Riker POV
"What are you doing ?" I asked scaring Greg, he looked at me like a deer caught in headlights and shook his head, hiding the guitar behind his back "Nothing."
"You drop something in the guitar and tried getting it out with the arm that has the cast on and now it's stuck ?" I asked, Greg slowly nodded making me laugh as I went down on my knees and tried pulling his arm out, I've dropped things in guitars, my phone, picks, toothbrush....don't ask, we had a bet about how far our arms would get into a guitar, I got past the elbow and my arm decided to lock.
"Don't tell Mom, she told me not mess with it." Greg said.
"Did you ask if you could shove your arm into a guitar ?" I asked pulling a pair of scissors out of the draw, Greg looked at me wide eyed and pulled away from me.
"I'm not going to cut you, I'm going to cut the strings, your cast got through them but it won't come out, i promise I won't cut you." I said making Greg nod and slowly walk back to me.
"I wanted to be good at something but I dropped the funny shaped thing in it and it wouldn't come out when I tipped it up side down." Greg said as I grabbed one of the strings just before it hit his arm, I've played a guitar while the strings have snapped and one of those strings hitting you is like a stinging needle to your skin.
"You're good at being you, just pull your arm out but keep it straight." I said holding the guitar up right and slowly started pulling it down, as soon as the top of the cast was showing he could pull his arm out.
"Being good at being me won't get me anywhere in life, could you imagine when I'm older and I go to get a job, what's your talents ? Uh...I'm good at being myself and I can burp my ABC's." Greg said making me laugh.
Lea can burp her ABC's forwards and backwards and burp up to 50. It's a very strange talent but I wish I could do it the most I ever got up to was K, which isn't that much but it's better than nothing.
"Being you will get you far in life, when I used to tell people I wanted to do acting, dancing or singing they just told me I was crazy, a kid from Colorado becoming a big thing ? I was nuts but I knew that's who I was, I knew I was going to make it big, sure sometimes I stopped believing in my self but your Mom was always there with her hand out, so knowing who you are as a person is the strongest super power because it makes determined, you know what you want, you know what you need to get there, alright ? Just being yourself and being who you are will get you to the moon and back." I said grabbing the pick.
Greg looked at it and laughed "if you and Mom liked each other so much, why was she with Liam ? And if you're my real Dad why weren't you together ?"
"Because when your Mom had you, we weren't even adults, we were still kids and your Mom was with Liam before you were even born and I had someone else, but don't worry about it now alright ? Cause I'm not going anywhere." I said making him nod as I stood up.
"What about the guitar ?" Greg asked.
"I can easily fix it, I just have to put new strings on." I said making him tilt his head "but you cut them."
I laughed shaking my head and picked up the guitar "I'll show you."
"Holy sugar honey ice tea !" Greg said as we walked in to the garage, even though we have the band house, before we moved into it Dad and Max helped us set up a recording studio in the garage, I think the only reason we haven't gone back into it is because we're just enjoying this time as a family, things are going to change soon, we're enjoying it while it lasts.
"You look like a kid going to Disneyland." I laughed opening the new pair of strings.
Greg looked at me and nodded as he carried on looking around "who's Pops ?"
"Who ?" I asked.
"Pops, I heard Mom talking to Sarah about him, who is he ?" Greg asked.
"He was someone important in our lives, he is, was your Mom's Grandpa but we all called him Pops, he taught us all a lot of things growing up." I said.
"Where is he then ?" Greg asked making me laugh "he died two years before you were born but try not to mention it to your Mom, even though it was a couple of years ago it's still hard for her okay." I said.
Greg nodded and came and sat down next to me, helping me pull the strings out "are things going to change when the baby comes ?"
"What do you mean ?" I asked looking at him.
"You and Mom are going to push me away because of the stupid baby." Greg said getting angry. I laughed and put the guitar down.
"You're going to be apart of the baby's life just as much as me because when I have to go on tour and we can't bring the Baby, I'm going to need someone to look after your Mom and the baby, you think you can handle that type of job ?" I asked making him smile and nod "as long as there's ice cream in the house, Mom's pretty easy to handle, I don't know about the baby."
"And when I'm not on tour me and you can have our day, just me and you go out and do what ever we want, but if we do stuff your Mom told us not to we don't say a word." I said making Greg nod and laugh.
"You promise ? Liam used to say all that and we never did." Greg said.
I nodded and put my pinky up "we're going to be in a house with a crying baby, we'll go insane if we don't have a break."
"So we're just gonna leave Mom to go insane ?" Greg asked.
I laughed and looked around, for some reason whenever I'm about to sort of insult Lea, she shows up, she kinda has senses like Spider-Man but if you insult she hears it and it used to freak me out, she'd come home from school and kill me for calling her an idiot, how she knew ? I don't know.
"What do you mean go insane ? Have you not met your Mother ?" I asked, Lea can be insane, she sometimes loses it over stupid things I remember once I think we were like 12 maybe 13, she got pissed because Gwen had got McDonalds for us all, there were too many onions in her burger, I ended up with ketchup in my hair, try getting that out.
"I like you, you take risks. Insulting Mom is watching your life flash before you, hoping that somehow she didn't hear a word of that." Greg smiled.
Okay so I wanted to add some Father son bonding and I have lost so many picks in a guitar it's unreal.
