Carry On

by StutterRutter

"It takes a Village to raise a child." It's been over 10 years since anyone has heard from Nina Martin. But, after she left Fabian alone with their daughter, no body really cares. They joined forces to raise her, usually, putting their our lives on the back burner. But now, Arabella Rutter is 13 and everything starts to change. And they only have one choice, to Carry On.

20. A Fashion Surplus

-Chapter 20-

~Fabian~

I look out the train window and it reminds me,

It's 7:30 am.

I'm on a one-way train from Liverpool back to Oxford.

I'm leaving that house behind.

I'm leaving Nina behind.

I may never see her again, Nina Martin-Rutter may never come into my life again, the woman I'm married to, still, and before this week, I haven't seen for a decade, I may not see for another decade, maybe longer...

The landscape whizzes by and changes until the train stops. I climb into the taxi, Arabella and Mia go with Amber for supplies for school, I go to the university. It was Saturday, i figured I would go and grade the papers i missed out on all week.

I went to the campus StarBucks then to my office. Two piles, very high piles, I might add, were awaiting me, one was mail, the other, ungraded papers.

I sat down, sighed and got to work

~Willow~

Amber waited for us at the train stop then automatically dragged me, Mara and KT into a shopping trip for the girls.

Next thing I know, I'm in the private dressing room of one of Ambers many stores. I was busy running in and out of the room grabbing clothes and trading them out with KT and Mara, Joy met up with us and was helping out Amber with "critical fashion choices".

I mean, their going to a boarding school, with uniforms, how many other outfits do they need? I knew Mia wasn't really into being thrown around in different clothes but, Arabella was having a blast. You get unlimited free clothes? For a good reason? Why the heck not?

Four hours, fifty outfits each later, we haul all the new clothes into the trunk and go to find the actual, school supplies. Thank god that only took an hour, I knew the girls had to get ready for the fashion runway show they had to attend with Amber because, they were Junior Co-Designers...

We get all the new stuff into the room when Fabian walks in

"how was it?" He asks

"Horrifying." Mia responds

"Only you, Mia, only you." He shakes his head, chuckling

"We have to get ready!" Amber pushes him out of the room

"Okay, okay." He hurries out

Amber goes into Arabella's bathroom and comes out with 3 make up bags, a make up box, and several styling tools, several.

"Let's get this show on the road!" She squeals

A/N fluffy, happy, nice, chapter. I didn't make any feels or majorly screw up a character, don't except that to last but, it happened! How do you feel about that? I love y'all. But, if you review, I love you even more! ✌️.