Daddy's Not So Little Princess
Chapter 3
The weekend had flown by slowly for Lucas. Anna had only come out of her room twice the whole weekend. She didn't even talk to him. He was the one that should be mad. She had broken the rules.
When he walked into the kitchen Monday morning he was surprised to see Anna was already up and eating breakfast. It was usually a battle to get her up and ready in the morning.
"Good morning," he said slowly. He wasn't sure how her attitude was going to be. He never really did know about Anna. She was a lot like Peyton in that way.
"Good morning," she said rather cheery.
Lucas was surprised by that too. "You're up early."
"I'm riding to school with Aunt Haley this morning."
"I thought I was going to take you."
"Yeah well I called Aunt Haley, and she said that she would take me today."
Lucas smirked, "So you're still mad at me."
"I'm not mad at you dad. I just want to ride with Aunt Haley." She really wished he wouldn't ask so many questions all the time.
"Okay…" Lucas poured him a bowl of cereal. "I wanted to apologize for overreacting."
"I can't believe you are admitting that you overreacted."
"I just worry about you Anna. It is my job to protect you."
"You can't protect me from everything."
"I can try." Lucas told her.
Anna rolled her eyes. "Does your apology mean that I'm not grounded anymore? Because this weekend sucked."
"I am sorry for overreacting, but you still lied to me."
"Come on dad," she gave him the puppy dog face.
"Fine…" He decided to give in. He hoped that she had learned her lesson.
She heard the horn blow signaling that it was her Aunt Haley. "I got to go. Thank you so much dad. You won't regret it."
"I better not." Lucas gave her a hug and she ran out of the house. He had his hands full with her.
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Haley and Anna were almost to school. Her kids had ridden with Nathan. They didn't get to spend much time with him because he was always so busy.
"So your dad said that you were grounded."
"He ungrounded me. Thank God…I didn't even really do anything wrong."
"That's not what your dad said."
"My dad overreacts all the time."
"That's because he wants to protect you."
"Have you guys been taking notes?" Anna laughed. "I know he loves me, but I'm fifteen I need my space."
"I know, but please try to stay out of trouble."
"I'm gonna be an angel from now on. I promise."
Haley laughed. She knew that promise wouldn't last for long.
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Lucas walks into his office to see Nathan waiting on him. "What are you doing here?"
"I dropped the kids off this morning. Haley wanted sometime with Anna."
"Oh…Maybe Haley did her some good."
"Are you guys having trouble?"
"She's just growing up so fast. I feel like I'm losing her."
"She's fifteen Luke."
Lucas sighed, "I know…believe me I know. I just wish that Peyton was here. I need her."
Nathan nodded his head, "You know Lucas you are probably the strongest guy that I know. I don't know how you have done it all these years without Peyton, but you have, and you have done a brilliant job with her. Anna is a good kid, and you have all those videos Peyton left you. Doesn't it make it feel like she is still kind of here?"
He nodded, "Yeah…you know I yelled at her for making those videos. I was such a jackass."
"Yeah well Peyton loved you anyway."
"Yeah and I loved her too."
Nathan looked at the picture that Lucas kept on his coaching desk. "It may not always be easy Lucas, but just know that you have Haley and me, and you always will."
Lucas nodded and looked at the picture of Peyton.
"And you know Lucas I think that Peyton would be okay if you dated someone."
Lucas shook his head. They were always on his case to date someone. "I have tried. There is just no one that amounts to Peyton. I still love her so much."
"Yeah but you've got to move on."
"I know Nathan, and I'm trying."
"Keep trying….There has to be someone else out there for you."
"I know you guys don't think I'm happy, but I am. I don't need a woman to make me happy."
"But it helps….I'm sorry. I know you think I'm a nag, and that is usually Haley's department, but I want you to be happy."
"I am…" Lucas tried to convince him, but they both knew that something was missing in his life.
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Anna is at her locker grabbing one of her books when Josh comes to her locker. "Hey…I'm sorry about last night."
She shook her head. "I don't want to hear it. I had to call my dad because you were too drunk to care."
"Come on babe…give me another chance."
"You don't deserve another chance. I really care about you Josh, but I just don't want to put up with it anymore. I deserve better than that." She walked off, and one of his friends joined him.
"So she wouldn't take you back?"
"No…"
"You're going to lose the bet." His friend informed him.
"I'm not going to lose the bet. Anna Scott will sleep with me before the semester is over whether she wants too or not." Josh was sure of it.
Okay so this chapter was supposed to be much longer, but I felt like it should just end here, and the next chapter will have kind of what was supposed to happen at the end of this one. That probably doesn't make any sense. I'm sorry.
I'm sorry for the lack of updates. I wanted to get done with my other story before I started focusing on this one. There should be regular updates now. Hopefully one every other day if not every day.
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