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Ready Set Go : Chapter 4

Harry’s POV

“No! We are talking about this now!” I heard someone shout, which woke me up.

At first I was confused as to where I was but then the events from last night flooded back in my memory.

Last night we rushed Sofia to the hospital and that was honestly one of the scariest moments in my life, then I figured it was a normal occurrence to their family because of how sync they all were.

Lorenzo and Y/N were fighting in the kitchen now for which I figured was because last night she found out he went their and used her credit or something, I didn’t really understand, all I knew was that he went in with someone and used the money she was collecting in the hospital for Sofia.

“Let it go, Y/N! It’s not a big deal.” I heard Lorenzo shout back at her.

“Not a big deal? Not a big deal? Are you kidding me! I almost wasn’t able to pay for Sofia’s bills last night!”

“Well, Harry handled that didn’t he?” he shouts back at his sister.

“If I talked back to my sister like that she’d be dragging my ass out of the house.” I thought to myself.

“He’s not always going to be here, Lorenzo! I thought we were a team. You should have told me so I could have made arrangements.”

“It’s not like I’m going anywhere pretty soon though.” It kind of hurt me a little hearing Y/N say that. Like it meant she didn’t want my help because I wasn’t their family, which was true, I wasn’t, but it didn’t mean she shouldn’t accept my help.

“Team? Arrangements?” He shouts at her and I couldn’t believe how he was treating his sister, when he was actually in the wrong, and even then. “We’re not a team, Y/N. You always saw me as a child and unreliable!”

“Maybe I won’t keep on treating you like a child if you stopped acting like a child!” she shouts back at him.

I felt uncomfortable listening in to their conversation, it felt like I was invading their privacy but I didn’t know what to do. I didn’t know where I could go without passing by them and being noticed.

At the corner of my eye, I saw a figure on the top of the stairs and saw that it was Sofia. I waved my hands for her to notice me and she looks at me and smiles softly.

I quietly walk up the stairs and sat beside her.

“Good morning, little bug.” I say to her because I saw her holding a beat up ladybug stuffed toy.

“That’s what Y/N calls me.” she says quietly back to me.

“What’s your friend’s name then?” I ask her but then Lorenzo and Y/N were shouting at each other again but this time louder and I saw Sofia cover her ears with her stuffed toy and clenched her eyes shut really tight.

“Hey.” I say and tapped on her shoulder and she looks up at me and looked like she was tearing up. “Does your friend have other friends? Want to show them to me?”

She then looked really excited and nodded her head before standing up and held my hand.

We went inside her room and I closed the door to drown out the noise from downstairs as she introduced me to all her stuffed toys and I pretended to shake their hands and introduced myself, which seemed to make her happy.

“Do you want to have breakfast?” she asks me with a sweet smile on her face.

I didn’t think that was such a good idea since her siblings were still having a go at it downstairs.

“I’m not really hungry yet. Are you?” I asked her and hoped she would say she wasn’t too.

“But I already made food.” She says and frowns as she cocks her head to the side, which made her look like the most adorable little kid in the world.

I then saw a small table beside her and she had it all set up like a tea party. “Oh that’s what she meant.” I say to myself and laughed.

“What’s so funny?”

“I was just thinking how hungry I got all of a sudden.”

“Really?” she asks excitedly and I nod my head and she holds my hand again and led me to a small chair. I had to put my weight on my heel since I felt the chair wobble a little. This was really an old piece I didn’t want to break it.

She then started pouring pretend tea and handed me a small teacup. “Thank you, madam.” I say and bowed my head at her, which made her giggle.

“Would you like some sugar?” she asks and holds a small sugar cube holder with little thongs.

“Yes please. Ten.” I tease her and she frowns at me.

“You can’t drink that much sugar. It’s bad for you.” she says and laughs.

“Two then please.” I laughed back.

“She then placed two fake sugar cubes in my teacup.” And looked at me so I pretended to take a sip from it, which made her smile really wide.

She then started cutting fake food and it was delightful just watching her, until she accidentally hit her hand on the table.

