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~Pepper(7m4)
A/N Warrior is also MoonKitten2016 and is writing with Pepper since they share a lot in common. I have so many great friends, and Pepper is the third friend I never mentioned for some unknown reason. Ponchygirl and LHDD are still my best friends, though'
~Warrior(7m3)
Logan Hanson walked into the California Highway Patrol building. For what seemed like the first time. He had been there plenty of times, but this was his first time walking in as a motorcycle officer. So it felt like his first time. He took in a deep breath of fresh air. "My first day as a motorcycle officer. This feels great," he told himself. He heard snickers behind him.
"What the heck, Logan. You act like this is your wedding day," Kiara teased as she flipped her hair. A normal motion she did when talking. It reminded everyone of a teenage girl always flipping her hair after a sassy remark.
Logan blushed, "Sorry." Kiara laughed and clapped a hand on his shoulder.
"It's ok, baby face," she said in a teasing tone. Lots of the officer's teased Logan for having a boyish face. Logan rolled his eyes.
"Okay, well time to go find my T.O...wait no it's not. I don't know who it is yet," Logan said. He confused himself. When he got confused his nose scrunched up a little, as he thought.
Jolene and Lilly were in the officer's lounge, drinking a cup of coffee and chatting. There was about 15 minutes left before briefing started, so they used the free time to get some coffee. Soon someone entered the room.
"Hello, ladies," Ponch said cheerfully as he dug in his pocket for a quarter.
"Hi, Ponch!" Lilly said, with a bright smile. She didn't know he was married, so she had a slight crush on him.
"Hey there, how's it goin'?" Ponch asked then turned towards the vending machine to get a ding dong. After getting his precious treat he took a seat next to Jolene. Jolene smiled. She knew about her sister's crush, but she also knew that he was married. She, however, decided to stay out of it.
"Oh, you wanna see something cute?" Ponch asked reaching for his phone off of his gun belt.
"Sure!" Lilly said.
"Yeah, I would love to see," Jolene added in. Ponch smiled, he grabbed his phone.
"Look," he said showing them a picture of a room decorated for a baby. It was painted blue and had designs of teddy bears bordering around by the ceiling and by the floor. There was a pink rug, and a wooden rocking chair. In the middle of all the cuteness was Brittany standing there with a paint brush. She looked as if she could pop any minute.
"Aww, it's so adorable! How far along is she?" she asked as she gushed over the picture. Lilly, however, was silent.
"Six and a half months, boy is she ready though. She told me this morning she couldn't wait. And guess what!" Ponch said as he went to the messaging thing on his phone to show Jolene a text from Brittany from a while ago. "The doc says its gonna be twins." Ponch has a huge smile on his face.
"That's great, Ponch. Congratulations! Do you guys know the gender of the babies?" she wanted to know.
"A boy and a girl," Ponch replied proudly. Logan walked in on that part.
"Really!? You'll tell them but you never told me?" He asked in disbelief mixed with a bit of laughter.
Jolene laughed at that. "Maybe he didn't wanna tell you," she teased.
"Why not, Ponch?" Logan asked making a face.
"Hey, I promised Jolene she'd be first to know," Ponch replied in defense.
"I, um... I gotta use the restroom. I'll see you at briefing, alright?" Lilly said before she got up and rushes out of the room.
"Okay? Is she alright?" Ponch asked.
"She will be..Uhm...just so you know, she didn't know you were married, and she had a slight crush on you..." Jolene explained.
"Oh...well what a great way to let her know that," Ponch said with a smirk. "I'll be right back," Ponch added. As he was leaving the room he bumped into Jon.
"Whoops, sorry, partner," Jon said.
"No prob, Baker. It was more my fault anyway," Ponch said with a wide grin. Jon laughed.
"Okay," he replied then walked into the room as Ponch walked out. Lilly was standing in front of the bathroom's mirror, hating herself for crying. The door swung open and in walked Kiara and Bonnie. They were laughing about something. Then Kiara noticed Lilly crying.
"Honey, what's wrong?" Kiara asked. Kiara had this way of talking to everyone as if they were her child or something. That's just the way she spoke to them sometimes.
"I-It's stupid..." Lilly said.
"Aww, honey I'm sure it's not that stupid. If you're crying about it, it can't be stupid," Kiara said. Bonnie walked up to her and put an arm around her shoulder.
"W-Well...I sort of had a crush on uhm...Ponch..but I didn't know he was married..." she said, sniffling a little. Kiara got a grin that went from ear to ear.
"I had the same thing happen to me once," she started. "I was about to ask him if I could go out with him...but then he handed me the invite to his wedding," Kiara said. Trying her best to hold back her giggles. "I've never been so embarrassed in my life. If my skin wasn't so dark I'm sure I would've been redder than a tomato!"
Lilly giggled a slight bit. "R-Really?" she said. Bonnie nodded.
"She told me about it. She felt so bad, but I helped her realize that she couldn't have possibly known, because Brittany isn't the type of girl to brag about anything," Bonnie tells Lilly.
