AN:
I do not own anything concerning the show.
Welcome back to Things happen!
There is a Lope scene in this chapter. Don't like it? Skip to the next part.
This chapter is heavily focused on Tridge, Steric and Steric´s kids(stepchildren included)
Things happen
Chapter eight
Steffy's car!
After gathering a few things to take with her, Steffy managed to maneuver Kelleigh from the blanket laying on the couch into her car seat with little trouble and right now she was driving from her apartment to the Forrester Mansion to visit with her grandmother.
She was worried that her grandmother wasn't doing to good and she just needed to make sure.
She made the turn onto the driveway leading up to her grandparents house and then parked her car, got out of it and picked up the diaper bag and the carseat containing her daughter. She gives a sigh and then goes and rings the doorbell.
When her mother answers the door she can tell that this situation has drained her mother to a level where she hadn't seen her mother in since she walked out on Nick. It looked like she had no strength left.
But as soon as Taylor laid eyes on the carseat in Steffy´s hand, strength started creeping back and her eyes started sparkling again. Taylor reaches out and takes the diaperbag from her daughter and then gives her daughter a big hug.
"She's upstairs in the bedroom."
Steffy nods her head and starts taking her newly awoken daughter from the carseat. When she has Kelleigh safely in her arms, she starts walking up the stairs to see her grandmother.
She knocks on the door and waits for her grandmother to grant entrance.
"Come in!" Is heard through the door and Steffy opens the door.
What she sees makes her so sad.
"Oh grandma!" She walks over to the bed and places Kelleigh in her great grandmothers arms and then walks over to the other side of the bed and crawls over to her grandmother. "How are you doing?"
"I'm not doing so good, but I am thankful for your mother, you and this little girl!" The love in Stephanies eyes as she looks down in her great granddaughters eyes is undeniable.
"That's why we're here. To take your mind off this whole situation for a little while. I'm so sorry about granddad. I have something I need to talk to you about."
"Really? What's that?" Stephanie turns her head around to look at her granddaughter with curiosity in her eyes.
"For the last two weeks, I've been thinking that I might need a bigger place, but at the moment I don't have the funds to support a house and so I've asked Thomas, Michala and Wyatt if they want to live with me."
"Okey. That's a great idea. Have you been looking for a house yet?"
"We have looked at a few houses, but the last place we looked at wasn't a house, it was a plot and I believe you know it." Steffy looks her grandmother straight into her eyes with a pointed look.
"You mean the one a few streets down?"
"That's the one! We've put in an offer and it was accepted yesterday, now we're looking for an architect and a builder."
"How is Michala doing? I know she was having a hard time after her ex got sent to prison."
"She's starting to feel safe again. Her safety is the other reason why I want to move. She doesn't feel safe in her apartment and having her live with Kelleigh and I again would take up way to much space. Having Thomas and Wyatt there will be an extra safetynet for both her, Kelleigh and I."
"That sounds like a really good plan!" Stephanie turns around and looks at her granddaughter with pride in her eyes. "What's Liam going to think about Wyatt living with the four of you though?"
"He'll understand and if he doesn't, well, that's his problem. He's married to another woman and doesn't get to say who I live with. Wyatt needed a place to live when his lease runs out, I need people to share the costs of living in a house with. Perfect solution. Win win all around. Liam get's to have his wife, I get my house and Wyatt gets a place to live. If Liam doesn't understand, that's not my problem. Anyway, Thomas drew up a sketch for the house while we were talking about it and it seems he's missed his calling. You should've seen what he could do with a piece of paper and pencil."
Steffy sighs.
"He really should've studied to become an architect. Wyatt and Michala agrees with me." Steffy chuckles a little. "Even Kelleigh agreed. Didn't you baby girl?"
At the mention of her name, Kelleigh looks towards her mothers voice and coos like she agrees with Steffy.
"See, she still agrees with me! I know he's good at designing clothes, but that house he drew from my thoughts was amazing. I should've brought it with me."
