Ring, Rage and Jax.

Chapter 07- The one with Reg and Nanc

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Dad and I spent the entire night sitting in the couch watching videos from when mom was alive. We giggled a lot, laughed, cried even and basically fell asleep beside each other. I remember growing up to seeing my dad and mom beside each other snoring peacefully on the couch. I had grown accustomed to it. "Morning sleepy heads." Nancy says while I see a grinning Reggie behind Nancy. I groan and hug my dad tightly. His chest is rumbling with laughter. "It's my two favourite kids." He says and I clear my throat.

I was simply warning my father. "What about your own children?" I say while pushing off dad. "YEAH DAD!" Will says while trudging towards us. He sits beside me and I rest my head on his. I wrap my hands around my brother while he snuggles in close. I was always the big spoon with my brother. "When'd you wake up, Willy Wonka." I say and he laughs slightly. "When these two devils popped by." He says while narrowing his eyes playfully at my best friends. Dad and Reggie seem to be in a deep conversation. I take in my friends dressed properly and groan. "Exactly Care bear. We have classes. Hurry up." Nancy says and I groan. Dad pauses his conversation with Reggie and kisses my forehead before pushing me off. Will calmly lays on my dad's lap. "Don't you have school, Mister?" I ask and he shakes his head grinning. I glare at my brother before heading to my room. I quickly do my morning routine and throw on a jeans and sweatshirt. I hurry downstairs to see my dad on the table with Nancy cooking away. I scrunch my eyebrows and lean on the counter. "Where's mom?" I ask. Reggie and Nancy shrug in reply. "She had to go for some quick work." Will says and I nod slowly.

I was definitely confused. Since when did mom start working again. "She's planning on going back for work. We aren't planning on having another member to this family and she gets bored at home. She wanted to make use of her time." Dad answers all the questions in my head. I nod while sipping on the coffee Reggie had passed over to me. I had little to no sleep. "Will the both of you be home today or-" I trail off. Will looks at my dad excitedly. Dad winks at my little brother before shaking his head. "We'll be out. Take the extra keys." Dad says and I nod. "TIK TOK CARA!" Reggie screams at me before heading for the car. I nod at him and kiss two my favourite boys before leaving for classes.

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eggie is sprawled on the floor while Nancy is wrapped in his arms while they are breathing heavily. I grin at the two laying there with their eyes shut from what happened earlier. Thankfully, I got to see every single thing. Reggie's shirt buried somewhere in the room where they had made a mess. These two could get crazy huh? Wait. Oh my God, I clearly didn't mean that they had a super intense and steamy love making session.

Let me explain. After coming back from classes and while we headed back home, I noticed the awkward tension between the two. No, not sexual tension. The two had broken into an argument about something small and stupid but they were bickering. Bickering always led to a verbal fight, from a verbal fight to a loud argument, then to pushing and pulling (Nancy did the pushing and pulling while Reggie held his ground.) Then Nancy would eventually start punching and thrashing and beating Reggie until he would apologise or give up. Clearly, from the position they were laying down... they were tired of fighting. I see Reggie lift his head and kiss Nancy's forehead softly. A smile is on her face and I almost forget how aggressive and scary she can be. 

"You guys are disgustingly cute." I say while faking a gag. They laugh at me softly but don't get up and I let them lay down like that. Instead I lay down on my bed sighing as I think to myself; When would I get my prince charming? Where is my happily ever after? "When's Papa Lev coming home?" Nancy asks. I lift body back up to see Reggie absent mindedly playing with her hair as they both slightly sit up too. Pfft. He's way passed whipped. "I don't know but I am hoping they come back soon." I say. Nancy gives Reggie a quick peck and then lazily sprawls onto the bed instead. I remember how Del and Nancy used to do that a lot. I gulp quickly. I hadn't mentioned about meeting Del at all. I nervously start cleaning my room. "Why are you suddenly cleaning up the mess you made? What is it?" Reggie asks while eyeing me.

I ignore his comment and shake my head and continue. "Somethings up. Especially because she didn't demand us to clean up the mess." Reggie says to Nancy. "What is it that you are not telling us young lady." Reggie says stubbornly and I groan as I see both my best friends sit up and give me a stern look. Mom and dad would be so proud of them right now.

