Chapter 1

"Come on Mom it's time to get up" my son, Cam, said trying to get me out of bed. Usually it would be the mom waking the son up, but we Blocks are very interesting people. By interesting I mean completely and utterly insane.

"Five more minute," I pulled the pillow on my head.

"No mom now!" Cam pulled the covers off me and started to run, "I not going to be late to the first day of fourth grade!"

I groaned and rolled off the bed. Cam wasn't technically my son, he was my sisters. When he was five, my sister, Alicia and her husband, Josh, got into a horrible accident. She was taking a right and some retarded drunk decided he didn't have to stop at the red light or follow the speed limit. He crashed into them. Josh died on impact, and Alicia had some major injuries. She would have lived if the emergency vehicles came sooner, but by the time they got there, she lost too much blood. Luckily, Cam survived with only minor injuries.

Alicia and I didn't have any family left. Our parents were killed in a plane crash. They were going on a business trip and they never came back. My mom didn't have a family other than her adopted parents but they had died of old ago by the time she graduated college. My dad on the other had a huge family. My dad came from a very well known family, but they didn't approve of mom. It was either mom or his family. He chose mom, and they never spoke again.

So when Alicia died, Cam had no one else but me. I just turned eighteen, and I would be lying if I said wasn't scared. I got Cam enrolled in kindergarten and I went to college at Columbia. It's been four years since then although we had our ups and downs we always worked through it.

I walked into the bathroom of our two bedroom house, and began to brush and shower.

After I finished college I realized that I wasn't I city girl and Cam too wasn't too fond of New York either. So when college ended, Cam and I packed up our things and moved to Allenville, New Jersey. It's a pretty small town everyone knows each other here. It's the kind of place I always wanted to live in. We found a house and moved in a year later. The house was my dream house. It's no mansion full of riches, but it's the best house I could ask for. It was yellow with white shutters and 'as cute as a button'. Those were the realtors words not mine, but I did agree with her it was adorable.

"Come on mom!" Cam called from downstairs.

"Coming, coming!" I rushed down the stairs. I ruffled Cam's hair as I walked into the kitchen, "You excited Camera?" I called Cam, Camera because when he was six I bought him this little camera. He would take it everywhere with him; every time he pushed the fake button he would make that annoying sound. It was so cute!

"Kinda, not really its school mom what can I say?" Cam said as he passed me to grab the bread from the toaster. He passed one to me, and took it with one hand while I mixed my coffee with the other. This was usually how mornings in the Block house would go. Quiet and simple, but I loved them all the same.

I grabbed the keys from the counter and headed out with Cam behind me, "Who knows Cam maybe this year will be different. Maybe something incredible would happen."

Cam snorted, climbing into the car, "I doubt it mom."

The school is only ten minutes from our house; I really meant it when I said small. I gave Cam a quick kiss on the cheek, and told him to have a good day before pulling out and heading to work.

I own a boutique called Simply Block. Cam came up with the name and I feel in love with it. It was basically my closet in all different sizes. I make all the clothes in my store so only people in a rush will buy the clothes of the rack. Most people come to get measured and design the dress. Everyone knows what their perfect dress is, so what I do is sit with them, and draw out their perfect dress. In the end they get exactly what they wanted. It feels amazing when you finish a dress but it's so much when you know you made someone's fantasy come true.

"Hey Kristen!" I walked into the store. Kristen is a recent college graduate and one of the greatest fashion consultants ever. She helps with front desk like work. You know the basic stuff, taking calls, making appointments, stuff like that. She sometimes even helps the customers on the floor if I have an appointment or I'm working on a dress. The store opens at nine and closes at around six. Since I have Cam, I don't like to stay too long after his school ends, but on the weekends I don't work at all.

"Hey Mass," Kristen starts shuffling though papers, "Ok so Mrs. Lyons is coming at four to get little Claire fitted for her flower girl dress. It seems like a pretty slow day other than that though."

"Thanks Kristen I'm going to go work on Olivia's dress." I said over my shoulder. Closing the door behind me I got to work on the insane dress that Olivia wanted. Olivia was in a word the town whore. Her dress consisted of two pieces of fabric put together, it's pretty disgusting. After I finished that one I quickly started on the next one. Pretty soon it was three o'clock.

I quickly finished up and ran out the door letting Kristen know I had to pick Cam up.

As I pulled up to the school I noticed that Cam was talking to a cute little girl in a blue dress.

"Hey Cam!" I shouted, "You coming?"

Cam's head shot in my direction and said something to the girl. Slowly he made his way to the car. Every once in a while he would turn around and wave at her.

He finally got in the car and shut the door behind him. I looked at him and tried to him my smirk.

"Don't mom." Cam said just as I was about to open my mouth.

I started laughing and drove back to the store. Cam was defiantly a going to be a charmer when he grew up. He had long dark hair that he refused to let me cut and the most dazzling smile. However I think it's his eyes that going to have the girls going crazy. When Cam was born he had blue eyes, but as he got older one of his eyes started to turn green. It was very unusual but I loved them.

Cam was really quite on the drive back to the store so I thought maybe something was wrong, "Are you feeling ok Cam?"

"Can I ask you a question mom?" Cam turned his head to me.