"I'll see it when I see it!" Steffy can see that her grandmother is losing her energy.
"I was wondering if maybe Kelleigh, Michala and I could live here with you until the house is finished? We want to sell out apartments as soon as possible and I was thinking that Kelleigh and I could spread a little love over here." Steffy watches her grandmother closely.
"Sounds like a good idea, it would make it easier for Thorne, Kristen and Felicia to go home to their families for a while. I feel like I've been taking up to much of their time."
"Oh, grandma, I don't think you should worry about that, if they didn't want to be here, they wouldn't be. Now, is there anything I can do for you?"
"There is actually, could you go downstairs and find Thorne, Kristen and Felicia? I need to talk to them about something."
"Absolutely, do you want me to take Kelleigh with me or do you want her to stay here a little while longer?"
"She can stay here while you go and get your aunts and uncle, then when you get back you can take her while I talk to them."
"Okey. I'll see you in a little bit." Steffy kisses her grandmothers cheek and then crawls off the bed and goes downstairs to talk to her fathers siblings.
She finds them in the office they're remodeling for Eric's sake.
"Hi!" She walks over to all three of them and gives them hugs. "Grandma wanted to see Thorne, Kristen and Felicia about something."
When she stopped talking, she had walked over to her father and gave him a hug too. He looks dissappointed.
"Why didn't she want to see me?"
"I don't know, but she's losing energy fast so we need to go up and I need to collect my baby so you four can talk."
And so all four Forresters walked up the stairs and into Stephanie and Erics bedroom.
"Mom?" Kristen looks at her mother and it seems like Stephanie has aged quite a few years over the last few days and there's confusion in her eyes when she looks up from the baby in her arms. "You wanted to see us?"
Recognition sparks in her eyes and she nods her head for her granddaughter to come and collect the baby laying in her arms.
"We'll come back in a little bit! I'm just gonna go downstairs and check on lunch!" Stephanie nods her head.
Felicia walks over and sits down on the side of the bed and holds her mothers hand in hers.
"Mom?" Felicia looks her mother in the eyes.
"I wanted to see you because I wanted to ask you something. After your father is gone, this house is going to be far to big for me to live in on my own and I wondered what you would think if I were to pass it on to Ridge and Taylor? I really don't want to live in this house without Eric and it's far to big for just one person."
Kristen is the first one to speak five minutes later.
"Since I don't actually live here in LA anymore, I don't see a reason why you shouldn't pass it on to Ridge and Taylor. Neither Felicia or Thorne lives in LA." Kristen looks to both her siblings and sees them nod.
"I think that's a great idea, but don't you need to talk to Bridget and Rick as well?"
"That's why I haven't mentioned it to Ridge or Taylor yet. I spoke to Rick about it yesterday and he said that since he never lived in this house growing up, he couldn't see any reason for why the oldest Forrester-sibling shouldn't take over the family home. With Bridget living in New York I don't see a reason why she should be against it either. But I'm going to talk to her the moment she arrives here in the house."
In the distance they hear the doorbell chiming. They also hear Taylor opening the door and then sending someone upstairs. They hear familiar footsteps and then Bridget appears in the doorway.
Bridget hadn't allowed herself to cry yet, but seeing one of her rolemodels sitting in her bed with three of her four children around her looking like the end of the world was near was to much to handle.
Watching her youngest sister fall apart, Kristen walks over and takes her in her arms.
"It's okey, just let it out!"
Stephanie, Felicia and Thorne watches the scene with tears in their eyes.
"Bridget?" Stephanie whispers when her stepdaughter has stopped crying. Bridget lifts her head up from her sisters shoulder and looks Stephanie in the eyes. "I have something I need to talk to you about."
"Okey?" Bridget is confused.
"After your father is gone, this house is going to be to big for me to live in on my own." Bridget nods her head. "I was wondering if you'd have any problems with me passing it on to Ridge and Taylor?"
