She flitted around nervously, for the past week she hasn't been able to sit. She would tidy things up or go for long walks. She barely talked, she would avoid me and all I wanted was to be with her. The real life sucked, keeping a job while trying to make enough for college in the fall was the worse. I never thought I JT Yorke would go to college for Theater or acting but like my friends said I acted for so long around Liberty while we were apart. She was great while reconnecting with her family but she still lived with my grams and I. My parents have bought a house and live in the area so they are close but I guess the shocking news is that their pregnant with my brother or sister. My grandma nearly had a heart attack at the news and gave my parents both a lecture on parenting. I sat in the background until my gram pulled me in the lecture and gave me the same speech, I could tell my parents were trying not to laugh at the hilarity in the situation. I just sat their mortified thanking god that Liberty wasn't there. But now as I sit alone in the house again with liberty taking my car off to do god knows what I am bored. I went to my room and grabbed my skateboard. It had been a few years but as I hit the pavement and kicked off feeling the rush of adrenaline it was like I was twelve again. I didn't realize I was headed towards Mia's house but I stopped when I saw her and Izzy outside. I stopped and Izzy ran over to me.

"Hey girl, how you doing?" I stooped down to her level. Her brown eyes level with mine.

"I'm good Jt." I smiled at her then grabbed her and picked her up swinging her around. I brought her over to Mia where I set her down.

"Hey." Mia and I remained friends even though it was strained when liberty was around but she still had that green monster around her.

"Hi Jt. Hows Liberty?" She hugged me in a purely friendly way. She has accepted that I would be forever Liberty's.

"Ah I'm not actually sure, shes nervous I think of going to see our son." She looked shocked.

"Your going to see your son?" we sat down on the bench out side of her apartment.

"Yah Sam is turning one and I get to be there to see it since after that I don't think I will see any others. I mean it's not fair to the family that adopted him if were around all the time then our son will get confused and it will make a mess. I have to accept hes no longer mine any more." I looked down, I knew my brown eyes were laden with sadness they always got that way when someone brought up sam.

"It will be closure for you Jt that's what you need the most. You get to live your life and your son gets to be as happy as a kid could be. I mean its not like down the line you won't have more." I looked at Izzy.

"Nothing is like your first born though, it just sickens me that I'm his father yet he isn't mine. I sold drugs for him. I don't know how stupid or immature I could have been. I can't help but not think of him yah know?" She placed her small hand on my shoulder.

"At least you want to be there a lot of people wouldn't. You have a heart of gold Jt almost to a fault." I sat there and talked the afternoon away with Mia before I skated home and met up with an angered Liberty.

"Where have you been James?" She had been taking that tone with me.

"I was out." I just walked away.

"Where did you go?" She entered my room as I put my board up.

"I went and spent the afternoon with Mia." The jealousy came out in Liberty and I wished that this would end.

"oh, I made you dinner you know."

"no I wouldn't know, you've barely been around lately and when your around your crazy. What is going on Liberty. We have to communicate to be able to make this work." She looked at me and just stormed off but I followed her I was tired of walking around with out my fiance.

"You go out all day take my car, you don't tell me where you go and when I ask you never give me a strait answer, History is repeating its self, your not talking to me and I will walk out the damn door Liberty. Do we have to make this mistake again? I love you but you need to get over your jealousy of Mia. I love you and only you I want to marry you if you can ever let me in fully again. I'm not going to hurt you Liberty. I just cant stand not knowing whats going on? You don't tell me how you feel." She just sat on the bed and I was done yelling.

"I know. This is hard for me Jt, everything is moving so fast. Were going to get married, College and were going to see our son." I sat next to her and held her hand.

"You need to look at this as closure Liberty, we can't be around him that family deserves Sam. After this we will have to wait till our son comes to us if ever. Liberty one day we will have a child we can take care of, one that we can see grow. But Sam is no longer ours." She leaned her head on my shoulder.

