Chapter 8- It is a small, small world

When Easy walked into his and Callie's room, he found her reading a story book to Lily.

"Hi." he said, sitting next to them, glancing at the book. "Emelia Bedelia. That's a good book."

Callie nodded, running her hair through Lily's soft curls.

"Did Maddy let you talk to her?"

"Well..." he glanced at Lily. "I won't say her exact words but she basically said that she wants to be left alone until she has to go back at school."

Callie covered her face in her hands for a minute.

"Lily, I think it's time for bed."

When Callie came back after having tucked Lily in, Easy immediatly wrapped his arms around her.

"I love you." he whispered into her hair.

Callie giggled, kissing him on the cheek. "Love you to. What's up?"

Easy stroked her hair. "I was thinking maybe it would be good for Maddy if we went to Disney World for a few days before she goes back to school."

Callie bit her lip. "Disney World?"

Easy nodded. "Yeah. I mean, babe it was very, very wrong how she went out with Sean when she knew she wasn't supposed to- "

"And where did dating him lead to? Getting her heart broken!"

"Yeah, But you know, everybody goes through that kind of drama in high school. We did. And you turned out pretty good."

Callie couldn't help but smile. He had a point.

"Okay. Okay, we can go to Disney World. But if she ever breakes the rules like that again-"

"Then I will personaly take her out of the school, hire a tutor, put bares on her windows, and forbid her from ever leaving the house again under pain of listening to opera music all day long." he babbled, as he kissed her passionatly, washing away any worries of troublesome, rule breaking children.

Two hours later, Easy gazed at Callie's slim form, laughing quietly at how she was already babbiling in her sleep.

He walked off to Maddy's room, knocking lightly on the door.

Maddy had been writing in her diary and when she heard the knock on the door she wanted to shoot fire at whoever the knocker was.

"Who is it?" she yelled.

"It's dad."

Maddy felt her fists loosen a little as she went and opened the door.

"What is it?"

"We're going to Disney World tommorrow."

Maddy stared at him for several moments, taking it in.

"Oh, thank you daddy!" she squealed, throwing her arms around him. "You are the most wonderful, terrific dad in the whole entire world."

Easy laughed, ruffling her hair. "You know it. Just don't be too loud, you don't want to wake your sister up, we're not telling her until morning. If she found out now she wouldn't sleep until we got there."

Maddy's eyes grew wide in knowing. "Oh, yeah. She's like Tom Cruise on speed when that happens."

The next morning, the Walshs boarded the first flight to Orlando, a boucing, elated Lily skipping her way onto the plane in her Cinderella dress. Callie had wanted her to wear something more appropriate but she'd screamed and cried and thrown a huge ugly tantrum and by then they really needed to leave so she'd gotten her way. Callie had managed to get her to wear a white trechcoat over it though, which made it less obvioius that she and Easy let there daughter prance around like.. well like a princess.

"Daddy, we gonna stay in cindwella's casle?" Lily asked Easy, as they found their seats in first class.

Easy ruffled her curls. "No baby, we're staying in a hotel nearby. But your and Maddy's room looks a lot like it."

What?

Maddy tore off her headphones and stared at her dad like he'd just told her that Justin Timberlake had died.

"We have to share a room?"

Callie didn't look up from the magazine she was reading. "Maddy, we're going to Disney World and you won't even be spending much time in the room."

Maddy huffed and glared at her sister like she was the plague, before looking at her parents again.

"If she stares crying, I'm sleeping on the couch."

Jenny and Julian had not been planning on taking Sean to Disney World. But they always went there at least once a year and they knew that Sean wanted to go, so the same day as Callie and Easy went to Disney World, they did too. Jenny, Julian and Sean were walking down Mainstreet Disney, enjoying the sights, and they were thinking about going on a water ride- when they saw none other then Callie, Easy, Maddy and Lily right in front of them. Maddy's eyes went wide when she saw Sean and she stiffled down a scream.

