The Good Life

Alex

Jack and Cass wanted to play peacemakers so now everyone, minus Austin, was at our house for an intervention for Alan. We were having dinner at our house and while we ate they were going to causally talk to Alan about it. I don’t think this whole invention thing would work out the way he and Cass wanted it too. We can’t guilt trip Alan into changing his ways because he was already in too deep. He needs professional help now.

"Is someone in the bathroom?" Alan asked as we were waiting for everyone to sit.

"Yeah I think Hannah is using it. You can just use the one upstairs." Jack told him and he left to go up there.

"Where's Izzy and Cass?" Oli asked.

"They’re upstairs doing God knows what." I said.

"Can we eat without them or are we waiting for everyone?" He asked.

"No no we have to wait for everyone." Jack answered.

Alan came back downstairs with a shocked look on his face. He didn't say a word to anyone he just took a seat at the table. A few minutes later, Izzy and Cass came into the living room. Cass looked so stressed out as she walked with Izzy to the table and sat down.

Jack announced the food was ready and everyone got their food and sat back down. I could see him looking to Cass to try to get her to initiate the talk.

"Oh right. Alan?" Cass said disoriented. Alan sat his fork down and gave her his attention. "Um this might sound a little weird, but this isn't just a normal dinner." She stated.

"What is it then?" He shrugged his shoulders.

"It's an intervention." Jack said and Alan burst into laughter.

"Alan were serious. We want...need to talk to you about you drinking problem. It's getting out of control." Rian warned him.

"Drinking problem? What drinking problem?" Alan said defensively.

"Come on like you don't know. You drink every day now and at all hours of the day." Cass told him.

"I'm going through a messy divorce at the moment! I would like to meet the person who's going through the same thing and doesn't drink on a regular basis." Alan said.

"Alan we're only trying to help." Oli said.

"Yeah, plus it's not good to for your kids to grow up seeing you like this." Jack added.

"Don't you dare bring my children into this!!" Alan yelled.

"Alan please calm down! We really just want to help you through this." Hannah said. I didn't think it was necessary for me to say anything so I just enjoyed my food and observed.

"I'm sick of this!" Alan yelled. "You act like my family is the only messed up one and you guys are all sunshine and rainbows. Well you're not! Cassadee did you ever tell Rian about how you cheated on him?" Alan said and all you could hear was forks dropping.

". . . Y-You cheated on me?" Rian asked Cass confused and waited for her answer.

"Rian, I woul-" she was cut off by Alan talking over her.

"Oh that's not even the kicker." Alan snickered. "She cheated on you with Oli like a few months before you two got married." He said amusingly, purposely leaving out the part about it being just a kiss.

Oli and Cass tried to plea there case to Rian and Hannah, mostly trying to tell them it was just a kiss but neither of their significant others wanted to hear it. The damage was already done.
I looked to Jack and he had his hands covered his mouth in shock.

"Rian I promi-" Cass said trying to comfort him and make him listen to her.

"Don't touch me!" He pushed her hands off of him and stood up. "I can't believe you Cassadee! What the hell is wrong with you?"

"We didn't have sex." Oli said calmly.

"Yeah-fucking-right!" Hannah yelled at him.

"No really they didn't." I answered.

"You knew about this?!?" Rian questioned and I immediately felt like shit.

"Yes, Ri but-"

"Save it, Alex." Rian held his hand up stopping me. He walked out of the dining room in disgust and went out the front door.

"Rian please wait!" Cass cried and ran after him.

"You can burn in Hell, Oliver!" Hannah hissed at Oli with tears running down her face. She took her wedding ring off and threw it at him before walking out too. He reached down to pick it up and put it in his pocket, and ran out behind her.

"I'm not finished yet." Alan stated.

"Don't you think you've said enough?" I asked him.

"Oh but Mr. Gaskarth this one is about your perfect family." He said piquing my interest. I looked at Jack to see if he looked guilty of something but he was just as confused as I was. I know I've never done anything horribly wrong to Jack so I was really confused as to what the hell Alan was talking about.

"You and Jack love giving 'helpful advice' on how to raise my kids, but how am I supposed to take you either of you seriously when your own sixteen year old daughter is pregnant?" He picked up his whine glass and took a sip.

I looked at Izzy to see if her expression would tell if what he was saying was true or not. I mean of course he was lying he was just drunk and didn't know what he was talking about. Who would she even be pregnant by? Izzy wasn't looking at me so I couldn't see her face, but it didn't matter I knew my daughter wasn't pregnant.

Jack must have felt the same way I did because he said, "You don't know what you're talking about, Alan. I think we would know if our own daughter was pregnant or not. You're just drunk."

"Not drunk enough to not over hear her conversation with Cassadee upstairs. But if you won't take my word on it then ask her yourselves." Alan smirked.

I still thought he was lying but why not amuse him. "Izzy are you pregnant?" I asked half-heartedly.
She looked up at me with tears starting to fall from her eyes, as if she was fearing for her life. Even seeing her cry wasn't enough for me to believe it. There was no fucking way she was pregnant. She didn't answer me though so I asked again.

