Not So Perfect | l.h

2

'Cecily, come on you're going to be late!' i shout up the pristine staircase. It's Cecily's first day back at school since Maddie passed away 4 months ago. She can't drown herself in self-pity like I did, that's not an option for her, I'll help her get over it, not completley forget obviously but help her recover from the heartbreak of her leaving us to cope on our own and not let her blame Maddie or herself.
'Morning' Ashton mumbled as he stumbled out of his -or should I say the spare- room before walking straight into the kitchen.
Ashton has been living here for a few weeks after his wife kicked him out because she claimed he cheated on her, which isn't true, from what has told me.
I roll my eyes at Ash just as Cecily walks down the stairs. I throw toast at her at pushed her towards the front door as we are already 3 minutes late. I shouted a 'goodbye' to Ash and Adi and close the door behind me then run to my car where Cecily is currently waiting for me to open the doors.
It takes me 10 minutes to drive her to Kingston Coles High School. It should only take me 5 minutes but some farttard in front of me decided to drive at a snails pace on a bloody motorway. As you can probably tell, I was not happy.
I throw my keys down on the glass end table we have by the front door for keys and mail as Adi comes running in from the front room.
'DADDY!' She squeals as she comes running towards at full speed.
'Hello Princess' I say excitedly as I throw her up in the air and catch her again.
'Me and Uncle Ash were playing picnic with Squash and Libby! Come on daddy come play!' She once again squeals as I safely place her back down on the dark wood floor.
'Okay Okay Adi, I'll be there now, go give uncle ash cuddles for me' I say with a slight smirk while looking at ashton who was shaking his head at me with annoyance as he knows how forceful Adi's 'cuddles' are; they're more like rugby tackles.
I hang up my coat on the pegs inside of the closet we have under the stairs and make my way towards the kitchen, where I find my phone, I must of left it here while I was rushing out of the house with Cecily. I brought it to life by pressing the lock button and saw I had two missed calls from calum and a voice message, probably from calum also. I haven't spoken to calum since the funeral as the band is on break for a while because of this traumatic event involving my beautiful wife, Maddie. Calum decided he couldn't take the pain of losing one of his closes friends and fell upon drinking for support, he slept around, at least 6 girls in a week, he's ruined his reputation, he's ruined the band's reputation.
I call him back because it must be urgent because why else would he phone me his early in the morning, even though it's 10am, Calum doesn't wake up until at least 2pm these days.
After two or three rings a sniffling Calum appears on the other side of the line.
'Calum?'
'Hey Luke, where are you right now I need to talk to you' he replies, his voice cracked during the sentence and he actually sounded sober.
'I'm at home with Ash and Adi. Why what's wrong, do you need help?' I state worried about his current state of being able to drive.
'Do you mind if I come over for a while, it really important' Calum said, at the same time I hear Ashton enter the kitchen obviously wondering where I had got to.
'Yeah, of course you can, do you need me to pick you up?' I say as ashton looks at me with a confused expression on his face. I mouthed to him 'it's Calum' and he quickly understands.
'No I'll be fine, gabby will drop me down, thanks Luke I really appreciate it' he says quickly before hanging up almost immediately.
'What was that all about' Ashton asks me as I put my head in my hands on the breakfast bear and sigh deeply.
'Calum wants to talk to me, apparently it's urgent, I don't know what it's about though' I say answering his question.
Ashton shrugs and grabs an energy drink out of the fridge before jogging out of the room and shouting:
'Come on, Adi's waiting for us, Libby is serving tea next, hurry!'
I laugh and follow the path my weird friend took towards the living room where my youngest daughter was sat playing with her stuffed elephant called Squash and her fluffy toy duck called Libby, waiting for me to sit down and join them before Cal arrives.
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