"I swear if I could go back in time I wouldn't have looked so idiotic when that happened. I was dumbfounded. I could barely even speak. So I was like, 'Oh...um...that's...that's nice...congratulations…' He just laughed at me!"
Before Lilly could speak, there was a knock on the door before it opened. On the other side, was Jolene. "Hey, sis. Ponch is looking for you, by the way.." she said. Lilly smiled at Kiara and Bonnie.
"Thanks, you guys. I should probably clean up and go face my total embarrassment..." she muttered.
"I'll go with you. I know if I would've had someone with me when i found out I would've felt better," Kiara said.
"Thanks, Kiara," Lilly said, smiling wider now. She cleaned off her face and followed Kiara out of the bathroom. Bonnie stayed since she did have to use the restroom. Kiara laughed slightly when she found Ponch.
"You know, the first time I saw him, my heart melted. I was like 'I want that!' well, as time went on I was like 'I really want that' then I finally came to 'I can't have that' It's sad. But I'll be ok. I've got...hmm who do I have?"
"You have us.." Lilly said, her cheeks slightly turning red since they were walking towards Ponch.
"Oh, funny I've got Kyle!" she exclaims nearly dying of laughter. "I got my Real dream guy!" she said. Lilly laughed a little.
"Yeah, and Kyle, I guess," she teased. She was feeling a little better now.
"How could I have forgotten I had Kyle? For heaven's sake he's my husband!"
"True, true!" she laughed.
"I've also got little Ian," she added. Ian was her three year old little boy. "Well, if we would quit stopping so much we'd get to that cutie faster. Let's go," Kiara said. Then stopped again. She put a hand on Lilly's shoulder. "Don't tell anyone I just said that," she said quickly. Lilly laughed and nodded and continued walking.
"Ok, well here he is. Hide me," she joked. As she hid behind Lilly. Placing her hands on Lilly's shoulders. Being shorter than Lilly gave her the advantage of hiding better. Ponch laughed when he saw them.
"Hi, Kiara," he said. Kiara straightened up.
"Huh? Oh, hi Ponch. How'd you find me?" she asked nervously. Ponch just laughed.
"You're weird," he said. Kiara stared down at her feet and rocked back and forth on her heels slightly. With her hands behind her back holding on to each other so tightly it hurt.
"Um...Lilly…" Ponch started then cleared his throat.
"My sister said you were looking for me...so uh...here I am.." she said, staring down at her feet, her cheeks slightly pink.
"Hey, I just wanted to apologize. I guess you didn't know I was married...and I totally rocked your boat with that picture and everything. I'm sorry…" Ponch looks at her and smiled slightly. Hoping she'd forgive him.
She nodded. "It's alright. I didn't know, so it's more of my fault for assuming you were single..." she said, looking back up at him with a slight smile.
"What, my ring didn't give it away?" he joked showing her the golden ring around his ring finger on the left hand.
She giggled slightly. "Sorry, I met a lot of guys who wore rings on their ring finger but weren't married..so I just assumed.." she said.
"Oh…"
"We still friends?" she asked, a little shy.
"Of course!"
Lilly smiled brightly. "Yay." Ponch smiled at her.
"Well, briefing is in five minutes. Let's go get seats."
"Weren't you gonna sit next to Jon like you usually do?" she asked.
"I'm gonna sit with you, Jolene, and Kiara in the back," Ponch replied. Kiara smiled brightly
"Well that's fantastic! Let's go get our seats," she said leading the way. Doing a march/high knees type walk. Ponch rolled his eyes and shook his head.
"She's a weird one," he whispered to Lilly. He pulled out his phone and recorded it a bit so he could show Brittany later.
Ten minutes into briefing...
Getraer paused in his speech. He smiled slightly.
"I believe someone decided to stop by and give us a visit earlier, so I told her to wait in my office until now." he said. Ponch's eyes got wide.
"Who is it? I love visitors," he said.
"Oh, Ponch. You should know her. You met her about, oh...9 years ago, I believe?" Getraer answered. Ponch's eyes were wide and filled with excitement.
"Is it who I think it is?" he asked.
"I hope so, Ponch," came a female's voice from behind him.
"Brittany!" he exclaimed. He hopped up and threw his arms around his wife. He gave her a kiss. "How are you?"
She smiled up at him. "Bored at home, so I came here. Joe helped me sneak in," she said.
"Aww, did you come just to see me?" Ponch asked quietly as he pulled away slightly so he could look into her bright blue eyes.
"Well, you and the rest of the family," she said, smiling at the others. Jon stood up and walked over. She turned in Ponch's arms and hugged him.
"Hey, Jon!" she said.
"Hey. Ponch wouldn't shut up about you for the past 6 months. He nearly drove Sarge up the wall," Jon said, with a smile.
"Hey, I didn't talk that much," Ponch said. He didn't even look at Jon. He was staring at his wife. "You look gorgeous today, Britt," he told her. Then gave her another kiss. She smiled and laid her head on his shoulder.