"Izzy ...are you pregnant?" She still didn't answer I just got more shaking, tears, and whimpers. Now I wasn't so sure of myself anymore.

"Isabella Gaskarth. Answer me. Are you pregnant?!" I seethed.

"Yes" she whispered while nodding her head.

"Izzy!!" Jack yelled at her which I admit caught me off guard because he never raised his voice at her.

"Now I'm done." Alan said as he left but we all ignored. We had our own problems to deal with.
I couldn't really focus with the amount of anger building up inside of me. Not only anger but disappointment and not only at Izzy but at Jack and I. How could we be such terrible parents?

"Jesus! Who's the father?" I found myself asking.

She mumbled a name but it was drowned out by her crying.

"Speak louder, I can't hear you!! Who! Is! He!" I shouted. She still couldn’t speak clear enough for me to understand her.

"It's Vic isn't it?" Jack asked narrowing his eyes.

She looked down at her lap and nodded her head. I slammed my hand on the table out of anger making her jump and cry even harder.

"I expected better from you, Isabella" Jack told her.

"I'm sor-" I cut her off before she could finish.

"I seriously do not want to fucking hear it." I was so livid. "I can't even look at you." Izzy began to cry even harder and ran upstairs to her room.

The great thing about this was that Vic lived right across the street so I didn't have to go very far to kick his ass and he was over eighteen so I wouldn't be charged for injuring a child. That was all the motivation I needed to start walking to the door. I ignored Jack asking where I was going and kept walking.

Jack caught up to me when I was outside walking down our driveway. "Alex stop! I'm not going to let you go over there and hurt him." He said trying to stop me.

"Oh I'm not going to hurt him." I lied.

"Yes you are! I can see it in your eyes. Just please stop and think for a second." He pleaded but I kept walking until we in front of their door. I rang the doorbell and knocked on the door repeatedly until Vicki opened it staring at us highly confused.

"Hi Vicki! Is Vic home?" I asked in an overly politely voice.

"Yes" she said still confused.

"Alex lets go home." Jack said shaking me.

"I just want to speak to Vic really quick." I said still staring at Vicki waiting on her to call him down.

"Can I ask why?" She asked. I guess she was skeptical because of the way Jack was yelling at me to 'just go home.'

"He got my daughter pregnant." I said dropping the nice act.

"He what? ... Victor Vincent Fuentes get down here now!" She yelled. The fact that she didn't seemed as confused as we did made me think she knew about them.

"Vicki how about we talk about this some other time. We just found out ourselves and Alex is a little too angry to deal with this right now." Jack told her.

"Nonsense! I'm fine." I said.

"What's going on?" Emilio asked as we still waited for Vic to get down here.

"Apparently Vic got Izzy pregnant." Vicki told him and he grew confused; the correct reaction.
"Yeah Mom?" Vic asked a little scared. I'm guessing because she used his full name. Vicki pointed to us and he turned to us waiting for either Jack or I to speak.

"Have you been seeing our daughter behind our backs?" I asked first. Of course his facial expression gave away the answer so it didn't matter what came out of his mouth.

"What? No!" He lied and I chuckled. I've always found it funny when I knew the truth and I listened to someone lie.

"Yes you have, and you got her pregnant." I told him and he stood there in shock.

"Wait a minute, if my son says he hasn't been with her then he hasn't." Emilio said defensively.

"I don't think Izzy would lie about this kind of thing." I said becoming more irritated. Vicki tried to speak but Emilio cut her off.

"Well maybe if you kept better track of your daughter instead of letting her sleep around with just anyone she wouldn't have this problem." Emilio said, but this time I didn't have time to say anything because Jack did.

"You don't know shit about our daughter so don't go there. And do you really think you should be the one to talk about sleeping around?" He said suggestively making Vicki gasp.

"Jack you promised!" She yelled.

"What's he talking about?" Vic asked, but he was ignored.

"That was before I realized how fucked up you people really are. Alex lets go, they're honestly not worth the fight." Jack said and I followed behind him back to our house. I was a little disappointed in not giving Vic what he deserved but like Jack said, it wasn't worth the trouble.

It was just us two when we walked back in the house. Everyone else had left already.

"Can you believe them?" Jack said going to clean up the dining room to keep himself busy.

"I know that was really fucked up, but what about Izzy? What are we going to do?" I questioned.

"We're just going to have to support her and the baby." He sighed.

"Are we horrible parents?" I slumped down in a random chair.

"I felt like we were at first, but now that I think about it, we did our best. We couldn't control every single thing she did. We just have to continue to be great parents and help her through this." He came over and sat in my lap. I still felt pretty bummed out about this whole situation and I hated Alan for starting all this mess. Now Rian hates me, Cass, and Oli. I’m sure Hannah hate me, Cass, and Oli too.

I placed my forehead into Jack's side and sighed, "I have a fucking headache."

Notes

Does anyone side with Alan lol