done unpacking
-mama and pap roach

"I think mama thought the boys were coming here" I said setting the note down. It was just my brother and I in this place. Usually Rachel would come over but we dropped off all the girls at Frenchi's since they were going out and then tonight we'd go over to Jaime's as a end tour party with all our parents.
"Yeah I kinda figured" he said coming out of the second bedroom.
"Since your ass is here, you can make food whiskey hands" Vic said as he grabbed a duffle bag with I'm assuming his dirty clothes and heading out the door to the laundry room on the main floor. He was on the fourth.
"I'll be back. Don't set nothing on fire and let Scarlett sleep" he warned me before closing the door. I got up and headed to the kitchen and then remembered Tony still hasn't said anything to me yet about my niece so I picked up my phone and decided to call him.

"What do you want Mike? We literally just got dropped off at our houses and you already wanna suck my dick?" He asked the second he picked up.
"I want to know what you were gonna tell me"
"Tonight. Okay? bye"
"Wait but" and he hung up. I threw my phone across the room making it hit the wall and fall to the ground. Probably cracked.
I heard grunting followed by foot steps and soon the little blonde girl known as my niece was standing in the small hallway.
"Where am I?" She asked.
"My brothers. Your dads. This is your house"
"And I'm assuming that's your phone on the floor?" I looked up at her and nodded.
"Probably all cracked and shit" my eyes followed her as she went over to my phone and picked it up handing it to me.
"Thanks" I said looking at the screen. It wasn't cracked. Just a few scratches.
"Want anything to eat?" I asked. She simply shook her head and opened the fridge to grab a water bottle.
"You sure?"
"Yeah I'm not very hungry right now. Maybe later" I nodded this time and watched her to sit on the couch.
"Scarlett?" Her head snapped towards me.
"Do you have anything? A phone? iPod? iPad? Tablet?"
"An iPod but I don't know where my bag is. It's not in the room I woke up in and I didn't wanna be a snoop" she explained quietly.
"I put your bag in your dads room" I told her walking to the hallway.
I handed the black bag to her and she thanked me before going into her new room and putting all her stuff away while I walked into the living room/kitchen and sat on the couch scrolling through Instagram.

"Uh Mike?" I heard her small voice ask. I turned my head to look at her to see she was holding her iPod.
"Do you have the wifi password? I don't wanna ask Vic when he gets back"
"Come here" I told her. She came over and sat down handing me her iPod. I typed in my brothers wifi password-which was his student number back in high school-and handed it back to her.
"Thank you" she said sitting down on the couch.
"No problem. So what kinda music do you listen to?" I asked starting a conversation.
"Rap and soca mainly. But I like a little bit of rock. One of my friends back home was obsessed with I think it's black veil brides? But I also like a few of all time low's songs because they're kinda popish I guess. You?"
"I grew up listening to SoCal punk rock stuff so that kinda stuck with me my entire life but I also like rap" she smiled and nodded. It was hard to comprehend this. How is she the same girl who screams and yells at Vic? She's so shy and quite. Almost like the female version of Tony. There's no way she's the same person who give attitude to my brother and is this soft girl at the same time.
"Hermano is backo" I heard Vic say as he opened the front door.
"Great" Scarlett said rolling her eyes.
"I see you're awake miss" he told his daughter.
"I am. I m going to my room" she stated getting up and walking to her bedroom leaving Vic standing there confused.

"I swear I didn't do anything" he said walking over to me and falling back on the couch.
"Fuck Mike why does she hate me so much" he asked muffled into his hands.
"She doesn't hate you bro"
"Bull shit. Cara must've said something to her or maybe she just doesn't think I'm a good father. I'm clearly doing something wrong" he said frustrated. I decided to not correct him and say Cara couldn't have said anything since he apparently died but I held it back since he's already pissed.
"You're trying your best Vic. You can't do much. You can't get inside her head. It's all her okay? Give her time"
"How much?"
"I have no idea but some time. You've only been in her life for a day" He sighed and removed his hands from his face.
"I guess so" I patted his knee.
"Go take a nap. You look dead. I'll take care of the clothes" he nodded and got up walking into his room closing the door so I got up after and walked into Scarlett's room.
"Wanna go for a tour of the apartment?" I asked her making a smile creep into her face.

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So now they're back home and Mike has had somewhat a conversation with his niece.
What is you think of this Scarlett? Do you think this is just an act or is the way she is with Vic an act?
Why do you think she doesn't like Vic?
What do you think Tony will tell Mike later (aka in the next chapter)?
Let me know what you thought about this chapter!