13// ~Breakfast~

Blinking my eyes open, I feel my head laying against a really soft pillow. I nuzzle into it more and let out a soft sigh, enjoying the warmth surrounding me. I never want to leave this comfy spot ever!

I lay there basking in the comfortability until I hear a soft laugh come from above me, and suddenly I remember everything that happened last night. I don't want to lift my head up, I don't want to look at any of them, especially Dani. Goodness, why did I act like that? It's like everything in the world didn't matter to me and I all I wanted was her, her comfort, her warmth, her protection.

I'm used to getting nightmares. It used to happen a lot more when I was living with dad and when I first got to Grammys, but they still come around especially when I have big changes in my life and new things are happening. I guess it makes sense as to why it happened last night then. Last night was the first time I've ever had a sleepover with anyone before! I really liked it...besides the whole scary dream thing that is.

I keep my eyes closed, pretending that I'm still sleeping, not wanting to face them just yet. I can't tell what time it is but based on the little bit of sunlight I can feel trying to peek through my eyelids, I'm guessing it's already time to get up.

"You nice and comfy there baby?" I can tell it's Dani who said it considering the voice is directly above me, almost in my ear, and she is the one I fell asleep on last night. I hope she's not mad at me for that!

I open my eyes really slowly, peering up just a little bit to see her looking down at me with what looks like...admiration on her face, and a warm gentle smile. I push my head back down, too embarrassed to reply and do anything. Until I realize I'm laying my head down on her breasts!

I shoot my head up really fast and start apologizing as fast as I can, not wanting her to feel uncomfortable. I didn't even ask, oh my goodness she's going to be so mad at me now! "I'm so so sorry, I d-didn't mean t-to I didn't k-know, I was just laying d-down and..." She cuts me off.

"Honey it's fine, you were sleeping, it wasn't on purpose. Also, I'm the one that decided to hold you, trust me, I am completely fine with it." She tries her hardest reassure me, I can tell, but there still that nagging feeling in the back of my head that I'd done something I shouldn't have, and just when I thought I was making new friends. She said she's okay with it though so I should just believe her, right? She wouldn't say she's okay with it if she wasn't. "What's going on in that little head of yours, huh?"

She holds onto my hand with hers and rubs her thumb over the back of it. I blush and try to look anywhere but her eyes. "Nothing." I mumble out. That's when i realize that Morgan and Athena aren't in the bed like they were last night, this is a perfect opportunity to change the subject hehehe! Then I won't have to keep thinking about this in my mind. "Where did Morgan and Athena go?" I shrug my shoulders a little bit, pointing my finger to the place they occupied last night and tilting my head at the thought of where they could be.

"They went downstairs to start making breakfast. They didn't want to overwhelm you when you woke up with us all being here so they figured they just say hi to you when you got downstairs."

"Oh, that makes sense. Can we go downstairs now?"

"Of course. How about you go to the bathroom and do anything you need to get ready and then we'll go down together. Sound good?"

I nod my head and she begins to stand up, allowing me to place my feet on the ground first before she could since I was still on her lap. She walks into the bathroom connected to their bedroom and I make my way out of the room, heading to mine and going to the bathroom myself. I tinkle and brush my teeth and hair. I decide not to change my clothes considering the only thing I have is what I wore yesterday and I accidentally left it in Dani's bathroom after changing into her clothes. Hopefully they also stayed in their pajamas or else it might be a little awkward.

After I'm done with my business I leave the room and meet Dani in the hallway who is standing there waiting for me to head downstairs for breakfast. "All ready!"

"Great, let's head down." She reaches for my hand before walking towards the stairs. I like how they all hold my hand when we go places, even if it's just in their house, or walking from inside to the car. It makes me feel safe, like I always know that they are there with me. Usually when I'm walking with someone if they are next to me or behind me I always have to look at them all the time to make sure they are still there and haven't let me, but with them I never have to because they are always right beside me, holding my hand. "Hey sweetheart, I was thinking after we all eat that we could sit down and have a talk with you if you're okay with that?" She says as we are defending the stairs. The house is pretty big so we are still quite a distance from the kitchen.

My eyes instantly widen. A talk? What did I do wrong? They are probably going to tell me how being friends with me isn't working out, and just when I thought we were getting close. I like being there friends. They were the only friends I've ever had. I don't want them to leave.

I try and keep the tears at bay but I feel one slip down my cheek. I wipe it away quickly, but it's too late. She saw it. "Hey, hey, hey, honey listen." She stops walking once we get to the bottom of the stairs and crouches down to look me in the eye, even though I try to avoid the eye contact. "Can you look at me baby?" I obey her instantly, something inside me makes me feel the need to do everything they say. It's like I have control over myself but that control just wants to listen to them. "Good girl. You don't need to worry okay? We just want to have a nice talk with you. You don't need to be nervous. We aren't going to leave, and you're not in trouble, so don't worry alright, can you do that for me?"

I think about it for a second. I might still worry but I can try my best not too, so I nod my head.

"Okay, perfect." She smiles at me. "Now, let's go see what they made for breakfast huh?" She puts her hands onto her thighs and pushes on them to stand up fully before she grabs my hand and continues walking to the kitchen.

