The Payne Family

Chapter 25.

"How do you think the kids will react to me? I bet they hate me right now." Dani murmured as she drank her coffee and tightened her robe. "Gosh, I'm the most horrible mom ever."

"Stop over reacting, the kids will be here in a few minutes and they'll be happy." I assured her as I set the kid's plates out and placed pancakes, eggs, and toast on it. "Get the juice for me?"

Dani nodded and obliged, I set out the cups for her to pour the juice in and sat down. I heard the kids talking whilst coming downstairs so I quickly sat down. "Mommy!" Kate squealed rushing to her mother whom she hasn't seen for a two days. It was the longest two days, I have to admit.

"Hey, sweetie." Dani chuckled lifting Kate up onto her lap and placing kisses all over her face earning massive giggles from Kate.

"Hey Luke," Dani smiled as she sat Kate down on her seat. Luke stared at his bare feet and turned around.

"I have to use the bathroom." Luke murmured walking out of the dining room.

"D- Did you see that? Luke completely shut me out!" Dani frowned.

"It's okay, you have me." Kate smiled as she drank her juice.

"He's mad at me, I knew I shouldn't have left." Dani whispered.  "Talk to him for me, please?"

I furrowed my eyebrows and shook my head. "I'm not going to fix something that you did. You talk to him." I said wiping Kate's face with a napkin.

"And I will. How about you change Kate for today and I change Luke? Switch places for once." Dani suggested.

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Danielle' s POV

"Hey, Luke. How about we-"

"I want Daddy to pick out my clothes," Lucas interrupted crossing his arms over his chest as I skimmed through the closet.

"What do you mean? Is it because I'm a lady?" I asked taking out a flannel shirt.

"No. Daddy." Luke argued sitting on the bed and pulling his shirt down.

"Are you mad at me? I understand if you're mad at me, just tell me."

"I'm mad at you." Luke snapped throwing the shirt on the floor and walking out the room. I stood there with a lump in my throat and my mouth open.

"L- Liam, can you come in Luke's room?" I managed to choke out. Liam walked in with Luke in his arms.

"I heard it all, and we don't really have time to talk about it. We'll talk about this after we come back, for now, Lucas, you listen to your mother." Liam sternly said sitting Luke on the bed.

"Real moms don't leave us behind!" Luke snapped crossing his arms over his chest. "And then come back and say they love you like nothing happened!"

I flinched as he said that. "Lucas James Payne, don't you ever say that! Don't ever butt in when you don't know the story behind things! Now put on your damn clothes and listen to us for christ sake!" Liam shouted as he ran his hands through his hair in a frustrating way.

"Daddy," Kate popped her head in. "Swear ja-"

"Not now, Kate. We're dealing with serious business with your brother, now go wait downstairs!" Liam snapped.

This is all happening because of me, if I haven't been treating Liam like shit, none of this would be happening. My own kid won't be upset with me and Liam wouldn't be shouting at him.

"Stop yelling at me!" Lucas cried. His entire face was red and already had tears running down his chubby cheeks. "None of this is my fault! It's not my fault you and her got into a fight and then she left because of you!" He wasn't calling us 'mommy' or 'daddy'. Instead, he was calling us 'her', 'she', and 'you'.

"Even Kate saw! Why aren't you yelling at her, too? Huh? Is it because you like her more than me? Why bother keeping me if you don't love me?" Lucas sobbed jumping off the bed and running out the room. He had his eyes closed whilst rubbing them. An even louder cry was heard when a loud thump echoed through the hallways. Immediately, Liam and I rushed out of the room and found Luke's crying, his face even redder than it was awhile ago and him rubbing his temple.

"Bud, what's the matter? I'm sorry I yelled at you-" Liam cooed but Luke shaked off his hand which was placed on his shoulder.

"D- Don't touch me. I'm not hurt," Liam mumbled standing up and hicuping. He walked down the stairs slowly and sniffled.

"Let's just leave him like that, we need to get to the hospital." Liam murmured rubbing his forehead, I'm pretty sure he has a headache from all the screaming and crying.

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Liam's POV

As soon as my dad saw us walk in, his face brightened up as if he won the lottery; the same expression when he find out I passed the X Factor and went into camp. "Gramp!" Kate squealed rushing over to her sick grandpa and gripping onto his hand.  "Why you here?"

"Hey Kate," Dad smiled. "I'm here because I'm a little bit sick." He replied.

I placed Kate on the bed so she can see my dad more clearly. She placed a hand on his forehead and rested her head on his chest listening to his heartbeat. "Grampa, your head hot. But heart fine." Kate reassured my dad smiling.

"Hi, Grandpa." Luke croaked standing on his tip- toes. "Where's Aunt Nic and Ruth?"

"Hey, Lucas, they're at their houses taking care of their families. They stopped by an hour ago, timing was a bit off." Dad informed him.

"Can I stay with you here?" Luke asked resting his head on his hands and frowned. Well damn.

Dad let out a croaky laugh but stopped when he found out Luke was serious. "Why do you want to stay here?"

Luke's eyes trailed from Dani to me and back to my dad. "I want to spend time with you," Hopefully he wasn't lying about that just to cover up what happened back at the house.

"Maybe when I'm out of here." Dad assured Luke, ruffling his hair. Luke's frowned and sighed.

"Okay." Luke mumbled. "Love you Gramp."

"So how old are you guys? All grown up, not just yet though." Dad joked.

"I'm this many," Luke grinned showing six fingers. "And Kate is this many." he showed three fingers.

"Last time I saw you, Luke, was this many," Dad showed five fingers, "And Kate, you were this many," he showed two fingers.

"Don't grow up, kids; it's a trap." Dad chuckled but interrupted himself with his coughing. "Pardon me."

"Gramp, you okay?" Luke asked, it looked as if his eyes were about to pop out. He was really worried, I mean we all are!

"Now that you guys are here, I am." Dad assured him.

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"I'm sorry, Daddy." Luke breathed out as I took a seat in front of him, he didn't look up knowing as soon as he meets eye contact with me, he'll cry. "But I had to, it's truth! And you always say 'tell the truth', so I did. I don't get why you guys got mad at me for telling truth, it should be me being mad at you... which I am!"

"I get it, Luke. I'm sorry, too. I had no right to yell at you for something that your mother did, we never want you to feel like the sheep of the family, you know that?" I reassured him. Luke slowly looked up, his brown eyes looking like glass. His lips trembled and he did that thing whenever Dani gets in trouble, she clenches her fists and holds their breath.

OKAY, SO I THINK MOST OF YOU HAVE HEARD LE KNEWS ABOUT ADOPTED BY PAYZER: I AM MAKING A NEW STORY FOR IT.

okay no more caps; anyways, if you don't know, check the last chapter's comments. youll see le most amazing idea eveerrrrrrrrrr. a few people pm'ed me saying I should keep this story up and update it and all. most likely I am. just think of this