I'm back, again, With another chapter. I hope you are all liking this story because It's gonna ger real crazy soon. ENJOY IT...
Gnomeo pov
I was sitting with my daughter joelle out in the alley just spending daddy daughter time with her. Next to juliet she was the most important girl in my entire life, she and I spent so much time togehter I taught her pretty much everything she knew about fighitng when she was just a child and the 2 of us had been so close to each other for years now. I coudn't really imagine life without her.
"Joelle I have a suprise for you" I said walking around with her.
"What?!" She said smiling.
"I thought about it and...I think you're old enough to take your first lawnmower ride" I said to her.
"Really!" She screamed happily.
"You've earned it, you're mature and I trust you" I kissed her forehead.
"AH THANK YOU DADDY I LOVE YOU SO MUCH!" She shreiked to me and then jumped into my arms. "Can I try it now" she said getting excited.
"Not right now, but later on today I promise you that" I said hugging her.
That's when I saw the gate open and my other daughter joelle came walking out minding her own buiseness.
"DAD!" She said to me but I didn't really answer.
"Joelle over here!" My joelle called to her and she came running over to us both.
"Hi joelle hey dad" She smiled.
"Hi" I said fast.
"What are you 2 doing?" She wondered
"Dad was about to show me to ride a lawnmower" Joelle said.
"Really?" Joelle gasped. "I've always wanted to do that too, but mum never let me" She huffed.
"Dad can teach you too. Then we could both learn together" Joelles said I went wide eyed a little.
"Uhm actually.." I tried to say.
"I'd love that, can I dad?" Other joelle pleaded with me.
"Uhm actaully girls not right now I have things to get done but maybe I'll teach you later" I said nervously.
"Alright we can wait then" Other joelle said.
"C'mon joelle you and I can spend the day togehter till dad's ready to teach us" Joelle grabbed joelles arm and they both went prancing off somewhere. I leaned against the wall and wiped my forehead.
"Whew that was close" I sighed in relife. I tunred back around and went into the garden and walked up to the guys who were acknowledging my presence.
"Hey boys!" I greet them.
"Gnomeo!" They all say. "I thought you were with Joelle!"
"I was but I let her go she wanted to be somewhere else!" I shrugged.
"Well you want to hang with us then amigo!" Featherstone said.
"Sure and I was thinking we could..."
"Gnomeo!" I was interrupted when I heard my name being called. I turned around and saw my mum walking towards me. "Gnomeo there you are!?"
"Yes mum, what is it?"
"Lawnmowers broken, fix it please" She tells me.
I sigh and turn back to the guys "Sorry boys I have to do this, I'll catch you all later" I say walking off.
I walked into the blue shed where the mower was, the engine wasn't starting so I had to fix it right. I needed quite and concentration when doing this so I closed the door and got to work, you think mechanics wouldn't apply to gnomes but seeing as how I was smarter than the average gnome I knew a thing or two.
"Almost done!" I said messing around with it a little more, till the engine was working right. "There good as new, now I just need to check the rest of it!" I said looking back at it.
"Dad!" I got startled when I heard someone come in and bumped my head on the mower. I rubbed my head and groaned. "Dad!" I heard again, I turned and saw Joelle, Stephanie's Joelle, standing at the doorway.
"Oh Joelle, Hi!"
"I just came by to see you!" She said getting closer to me. "What you doing!?"
"Trying to fix this mower!"
"Oh, I could help, I know a thing or two!" She said looking over me.
"I don't need any help!" I tell her.
"Oh well when you're done, are you still going to teach me and Joelle to ride one!"
"I might be busy today, after all!" I said not really making eye contact.
"Ok, how about tomorrow then?" She said again.
"Maybe!" I said looking back to the mower. I was looking the other way but I had the feeling she was still behind me, and she was. "Joelle did you want something?"
"Just wanted to see what you were doing?" She shrugged.
I rolled my eyes. "Joelle can you please just go, I really need to work on this" I asked wanting her to leave.
"Are you sure you wouldn't just like me to help you" She asked
"Joelle leave me alone please!" I said accidentally snapping.
She backed away from me and frowned almost like she was about to cry. "Sorry!" She said walking out slowly.
"Finally!" I said going back to work.
"GNOMEO!" Someone screamed my name and made me hit my head again.
"Oh come on!" I said turning around and got a big suprise when stephanie just popped up in my face, I stumbled and fell backwards. She was glaring at me.