“Ouch.” She says and touched the gauze on the back of her hand and I was reminded of how she looked last night.

That was one of the scariest times in my life. One minute she and Y/N were just being sweet towards each other and everyone was just laughing and having fun then out of nowhere she just started seizing. I was completely lost, I didn’t know what to do. Good thing they did though.

I watched as she played and acted like last night wasn’t such a big deal, like she was so used to it, which I guess was both a good and bad thing. Good that at least she had a positive outlook in life and a bit sad too cause no one deserved to live like this.

I also felt bad that I could have caused it. I didn’t really know what she had but was it just a coincidence that she had an attack while I was there? A coincidence that she had an attack after I maybe played too much or too rough with her? Coincidence that she had an attack after I bought all those food? Y/N felt she had to pay me for paying for the hospital bill, but aside from me wanting to help them, I also felt like it was my fault too.

“You don’t have to worry about me.” Sofia says, which took me out from my flashback.

“Sorry?”

“I know you feel bad about what happened last night. It wasn’t your fault. It wasn’t anyone’s fault.” She says and it took me aback for a minute at how mature she was about this.

“Why do you think I blame myself for last night?”

“Because everyone blames themselves.” She says as she poured more pretend tea into my cup and hers “People fight because of me. People always think it’s their fault or that they could have done something better. Also, people leave because of me.” she says as she continued to play with her toys.

She’s so young and still a child but her mind was so mature for her age.

I was about to ask her who left her when all of a sudden someone opens the door and I turned my head to see who it was.

“What’s happening here?” Y/N asks as she entered the room and I could tell she was putting up a brave face for her little sister. Her eyes were a bit puffy, so I figured she must have been crying.

I just wanted to give her and Sofia a big hug. This family goes through a lot every day and they still make it work. They’re good people and don’t deserve how hard their life was. No one deserved this.

“We’re having breakfast.” Sofia says with a big smile on her face.

“Oh wow. Can I join?” Y/N says and Sofia nods her head and she sits beside me. “Good morning, bug.” She says to Sofia and kisses her lips.

“Good morning.” Sofia answers her sweetly and gave her a teacup.

“Good morning.” she says to me coldly without looking at me.

“I guess she doesn’t like me again today.” I say to myself and laughed in my head.

“Good morning.” I say and flashed her a smile.

We played for a couple of minutes until Y/N’s phone vibrated and she pretended to finish her tea before standing up.

“Come on, bug. Time for second breakfast then off to ballet for you.”

“I don’t want to do ballet anymore.” Sofia says and looked down.

“What are you talking about, bug? You love ballet.” Y/N says and bends her head to level with Sofia’s head.

“No. I don’t like it anymore.” She says and shook her head.

“Are you sure?” Y/N asks and she nods her head without looking up. “Okay then. I’ll just make your food okay?” Y/N says and she nods her head again.

“Why don’t you like ballet anymore?” I ask Sofia as soon as Y/N was out of the room.

“I still do.” She says and cleared her toys into a box.

“Then why did you say you didn’t like it anymore?”

“Because Y/N can’t pay for it anymore.” She says as she fixed her other toys.

“What makes you think that? Did she tell you she couldn’t afford it?”

“No.” she says and shook her head. “I just know. She’s working so much and she’s already paying for everything. I don’t want to be a burden to her anymore.”

This child can’t seem to stop surprising me.

“This little girl really was something. She was wise beyond her years.” I say smiling to myself as I watched her put her toys away.

———-

Harry’s POV

I woke up the next day with a racket in the kitchen again but this time it was all of them.

“Y/N, don’t forget the parent teacher meeting.” I heard Emma say.

“The team and I are going out of town and I need pocket money.” Lorenzo then followed up.

“How much?” Y/N asks and before he answered Emma spoke again.

“Y/N, when will you pay my classes? It’s getting embarrassing. Mr. Sydney’s not giving me parts anymore and I think it’s because we haven’t paid him yet. It really is embarrassing. You need to sort that out.”

