Seb

We pull up to a familiar house I'm right behind ari on my bike. Her, meadow, and stephan get out of the truck as I get off my bike. "You're placed with the Manchester?" I ask meadow my jaw tightens.

"You know them?"

"Yeah I was placed with them when I was twelve" when I left to live on the streets.

Meadows eyes dart from me to stephan I can tell she's hiding the truth of what goes on behind those walls. "Ohhh" is all she says before climbing in the bed of the truck and starts sorting through her bags. I don't blame her I wouldn't want to take all my stuff here either.

I lean over the side of the truck where she's at to whisper "are you safe here?" I ask her just loud enough for inky her ears.

"Sometimes." She whispers back.

"Do you need us to get you out of here?"

"I'll be okay." She nods.

I know that's not the truth. I know how Tom Manchester was towards the teen girls when i stayed here, I can't imagine much has changed. "You're always welcome at our home meadow." I tell her with sincerity.

"Thats not necessary. Please don't say anything to stephan." She looks at me with pleading eyes. She knows I know that this is the house nightmares are made of. I can't just walk away and not do anything. I grab the couple bags she's taking with her.

I walk behind her as she walks up to the house. The door flies open and there stands the disgusting sack of shit known as Tom. "Where the hell have you been?" He sneers at her.

"I went with a friend to the mall." She lowers her head her voice is low.

"Who the fuck are you?" He sneers at me.

"Ohh Tommy boy, you don't remeber me? I thought that scar under your eye would have made a lasting impression." I smirk at him.

"You little fuck." Her grits out

"Carful Tommy, I'm not twelve anymore. I'm going to give you this one warning you keep your hands off meadow. If I find out you so much as breathed at her wrong I will fucking kill you" I stare him dead in the eyes so he know how serious i am. His eyes lower to my cut before widening. "You all set sweetheart?"

"Yes, thank you seb"

"No problem, stephan gave you aris number right?"

"Yeah, he texted it to me." She nods

"Good, don't be afraid to use it."

With those parting words I walk away trying to keep my rage under control. "You okay?" Ari asks.

I nod once "Yeah baby, we'll talk when we get home." I know meadow doesn't want stephan to know. She trying to protect him. She's lying to him saying she's safe here, I know the truth ari will too and if I know my girl at all I know she's about to loose her shit and do something off the wall. That's why I can't tell her right now, she's liable to kill these people.

"How was your day, angel?" I ask ari as we're sitting on the couch later that night.

"It was good." She says snuggling closer to me.

"I need to tell you something, but I don't want you to freak out okay? We will get it figured out. Everything will be okay."

"What now?" She whines.

"The place meadow lives, it's the house I ran away from when I went and lived on the streets."

"But they...." She doesn't need to finish the sentence we both know the hell they put me through.

"I know baby. But it was different with the girls they didn't hit them. Tom though, he ummm. He did other things to them."

"He touches them?" I hear her voice break.

"Yeah" I say just above a whisper.

"Does stephan know?"

"I don't think so" I shake my head.

"We have to get her out of there sebby"

"I know, I just don't know how. They were reluctant to give us stephan and he's my blood."

"We can't just sit here and do nothing sebatain" she's getting mad.

"Baby, I'm not saying that at all. We just need to figure out what to do. Okay? We can't just kidnap her."

"Why the hell not?"

"Because my crazy girl I love you too much to spend years in prison away from you"

"Fine," she sighs "we'll make her safe though right?"

"Of course, my love."

The next day I pick up meadow on the way to drop stephan off at school. "I could have rode the bus" she says when she climbs in the back.

"Not a big deal, I was taking stephan anyway. What do you guys want for lunch? Ari said she'll drop it off on the way to pick up charlie." Ari has another therapy appointment today so my little girl is going to work with me.

"We get free lunch seb, you don't gotta worry about it."

"School lunch is shit. Ari insisted, and as both of you know you can't say no to that woman no use in trying."

"Puzza good sunshine?" Stephan asks meadow.

"Sounds good." She tells him

"Text ari your order, and your lunch time."

"Thank you" they both say.

There's a group of kids waiting outside of the school when we pull up I recognize a few of them as the assholes friends the mall "if they give you any trouble call me."

"We'll be fine, been dealing with those dumbasses for years." Stephan tells me.

"I don't give a fuck, you're done dealing with them you have me now."

"Thanks big bro." He says as they both get out if the truck.

"Bye uncle stephan, by princess meadow."

