Here's the triology to Boarding School Hell and Wedding Nightmares, like promised to everybody after taking a little break.
Summery: 13 years after their wedding, Wyatt and Chris are still raising Elizabeth, along with two other children they have adopted. When Elizabeth starts to turn out like the trouble maker her father once was, how do they deal and can they stick together through it, or will the now 16-year-old play them against each other? Watch as they struggle.
Growing Up Troubles
"Lizzie, dinner!" Chris called up to his eldest daughter as he set the table. He waited for an answer but there was none, "Elizabeth!"
"Coming!" the sound of the 16-year-old's voice called down to him.
"Get your brother." He called back up and looked at the table to see his youngest daughter already sat there. Looking at her, he smiled, remembering what things had been like over the past 13 years, and he could tell anyone in one word. Hectic.
"Dad," Jennifer asked, pushing a strand of her black hair behind her ear. The sound of her voice took him out of his thoughts, "When's dad gonna get home?"
"Late," Chris rolled his eyes, just as he heard footsteps coming down the stairs, and he looked up to see his eldest daughter and his son coming down the stairs, "C'mon you two, dinner."
"What's for dinner?" the eight-year-old boy asked, pulling himself up to the chair at the dining table, taking a deep breath to see if he could smell it.
"Chicken and pasta." Chris laughed at Scott with a shake of his head. He and Wyatt had decided to adopt the eight-year-old almost eight years ago now, when he was still a baby, unlike Jennifer, who was three when they adopted her. Elizabeth was four at the time, and could not understand how this girl was already three, why was there no baby sister that she wanted, but she soon got used to it. Both Chris and Wyatt thought that Lizzie and Jen would be best friends growing up because they were so close in age, but as soon as Lizzie got into high school everything changed and it was still that way.
"Do we have to have pasta?" Elizabeth's voice called up, "Do you know how many carbs are in that."
"No," Chris simply shook his head, "And quite frankly I don't care. I'm not the chef, your dad is."
"Well where's he to cook?" After Elizabeth found out the truth about who she really was, her relationship with both Wyatt and Chris deteriorated, but it seemed to be even worse with Chris. He was not her real father and she would throw that in his face ever chance she could. Wyatt had tried to talk to her, to explain to her the sacrifices Chris had made for her, but she did not want to know any of it and Chris guessed it was a phase she was going through, since it really only started when she got into high school, when everything seemed to go downhill.
"At work," Chris explained to the eldest, "He's working late tonight since one of his managers has gone home sick."
"He's always at work!" Elizabeth exclaimed, as she put some chicken on her plate and a spoonful of pasta.
"I wish you would eat more." Chris sighed, putting some of the food Scott's plate. He glanced up at 16-year-old to see her looking down at her plate, pushing the food around.
"Dad?" Scott's voice called out from the dinner table, making Chris look at him, "Peter, at school, was laughing at me because I have two dad's. He said that you and dad are weird."
Sniggering could be heard from the two girls on the other side of the table, causing Chris to sigh.
"We've had this talk, haven't we?" Chris looked at his son, "About me and your dad," when he saw Scott nod his head, he smiled weakly, "Do you want to go over it again?" this time Scott shook his head, "And you know what to say to this Peter guy?" once again, Scott nodded his head, "Ok, little man." Chris ruffled his hair, he smile slightly stronger as he now turned to his girls.
"So how's school going for you two?"
"Great," Jen replied with a smile, "I got a A- in my math test."
"That's great," Chris smiled softly. It seemed Jennifer was a genius at everything, never getting anything lower than a B+ since Chris and Wyatt could remember, "Lizzie?"
"What do you care?" Elizabeth asked the brunette male with a scoff.
"I care because you're my daughter."
"I'm Wyatt's daughter, not yours," Lizzie pointed out, "So why would you care how school's going? Or has my dad asked you to check up on me. I'm not skipping school again, you know."
"He's not asked me to check up on you, Lizzie," Chris sighed, "I simply want to know myself how you're doing in school."
"I'm doing fine."
It was at that time that Wyatt walked through the front door, soaking wet from the pouring down rain outside, and not looking so happy.
"Hey." Wyatt sighed, putting his car keys on the side.
"Dinner's just been made."
"I'm just going to get changed first," the younger of the two answered, "It's pouring it down out there."
"I wouldn't have guessed."
Wyatt rolled his eyes as he made his way up the stairs of their five-bedroom house, their relationship had not really changed over the past 13 years. They continued with the same banter as usual, and both were always their for one another if they needed it. Wyatt stopped at the top of the stairs, hearing the conversation carrying on downstairs, once again his eldest daughter was going on at Chris for something. He did not know whether he could understand where she was coming from or not. He always accepted Leo as his dad rather than a step-dad, but that was because of the horrors he had seen his father do to him mom, but Lizzie had not had to deal with any of that. All the 16-year-old understood was that Chris turned her father gay and stole him from her mother, even though it was not completely true, there was some truth to it, and it hurt Elizabeth to the point that she could not accept them both for who they were.
The sound of the telephone ringing, pulled the 34-year-old out of his thoughts.
"I've got it," He shouted down to the dining room and picked up the receiver that was in the upstairs hallway, "Hello?"
"Is Lizzie there?"
"She's busy at the moment," Wyatt sighed, "Can I take a message?"
"No it's ok," the male's voice came through the phone, "When will she not be busy?"
"Well, she's eating dinner at the moment," the father of the girl replied, "Give her half an hour? If you want I can ask her to call you back."
"Yeah, can you tell her Josh called."
"Sure." Wyatt nodded, putting the receiver down. Josh? That name sounded familiar, probably another one of those boys that gets his daughter in trouble at school. Elizabeth was a chip off the old block, just like her father at his age, a regular trouble-maker but he knew the signs of her causing trouble, unlike Piper and Leo had with him, he had been there, covering up the trouble he made so knew exactly what she was like.
ok, so it is just an introduction to the family, things will heat up a little more in the next chapter which I will have up tomorrow, but for now what do you think? Tell me in a review.
Just a little note, I'm still finding it hard to write this story, even though I have the ideas, so updates after teh second chapter maybe be delayed but I had to get it started since I've left you so long waiting for it.