IMPORTANT DETAILS for this story:
Callie got Adopted the same day as Jude, her biological father is Donald.
Callie did go through the ordeal with Liam but she kept a few things hidden from everyone.
LENA got the principals position and lost the baby.
I don't know where Sharon, Dana and Stuart live. So Im saying that Sharon lives in the California area. While Dana and Stuart live in Florida.
Previously:
"Shes their sister, it was an instant connection. A rare instant connection." Stef said, she had the same connection with Callie and Rylan. It was like the universe meant for them to be together. It was like Lena always said, they could have come from Stef herself.
"Shes our little girl." Lena whispered wiping away a lone tear. Stef reached over and grabbed her wifes hand making Lena stand up. Lena sat down on Stefs lap and the two of them cuddled on the chair, just basking in the closeness of each other was the best thing when they needed comfort.
"Would you hate me if I said I wanted Rylan to crawl into bed with us tonight?" Lena asked looking into her wifes eyes. Stef smiled and placed a kiss on Lenas lips.
"I could never hate you. After that conversation I would love it if she crawls in with us later." Both smiled and cuddled in closer as they looked at the fire that was keeping them warm. Both silently praying that Rylan would remain in their care.
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Early the next morning Lena and Stef were woken by the sounds of the kids arguing. The normal for them.
"Mmmmm sounds like the kids are up." Lena said snuggling in into Stefs chest. Whether it was at home or away on vacation the kids would always be loud and be having some argument. Mainly Mariana and Jesus at each others throats about something so silly.
Stef sighed out and listened to the kids for a bit before pulling Lena up to give her a passionate kiss on the lips which enticed a moan from the caramel skinned woman.
"Morning Mrs Adams Foster." Stef said to her wife once they had ended their passionate kiss.
"Good morning Mrs Adams Foster." Lena replied, leaning on her right side, her head resting on her right palm to look at her wife.
"I love you." Lena sighed out cupping Stefs face with her left hand. Stef smiled and leant up to place a kiss onto her wifes lips.
"I love you too, so much." Stef responded after the kiss. Stef pulled Lena so she was laying half on top of her so that Lenas head was once again resting on Stefs chest. Stef wrapped her arms around her wifes back and gently rubbed them up and down in a soothing and loving gesture.
"Feels weird not having Rylan crawl into bed." Lena spoke softly, soaking up as much of her wifes attention and company as she could before having to go out and deal with the kids.
"It does, I don't miss the kicks to the back or stomach though." Stef chuckled out. One day the little girl would be older and will become independent like the rest and not need them as much. Stef still had hope that Rylan would be sticking around forever.
"Oh yeah definitely, but I do miss the morning cuddles." Lena smiled. Laying in bed in the morning with Rylan and Stef and whoever else joined them was the best.
"I wish all our kids still loved morning cuddles. They are so independent." Stef sighed out, rubbing her hands up and down Lenas back in soft motions. Lena smiled. Stef may act all tough on the outside but to her loved ones, she was a big softy.
"Kids grow up honey, its the way of life." Lena said to her wife, leaning her chin on her wifes chest and looking at her. Stef placed one of her hands on Lenas cheek and stroked it, her thumb tracing Lenas jaw bone, familiarising the already perfect face into her mind some more.
"They grow up too fast. Thats the problem." Lena chuckled out. Stef was right. Lena wished she that the kids didn't grow so fast because in a blink of an eye they would be heading to college, getting married and having kids.
"That they do." Both of them lay together. They knew they would have to get up within a few minutes but just enjoying each other like this was something that they treasured as they didn't get much time to just relax like this.
"Mooooms whats for breakfast?" Lena and Stef both sighed and chuckled at the sound of Jesus and food.
"I guess we better go sort them out." Lena chuckled as she moved off of her wife and got changed into a pair of jeans, a shirt and her hoodie.
"If we must." Stef sighed out, not moving. Quite content in watching her wife get dressed. Lena smirked at her wife. She knew full well that Stef had just watched her get dressed.
Stef smirked and looked at her wife as she stood in the tent aswell. She lifted her shirt over her head and flung it at her wife. Lena scrambled to take the shirt off her head so she could continue watching her wife get undress.
