Chapter 27: The End (yay!)
The whole house was in disturbing mess. Toys and stuff were left scattering everywhere. Dean, Seth , Roman and Randy were playing and running around the spacious hall room and stairs, throwing stuff at each other, their laughing and screaming echoing in the air. Their parents were working late again and Kane had took the responsibility of looking after them ,together with their housekeeper Vickie.
"Randy, don't hit Dean so hard! You are going to break his skull!" Kane , who was carrying a laundry hamper , shouted to Randy who was smacking Dean's head with a toy stick. He and Seth had brought all toys from their playing room and left them littering on the floor. Kane and Vickie however decided to just allow them doing whatever the kids wanted to.
"Sorry!" Randy shouted back, ducking an ambush from Roman and Seth and dashed towards the corner of the room. Dean chased them around, not even effected by Randy's nasty assault to him.
"Oh my God, " Vickie shook her head, sighing as she looked at the chaos the kids left around.
"Just let them be, " Kane grinned. "I'll help you clean up the mess as soon as they were asleep later. Vickie, I'm going to help with the laundry," He told her.
"Great, Kane, thanks. I need to set up the kids room," Vickie nodded and she went upstairs. Kane went into the laundry room to proceed with the clothes washing.
He dumped the mass pile of dirty clothes into the laundry machine and start operating the machine when Randy stormed inside all by sudden.
"What , Randy? " Kane asked, wondering if something bad was happening to the children outside.
"Your girlfriend was here," Randy panted heavily because he had been running non stop since. Kane was taken aback. Layla was here? He was confused. He had texted her earlier saying that he would not be taking her out tonight since he had to babysit the kids, but she did not reply. He had thought Layla probably was getting fed up with him.
Kane left the laundry room and went into the hall room to find Layla standing at the front door, surrounded by the three of Dean, Roman and Seth. They seemed to be excitedly talking to her, and she was looking enthusiastic and genuinely happy to entertain them in response.
"Layla? What are you doing here?" Kane asked, slightly nervous.
"You did not read my text? I told you I'm coming over." Layla grinned, patting Dean's head before the kids resumed their 'war'. "Your brothers are cute. Thought you said you only had two,"
"Oh dear. I must have missed it." Kane replied sheepishly. "No, no, that were Randy and Seth. You seen their pics, right? The other two were their friends. Dean and Roman. Dean is my driver's son." He explained.
"Oh, wow," Layla nodded, "They seemed handful." She commented.
"You had no idea. My housekeeper and I are gonna die cleaning those afterwards." Kane answered. "Come on, have a seat." He invited.
Layla nodded and followed Kane to sit on the couch. "So..umm..I might sound dumb, but..umm, why are you visiting me? Not that I don't like you coming, you know, but with these kids around, I'm afraid you'll be uncomfortable." Kane began.
"You really did not read my text." Layla smiled. "I'm helping you with babysitting. I'm so happy that you did not go to the military school, and I know you are stuck with your chores, so let's just say that I intend to help you looking after them," She explained shyly.
Kane chuckled. "Are you serious? You had no idea what you gotten into, trust me," He joked.
"I know ," Layla giggled. "I don't mind all the noise. Besides, I'm happy because I got to hang out with you." She confessed.
"Me too. I'm happy that you were here." Kane touched Layla's hands. " I'm happy that you were willing to sit through this hell with me," He sighed, looking at Dean who now held a nerf gun in his hand and he aimed a shot towards the Samoan kid, Roman.
"Take that, Roman!" Dean screamed , and Roman fired back a shot to him, refusing to surrender. Randy and Seth still were chasing each other.
"Don't feel bad about it. I love kids," Layla assured.
"So..umm..I hope you don't mind if we just hanging here. I wish we could have some privacy in my room, but you know with these rascals, I can't let them out of my sight even for one second." Kane said. ''And I'm actually doing laundry stuff."
"Hey, don't sweat it. I totally understand." Layla grinned. "We could watch netflix here or some weirdass movie, I don't mind. I can help you with the laundry."
"Okay. I promise we'll go out for a normal date someday. Hold on, I'll grab some chips and drink for you." Kane stood up and quickly went into the kitchen to look for some snacks.