"No? Why would I? It's the family home and the matriarch and patriarch are supposed to live here, when dad dies, the title of patriarch automatically passes down to Ridge as he's the oldest child and since he's married to Taylor, she becomes the matriarch of the family."
Kristen, Felicia and Thorne nods their heads in agreement.
"Okey, it's settled then! Can you go downstairs and ask Ridge and Taylor to come and see me please?"
All four siblings nods their heads.
~Things happen~
Downstairs in the kitchen, Kelleigh is laying on a blanket doing her belly time while her mother and grandmother is making lunch for all the Forresters currently in the house.
Steffy is cutting up some vegetables for a sallad and Taylor has just reduced the heat on the big pot of pasta that's cooking.
Taylor takes a peak through the doors of the oven to check on the chicken breasts and sees that they're doing fine.
She then takes out a few cans of pasta sause and pours them all in a pan to heat up with some onion and garlic as well as some other seasonings.
When Kristen and Bridget walks through the door into the kitchen, both Hamilton girls can see that Bridget has been crying.
"Hey! What's wrong?"
"Well, my dad is dying and until I walked into his bedroom just a few moments ago I hadn't really cried before, but seeing Stephanie look so weak, I just couldn't stop crying."
Steffy puts the knife down and walks over to her aunt.
"It's okey to cry about this you know, you don't have to be the strong one all the time!" Steffy brings her into her arms. "By the way, I do believe you've never met my daughter have you?"
Steffy brings Bridget around and shows her where Kelleigh is currently residing and doing little baby push ups.
"Oh my God! She's gorgeous!" Bridget brings her hand up to her mouth.
"Of course she is. Takes after her mother!" Steffy beams with pride.
Bridget looks over at her niece and a fit of laughter enters the air around them.
"Can I hold her for a little while?" Bridget looks at Steffy with pleading eyes.
"Of course, but if you pick her up now, you're on baby duty over lunch, which should be in.." Steffy looks at the clock and then towards her mother who shrugs her shoulders. "..fifteen minutes maybe?"
"That's fine by me!" Bridget then walks over to the baby and lays herself down on the floor next to Kelleigh.
"Hello! I'm your great aunt Bridget! Who might you be?"
Kelleigh sends off an glimmering smile towards the woman laying next to her.
Kristen takes the chance to tell Taylor that Stephanie wanted to see her upstairs.
Taylor leaves the kitchen after giving instructions as to what needs to happen with the food. When she reaches the door to the master bedroom she can hear that her husband is already there.
"Hello!" Taylor peaks through the door. "Kristen said you needed to see me?"
Stephanie sends of a smile towards her daughter in law.
"I do. I need to see both of you actually. I have already talked to Thorne, Kristen, Felicia, Rick and Bridget about this and they agreed that it's the way it should be done. When Eric dies, this house is going to be way to big for me to live in alone. I'm also getting old and those stairs aren't as easy to walk up anymore. So, when the will has been read, I'm passing this house onto you two."
Taylor is shocked.
"Are you sure about this?"
Stephanie nods her head with certainty.
"I am!"
"And neither of the other five had any problems with it?" Ridge is confused.
"The other option I had was to sell the house and divide the profit between the six of you, but by doing so you'd loose your childhood home and the family home. When Steffy said earlier that she, Thomas, Michala and Wyatt are building a house on the vacant lot a few streets down, I figured that having Kelleigh´s grandparents so close by would help her out. I'm going to talk to the family lawyer on Monday to have it all finalized."
"But where are you going to live?" Taylor is concerend
"Well, I was planning on moving into the guest house across the driveway."
"I really think you should stay in this house though."
"No, it's to much space for a woman my age to care for."
"Okey. You really don't have to do this though. I mean, you could give it to Steffy and Thomas? That way it would still be in the family and they were going to build a house?"
