Adopted by Luke Hemmings

16

After the concert last night, we got onto the tour bus and drove to Tallahassee, Florida. We'll be staying here for a week and a half, only because we're going to Miami after the second concert. We got a rather large house for us to stay in for seven days. It's like early morning now and my bus didn't sleep, at all. We played Xbox Kinect forever, then we played Disney Infinity. I bought it for Emma when we went to town before the concert last night.

I look over to my left and see Emma, lying there asleep. I rise from my spot and go to the balcony, sitting down in a chair. I drink a sip of my Gatorade and watch the sunset. After a few minutes, Emma appeared from the room and crawled in my lap.

"Daddy?" she whispered.

I rubbed her back, "What is it sweet pea?"

"Where's my mommy?" she asked looking up at me.

I tensed up and sighed.

"Listen, honey, your mommy is up in the clouds with your real daddy," I told her as I pointed up to the clouds.

"But you're my daddy," she spoke as her eyes filled with tears.

"Oh sweetheart, don't cry baby," I told her as I flipped her so she can face me.

She's too young to know this. I imagined talking to her about this when she was maybe 13, but no. Damn, I should've waited ten more years. This is terrible.

"I'm still your daddy," I told her brushing stray hairs from her face.

"You are?" she sniffled.

"Yes baby. I still love you with all my heart. You are my everything, okay?" I spoke as she looked at me.

She nodded and laid her head on my chest. I cuddled her to my chest for a while, until my phone began ringing. I walked inside and set Emma on the couch and turned on cartoons.

I grabbed my phone and quickly answered;

"Hello?"

"Hey mate, the rest of my band is going out and I'm not really feeling up to it. Mind if I come and sit with you?"

"Not at all Harry. But, it's like 8 in the morning, aren't you hungry?"

"Not really. But if we get hungry we could just go get something. So you don't mind?"

"Alright, yeah. C'mon."

A few moments later, Harry showed up. We sat down and Harry sighs, putting his head in his hands.

"Luke, why is South Park on?" he asked.

I looked and my eyes went wide.

"Shit!" I screamed as I grabbed the remote and changed it to SpongeBob.

Harry died laughing. I shot him the bird. That only made him laugh more.

"Hey, why are there tear stains on her cheeks?" he asked.

"We had a meltdown this morning. But we're alright, aren't we babe?" I spoke tapping Emma's nose.

She nodded and crawled in my lap.

"Everything alright?" he spoke setting his phone on the table.

"Emma, why don't you pick out your outfit for later. We'll go get breakfast," I told her as she smiled and nodded, running into the bedroom.

"She asked where her mom was," I spoke as Harry's eyes widened and he sighed.

"And I told her that she was up in the clouds," I said.

"Luke," he spoke shaking his head.

"And I told her that her dad was up there too," I told him.

"Dude! She's three years old!" Harry spoke.

"I know, I know," I said standing up.

"Maybe she'll forget. Just go get her ready and we'll go," Harry spoke shoving me towards the door.

I smiled, quickly getting Emma dressed so we could go eat. We went to a diner and ate quickly. We decided to sight see for ages, then we went back to our room.

"Can we watch movies?" Emma spoke jumping up and down.

"Yeah, can we?!" Harry exclaimed.

I rolled my eyes and nodded. They both exclaimed and laughed. Harry ran and changed up in his room and we spent the night watching cartoon movies.