I silently continue to work, "Dad and I met Del last night." I whisper so softly. I don't know whether it's my weakness or whether I just don't want them to hear. "What'd you say?" Reggie asks while tilting his head like a confused puppy. I sigh and shake my head while dumping the trash that's laying around. "Quit murmuring and cleaning your room." Nancy snaps and I pause and widen my eyes at her. I look at Reggie and he shrugs with an apologetic shrug.

"I'm sorry but I can't stand seeing you like this." Nancy says softly. I stop whatever I am doing and I sit in between Nancy's leg and she starts to play with my hair. Her legs dangling on both my sides. "What is it, Cara?" Reggie asks softly. I sigh and finally decide on letting them know. "Dad and I saw Delivigne yesterday." I say and both of them freeze. Yes, Del was a topic I avoided. Just like I had always avoided talking about my birth mom; Bianca. "What happened?" Reggie asks while sliding to the floor to sit beside me. "How did she react?" Nancy asks while sliding beside me.

"She-" I am cut off by Nancy's question. "Wait, did she see you?" She asks and I nod my head. "So she saw the both of you? Papa and you?" Reggie asks and I nod. These two would not even let me complete my story. "Did she do anything?" Nancy asks and I shrug. "Let me-" I am cut off again. "Did she make a scene?" Reggie asks and I shake my head. "Let me-" I am cut off again. "Did she acknowledge the both of you?" Nancy asks and I sigh loudly. Really loudly and this shuts them right up. I let my head fall to my hands. I did want to open up to them but they had a different approach to this situation and it necessarily wasn't so good. "Sorry." Reggie and Nancy say in unison. I lean back and don't make eye contact with them. They were just worried about my well being. Could I really blame them for pouncing on me with all their questions?

"All of us went to this restaurant and we were just done ordering. We couldn't go to this other grand restaurant so we settled on going to this restaurant named Elliot." I pause and I am overwhelmed but I continue. "All of us were happy and we were glad to be spending some time together after so long." I smile sadly. It really did suck not having Papa around a lot. "I spot Del and Papa notices my reaction. She was all dressed up and she was Dennis Morgan." I say and Reggie nods.

"Dennis and Del are apparently inseparable. Or atleast that's what I have heard." He says and I take a quick breath and continue. "She noticed us and Papa and I freaked out and didn't know how to react so we did what every person did, we stared at the table." I say. "How did Wendy and Will take in the situation?" Nancy asks and I shrug, "they didn't react much. Actually, Dad and I were too consumed in the Del situation to bother checking their reaction."

"They were actually pretty supportive. They tried to brighten up our moods." I say. They let Papa and I stay up and talk and watch old videos without disturbing us. They definitely were super supportive. "Del came over and told Wendy that she wanted to speak to us." I say and I see Reggie and Nancy knot their eyebrows in confusion. "She wanted to talk?" Nancy asks slowly and I nod. Delivigne wanted nothing to do with us after moms death and as heartbreaking as it sounds, she didn't bother to mend things with us until yesterday. "And?" Reggie asks curiously. "Dad and I followed her outside the restaurant and we had a small chat which did not involve accusations, curse words nor any glaring of any sorts." I say smiling. Nancy gasps. I make an I-know-right? face. "We had a conversation and it was short but it was cheesy and for the first time in a long time I had seen her smile and she called Papa dad." I say and Reggie squeezes my hand. "She told us she would visit us soon and that she would never leave us again like that." I say and Nancy pulls me into a hug. I didn't see that one coming but I accept it nevertheless. "She said she missed me and she missed us." I say softly. Reggie bear hugs the both of us together after the words escape my lips.

"I am so glad that something is going right." I say and they laugh softly. "The journalism project totally doesn't agree with us." Nancy says and I laugh. I was glad that she was trying to change the topic. I don't know how long it would take before I broke into tears again. I smile as I see Reggie and Nancy quickly start complaining about classes, projects and the teachers. I am so lucky to have them.

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Authors Note: I know this chapter is short but I wanted to let you guys in how close all of these three were in how they were all practically family. Anyways, much love. Stay tuned. Xx