As soon as Stef reached to take her sleep pants off, Lena busied herself with getting some clothes out for Stef and Rylan. She knew if she were to watch Stef get undressed, the two of them wouldn't make it outside of the tent to deal with the kids in time and the kids would come looking for them.
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Both moms headed over to the fire that Brandon had started. The moms had given him the job of fire starter.
"Morning guys." Stef greeted her kids. Brandon, Jesus, Callie, Jude and Mariana sat around the fire, all looked to their Moms when the two of them headed over.
"How did you all sleep?" Stef asked as she looked at the kids. They all shrugged. Lena and Stef shared a look.
"All good?" Stef asked looking around, waiting for one of them to verbalise an answer.
"Yeah, alright I guess. Little angry over last nights convo but thats to be expected." Brandon said for everyone. The others nodding, agreeing with what their brother said.
"It wasn't an easy topic. We can get through this we are family." Lena said placing a hand on Judes shoulder as she looked around the fire at the kids.
"We know, its just hard when something could split us up." Callie spoke up, sadness lacing her voice. Stef walking over and standing next to Mariana and Callie. Placing a hand on each of their shoulders for comfort.
Lena nodded in understanding at the way the kids were feeling and then raised an eyebrow as they were missing one member. One member who wasn't this quiet and was usually up early.
"Where's Rylan?" Lena asked the girls. Stef had noticed the little blonde wasn't here as well, she was going to comment but Lena beat her to it and so she waited for an answer.
"In the tent. Someone woke up grumpy." Mariana spoke. She was hungry and tired but she wasn't grumpy like Rylan. The little girl was really grumpy about something. Callie nodded, agreeing with her sister.
"Was she alright last night?" Stef asked as she looked at the girls and then over to the tent where Rylan was.
"Seemed to be, we slept Mom, so we couldn't really look at her now could we?" Callie raised her eyebrow at her Mom as she said this. Lena chuckled and so did Stef.
"Sorry sweets, just asking." Stef told the girls as she went around and kissed all of the kids on the head and then stood next to Lena in front of the fire. It was really cold this morning.
"She tossed for a while, I got a foot in my back but she settled down from what I could tell." Mariana responded and both Moms nodded, they had there fair share of kicks to the back by the little girl. They were wondering why the little girl was grumpy. She usually was cheery when waking up.
"Thanks girls. Ill go check on her." Stef said as she headed towards the tent. Lena and the kids started making breakfast, toast, fruit and cereal. Leaving Stef and Rylan to talk without interruptions, hopefully Stef can figure out why the little girl was grumpy.
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When Stef entered the tent, the little girl was awake, on her side facing away from the entrance. Stef could tell the little girl was awake, just from the way she was breathing. Stef knew exactly how each of her children breathed when they were asleep and awake. She could never be tricked by one of them fake sleeping.
"Rylan baby?" Stef called as she knelt on the floor looking at the little girl. Rylan rolled over at the sound of her Moms voice. She was in her won world, she hadn't even heard her mom open the tent.
Rylan looked at her Mom, rubbing her eyes and sighing. Stef smiled at her little girl and lay on her side facing the little blonde with her left hand holding her head up.
"Hey baby. You woke up grumpy I hear?" Stef smiled running her right hand through the little girls hair.
"Not grumpy." Rylan said in a grumpy voice. Stef smiled softly. Of course she wasn't grumpy, Stef though sarcastically.
"Mhmmmm. Lets get some breakfast ok?" Stef made a move to get up and was in a kneeling position, thinking the little girl would do the same, but she didn't. Instead, Rylan rolled back to her original position of facing away from Stef and the door.
"Not grumpy, not hungry." Rylan grumbled out.
"You need to eat, you know the rules. Just a little bit." Stef said pulling the blanket off the little girl and pulling her up so she was standing. Rylan groaning in protest.
"Cuddle me?" Ryaln said instead of what she wanted to say because she would never win with her Mom.
"What do you say?" Stef asked giving the little girl her famous raised eyebrow.