"They have a very specific building they want and this house is not it. The offer on the lot has already been accepted and they have their hooks out to find and architect and a builder."
"Okey." Taylor feels like a drained balloon. "Thank you Stephanie!"
She then looks at the clock. "So, lunch anyone?"
~Things happen~
Spencer Publications
Liam Spencers office
"Why are you here, Hope?" Hope flinches a little at the tone the words that are coming out of her husbands mouth carries.
"Well, it's time for lunch soon and I wanted to take my husband out to lunch!"
"Okey, but you know that this is one of the days that I have Kelleigh this week, so why would you come today?"
"Because I wanted to take you out to lunch, besides, Kelleigh´s not here yet so why not?"
"Because Kelleigh was supposed to be here ten minutes ago!"
"Well, why isn't she here then? Oh, is Steffy not letting you see your daughter?" Hope smirks at the thought.
"No, Kelleigh is at Stephanie´s house cheering them up over there because Eric was admitted to the hospital two days ago. Steffy found out a little over an hour ago and tried to reach me on my cell and my office phone, but they kept getting disconnected. You wouldn't have had anything to do with that did you?"
"Well, I wanted to spend time with my husband and if Steffy didn't know where you were, she wouldn't be able to drop Kelleigh off meaning I could spend time with my husband."
"Well, there's a problem with that plan."
"Really? What's that?" Hope looks at Liam and then raises her eye brows.
"Well, Steffy called my father and I found out from him that Kelleigh would go with Steffy to Stephanie and Eric´s house."
"Good, then you can come and have lunch with me." Hope´s eyes start to sparkle with glee thinking she had managed to make her plan fall into place real nice.
"Well.." Just the tone of his voice made the glee in her eyes disappear in an instant.
"What?" Her tone is a little harder then she meant it to be, but she couldn't help it.
"I have work to do and I've already ordered lunch. So you need to leave because right now I'm mad at you for trying to manipulate the situation. Just like you said Steffy did every chance she got. Now, leave!"
Hope opens her mouth to argue that there was no manipulation on her part, then she remembers that she admitted to denying Steffy´s calls to keep Steffy from knowing where Liam was and she just walks out of her husbands office. Liam watches her leave and sighs when she closes the door.
~Things happen~
Forrester Mansion
Kitchen
Steffy watches her daughter coo and smile big at Bridget while sitting in her lap with so much pride in her eyes. Kristen watches her niece´s eyes sparkle with pride as she's watching her daughter. She nudges her shoulder with her fist.
"You done good kiddo!" Steffy walks over and slides into her aunts arm for a hug.
"Well, there are people in this family that would disagree with you."
Bridget perks up at this.
"Well, mom and Hope really have no one to blame other then themselves. Well, Hope could blame a little bit on her husband, but other then that little bit, it's all on Hope and moms crazy notion that Ridge would only come back to LA for her? That's just crazy, escpecially since his children live here."
"Exactly!" Kristen agrees and Kelleigh coos her agreement to causing the three Forrester-women to laugh. "See, even Kelleigh agrees!"
"She almost always does!" Steffy sends a smile over to her aunts. "So, what did grandma want to talk to you all about?"
"Well, after dad dies, she feels that this house will be to big for her and she wanted to ask us if we had a problem with her passing the house down to your parents. Which neither of us did."
"Even Rick? That's hard to understand, especially after all the hate he's thrown dads way over the years." Steffy is so confused.
"Well, his current girlfriend seems to have calmed that down."
The timer on the stove goes off.
"Oh, time to shred some chicken!" Steffy walks over to the oven and takes the chicken out. Places each breast on a plate and shreds it before dumping it in with the pasta and pasta sauce in the big pot where the pasta was cooked. She then stirs it around a few times before dumping it into a serving bowl. She places utensils to take the pasta out of the bowl and then walks to the dining room with the food.
Kristen follows with the sallad bowl and Bridget follows with Kelleigh in her arms as well as the blanket Kelleigh had been laying on. Steffy then walks into the living room and calls out that lunch is ready.
