~Snowcrystal of Thunderclan~
You were on a plane? Was it fun?! :D
~Silver-Rose-Writes~
I agree the ending was pretty cute ^_^
~Featherflight123~
I'll get to work on that Ivory one! :D
~Blue Tulips~
Thanks!
~Sunfrost21-KITSTAR~
Hello! I'm glad you liked the chapter!
~Mina Harker~
I'm glad!
~Dawnshade49~
I agree! Leon really is an idiot at all times! :D
She Is And Forever Will Be My Girl
Briarfeather Version
"I'll give, it all, for you," Jay sang gruffly into the microphone, gently strumming his guitar in the process, "If you let me, for your love…" His blue eyes raked over the crowd, his eyes still held the reserved and slightly emotionally deadened look that he had had for the past eight years after his decision to leave Vyliea. "Thank you Yukota," the young singer addressed the crowd at the end of the song, "it's been great being here."
He's been gone for eight years…
Jay sighed and shoved his hands into his pockets before taking his sunglasses off and perching them up on the top of his head, Vyliea, he sighed inwardly, looking around at the beautiful coastal town where the sea lapped at it's sandy and rocky shores. I forgot how amazing this city is...
But he hasn't been forgotten…
As Jay pushed open the hospital room door he froze in his tracks at the sight of a brunette perched at the edge of his cousin's bed, laughing and grinning brightly at the blonde. "Bree?" Jay asked, his voice catching in his throat as the brunette turned, startled. Bright amber eyes locked with Jay's baby blue ones and Jay stared at the women in front of him who had grown so much since he had seen her.
She was beautiful. Bree's darker brown hair had gotten longer over the last seven years, more curly than wavy; her amber eyes were as youthful and bright as they had been the last time he had seen her; she had gotten taller, gained a more athletic and fit build over the years after her surgery that had fixed her paralysis; more freckles were scattered throughout her face; her skin was less tan than he remembered; and her style of clothing had changed as well. Currently, the woman was wearing black skinny jeans with a short sleeve button up blouse with a creamy colored jacket draped over her lap, but the most startling thing was that around her neck and resting just above her collarbones, hanging from a thin golden chain was the thin wedding bands Jay had left behind. A thin smooth golden band and an elegant diamond studded silver band since Bree's hands had been highly sensitive to gold.
Bree stared at him, her amber gaze turning from amused to sharp with surprise and hidden hurt. She subconsciously lifted her right arm to touch her fingertips to the rings dangling from the necklace chain before she spoke, hardly able to utter his name. "Jay?" she breathed in a hushed tone, "what're you doing here?"
Ivory pushed herself up into a sitting position, one half of the blonde's face was highly swollen, and from her movements, Jay could tell that she was really not feeling well after the stabbing and near suffocation. "Bree, calm down," she rasped, "Holly told him about what happened to me."
Bree bobbed her head, "okay…" She said quietly, now unable to meet Jay's eyes and fixed her gaze on the ground, "I'll come back and visit later Ivory," the brunette smiled weakly at her, "listen to the doctors while I try to get them to clear my device okay?"
Ivory nodded and gave Bree as much of a smile as she could, "I'll try, hopefully, I don't die of boredom while I'm here."
"Good luck," Bree giggled weakly before she stood up and squeezed past Jay, flinching when his shoulder brushed against her own.
StarClan, Jay thought as he watched Bree disappear into the hallway, I forgot Bree moved here…
"Hey Jay," Ivory smiled slightly at her cousin, "it's good to see you after eight years of you being gone."
"Hey Ivory," Jay replied, his tone as curt as ever, "what did you do to land yourself in the hospital after such a good track record?"
Jay looked around as he followed Bree down the hall toward her office inside the building of the inventing company Holly had told him that Bree worked at. "So this is where you work?" He asked, glad to see that she had followed her dream of developing technology and inventing things. He could remember something she had told him back when they had been first dating fresh out of high school, well she had graduated years before him seeing how she had easily skipped all of junior high and nearly half of high school.
"I want to change the world," Bree's amber eyes glowed with the force of her words, "build something that could fix my spine and help people who need it. I want to invent something that will change the world, something huge!"
He was glad she had done what she had set out to do, even after he had walked out on her.
"I own all of this," Bree replied as she swiped leaned forward and allowed the retina scanner unlock her office. She was wearing a white mechanic's jumpsuit over a t-shirt and jeans, with a white backpack slung over one shoulder that looked like the one she had used during high school. "Spent years buildin' one of the largest inventing company in the world." She looked behind her at him, "I actually did something with my life after you walked out." She then stepped into the office and allowed Jay to step inside, which he noticed looked more like a workshop than an office. "Blissie, status report of everythin'," Bree spoke to seemingly thin air, "Lion, you as well."
Screens that wrapped around two walls, all holographic, flickered to life as Bre entered the room and flicked her wrist before typing on a holographic keypad.
"Everythin's normal," A southern male voice came out of nowhere and Jay jumped, "unless Blissie sees something weird everythin's completely normal."
