Chapter 14

Ally's POV

"We need to get Ell, his mom, Mikey and Jess to pack up everything that's moveable and will fit in a penthouse suite."

"Wait. Penthouse?" Rydel asks clearly confused.

"Yeah, I know me and my dad aren't exactly on speaking terms but I'm sure once he knows the reason we need it he'll agree. He can be cold but he's not heartless. But this will only work if John definitely won't be back for at least two days." I explain.

"Wait and I'll phone him."

"Put him on speaker. I'll hopefully explain it in more detail."

"Sure."

"Hey Delly, what's up?" Ellington says sounding rather worried.

"I was just wondering, has John been in touch?" Rydel says.

"No but my mom says that when and if he comes back it won't be for at least a week or two, a month tops."

"That's perfect, me and Ally, well Ally has a plan to keep your mom and Mikey and Jess safe. It might take a while though. Baby I'm so sorry I told her without asking you but she overheard us earlier."

"It's fine, she's basically family now anyway so I would have told her eventually."

"Woah, hold your horses there Ratliff. It's only been less than a week, I'm not quite family status yet but thank you any way. So do you want to know the plan?"

"Hell yeah, shoot."

"So as you know my dad owns The Dawson Hotel. Well I was thinking I could talk to him and see if I could get him to let your mom, Mikey, Jess and you, if you want, to stay in the penthouse opposite my dad's."

"Do you really think he'd be okay with that?" Ratliff asks.

"Once he knows the cause I'm sure he'll be fine with it."

"Okay, what do we need to do?"

"Just pack up your things, as much as you can."

"We could get everything in the people carrier." Rydel offers.

"Sounds great, will you be able to be packed up by tomorrow night?"

"Should be, thank you so much Ally."

"It's no problem. I'll go talk to my dad first thing tomorrow."

"Okay, I'll start packing now. Bye Ally, bye baby."

"Bye babe." Rydel says as she hangs up the phone.

"So you've been here one day and you've already solved a problem we've has for years." Ry says with a slight hint of jealousy in her voice.

"I would have done it for anyone." I say honestly.

"You would've done what for anyone?" Rocky asks as him and Riker come through from the den.

"I have a plan to help Ratliff and his family-they'll stay at my dad's hotel and hopefully John won't be back for a few weeks. Then we can work from there."

"Wow, that's great. Hopefully Ratliff gets back to his old self-I mean he has his good days more often than not but he has the occasional day where he's just not himself. Ry I'm sure you'll notice mire than any of us." Riker admits and I see tears welling up in Rydel's eyes.

"Ry what's up? I'm sorry I didn't realise it would upset you." Riker says looking and sounding worried as hell.

"I'm fine just a bit emotional. Ally do you mind staying up to talk, normally I'd ask Ash but she's otherwise occupied-literally." She says with a slight smile.

"Sure." I say with a soft smile.

"Well I'm off to bed, cheer up sis. You know I hate seeing you upset-we all hate it." Rocky says while giving her an awkward hug over the breakfast bar. "Night."

"Night."

"I think I'll hit the hay too. Night Ry, night Als."

"Night."

"Night." I half shout as he makes his way out the kitchen. "So what's up?" I say turning to Rydel.

"We'll we've talked about our future basically since we got together. Like how we would get married and have babies, but now that the time for all that's coming near-I'm scared. I'm scared he's forgotten all our plans and that eventually he'll forget about me. All his time lately has been focusing on the tour and the whole John situation. He hasn't proposed yet and he hasn't even dropped any hint. We always said we'd be engaged by the time we were 20-he's already 20. And then there's the whole baby thing-I guess that's out the window since he has two babies at home to look after. I just, I want to be a mommy-I want someone waking me up by jumping on my bed and shouting 'mommy, daddy wake up!' I want Ell, the old Ell." She says now full on sobbing.

"Can you not see that you're his world, fuck you're more than his world, you're his everything. I can tell by the way he looks at you, the way he smiles whenever you're around. Just because he's got other things on his mind doesn't mean he's forgotten about you or your future together. You'll have that wedding and the baby or babies and you and Ell are going to be amazing parents. Just wait. It'll happen and it'll be amazing." About halfway through our little heart to heart Ellington walked through the front door then moved to lean against the wall of the arch which is used as the entrance to the kitchen. "But you don't need to hear it from me, you should hear it from him." I say nodding towards Ellington.

"Thanks Ally." He says before walking towards Rydel and holding her hands in his. "Rydel, I love you more that anything, I love you so much it scares me. I'm so scared of losing you. I'm scared that when I become a dad that I won't be good enough. I'm scared that right now," he pauses, gets down on one knee and lets go of one of Rydel's hands to go into his pocket to take out a small blue box. "When I ask you-Rydel Mary Lynch, to be my wife, that you'll say now because you-"

"You're an idiot. Yes! In every language, yes." Ry says while tears stream down her face. Ratliff stands up, opens the box and places one of the most beautiful rings I have ever seen on her finger.

"Ratliff there's something you should know." Grinning from ear to ear yet still crying. "We're gonna have to wait at least 9 months before you can walk me down the aisle." Now tears are forming in my eyes.

"You're pregnant? You're pregnant. We're gonna have a baby. We're gonna be a family!" He says spinning her around. I hope Austin will be as happy when we have children. Wait what? We haven't even been dating for a week and I'm already talking, well thinking about kids. Something I never once thought about when I was with Dallas.

"Well Ally looks like you're the first to know." Ry says. Shit, so I am.

"Apart from your mom and dad-had to ask permission first."

"That's so cute. Congratulations!" I say going over to hug them both.

"Thank you, now me and my fiancée should be getting to bed."

"I'll remember to put my earplugs in. I mean with you too on one side and Ashley and Elliot on the other side. I'm stuck in the middle of a fuck-fest."

"We'll try to keep it down but my fiancé is very good at what he does." Rydel says with a wink as she and Ratliff leave the kitchen and walk upstairs.

Checking the time on the oven I realise it's 1am, which means my baby will be home soon. Wait a minute Ryland isn't back from his date yet. Aw well he's a smart boy I'm sure he'll be fine. I head upstairs and try to black out the moans and groans from the rooms either side of me. I check my phone and see that Austin text me about 5 minutes ago saying that he'd be back at 20 past. Perfect, that leaves me just enough time to write him a note and start a bath. Tonight is gonna be great.

I feel terrible I haven't updated for a month...a whole month. I am a terrible person. I just realised it's chapter 14 and the stories moved on a week...whaaaaat? I'll try and work on that. Also if you read the authors notes then you'll know I'm Scottish so obviously I use different words than American, Canadian, Australian even English, Welsh and Irish, so yeah if you don't know what something means just PM or review and I'll get back to you. I've tried to change the spellings of words to the way Americans would spell it cause I know that's who mainly reads this. Again I apologise for making you wait so long-I know I hate it when I'm reading a story and it's ages before they get updated. As always if you liked it, didn't like it, loved it, hated it, review and let me know.