What Are You So Scared Of?

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"Psst, Austin, wake up." I whispered poking him in the nose.

He scrunched up his face and groaned. I huffed out and pouted. I gasped when I felt a hand on my thigh and I looked at Austin to see him smirking.

"Hey beautiful." He said.

"Austin!" I exclaimed.

"Dude, I've been up. But I saw you pouting so I had to wake up." He said.

"I was pouting because I was thinking of a way to wake you up. And I thought of one.".

"And what would that be?" He asked.

"It's not much but, it always woke Brendon up." I said. He looked interested and I continued. "I was gonna get on top of you like this-" I started straddling him. "and I was gonna rock my hips against yours, and after about three minutes of that, I was gonna stop, and leave." I did that to him and I walked down the hallway to the kitchen.

He came down after about ten minutes and I gave him a plate of pancakes. "Eat up, cause we have to go get Anne after I put some real clothes on." I said.

"Yes Ma'am." He replied saluting me.

I laughed and ate my pancakes. After we were done, I went upstairs and changed into the dress and shoes. Austin put on a black shirt and jeans and and we left to go to my house.

When we got to my place, I put on a white sundress and matching flats. I put my hair up and walked downstairs. I saw Austin staring at the pictures and I came up to him.

"Is that you?" He asked pointing to a picture of Brendon and I in high school.

"Yeah." I replied. "Um that picture was taken by my best friend Dakotah. I think we were at the park or something like that. We all went to some weird places." I explained.

"You were even adorable as a kid." He stated.

"Teen, Austin. Get it right." I told him.

"My bad." He said with his hands up in defense.

I laughed and kissed him. "It's ok." I replied.

He smiled and we left to pick up Anne from Kellin's place.

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"Mommy!" Anne yelled running to me.

I picked her up and instantly put her down. "Ugh, you're heavy. You're getting fat." I teased poking her in the stomach.

"No I'm not, you're just getting old." She said smirking.

I gasped in mock offense. "I am not old. I'm twenty six years old."

"Yeah, that's old." "Ugh, you sound like your dad." I said hugging her.

She giggled and saw Austin.

"Austin!"

"Hey kiddo." He said picking her up with ease.

She whispered something in her ear and he nodded. "Mommy, can Austin come home with us?"

"You have to ask Austin." I replied.

"Yes, I would like to come. I'm off today."

"Yay! Mommy doesn't have a job. She said she doesn't want to leave me." Anne told Austin.

"Anne!" I snapped.

"I think you upsetted your mom."

"Sorry." She apologized.

I rolled my eyes. "Just like Brendon." I muttered.

I turned to see Kellin standing there. "Where's your wife?" I asked.

"Sleep. Anne, woke me up. I'm surprised she didn't wake Copeland." He replied.

"Sorry for that." I told him.

"It's fine. She said she loves my pancakes." I laughed and agreed.

"Bye Kellin. Tell your wife and and daughter I said bye." I said hugging him.

"Bye Hayles. Bye Anne."

"See ya later."

Austin, Anne and I went home and Anne ran upstairs. Austin and I stayed downstairs.

"Last night was amazing." I told him.

"It was, wasn't it?" He asked.

"Sorry, about us leaving the restaurant." I said.

"Hey, I told you last night it was ok. I understand if you can't let him go. You saw him get tortured and die. It's ok if you can't take stuff that reminds you of him. I'm not gonna get mad about that. I don't know if I could've handle what you went through. You're strong Hayley Jones." He said.

I smiled at him and kissed him. He put his hand on my cheek and I put my hand over it.

"Gross!" I heard Anne exclaim.

"Oh come here!" I exclaimed running to pick her up. I set her on the ground and started tickling her. Austin joined in and Anne was dying of laughter.

Yeah, I think this chapter is my favorite so far. VCF