Something unexpected has shaken his foundation
"Hi, mom!" The workshop's door opened and the woman from the lobby was revealed to be standing there with a girl wearing a backpack, overalls, and a light orange hoodie. The girl had freckles like Bree, paler skin, icy blue eyes that gleamed like her mothers had for over eighteen years, and dark brown wavy hair nearly black pulled up in a ponytail.
Bree's entire face lit up at the sight of the little girl and she pushed herself out from underneath the supercar she had been working on to sit up and let her run over and hug her tightly. "Hey princess!" She smiled and cuddled the little girl in a motherly embrace. "Did you have fun at school?"
Jay stared his jaw slackening slightly at the sight of the young girl.
The girl nodded vigorously, "it was awesome!" then she noticed Jay. She escaped Bree's embrace and walked over to where he was sitting in an office chair before she spoke to him. "Hey, I know you! You're that singer that my mom listens to!" The girl smiled at him before making a face, "it's not really my thing though, no offense."
Jay glanced over at Bree, wondering if what the girl had said was true and that Bree did listen to his music, but she was avoiding his gaze and looking down at the ground. So he replied to the girl, "it's fine," he said to her before curiosity tugged at his gut, "what's your name?"
The girl held out one of her small hands, "I'm Catie!"
Jay couldn't help but look over at Bree at the sound of the girl's name, Catie was the name that he had suggested as a name for a girl if they ever had kids while they had been on their honeymoon here in Vyliea years ago.
"Hmm," Bree hummed and snuggled closer to him, not really paying attention to the static coming from the radio anymore. "I want a boy," she mused aloud, "named Cody, what about you? What would you name the girl?" Her amber eyes twinkled, "you did say you wanted a daughter."
Jay rolled his eyes, "Catie," he said rather gruffly, "I would name her Catelynn but Catie for short."
Bree giggled, burying her face in his shirt to muffle her giggles, "Catelynn? How would you spell that?"
"C-a-t-e-l-y-n-n," Jay spelled out with a huff, "why?"
"No reason," Bree replied, her voice now giggly and sleep ridden, "I was just wondering!"
Bree avoided his gaze, keeping her gaze fixed on the floor and away from him.
"How old are you," he paused on the name, "Catie?"
Catie looked confused, not understanding his and her mother's behavior. "I'm seven, why?"
Jay felt like someone had briefly stabbed him in the heart, that could only mean one thing, Catie was his.
Bree looked up and finally met his gaze, her amber eyes glimmering faintly with tears.
What have I done? Jay asked himself as he looked at his daughter, taking in her appearance and getting used to the concept.
"I didn't find out I was pregnant till a few weeks after what was supposed to be the last day of our honeymoon," Bree said quietly, her voice was thick and choked slightly with emotion, and she hung her head like she was trying to protect herself, "I didn't want to believe it, you had left me less than a week after we got married and I was still nursing my broken heart so I didn't want to believe that I was going to have a baby by myself, without the person I had loved more than anything else, and suffering under the heartbreak of you leaving me."
"What's going on down there Jay?" Leon asked he was holding his son Flynx while Cynthia was curled up on the couch asleep while the new twins were asleep as well. "I'm trying to settle everyone down for a nap while the twins are sleeping."
"Turns out that I have a daughter," Jay told his brother via video chat, "did you know that Bree was pregnant when I left?"
Leon was silent for a moment before he sighed, "I knew she was when you left yes, Cyn had started to notice the signs but we kept it to ourselves because it wasn't our place to get involved."
"I have no right to ask this of you," Jay sighed as he stood on the porch, looking at Bree who was leaning against the door jam of the front door, "but I want to get to know Catie, Bree."
Bree looked at him, her amber eyes slightly glimmering with tears, "you lost that right when you left me," she said quietly, cheer absent from her voice to be replaced with hurt. "I've spent eight years hiding how badly your leave affected me Jay, and I'm not going to let you break it all down so I can be hurt again."
Jay looked at her and a rare word came out of his mouth. "Please…"
"Fine," Bree gave in a bit reluctantly, still unable to say no when he asked her something with the special word. "Only two weeks," she said quietly, the brunette's amber eyes were conflicted between wanting to forgive him and hurt that she had been silently suffering under for eight years.
"You like technology right?" Jay asked Catie when the child was setting the table and Bree was in the kitchen, his tone was more calm than curt, something he had been working on for the past week.
"Yeah," Catie said a little stiffly, "my mom does work at an inventing place," she said in a very haughty tone and narrowed her icy blue eyes on him. "Why're you asking?"
Jay fell silent, pushing the small hoverboard further beneath his chair and said nothing, his blue eyes taking on a rather indifferent look.
"Catelynn!" Bree's voice was highly stern as the brunette came over to the kitchen entrance, where she looked at her daughter, who wavered slightly under her unusually stern gaze.
"What?" Catie said indignantly with an attitude more fit for a teenager than an eight-year-old girl, "I said I wanted to meet him, but that doesn't mean I'm going to go easy on him! He hurt you!"
Bree sighed, looking more disappointed than annoyed, "come here Catie," she went back into the kitchen and Catie reluctantly followed on her heels.
