Bulletproof Love (Jaime Preciado)

Chapter 14

Ashley's POV

<pulling up to the school>

"please don't say anything mean that he can kick me off the team for." Brady says and gives me a pleading look.

"I wont." I say and we both get out of the car and walk out to the football field.

"RICHARDS! WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN?!" the coach yells from across the field. We walk over to him and Brady sets his stuff down.

"I'm so sorry about Brady missing practice-" I begin but the coach cuts me off.

"and who are you?" he asks.

"I'm Brady's older sister Ashley."

"where is you're father? He usually handles this kind of thing."

"that's actually why I am here. Our parents were on a road trip and died in a car accident a week ago. That's why Brady was gone." he gives us both a suspicious look but then sighs.

"fine. I will take it. But you miss another practice for whatever reason, you are off the team. Go warm up."

"thank you coach." Brady says and runs over to the team and begins to warm up.

"thank you so much sir, I promise Brady wont miss another practice."

"why haven't I met you before?" he asks me.

"because I used to be really busy with work, I had a job that went all the way until 9 every week night. And my parents were the ones who usually took him."

"are you the one bringing him to practice now on?"

"well, either me or my fiancé Jaime. But for games we will both come, with my little sister too."

"Isabella isn't it? She's a real cutie."

"she is isn't she? She's the sweetest little thing."

"so you are their legal guardians now right?"

"well, pretty much, the government just needs to send us the adoption papers."

"ah. Well, my name is Henry Jacobs, the head coach. Over there is the assistant coach, his name is Drake Larson. And then the team mascot, is Jacob Campbell."

"nice to meet you coach Jacobs."

"just call me Henry sweetie." uh little weird but okay.

"Henry, sorry."

"no problem. Come by any time. I need to start practice so I gotta go. Goodbye Ashley."

"goodbye Henry." I say and he runs over to the guys and blows the whistle. I wave to Brady and walk back to my car and drive home.

Jaime's POV

"okay! What do you want to do while Ashley is gone?" I ask Bella and she puts her finger up to her chin to look like she is thinking really hard.

"hmm. How about we bake some cookies for sissy and Brady?" she asks and puts her arms out for me to pick her up. I pick her up and walk to the kitchen.

"that sounds like a great idea! What kind of cookies would you like to make for them?" I set her in a barstool with her booster seat.

"chocolate chip!" I laugh and walk to the cabinet and pull out a packet of chocolate chip cookie mix and hand it to her.

"let's see what the ingredients are. 2 eggs, one cup of water, 1 ½ cups of milk and would you like to make them into dinosaurs?" I smirk. Ashley got me some dinosaur cookie cutters for my birthday a few years ago.

"yeah!" she says and raises her arms. I raise my arms too and yay too. She giggles and I smile and get all the stuff out. I hand her the cutting board so she doesn't get cookie dough on the counter. Ashley gets mad at me when I do it.

"okay here is the ingredients, let me do the eggs and you can pour the milk and water in then mix it?" she nods and I crack the eggs in the bowl then hand her the bowl and she pours the milk and water in.

"now mix it really really fast!" I say and hold the bowl while she mixes it.

"it's getting harder to mix!" she squeals and I laugh.

"that's good! Keep mixing!" she keeps mixing but then stops.

"my arm hurts." she says and flops her arm like a noodle.

"want me to do it?" I ask and she nods. I pick up the bowl and whisk and mix it really fast until it looks good enough to make it into shapes.

"there we go! Now we need to put some flour on the cutting board and then we can shape them." I say and she grabs the flour and she dumps it onto the cutting board.

"now spread it around and make sure not to get it on the counter." I say and we smooth it over the board and I dump the dough on.

"what we do now?" she asks and I start making it flat.

"you have to make it as flat as you can but we can't get it too flat that we can't pick it up without it breaking." she nods and helps me flatten it.

"dis is hard." she says.

"it is. But we are almost there, lets do one last really fast smooshing it down and I think it will be good!" I say and we start pushing it down really fast. If Ashley walked in she would think we were punching the counter top.

"I think this is good. Here is you cookie cutter my Princess." I say and hand her one of the cookie cutters and we both begin cutting out the shapes.

<20 minutes later>

"guys I'm home!" we hear Ashley comes through the front door.