Never been better

Gerard's POV

Frank had gone to work leaving me with the two kids, which I didn't mind as it meant I could spend sometime with Seth when Rella was asleep but she's able to stay awake a little long each day.
I was sat on the sofa watching Seth and Rella play on the floor.
"Go careful Seth, she's only little." I said when Seth was being a bit forward going with Rella.
"When can she play with me?" Seth asked and he looked at me.
"Not for a while, but you can play with her but you've just got to be gentle. She's not as big and as strong as you are." I said and Seth got up and stood between my legs.
"Where's papa?" Seth asked and lent against my leg.
"Papa is at work so I can stay at home and look after you crazy people." I said and lifted Seth up and started to blow raspberries on his belly which made him laugh loudly.
Rella head snapped round and looked at us both.
"You missing out on the fun? Want to join us?" I asked and I put Seth beside me and I bent down and picked Rella up and blew raspberries on her belly gently which she didn't like.
"She doesn't like that." Seth giggled.
"No she doesn't." I chuckled and sat back with Rella in one arm and Seth in another.
"Can I have something to eat daddy?" Seth asked and looked at me and I sat forward and looked at my phone and saw it was lunchtime anyway.
"You can as it's now lunch time, what would you like to eat?" I asked as I stood up and I went to put Rella in her bouncer thing she had in the sitting room when the doorbell went and I looked at the door as I wasn't expecting anyone to come round so I picked Rella up and head towards the door and I knew Seth was behind me.

I opened the door and saw two people who I didn't know standing there.
"Who are you and why are you standing in front of my home?" I asked and I felt Seth hold onto my trousers and I moved Rella round so she was close to me.
"We're are from child protection services. We're here because we have had a report from someone saying you have been neglecting and abusing your children." This woman said and I looked at her shocked and felt panic go through me.
"Can I phone my partner up first? I think he needs to be here as well." I said with my voice shaking.
"You may, but can we come in?" The woman asked and I nodded and pushed the door back and walked back into the apartment into the sitting room where I put Rella back in her bouncer and I picked Seth up and put him on the sofa.
"If they ask you questions about me and Papa then you don't answer them until I come back okay." I said quickly and quietly.
"What's going in daddy? I'm scared." Seth said and I smiled and wiped a stray tear which was rolling down his cheek.
"I don't know baby, I know you scared but right now I need you to be a big boy and keep an eye on Rella for me as I phone papa. Okay can you do that for me and I'll sort something out for you to eat." I said and Seth nodded.
I smiled and kissed his forehead and I got up and grabbed my phone and looked for Frank's number and when I found it I called it.
"Frank answer the phone." I whispered quietly to myself as I watched the two strange people in my house and they was walking towards Seth and Rella.
"Stay away from my kids." I growled and they looked at me and they backed off and by which point Frank answered his phone.
"Hey babe what's the matter?" Frank said.
"Child protection services are in our fucking house because someone is claiming that we are neglecting and abusing the kids." I said quickly but it came out in one big sobbing mess.
"Baby I need you to calm down and tell me what you said again and I got no word of what you said." Frank said calmly.
"Someone reported us to child protection claiming we have been neglecting and abusing the kids and they are in our house looking at me as I'm panic to go into a panic attack." I said a bit slower but it was much slower as I sobbed down the phone.
"Okay baby, you need to calm down okay and I'm coming home. Don't say nothing to them until I get home. I need you to focus on breathing and not passing out on the kids okay, can you try and do that for me?" Frank said calmly and I nodded and sniffed loudly.
"Alright babe, I'll be home as son as I can. I love you." Frank said and I smiled a little bit.
"Okay, I love you too." I whispered and Frank hung up and I tried to get myself together and went to sort Seth lunch out and Rella's bottle.

Frank came home just as I finished giving Rella her bottle.
"Why are in my house still? Can you see that our children are not abused or neglected." Frank said as he walked over to check if we was okay.
"We need to make sure that these reports aren't true." The woman said.
"But their not true. We love our children, Christ my partner is having a panic attack because he is scared you are going to take our children away." Frank said and he put his hand on my shoulder as I burped Rella.
"Look I'm sorry that we have caused you to panic but we need to make sure that these reports aren't true and that your children aren't in danger." The man said and he looked at Frank.
"You think I would put my kids and my partner in danger?" Frank asked and I put my hand on his shoulder.
"Calm down." I said quietly and Frank looked at me and smiled.
"Who reported us? I admit we let Rella scream the flat down the other day but only because nothing else was working." Frank said.
I could feel the mans eyes on me.
"Don't look at my partner like that." Frank growled.
"Babe, Rella need her nappy changed and she need putting down for a nap can you do that for me please." I said quietly and Frank looked at me and nodded.
"Cool it down will you." I said quietly and he took Rella off me and he went to Rella's room.
I looked at Seth and he was still eating his lunch watching his lunchtime children shows.
"Want a drink buddy?" I asked and Seth nodded.
"Am I a mind reader?" I asked again and Seth shook his head.
"Orange juice please." Seth said and I got up and walked to the kitchen.

"You look pretty long to have 2 kids." The woman said.
"I'm 21, I'm not that young." I said and went back out to the sitting room and left Seth alone to eat his lunch as I made something for Frank to eat as he was always hungry.
"Your still only a baby. You should be out living your life." The woman said.
"Okay, stop with the nice act okay. I needed protection when I was younger but none of your guys helped me. I even asked for help saying the things they did to me but you ignored me! My life is under this roof." I said and went to the fridge and got myself a glass of squash.
"Your little boy looks about 4 years old. You was still a child when you adopted him?" The man said.
"Nope, I carried him in my body. He's mine and my partners child." I said and the man looked at me shocked.
"It's the same for our daughter." I said and Frank walked out to the kitchen.
"How old are your children and what are their names?" The woman asked.
"The little boy is called Seth and he's going to be 5 next month and the baby is called Rella and she's 5 weeks old." I said.
"Such sweet names. Rella, that's Italian?" The woman said.
"Yes, can you just get on with what your doing and just leave." Frank said bluntly and I gave him a warning look.
"Of course, can we talk to Seth please?" The woman asked.
"Yeah, but good luck trying to get him to talk. He's always been shy around new people." I said and the woman smiled and nodded and they pair of them walked over to Seth.
I turned to Frank.
"It's that fucking kangaroo fucker, I fucking bet you." I said quietly to Frank and he looked at me confused.
"I'll tell you when the fuck off. Was Rella good to go down." I said and Frank nodded.
"Yeah she was good." Frank said and I smiled.
"That's good, keep an eye on them I want to check on Rella." I said quietly and Frank smiled and kissed my cheek as I walked off.

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