When we walk through the arched shape entrance I see Morgan and Athena sharing a kiss before Morgan goes back to the griddle installed in the counter and Athena walks around her to the cabinet getting out the cutlery. I blush a little when I see them kiss but try and ignore it so it doesn't get any worse.

"Good morning sunshine's." Morgan turns around from her spot at the griddle and smiles at us.

"Morning." Dani lets go of my hand and goes over to Morgan giving her a peck on her lips, before moving to Athena and doing the same.

"Good morning!" I wave when they look my way at smile at them all.

"Did you have a nice sleep last night?" Athena smirks.

I nod my head and try my hardest not to blush. Oh my goodness, why am I always blushing all the time! I think they do it on purpose, they are always teasing me all the time! I don't really mind but it is a little embarrassing sometimes when I blush in front of them. Plus my skin is so pale it's really easy to see on my face, especially my cheeks, although they do naturally stay a little bit pink most of the time.

"I'm glad. Why don't you take a seat at the island, the food will be ready in just a minute." Morgan lets me know.

"Ok!" I climb up onto the stool and sit patiently while she finishes up making breakfast. It looks like she's making pancakes and I think Athena is cutting up some fruit.

"Here you go." Morgan puts a plate in front of me with a chocolate chip pancake cut up with some strawberries on the side."

"Thank you!"

She smiles at me and the three of them make their plates before joining me at the island. My mind can't help but drift back to what they want to talk to me about. I know that she said it's nothing bad and I shouldn't worry, but I can't help but feel a little nervous. What could they want to talk to me about?

"What are you thinking so hard about over there?" Athena pulls me from my thoughts.

Should I tell them? I don't want them to think I overthink all the time. Well...I do. It's okay if they know right, it doesn't mean anything bad it's just something I do, like a part of my personality I guess.

"Well...just that, um, Dani said you guys wanted to talk to me after we eat and I was just thinking about what it could be. She said it wasn't bad and that I wasn't in trouble but...what else could it be then?"

I see them all look at each other before they decide to respond. The seconds that passed as I sat there only made my nerves worsen.

"Baby, do you trust us?"

I nod at Athena. "Of course I do."

"Okay. Then can you trust me when I say that soon we will explain everything we need to talk about for right now you really really don't need to worry and nothing bad is going to happen whatsoever?"

"I guess, but...I might still worry in my brain just a little bit. Sometimes I tell it not to but it just doesn't listen all the way." I shrug.

She smiles at me and her dimples show up. I love them, I just want to poke them with my fingers. That's funny!

"I know, and I know you are trying super hard and I'm so proud of you for that. So let's finish up with our breakfast and then I think a certain missy needs to go and take her medicine before we can talk. Sound good?"

Oh my goodness, I forgot about my medicine! Good thing they remembered! "Sounds good!"

"Alright, now eat up."

I pick up fork and begin to eat. The pancakes are nice and fluffy and have just the right amount of chocolate in them. I get a little bit in every bite but it's not to overpowering where it tastes like I'm just having candy for breakfast. I make sure to stop before I finish them and eat up all my fruit because I knew I would get full soon and I wanted them to be proud that I ate all my fruit before the rest of my meal.

I look at there plates and see that they are almost all done with their food, so I wait until they are done to get up with them and put my plate into the sink.

"Okay how about you go upstairs and get your medicine while we clean up and once you come back down we can have that chat."

I nod in response to Morgan and move to go upstairs. I feel bad not helping them clean up but every time I try and offer them help they always tell me I don't have to, or they send me away to do something else while they clean. I guess they just like doing that stuff.

I make it upstairs and grab one of the pills from the bottle before moving to the bathroom and filling up a little cup of water from the sink to swallow it. It's a little harder to swallow today due to the fact that I feel like there's already a lump in my throat at the thought of what they could want to discuss with me.

I throw away the paper cup and look in the mirror making sure my appearance is acceptable. Smoothing down my hair and looking to check if there's any food stuck in my teeth - luckily there's not!

I leave the room before turning around and going into theirs to grab tootsie. I might need some help for this conversation and tootsie always calms me down and is there for me no matter what! Starting to run downstairs, I slow down remembering that I'm not supposed to run down them cause it's dangerous, especially when I have socks on like right now.

I walk past the kitchen, checking to make sure they weren't still in there, before going into the living room, finding them all sitting down on the couch.

I grip onto tootsie a little but tighter, trying to gain all the strength I can before they start talking.

I walk in and sit down on the couch across from them, pulling up my legs to sit crisscross apple sauce and placing tootsie in my lap. I lean into the back of the couch, trying to hide myself slightly as I can feel all of their eyes on me.

I hope this goes okay!

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Thank you all for 3k read now! I did not ever think that was possible! I hope you all like this chapter, next one is going to be when Arabella really finds out abut everything!

If you guys had to choose, is there a specific persons point of view you would want to see it from? I was thinking of doing Arabella that way we could see the way she processed all the information she was receiving and how she thinks learning about it all.

Question for this chapter:

Who are your favorite music artists?

Mine would have to be Taylor Swift (of course lol), Olivia Rodrigo, Mitski, Noah Kahan, Searows, and Gracie Abrams. I know it's a lot lol, that's kind of all my playlist consists of plus musical theater songs and songs from Disney movies!

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- lauren 💕