You're leaving? (A 1x1 with Lexxy)

[isax]

"Mom knows how to make me cry." Rylan whispered to his dad and immediately put on his necklace. He held it in his hand like his life depended in it. It was never coming off. Never.


Allie finally opened it and pulled out her bear and smiled at it. She saw the locker and opened it only to find a picture of her and her mom after one of her swim meets. Allie began to tear up. "Thank you daddy." She said and Cory opened his and shook his head, "dad didn't get us these. It was mom right?" He asked as he held the dog tag necklace in his hand. It had the picture of them holding hand and with one foot on the soccer ball. Cory held his trophy in his free hand and Ashley held out a number one. That was a great picture in Cory's eyes.


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[Lexus]

Clay nodded. "They have nothing to do with me, I found them." He says with a smile looking back down at Rylan with a smile. "Hold on, I'll be back." He says running up the stairs and getting the other gifts she left, the sports stuff and walked back down the stairs. "Don't have heart attacks." He says with a laugh pulling them from behind his back. The bat and gloves, the soccer ball and everything else she left.


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[isax]

The kids immediately ran over to their dad and Rylan smiled at the glove and everything else he got from his mom. While Allie and Cory were talking to his dad, he went upstairs and looked around in the room and went in the closet. He found the box and found the presents for his dad. He got the bear, the goggles and the necklace and went back down the stairs. "Mom got you some too huh." Rylan said as he handed them to his dad. Allie awed at the bear in the white tuxedo. "That's cute. Mom knows how to dress a bear up appropriately." She said and laughed softly. Then Allie saw the signature on the googles. "No way! Mom didn't! Dad mom got you goggles signed by your favorite swimmer!" She exclaimed "how in the world did she find them?" She added


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[Lexus]

"Your mom has connections Clay says with a smirk to their kids before he say them all on the couch. "This is your mom's half of the necklaces." He says pulling out the other half from his key chain. "See," he placed them together as they connected. "She gave me mine when I left for the army the first time."


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[isax]

Rylan smiled at the necklace and the twins did too. "It's cute. What does it say?" Allie asked and Rylan read it. "Together forever." At that everyone became quiet. "Sorry mommy didn't last forever with you daddy." Allie said and Cory sighed. "Dad, what was it like in the military? What was it like for mom while you were away?" He asked


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[Lexus]

"That's a story for another time," Clay says with a gentle smile. "Now come on let's go, there's a party ere in a couple hours and it looks like a tornado ran through here." He says with a laugh helping them clean the mess and getting them dressed for the occasion.


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[isax]

Cory nodded but laughed at his dad and while the twins got dressed, Rylan sat in his parents bedroom and stared at the wall of pictures. His mom looked so happy in all of them. Even the last few ones she took even if she knew she was sick and dying. Rylan held the bottle cap in his hand and smiled. "Thanks for the necklace mom." He whispered and laughed softly. It was never coming off.


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[Lexus]

Clay was standing in the closet getting himself dressed when he heard Rylan and smiled. He prayed he would make it through today without any mistakes. Ashley left high expectations and he didn't went to wreck them. He still hadn't taken her things out of the closet so when he tripped over her shoes he laughed. "As many times as I tell her I put this rack here for a reason and she still doesn't use it." He says placing the shoes back on the rack.


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[isax]

Rylan looked over at his father and laughed. "Well mom always came home tired. She didn't have time to put them in the rack." He told him then continued looking at the pictures. He smiled so much at everyone he saw his mom. He then saw the ones in Barcelona. "Y'all went to Barcelona without us?" Rylan asked and laughed again.


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[Lexus]

"You didn't exist yet," Clay says with a laugh patting his head. "Your mom left me to go to school there, " he says standing in the mirror to tie his own tie. He messed up the first time and cursed under his breathe before doing it right the second time. "That's when I built this place." He says turning to his son and using his arms to point at all the surroundings


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[isax]

"So while mom was away, you built her this house but if you weren't married yet, why go through so much trouble trying to build this for her?" Rylan asked his dad as he turned to look at him and smiled. He knew his parents liked each other before they were married but for his dad to build a whole house for her. It was cute but crazy.


