Breaking Ice

Chapter 47

Luke's POV:

    I walked into the theatre and saw a large group of people sitting in the seats. This is a lot more than I expected.

"Thank you all for coming to day two of auditions" I smiled, fumbling down the isle "Maggie and I are so happy to see so many of you"

"We are going to split you up into groups by character and do group reads" Maggie said standing up

"We will be going through Thomas first" I smiled

We read through lines with everyone trying out for Thomas. There was a few guys that fit perfect, I'm so happy.

"Donovan and Will can you two stay back please. Thank you all for coming" Maggie smiled

I could see the look of defeat on the other men's faces. They just didn't fit the arrogance and ignorance of Thomas' character. There was a few that I liked for some minor characters though.

"For the part of Gia please" I called to the group of girls

These girls really knew what they were doing. It was going to be hard. There was a familiar face in the group, though I couldn't pin point from where. She was amazing.

"Penelope can you stay back" I smiled "thank you all so much"

"Hey Luke" she smiled hugging me

   Now I remember, Darcy's sister.

"Hey, I didn't know you were an actress. I've never seen you around the theaters" I smiled

"Yeah I was doing stuff strictly in Whitehall but Darcy recommended this theatre so I thought I'd try out" she smiled

"I'm glad you did, Maggie has the full script for you" I smiled

"Thank you Luke. I was hitting a wall over in Whitehall and almost gave up so thanks"

"You are too good of an actress to give up Pen, I can see you on Broadway one day" I smiled

    The rest of the auditions went pretty well. Penelope met the two men we were stumped on for Thomas. We wanted the two to have good chemistry since they would be playing each other's love interest. I could see Pen and Donovan getting along better then her and Will. I wrote it down on the clipboard before handing it off to Maggie.

"We've got our cast?" She asked

"Donovan would you like to be our lead?" I asked knowing

"Holy shit! Of course thank you so much" he said freaking out

    I looked down at my watch and saw that it was a quarter past three. I promised Steve I'd be home at three fuck me. We were moving my stuff into the apartment.

"I gotta get going I'll see you all on Friday!" I said jumping up and rushing out the theatre

    At a reasonable speed I drove to Amelia's, taking all the back roads. I was excited to be moving back into an apartment with Steve. It's been thirteen years since we lived alone. No more screaming kids slamming doors. I felt bad but Isaac's at the bar all the time anyways.

"Baby you're late" Steve whined once I got out of the truck

"Why didn't you go inside" I laughed wrapping my arms around his waist

"I'm guess that's Josh's car" he said rolling his eyes

"Steve you know that the kids have always wanted him in their lives. You need to let it go, alright. We just have to see how this all pans out and being a grump about it won't help them" I said looking up at him

"Fine let's go" he said rolling his eyes

"I mean it Steven"

I unlocked the door and immediately went to the kitchen. I hadn't eaten anything since breakfast and it was all catching up to me.

"Ahme I'm home" I yelled grabbing some left over pasta and putting it in the microwave

"Hey Luke" Josh said stepping out of her room

"Oh, hey Josh" I smiled, "Steve's in the living room"

"I'll just go back in then" He said backing out into Amelia's room

    Amelia came out right after and Steve joined us in the kitchen.

"Have the kids seen him?" Steve asked without a hello

"Not yet I told them but I was thinking about going to dinner tonight with all of them. Maybe less of a freak out in public?"

"That sounds nice" I smiled

Josh walked out of the room again and into the kitchen.

"Hey Steve I'm really sorry about last night I shouldn't have hit you" Josh said with his arms behind his back

Josh had a very clear black eye and Steve's nose was very bruised. These men are driving me insane, acting like children.

"I was drunk and I'm a fucking idiot" Steve said opening arms

  The two men hugged and nodded at each other. That's gay. The front door swung open and we immediately pushed Josh towards Amelia's room.

"Hey mom" Isaac said walking into the kitchen

"Hey Ice" She smiled "tonight the five of us are going out to eat tonight"

"Uh 5?" Steve asked

"Yeah, Ice, me, Hades, you and Luke" She smiled

"Alright we'll be there" I smiled before Steve could say anything

"Hey Ice can you help me pack up some stuff?" I asked

  I didn't need any of the furniture since Steve had everything we needed. I just needed everything else. After about twenty minutes Steve joined us and we finished up. Ice went to his room after carrying the boxes downstairs but wouldn't carry them to the car. Why are kids like this? Josh crept out of Amelia's room and carried a few boxes before getting in his car and leaving. Where to I have no idea?

We hung out with the kids for a while before heading back to the apartment. I didn't want to go to dinner tonight but I know Amelia needed us to be there.

"Baby?" Steve said stroking my hair

"Yeah" I said looking up at him

We were on the couch and I had my head in his lap.

"We're so boring" he laughed

"Where do you wanna go?" I asked

"What?" He said scrunching his eyebrows

"Where do you wanna go? Adoption isn't going to be quick so we can travel a bit while we wait"

"You're kidding. You have your play. Which I still haven't read." He glared "we don't have the time or the money"

"We don't have to go far. We could go to New York or Boston, just get out of here for a bit" I shrugged

"Leave Josh and Amelia together"

"We could go for a long weekend. Amelia's an adult and can handle herself. We need to live our life babe"

"Can I think about it" he asked

"Of course" I said lifting my head up to kiss him

We cuddled the rest of the afternoon. I love Amelia but we've given up so much for her and the kids. Don't get me wrong I feel bad, but she's an adult and Steve and I aren't getting any younger and want to live our lives.

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A/N

Thank you so much for reading I hope you enjoyed! I may be taking a bit of a hiatus because I can't be creative at the moment and haven't been for the last few weeks.

Q: If you could travel anywhere where would you go?

-Izzy