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XVI // Step Siblings & Babies

My phone starts to ring. Causing me to roll over moaning in pain that I had woken up. My hand grabs my phone and looks at the contact. It read out Corbyn Besson ❤︎. I widen my eyes and sit up causing my headache throb in my head. 

I click the answer button. "Hey Bean," I mumble. He breathes heavily in the phone. It made me worry like something bad had happened. 

"Noah, I miss you. I feel like shit," It wasn't Corbyn. His voice vibrated in my ear. He knew I would answer Corbyn's phone. 

"Daniel I can't talk," I state. He starts to sob through the phone, oh how I feel like shit. I wanna hug the dude. 

"I am sorry okay. I should have talked to you, I miss you Nugget. Please let's talk," He explains. I get out of my bed and place him on speaker. 

"So now you wanna talk?" I mumble. I hear someone yell from behind him, I knew it was one of the boys. 

"Look I heard that you are hanging with Cole and Arthur again," He says. I roll my eyes and start to get changed. I grab a white shirt with the slogan, a bee and then the world 'yourself.' "I just miss you, Noah."

"Well maybe if you just trusted me, I could be beside you right now," I state. I walk to my door and begin to walk downstairs. "Look, Daniel, I don't think apologising over the phone is gonna help anyway. Just live your life."

"I don't want to without you," He mumbles. 

"Stop. Do not make me feel this way, just go have fun on tour and if after the tour you feel this way still we can talk," I explained. Nate and my dad raised an eyebrow at me. I gave them no reaction and hung up on my blue-eyed ex. They waited for me to explain who I was talking to, even though they already knew. 

I walked to the kitchen where my stepbrother, Nick stood on his phone. He looked up from it and towards me. We never really talked, I had said about three words with him and our parents were about to get married. 

"You might wanna see this," He says. I raise an eyebrow as he shows me his phone screen. The screen showed my confession, the news was out. That's the reason Daniel would have called. He was scared about his career not just about how we have not mended our relationship. "I know I'm not the closest brother you have but just know I am here to talk."

"Thanks, Nick, I am good," I say. Nick runs his hand through his thick brown hair before walking away. 

"That was cold Noah," My dad says. I turn around to Nate and Dad. "Just hang out with them for a change, you are gonna be siblings in less than two months. Deal with it and stop being immature." My dad had snapped. He clearly wanted us to get along, it seemed like it meant a lot to him. 

"Let's go to coffee," Nate says. He grabs my hand and drags me towards the front door. Grabbing my jeep keys as we walked out. 

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I sipped down on my Caramel Frappe in my cold hands. The snow was beginning to surround my town. It was getting colder and colder. Nate thanks the women handing him his coffee. She nods and calls out another name. 

Nate and I walk out of the coffee shop. Holding onto our warm drinks, "You know dad is right about Nick and Lisa. You need to spend time with them, Noah."

"Like what?" I asked. Nate stared at me before pointing up. 

"The attic," He explains. I look down at my frappe and smile. Every one of the Lakeheart kids had a little place we called our hideaway. When Nate was 12 and I 10, we wandered into my dad's office. A string hung in the corner of the roof but it was way too high for us to grab it and way to knotted for my father to even find his way up there. So Nate allowed me to hop on his shoulders with a pocket knife cutting the rope. We pulled the flap open and got knocked over by the huge stairs that flipped out. 

Nate and I decorated it to be a secret hideaway with a huge sheet and beanies to watch movies and for Nate's sake to bring girls up so no one knew or heard what was happening. Its where I took Arthur when we, you get the point. 

"You r-" I get cut off my Arthur walking a pram with a little girl sitting in it. She wore a huge snow jacket with a beanie. She only looked about one. He wasn't lying when he had told me. "Arthur."

He looks up and widens his eyes. "Noah," He gulps. I felt the huge lump in his throat as he walked closer to me. I bent down and looked at his daughter. She smiled and grabbed my finger. 

"Nobah," She chirped. I smiled and pulled away from her grip. Arthur itches his neck from the huge anxiety taking over him. 

"Shes beautiful Arthur," I explain. He smiles, probably relieved I wasn't judging him. 

"I have to go get her to daycare but I will see you around," he says. I nod and allow him to pass me. He doesn't turn back around. Leaving me to stare at his back. 

"What the?!" Nate says. I turn to my brother. "He has a child?"

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AN: This was a really really short chapter because I have had exams and my notes for this chapter disappeared because that's my luck. The next chapter is a lot longer I promise. I'm now in the holidays so I wanna post maybe twice a week so fingers crossed. 

Keep Smiling and I will see you next time. (probably today again) Happy Two Year Boys ;) 

- Piper