"Our baby Samuel James Yorke. What happens if they changed his name?" I smiled.

"They didn't he is still a Yorke and will always be a Yorke." I wrapped my arm around her.

"I just wish he was in my arms and you were teaching him how to walk and it was us raising him."

"It will never be us Liberty we got to accept that. He will grow into a fine young man and one day he will find us. But until then we can't interfere. We have our whole lives to do that if you can deal with me?" She looked up to my smirking face and just kissed me.

"How about tomorrow me and you spend the day together? I miss not having my fiance around."

"I'd like that JT." I smiled and just laid back with her. We talked of sweet nothings.

"Liberty?" I shifted slightly and saw she had fallen asleep on my chest. I tried to get up but her arm draped over me and held me close. I resided with kissing the top of her head.

"Goodnight, Libby. I love you." I closed my eyes and let her rhythmic breathing drown my senses as I fell asleep...

I got up the next morning at the crack of dawn. Liberty's side was against my chest as we laid against each other. I kissed the back of her shoulder and slipped out of the room to start the day with breakfast in bed. I set the food on the table and was about to sit down and that's when my pager goes off. I sigh not a day off I guess. I had trained to be a firefighter over junior year's summer and now I was getting called in on an out of control apartment fire. I grab my helmet and go to get some clothes on before I kiss Liberty goodbye and leave the food warming in the oven. I dress on my way out and drive my car to the fire.

"There you are Probie, we have a class B fire. Some college kids decided to do flaming drinks and well it got out of hand. Were approaching this situation with caution because the fire is spreading throughout the building and could potentially explode. But we need you and Mack to go in and rescue a lady on the third floor she is trapped in an apartment by some fallen beams on the stair case. After the third floor it hasn't been cleared yet. Check that out." I nodded and pulled my helmet on as I walked into the building up on the second floor I met up with Mack.

"We got to get to her then clear any other floor you know the drill Mack." We walked up the steps and there smoldering beams in front of a closed door. I pulled out my axe and chopped the beams down till we could get to opening the door. The door was locked and wouldn't budge.

"Hello? Any one out there yell back if you can hear me." I could hear a faint help me coming from inside the room. I pulled out my halligan tool and busted the door open.

"Luke the room is to smoked out for me to see use the hose to bust a window open and bring the ladder round to the third floor." The window was smashed and the smoke began to go out the window as I called out again for the girl in this apartment. She was slumped over in her room beams around her and she was trapped. I cut away the beams and pulled her out of the fire helping her to the window. I got her out on the ladder and carried her down once I sat her down at the ambulance I got a look at her soot covered face.

"Manny?" I shook my head and walked back to the ladder. I got on the radio.

"Mack how many floors have you cleared?"

"I'm on the fifth floor Yorke."

"I will meet you up there." I ran back into the complex and saw Mack on the fifth floor combating a fire with the hose. I pointed up and he nodded I continued to check the rest of the floors. I reached the eighth and final floor and saw an out of control fire in one of the apartments. I raced back to the stairwell and grabbed the hose before I began to battle the raging inferno.

"Probie, Mack get out of there its going to blow." I heard on the radio.

"Sir im on the top floor I will go out onto the roof."

"No can do Probie get out its going to collapse." I dropped the hose and began running down the stairs as the apartment I just came out of exploded sending fire down the stair well. I ducked and tried to get past the blaze hitting me. I had to get out soon this blaze was to hot.

"Mack are you ok?" I only heard static from Mack's line.

"Captain, I have no response from Mack I am a floor above him."

"Get to him and get the hell out of there Probie." He yelled on my line. I raced to where I saw Mack. I tried to get him to awaken but he wouldn't. I sighed and walked him down the stairs as another explosion rocked the building. I heard the tell tale signs of it beginning to collapse.

"PROBIE GET OUT IS GOING DOWN!" I heard the captain yell on my radio before the line went dead and I reached the second floor as the building started to come down around me...