Sorry for not updating people,
i've been busy having last minute studying for my year ends.
now, there's only the physics, chemistry and biology papers left (phew)

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herbieunloaded

"You! What're you doing here?" Ally was just about to step into the house when she saw the stranger who was sitting on the couch, wringing his hands nervously. Looking from Mr Baxton to the other four people looking at them nervously from the kitchen, she shot them a glare while Dougie motioned for them to get out of the house, so as to allow the both of them to talk.

"Ehh, we'll just be outside, and yeah, when you need help just err… scream?" Dougie said, earning a slap on the hand by Rachel.

"She'll not be screaming you twat." She said to Dougie who was looking sheepishly at them and nodded his head. Rachel then turned towards Mr Baxton and Ally.

"We'll just be outside, doing what we're supposed to do." She then walked over to Ally and gave her a hug, "Have a good talk with him, hun." She then smiled at her and turned towards the door, pushing the rest of them while Dougie walked out the last. Before he walked out of the door, he turned around and gave her a reassuring smile. With that, the door closed with a snap and the tension between Mr Baxton and Ally heightened quickly.

"So," Ally started and walked into the kitchen then pulled out two clean glasses from the dish rack before disappearing behind the refrigerator. Sensing no response from the other party, Ally rolled her eyes in annoyance and pulled out a bottle of coke.

"Alright, seeing you're not gonna reply me anytime soon, I'm just gonna get straight to the point. What the bloody hell do you want?" she said, and poured herself and Mr Baxton a glass of coke as the fizzy drink created foams and died down gradually. She screwed the cap back onto the bottle neck and swore she heard something from Mr Baxton. Disappearing back behind the refrigerator, she placed the bottle of coke back into the refrigerator and stood up again, holding the two glasses.

"Pardon? Didn't catch that." Ally replied as politely as she could and walked into the living room. She passed the glass of fizzy drink to Mr Baxton who took it nervously and she could see a ring on his ring finger and realized it was similar to the design of her mother's own ring. This can't really be happening to me, she thought grudgingly while making herself comfortable on the couch.

"How have you been all these years?" Mr Baxton finally spoke up after a few minutes of awkward silence that hung mercilessly between them. He looked from his drink and at Ally who was now, frowning slightly at his question.

"I've been better, ever since I met Dougie. At least I've got someone who I could care about and be cared about too." She frowned deeper this time. Better? Who the hell am I kidding?

"Really? He looks like he loves you a lot." Mr Baxton smiled while Ally just grunted in reply. He sighed and continue, "Mily, I'm really sorry, for not being there for you, as a father," Mr Baxton held a begging looks in his hazel green eyes while Ally tried hard to blink back the tears of anger that had built up inside her all these years.

(A/N: sorry people, I kinda messed up my story. I said Ally's best friend was Rachel who had lived in London. But later, I said Ally was actually living in California even before she was born. So, I'm terribly sorry about this. It just goes shows what a bad writer I am. Just wished to clear everything up. On with the story.)

"No, don't say you're sorry," Ally cut across him and shot him a glare, "because you're not sorry at all. You're saying it for the sake of saying it. If you were sorry, you would have looked for me all these years. You could, but you didn't."

"I didn't even know about me having a daughter! That is, not until recently, when my uncle just passed away. That jerk kept you from me all these years. He kept you a secret when he sent your mother away from me." Mr Baxton's voice was now cracking slightly and he was sweating profusely.

"And why the hell would he do that? Enlighten me, please." Ally's voice dripped with sarcasm, but Mr Baxton either chose to ignore it, or he really was way too nervous to notice it.

"Because he told me your mother was after my inheritance when I first married her. That bastard I called uncle told me your mother married me only because I was rich, and that she was planning to elope with another guy when she got hold of part of it. I was stupid, and believed him, not knowing I was sending the person I love and my own child away." after hearing this, Ally looked up and saw tears brimming in Mr Baxton's eyes.

"But why didn't you come look for me? You had time, you had the money, so why didn't you? You never knew how the kids there looked at me. I was a fatherless child, an unwanted girl. They didn't mix with me and they despised me. No one wanted me." At that, the tears that had filled up Ally's eyes began to flow continuously.

"You're not unwanted, Mily. I've been searching for you ever since I found out I had a daughter. I hired investigators to help me comb California after I read a letter from your mother when you were just born. But the letter was kept by my uncle who didn't want me to look read the letter. That was how I found out about you and your name. Then, I read another letter from your grandmother, Francesca, about the accident." Mr Baxton's voice was now thick with emotion as Ally continued to sob with her head hung low.

"From then, I decided I HAD to find you. But the investigators had found nothing. But the fact that Francesca gave you your mother's ring, the one I gave to her, before she died. I missed your mother, I really do. And I'm terribly sorry I wasn't there, when she… alright, I'm sure you'll want me to leave now. So I'll just go." Mr Baxton's voice faded away while tears began to drop from his own eyes too. He stood up and got ready to head to the door when in a flash, Ally stood up too and strolled up to him and hugged him tightly, as though he was her lifeline.

"Daddy," Ally croaked and tears began to fall quick and fast from her eyes, "I've wanted to call you this so very much."

Stunned by her actions, Mr Baxton took a second to respond. He lifted his own hands and hugged her back, as tightly as he could and smoothed down her hair.

"You never knew how much I wanted to smooth down your hair too, my darling little Miss Smiley." Ally smiled bashfully at this.

