Big brother

Chapter 8

Cassi's pov

I woke up to the sound of my own voice screaming. I quickly stopped but I started sobbing right after. "Cassi baby it's okay it was just a dream. I'm here baby I'll protect you. Forever and always baby girl." Zac soothed. "Scared of being hit." I sobbed. "I'm so sorry baby girl I wish I could have stopped him from hurting my baby girl. He won't ever touch you again okay? If he does it won't be pretty." Zac said. "They say mean things to me. They make fun of me because I always get scared when they come to me. They hate me Zac. I don't want to go back!" I sobbed letting my tears fall on his bare chest. "Baby girl you have to go to school. It's the law. I'm not going to let them take you away from me because of school. I'll take care of it for you baby girl you don't have to worry." He cooed. "Transfer me to a different school daddy." I cried. "Okay. I'll see what I can do. For now though you need to get some sleep now. Goodnight baby girl I love you." He said. "Love you too." I whispered before going to sleep.

4am

Once again I woke up screaming. "We've got to do something about this baby girl." He sighed. "Like what?" I asked. "What do you think would help you?" He questioned. "Please don't make me see my social worker." I whimpered. "No, baby girl I won't make you. Do you think online school would help you?"He asked. "Yes. But you'll be busy huh?" I asked. "Yeah but I have a friend that could come help you while I'm gone." he explained. "Please Zac?" I asked. "Okay baby girl I'll call them tomorrow and set it all up. You have nothing to worry about babe. Look at me." He told me I did. "I would never have put you in that school if I knew that you would get hurt. I don't ever want you in harms way. I love you okay?" he asked. I nodded knowing that what he was saying was true. "Love you too." I whispered. "You need some sleep now okay? goodnight baby girl." He said. "G'night daddy." I replied snuggling up with him. Do. Not. Judge. Me. He's protecting me from nightmares okay? Deal with it. He kissed the top of my head and with that I fell asleep. Again. Now I can sleep hopefully.

"Baby girl I let you sleep in as long as I could. It's 11. I don't want you to get your days and nights mixed up." Zac said gently shaking my shoulder. "Okay okay I'm up." I replied cuddling with my blanket. "Um lies!" he shouted and ripped off my blanket. "Zac! it's cold!" I whined. "Cassi! I don't care!" he mocked. I groaned in annoyance. "Get up and move around it'll make you warmer." He sighed. "Hug me." I demanded. "if you get up I will. I'll even carry you to eat breakfast if you sit up at least!" he said over dramatically. "And you say I'm dramatic!" I said sassily. "You are. And sassy. And a little bit of a smart ass." He rambled until I interrupted him. "Okay! I get it!" I said with annoyance clear in my voice. "Love you." He smirked. "You're lucky that I love you too." I sighed sitting up and putting my arms up for him to carry me. "I know I'm lucky." He smiled picking me up and carrying me to the dinning room. "Thank you kind sir!" I said in a posh accent when he sat me down. "You're welcome my lady." He replied making me laugh. I don't know how I lived without him. I don't have to sit up at night and cry because I'm hungry or I'm scared. He makes sure everything is okay for me. It feels like I'm finally wanted instead of being someone's paycheck. I finally snapped out of my day dream. "Zac? Where are you?" I yelled. "Kitchen!" he replied. I let out a deep breath of relief. I thought he was going to... "Gotcha!" he yelled making me scream. Scare me. "Zac!!" I whined. "Cassi! stop whining!" he mocked. I pouted making him raise an eyebrow. "What?" I asked. "You really think that I'm going to let you go around pouting all the time? Think again. I hate pouting. Don't pout." He said sternly. "Yes sir sorry." I mumbled. "So I was thinking after breakfast we could go to the mall and I could take you on a little shopping spree for Christmas ya know?" he asked. "Really?!" I asked. "Yeah I just got you like big stuff so now you have to pick out clothes and shit cause I wasn't gonna do that." He laughed scratching the back of his neck. "You're not kidding right now?" I asked still in shock. "No Cassi I'm not kidding I'm serious." he chuckled. "You have enough money for this?" I asked. "Yes babe and you shouldn't worry about money. That's my job." He said. "I feel bad though!" I whined. "Well don't cause I want to do this and it's rude to not accept my gift." He said smugly. "Okay. Thank you so much!" I said excitedly. "You're welcome baby girl." He replied.

