I'll Follow You (GirlxGirl)

42. Mommy needs her hair, sweetie

I am laying on the bed, with my sweet children. Ethan and Nathan play on my phone. While I am looking down at Jace and Andi. My boy is playing with my hair with a huge grin on his face. He really knows how to be happy. Then there's my little girl that is driving the boys insane with her voice. She is singing something, I don't know what it is, but I hope I can hear that voice for the rest of my life.

"Hunter?" Nathan takes my attention from my creatures.

"Yes, honey?" I smile to him.

"Why did you shout at Skylar?" He asks, worried, which makes Ethan look at me just the same. I guess they must have heard us. Can't be that hard either, their room is right next... to ours. Oh no. Those boys deserves an explanation. I mean hearing me yell at the woman I love and they care for must not have been easy to hear. When I lived with David and Sara, I hated to listen to them arguing, which was a lot.

"You know that Skylar took you, Jace and Andi with her to Luke and Rachel," They both nod.

"She has a reason for doing it, but I don't want you to be so far away from me. I love all of you and I want you back in that house with me." I explain them as I take my hair out of Jace's painful grip, which makes him pout. I snort as I lean down to kiss his forehead.

"Mommy needs her hair, sweetie." I whisper as I nuzzle his cheek and finally he smiles again.

"Does that mean we are going to come home?" Ethan asks and I sigh for a moment, thinking about my answer.

"I-I honestly don't know. It's up to Skylar."

"I hope we are, because I want my room back, Nathan snores." Ethan complains and that earns him a punch in the arm from his brother, but Ethan just laughs it off.

"I hope so too." I smile to them. Then I look down at my boy and girl. Jace is now sleeping and Andi is quiet.

Can't imagine losing all of them or even my wife. I tried I honestly tried to stop being so... me. But I love doing those things that Sky thinks is killing me. I loved every minute I spent with Jace, when he was struggling to stop crying. It might have made me very tired and turned my head upside down, but I still loved it. Because it is something, I know I am good at, the only thing I know I am good at. If Sky wants me to stop giving her my everything, then what can I give?

"I want to go home." Nathan says, and I can see the longing in their eyes. It hurts to watch, but it is also a good thing to see. It must mean they really like it with us. That really warms.

"You are. I promise we are going home." I smile to them and their brown eyes lighting up.

"Can you help me to put these two to bed?" I ask as I point at my creatures. They both nod, happily.

After Ethan and Nathan helping me to put Jace and Andi to bed. They are now lying in their own room sleeping. It's the middle of the night. Sky and I have still not talked or even looked at each other the right way. She is now in our bedroom, provably sleeping or doing the same as me, just thinking. I am on the couch in the living room and for the first time in the history, it's quiet down here and dark. Then the silence is interrupted by a text on my phone. Where Sky asks if I can come up and take Andi. I get out of the couch and find my way up the stairs. The sound of Andi's crying makes me worried as I step in the door.

"Please help me." Sky pleads as she is standing with our crying girl in her arms. I nod as I take Andi out of her hold and kiss my little girl on her forehead.

"I'll take her down, so she won't wake up someone." I tell Sky and just step out the door and back down.

"It's okay, Andi." I say as I shake her, but she is not happy.

"Fine." I mutter as I sit down on the couch and take out my phone to play the song. After a little while, she stops and I just lay down with her on my chest. She seems very satisfied now, and so am I.

"I love you baby girl, and I swear that I am never, ever letting anyone hurt you. Not even someone you love, not even me. Your mom would tear down the whole world if someone would break your heart, and I mean that." I chuckle.
"So I am going to keep an eye on your mother," I sigh.

"If she is not going to leave, then there is not much I can do." I kiss my smiling girl on her forehead.

"I love your mom, she is very special. Very grumpy, angry and she curse a lot. Yeah, she is very special," I chuckle.

"No, Andi, your mom is amazing. She truly is you will see it when you grow older, and when you get too old you would probably get annoyed by her amazingness." I smile.

"But I can't get tired of it. I love her more for every day that passes. No matter what she say and do. There is just something about your mom that makes me really, really love her." I say and then yawn.

"Why do you always have to wake up on the bad timing?" I ask my little girl who just smiles.

"You are not even going to say something to that?" I laugh, and she seems very satisfied with that as she put her hand on my cheek. I turn to kiss it.

"Let's go up to mom so she knows that you are okay." I smile and stand up with her. She keeps on putting her hands on my face as I take her with me up to Sky.

"I love you too, baby girl." I mumble on her hands as I step into the bedroom. Where Sky stands up from the bed worried.

"She is fine." I kiss Andi's cheek before I hand her over to Sky.

"Thank you." She says relived.

"Goodnight." I smile lightly to her, and then kiss sleeping Jace on his forehead.

"Hunti?" I was about to open the door as I hear my name.
"Yeah?" I answer, but don't turn to her.

"I love you." She says and still my heart, tickle to the sound of it.

"I love you too, honey."