The journey
An: Hey guys I'm sorry I haven't updated since last summer but school just got really hectic and I'm going to try and start updating more this summer! Thank you for the reviews! If you have any suggestions just let me know!
Hey can I go to Jack's birthday party tonight? Brianna asks as she starts putting her binders in her bookbag. "Uh I don't think so love not tonight." Rick says as he takes a sip of coffee.
"Why not?" She asks raising her voice slightly
"1 we don't know jack, 2 your dad is going to be home tonight, and 3 don't raise your voice at me young lady." Rick saids in a stern voice. Brianna rolls her eyes
"Those aren't good reasons." The girl says in a tone full of attitude.
"Sweetheart if I were you I would stop giving me good reasons to punish you." Rick says leading the girl out the door.
The ride on the way to school was mostly silent until Brianna breaks it.
" Riley's allowed to go so why can't I?" Brianna asks
"I don't care who's going to the party, but you're not! Case closed and if you keep pushing me then You can just be grounded and not allowed to go anywhere for a month. Now is that what you want?"
"No" the young girl saids quietly
"No what?" Rick asks raising an eyebrow, They've been trying to instill sir and ma'am whenever she is talking to an adult.
"No sir" Brianna adds rolling her eyes. Rick allowed this one to slide because they just pulled into the school.
"Have a good day Bri" Rick says in a voice filled with love.
"You too" Brianna saids as she gets out of the car.
***Later that day***
"Hey Bri!" Riley says as she sits next to the girl at lunch.
"Hey Riles" Brianna says meekly.
"Are you going to the party tonight?" Riley asks taking a bite of her sandwich.
"No my dads won't let me." The young girl says as she pushes her food around on her plate.
"Why don't you just sneak out?" That's what I'm doing tonight." Riley says.
"What? I thought your mom said yes?" Brianna looks confused
"God no! She'd never say yes to one of Jacks parties."
"I don't even know how I would sneak out, I'm on the second floor." Brianna says hoping for some insight.
"You have that tree outside your window right? Just climb down that." Riley saids as the two girls get up to go back to class.
Brianna spends the rest of the day trying to come up with a plan to sneak out. She decides to do the niacin flush again. She still has couple more pills from the last time. Finally school is over and drew comes to pick her up.
"Hey baby how was school?" Drew asks as the girl gets in.
"Fine" Brianna says in the most pitiful voice she can muster.
"What's the matter?" Drew asks looking over to his daughter.
"My head hurts really bad." Brianna says.
" I'm sorry love when we get home you can take a nap until daddy gets home. Drew says sympathetically.
"Ok" Brianna saids as they pull into the driveway.
Drew takes his daughters bag and leads her into the house.
"Do you want me to tuck you in sweetie?" Drew asks Brianna. The girl shakes her head no as drew kisses her on the forehead.
Brianna goes upstairs and pulls out the niacin bottle. She takes one and decides to take that nap that her dad suggested.
2 hours later
Brianna wakes up to her Drew telling her to wake up. He had a thermometer in one hand and Advil in the other.
"Open up sleeping beauty" Drew saids with a smile on his face. Brianna complies wordlessly.
"By the way dad isn't coming home tonight because he got caught up at work so it's just me and you tonight." Drew says looking at the thermometer "102.6 looks like you and I are having a night in bed." Drew says as he starts to pull the trundle bed out.
"Wait daddy stop!" Brianna says as her dad stops. Drew looks at her for an explanation.
"I just don't want you to get sick either, there's a bug going around school." Brianna says hoping that will work.
"Aww you're so sweet but I work in a hospital remember? I'm immune to your silly little bugs." Drew says ruffling her hair.
"My head still hurts and the trundle bed creeks which makes it worse." Brianna says.
Drew finally get the hint that the girl wants to be alone. "Alright but I'm checking on you every hour and a half." Drew says truthfully.
"Thank You daddy." Brianna says gratefully.
"I'll bring you up some chicken in a little bit." Drew replies.
A few hours pass and around 7:30 her ride Chelsea asks if the coast is clear. Brianna replied to give her another 15 minutes and she'll be out of the house.
Five minutes later Drew comes in to check her temperature. Brianna fakes being asleep so he'll leave sooner. She feels his lips on her forehead and he leaves.
Brianna soon gets up and puts on a romper, fixes her bed and climbs out the window.
She meets chelsey a block away.
"Are you ready?" Chelsey asks in excitement
"Hell yeah" Brianna replies as she puts her seat belt on. Ten minutes later they arrive at Jackson's house. The girls walk in to find it is not a birthday party, instead it's a "my parents are out of town so I'm going to throw a party" party. But Brianna just brushes it off and looks at the clock it was 8:00 she still had another 55 minutes before her dad would check on her. She still had to find Chelsea to tell her this. Brianna is looking around in the crowd of people and is trying to find Chelsea but no luck. Instead she finds Riley.
"Hey Riley" Brianna approaches the young girl.
"Hey Bri! Are you having fun?" Riley asks as she slurs her words. It was obvious that she was drunk. But Brianna still hadn't caught on.
"Who's taking you home?" Brianna asked.
"Oh I'm staying the night I told my mom that I was staying at a friends house. Hey how'd you get you out?" Riley asks trying to act as sober as possible
"I did the Niacin flush, but Drew is checking on me every hour and a half." Brianna says as she realizes another 10 minutes has passed by.
"Oooo rookie mistake. You should've told them you were staying with a friend or something." Riley replies as she she grabs another glass of spiked lemonade and hands it to Brianna.
"Thanks" Brianna replies as she spots Chelsea.
