Hey readers!

This story was originally published in 2011 on my old account NZGirl25 and I tried to redo it earlier this year, but that didn't work. So now I'm back again and hopefully you guys like this new version.
On another note, I recently changed my username from PsychGirl25 to SummerNightsxox because I wanted a change.

Anyway, please review and I hope you like it.

"Where are you going to go?"

Lilly straightened up from where she was packing her bags. "I'm going to Dad's."

"Right," Cheryl laughed. "And if he doesn't want you? Don't think that you can come crawling back to me."

Lilly stared at her grandmother, shaking her head. "Of course he wants me."

"Are you sure about that?" Cheryl asked as Lilly closed her suitcases.

"Look, gran, Dad only had me stay with you because he had some crap going on and he didn't want me involved," Lilly said as she closed her suitcase. "Look, gran, it's time for me to go back. I'm sorry."

"Yeah, you will be." Cheryl laughed.

^..^

Lilly brushed the tears from her eyes and stopped outside the door to Angelo's, the restaurant that her dad owned. Lilly, you can do this, she thought to herself. Running a hand through her long caramel coloured hair that she wished she had tied up, she walked into the restaurant, but what she saw shocked her. Her dad and uncles were sitting in a booth with a woman and a teenage girl around Lilly's age, and the older woman had her arm wrapped around Brax. They were laughing and eating pizza and drinking what Lilly assumed was lemonade. She steeled herself and walked over to the table.

"Looks like you're having fun." Lilly commented.

"Lilly?" Casey asked in disbelief.

"Uncle Casey." Lilly smiled sweetly.

"Uncle… Uncle Casey?" The woman who was next to Brax asked.

"Lilly…." Brax said in a warning tone.

"Hey Dad!" Lilly said cheerfully as she sat in the space next to Charlie and picked up an empty glass. "Who are you?" She asked Charlie, looking up and down at her.

"I'm Charlie…." Charlie said confused as she turned to Brax. "Brax? What the hell is going on? Who is she?"

"Lilly. Lilly Braxton." Lilly answered as she poured herself a drink. Taking a sip, she knew that she was right. "Lemonade, my favourite. You know me so well Dad." Looking up, she smirked at the identical looks of shock that were around the table.

"You have a daughter?" Charlie asked Brax. "And you didn't tell me?"

"It's complicated," Brax said as he glared at Lilly. "And Lilly knows that."

"The fact is that you didn't tell me about Lilly when you know full well about Ruby." Charlie said in a deathly quiet tone. Ruby winced, she knew what Charlie was like when she was angry.

"I'm sorry Charlie, I was going to tell you eventually," Brax sighed as he rubbed a spot on his forehead. "She's been staying with Mum, she wasn't supposed to be back for a while now," He looked at Lilly. "Why are you back early anyway? You weren't supposed to come back until you finished the school year."

"Yeah, squirt," Heath added. "Did something happen with Mum?"

Lilly crossed her arms. "I don't want to talk about it," She jerked her head in the direction of Charlie. "Not in front of the pig and bacon anyway."

"Lilly!" Brax bellowed, drawing the attention of the other diners in the restaurant. "Apologise to Charlie and Ruby now!"

"Sorry pig, sorry bacon." Lilly smiled sweetly.

"Lilly Anastasia Braxton!" Brax scolded.

"Don't call me that!" Lilly exclaimed.

"I'll call you what I want to, you're my daughter and you will listen to me!"

Ruby glared at Lilly. "You're so rude!"

"Yeah, Charlie and Ruby didn't deserve that." Heath said disapprovingly.

"Whatever." Lilly said, grabbing a piece of pizza from the pan in the middle of the table and learning back in her seat.

"Apologise properly Lilly." Brax demanded.

Lilly rolled her eyes. "Sorry Charlie, sorry Ruby."

"Cause that was unbelievable." Ruby muttered under her breath.

"Look, I'm going to go," Charlie said. "You've obviously got your hands full right now." She quickly pecked Brax on the mouth and slid out of the booth, sliding her handbag over her shoulder.

"Will you come over tonight?" Brax asked Charlie.

Charlie sighed. "I don't know. Ruby, you coming?" She asked her daughter.

"Yep. I want a milkshake from the Diner." Ruby said as she kissed Casey on the cheek. "Cya Case, I'll call you."

^..^

"Can you believe her?" Ruby seethed as they sat down at a table in the diner after ordering milkshakes and chocolate cake.

Charlie sighed. "I know."

"She was so unbelievably rude!" Ruby exclaimed. "She called us Pig and Bacon! Seriously!"

"Rubes," Charlie reached across and touched her daughter's arm. "Calm down."

"Calm down?" Ruby asked. "She seriously disrespected us! And what about Brax? Did you have any idea he has a daughter?"

Charlie ran a hand through her hair. "No, no I didn't."

"See! He lied to you!"

"Lied about what?" Leah Patterson-Baker asked as she approached the table with Charlie and Ruby's milkshake and cake.

"Nothing." Charlie reassured Leah.

"Brax has a daughter and didn't tell Charlie." Ruby said matter of factly.

"Woah," Leah said as she put the drinks and food down. "That's a pretty big thing to keep from you."

"Tell me about it." Charlie sighed as she reached for her slice of cake and chocolate milkshake.

^..^

"So why did you come back early?" Brax asked once Charlie and Ruby were gone. He sighed, he would have lots of making up to do with Charlie for not telling her about Lilly, and they were finally in a good place. They were happy.

"I don't want to talk about it." Lilly said as she picked at a loose thread on the tablecloth.

"Oi." Heath said. Lilly looked up.

"What?" She asked.

"Answer your father properly."

"Me and Gran had a fight." Lilly said quietly.

"What?" Brax asked.

"Gran and I had a fight, okay?" Lilly exclaimed. "I don't understand why you sent me to live with her, she's awful! She was drinking and gambling all the time. It was so horrible!"

"Why didn't you tell me?" Brax asked. "You can tell me anything, you know that Lil."

Lilly could feel herself softening when he called her Lil. "I didn't want to stress you out."

Brax sighed. "You're my daughter Lilly."

"We had a fight, and I decided that I would leave, and she sprouted some crap about how you wouldn't want me and how I won't be able to go crawling back to her if you didn't want me."

"Of course I want you Lil, she was wrong to say that." Brax told his sixteen year old daughter.

^..^

Charlie was sitting at the dining table, nursing a cup of hot chocolate. It was late and everyone else in the house had gone to bed, but she couldn't sleep. She was too restless after what had happened. She knew Brax had a past but she had no idea that he had a daughter. A knock on the door disturbed her from her thoughts and she sighed, having a pretty good idea of who it would be. Wrapping her grey dressing gown tighter around herself, she walked to the door and opened it.

"Hey," Brax said. "Can we talk?"

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