"Momma and grandmamma called me this and Mily too," she smiled and turned to see the five heads that were poking in through the window tentatively, and sniggered.

"I was hoping to get some privacy with my dad." She said aloud, and winked at Mr Baxton when he looked at her in confusion. Nodding her head towards the window, he shook his head and smiled when he noticed the 'intruders', as the five of them gasped in surprise and banged their head into each others' when they were panicking at being caught. In less than a second, they disappeared into the backyard.

"I missed mommy and grandmamma a lot. Really." Ally smiled sadly and looked up at her dad who was smiling fondly at her.

"It's okay now. I've found you, that's all that matters. Since I've found you, why don't you come over and live with me? I'm getting rather lonely in that big house." Mr Baxton suggested while his eyes roamed through the pictures of Ally and Rachel that hung on the walls.

Instead of nodding her head, Ally shook her head and added quickly when she saw Mr Baxton's face. "No, no, it's not that I don't wish to stay with you, I just wanna stay with Rachel for awhile. Anyways, this place is where I spent most of my time here in London."

"I see, then that's alright. Why don't you come over to the company? I'm pretty sure I've got a job for you here." He suggested again and looked at one of her trophies that were arranged on the shelves, "You came in first in a singing contest?" like Dougie, Mr Baxton was looking at her in surprise as Ally nodded and laughed.

"What job are you offering? I've not got any skills y'know. Except for well, advertising and marketing." She shrugged and looked embarrassed. She had taken up these two courses, but her current job requires none, being a waitress and all.

"That's good enough; I'll need you to take over the company in the future, so you'll have to be training. I'll just assign you one of my marketing department to guide you, I'm sure you can pick up in time." Mr Baxton said and took a look at his watch, "Ahh, it's getting late. I shall get going. Have a nice day, sweetheart." Ally smiled at being called a sweetheart by her father. She had longed for this day and finally it is happening. They walked out of the door with Ally still grinning madly and said a goodbye to him.

"Why don't you call me when you're ready to come over? I'll assign someone to help arrange your stuffs." Mr Baxton turned around and said before he stepped into his car.

"That's fine. Bye daddy." Ally nodded and smiled while Rachel and the rest of the boys waved him goodbye.

When the car was out of sight, Rachel rushed forward and pulled Ally into a big hug while Dougie just walked over stood beside her, smiling all the time.

"So? How was it?" Rachel pulled away from Ally and asked.

"We patched up." Rachel gave a shriek while Dougie just smirked at her. "And what're you smirking at?" Ally turned to face Dougie and link her hands into his.

"I toldcha you shoulda talked it out with him. I was so right. Behold, the great Dougie Poynter, sex machine of the universe!" Dougie declared in a low and loud voice, causing Ally to laugh out quite loudly too.

"Yeah right, Doug. After me that is." Danny shouted from the other end of the yard and made Dougie scowl at him while Rachel walked over to Danny and gave him a kiss on the cheek.

"Oh c'mon, just share that title with me for once." Dougie whined and folded his arms across his chest. Ally reached up and kissed Dougie on the lips and murmured, her hot breath tickling him.

"You're MY sexiest guy of the universe." With that, Dougie's eyes lit up as he started jumping up in glee.

"Woohoo! I'm Ally's sexiest guy! Woohooooooooo! Take that Danny Jones."

"Shut up, Doug." Danny tackled Dougie to the ground and started a mock fight, sending fake fists to each other's face and narrowly 'missing' it by inches.

"Boys." Both Ally and Rachel sighed before bursting out laughing at each other.

"Hey, hey! break it up!" Tom shouted across the commotion. Sensing no stopping from the two, he sighed and turned to the girls. "Me and Harry's gonna get going now, Giovanna and Giselle's waiting for us. We'll see you two soon then."

"Alright. Bye!" the girls watched Tom and Harry casts one last amused look at Danny and Dougie, shook their heads and walked out of the yard.

"Let's go watch some show. Let the 'kids' here stop fighting by themselves. It's getting boring watching them mess up my backyard." Ally spoke loudly, so as to capture the attention of Danny and Dougie, but to no avail. She rolled her eyes again, a habit she has come to have recently and walked into the house followed by Rachel.

After a few moments, Danny and Dougie finally stopped their tussle and panted exhaustingly when Dougie realized that the backyard was empty apart from the both of them.

"Where's the others?" Danny asked, also noticing the emptiness of the yard. Shrugging, Dougie stood up, straightened his clothes and walked in the direction of the house.

"I think they're in there. I can hear sounds." They crept through the door to see the television on. Walking nearer for a better view, Danny and Dougie covered their mouths to stop the chuckles that were about to burst out at the sight before them.

Ally and Rachel were curled up on the sofa with their heads leaning against each other, sleeping rather peacefully. Danny and Dougie looked at each other and smiled before Danny signaled to carry Rachel up to her own room. He stepped across the room carefully and wrapped his arms around Rachel before stopping for a split moment when the girls began to mumble and shift slightly. When Danny noticed they stopped moving, he pulled Rachel up and carried her bridal style up the stairs, but not before sending Dougie a wink.

"Dirty minded twat." He mumbled and walked across the room to join Ally on the sofa. He sat down slowly and pulled her into his chest, taking in her vanilla scent. Smiling to himself, he closed his eyes and soon, drifted into a peaceful sleep, not knowing what was to happen tomorrow.

there you have it.
can't wait to finish this story.
i've already got a sequel coming up.
but i'm facing some problems, seems that it was similar to another author's :X
so should i continue with it?

CHEERIOS.