"Chelsey!" I really need to talk to you! I need to get back home in like 45 minutes. Can you take me home later?" Brianna asks pleadingly.
"Sorry girl but I have already had like 4 drinks and probably shouldn't drive, maybe someone else can take you home" Chelsea replies.
Brianna tries to find someone else but no luck, she finally decides to stop fretting and she'll call Drew in a little bit. She finishes her second lemonade and starts to feel funny. She realizes she should probably go ahead and call Drew but she left her phone at the house.
Meanwhile at the Lincoln Allister house
Drews POV
It's been about an hour so Drew goes upstairs to check on Bri.
"Brianna can you wake up long enough for me to check out your temperature?" Drew asks sweetly. No response.
"Come on Sleepy head it's time to wake up now." Drew says as he shakes the dummy.
Drew realizes that his daughter is not there. He sees the Niacin bottle by her bed. Drew starts to think about where she could be. He quickly calls his husband and tells him what is going on.
"She asked if she could go to a party tonight and I told her no." Rick says worriedly.
"Whos party?" Drew asks frantically.
" Some guy named Jack, she did say that Riley would be there so you might check with SYD." Rick says.
"Okay will do thanks babe." Drew says before hanging up and calling Syd.
Drew explains the situation again and asks if she knows where this guys house is.
"I don't but I can track Rileys phone!" Syd says. Drew and Rick agreed to not track their daughter until they needed to.
"Great I'll be over in 5 minutes!" Drew says as breathes a sigh of relief.
Drew decides to follow Syd so they can each talk to their girls in private.
10 minutes later they arrive at the party.
"BRIANNA LINCOLN ALLISTER" Drew yells loud enough for everyone to hear.
Brianna slowly walks over to her father with her head down.
"We are going home right now young lady" Drew says as he grabs her elbow and leads her to the car. Syd had already gotten riley and put her in the car.
The drive home was mostly silent until Drew got a whiff of alcohol from his TEENAGE daughter.
"Have you been drinking?" Drew asks his daughter angrily.
" I only had a few." Brianna replies weakly.
"You should not have had any!" Drew says as he pulls into the driveway. He open Briannas door and Rick is already there. Brianna has trouble walking so finally Drew Picks her up forcefully.
"Put me down you bastard" Brianna says in reaction to this.
"If I were you I'd keep my mouth shut as you are already in enough trouble." Drew says as he walks in and places the young girl on the couch.
"What the hell were you thinking?!" Rick asks angrily. "Lying, disobeying us, sneaking out, drinking, do you know how much you could have put your health at risk?!" Rick says as he continues to lecture her.
"Not to say doing the niacin flush, AFTER you promised us that you would never do it again." Drew adds crossing his arms.
"Wait, what?" Rick asks "You did the niacin flush again?! Brianna!" Rick scolded.
"Your body is still adjusting to a new lung, and you just had surgery less than two weeks ago. Your risk of infection is so high, right now."Drew says as looks at his daughter.
"What do you have to say for yourself young lady?" Rick asks as he lifts her chin up to meet his eyes.
"I'm sorry" Brianna says in remorse.
"Oh you will be sorry, we will discuss your punishment tomorrow. As for now we will have your phone, so go up and get it." Rick says
"Go ahead and bring the bottle down to" Drew adds. Brianna goes and retrieves the things, she gives the items to her parents and was about to go to bed until Drew saids
"You are sleeping with us until we say otherwise, it could b one night or it could be for a month. It all depends how cooperative you are tonight." Drew says as he leads the girl to the bedroom and places his daughter in the middle of their bed. Drew tells Rick to watch her as he goes and gets PJ's for the girl.
Drew returns shortly after with PJ's and Rick walks out expecting his husband to follow him to give the girl privacy to change. He doesn't even realize that he's not with him until the shuts and locks the door.
"Change." Drew says forcefully as he turns around to give the girl just enough privacy to change. Brianna changes quickly and puts her clothes in the dirties basket.
"Lay down we will talk about this in the morning."Drew says angrily.
"But what about-" Brianna starts but Drew cuts her off. "Brianna no ifs, ands, or buts, about it! Now you will lay down and you will go to sleep whether it be the easy way or the hard way."
Brianna decides it will be better if she just lays down and stops arguing. Drew lays down next to her. 15 minutes he starts to hear little sobs. He rolls over to see the girl crying.
"What's wrong Bri?" Drew asks tiredly.
"I want sammy." Brianna finally saids through her sobs. Drew starts to beat himself up, he didn't mean to deprive the girl of her stuffed animal. He texts rick to go and get it. Rick comes back shortly and gives it to his crying daughter. He leaves shortly knowing that Drew wants to talk to the girl alone for a few minutes.
"This isn't just about sammy is it?" Drew asks softly as he tucks a piece of hair behind her ear.
"No" Brianna replies meekly.
"What's it about then my love?" Drew asks
"Do you still want me? Because sometimes in foster homes if I mess up the send me back and don't love me anymore." Brianna replies starting to cry again.
"Brianna Lincoln Allister, that is your are our daughter and there is nothing you can do to change it. Yes we might be upset and disappointed in your actions, but there is nothing you can do to make us not love you anymore. Do you understand?"
"Yes sir" Brianna replies in between sobs.
"Come here bug" Drew says as he pulls the girl close to him so that her head is laying on his chest. Drew places a kiss on her forehead and the girl starts to calm down and slowly drifts asleep. He slowly places her head on her pillow and gets up to go talk to Rick. The man sits down next to his husband and starts to rub his temples.
"What are we going to do with her?"Drew asks exhaustively.
To be continued...