His Princess, Without Him [Book 2]

#43 Fatherly pride

Lauren's P.O.V.

The weekend went by as if it were nothing. Before I knew it it was sunday evening and I was put to bed by my father and uncle Harry, who both were way too excited to bring me to school the day after.
They both read me a bedtimestory and kissed me goodnight.

All weekend I knew dad was trying to make me forget about the fact that he had to leave me for almost a month after the next week. I wasn't mad about it, upset maybe a little, but I understood. He had to work and I couldn't come with him. It had gone wrong once already and I didn't even know if I wanted to be at the concerts again. 

They were fun, don't get me wrong, but they were sooooo huge and I felt like I could just get lost in dad's dressingroom alone. Here I knew where everything was, I had my friend and I did kind of like the fact that I would have an all girl's week. I loved Emma so much and was so happy she even wanted to look after me, and after all the stories I heard from dad and uncle Harry, I couldn't imagine aunt Gemma to be anything but amazing and sweet. 

I didn't want to go to school though. I wanted to do so much more with dad while he was still here and school always took so long.
I had missed him so much over the last six months and it felt like we would never be together, just me and him. I kind of hated it to be honest. He was my dad but somehow all those girls got more of him than I did. But I was taught to not hate on people, you never know their story so I pushed the mean thoughts away. 

It took me hours to finally fall asleep, or atleast it felt like hours. I kept on thinking about stuff. I wasn't even sure what the stuff was, but I knew it was keeping me wide awake. I even heard, I think Emma, walk up the stairs to go to bed herself. She always went to bed super late so how late would it be? 

Those thoughts only stressed me out more, which prevented me from falling asleep. I would be in so much trouble the day after if I would be so tired I'd fall asleep at school. 

Finally I did manage to fall asleep and get the rest my body needed so bad. Luckily I didn't dream anymore, like no dreams at all. It was kind of a bummer to not have the good dreams, but it was a happy compromise to keep the bad ones away.

"Sweetheart, wake up."  I woke up to dad's voice coming from what seed like next to my bed. "It's time to wake up, we have to leave for school in an hour." I rubbed my eyes and sat up slightly, only to be greated my both daddy and uncle Harry smiling at me from the door. 

"Morning daddy." my words were a weird combination between a yawn and a whisper which made daddy and uncle Harry laugh like crazy. 
"Morning princess." After untangling the sheets from my body I gave both of them a big hug and kiss on the cheek. 

"Your uniform is on your chair so you can get dressed yourself and meet us downstairs for breakfast okay?" dad pointed at my clothes and kissed my head one last time before leaving me to change by myself. 

"Look at you all pretty and grown up." It was around seven fifteen when I got downstairs and sat down at the diner table. Daddy made some pancakes and he even had some fruit! He knew I loved strawberries and he made sure to have them for me! 

I thanked him and started eating while everyone else just started talking about what they had to do today. 
Emma had to go to school too, only for a bit longer then I had to but she could also be at school later than me.
Uncle Harry and daddy both had to work, so they would be on schedule before they'd leave to go to America. 
After a while they also started asking me the questions what I'd be doing at school. I wasn't really sure. On mondays we mostly did reading and math and some arts and crafts but sometimes Miss Williams changed up the planning. 

"We will all bring you to school and I will pick you up at the end of the day princess." Dad said once we had all finished breakfast and dad packed my lunch for the day. 
"All of you?" I couldn't believe they would all be willing to take at least an hour off of their schedules just to bring me to school. It wasn't that special, I mean, I always go to school so I didn't really fathom the importance of the event for all three of them.