Certainly Unexpected
Charlie Bazile is a popular, sweet boy, Amy Smith is a lonely confused girl with a rocky past who no one seems to understand, but what she doesn't know is that the only person who can understand her, is who she least expected
Chapter 1: Chances given
Nate Bazile woke up abruptly, his youngest son and name sake had fallen sleep on his bed again "we are late" he picked him up and headed to his usual morning routine. He first nodded on the boy's room
"Rise and shine TJ" he said "rise and shine!"
"Five more minutes" TJ mumbled
"I'm up!" Charlie raised his face, his messy black sticking out
Baze left the room, still holding Nate with one arm. He then knocked on Hannah's room
"Come on Ace!" Baze turned the lights on "we're late already!"
"Fine, I'll be right there" Hannah said getting out of bed "hey did you remember to sign my permit?"
"Shoot" Baze groaned "I forgot, I´ll sign it right now"
"On the counter" Ace said as Baze headed to the kitchen. Nate had just woken up
"Morning little dude" Baze placed the boy on the counter and then made coffee.
"We are late" Hannah said 10 minutes later "again"
"Not on my watch" Baze bit a donut and handed her a glass of milk "put some cereals on a bowl for your brother please" Hannah rolled her eyes, biting a toast
"Dad, my permit?" Hannah gave Nate his breakfast. She held out her hand
"Here" Baze signed the small paper while packing the sandwiches that he had made the night before on brown paper bags. He sipped his coffee in one gulp
"Oh, dad I have soccer practice today" TJ came tumbling in
"Right, I'll tell mom to pick you up at 6" Baze said as he headed upstairs again
He came right down a moment later, carrying clean clothes for Nate. He picked him up and took him to the living room
"You do realize that unless I have a big party, I'm going to be a social outcast for the rest of my life" Charlie was talking on his cell, Baze ran to take it away from him
"Who could you possibly is calling at this hour?" he asked. Charlie smiled
"Oh, I was just…" he passed his hair trough his hair
"Party planning huh?" his father said quietly Charlie nodded
"Why do you even bother, you are not even a teenager, and kids like you should be caught up in video games and soccer" Baze sighed "not throwing big parties"
"It's after soccer practice, we'll play video games" Charlie tried "I'm almost a preteen", I have to throw parties"
Baze rolled his eyes
"Daddy, I need help!" Nate called him from the couch "shoe!"
"Coming!" he said "listen man, we'll talk about this later, right now, you've got to get into the car"
Charlie dragged his feet to the door, turned around a second later "walk" he said simply
5 minutes later they were out the door, Baze put Nate on his chair, Charlie sat at front
"Why are you throwing a big party to anyway" Baze said as he drove "you're 11, you are an outcast"
Charlie groaned "yeah, about to turn 12. On to a new stage on my development"
Baze winced "you sound like your mom" charlie grinned
"Can you think about it?" Charlie asked annoyed "please?"
"We'll talk about it later" Baze said "I don't think the bar is a good place to throw a kids party though"
"We could use the loft" Charlie suggested "I'll cleanup"
"I'll be sure to tell your mom you said that" Baze joked
He parked the car, each child got out
"Bye daddy" TJ said, as Hannah took his hand
"Later little dude" Baze said "bye Ace" Hannah waved goodbye
Charlie left last "hey" Baze hold him off "I'll tell mom today"
"Thanks dad" Charlie smiled widely as he headed inside
Baze headed directly to the coffee shop, he locked the car, placing Nate on his back
"Morning Baze" Molly said "the usual, hey Nate"
"Hi" the little boy said happily, "going to school?"
"Yeah, Cate is out on a convention so she left early this morning" Baze told her as he gave him to coffee cup "thanks"
He then headed to Ryan´s home "hey" Julia opened the door
"Hey, how was the weekend?" she asked "hey Nate"
"Hi Aunt Julia!" he said excitedly, waving goodbye as he entered the house
"Thanks loads for taking him to school, I'm kind of crazy today"
"Sure" Julia smiled sweetly "see you later"
"Morning beautiful" Baze kissed Cate sweetly. She had taken a break from the convention, so Baze had paid her a visit
"Hey" she said surprised "what are you doing here?"
"I just thought you might need caffeine" he said
"Morning Baze" Alice appeared from behind him
"Here" he handed her the remaining coffee "for you"
"Isn't that sweet" Alice said sarcastically "and to think you were just a bar owner when I first met you, oh no wait, you still are, except now you are Mr. Mom too"
"Can I have that coffee back?" Baze said hurt
"Leave him alone!" Cate pulled Baze into a seat next to her "go"
"Fine" Alice said "I'm officially out"
"She can be so mean sometimes!" Cate said
Baze chuckled "she's Alice"
"Right, you are right, well how was today?" Cate took his hand
"Late" he sighed. Cate looked seriously at him
Charlie sat on the yard bench just before school, his best friend Cody sat next to him
"Have you heard?" he asked "about the new girl?"
"What new girl?" Charlie asked vaguely
"She just got here, look that's her" Cody pointed to a red headed girl who walked slowly with her head down, clearly ashamed about being new at school
"Where are you going?" Cody asked
"To say hi" Charlie said, his friend looked confused
"What for?" but Charlie was already gone
Amy smith was looking down at her feet, when she felt a hand on her back, jumping to her feet
"Oh, I'm sorry" Charlie gave her a flashing smile, Amy smiled nervously
"Thanks okay" she said shyly
"I'm Charlie" he extended his hand "Charlie Bazile"
"Amy, the new girl" she said quietly
"Yeah that must be hard, where are you from?" Charlie tried to break the ice
"Around" she told him "the school isn't far from my house, so I can walk to school"
"That's cool; at least you don't have to wait around for your dad to pick you up "Charlie grinned "it really sucks"
Amy smiled shyly again. If he only knew, wait maybe he might
Dedicated to BECALUX 3.14
A/N: I know Baze might seem out of character, but he's grown up a lot… sort of
Set 10 years after "Bright Lights/an Unexpected Turn"
Charlie's birthday will be celebrated soon
Children
Charles Maxwell "Charlie" (11-12) (b. December 12th, 2010)
Hannah "Ace" (9) (b. august 11th, 2013)
Toby Jackson "TJ" (6) (b. July 2, 2016)
Nathaniel "Nate" (3) (b .November 23th, 2019)