Hey readers! So I got wonderful feedback from the last chapter :) So thank you guys so much for that! Im soo sorry this chapter is late but I did something stupid :P I uploaded the chapter onto my fanfiction account but never published it into the story. So I've been waiting for reviews and wondering why there weren't any, so I checked it out and now I feel so stupid!
Lily's point of view
Nathan and I went out for dinner that night to celebrate, we even had some champagne. Nathan was usually pretty good about letting me have a drink here and there, after all I was 17. (AN: Can someone tell me what the legal drinking age in U.S is? Is it 21? I live in Canada and its 18-19) We got back to Nathans place around 11.
"I'm going to bed." Nathan said walking down the hall to his room. "Night Lily."
"Night Nate." I said walking along side of him to the guest room. "Thank again for today and everything."
"No problem." He said looking into the guest room where I was staying. "I guess we can call this your room now."
"Yeah I guess so."
"When we go back to the house next week in Santa Barbara we can go through everything, what we want to bring out here and what to sell." He said. "Then when you go back to school I'll have everything shipped over here okay?"
"Yeah sounds great." I smiled giving him a hug. "I'm gonna call Zack and tell him the good news."
"Okay, don't stay up to late."
"Way to go parental Nathan." I laughed as he started to walk out of my room.
"How did it sound?"
"Not bad." I laughed as he went down the hallway to his own room.
I looked around the room trying to picture this as my new bedroom. It was pretty plan but it would look different once all my stuff was in it.
"Let's see what does this room need to make it more Lily?" I said out loud. "Okay first some paint, can't live to long with white walls."
As I was about to figure out where all the furniture was going to go until my cell phone started to ring.
"Hello?"
"Hey Lils, I didn't wake you did I" I heard Zack's voice say.
"Hey Zack." I said with a little laugh. "Nah you didn't wake me, how's it going?"
"Pretty good just here with everyone in the game room."
"Awesome, I say hi." I laughed walking over to sit in the window sill.
"Hey guys Lily sais hi." I heard him tell everyone then I heard the 6 of them yell. "Hey Lily!"
"Oh Zack I have news." I said remembering my news.
"Please tell me its good news." He said.
"Well I had my guardianship meeting today." I said making my voice sound a little sad.
"Oh no they're making you stay with your mom?" Zack said in disappointment.
"Nope!" I laughed. "Nathan pulled some strings because they wouldn't let me stay with anyone else not even my aunt Katherine since they would need to go background checks and it would take too long."
"So who is it?" He laughed. "The suspense is killing me."
"I get to stay with Nathan."
"That's great!" I said with the same tone, I could hear from the background that everyone else was happy too.
"I know I was so happy, I really think that's what dad would have wanted."
"I'm sure he would have, so how's everything else going?"
"Pretty good, were going back to Santa Barbara in a week or two to go through the house to see what we sell and what we bring to NYC."
"Oh fun stuff." He said sarcastically. "How do you think doing through the house will go?"
"It's going to be hard." I signed. "But then again we weren't in the house for long but still hard."
"Stay strong babe, I know you can do it."
"Thanks Zack." I said. "So are Cody and Bailey still on the outs?"
"Oh yes." He said talking in a low voice. "It's but it better end soon because we're all getting kind of sick of this."
"Awh man, well good luck with that."
"You too Lils."
"Well I'm going to bed; I'll talk to you soon." I said. "Love you."
"Night babe, I love you too."
"Night Zack." I said hanging up the phone.
Zack's point of view
(One week later)
"Okay I'm getting tired of Cody and Bailey." Travis said. Travis, Woody and I were all in my room.
"Yeah we need a way to get them back together." Woody said.
"Yeah but how?" I asked from my place on the floor.
"Maybe if we talk to Cody and London talks to Bailey?" Woody suggested.
"Nah we tried that but they won't listen." I said.
"How about we do that thing like on TV." Travis started. "We lock them into a room together and don't let them out until they solve their issues."
"Yeah!" Woody said very excited. "That always works on TV."