"Dad, I'm kind of hungry, let's find somewhere to eat-"

But no. Jenny was already approaching them, smiling sweetly at Lily. Damnit!

"Hi." Jenny said cheerfully. "We were actually heading down to this one Hawaii like restaurant, do you want to join us."

Say no thanks mom and dad, say no thanks mom and dad, say no thanks mom and dad...

"Is tere a r'cade?" Lily asked Jenny.

Jenny nodded. "Yeah, there's an arcade."

"Mommy, let's go!"

And they went!

Maddy did not look at Sean, she sat as far away from him as possible at the table and the second she was done with her meal, she asked her mom for some money for the arcade. Lily trailed off after her, and Sean was just about to go to the arcade as well when his dad grabbed his arm and Sean sat back down.

"Sean, you, me and Easy are going to have a little talk."

Crap... he had to talk with the father of the girl he'd dumped like a deadweight. Jenny and Callie got up and said something about tanning. And suddenly, Sean was very much alone with his father and his ex-girlfriend's father.

"So Sean..." Easy started. "I heard you were dating my daughter during the first few weeks of school."

"Um... yes, I was."

"Do you care to tell me why you guys broke up?"

Awkward.

"Um... well, we just kind of grew apart."

"Sean, what I think Easy is trying to say is that you really hurt Maddy's feeligs and that you probably owe her an apology."

Sean stared awkwardly between his dad, and Easy, who looked close to bashing Sean's brains in if he didn't say sorry to Maddy.

"Okay. I'll talk to her."

When Sean found Maddy and Lily in the arcade, Maddy couldn't see him, but Lily could.

"HI SAN!" Lily shouted.

Maddy's eyes grew wide as she twirled around and faced Sean. He looked nervous. Good.

"Can I talk to you?" Sean asked her.

Maddy strongly considered yelling at Sean to fuck off. But if she did then Lily would run off screaming for their dad, shouting that Maddy had said the "F word." Easy had only ever spanked her for being bad a few times but for teaching her sister a curse word, she didn't think he'd hesitate in slapping her silly. So instead she just said sure.

Sean wasn't sure what to say. And when Maddy's looked at him with those huge, sad, gorgeous blue eyes, he felt like a total slime-ball for dumping her as thoughtlessly as he had. How- why had he ever dumped her? Ava. He honestly could not remember a time when Ava had asked him what his favorite hobby was, or anything personal like that. All they'd ever done was.. make-out. But Maddy had asked him those types of questions and she honestly seemed like she really cared about him. He'd always felt like he and Ava had been in some sort of race.

"I was wrong." he said. "I am so, so sorry about all that- all that stuff with Ava."

He saw Maddy's lip quiver as she moved a step closer to him.

"You'll call Ava today and tell her it's over?"

He nodded his head like a bobble-head doll.

Lily stared from one of them to the other several times- and all of a sudden they were kissing, completely oblivous to the fact that she was right there.

"DADDY!"

Easy and Julian had been talking when Easy heard Lily screaming. For a second he thought that Maddy had said something that had upset her but as he caught her as she ran over to him, he knew that that wasn't it. Lily looked confused and out of breath but not in the way that he'd assumed. He could see her trying to form words, coughing as she also tried to catch her breath. Easy had to try to not laugh as he picked her up and walked back to the table.

"What's wrong sweety?" he asked her, once she'd had some water and calmed down.

"Maddy- and San- wer- wer- tay wer kissing!"

Easy glanced at Julian who was just staring at the ceiling trying not to laugh and that only made it harder for Easy to try not to laugh and at that point Lily was getting quite frustrated.

"Daddy, isn't Maddy in tuble?"

Easy just ruffled her curls and caughed down a laugh.

"It's okay sweety, she's not in trouble."

Lily looked horrified. But they hadn't ordered desert yet so when Easy got her a sundae she completely forgot about Maddy and Sean kissing.

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