"A little warning next time you come up behind me like that" I snapped dusting myself off.
"I saw that!" She said bitter.
"Saw what?"
"What you just did to Joelle" She stated. "I saw you, all she was trying to do was be nice to you and you yell at her!"
"She was annoying me!" I tell her. "Besides I don't have time to deal with her right now, or you!" I said walking out of the shed and into the garden, but Stephanie was still following behind me.
"Gnomeo I wish you would just try and get along with her" Stephanie said.
"Who said I didn't" I looked back at her.
"You're always trying to avoid her whenever she's around!"
"So that doesn't mean I don't like that" I said wanting to end this conversation before it began.
"She's your daughter too gnomeo you can't avoid her forever" Stephanie said standing in my way again.
I rolled my eyes and huffed. "I'm not trying to avoid her at all" I tell pushing her aside. "Plus she's more your daughter than mine, She's spent her whole life raised by you" I point out trying to walk away again.
But once again stephanie standds in my way but this time she backed me against the wall so I couldn't leave "Exactly gnomeo, she's been with me all this time and spent her whole life without you" Stephanie said pointing it out to me this time. "She just wants to be with the father she never had with her growing up" She said calm and sadly.
"She doesn't need me, she turned out just fine without me in her life" I argue with her
"She'd turn out better if you would just spend time with her"She argued back to me. "And she is in your life now and you have to accept that!"
As much as I hated to admit it she was right. "I don't know, I mean I don't even know what she's really like" I tell stephanie making her let me go already.
"Well this is your time to find out what she's like, you two might have a lot in common if you just gave her a chance to be your daughter and you need to start acting like her father" She said going big in the eyes.
"Alright I'll spend time with her" I huffed.
"Thank you" Stephanie smiled. "And be nice she's had a hard time not having you around" She said before walking away somewhere.
I went around the garden to try and find her and I saw her sitting by the pond talking and giggling with joelle, she and joelle got along great like actually sisters. When they saw me coming they both stopped and acted like they weren't doing anything.
"Hey! how are my girls doing?" I smiled.
"Hi dad" joelle said to me
"We're doing just fine" Joelle 2 said to me.
"Girls I was thinking what if the 3 of us could spend some time together if you want" I grinned.
"Sure dad!" They both said.
My mum then walked up to me almost giving me a fright "Gnomeo dear I'm glad your here, you still have some chores to get done!" She tells me.
"Mum I'm with my daughters right now can it wait!" I said pointing to my Joelle's
"You can't keep putting this off you know! Mum eyed me.
"I'm not trying to I'm just trying to be a good father right now!" I argued back.
"Fine but your getting them done tomorrow no excuses!" She states walking away. I roll my eyes and look back to my girls.
"Okay then...let's go joelle" I said.
"Coming!" They both said standing up.
I paused. "Oh right you're both named joelle, How am I gonna tell you apart?" I thought it over.
"You could call me jo if that helps dad" joelle 2 said to me.
"Alright jo it is then. Come along joelle and jo" I said in a mocking playful tone.
By the time we made it to the alley and walked passed my garden juliet came out and saw us.
"Gnomeo I need your help with something" Juliet said running to me.
"Can it wait? I'm taking the girls to the mall" I pointed to the girls behind me.
"Hi mum!" Joelle waved and juliet waved back, but then stopped when she saw jo was there too.
She looked, or should I say, glared to me."Gnomeo can I speak to you for a moment?" She said through her teeth still with a smile, before I could answer she pulled me into the laurence garden.
"What was all that about?" I said.
"Why are you taking her?!" She whispered pointing and glaring to jo outside the gate.
"She is my daughter, I figured I should spend time with her" I whisper back.
"Joelle is more stephanie's daughter than she is yours, her mum just dragged her back into your life and you were so much better off without her"
I chuckled and turned her chin to face me."I know you're upset, but she's my responsiblility now, I love you and joelle very much but jo's a part of my life now too." I said to her calmly while stroking her cheek, that seemed to calm her down a little. "Besides she and joelle get along like real sisters". I probably shouldn't have said that.
Juliet glared to me again."But they're not sisters at all!" She said getting mad again. "Joelle is your only daughter and stephanie and her daughter should just go away and leave us alone!" She said crossing her amrs and taking a step from me.
That's when it hit me this wasn't about jo, juliet was more about stephanie and I knew why. "Juliet are you jealous of stephanie?" I asked her.
