A/N: SPOILER ALERT! and I also decided to make this a few weeks after the kiss, to space things out a bit... It doesn't start right where the show left off.
*BAY POV*
I admit it, I was nervous. Actually, I was more nervous now than when I got arrested, or when I brought Ty home. Not only did I skip school, I was coming home late with Emmett and his mom in tow. So I decided on the best plan of action: ringing the doorbell. No matter how much trouble I would get in, my parents never answered the doorbell, they always made me or Toby get it. And even if they were seething about what happened today, Toby was in much hotter water. I rang the doorbell and signed to Emmett and his mom to stay back. The door opened, and - what a shock - it was Toby.
"Mom and Dad haven't even noticed you were gone."
"Seriously?"
"Dead serious. They were too mad about the whole Regina thing to even realize you skipped out with Emmett."
"Wait, how'd you know that?"
"Wilke saw, he told me."
"Oh, ok. Emmett and his mom are here. Melody wants to give Regina a piece of her mind."
I signed for Emmett and Mrs. Bledsoe to get out of the car. Toby's learned a lot about Deaf culture and knows that it's disrespectful to talk about someone in the third person if they're actually there. "Melody, you know where Regina's door is, she's home. And Emmett! Nice seeing you here bro! Come on in."
I signed for Melody, "He means that you can come in too. I'm sure my parents would like to talk to you."
We followed Toby through the kitchen and into the den, where my parents were sitting watching TV and drinking wine. Toby was the first one to talk. "Mom, Dad, someone's here to see you. Well, and Bay brought home a boy."
My mom just rolled her eyes, but her face brightened when she saw it was Emmett and his mom. My mom's getting better with her signing too, so she signed "Are you here about Regina?"
Melody gave my mother a knowing look and nodded her head yes. The anger in both of their eyes was what connected them at that moment, and honestly it looked like the two of them were about to start a massacre right there in our den. I squeezed Emmett's arm and he gave me a little kiss on the cheek. In the blink of an eye, both my mother and Melody were stomping off with Toby to Regina's to tell her off about the mess she had gotten us all into.
My dad walked over to the cupboard, the one he kept his baseball stuff in, and he grabbed a baseball. Not just any baseball, but the one he had scored his first major-league homer with. He handed it to Emmett and said, "I want you to have this."
Emmett's mouth dropped open. He signed "Thank you" but his face was still in a confused expression. He mouthed "But why?"
"Because I know that you know how to treat my daughters, both of them, right. Toby told me what you did for Bay today, and that right there won me over."
Emmett then turned to me and signed, "Do you think we should tell your dad we're... official?" I nodded yes, but then signed "After the Regina drama's over."
*DAPHNE POV*
I was still in a state of shock. I had faked being sick so I didn't have to deal with crying in front of Emmett. He was the only one who had seen me cry, and that was when I was eight. I always tried to keep a happy face on, even during the toughest of times. Even when Bay made me break up with Liam, I had kept my cool. But today, I'd reached my breaking point. My mother, who I loved with all my heart, had known about Bay for all those years. She knew I wasn't her real daughter. And she never told me or Bay that she knew. It just hurt to think about.
I saw the flashing lights of the doorbell, so I got up off the couch and answered it. It was Kathryn, Toby, and Melody, and they all had rage in their eyes. Melody signed, "We're here to see Regina."
"She's here." I signed angrily.
"How could she have known?"
"I don't know. Ask her. She's back in her bedroom with Adriana." The enraged threesome walked into the house, up the stairs and down the hall to Regina's bedroom.
*TOBY POV*
Regina. I had put my trust in her to get away from the table, and she reached out and helped. She was the "cool mom" that everyone else wanted... Until this morning. It was time for the little liar to get a taste of her own medicine.
I walked through her door and saw her practicing Tai Chi with Adriana, but before I could say anything, Emmett's mom stomped her foot to get their attention and started signing rapidly and angrily.
"I thought you were my best friend, and you lied to me, your daughters, Emmett, John & Kathryn, Toby, everyone. Even your own mother. You disgust me."
Regina saw the anger in mine and my mom's eyes so she started speaking while signing. "I thought it would be best. Bay was having a good life, and I was giving Daphne the best I could. And when we moved in with you, I thought I could put that all behind me. But I guess it caught up with me."
It was then that I snapped. "You gave me help, you told me how important that it was for me to stop gambling, and here you are, you have an addiction yourself, you creepy stalker! I understand you gave birth to my sister, but you had NO right to barge in on our private lives time after time after time. Maybe this whole situation would have been avoided if you hadn't gone in yourself and switched the babies!"
My mom slapped me. "Toby! I get that you're mad, but you can't just accuse Regina of switching Bay and Daphne. And Regina, seriously. You thought it was best? Best for who? Best for Bay and Daphne to get the shock of their lives sixteen years later? Best for us, who never got to know Daphne until now? Best for Emmett and Melody, who are caught in the middle of all this drama? Best for your own MOTHER, who gave all she had to raise a granddaughter that wasn't hers and graciously accepted Bay when she met her? You lied to us, and we don't stand for that. Toby, Melody, let's go."
Melody and my mom left, so I decided to go talk to Daphne, but all she wanted to say was, "Go away."
"This is just as hard on me as it is on you and Bay."
"In your dreams. You weren't switched at birth."
"But I've had to watch everything that's gone on between you and Bay, and I even let myself get close to your mom. She helped me quit gambling."
"I guess you might be right."
All of a sudden, I heard a half-honk of a car horn, and a door slamming, and feet running. Then I saw the doorbell flash, so I opened the door. It was Wilke.
"Here to see Daphne?"
"Yeah."
I signed to Daphne. "Wilke, can he come in?" When she gave the OK, I let him in, and Daphne got up and gave him a huge hug. As soon as she reached her arms out, Wilke pulled something out from behind his back. It was a bouquet of flowers.
*EMMETT POV*
I was cuddling up with Bay on the couch watching Transformers with the captions on, and I felt my phone vibrate again. I reached into my sweatshirt pocket and opened the text. It was from Toby. WILKE'S HERE WITH DAPH. AND UR MOMS PISSED. Uh oh. An angry Mom could only mean one thing: Talking with Regina didn't go over so well.
Bay leaned over and signed, "Everything OK?"
"Daphne's with Wilke, and things aren't looking good with Regina."
"Wilke? Toby's friend?"
I nodded my head yes.
Bay looked confused for a second, so I paused the movie and leaned in for another kiss!
Added some Daphne/Wilke for you and a bit of Toby action. Not a lot of Bemmett in this chapter, but I had to get the Regina confrontation in there. Opinions on the John & Emmett scene? Reviews would be nice!