"Sure baby shoot."

"Ok so my friend likes this girl at school, but she likes this other guy who in m-his opinion isn't good enough for her. What should I do?"

I giggled at his use of the term friend, "So just out of curiosity was your friend's name Cam." He nodded and looked down, "Aww Cam, don't be embarrassed."

"I don't know what to do mom!" Cam shouted.

No it was my turn to sigh, "Cam, have you ever thought about telling her by chance?"

"I'm not going to tell her!" He said as I pulled up to the boutique.

"And why not?" I demanded, "She won't know unless you tell her. Maybe the only reason she likes the other guy is because she believes she doesn't have a chance with you."

Cam just rolled his eyes at me and went inside.

Kristen gave me a questioning look as Cam walked past her with a scowl on his face. I threw my hands up, "I swear men and boys think dangerously alike!"

Laughing Kristen asked what happened.

"Well he tells me had a crush, so I tell him that he should just tell her!" I stop to catch my breath, "But no he like every other guy out there can't seem to realize that, that is what we girls want them to do!"

"I hear you sister" Kristen said as she went on to tell me about the customer that just left.

After a few minutes I left to check on Cam. He has his own room in the store because he is usually always here. I peeked inside, and saw that he was watching a soccer game. Cam was in love with soccer. He made me sign him up for the little people team. They didn't even start yet but he was driving me crazy with all the practicing! In the house might I add!

I softly knocked on the door, "Can I come in?"

"If I said no would you still come in?" He shot.

I laughed, "You bet."

He rolled his eyes and moved over on the couch so I could sit down, "I hope I'll be as good as Derrick."

I must have had this confused look on my face because he said, "His on the Los Angeles Galaxy mom. You know the best soccer team out there."

"Um…sure?" I said. Cam got up and got one of his sports magazines.

"Here see that's him."

"Oh wow" I whispered. He was the most beautiful man I have ever seen. He had shaggy blond hair and these big, brown eyes that made you look. He was so gorgeous!

Cam cleared his throat breaking me out of my trace, "Um mom are you ok?"

"Huh why would you ask that?" I asked still a little dazed.

"Well you were staring at that picture for over five minutes." Cam started to fidget with the sleeve of his shirt.

I blinked once and twice, "Oh ok well I'm going to go. Why don't you do your homework?" With that I ran out of the room. Oh wow how embarrassing. I never even brought a date home because I was always scared he would try something with Cam in the room, but now I just drooled over a guy in a magazine right in front of him. God I am seriously the worst mother ever.

"Hey Mass," Kristen called from the front, "The Lyons are here"

"Coming" I said at the same time Cam stuck his head out the door and said, "Lyons?"

I gave him a what's-going-on look, but he just shrugged. Nevertheless he followed me out to meet the Lyons'

At the front I was greeted by the cutest nine year old I have seen. She had shiny blond and ocean blue eyes. But when I saw her dress and I completely understood why Cam wanted to welcome them with me. She was the girl from his school. I decided that I should help Cam out a little, "Hey Cam why don't you show Claire around while I talk to her mother ok?"

Cam beamed at me and motioned for Claire to follow him. As soon as they were out of sight, I started to laugh.

Mrs. Lyons started to laugh as well, "Young love is defiantly something huh?"

"You can say that again, Cam seemed really excited to see her."

"After Claire realized Cam's last name was Block, she was literally dragging me to the door." We laughed as I led her into my office. After an hour we finally got a basic idea of what the dress should look like. Then we went on a search for Claire so I could take her measurements. When I opened the door to Cam's room I was gasped.

Cam and Claire were sleeping on the floor. Claire curled up in Cam's chest and Cam had his arm around her waist. Mrs. Lyons came in shortly after

"Hey have you found – awwww!" Mrs. Lyons gushed when she saw them, "How cute are they?"

"They are pretty adorable aren't they?"

"How about I bring her back tomorrow for her measurements?"

"That's sounds great." I looked at the kids and then back at Mrs. Lyons, "Do you think we should wake them up?"

"Well it's almost closing time for you so I guess we should."

I walked over to where Cam was and gave him a little nudge, "Hun it's time to get up."

They slowly started to wake up. When they realized that they were so close to each other, they shot up and murmured apologizes as they walked to our sides. I looked over at Mrs. Lyons and saw she too was trying to stiffen her laugh.

"We'll see your tomorrow Massie." Mrs. Lyons said, walking out of the room. Not one word was spoken till we heard the front door close.

"I cannot believe you did that!" Cam explored.

"Why are you yelling at me?" I shot back at him, "I should be the one yelling at you! You were sleeping with her!"

Cam flushed red, "Yeah but you could have just let us wake up by ourselves, and not embarrass us like that."

Clearly I was not going to be able to win this argument, so I did what any other parent would have done. I stuck my tongue out at him and walked out. Ok maybe not whatever other parent would have done.

"Oh don't you walk away from me missy!" Cam followed me out of the room, "You have to promise you will never do something like that again."

I sighed, "Cam, any normal mother would lecture her son on how he wasn't being very gentlemen like."

"But you're not normal though mom," Cam stated. I guess some people might be insulted by that, but like my son graciously stated, I'm not normal.

I laughed, "I guess you're right. Fine I promise."