She turned to me like I was crazy. "What? Of course not, I just don't like her" She said back.
I chuckle and turn her back to me raisng her head to face me. "Juliet I know what you're going through with all this, believe me I'm feeling the same way, but you have nothing to worry about. You're my wife and the only one I'll always have, I love you and only you and that will never change for any other girl that comes into my life no matter how much more beautiful or smater they are than you, you'll always be the most gourgeous, slender, independant young woman I love" I got to my knees as I said that to her knowig I was serious.
She gave me a loving smile and pulled me back to my feet, I could see she was covering a lot more upset behind that smile, so I brought her into a hug to cheer her up more. She wrapepd tight to em and cuddled into my chest as I kissed her soft bruenette cotton candy hair.
"I'm sorry I've been all agressive to you about this, I just can bare the thought of losing you to another girl, espcially to one who had your child" She whimpered holding me tighter.
I removed her from me and looked her right in the eyes. "You don't have to worry becuase you're my only girl" I said smiling to her.
"I still wish stephanie would just go away" She huffed
"I get it your mad but we'll talk later. Right now I have to take the girls out" I said kissing cheeck.
I leave Juliet with a small frown on her face she was so cute when she cared. I walked back to the girls. "Sorry for the delay girls, I had to take care of a few things"
"Wait gnomeo" Juliet ran back to me. "Almost forgot to give you this" She gave me a sudden kiss on the lips.
"Oh thank you" I winked at her and she blushed.
"So where you 3 heading?"
"To the mall" Jo said before I could.
"Mum why don't you come with us" Joelle said.
"Oh no sweeite that's fine you 3 go on ahead and have fun" She said in fake delight.
"Okay then bye mum" Joelle gave her a hug before joining me and jo as we walked to the mall garden
"Just look at the 3 of us" Joelel said bringint the 3 of us closer. "Having daddy-daughter time together" She giggled, she was in a good mood than most of us were and that always made all the others feel better too.
We made it to the mall and the girls just started going wild going into every store thay thought would have something good in it. I was running in and out of stores for hours until I had to rest, girls really tire you out.
"Girls let's take a break" I said sitting on the closets bench.
"We can take a break later we still have more stores to check out" Jo said pulling me back up.
"I say we go to that one next" Joelle said pointing to the sports store in view. "C'mon dad you love sports and weapons, you might like it in there for sure" Joelle helped jo put me inside. There were all sorts of things there that I found interesting just like joelle said I would. She knew me so well and I knew her just as good.
"Hey dad look at this" Joelle said as I walked to the sound of her voice and saw her showing me a large well desgined lawmnower.
"Wow!" I said slowly creeping towards it.
"I know right" Joelle said awing too.
"I don't belive it this is a..." But I was cut off.
"It's a one of a kind prototype model of the Rx lawn racer, the fastest, lawnmower on the market that belongs to one of the most famous lawmmower racer gnomes of all time. This baby has it all speed, air resistance, super strong all-terrain tires, smooth mauvering and it'll keep any garden grass looking like brand new" Jo stepped in looking around to it drooling alsmost. "I've only seen this is magazines before but the pictures have nothing on this, unless you see it in real life you can only imagine how big and powerful it really is" She finished saying. Me and joelle hung our mouths open and looked to jo.
She saw us look to her and she gave scared looks back. "What?" She whined.
"How do you know so much about lawnmowers?" Joelle said.
"You know, I don't know. I assumed I got it from one of my parents but My mum never talked much about lawnmowers ever" She said.
"You probably got it from dad then, racing is in his blood too" Joelle giggled.
Jo and I looked to each other and she grinned a little. "I guess I got it from you then dad" She grinned.
"I guess so" I said calmly smiling to her. I kept smiling at her till my mind came back
"Alright girls, time to go" I said pushing them out the store.
"Can we eat before we go, I'm hungry" Jo said groaning from hunger.
"Fine we can get a quick snack" I said as we sat down in the food place to eat.
"So jo, how are you enjoying the garden so far" joelle asked.
"I love it there, the best part was meeting you and dad" She giggled.
"Me too, I ove having a sister around"
"Techically half sisters" I butt in.
"Oh dad don't be such a buzzkill" Joelle rolled her eyes to me.
"Yeah dad stop being the buzzkill here" Jo remarked back as they both laughed.
"You girls are so funny" I said rolling my eyes grinning.
"Hang on I'll be right back I gonna get a refill" Joelle said getting up and leaving me and jo.
