Paige quickly hid the papers from Emily's sight. Emily knew who the person in the picture was; it was her dad-covered blood.
'Emily, I didn't realise it was you, are you okay sweetie?' Paige gave her a little smile, hoping it will erase Emily's scared look off her face.
'I saw blood, on daddy's face, he didn't look so good' Emily looked at Paige with sad eyes.
'It's okay sweetie, it's not real blood. It was part of a cover your daddy had to do. The blood is fake. If you want I can show you the fake blood we used?' Paige smiled. Emily started to relax and sat next to Paige on her bed. She asked Paige if she could look at the picture properly. After realising it was fake blood Emily gave a little giggle. Mike heard Emily giggling and wondered what they were talking about.
'Hey, what you girls giggling about, I hope it's not about me'.
Emily held up the picture of Mike covered in blood.
'Hey, you weren't suppose to see that. Paige shouldn't of let you see that'. Mike gave Paige a seriously look.
'Sorry Mike she came into my room and saw the picture, she looked scared so I explained to her what it is'.
'Okay, that's fare. Emily I have to go now baby so you promise you will be good for Paigey and do what she says?' Emily nodded and gave Mike the biggest hug and kiss before he left the room.
1pm Mike came home to find the house empty. He knew that there is usually someone home for lunch. Most of the time it's Charlie making sandwiches for everybody but today no one was to be seen. Then he heard a noise coming from the costume room. He opened the door slowly because he wasn't ready for what he was about to witness.
'WHAT THE HELL' Mike shouted.
In the costume room stood the other 6 house members dressed in scraggy clothes looking like a cross between a homeless person and a hip-hop gangster. Emily had sparkly sunglasses on; she turned round and saw Mike. Mike saw the bright make-up on her face and wasn't amused.
'Paige, what the hell is going on? I only left you for 5 hours and you managed to turn my daughter into a drugged up, gangster Barbie.' Mike pulled Emily out of the costume room and took her into the bathroom. He washed all the make-up off her face and changed her clothes into normal 5-year-old girl clothes.
'Mike we were just having a bit of fun. It was actually Emily's idea. I said to her that I was going to show her the fake blood you had on your face but she thought of a better idea;
'We should all dress up in silly clothes and dance around the house'. Is what she said to me. Don't be mad at her Mike, she just wanted to have a bit of fun. Fun is hard to come by when you're stuck in a house with 6 adults who live in an undercover world.' Mike just sat on his bed nodding and then he remembered something.
'I have an idea. I just remembered that it's Emily's birthday in a month, we can do something fun then, all of us.' They smiled at each other.
'Oh, I didn't know her birthday was so soon.'
'Yep October 7th, 2 weeks before mine.' Mike smiled and left the room.
When Mike got downstairs he saw Emily drawing and the others making their own sandwiches.
'Hey anybody going to make me and Emily a sandwich?' Mike asked everyone hanging around in the kitchen. They all stopped and looked.
'No, we made Emily a sandwich, you have to make your own.' Johnny said to Mike and carried on with his lunch.
'Look guys I'm sorry I snapped, I had a rough day and I was just hoping to come back to a sane house'. Mike started to make himself a sandwich. Everyone moved around the kitchen doing there own thing. Johnny put his plate in the sink and ran upstairs; Charlie and Paige were talking about cases. Jakes opened the fridge and noticed his milk nearly empty.
'Who's been drinking my milk?' Everyone looked at each other.
'Oh no'. Emily said to herself from the living room.
'That was me, sorry man I was just thirsty and it was the first thing I saw'. Mike lied. He looked over at Emily and winked.
'Okay man, but you got to buy me some more and next time buy Emily her own milk.' Jakes shut the fridge door and went upstairs.
Mike looked at Briggs. Briggs knew Emily had drunk Jakes milk.
'Sorry Mike, that was my fault, I let her drink it.' Briggs apologized.
'No you didn't. I got it myself. It was the only thing I could reach.' Emily walked into the kitchen and stood next to Mike was sitting on a stool at the island. Mike picked her up and put her on his lap.
'It's okay sweetie, Jakes isn't mad at you.' Mike gave he a kiss on the cheek and cuddled her.
'Now, how about we talk about little Emily's birthday here.' Mike looked up at everyone and grinned widely.
A/N: Sorry about the late update but my work schedule is intense. Thank you everyone for following my story.
