Open Your Mind Before Your Mouth

Hold The Phone

A/N: There's a bit of a twist here, hope you like it. (The italilcized writing is sign language)

Six Years Later
October 17

It's Winter and Chris's birthday, we're all in the back yard having a party. "Uh-oh," Jen mutters as I step up behind my husband with my six year old son Salem on my shoulders. She's sitting on the edge of the chair, her pregnant belly just starting to show. I sneakily put Salem on Chris's shoulders. "Aaah!" Chris exclaims. "Happy birthday daddy!" Salem squeals, Amaya comes over with a big envelope and a smile on her face, she hands it to him. He opens it up, inside is a picture of our family, she indicates each person, signing rapidly(before I get too far, Amaya was born deaf, we all learned to sign). And who is this? That's Salem. He looks to be wearing a dress, which in fact today he has a white T-shirt with a single pink daisy on it. Is Salem wearing a dress for a reason? He likes to. Oh. With that Winter and Nastia come out, it looks like they've done each other's makeup. They look adorable, with the exception of Winter's left eyebrow, it's definitely out there, if you know what I mean. "I can't believe I'm leaving in two days," I say to my cousin Ryan. "How long this time?" "Two weeks, then back for one then gone for four months, I feel sooo bad it was Vinny who was there for Amaya's first steps." "At least he got it on video, your kids are fine, they know you love  them, that's all that matters." "I know."
          Almost four months later Skye and my little sister Nevaeh are sitting at the table in the living room doing their homework. "Anything you need help with?" Chris asks them. "No thank you," Nevaeh says politely. "Okay," he looks at the girls and smiles, "Nevaeh are you coming to Philly tomorrow?" "For what?" "Paige's Lament is playing, Ali said there's a few extra tickets if you and your mom want to come." "Really?" "Yeah, I kinda gotta go anyway, we're going to do 'Angel Eyes' and Skye's coming," "Let me ask my dad." "Okay."
          "I can't believe you asked us to come!" Tami exclaims, everyone is in the car about 10 minutes away from the venue. "We have a little surprise for everyone." Chris says with a smirk and Winter blushes, he can tell she's nervous.
            "Alright Philly, do you know this song?" I yell into my mic. "Well tonight, we have a special surprise for you, someone wanted to show off their skills and I said why not, but that's not all." I hand my guitar to one of the techs. Dylan starts to play 'Angel Eyes' and someone adjusts Blaine's mic stand so that is stands quite a bit lower. Oh yeah, this is happening.

There's something about you
I cannot explain
I just want to know you
I just want to know your name

          Winter comes out with a neon green colored guitar strapped to her, "Skye Cerulli!" I gesture to my daughter, "Make some noise!" The crowd goes nuts. I am so happy, my daughter has the biggest smile on her face, she knows her dad is about to come out, she was a little scared to even do this, but knows that we'd both be out there with her, I guess she got over it rather quickly.

Take my breath
Baby reach inside my chest
You can have whatever's left
Cause baby I'm possessed

          As I start to sing the chorus Chris comes out

Don't you try to hide with those angel eyes
(If you let me inside, I won't hold back this time)
Such a deep disguise, the devil's right inside
(More than paralyzed, oh it's the chase you like)

Winter's POV

          Omigosh! My mom asked if I wanted to play next week when PL came to Philly. Of course I said yes, but only if dad is up there with us. He had the perfect solution, I'd just learned 'Angel Eyes' and that's the song that him and my mom wrote together a long time ago. I needed a bit more help with it though cuz I wasn't sure I was quite ready. Dad helped a lot.

          My best friend is my aunt Nevaeh, we go to school together. My grandma Tami is really nice too, she's a big fan of my parents, she also used to have a huge crush on my dad. Well it's my birthday I'm 10! Sooo excited! We just decided to have a party in our backyard, my mom is soooo corny, she got my dad a watch, it's super cool though, I wonder what she got me. Uncle Blaine got me a new pair of Jordan's. My aunts Dylan and Steph gave me a certificate for a spa day and said they'd take me soon. Uncle Vinny and Aunt Jill got me a new skateboard. Ryan said he'd start teaching me to play guitar. Uncle Ricky said he'd leave me alone for the next 10 years if I promise to never put pink eyeshadow on him ever again, haha jk, he got me a new laptop. And Justin took me Nevaeh and a few of our friends to the paintball range. My mom and dad's friend Ben was there too, he got me the coolest gift of all, he got me a guitar, and it's my favorite color, neon green. My mom looked at him and smirked. "You know I'm going to have to kill you now, right?" "Good luck, you have to catch me first," Ben takes off running and mom gives chase. She jumped on his back and tackled him to the ground and pretended to wring his neck. "I give, I give, he says. She laughs "Eh, Ryan said he's gonna teach her to play anyway."
          Later on I'm messing around with my new guitar when my dad pokes his head into my room, "Sounds interesting," he steps inside. I'm trying to play 'Angel Eyes', but I know I'm not doing it right. "Can you help me?" "Maybe tomorrow hun, it's almost 10." "Okay," I set it aside and crawl into bed. "Goodnight sweetie," he says kissing my head. "Goodnight daddy," I hug him and kiss his cheek. My mom then comes in, "Did you brush your teeth?" "Yes." She comes in and gives me a hug. "I'm gonna miss you guys when I'm gone." "I'm gonna miss you too," I hug her, "goodnight mom." "G'night Skye," she kisses my cheek then wraps her tattooed arm around my dads waist and they walk out together closing the door.