Strength And Stability

Dads Home

Desi POV

When Sunday came, we didn't want Paul to leave, but Dad was coming home soon and he didn't need to know that Paul had to stay with us, and he definitely didn't need to WHY Paul had too stay with us.

It was a good thing Dad told Paul he was coming home a day early or we wouldn't have known.

Throughout the visit, Dad called him a few times to ask us if he had stopped by and if we were doing good. Paul always said something along the lines of, "Yeah man they're doing great" and Dad would be appeased. But we missed our pops.

Paul gathered his things and headed out the door, hugging us goodbye and saying,

"Be good and take good care of your Dad when he comes back!"

We saluted him jokingly with a sir sandwich.

Dad finally arrived, dragging his luggage up the driveway and up the steps. He barely made it in the door before we both jumped on him, wrapping him in a hug.

He laughed while picking us both off the ground. "Miss me?"

"A little. Ok maybe more than a little." Kendall admitted smiling sheepishly. "What about you Dad? Did you have fun?"

He nonchalantly shrugged. "You know, just business. The weather was beautiful though, you should has seen it!"

"It was hella nice here too!"

He was still hugging us, but he sharply swatted Kendall's butt.

"Owww Dad."

"Oh It wasn't that hard. And you know not to swear Kenny." She stuck her lip out, and he gave her a 'really Kendall' look.

"Are you hungry dad?" I asked as we walked through the house.

"Yeah I'm starving, I haven't eaten since 6am and its 10:30. Do you want me to make lunch?"

Me and Kendall smiled. "Just come to the kitchen when you're done."

He looked suspicious but went upstairs to put his luggage away. About 10 minutes later he came to the kitchen, where we had made hawaiian and 3 meat pizza, fruit salad, iced raspberry tea and apple crisp with ice cream.

He looked dumbfounded. "You guys put all of this together yourselves?"

Ummmmm with the help of Paul. This was his idea.

"Yup!" We both said simultaneously.

He grinned and squeezed us in another hug. "I love you guys."

We took plates out to the sunny patio. The food was a great and the homemade pizza for once didn't taste... Homemade. For once. But that's another story.

We talked more about the going ons of the weekend, of course leaving out the uh... party. *cough cough*

"So did you have your friends over? He asked, taking another bite of Hawaiian.

"Yeah, we had Ky and Nix over. It was fun, we mostly kicked it in the pool." I said before Kendall had time to say no or something contradictory. This was all partially true. We did swim before the party.

"Ahh I see. And did you like our neighbor coming by?" He asked, smirking.

"You didn't tell us Paul was our neighbor!" Kendall huffed lightly. But yeah, he was nice."

"Yeah, he's a great guy." Dad agreed. Kendall and I shared a look. Until you're getting spanked by him. But he is a super nice person.

We finished off with dessert, and Dad said, "I really appreciate you guys being good this weekend while I was gone. It means a lot to know I can trust you."

I felt a huge pang of guilt, but forced a smile. "Of course ya can Dad."

Ugh it killed me. I swore right then to never do anything that bad again while he was gone, because it would hurt him. I was relieved too that Paul kept our secret so we wouldn't break Dad's trust with us.

"So seeing how we have the day off, do want to have a few friends over?"

"For real?" I asked hesitantly.

"No." He said.

I knitted my eyebrows together. "What?"

"I just said you could Des."

"Oh." Phew.

"I'm going to have Lex and Denver come over, so please please please pleeeease don't embarrass us." I begged him.

He laughed. "I'm a dad. It's my job."

I glared at him.

He raised his hands in surrender. "Okay okay I'll try."

We called Denver, Lex, Ky and Nix to come over. Just after changing into swim clothes, we heard the doorbell ring.

I frantically fingercombed my hair in the mirror before running down the stairs to let them in.

I opened the door to them standing there with....

"Is that A Kim Kardashian butt float?" I asked, slowly smiling.

"And some snacks, yes." Denver grinned.

Kendall appeared behind me, gaping. We simultaneously busted out laughing. I could hardly breathe.

"You guys are insane." I snorted out.

"Yup. How are you babe?" Denver asked, hugging me and giving me a kiss.

"Better now that you're here." I smirked.

He smiled, giving me puppy eyes. "Aww baby don't make me blush." 😊😊

We all went out to the pool, and Dad was barbecuing for pulled pork sliders.

He saw the girls first and said, "Phoenix! Kyler! How are you ladies?" They hugged him.

Then he saw Lex and Denver.

"Lexington. Denver." He sized them up and the boys looked scared asfff.

"Hello Sir." Lexington said stiffly, trying to smile.

Awkwarddddd.

"Well we should start swimming!" Kendall announced and started dragging them away.

Dad said, "By the way boys."

They turned hesitantly.

"Keep your shirts on." He said sternly. He then turned his back to us, tending to the meat.

"Oookay." Kenny tried again to break the awkward silence. "Don't worry about him, he's nice. He just... Has a hard time showing it to boys. Or... people he doesn't like overall."

Lex threw up his arms. "Oh fabulous. He hates us. No biggie. Nope no problem at all. And we have to see him in class every day. Perfect."

I laughed. "Well you'll be fine. No guarantees he won't poison your food though."

Denver nervously laughed.

"K now let's swim." I ran and cannon balled into the pool, feeling the nice cool water engulf me.

Once I surfaced, Denver yelled, "How does it feel?"

I wiped my eyes. "Like our relationship. Now jump in slow poke." I teased.

"Hopefully that's a good thing?" He asked, jumping in. I laughed. "Yes Sherlock."

His head popped up. "All that sass is gonna get you in trouble." He grinned mischievously, advancing towards me.

"Stahhhpp!!!" I shrieked, laughing. "I can't be your girlfriend if you drown me!"

He caught me and waited til I breathed in before pulling us both underwater. We kissed. And it was the best underwater kiss of all time.

We came up a minute later, still holding each other.

"Do you want to know a secret Desibear?"

"Yes." I smiled.

"I love you."