Ari

"Where do you want to go to first?" I ask stephan once we're all in peytons suv.

"Good will or salvation army is fine."

"Stephan, I know this is allot of change for you. I have nothing against second hand store that's the only place I got clothes from before I found my dad, but you deserve new things."

"It doesn't feel right." He says just above a whisper.

"Why?"

"Because of meadow"

"Who's meadow?"

"She's my best friend." The sadness in his voice is heart breaking.

"Where is she?"

"She's in foster care. Not the same one i was in. We were in the same one when we were younger. They don't hit her but they also don't treat her like she deserves."

" Are you able to get ahold of her?" Peyton asks.

"Yeah?" He eyes her skeptically.

"Give her a call, she can come along"

He shakes his head "I can't, your family is already doing too much for me."

"You're apart of this family now, stephan. Call your friend let's give her a great day too." I tell him with a genuine smile.

When we pull up to a run down house on the other side of town a teenage girl comes running out to the car. Stephan gets out standing by the car door waiting for her. She slides into the middle seat right next to charlie. I turn my head to face the back seat. "Hi, you must be meadow. I'm ari, I'm happy you could join us today."

"Hi, ari. Thank you for the invite. And thank you for taking care of Stephan." The beautiful girl says. She's tiny can't be more than five feet tall and a hundred pound she has long londe hair thats tied in a pony tail, and her eyes are a color blue that are oddly familiar, but I can't place it.

"He's family. This is my step mom peyton, and my daughter charlie."

"You can call me princess." Charlie beams at her.

Meadow glances at me I just roll my eye at my daughter shenanigans. I swear she really thinks it's her name someday. Meadow moves her eyes back to my daughter. "Hello, princess."

"You're pretty, you be a princess too. Right uncle stephan?"

"Yeah, charlie." He agrees nudging meadow. "You're very pretty sunshine."

Once we get to the mall stephan and meadow walk ahead with charlie walking between them holding a hand each of theirs. I swear that kid has everyone wrapped around her little finger the moment they meet her.

"She looks familiar" Peyton says in a low voice.

"Yeah, I thought the same thing, I think it's the eyes, like I have seen them before."

"Yeah they look like -" she stops and her eyes widen "it can't be, it's a coincidence" she says shaking her head.

"Who?"

"Parker" she says it more like a question. Like she can't believe what she's saying.

Now it's my turn for my eyes to widen. "Thats who they remind me of. It can't be, there's no way uncle parker would allow his kid to be in the foster care system." I say adamantly amd I know it's the truth. Uncle parker is all about family. There isn't a thing in this world he wouldn't do for his family. I have seen him with Dex he loves his son more than anything in this entire world.

"You're right." She nods her head the thoughtful look back in her face before she speaks again. "But what if he didn't know?"

"What do you mean?"

"I asked your dad if parker had ever even been in a relationship after kallie fucked off and he met Delilah. Your dad said there was when parker was nineteen or twenty. I'm not sure what happend, but meadow is fifteen maybe sixteen." She sighs and shakes her head "I'm probably just being crazy it's been a long week."

"Yeah maybe" I half heartily agree.

The kids are waiting a few steps ahead of us. "Where to?" Stephan asks.

"Thats up yo you two" I tell them with a shrug.

"Us two?" Meadow asks with shick in her voice.

"You can have whatever you want." Charlie laughs spinning in a circle with her arms spread out wide "Daddy and grandpa says princesses can have whatever they want. You're a princess too."

"Princess charlie has spoken" I laugh. "Really though. This day is for you too meadow. I know it probaly seems weird random people wanting to take you shopping, but you're important to stephan so that makes you important to us."

"Wow.. um okay. I don't know what to say." She whispers

"You don't have to say anything,"

It's almost three o'clock when my cell phone rings from my purse. "Hey sebby" I answer after looking at the caller ID.

"Hey angel. I finished up a little early I came hime and took a shower. Where are you?"

"At the mall still. We brought one of stephans friends with us."

"He a good kid?"

"She" I laugh "and yeah."

"Ohhh, okay. Do you want me to meet you over there?"

"Yeah, we should be finished here soon and we can go to get you an appropriate vehicle for all these kids"

"I want more."

"Kids?" I ask in shock

"Yeah, I want more kids with you"

"Yeah, ummm... maybe one day." My pregnancy and birthing experience was traumatic with charlie. I know it would be different if I to get pregant now, but it's terrifying. Plus, I'm only eighteen. I want a big family with sebby, but we have a toddler and a teenager right now, I don't think it's the best time.

"I'll see you soon, baby. I love you."