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[Lexus]

"Does this look familiar?l he asks pulling down their engagement photo from


The wall. They were both standing under the big oak tree, his father on one knee with the house in the background.


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[isax]

"It's the house and moms tree that she liked to read under. What about it?" Rylan asked totally oblivious to the fact that his father was on one knee to propose to his mother.


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[Lexus]

Clay laughed at his son. "You're so silly. Look," he says pointing to himself in the picture. "When she came home, I told her I built the house for my wife and I and then I asked her."


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[isax]

"That's to cute." Rylan said as he smiled. "I bet mom was crying when you got on your knee." He added and then laughed as he heard the twins fighting. "Give it back Cory!" Allie exclaimed and Cory held her iPod up high. "Make me." He told her and stuck out his tongue. Rylan looked at his dad and laughed then went down the stairs.


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[Lexus]

Clay out the picture back on the wall and smiled at it before heading down the stairs and separating the two of them and taking the iPod. "You two stop, it's Christmas, behave." Just because of the day it wasn't an excuse for him not to discipline them. "Apologize to your sister." Clay says to his youngest son and waited for a response.


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[isax]

Cory looked at his dad then Allie and sighed. "I'm sorry." He told her and Allie smiled contently. "Apology not accepted." She said and then walked off and Cory wanted to just punch her. "God you two act right." Rylan said then sat in the couch as the house began to fill with people.


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[Lexus]

Clay really hated having to be that bad guy at times but if he wasn't then his kids would grow up to be crazy people. He sighed at the twins. They didn't behave much these days. He wasn't sure if it was because they thought they could get away with more now or just that age. It stressed him out a times. It was hard doing it by himself but he was doing it well. As people started to enter he started to pull out the food he cooked all last night as reheated it. When Mallory and Gaven arrived he walked over and hugged them both. Then look at Arabella who smiled at him brightly with her beautiful brown eyes. "Merry first Christmas to you," Clay says with a smile taking her small hands in his big one and kissing her cheek.


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[isax]

Arabella began to giggle when her uncle held her hand and kissed her cheek. The twins we out in the back throwing a baseball around and Rylan was in the living room on the couch looking at the tree as he remembered their Christmas from last year. One with his mom. He really missed her today.


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[Lexus]

Clay smiled brightly at the little one. "She's the cutest." He says turning to Gaven and Mallory again as Arabella laid her head on Gaven's shoulder. It was sweet to see how she reacted to her father and he was soaking it up. "Well, well look who turned into a big sap."


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[isax]

"Oh shut up Waters." Gaven said as he kissed his daughters head and rubbed her back to help her fall asleep. Mallory smiled and kissed her husband gently then went to go serve him some food. Rylan eventually became frustrated with the look everyone was giving him so he got up and went to the library with his bear in his arms. He got the pillow and blanket and laid on the second level and had his headphones in. He was listening to him and his mothers song as he closed his eyes. He just wanted her today.


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[Lexus]

Clay saw the look his son was getting and watched him walk off. It hurt him, when were people going to stop? He followed after him and climbed to the second level and sat with him not saying anything in case he needed to talk it out again.


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[isax]

Rylan felt his dad next to him so he took off his headphones and sighed. "I just hate that look dad. the look like all hope is lost for me and the sympathy is the worst part. I'm not a little kid I can cope without my mom. Sure I miss her but who wouldn't? I just wish the looks would stop." Rylan said and hugged the bear closer and closed his eyes right.


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[Lexus]

Clay sighed and pulled his son closer. "I know buddy." He says rubbing his back and huffing him tightly. He wanted to laugh at him saying he wasn't little anymore because he was but he didn't. "But you know, when I got those looks I learned if you just hold your head high and smile and talk to people it'll stop. You wanna try?"


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[isax]

Rylan looked at his dad and said, "How?" He was in utter shock with what his dad said he did. Was it that easy? No of course it wasn't. Rylan wasn't okay but he could act like he was. Just like his mom always did. Rylan hugged the bear tighter and looked at his dad. "Can't I just stay here until they all leave?" He asked with his puppy dog eyes.


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