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

[isax]

"Nope. Not at all." Ashley said as she laughed softly and then smiled. "So I'll start the new job next week." She added. She was excited for this job. She was well with kids and horse back riding was easy for her too.

 

[Lexus]

"Good for you," Clay was happy that she was excited but he knew she would miss the career that she worked so hard for. Goodness she moved to another country and left him for six months to pursue it. He set the dish in the dish Frannie's and went back up stairs. It wasn't a good enough reason she has him for him to let it go, it wasn't like why he.quit being chief. That was different, he was risking his own life daily, she was a teacher, there was no risk in that. The only reason she was doing this is because of what she went through, what her parents put her though. He knew she loved the kids he did too, he would give up his own life for them if he needed too but they were almost grown, old enough to take care if themselves and she was still sacrificing herself for them. He understood that was a motherly thing, but for goodness sakes she at one point was dying and still did everything for them. He just wanted her to be happy, not the happy that she was if they were happy the happy she was when he showed her how much her loved her, when he built the house and asked her to marry him and gave her everything she needed. When she actually realized she deserved everything he offered her. He didn't understand why she would feel the kids felt unwanted.

 

[isax]

Ashley smiled and when her husband went up stairs, she went to her library. Looked like she wouldn't be using this anymore. She went to the second level and pulled out the picture books she had of her family. She knew her kids felt unwanted because Allie told her she felt unwanted. She said not by her dad but by her mom. Ashley sighed. She does everything she can to keep this family happy. Never once has she ever asked of them for anything. Her kids were grown but she knows what it feels like to be unwanted. She didn't want them to feel that way. She would hate herself if she ever did make them feel that way. She sighed and laid there as she continued to think.

 

[Lexus]

The thought the kids were being so ungrateful towards their mother angered him. He knew the only way she would know if one of them felt that way is if one of said they did. They didn't appreciate her, they took her for granted and he had to teach them a lesson.

 

[isax]

Ashley sighed as she looked through her pictures and wanted to cry. She hated herself for making Allie feel like she didn't want her. She cried herself to sleep on the second floor. She held the picture of her kissing Allies forehead when she was just born. Then the kids walked into the house after Gaven dropped them off and Rylan went over to his dad. "Moms not home?" He asked and sat on their bed.

 

[Lexus]

Clay got out of the bed and looked to his son and smiled faintly. "She's probably in the library," Clay says. "Ry, did you tell your mother you didn't feel wanted?" He looked to his son with hurt and anger in his eyes. He knew it probably wasn't Rylan but he asked anyway.

 

[isax]

Rylan blinked at his father and then saw the hurt and anger in his eyes. "No." He said then heard the twins and said, "Allie did." He hated being a snitch but he knew what his mom was going through. He saw that she wasn't truly happy and it hurt him.

 

[Lexus]

Clay nodded and sighed. It was always her he has to be the bad guy for. He took a deep breathe and tried to compose himself before he walked out there, none the less all the kids he would sure would never forget what was about to happen and not in a good day either. Allie had her phone in her hands and e walked up and took it right out of her hands. "This is mine until got her notice." He says setting it on the counter and before she could protest he held up his hand. "Don't." He says sternly. "Also, you can say bye to everything besides home and school for a month."

 

[isax]

Allie looked at her father in utter shock. What did she do? "What did I do?! I passed all my classes and I haven't done anything else wrong! Why are you being so mean?!" Allie said and then walked upstairs to her and Cory's room then slammed the door. Ashley heard and sighed then walked out and held out her hand for Allies phone. "She didn't do anything Clay. She doesn't need to be punished." Ashley told him and Rylan just sighed. He could hear and see she wasn't truly happy.

 

[Lexus]

Clay shook his head. "This isn't a time for you to intervene." He says walking up the stairs, he wasn't done with her. He opened the door and closed it. "You don't walk away from me until I say you can." He says then grabs her arm and forces her off the bed. "Allie, what has gotten into you?" He asks his voice raising. "You have no right to say you feel unwanted, not to me and especially not your mother! You have no clue what it feels like to feel that way, your mom does everything for you, everything. You get fed, and clothed and get whatever you ask for and that's what you say to your mother?" Clay let his anger get the best of him but he didn't care, she was old enough now to see it. Maybe she would act right. "Does your mother leave you for hours in this room with the door locked? Does your mother hit you? No she doesn't. She gives you everything so I don't know where the hell you got the idea your unwanted but you better damn well unthink it and not be so selfish. You're my daughter and I will not allow you to end up being a selfish brat. And if you think your mother is getting you out of this you better rethink that." He says letting go of her arm. "Don't ever talk to your mom like that again or I'll make sure you won't have nice things." This was utterly unacceptable and his daughter needed to learn not to take the people who cared for her and not e so selfish and greedy.