"I love you too, be safe." I tell him before ending the call and focusing back on the table were sitting in the food court.

"So how did you and Sebastien meet?" Meadow asks me.

"Ummm, he's apart of motorcycle club my dad's the president of. I was twelve or thirteen when I found who my dad really was. I went found him. I met sebby, we were friends for a long time before he asked my dad to take me on a date. I think I was fifteen and he was seventeen." I smile remebering all the happy memories I share with the man who owns my heart.

"If it isn't the foster friends." I hear a mocking voice behind me that causes my smile to drop immediately.

When I turn I see a group of teenagers standing there. "I'm sorry, can I help you with something?"

"Oh, and who might you be?" the douche canoe smirks at me. I can't imagine this guy is fifteen he looks like a grown ass man.

"How old are you?" I narrow my eyes at him.

"Eighteen, I'm legal baby." He winks at me.

"You sure are. It's probably not a good thing for you if you don't walk away."

"Why Is that?" He steps closer to me. I see Peyton smirk out of the corner of ny eye.

"Because if you don't put your legs to good use and walk the fuck away from my family, I'll break them."

The asshole and his friends all turn around to see my big scary biker boyfriend behind them. "Who are you" one of the assholes friends asks.

"Names, seb. If I hear any of you assholes fucking with my little brother, his friend, or my girl again you'll have trouble remebering your own name let alone mine, you get me?" God he's fucking sexy.

They all nod their heads and walk away quickly. Seb chuckles as he watches them "fucking pussies" he mumbles under his breath before steeping behind me and placing a kiss on the top of my head.

"Pussies" charlie yells.

"Charlotte Loraine" I hiss.

"Daddy said it" she shrugs.

"Daddys an adult you don't say those words."

"Okay mommy sorry." She sighs.

"Hi princess. Daddy missed you so,so much." Sebby says picking her up off the seat before sitting back down with her in his lap.

"Missed you too daddy. You want a bite?" She asks pointing to her pizza.

"No thank you." He chuckles after looking at the mangled food on her plate.

She just shrugs and continues to eat. "Sebastien, this is my friend meadow."

Sebby looks up and I see his eyebrows furrow when he looks at meadow for a moment before fixing his face and giving her a smile. "Hi, meadow. It's nice to meet you. You can call me seb, I'm not sure why he's calling me Sebastien no one does." He chuckles. "Did you all have a good day?"

"Yes. Thank you all really." She looks close to tears.

"It's really not a problem sweetheart." Peyton tells her with a smile.

"You just missed dad. He had to come with the truck to get stephans stuff. He's going to drop it at home. We kind of went a little crazy."

"Yeah, that'd to be expected with you two, I'm sure prez already planned on coming here today" sebby laughs but he's not wrong.

"Daddy I got a doll house." She lowers her voice to what she thinks is a whisper, but we can all still hear here. "Mommy said no, but I called grandpa"

"Thats my girl" he smiles at her.

"You men need to stop spoiling her." I tell him.

"Not gonna happen angel." He says leaning over to kiss my temple. "So stephan. Did you get everything you need?"

"I got more than I need, you weren't kidding when you said to just pick."

Sebby shakes his head and laughs "I tried to warn yoh little brother. What about you meadow, did you get everything you needed."

"I didn't need any of it, but I really do appreciate it. I've never stepped into half of those store let alone had clothes from them. I can't believe you guys bought me a new phone and a laptop too. I don't know how I'll ever repay you."

Sebby shakes his head "you won't repay anyone. I'm telling you right now the girls didn't do any of this to get something out if it. They did it because they wanted to."

"You're a lucky stephan." She smiles to her friend.

"I really am" He says looking at me and sebby.

After the mall we drove to the dealership sebby ends up picking out 2023 Ford f-250. I don't understand why he needs such a big truck, but whatever he like it. I don't like that fact that I'm driving it home so he can drive his motorcycle. We get all of meadows bags switched over to the truck and say our goodbye to peyton before heading towards meadows house. "Do you need anything else before I drop you off meadow?"

"No, I'm okay." I hear the hesitation in her voice.

"What's wrong?"

"I'm not sure I want to take this all to this house. There are other girls here and the foster mom. I don't want them stealing it."

I sit and pounder that for a moment before coming up with a solution. "How about you take a few outfits now, and whatever else you want. I'll take the rest home and put then in the guestroom's closet and you can switch them out take and leave whatever you want. It'll all be there for you whenever you want or need it."

"You'd do that?" She asks

"Yes ofcourse." I smile at her. "Meadow you're always welcome to our home okay? I'll have Stephen send you my number if you ever need anything just call."

"Thank you ari."