"Well it can't hurt." I said "They haven't talked in 2 weeks."
___2 day's later__
"Come on Cody, it will be fun." I said dragging him down the hall to the game room.
"Yeah just some guy time." Travis agreed.
I looked over at Woody for the signal. He was texting London to make sure Bailey was in the game room already. Once we got there Cody was a little more relaxed. Until we pushed him in and locked the door.
"Hey guys I heard the door." London said coming down the hall. "Everything set?"
"Yeah, did you lock the door on the other side with Bailey in there?" Travis asked.
"Yup."
Cody's point of view
"Come on guys let me out!" I yelled from inside the game room.
"We will let you out when you two make up." Zack laughed.
Make up? Make up with whom?
"I guess they want us to stop fighting."
I turned around to see who was talking to me and there stood Bailey. Oh great! So this is what their plan was. Those guys watch too much TV.
"Yeah I guess so."
"Look Cody I'm sorry." She said quietly. "I should have been focusing on our date instead of talking on the phone."
"No I'm sorry." I said taking her hand. "I was being stubborn, you had the right to be worried about Lily she's your best friend."
"But you're really important to me too." She smiled. "And I should have showed you that."
"Let's just forget about it." I smiled kissing her. "We were both at fault a little."
"Okay."
"Alright guys you can open the door." I yelled out to Zack. "We're not fighting anymore."
The door slowly opened and all of our friends were standing there with looks of caution, just in case we were lying. When they saw my arm around Bailey they stopped and opened the door.
"Thank goodness." Woody said. "We were getting extremely tired of you guys fighting."
"Were we that bad?" Bailey asked sheepishly.
"YES!" They all yelled back.
"Well things are back to normal." I said kissing Bailey's cheek.
"Almost normal." Bailey said. "But hopefully things are going well with Lily."
Lily's point of view
Nathan and I were at my house in Santa Barbara. We had gone through the whole house writing down what would stay and what would go. We weren't going to move anything yet because we were staying here while we planned the funeral.
"That took a little longer than I thought." I said sitting down on the couch in the living room.
"Yeah." Nathan said looking a little apprehensive. "Do you want to do Dad's room and his office now?"
"Sure let's get it over with." I said after thinking for a second.
We decided that these two rooms we could pack up now since we wouldn't be using them.
When I walked into the bedroom and so many memories can flooding back into my mind. The tan colored walls that made the room feel so warm. The bed with the chocolate brown comforter with white stripes and a red trim on it. I remember curling up in the bed with him when I had nightmares or if he was leaving the next day.
"You alright?" Nathan asked snapping me out of my thoughts.
"Yeah I'm fine." I said looking around. "Where do you want to start?"
"How about with the clothes?"
"Okay."
We spent about an hour going through his closet and dresser. We were donating all the clothes except for a few things. Nathan kept some of the things that fit him like some suits, dress shirts, a few golf shirts and a pair of jeans. I kept two of his shirts for myself; one was a purple dress shirt that I pick out for him for his first away conference since the divorce. The other was a simple blue t-shirt that we he wore for a family picture we did a few years ago. We packed up all the clothes into boxes and then put them into the basement. Then we decided to go through the other stuff that was in the closet and dresser.
"Hey Nathan look at his." I said holding up a big photo album.
"So that's where he's been hiding it." Nathan laughed. "Put if over there, we'll take it with us."
We found another photo albums, cards from birthdays, little crafts Nate and I had made for him as kids and a few home movies.
"Aw look Lily this was from one of your last pageants." Nathan laughed.
"Oh goodness." I laughed watching myself in a purple dress walk around on stage. "Do we have to keep that?"
"Yes of course we do."
"I remember this one." I said holding up a DVD. "This was the video's dad and I took of our Europe trip a year ago."
"Oh yeah." I said taking the rest of the boxes downstairs. "You guys had a great time."
"You were there for part of it." I laughed. "But you spent the rest of the time at work."
We spent most of the day in dad's office. We didn't find much in there, mostly work stuff.
