Bestfriends Brother // R.A.L // REWRITE

⍟ Chapter One ⍟

⍟Ella POV⍟

I don't have time for this. Switching off my alarm I sat up and sighed looking at the clock 4:05. Getting out of bed I walked into the bathroom and grabbed Maya's pills.

I work for my dad, he owns his own record label company called Record Label or RL for short most people say they're with RL only problem? It's a two hour drive from my house to the actual building why not move closer? I would love to but Maya, who is my four year old daughter has a very serious heart condition which has stripped her of her childhood and her health can take a turn for the worst in seconds, she has appointments every two weeks and scans and tests done, I need to be close in case of an emergency.

Long story short; teenage lovers. Perfect relationship. Accidental pregnancy. Boyfriend cheated and left me with a five month old baby. Pretty much a deadbeat. Simon-Maya's dad, has a girlfriend who is amazing with Maya and actually helps with her more than he does, Zoey is training to be a nurse and she wants to learn about Maya's condition so that when anything does happen she can be there and try getting control of the situation, she asks if she can come to appointments and she is truly amazing with my daughter and I can't thank her enough but Simon, his pushing his luck a little.

"Baby time to wake up." I whispered kissing Maya's head, she groaned rubbing her eyes and sat up holding her arms out, laughing I picked her up and walked into the kitchen. Sitting her down on the side I grabbed her Disney princess cup and filled it with water before watching her take her tablets "I don't like it."

"I know princess but they'll make you feel better, go watch some tv and I'll make you breakfast." I smiled helping her down.

"What!?" I asked.

"Good morning to you too, just making sure you're awake." Mckenzie said, she's my Bestfriend she also works with me.

"Can you not?" I asked "waking up at 4:30 after getting home at midnight isn't a Good Morning it's a I'll kill everybody morning."

"Then move clo-"

"I can't, not until Maya has the operation, I'm saving my money to save my daughters life, so far I have hardly anything, sometimes I wish Simon would just help, y'know." I said putting her on to speaker as I put on some toast for Maya and made myself a cup of coffee.

"Ask Luke to go talk to him, you know he won't stand up to your brother or what about Rydel's brothers ?" Mckenzie asked.

Rydel is my other Bestfriend, we actually met through my dads recording studio. She's in a band called R5: Riker, her older brother, Rocky her younger brother, Ross her second youngest brother, Ratliff, her boyfriend who's real name is Ellington Ratliff and herself, she has another brother named Ryland, his pretty cool I get along with all of them and his a DJ so we sometimes ask him to come in and do some stuff.

Luke is my older brother, there's four of us, two boys, two girls. Millie is the oldest she's 30, Luke is the second child his 29, myself I'm 25 and Ben, his 20 going on 21, big year this year.

"I can't, Luke will take a bat to his face." I said walking into the living room and handed Maya her breakfast before walking back into the bathroom to get ready I put McKenzie on loud speaker as I started brushing my teeth.

"Why are you saying it like it's a bad thing?" Mckenzie laughed.

"Because as much as I may dislike Simon, his not a bad person just not a good father, I don't understand how he could leave like that." I said rinsing my mouth out, sighing I gave up trying to braid my hair and just left it down.

"Do not make me slap you girl, he left you his not your problem anymore, don't start thinking shit about how you miss him and how you wish you had him back." Mckenzie said.

Simon and I have known each other since we were kids, we started dating when we were 13 years old, we had a 8 year relationship, from kids to adults everyone said we were too young to understand what love was but were we?

"Whatever, I'll talk to you when I see you at work." I said hanging up.

It's easy for her to say all of that stuff, she's dating Rocky, as in Rydel's brother. His a nice guy and they don't have a baby.

Simon I don't know I guess he couldn't handle it and just decided it was best if he left, we've never really spoken about it, we hardly have a conversation, it's not even a five minute thing. He likes to make digs at people and I just can't deal with that kind of stupidity.

Walking into my bedroom I got dressed and laid out all of McKenzie's clothes for her. While I'm at work Simon does look after her but he doesn't do a good job of it, he doesn't make sure that Maya takes her medication, he lets her run wild which she can't do because if her heart rate goes up too high she could suffer a heart attack and at four years old it would end badly, she can't have a normal childhood yet, with her heart condition it's too risky.

"When you've finished that can you go get ready please?" I asked, Maya looked at me and nodded as McKenzie rang my phone again "didn't anyone ever tell you hanging up on someone is incredibly rude? And it's like you know I'm about to suggest you go on a date."

"I'm not saying I miss him, I'm just confused to how the guy who was around for my entire pregnancy just fucked off like that and I have a kid, the word date doesn't exist in my world." I laughed.

I've been on dates, but it's never really been that amazing that there's been a second date, I've never had sex since I broke up with Simon, maybe I'm just weird but I don't believe in sex on the first date, well I believe in it I just don't do it, it's not what I'm into. Having a child complicates a few things, you mention the word kid and a guy is running.

I get where McKenzie is coming from and I love the fact that she's trying to care about my life and she's saying that yes I have a daughter and I may be happy but sometimes there has to be something else to trigger that happiness as she said I have needs like any other human and sometimes those needs have to be met with someone else. I want to date, I want to be able to have dates with a boyfriend but I have Maya to think about, I have to think is this guy safe to be around my daughter, is he going to understand that a lot of my focus is going to be on her and her health conditions? Is he going to become jealous if I spend too much time with Maya? Is he going to get along with Maya or is he gonna treat her like a piece of shit? I have to think about if this man is going to be suitable and acceptable for my daughter, I have read so many stories about women who have let these men into their lives and they have done terrible disgusting things to their children and that's my worst fear, I don't even have time to date with work, hospital appointments and dealing with a Dad who keeps letting Maya down.

⍟so I decided to rewrite it, I just wasn't really happy with how the original was going I think I sort of lost inspiration and just tried adding things into it, I will add a few things from the original into this version but try keeping more inspired I guess..? ⍟