"Bye princess charlie." They both tell her. I don't pull off right away I glare at the assholes standing there until they make eye contact with me. A silent warning I'm giving them, they must understand, because they all head inside.

"Ready to go to work with daddy?"

"Yeah, will uncle parker be there?"

"Holy shit" I say out loud. I thought meadow looked familiar, she looks like dex. "He'll be there." I tell my daugher. Then click the screen on my radio to call ari.

"Hey handsome"

"She looks like dex"

Ari sighs "I know, peyton and I were talking about it yesterday. It's crazy right? There's no way."

"I don't know ari. Maybe."

"It's not like we can just go off making assumptions like that."

"Yeah but, peyton works at the hospital. Maybe run a DNA test."

"I don't want to freak uncle parker out, and I don't want to get meadows hopes up."

"What if it is true, and we did nothing. It could be her way out baby."

"Okay, I'll talk to peyton. See how we can get the testing done without either of them knowing."

"Okay, I love you angel. I'll see you later. Stephan is sending you a lunch order."

"Sounds good, babe. I love you too."

The next few days fly by ari told me she got the DNA sample from meadow by the hair brush she has in the guest room here. I'm not sure how peyton got knights. Peyton asked everyone to come to her house for dinner tonight. We stop on the way to pick up meadow before making our way to peytons huge house.

"This is it?" Stephan says in shock.

"Yep" ari laughs. "Well go ride four wheelers later."

"Sweet" He cheers

We're the first to get to peyton and prez's house and are instantly greeted by ellie. "How my favorite baby sister?" Ari asks.

"I'm your only sister" ellie laughs. "Come in charlie. Daddy's in the back let's go play." And they were off. Prez is what I strive to be as a dad.

"Hi everyone." Peyton says as we walk into the kitchen.

"Hey peyton" ari greats her first guving her a hug. We're all outside when ellie and locklynn arrive followed by knight, Delilah, and dex. I might be imagining it but there's so much resemblance between dex and meadow it's crazy.

"Hey, everyone this is my little brother stephan, and his friend meadow." The club already knew about my brother. I haven't brought him to the clubhouse yet but they were aware he was living with us.

I can't help but see the look of shock on Delilahs face when she looks at meadow. I'm happy I'm not just imaging things. I don't blame her I'd be shocked too if a teenager showed up looking just like the little boy I had been raising for the past two years.

Once dinner is over peyton asks prez and knight to her office. Not even ten minutes later knight comes out of the office looking directly at meadow with tears in his eyes. "What was your mom's name?"

Meadow looks confused but answers anyway. "Reily, she died when I was five."

"Fuck" He sighs and shakes his head.

Peyton comes put of the office next "meadow, why don't you and parker come in here so we can talk."

Meadow looks at ari who gives her a nod before standing up and walking in the office with them. This conversation lasts allot longer. "What's going on?" Stephan asks in a low voice.

"I think knight is meadows biological father."

"He abandoned her?"

I shake my head quickly "he'd never do that. I don't think he knew. "

Stephan let's out a slow breath as knight, prez, meadow, and peyton walk out of the office. Stephan is off the couch pulling a teary eyed meadow into his arms. Whispering into her hair.

"Knight?"

"Yeah?" He asks taking his eyes off meadow and moving them to me.

I nod towards the door leading outside. He gives me a nod and we walk outside. "She can't stay in that house."

"I didn't plan on letting her, but why?"

I take a deep breath before telling him "that was the house I left when I went to live on the streets." Unstanding flashes in his eyes.

"I will kill them if they touched her."

"I know." I nod.

"Peyton put in a call to cps. I need to talk to dehlila."

"She's more than welcome to stay with us." I tell him.

He nods his head.

When dehlila comes outside I take it as my que to head back in the house. Meadow looks at me "you knew"

"I suspected" I nod.

"Why didn't you say anything."

Peyton cuts in "we didn't want to say something then it end up not being true. How are you feeling about all of this?"

"I don't know. I never knew who my dad was. I was only five when mom died I don't ever remeber he saying anything about my dad, he's not on any paperwork. I never knew who he was."

"I hope you know, if my brother would have known, you would have never spent a day in foster care."

Meadow just nods her head.

"This is your family meadow." Ari smiles at her. "I guess that makes us cousins" she laughs

Stephan groans. The girl he loves is related to the love of my life I can't help but laugh. There's no blood relation though ari is not biologically related to knight and stephan isn't biologically related to ari.