He returned with a bag of chips, bowl of popcorn and two bottles of light Coke. Layla was browsing through the collection of DVDs, that mostly just cartoon movies, but there were also general types among them.
"Anything you like?" Kane asked. "I'll get my laptop and we can surf Netflix, if you like to."
"Nah. Don't have to. I think this will do," Layla picked an action comedy movie and Kane helped to turn the DVD on .
The movie only started for five minutes when suddenly Seth and Dean barging towards the couch, almost hitting on Kane and Layla.
"Seth, Dean, behave!" Kane reprimanded, but both of the kids ignored him. Not too long after, Randy and Roman joined them and the kids started to circling around the couch spot , much to Kane's irritation.
Apparently, Randy who was tag teaming with Roman, grabbed hold of Dean and Seth tried to rescue Dean by knocking Roman over the coffee table, spilling the bowl of popcorn. Randy took a handful of popcorn and tossed them to Seth. Dean responded by pushing Randy off, while Seth and Roman battling each other.
"Kids, stop it !" Kane yelled, seizing both Randy and Roman. Layla also attempted to help by pulling Seth off, because Seth was the smallest among them all and it was easier to hold him.
Somehow Seth slipped off Layla's hands, and he grabbed the bottle of Coke that Kane had left opened, and spilled the drink on Randy. Randy escaped from Kane's hold as well, and he immediately attacked Seth back. All the four children were off their leash and viciously fought each other, and soon the popcorn and chips were all over everywhere on the floor.
It wasn't long before Layla , unfortunately were also a victim of the food brawl, when she was splashed with Coke drink on her hair, and chips raining on her dress.
"I'm sorry! " Dean, who was the attacker, apologized before he ran off following the other three, who now, for some reason, had reallocated their battle ground to somewhere else, probably were afraid of Kane now that they had left the spot in dirty mess again.
"I told you." Kane shook his head as he watched Layla fixing her damp hair from the drink spill. "You regretting it now?" He asked ruefully. But he could not help admitting that Layla was adorable in the mess of the drink and chips.
"I think I love this." Layla grinned, curling her ruined hair. "Yes, I do love this. This is awesome!" She gushed excitedly.
"So you willing to go out with me?" Kane asked. " Well, a normal date, of course. Where you won't get Coke and chips spilled on your lovely hair." He teased.
"Of course." Layla answered. "I'd love to. Even if your brothers were such troublesome." She nodded with a huge smile curling up her lips. Kane smiled back, leaning forward to kiss her .
"Let's get back to our movie, shall we?" Kane picked up the remote control and resumed the movie on , wrapping his arm around Layla's back lovingly. In return, she rested her head on Kane's shoulder, together enjoying the evening with the noisy and deafening sounds of the children in the background, that turned as music to their ears.
Life is, after all is damn good.
-the end-
OK guys. That's it. We had officially ended the journey here and I hope you all enjoying the story. Do let me know if the ending sucks or you want an alternate ending or anything..just drop me a review or message. I would like to thank you to those who read, follows, favorites, leaving a review, reading in silent, hating or loving the whole story, thank you for sticking up with my little family.
Special thanks to my lovely bestfriend Willow Edmond who continuously lending her support and giving me inspiration to keep going even though sometimes I was tempted to leave the story unfinished once. Also maybe, it's time to let you all know this is originally meant to be one shot, I never intend to write more, but seeing some good response asking me "I want to see what happened to the kids in the funeral home" , after the Chapter 1, encouraged me to write more, thus enabling it to turn into 27 chaptered shots. Yeah, I don't even know how we get here. And you guys should go check Willow's works, she's an awesome writer!
But I don't forget the others who left me reviews too, casper97,Lisa, wweandegrassi, sethrollinsbabe, cynicalecho and other readers with account, thank you too. You guys rock.
Guest, all those under guest names, thanks a lot too. I know Kane is such a guilty pleasure, I'm glad you love him and you love my work. Yes, we hard a hard time loving what he did although it was so wrong.
Dani- I confess while writing Kane as teenager, I pictured him in the rolled up mask and school outfits , all grumpy and rebellious! i know its weird. Who would not love Mark, triple H and Steph? *grins*
Well,it's time for Kane and his little family to wish you all GOODBYE *sobbing*. Once again, thank you .