Stephanie, Taylor and Ridge walks down the stairs and Thorne comes out from the office.
"Smells delicious!" Stephanie exclaims when she reaches the bottom step of the stairs.
Taylor and Ridge agrees with her.
Lunch is a very silent affair. The only sounds coming from the baby of the group.
"This tasted as good as it smelled. Thank you for making lunch!" Stephanie looks towards her daugther in law and her granddaughter who both says you're welcome. "How are things progressing with the office?"
The question is directed towards her two sons.
"We're almost done. The nurses are coming this afternoon right?" Thorne is the one who speaks.
"Yes, people from the agency will come as well, since they won't be hired directly by us. Have you all looked at the folders of the five they left us with after we came home from the hospital?"
"May I see those files please?" Bridget interjects.
"Of course!" Taylor nods her head.
Felicia scurries off to collect them from her bedroom. She comes down five minutes later and hands the stack of files over to her younger sister.
When they were done eating, Ridge and Thorne excused themselves to go continue working on the office while Bridget read through the files.
It takes her almost an hour.
"I like all of them, I say we use them all to lessen the burden." Bridget stretches her back as she leans back into the chair she's sitting on.
Kelleigh is asleep in one of the armchairs after being fed a bottle.
Steffy, Kristen, Felicia, Taylor and Stephanie are sitting in the livingroom.
"Yeah, I agree with that!" Felicia nods her head to Kristens agreement.
"Let's see what Ridge and Thorne says as well." Taylor sends a smile off to her mother in law. "But I agree with Bridget as well."
Both Stephanie´s nod their heads.
~Things happen~
Brooke was lounging on the couch with a book when her daughter walked through the door. She looked up when she heard the door open and could see instantly that something wasn't the way it should.
"Hi mom!" The defeat evident in her daughters voice.
"What's wrong?" Brooke places her feet on the floor to give Hope room on the couch.
"I did something stupid and I shouldn't have done it. I really shouldn't have done it."
"What do you mean?"
Hope walks over to the couch letting a sigh pass her lips.
"I knew that Liam was supposed to have Kelleigh today, but I felt like I should be able to spend time with my husband, so I wanted to take him out to lunch and so when he wasn't in his office when I got there and his phone was ringing, I saw that Steffy was calling and I thought that she was probably calling to ask where he was so I disconnected the call thinking that if she didn't get a hold of him, she wouldn't be able to drop the baby off and therefore freeing Liam to have lunch with me." Hope starts fidgeting her fingers.
"Well, I don't see the problem?"
"What I didn't think about was the fact that Steffy might call Bill to ask him where Liam was and that he'd figure out what I had done."
"So Steffy told on you?" Annoyance starts appearing on Brooke´s face at the mention of Steffy twarting her daughters plans.
"Well, technically I told on myself. Steffy told Bill that the calls had gotten disconnected but she didn't know why. However, Steffy wasn't calling to find out where Liam was, she was calling to cancel his time with Kelleigh."
"Why would she do that? Do you think she's using the baby to get close to Liam again by taking his time away from him?"
"That was my first thought when Liam told me. But no, she's not taking his time with Kelleigh away from him, Kelleigh was just needed somewhere else today and Steffy felt it was a little more important then Liam spending time with her at the moment." Small tears are gently trickling down Hope´s cheeks.
"Why? What would be more important then Liam spending time with his daughter?" The annoyance on Brooke´s face grows even more.
"Apparently Eric was admitted to the hospital two days ago and Steffy felt that Kelleigh was needed to take Stephanie´s mind off the fact that her husband was admitted to hospital and that Kelleigh would be the perfect distraction."
"Wait, what? Why haven't I been told about this?"
"How should I know? Steffy just found out this morning. I don't think a whole lot of people know." Hope places her elbows on her knees while putting her hands on her chin while leaning forward. "I don't even know if Stephanie and Eric´s children know."
