Together

Chapter 2

Chloe's POV

Ry and I have been married for two months now and we're so happy, I love him with all of my heart and Toby is really cool, Ryan did a great job with him

The only problem with Toby is that he pretty much hates me and I don't know what I did, I get that I'm not his mom so me being married to his dad might be quite weird and I'm quite a few years younger, I know that, but he seems to specifically hate me like I must've done something

No matter how hard I try he just won't accept me and I really want him to but I don't know what to do

Ryan is pretty much completely oblivious, he thinks everything is great and I don't have the heart to tell him otherwise plus I'm scared he'll want to split up if he finds out his son despises me

I just wish I knew what I could do to make him like me, I want us to get along and be a family, I'm not expecting him to act like I'm his mom because I know I'm not but he could at least accept my marriage to his father

Toby's POV

"So where's the stepmother from hell?" My friend Adam asks me knowing how much I hate her

"Somewhere, like I care where" I reply, this feels a bit too nasty but I don't really care

"Why didn't you just tells your dad how you felt before he proposed you idiot?" My other friend Jake pointed out, he thinks I'm unfair to Chloe, maybe he's right, but he doesn't have to live with her

"What the hell was I supposed to say? Oh yeah dad by the way I hate your girlfriend?" I replied sarcastically

"Pretty much, just in a nicer way" Jake told me, I swear he needs to just stop

"I hate her, she flounces around like she's the queen of the world, she's a slut, I mean seriously have you seen her? And she acts like she's my mom, she will never be my mom, EVER" I tell them, Jake just looks at me, shakes his head and rolls his eyes when Adam nods and smiles in agreement

Chloe's POV

I was just coming down the stairs to ask the boys if they wanted anything to eat when I heard them talk about me

I stopped and hid so I could hear what they said and when I heard Toby's final speech I literally felt my heart shatter, I knew he didn't like me, but there was still a shred of hope that he didn't hate me that much and that we could sort this out one day but hearing that, he clearly hates me way too much for that to happen

I ran back upstairs, tears started pouring down my cheeks, how could he say those things about me? All I ever did was marry his father, why does he hate me so much?

Toby's POV

I heard footsteps running back up the stairs and my heart dropped

"Shit" I murdered and both my friends clearly knew what I mean

"I told you it wasn't fair to treat her like that, she doesn't act like your mother, she asks like someone who cares about you and wants some sort of relationship with you" Jake tells me harshly, but I know he's right, she didn't deserve that and she is trying really I just don't like sharing my dad I guess

"And Toby, like it or not, your mom left you when you were born, so why should it make I difference is she was trying to be a mother for you? You don't have one, she'd be trying to fill that gap for you, but she still isn't trying to do that because she knows she isn't" Jake tells me quite angrily, he lost his mom a couple of years ago, so this kind of stuff is a touchy subject for him

At that moment my dad came home from work

You've gotta be kidding me, this is gonna be awful

"Bye Toby!" Adam explained as both of them grabbed their bags

"Bye Mr McCartan" Jake says bye to my father as he runs past them

"Oh I thought they were gonna stay for dinner" my dad says confusedly

Then he heard Chloe, she crying her eyes out, he immediately dropped his bag and ran straight up too her

Great, so I'm dead

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So now what do we think, Toby knows it's wrong but he has his reasons, can his actions be justified? What's gonna happen if Ryan finds out what Toby said? Xoxo