“I already told you. Next week.” Y/N says and I figured she must be having a hard time rounding up the money for it because if she had it, she would have already given it to her.

“Y/N, my cleats.”

“I’ll take care of it tomorrow okay?”

“Also, we don’t have food anymore.”

“I know. I’ll buy tonight.”

“You’ll forget about it again. I’m sick of eating cereals.” Lorenzo protests.

“I know. I’ll take care of it.” Y/N says again.

“Also the sink’s broken again. You need to get someone to fix it.”

“Lorenzo, you’re a guy why can’t you just do it yourself?”

“Just cause I’m a guy I’m supposed to know those stuff? Why don’t you just hire someone to do it.” He scoffs at her.

“Boy, if you were in my family.” I say to myself and shook my head at how they were talking to her.

“Because it’s a waste of money.” She says and pauses probably waiting for one of them to take the responsibility but when none of them answered I heard her sigh “Never mind. I’ll do it tonight. Who’s turn is it to do the laundry?”

“Not it.” Lorenzo and Emma say in unison.

“Come on guys. I can’t do everything on my own.” I heard Y/N say in defeat and her two siblings just started spatting out excuses.

I felt bad for her. Lorenzo and Emma weren’t that far from her age but they were putting all the responsibility on her. It wasn’t my place to comment on their family but this wasn’t right how much they were leaning on her. I felt bad thinking that because it was their family after all not mine, and I wasn’t judging them or anything, but I just felt bad for her. She was taking on so much work and didn’t even have any help, except from a little girl who’s sacrificing too unlike her two older siblings. They could learn a lot from the youngest Smith.

———-

Harry’s POV

“So you used to work for the family?” I ask Claire the old house helper the Smith’s had, she was a fragile and sweet old lady who offered to tell her story to me, which I really appreciated.

“No. No. No.” she says softly as she shook her head and continued to break her crackers and spread them around for the birds she was feeding. “I was family to those lot. Yes I was. I didn’t just work for them, theys my family and I’ms their family.”

I listened as Claire told the story of how it was like inside the house of the Smiths. Away from the media, the crowd, and everyone else.

FLASHBACK OF CLAIRE

“Nanny Claire! Nanny Claire! Nanny Claire!”

“What is it my sweet little thing?” I say to Y/N as I picked her up and wiped the tears from her eyes.

“I stepped on a ladybug.” she cries out and buried her face in my neck.

“Oh my sweet child. It’s okay.” I say back to her and stroked the back of her head to calm her down.

“Can you bring it back to life please?” she says from my neck and I carefully placed her down.

“What do you mean?” I ask her and she opens her palm and showed me a dead ladybug.

“Oh sweet child.” I say and frowned at her and she just started crying again.

“I killed it! I killed it!”

“Come here, child.” I say and took a tissue paper before bringing her outside.

I wrapped the bug inside the tissue and dug a small hole in the garden and buried the bug.

“You see, now the sweet ol ladybug can be with the good Lord Jesus.”

“Will the ladybug like it with Jesus?”

“Of course, child. Everyone wants to be with Jesus. He’s loving, caring, and sacrificed for all of us.”

“Okay. I want to be with Jesus too and say sorry to the ladybug.” she says and I couldn’t help but smile at how beautiful and innocent this child’s soul was.

“You will be, child. Not any time soon though.” I say as I carried her back to the house.

“Why?” She asks me curiously.

“Because you’re too young.”

“Why?”

“Because it is how it is.”

“Why?” she kept on asking every time I gave her an answer and it was how she was. She was curious about the world and everything around it.

“Frank, I can’t take this anymore!” A shout from upstairs welcomed us as we entered the house.

“Isabella, where are you going?” Mr. Smith pleaded to his wife and I knew they were having another one of their fights. “You’re pregnant! You can’t keep on going out!”

“I can’t do this, I can’t do that, I can’t, I can’t, I can’t! What happened to us, Frankie! This is not what I signed up for!”

