The Fighter

Chapter Six

I wake up the next day to a baby crying. Why is it always crying? A girl can't get a damn peaceful sleep around here without being woke up by a baby.

"Good morning Ashtyn!" Isabella cheers as she walks into the room. I furrow my eyebrows at her in confusion. She's never been this happy before. I wonder what's been happening since I left. Or what did happen. Isabella sits down a tray full of fruits and waffles. Followed by orange juice. I smile and thank her before she points towards the door. I nod my head and she walks out, soon the baby stops crying.

Well, this morning was unexpected. I grab a strawberry and stuff it in my mouth. I eat the rest of my food very rushed because, well I'm used to it. My mom always used to rush me because I was always late for school. By that I learned how to eat fast. My dad gave me my first beer, well first whiskey. I was thirsty and there wasn't anything other than whiskey in the trailer to drink. So he gave me his whiskey bottle and told me to stop complaining. I was probably ten years old at the time.

Just as I got done taking the last bite of those delicious waffles, Carlos walks in. Followed by Mikey, Aaron, Zac, George, Darren, Isabella with the baby in her arms, Melissa, Caiden, Henry, Zeke, Carter, Lola, Zurie, Mavis, Justin, and Austin. Less than half of my family walks in. Lola has a huge smile on her face like the rest, she's holding a fairly large box in her hands. Carlos and Mikey hold boxes in their hands and everyone else just smiles big at me. What's going on.

"We've realized that we missed you're eighteenth birthday two days ago. So we all thought that this would be a good time to celebrate it now. I still have the gift waiting for you, by the way. Everybody pitched in on the big one. " Carlos says smiling at me. Lola bring the box and sits it on the bed. I move my feet and sit crossed legged on the bed and half smile at everyone. I don't really need a birthday. I never had one since I turned ten.

I watched and Lola places eighteen candles in the cake as she hides it from me. She smiles and takes the cake out of the box and sits it on the table. She moves the table so it's in front of me. I smile like an idiot when I lay my eyes on the cake. Guns, on both sides of the cake. My name written is bold letters with happy birthday. There's people with 'X's on their eyes and a weed plant comes up from the bottom. The cake is in white icing and it looks fucking deliciously, incredible.

"I love it! Thank you guys so much!" I say as I lean forwards to hug Lola but I wince when I lean forward. Are stitches supposed to hurt? Like damn... Make it stop. Everyone cheers and whistles. Lola lights the candles and George helps her. I see a camera flash as I was looking down at the cake, I looked up and I glared at Zac for taking a picture. He smirks and winks at me. I shake my head and I roll my eyes.

"Happy birthday to you! Happy birthday to you! Happy birthday dear Ashtyn-" I close my eyes and I make my wish before the end of the song. I wished that my parents were back but they were ready to be parents. I wished that my baby brother would grow up happy and didn't ask a lot about my parents- his parents. I wished for Dean to be dead.

I looked up and smiled before blowing out my candles. Again, Zac camera flashes multiple times as I'm blowing out my candles. I laugh and the room becomes dark. The lights flick on and everyone claps.

"What'd you wish for Ashtyn?" Justin and Austin ask at the same time. We all laugh and they just look at each other creeped out before laughing a long. I shale my head and smile.

"I can't tell you or else it's not going to come true." I laugh. The brothers just roll their eyes at me and laugh. I cut the cake into, maybe too big of slices. Everyone still got one though.

Everyone made small talk and I was sitting with the baby. He really needs a name. I look into his bright green eyes, that I hope will stay with him. He needs a unique name because he lives with unique people. It's just how it works. I hold his bottle in his mouth and I sit my plate on the table. Using my free hand to eat the cake. It was my favourite, chocolate. My mouth waters at how good it tastes. I look down at the baby and I noticed that he's smiling. I take the bottle out of his mouth and pick him up.