 

[isax]

Ashley sighed and shook her head at her husband. Allie really didn't do anything wrong. Rylan looked at his mom and then said, "Mom, don't quit your job at the university." She looked at her oldest and just let out a faint smile then went to ride Teagan. It started raining but Ashley didn't care. She needed to get time alone. She however was thrown off Teagan and Ashley landed wrong on her hip and sighed. She really wasn't in the mood.


Allie looked at her dad and then just stared at the floor. "I'm sorry okay?! All she ever does is spend time with Cory and Rylan and never me. I'm always so unwanted. You don't know what that feels like so you wouldn't know what I'm feeling!" Allie exclaimed and Rylan shook his head. Allie didn't know what it felt like to feel unwanted.

 

[Lexus]

"No, you're not sorry, you don't get it." He was form not backing down. He knew she was acting this way to get out if her punishment like she always did. "Unwanted if when you feel like you're so alone you have to raise yourself. Unwanted is when you become so scared to approach people because you don't want to burden them even if they're new people you've never met before." Reliving the memories his wife told him about was almost enough to make him cry but he didn't. "And don't say you're mom doesn't try, whenever she suggests something it simply isn't good enough for you."

 

[isax]

Allie looked at her dad. He had a point. A huge point. She sighed and sat on her bed then laid down. "Okay dad. I get it." She told him then looked at the wall and just closed her eyes. She honestly felt terrible. Rylan was a little worried that his mom hadn't come back yet but he figured she was fine. Allie honestly knew now she was wrong for telling her mother what she did. She felt terrible for making her mom feel the way she felt.

 

[Lexus]

"Yeah, I bet you do. I bet no softball for a month will make you get it even more." And with that he left her. When he didn't see Ashley he asked Ry where she had gone and once he saw the heavy rain he bursts out the door. He was already sick so it didn't matter. "Ashley!" He called but within an hour he found her. He knew what it was like to be stranded out here so he worked fast and when he found her he leaned down nest to her and covered her with his jacket. "What happened?" He asks resting a hand on her concerned when he saw we was in pain.

 

[isax]

Ashley looked up at her husband and sighed. "Teagan got startled, I wasn't even holding on so I was thrown off and landed wrong on my hip." She told him and then looked over at him. "Clay honey you didn't need to be so strict with Allie. She didn't do anything." She told him and continued to hold her hip from pain.

 

[Lexus]

Clay gave her a look. "Don't worry about her, you're hurt." It was amazing how fast his mood could change when he needed him. He took her hands and gently helped her up wrapping the jacket fully around her. "Can you walk?" He asks as the rain for heavier.

 

[isax]

"I do worry about her. She's my daughter Clay." She told him and then got up and sighed. "I'm fine. You're sick. You're the one who needs to get back inside already." She told him and slowly began to walk back towards their house. She didn't want Ay to her worse.

 

[Lexus]

"Ashley Waters, you're doing to drive me insane one day and not in a good way, you know that?" He asks her with raised eyebrows and couldn't help but laugh at her expression as he led her back inside.

 

[isax]

Ashley smiled and said, "I'm aware of that." She walked with him back to the house and went in and began to shiver. Their kids were all asleep now and she couldn't help but laugh softly. She went up stairs and then went to shower. She needed heat.

 

[Lexus]

Clay walked down stairs to use that bathroom, he needed the heat too and he could feel the fever starting to spoke again. When he finished in the shower he took the night cold medicine, which taste horrible and went to the bed and curled up in the blanket.

 

[isax]

Ashley walked back in to their room and smiled softly. She laid in bed next to her husband then held his hand as she closed her eyes. She coughed and then sneezed and sighed. Her hip was still in a lot of pain.

 

[Lexus]

Clay hadn't felt Ashley get into the bed because by the time she did take his hand he was already asleep from the cold medicine. He did wake in the middle of the night though and touched her cheek to feel that she was hot too. He sighed and got up for the kitchen and brought her back medicine and turned on the light before he gently woke her, "take this," he says gently holding out the plastic cup.

 

[isax]

When Clay woke Ashley up, she squinted at the sudden light hitting her eyes. She opened them and looked at Clay then coughed. She grabbed the cup and drank the liquid then scrunched her nose. She hated the taste. She gave it back to Clay then laid back down and closed her eyes. "I love you." She whispered before she slowly drifted to sleep again.

 

[Lexus]

Clay smiled and set the cup on the nightstand before turning the light back out. When he got back in the bed he pulled her gently closer, careful not to wake her and wrapped her in his arms. "I love you more," he whispers before drifting off himself.

 

[isax]

The next morning Ashley woke up feeling terrible. She sighed and the kids were getting ready for school. She got up and then got dressed so she could go make the kids breakfast. She smiled at them as they all sat at the table. Ashley was fine until her fever became worse and she felt herself slowly fading into unconsciousness.