I placed down little Ms. Y/N with her little brother in the living room area so that hopefully she wouldn’t hear her parents fighting again. I knew it upset her whenever they fought.

“Go play with Lorenzo. I’ll make you twos a snack. Would you like that?” I softly ask her and she just smiles at me and nodded her head.

“I want my old life back, Frankie! I miss the thrill, the adventure, the adrenaline! I need it! You can’t coop me up here forever!”

“Why are you making it seem like I trapped you and holding you hostage, Isabella? We have a family now! Don’t you think I miss the music? The crowd? The feeling?”

“No, Frankie. Stop lying to yourself. You’ve changed. You’re not the guy I fell in love with anymore. This is what you want now. This is what you live for now, and I can’t. I just can’t do it.”

“Isabella!” he shouts and I heard the baby crying in the living room, which made Mr. Smith look down at me and I just nodded my head at him, as if saying I’ll handle it, before going back in the living room.

As soon as I opened the living room door I saw Y/N holding her two year old brother cradling him and singing softly into his ear to calm him down. It was the most heartbreaking and sweetest thing I’ve ever seen in my life.

It comforted me knowing that no matter what happens Lorenzo and their future sibling would have someone like Y/N as their older sister, taking care of them, looking out for them, and always putting them first. But at the same time, it pained me thinking that this was her future.

———-

Your POV

I had a really long day today. The nurses from the hospital were understaffed so I had to help them with the logistic work, deliveries came in the shop so I had to finish the whole inventory before I went to the diner and there was a day convention in town so it was packed. I barely had any time to go to the bathroom today, that’s how busy I was.

As soon as I parked the car and saw movement from inside the house I was immediately reminded of everything I had to do. I needed to go grocery shopping, which I didn’t have time to do. I still needed to fix the sink and do the laundry, and honestly, I just didn’t have the energy for it anymore. I even forgot to pass by the thrift store and try to look for new boots for Lorenzo. All I wanted to do was go to bed and catch up with some sleep.

I picked up the food from the diner Johnny sent me for dinner and I prepared myself for the work I still had to do as soon as I got in the house.

“Here goes nothing.” I whisper to myself and stretched to give me energy before I opened the door.

“Y/N, finally! Come on let’s eat.” Lorenzo welcomes me.

Everyone was in the kitchen and there was already food on the table.

“What’s going on here?” I ask as I put the paper bag of food from the diner in the refrigerator and removed my coat.

“Harry got us dinner again.” Sofia says happily as she hugged her stuffed toy.

“He did?” I say playfully to Sofia as I gave her a kiss. “That was nice of him.” I say as I sat down and looked at Harry and he just looks down looking embarrassed and pleased with himself.

“Isn’t he great?” Emma says looking at Harry like he was a shiny star. Her crush for him wasn’t funny anymore; I was actually starting to worry now.

“Can we eat now?” Lorenzo moans as I sat down.

“You guys go ahead, I’ll just make Sofia’s food.” I say when Sofia started eating and I pull away her plate from her.

“No. Harry said I could eat this.” She pouts and I shook my head.

“Come on, bug. That’s too much. You should really stick to your meal.”

“It’s actually alright. I asked the hospital and that food was specially made for her.” I heard Harry say from across the table and I look at him.

“Oh.” I say and couldn’t believe how nice that was of him to do.

“I like this better. This taste better.” Sofia beams as she continued eating, which I both loved and hated hearing.

I was happy that she was enjoying her food but sad at the same time too because I couldn’t provide that food for her.

We all started eating and although I haven’t eaten anything the whole day and this really was nice of Harry to do, I didn’t feel comfortable with it. I didn’t really want to owe him anything, I already did. And I had a lot of things I still needed to do, so even though it was nice seeing everyone laughing and getting along, I just needed everyone to finish eating so I could start with the other chores I still had to finish before I had to work again.

“Lorenzo, I forgot to buy your boots but I’ll get them tomorrow.” I say to my brother to make conversation.

“Don’t worry about it. Our team has a new sponsor and gave us some free stuff.” He answers back as he stuffed his face with food.