"Hey Nate this drawer is locked." I said from behind his desk.
"Oh yeah one second." He said running out of the room. He came back after a minute with a key in hand.
"It said in his will that there is something in there for you." He said handing me the key.
I slowly placed the key into the slot and turned it. I opened it even slower as is if something was going to jump out at me. But nothing did, when I looked into the drawer there was just an envelope. I took it out and looked at it confused.
"Open it." Nathan said from his spot on the desk. "The will said it was a letter, he wrote one every year just in case something ever happened to him."
"Really? What about? Final goodbyes?"
"I don't know read it." He said. "But it's recent; he finished it right after your 17th birthday."
"Wow that was like 4-5 weeks ago." I said as I opened the envelope.
"I'll go put these boxes downstairs; you go on and read it." He said leaving the room.
I took a deep breath and took out the piece of paper. It was a full page long with the date set as the day after my birthday. After taking another breath I read the letter slowly…
My Beautiful Lillian, If you're reading this something must have happened to me. I hope you are doing well. Don't greave too much, I had a very happy life with you and your brother and I wouldn't change a thing about it. You and Nathan were the light of my life. I remember when I would come home from a trip or just being at the office for the day you would always great me as if I was gone for 3 years. If I was ever having a rough day at work I would think about how I would see my beautiful daughter soon enough. You can make anyone smile with those big blue eyes and bright smile.
Never forget the times we shared together Lily, I know I will always remember no matter where I am. I feel confident that you have the best people in your life to take care of you right now, even if I'm not there. I know Nathan will always be there for you along with Zack and all of your friends. Always remember Lily that even if I'm not there with you I'll always be there. I promised to be there for every important event in your life and I intend to keep that promise. I'll be watching you graduate from school, moving onto the working world, on your wedding day and when you have kids. You will do wonderful in life Lily, as a mother, a friend, a sister, a wife and to me a daughter. Even if you can't see me I'm never really far form you my dear.
Love always, Jack Parker aka your tag team partner
When I finished the letter I had tears streaming down my cheeks. It was so touching; I can't believe my father had done this. I also felt a good feeling of closure, like I finally got my goodbye from him. I suppose I needed to know that even though he was gone he would always be there out of sight but not out of mine.
"You alright Lily?" Nathan asked when he walked back into the room.
"Yeah Nate." I laughed wiping the tears from my eyes. "I'm great."
Zack's point of view
It's been a few days since Cody and Bailey got back together and things have been getting back to normal. Everyone was busy today so Bailey and I were hanging out on the sky deck so she could help me with math.
"So do you understand now?" Bailey asked after explaining the test review for the 3rd time.
"Yeah I do." I laughed, finally understanding the material we covered all week. "Thanks for the help Bailey; Lily usually helps me with math."
"No problem Zack." Bailey said closing her book.
"And to thank you for your help." I said standing up. "I'm going to buy you a smoothie, what flavor you want?"
"Strawberry Tango please." She smiled.
I walked over and got the smoothies. When I came back Bailey was talking with Mr. Moseby.
"Hey Mr. Moseby." I said walking back to my spot and handing Bailey her smoothie. "Here you go Bailey."
"Thanks Zack." Bailey said. "Mr. Moseby was just saying that Lily called to invite us all to Jack's funeral next week."
"Oh yeah?" I asked. "Are we allowed to go Mr. Moseby?"
"Of course." Mr. Moseby said. "When we dock got in St Thomas Virgin Islands next week both of you, Cody, Woody, Travis, London and I will go on a plane to Santa Barbara."
"That's great, how long will we be there for?" I asked.
"Only 2 days." Mr. Moseby answered. "And Lily was kind enough to let us stay at her house so we don't have to be in a hotel."
"Sounds cool."
"Perfect." Mr. Moseby said. "I need to get back to work, make sure you tell everyone else so we will be ready to leave next week."
Hope you enjoyed it! Please review :) Again sorry for my stupidity! But I'm basically done the next chapter so it will be up VERY soon. Thanks everyone!