"Cuddle me please?" Rylan asked. Stef smiled.
"Good girl. Come here." As soon as the words were spoken, Rylan launched herself into her moms arms.
"Alright, we are going to go eat. Im not taking no for an answer." Rylan sighed and clung onto her Mom as they exited the tent to see the other kids and Lena eating breakfast around the fire. It was cold in the morning and the fire would be put out a little bit later when it started to get a little warmer.
"Morning little miss." Lena greeted the little blonde who was perched on her Moms hip. Rylan just turned her face away with a frown and buried it in Stefs neck.
"See grumpy." Mariana pointed out before taking a bite of her toast. Lena nodding, understanding what Mariana and Callie were on about. It was very unusual for the little girl to be grumpy, she was a happy girl normally.
"Not grumpy." Rylan mumbled into Stefs neck as Stef headed over to the picnic table to place the little girl on it where her food was waiting on a plate.
"Alright, you need to sit here and eat or you can go back to your tent and go back to bed till you wake up happier." Stef said as she placed the little blonde on the chair of the picnic table.
"No no no. up." Rylan protested, clinging onto Stefs shirt in a death grip. Stef pried the little girls hands off of her jumper.
"You need to eat your breakfast." Stef said pushing the plate closer to the little girl. Rylan frowning at it before pushing it back away from her. Stef sighed in frustration.
"Rylan enough, you are being silly." Stef said pushing the food back in front of the little girl and holding out a piece of toast with jam on it for the little girl to have.
"You need to eat your breakfast now. Just a little bit of this, thats it." Stef tried to coax the little girl. Rylan glared at the toast and smacked it out of Stefs hand. All the kids froze, wondering what would happen now.
"Alright back to your tent. You need to go sleep and wake up in a better mood." Stef said. She was angry but she needed to keep calm.
"Noooooooo!" Rylan screamed in protest as Stef picked her up and took her to her tent. The little girl in full blown sobs. Lena was shocked. She had never seen this side of the little girl before, in fact all of the family were shocked. Something was bothering Rylan and Lena wanted to find out. She would first let Stef deal with the tantrum.
"I..I...don't wa...wa..want... to be... in here!" Rylan said through her sobbing and hiccups. Stef was getting really frustrated. She had never seen her little girl like this. Something must be bothering her.
"Rylan enough. You need to calm down and stop being silly." Stef said kneeling down calmly as she looked at the sobbing blonde on the mattress.
"Would you like to tell me why you are acting this way?" Stef asked looking at Rylan. Rylan folded her arms and turned her face away still sobbing.
"Mommmmyyyyyyyy noooooo." Rylan screamed out as Stef made her way to the door of the tent, ready to leave and get to her own breakfast so that Rylan can have some chill out time.
"You are obviously tired if you are acting this way. You can stay in here till you have calmed down." Stef explained to Rylan and then left the tent.
"Nooooooooooo mommyyyyyy nooohoooooooo." Stef felt her heart break at the sound of her daughters screams. She had to stay strong and not give in. Her little girl was naughty and wasn't listening and so there had to be consequences.
"Moommmyyyyyy." Stef heard the little girl again as she took her seat next to Lena on the picnic table to eat her breakfast. The kids all chatting with each other, trying to drown the sound of their sister screaming out.
"Stef, I don't like her crying like that. Its not like her." Lena was concerned. Just like Stef. They had every right to be. This was not usually behaviour for the little blonde.
"Shes tired Lena. She obviously needs some time to calm down." Stef said as she grabbed a hold of Lenas hand and gave it a comforting squeeze. She hated that Rylan was acting this way and they didn't know why but there was definitely a reason behind it.
"Do you think its something more then just being tired? Shes been tired before and hasn't acted like this." Stef nodded to her wife, there was definitely something more to Rylans behaviour, even Lena could see that too.
"Ill talk to her when she has calmed down enough. She woke up grumpy so there was no way I could have talked properly with her. She will settle down eventually." Stef explained before taking a bite of her own toast.
"I hope so." Lena sighed out, turning back to eating her own breakfast. Her mind still stuck on replay of the little girls actions.
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