“That’s awesome. What company?”

“I don’t really know. But so cool though.” He says excitedly “I have a whole new set. They gave us new jerseys, lifetime supply of socks, we get new cleats, and the best part, we have sponsored team buildings now, so you don’t have to worry about those payments anymore.” He says excitedly like a little kid and it was nice seeing how excited and happy he was.

Whoever this new benefactor was I was truly grateful for them. Saving on Lorenzo’s football would really help me out.

“Ems, I can give you half the amount for your acting class later then we’ll just pay the other half next week. You think Mr. Sydney would be fine with that?”

“No need.” She says before taking a drink and I looked at her questioningly. “Mr. Sydney said I’m his star protégé” she says proudly “so he’ll start training me, like putting me under his wings and stuff, which means we don’t have to pay for my classes anymore.”

“Oh wow! That’s great, Emma. Congratulations.” I was pleased to hear all of these good news but wondered a little too about Emma’s. I mean, she’s my sister, I love her, and I think she’s talented but she’s not really the best actress in her class, so it was weird that she was chosen by Mr. Sydney, and not to mention, I’ve known that man for a long time. Even if he taught Leonardo DiCaprio he’d still charge him. He loved money more than anything else in this world.

“Y/N Y/N.” Sofia excitedly pulled on my shirt.

“What is it, bug?” I look at her with a smile.

“You’re going to my recital tomorrow right? Harry’s going too.”

“I thought you didn’t like ballet anymore.” I asked her and wiped her mouth with a napkin.

“I…” she says and blushes “I like it again.”

“That’s great, bug.”

“I’m excited for Harry to see my dance for the first time.” She says and I smile back at her.

“I’m more excited to see you dance.” Harry adds in and I just ignore him and continued helping Sofia with her food.

“You’re not eating?” Harry asks me and I look up at him and saw that everyone was looking at me now, which was quite uncomfortable.

“I had a lot to eat at the diner.” I lied and saw that Sofia was done with her food, which was my chance to finally go down and start the laundry before I had to go up and fix the sink. “Anyways.” I say as I stood up and cleared Sofia’s plate and mine. “I’ll just go put in the laundry then bath time for you, bug.”

“Laundry’s done.” Emma says as she took another spoonful of mashed potatoes.

“What? You guys actually did the laundry?” I laughed a little.

“No. Harry did.”

“What?” I say as I looked at Harry and again he does that embarrassed looking down thing he does. “He shouldn’t have.”

“It was fine. I’m used to it.” He says back and blushed.

“Thank you but next time you don’t have to do that.” I say to him and was honestly feeling both annoyed and embarrassed that he did that for us.

“Y/N, just say thank you and actually mean it.” Emma says and rolls her eyes before she took another roll of bread.

“Bath time then, bug.” I say to Sofia as I carried her ignoring Emma’s smirk remark.

“Did you have a long day?” she asks me as I carried her up the stairs and placed her in the tub.

“Nothing I couldn’t handle.” I winked at her and she kisses my cheek.

“What was that for?”

“Just because.” She sweetly says and kisses my cheek again after I took off her clothes.

I gave Sofia a bath and when it was time to brush her teeth half way through I remembered the sink was supposed to be broken but it wasn’t anymore, that was weird.

“Harry fixed it.” Sofia says, which brought me out from my thoughts.

“He did?” I ask in surprise and she nods her head. “That was nice of him.”

She nods her head sweetly again and smiled at me “He really is nice. He also got me a new tea table with matching chairs.”

“He did? Did you thank him for that?” I ask her but then made a mental note that I had to talk to Harry. He was spoiling our family too much. It was nice of him but I didn’t want them to get used to it, especially if he was going to be gone soon.

“I did. I really like him. He’s nice.”

I then noticed Harry passing by and he gave me a small smile as our eyes met for a second.

“He really is.”

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Bonjour! How’s everyone doing so far? :) So I’ll try to upload 2-3 chapters a week for all of you, while I’m still on vacation. So no hate please haha 😙

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