At the mall

We've only been to two stores and I already have 6 bags! Everything I even say is cute he buys! Like dude calm down! He even bought us snapbacks that say imperfect on them. His is dark blue and mine is light blue. Everything was going good until I tried on a shirt that FITS. And he said it was too tight. I almost started crying because him out of all people is the last person I'd think would call me fat. "Zac it's supposed to fit this way." I said trying to keep my cool. "I know but I say it's too tight and I'm not going to allow you to get that shirt." He shot back. "I'm not too fat." I whispered. "Baby girl you aren't even a little bit fat. But the way that shirt fits it's going to be harder for me to do my job to make sure no pervs are looking at you like their next victim." He explained making me face palm. Really I was worried about nothing?! "Zac I'm not even pretty." I sighed. "Cassandra Savannah you are too." He said sternly. "Zac no I'm not you have no idea how much shit I go through because of my looks." I said sadly. "That ain't because you're ugly. It's because they're jealous trust me I know how teens are and I know they can be mean but you just have to know that what they say isn't true at all baby girl. You're pretty. So my final answer about that shirt is no." He said smirking. "Thanks, and okay I'm sorry I argued with you." I replied. "It's okay baby girl. Lets continue shopping shall we?" he asked. I nodded smiling up at him. At around three we made a trip to the car to put some bags up and then went to the food court because we were hungry. "Hey Zac!" a man yelled. "Hey Preston!" Zac replied smilin at him. "Dude who's the little girl?" Preston asked. "This is Cassi. I adopted her through the big brother thing. Court orders. She's an amazing girl though." Zac replied ruffling my hair. "Hey Cassi what's up?" the guy asked. "The ceiling." I answered. "Oh so you're that kind of person I see." He laughed. I giggled a bit but hid my face in Zac's side so he wouldn't see. "Dude it's been ages since I've seen you." Preston said noticing my shyness. "Yeah it's been way too long." Zac agreed. "Wanna catch up sometime? Girly here hasn't warmed up to me yet and I'm quite appalled." Preston joked. "Yeah man whenever you're free." Zac agreed. "Okay how about this Saturday?" he asked. "Sure, my place?" Zac asked. "Yeah if you want." He agreed. "Okay I'll text you my address." Zac said. "Sounds good. I gotta go man see you later." he said and waved at me. I blushed but waved back. "Aw how cute you're so shy!" Zac joked pinching my cheeks. "Stop!" I whined. "I will if you ever stop with the whining." Zac smirked knowing it won't happen. "I swear you're mean to me on purpose." I sighed but smiled at him. "Mean my ass." He scoffed. "You know I love you." I said. "Yeah I know." He smirked. What's with him and smirking? "You love me too though." I said looking up at him. "Of course I do baby girl." He replied kissing me head. "After we eat are we gonna be done?" I asked. "Yes baby girl I know you're tired." He said making me sigh in relief. "Good." I hummed. Soon we were done eating and I was falling asleep in his car on the way home. When I woke up I was on the couch in the living room and I could smell food cooking. I skipped into the kitchen to see him on the phone looking serious. "Who is it?" I mouthed. He wrote on a piece of paper 'your social worker. She wants to have a in home meeting with you.' I groaned. 'Say nice things please babe.' He wrote. "duh." I mouthed. He smiled at me. "Yes ma'am Monday at 5 pm works." He spoke. "Alright see you then, bye" he said and hung up. "Baby girl look at me." He said. I looked at him. "Don't give them a reason to take you from me. If they ask I don't spank you either." he said. "I know Zac. I've dealt with this my whole life." I reminded him. "Let's eat." He sighed nervously. "It'll be okay Zac." I tried to comfort him. "Babe they're looking for a reason to take you away from me. I'm supposed to be a bad guy remember?" he asked. "I'll only say good things about you. Nothing to worry about right Zac?" I asked. He smiled. "Damn I love you." He laughed. "Love you too." I replied.

Bed time.

"Can I sleep with you? I don't wanna be scared." I admitted. "Yeah baby girl you can." He chuckled. He climbed into the left side of the bed with sweats but no shirt on. I on the other hand was dressed in my new pajamas. "Goodnight daddy. I love you." I whispered kissing his cheek. "Goodnight baby I love you too." He replied also kissing my cheek.

A/N: soooo? How's the chapter?! love you babes.!