Adopted by R5 (Completed and in editing)

Chapter 16: The Second letter, and allergies.

Ross' pov:

Peyton snuggles up between Riker, and me. She lays her head on my arm, and she tries to get comfortable. Eventually, she falls asleep in my arms. Riker moves closer to us. He starts to play with her hair. "You were not worthy enough to get her to sleep." I say in a weird British accent. Riker chuckles, and looks at me. "I was, but you took her from me." He says. I shrug my shoulders. "Here, I wanna hold her." Riker says, reaching for her.

I had her over, and look up at the stars. "Man... Its a beautiful night." I say, not looking away from the sky. "Yeah it is. Just think 6 more days until Ell's birthday." He says. "And that means 6 more days with our baby. Then we'll never see her again." I say with tears in my eyes. "Dude!!! She's not going to leave us. Look, I know, who her older brother is.. She's not gonna far." He says. He sets his arm around my shoulders. "Tell me. I need to know, how far, not far away is." I say. "Come here." Riker says. "Her older brother's ....." He whispers in my ear.  My eyes grow wide. "She's not going far!" I say. "Ross shut up!" Ratliff yells. "Delly, Ry, Pey, and Rockstar are asleep, and I don't wanna be on any of there bad sides." "I'm not asleep, Ell." Rocky says. Peyton starts to move around in Riker's arms. Her eyes slowly open. "Ross.... I was trying to sleep, and you ruined it." She says. "I'm sorry, Pey." I say before kissing her nose. Riker losensen his grip on Peyton, and lets her move around. She gets up, and walks right over to Rocky, and Ratliff.

Peyton's pov:

I walk over to Rocky and Ellington, and sit down. Ell rolls over so he can look at me. "I'm sorry loud mouth Ross woke you up." He says, kissing my forehead. Rocky moves over to me, and wraps his arms around me. "I'm cold." I say. "So am I." Ross says. Rocky sits up, and unzips his sweatshirt. He takes it off and picks me up. "Put your arms out." He says. I put them out and he put the sleeves, onto my arms. He then zips me up. "Its really big, but it'll keep you warm." Rocky says. It was warm already, from Rocky wearing it. I snuggle up to the warmthness of the sweatshirt, and to Rocky's chest. He wraps his arms around me, and I start to fall asleep.

*The next morning 6 days before Ell's birthday  *

I wake up and see the sun shining through the blankets.  I look over to where Ellington was laying at. Rydel was still asleep, and Ratliff was gone . Ross, Ryland, Riker, Rocky, and Ratliff were all out doing something. Something good smelling, flies through the air. I stand up, and head out of the fort. I walk over to were Ross is sitting on the side of the pool. I silently make my way over to him. " P-" "Shh.." I say, cutting Riker off. I make the movements of pushing. He laughs and nods his head. "Do it. " He says. "Ryland,  get your camera.  This is gonna be good." Rocky says. " Okay." He says. Ryland turns his carmera on, and gives me the go signal. " I hope he loves me after this." I say. I shove my hands forward onto Ross' back. He doesn't seem to notice. Ryland hands Riker the camera, and comes over to me. "Ready,  one..... two.., THREE!!" Ryland yells. We both shove him, and he lands into the pool. I giggle, and Ryland scoops me up. "Never trust me by a pool." He says. He tosses me in.  I land in the water,  and swim up. Ryland is laughing his head off. " I hate you." I say. Ross picks me up, and carries me out of the pool.

He sets me down, and I run over to Ry and kick him. "Oww." He says. "Loser." I say. "Ohhhh. She just tolled you." Ross says. "Pey, come here." Riker says strictly. Oh no.... I'm in trouble. Riker walks into the house, and then into the living room. He sits down, and takes off his pink sunglasses. "Peyton come and stand in front of me." He says again. I glup, and I  walk over to him. I stand in front of him, scared of what he was going to do to me. "What did I do this time?" I ask a little shaky. "Why did I find this, under your bed? As if you were trying to hide it from me?" He asks, pulling out a letter. "I .... um....." I stutter. "You what?" He asks. I shift side ways. "Kassia sent me the letter from the hospital ... and she tolled me to read it." I say, playing with my hands. "Did you?" He asks.