Birthday Surprises
I walked into the room, "hey dad," I said as I put my bag down and my coat on the rack, looking up as two male voices answered me.
"Hey sweetie," I laughed, walked over to them and kissed them both on the cheek. They had a really annoying habit of speaking together, at points where it was completely unnecessary. It really bugged me when they did it, and they knew that as well, that's why they carried on. "Good day?" Jack asked me.
"Would've been so much better if everybody left me alone for like two seconds about having two dads." Nope, you didn't read that wrong I do have two dads. When I was two, my mum decided to put me up for adoption, don't ask why, no one knew then, or knows now, she just did. So two super cool guys, Jack Harkness and IantoJonesadopted me. Jack was 20 and Ianto was 18, and now, they are the best parents a 14 year old girl could ever ask for. So what, they are married, well, civil partnership, and are two guys, I love them to bits, almost literally.
Jack is a tall, slim guy, with a slight tan and an American accent, for no reason at all. He's actually Scottish, weird or what, so what the hell is he doing in Cardiff, especially with Ianto. Ianto Jones, tall, dark and handsome, according to Jack. Welsh through and through, and we're attempting to teach Jack welsh, I'm welsh too, in case you hadn't guessed. They are amazing, both of them
Then you've got little, short old me. Boring girl with brown hair cut into a bob, but shorter at the back, layered, with a very slight fringe. I sing, and play the piano, but I'm really boring, to be honest. If someone said to tell them an interesting fact about me, I would be hard pushed to find one, my most interesting facts are that I was raised by two gay guys, and that they were, and still are in the amazing, and completely top secret, but not so secret anymore Torchwood. It's not as interesting as you'd think, I mean, sure, I get to help them out during the school holidays, but when I'm at school, I'm at school, and mustn't worry about anything Torchwood. Dad says, that when I leave school, I can join, as long as they aren't there, they'd worry about me too much and then I'd not be allowed to do anything. The rest of the guys are like my uncles, well, Rhys is my uncle, by law, as he is Jack's brother, it's quite cool, if I ever need anything, I just ask Rhys, or Owen for it, especially if Jack and Ianto have said no. Before you say anything, I haven't just been raised around males, oh no, there's always Rhys' wife Gwen, Owens fiancé Tosh, Jack and Rhys' sister Kat, and of course, my three best friends Evanna (Ev), Kelli, (Kel) and Rachael (Rach). There is also my boyfriend, Zac, a legend if ever there was one.
"What ya doin'?" Jack asked as he walked into my room without knocking, he really bugs me sometimes. I jumped as he sat down next to me on my bed, and I hurriedly shoved my book under my pillow; it wasn't that I never wanted him to see it, just not yet. It was a surprise for his birthday, which was two weeks away, but I wasn't nearly finished, it's our life story, from when I was brought into the Harkness-Jones family. Ianto has obviously helped me with it, I can't remember anything from when I was two, hello, I was two for Christ's sake.
"Not much, ya know, reading, writing, revising, but I can't really revise when you are here stopping me, do you want be to fail this stupid science exam?" I asked in a really patronising voice, he hated it if I failed any exams, it would so obviously persuade him to leave, I hoped.
"Right, so if you are just revising, why did you hide it as soon as I walked into the room? Come on, you can tell me, can't you, little old me." I laughed when he said this, old, nope, 34, that is not old, little, he's like literally twice my height, there is no way he is little.
"Nope, I refuse; now get out of my room." Oh dear, now I'm in trouble, that sounded ruder than I meant it too. He looked at me in disgust; I was in so much trouble. "Please" I said in my sweetest voice, hoping that he would understand the mistake. Thankfully, he did.
"Okay Storm, dinner in 10 minutes, no longer, Owen, Tosh, Rhys and Gwen are coming round, okay, they want to see you as I haven't let you near the hub in like two months, or that's what they told me." I smiled at him as he walked out of my room and downstairs to the guests, I wouldn't be long, I just had one more page to finish tonight, and it was a long one. As soon as dad had left my room, I jumped up and locked my door that would stop him just walking in on me. He did annoy me sometimes, always checking up on me to make sure that I wasn't doing anything stupid, like laying on the laptop they'd bought me for my birthday so that I didn't spend all my time on the house computer downstairs. Jack checked up on me most, Ianto just left me to my own devices, most of the time, unless Jack was at work, or away somewhere, then we'd sit and talk, or watch a film, something fun, and he'd check up on more often that entirely necessary, I think he just gets lonely when Jack isn't here, we all do.
Jack doesn't seem to understand that when he leaves, Ianto needs to know that he's ok, that he got there, and even when I tell him to call us, he never does, it worries Ianto to bits, me too, I can't lose him, I've already lost one family, I can't lose another, I love them too much. I think, Jack not calling, makes Ianto think there's something else going on between Jack and someone else, sometimes I'll ring Jack, just to comfort Ianto, and I'll tell Jack off for not calling, and he'll promise that he'll call again, but he always forgets, its just a Jack thing.