"So uh dad how do you like having me as a daughter now" She said wanting to break the akward silence.
"You're pretty alright so far" I said trying to make eye contact with her.
"Oh that's good, because for a second I thought you hated me or something" She aughed a little. "But that's not true is it" She said smiling at me.
"Of course not, I don't hate you, I was just caught off guard when I found out you were my daughter" I reassured her. "And even more off guard when I found i out it was with stephanie"
"You know I've always wondered what my dad was like" She said.
"Really?!"
"MMm-hmm, mum always told me that you were a really great guy and I always wanted to know what my dad was like. All my old friends would tease me about not having a father around, and they all had theirs around to love and hold and cuddle them when they were young. And it was hard for my mum when all she would ever talk to me about was youand it made me feel even worse that I had to grow up and be the respomsible one since I didn't have a dad around to take care of mum and me. Sometimes I felt I never had you around because you wouldn't want to have anything to do with me but that never stopped me from wishing that I had you in my life, every year on my birthday I would wish for at least a single chance to see my father and have the family mum and I were missing because of the lack of a father figure around, to tell me right from wrong and to protect me when I needed it. That's all I ever wanted from life to meet my dad and finally have a father who loved me" She started crying a little, that made me feel so bad that I had put her through all that and I didn't even know her that well.
I put a hand on her back to soothe her. "Jo, sweetie, I'm sorry that I put you through all that. If I had known I had you for a daughter I would've been there for you, Like a real father should have"
She brought her head back up. "That's alright, I know it's not your fault" She sniffled.
"I can't go back and be in your life from the start, but I promise I'll be there for you now" I said teling her.
"You will" She sighed wiping a tear away.
"I am, you're my daughter now and I'm gonna try and be there as much as I can now" I said pulling a strand of hair away from her.
"Thanks daddy" She smiled. "Can I have a hug please?"
"Of course you can" I said as she came and hugged me, I felt her move her head into my chest like I was protecting her, which I would do since she was apart of my life now. "C'mon lets get your sister and go home already" I tell her.
We walked back home and joelle and jo were talking the whole time, but joelle said she had to help juliet with a few things so that just left me and jo for the moment until stephanie appered from noowhere giving me a fright.
"What did I tell you about doing that?" I said annoyed and regained my cool.
"Sorry" She giggled.
"Hi mum" Jo said hugging stephanie.
"Hey joelle how was your day?" She said.
"Great mum me and dad spent the whole day together" Jo said holding my arm tightly.
"With joelle of course" I add.
"That's sweet" Stephnaie grinned.
"Alright jo you can go find joelle if you'd like" I said settign jo free to go.
"Ok bye dad, see ya mum" And she took off, leaving me and stephanie.
"Well?" Stephanie said raising an eyebrow to me.
I raised an eyebrow to her in confusion. "Well what?" I said moving back from her
"What do you think of her?" She smiled to me
I grinned. "She's alright, we actaully do have a few things in common"
Stephanie lite up after that. "I told you you'd like her if you just got to know her!" She hugged me and I gave her a hug back before pushing her away from me. I didn't want juliet seeing and getting the wrong idea.
"Yeah she does make a pretty good daughter, and joelle likes her too, she actual seemed pretty glad to have a half-sister around now" I tell her.
"See I told you; you got along with joelle, joelle finally has her father around and your joelle has a half-sister to spend time with, everyones happy now"
"All...except juliet" I sighed thinking of how juliet was really taking all this.
"Why isn't juliet happy?" Stephanie got a bit closer to me.
"She thinks that you and I still have somethign between us:
Stephanie gasped. "Me and you together?"
"I know crazy right?" I grinned to her.
"Did you tell her we were just friends?"
"I did, she's having a hard time believing that" I frowned.
"Maybe I could talk to her and tell her there's nothing for her to worry about." Stephanie considered to smooth things over with juliet about the 2 of us.
"You sure?" I said. "Juliet can be a bit, hard to get throught to sometimes."
"I'm a girl like her, I'll know what to say. And I've dealt with hard girls before, I had to get use to it when joelle was going through her hard phase" She laughed about that and then I laughed along with her.
"Well stephanie if you think you can, you can give it a try. I just don't want juliet getting mad with me"
"No problem I got this handled."
"Thanks stephanie you're the best" I hugged her before marching off to get my own things done.
will everything work out or will stephanie make things worst? Stick around.
