Title: If we Never Were

Disclaimer: I don't own any IAHB stuff. Just John, Teresa, Little Jaime,
Maurine, Lavonne, and the locals! (Hee Hee, You'll see!)

Authors Note: O.K. Hey everyone. I don't know if this will get posted on
Vals name or my own, but please don't get confused. This is Pastel Siren's
story, (Author of The Monopalous Stories!) Now, I know it looks long and
your like, "No, I can't read a 22 chapter story" But I promise you will
love this. Well, at least most of you will. I spent alot of time on this
story. It took me about a month to write it. I put alot of time into it,
and alot of heart. So if you read it, please review. I was seriously
thinking about trying to get this one published, but I really want to share
it with you, and if in the end, you think it's good enough for a sequel,
let me know! Now, just a quick summary to get you interested: Jaime get's
hurt by Caitie, and never talks to her again untill they fate brings them
back together! Well, there's alot more to it, but you'll have to read it to
find out. THere's comedy, horror,suspense, drama and romance all rolled up
into one story! (I'm the kind've person who likes to cram a whole bunch of
stuff into one thing. Sorry about that, but it works!) O.K, without further
ado, please enjoy...)

If We Never Were

CHAPTER ONE: Nightmares in the Home

"Mama, mama!" Caitie jumped out of her bed and ran into her child's room.
"Mama." Jaime was rolling around screaming and moaning in his bed. "Mama!"

Caitie crawled into his bed, picked him up, and cradled 6 year old Jaime
into her arms. She rocked him back and forth and told him, "It's only a
dream Jaime. I's only a dream. Mamas here now."

Jaime's sobs grew quiet, and Caitie asked him what his dream was about.

"I saw him again. He was crawling in the window. He tried to get me again
mama. I told him no, but he wouldn't listen."

Caitie didn't know what to say. She was angry, and feared the fact her son
still had nightmares about a man he hadn't seen in 2 years.

"Jaime, would you like to come sleep in bed with mama?" He shook his head
yes, and she picked him up and carried him to her room. She laid him down
next to her, and stroked his hair until he fell asleep.

She thought of Billy. In High School, he came back early from military
school. He had come back with more lies that he had changed, and realized
what he had lost when he let go of Caitie. He told her he loved her, and
that if she would accept him, they would be together forever, and
ignorantly, she believed him.

She had just broken up with her one year relationship with Jaime, and
unfortunately, was on the rebound, and Billy had just happened to show up.

So she ran into his arms without looking ahead of her, and she tripped and
fell. At 17, she became pregnant with Billy's son. But she lost a lot more
than her virginity that night.

A month later, she decided it was time to tell Val and Jaime what was
going on. Val had left on a cheer competition that day without telling
Caitie, but she couldn't wait. She didn't know if there would ever be
another day she would be ready.

So Jaime would have to be the only one who new for now. But Jaime had news
of his own for Caitie. He told her he didn't think it was a good idea for
her to be with Billy. He still thought Billy was bad news, but it didn't
end there. He told Caitie he was still in love with her, and wanted her
back.

Caitie was shocked, and part of her was still in love with him too, but
she needed to tell Jaime the truth. "Jaime, I I'm I'm pregnant."

Jaime froze. He ran away from Caitie, and didn't speak to her. Ever.

Graduation was only a week away, and when that night finally came, from
the under the bleachers, stould Jaime, and the whole time he watched Caitie.
He felt so much anger and pain towards her. And jealousy as well.

After graduation, Caitie never heard from him again. He left to be a
pediatrician, and that was it. There was never a phone call, post card,
Christmas card, nothing. As far as Caitie was concerned, he had disappeared
off the face of the planet.

Jaime couldn't forgive Caitie. She hurt him more than anyone had ever hurt
him in his life. After they broke up, she wasted no time to get back
together with Billy, than, within a few months, she slept with him, and
became pregnant. There was no way he could ever have gotten her back after
that. And he had wanted her back, but he could never be with someone who
hurt him the way she did.

Caitie finished her thoughts of Jaime. Of how she had loved him more than
she had ever loved anyone in her life, and how she wished things could've
been different, and that her and Jaime would've never broken up.

Than she thought of Billy. After graduation, Billy bought them all a small
apartment about 30 miles out of town. His parents disowned him after they
found out about Caitie and the baby, and didn't leave him much of anything
to fall back on. Caitie sent him out to find a job because she new she
would have to stay home when the baby was born.

Billy started coming home drunk every night, and their money grew scarce.
Eventually, he started beating on her, and she couldn't stand to be around
him, so she left.

She went back to Kingsport to stay with her mother. After the baby was
born, all Caitie's fears disappeared. She loved her little son more than
life itself from the instant she first saw him. And she couldn't think of
a more perfect name then Jaime.

Her and Jaime lived with Caitie's mom for about a year. Until one night,
Billy came looking for her and Jaime. She heard the baby cry, and went into
see what was wrong, and there was a man standing over his crib.

She quietly grabbed a little wooden chair that sat next to Jaime's diaper
changing table, and hit the man over the head.

He wailed out in pain, and turned and hit the girl across her face. She
fell to the floor, and he went back to the baby. Again she got up and
jumped on his back. She screamed at him and told him to stay away from her
child. He threw her off him, and she looked up at his face. The moon was
glowing on it so she could make out who it was. "Billy?"

He smiled at her evilly and turned back to the baby. "What is it?" He
asked.

"A boy." She said standing up and wiping her face.

"Well, does he have name?"

"Jaime." She answered terrified of him.

"Jaime? Jaime? Why does that sound so familiar?"

Caitie starred at him in complete horror as he turned around and glared at
her with such dark beady eyes, he looked possessed. "Jaime? Isn't that the
guy you dated in high school before me?"

He was drunk. She could sense it.

"Why the hell did you go and do that for? How dare you name my child after
that no good trailer trash."

Caitie grew fierce and she flew at him screaming at the same time,
"Jaime's not trailer trash. He's a far better man then you'll ever be. He
was the greatest man I've ever known. And I'd much rather he be the father
of this child than you."

The baby was crying and Billy took a hard swing at Caitie knocking her
unconscious. He grabbed the baby and crawled out the window with him, but
the cops showed up just in time.

Billy came for Jaime 3 more times after that. Once when he was 2, and
twice when he was 4. Some how miraculously, Caitie and Jaime survived it.
The last time he came, he actually got away with Jaime, but the police
tracked him down and 1 week later Jaime was returned to his mother. That
was the time Jaime had remembered, and the reason he had nightmares every
night.

After the 4th time, Caitie and Jaime moved about 3 hours away to the same
town where Val was living in hope that Billy would never find her, and that
she would never have to face him again. But Caitie had an everlasting fear
of Billy, and was never sure of when or if he would strike again. She
always had a knawing fear in the back of her mind that he was just around
the corner.