"Do you think Rick knows?"
"I don't know, but I wouldn't be surprised if they didn't tell him. You know how they feel about him."
"Let me call Rick and find out what he knows." Brooke starts to get up to search for her cellphone.
Hope reaches into her handbag and gets her´s out. "Here, use mine!"
Brooke makes the call and puts it on speaker. It takes four rings for him to answer.
"Hey little sis!"
"Well, it's actually your mother calling." Brooke gives a chuckle at the closeness between her oldest and third child.
"Oh! Hi mom!"
"Hi Rick!" Hope greets her brother.
"Hi Hope! Was there something important you wanted to talk about or did you just call just to say Hi? I'm a little busy now with Ridge being tied up over at dads house remodeling the downstairs office for him to live in when he comes back from the hospital tomorrow."
"Oh, so you do know about that? It's why I was calling actually."
"Yeah, Taylor called after they had gotten back to the house after dad was admitted to tell me about it, she said she was calling Bridget in the morning and asked if I could stop by yesterday to check out some files that they had gotten during a meeting with the agency that would provide the nurses that would help care for dad when he was released from the hospital."
The surprise that fills both Brooke and Hope is immense.
"What? They actually called you?"
"Yeah, why wouldn't they? This is my father we're talking about."
"Well, considering what that side of the family feels about us, we're just surprised they actually called you."
"Well, like I said, this is my father we're talking about."
"Yeah, you're right."
"Yeah, so I gave my input as to who I thought would be best and then Stephanie, Taylor, Ridge, Thorne, Kristen and Felicia will decide."
"Wait, what about Bridget?"
"Well, I have no idea. I figured Taylor would ask if she wanted to help decide who they should hire, but I haven't talked to Bridget so I wouldn't know."
"Oh, okey."
"Anyway, I have to go now because as I said, work is backing up because Ridge isn't here so if that's all you wanted?"
"Yeah, I'll let you go now! Good bye!"
"Bye mom! By Hope!"
"Bye Rick!" Hope bids her brother good bye and her mother hangs up the phone turning to her daughter with confusion on her face.
"Maybe we should go see them?" Brooke hesitates while she's asking.
"Maybe we should." Hope starts getting up.
"But Steffy and Kelleigh will be there!" Hope tumbles down on the couch again with a groan.
"Well, maybe it's time I see them."
"Maybe. Do you think you're ready for that?"
"Well, my therapist says that it's something I need to do to more forward and try and let go of this anger I feel towards Steffy and her baby."
"What do you mean your therapist? Why do you need to see a therapist?"
Hope has a flashback to her argument with Liam when Kelleigh was just a week old.
"Because Liam said some things that really hit home and then I saw the picture Steffy posted on Instagram announcing Kelleigh´s name."
"And what exactly might that be?"
"He asked if my hatred towards Steffy trumps my love for him. Cause if it does then he didn't think we should stay married. So I decided to try and sort out my emotions and I found that the best way to do so was to talk to someone that wasn't close to the family. It's been a really good experience and has helped me to see some truths in the faults that I have. The next step is to put myself in the presence of the thing that's put the most stress on me and I believe that that's Steffy."
"Well, what or who else could it be?"
"I don't know. The only thing that's present for all of it is Steffy. But I don't know."
~Things happen~
About an hour after Bridget got done reading through the files, Ridge and Thorne walked out of the room with paint dripping down their heads.
All the women present in the livingroom starts laughing at the sight.
"What on earth happened to the two of you?" Steffy says inbetween fits of laughter.
"Well, someone was going to paint the shelves around the window and put the paint bucket on the ledge of the ladder he was standing on. Then in the middle of an expressive explanation he swings his arms out, hitting the bucket just as someone was walking past. Someone then came off the ladder expressing enourmous guilt that got caught in someone´s throat when someone poured another bucket of paint over someone´s head. Leading to this!" Thorne gives a vague explanation looking so guilty.