Jay listened as Bree talked to their daughter, making sure to keep an indifferent expression as he listened.
"Jay's not someone you can just push away and ignore or snap at, he's your father," Bree told her, "and he deserves your respect Catie, no matter what."
"He left you!" Catie shot back stubbornly, the eight-year-old's attitude reminded Jay of his attitude back when he was a teenager. "He hurt my mama! He doesn't deserve anything!" That was one of the first things Jay had heard Catie say that was more like her age.
Jay glanced over at the kitchen entrance, looking at what he could see of Bree when she crouched down in front of her daughter. I made so many mistakes. He mused when he heard what Bree next said, defending him when she had no reason to.
"Yes, he did leave, but that doesn't matter, he's still your father and he's still the guy I married Catie," Bree said quietly, "and he's not going to be here forever, you told me you wanted me to find your father again and he found me, Catie, you don't have much longer to get to know your father."
"Why do you still say that you married him?!" Catie asked indignantly in a huff, "he left!"
"Catie," Jay saw Bree rest her hands on her daughter's thin shoulders, "forgive him please, he will forever be your dad, that's never going to go away."
This February
"She's got your smile you know," Jay said quietly as he helped Bree with the dishes, "your smile too."
"She has your knack for complaining," Bree replied quietly after a few moments of silence where she had dried and put away the last dish, "and your eyes," she said in a whisper before the brunette left the kitchen without another word.
Love Can Change You
Jay's lips turned up at the corners into a smile as he watched Bree smile and crouch down in the sand, playing with the gritty mineral with her small hands, she hasn't changed that much, he mused before the blue-eyed man quietly walked over to her, his feet sinking slightly in the sand and leaving footprints, "I'm going to regret this," he said with a slight smirk as he crouched down next to her, "but I'm going to ask anyway." He put down the buckets and shovels he had brought with him in front of them both, "sand castle contest? Catie's the judge."
Catie, who was splashing around in the shallows spun around at the sound of her name and she grinned and rushed over to them, "say yes mom!" She pleaded, "I want to see you build a sand castle!"
A competitive spark lit up Bree's amber eyes and she smiled a confident white toothed smile at him, "I'm going to beat you!"
Jay grinned, happy to hear her usual cheer back in her voice, "I don't doubt it, I'm not the engineer, you are."
Life Can Challenge You
"Michael," Jay had finally called his manager for his music. Bree was asleep next to him, curled in a ball on the couch with her head resting partway on his lap, seemingly exhausted after late events. "I'm done," he said to his flabbergasted manager and gently ran his fingers through Bree's loose dark brown hair, "I'm switching to YouTube full time. I have a family now…"
Your Choices Will Define You
"Why did you leave my mom?" Catie asked as Jay tucked her into bed for the first time since he had gotten there.
"I got lost-" Jay replied quietly.
"I'm sorry," Jay said to Bree who was staring at him, her amber eyes round and hurt, tears trickling down her cheeks, "I… I have to go, my career…"
Bree looked like he had slapped her…
"I was young."
Jay carefully placed his golden band on top of the hotel room's dresser, his blue eyes covered by black tinted sunglasses. "I'm sorry," he whispered to Bree's sleeping form, "I'm so sorry…" Bree was huddled beneath most of the blankets, having cried herself to sleep away from him while he had been gone talking to Michael...
"And stupid."
"What happened?!" Leon's amber eyes flashed and the younger brother looked furious, "Bree flew to Vandala, surprised Cynthia, Holly, and I by coming to the girls' apartment in the night, and has been hiding in the house all month!"
Jay looked at his brother, red-rimmed blue eyes focusing on him, "I left," he said gruffly, "got a career offer."
Leon slammed his hands down on the table, "then you get your sorry pain in the butt back to Vandala and fix this!" He looked furious, "you shattered Bree's heart! And not only that, but you also had to do it hardly two months before me and Cynthia's wedding!"
"I didn't plan it around then to mess up your wedding Leon," Jay snapped back and stood up, "Not everything is about you!"
"Well, the world doesn't revolve around you!"
"But you've found our way back now right?" Catie asked, her bright icy blue eyes focused on her father's baby blue eyes.
"Have you seen the stats about surviving in an accident in a convertible?" Catie asked in a huff as Jay headed toward his convertible. "They are low, staggeringly low!"
She Will Forever…
"Bree drives a convertible, what's so special about hers?" Jay asked in exasperation, and a moment later wished he hadn't said anything as Catie started rambling about her mother's car and Lion.
Be My Girl.
"I'll rent a car," Jay sighed as he walked away from the front door and toward his car
Bree's lips twitched into a smile, "Catie told you about those stats she found did she?"
"Pretty much," Jay replied over his shoulder, "so I have to rent one otherwise she won't come with us."
"Jay," Bree tossed him her keys when he turned around, "just don't ruin my car till at least after tomorrow alright?"
Written By
Caylee Mitsuko
Based off of the Plot Line of Forever My Girl
Performed by
Breanna Grayas
Jay Bramble
Leonardo Bramble
Cynthia Lawson
Holly Bramble
Catie Grayas
And
Michael Jukoa