"What's so funny, stink?" I say in baby voice. He smiles again and I grab my phone. I keep talking to him and he opens his eyes and smiles big. I click the button and take a few pictures. I hold him up and turn the camera to inner camera. I hold him up to me and face him towards the camera. I make a kissy face and the baby smiles again. I snap the pic and smile at it myself. I'm still wearing that stupid hospital-like gown so it kind of looks like I gave birth a few days ago. He is only a few days old but oh well, I'm going to be the only one to see it anyway.

"What are you going to name him?" Isabella asks as she walks up to us. Melissa and Lola by her side. These girls are the only girls in this building, other than me and Carter. I look at her confused and I lay baby back down in front of me.

"I'm supposed to name him?" I say sounding confused. I thought one of them would name him. They know more than I do and plus I'm not his mother or father. Well someone going have to be, considering that his and my parents are dead. I blame Dean and his crew. I hope he gets raped and killed in the process.

"Well yeah. He's your brother and his parents are dead. No offence, Ashtyn." Melissa says. She still has her Texas accent so it shows. I look down at baby and he's sound asleep. What do you name a baby? I mean like I know you get to pick the name but how do you pick the name? I thought it come to somebody or to me when I first saw him. But it didn't. He doesn't look like a Jacob, or a Brian. Those are the names I had in my head but to me, it didn't look like it suited him. Fuck, I don't know.

"Ashtyn, get dressed and meet me in the garage." Carlos demands me. I mentally thank him and curse at him for the same time.

"I don't work for you Carlos." I say as I got off the bed. I walk down to the room that he given me a while back.

"But you do live with me. Hurry up." He says. He doesn't give me time for a comeback so I walk into my room. Wait! Isabella grabbed that baby, right? I quickly run back and I saw him still sleeping on the hospital bed. Holy shit we just left him! I laugh to myself and walk over to him. I carefully pick him up and and grab his bottle before walking back to my room.

When I get back to my room I place him in the middle of the bed then place pillows on either side of him. I turn around and walk towards my closet. I pull out black skinny jeans and a white Adidas shirt. I pull on my socks up and slide my feet into white Adidas high tops. This is a major jump from my Toms and hooded sweaters. I never wore name brand clothes, just clothes from like Walmart or something. Or things that's been passed down in the family.

"Ok, brother. Wanna come?" I ask him knowing that I won't get a reply. I run down to his nursery and grab his car seat before running back. I place the car seat on my bed and put the belt things out so he wouldn't lay on them. I pick him up and place him in the car seat before covering him with a blanket. I buckle him in and make sure that he's secure before picking him up. I grab a bigger blanket and put it over the car seat so the sun won't go into his eyes and it'll keep the wind away from him.

I hold the car seat with two hands as I jog down towards the garage. When I enter the garage, Carlos and Mikey are waiting outside the door, smoking a cigar. I roll my eyes and Carlos looks at me questionably. Mikey laughs and shakes his head before walking away.

"What?" I hiss. Carlos motions towards the car seat and I lift the blanket. He looks at me surprised before walking away. I put the blanket down and follow him.

"I didn't want to leave him alone." I mumble mostly to myself as I catch up to Carlos and Mikey.

Everyone was surrounding something as I walk up and they all have knowing smiles on their faces. Isabella smiles bigger when she sees me carrying the car seat. She was hoping for me to do this, right? Of course she was.

"Happy birthday baby girl." Carlos whispers in my ear. He motions everyone to move. I scream when I see what my car is. I'm surprised, shocked, happy, joyful. Purple and black Lamborghini. I walk towards the super cool car and look inside. Black leather seats. Front and back seat. A radio with a Aux cord. Man, this is my dream car. I fucking love it.

"Ashtyn." Carlos says. I turn around and he's holding keys in his hand. I smile and he tosses them towards me.

"You have house keys too." He tells me. I'm over excited and happy tears stream down my face. I sit down the baby on the ground and run towards Carlos. I pull him into a hug and at first he doesn't hug back but he pulls me into a tight hug. I motion everyone else to hug us and they do. We have a huge family hug and everyone laughs. Today has to be the best day ever.

The baby start crying and everyone pulls away. I forgot his bottle in my room. Dammit.