What this does is cause another fit of laughter.
Taylor is the one who composes herself first.
"Well, the two of you need to go take showers and clean up because the agency will be coming by within the hour to see what we've decided."
"Okey, so, what do you all think?"
Bridget composes herself.
"Well, I thought we should hire all five of the ones they gave as additions for the meeting after dad was admitted to the hospital and lessen the burden by having more then the four shifts you thought initially and then have them work in pairs as well."
Taylor looks at Bridget confused.
"You haven't mentioned them working in pairs before, that's a really good idea though!"
"Yeah, well, the nurse on the nightshift at least should have someone she or he can work with. Then they can alternate the dayshifts after that. The nightshift could be a little longer then the shifts during the days also if there are two of them. Like if you were to make the nightshift seven and a half hour long, between 10 pm to 5.30 am, the next shift could start at 5 am to do the briefing about what had happened during the night, at 10 am the next shift could start and the briefing would be between 10 am and 10.30 am, with the dayshifts five and a half hours long, giving the time to be briefed and brief the next one giving them four shifts."
All present nods their heads.
"We should write this up and give as a suggestion." Taylor nods her head. "But you two need to go get cleaned up!" She points her finger at her husband and brother in law.
Kristen goes and gets her laptop.
"We should make a spread sheat so that we can make the schedule while the agency is here."
Taylor gets off the couch and walks over to the dining table where Kristen has sat herself down and opened her laptop and the two sisters in law get to work.
Bridget and Felicia goes to sit down next to Stephanie.
"I'm so happy Taylor is here. I don't think we'd get anything done without her. There's too much emotions running through all of us to even think straight." Stephanie watches with pride as her daughter and daughter in law goes to work to have the schedule for the next to weeks partially laid out with the only thing missing is the name of the nurses that will be working there.
"I agree. She's a blessing! I'm also glad that she and Ridge found their way back to each other. " Bridget leans into her stepmother. Felicia leans into her mother also and grabs her hand to hold.
"It's an amazing sight to see isn't it?"
"Hey, I haven't asked yet how Dino is?"
"Dino is doing good, racing through school just like his mother and father although he's getting so much better grades then I ever did." Felicia smiles at her youngest sister. "How's Logan doing?"
"He's doing good, spending time with his father and stepmother at the moment." They both reach out to grab each others hand with the hand that isn't currently holding one of Stephanies.
When the doorbell rings, Bridget releases her sister and stepmother to go and open the door and Steffy returns from the kitchen after warming up a bottle with a small meal for her daughter.
Bridget is surprised when she sees who's on the other side of the door.
"Hi mom!"
To say Brooke was surprised that her daughter was opening the door to Stephanie and Eric´s house was an understatement. But she walks in and gives her daughter a hug none the less.
"Hi Bridget!" Hope walks in and the first thing she sees is the back of Steffy's head. She stiffens up and doesn't loosen up until Bridget walks over and hugs her baby sister.
Hearing Hope's voice as she's talking, Steffy decides to not say a word and just let Hope take her time.
Steffy knew that this moment wouldn't be easy for Hope and she wanted to give Hope her space. She could feel the tension radiating off the younger blonde eventhough she was standing behind her several feet away.
To make matters worse, Ridge and Thorne starts walking down the stairs just as Brooke and Hope walked through the door. Brooke of course notice instantly and starts flirting with Ridge, right infront of everyone.
Taylor just looks on with a smile on her face knowing that Ridge isn't affected at all by Brooke´s flirting with him. He looks over to his wife and sees her smiling at him so he walks over and gives her a kiss.
The rage on Brooke´s face at the clear dismissal is evident on all the people in the room.
"Oh mom, give it up already!" Everyone turned their heads to the person who's spoken up with surprise on their faces.
~Things happen~
AN:
Well, look at that. I tried to make Brooke somewhat likeable, but she just can't help herself whenever Ridge is near.