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A/N – This is my first John-Paul/Doug/Craig fic. I hope you enjoy it and please leave me review as I would love to know what you think, good or bad!

John-Paul woke up to the sound of baby Matthew crying in his cot, he grunted at the sunlight shinning through the window at the McQueens home. He gets out of bed and picks up his son to comfort him, looking at his son, he thinks about how he got here, being a single gay father, it was suppose to be him and Craig taking care of the child, but it was too much for the brown eyed man, he wanted to enjoy his life and not be home stuck in with a baby, leaving the McQueen boy to take care of him by himself. John-Paul still loved his ex very much, it was his first love, you can never forget your first love. The pain of the break-up is still raw for him, but he wants to move on with his life. After he got back to Hollyoaks, he managed to get a teaching job at the sixth form college, which helped him stop thinking of his ex-boyfriend. But he never thought he would be back here, in this mad house with his family. After changing Matthew's nappy, the two head down stairs to find his mother shouting at his Nan, something about knocked-off perfume. John-Paul blocked out the argument, as he puts his son in the high-chair and gets his breakfast ready. Once the baby is settled, he goes back up stairs to get showered and changed for his job, Carmel agreed to watch baby Matthew while her brother is working. Before heads to the college, he jumps into the Deli to grab a quick coffee, as he enters, he notices a brown haired man behind the counter, he's never met him before, but he's instantly attractive to this young man, He can hear the American and Ste arguing over something and interrupts them when he asks to order a cup of coffee. The blue eyed American walks forward to the counter to take the Mcqueen's boy order. They both find themselves staring and smiling at one another, before John-Paul finally speaks.

"Hi, I'm John-Paul"

"I'm Doug" The American boy smiles.

"It's lovely to meet you Doug" They both shake hands and find themselves staring again, before John-Paul takes his coffee and heads to the college.

John-Paul walks into his home, after work. His sister, Carmel is sitting on the couch with his son. He walks into the kitchen and grabs a can of larger out of the fridge.

"So, This Doug that works at the Deli, what's his story?" He asks his sister, as he sits down on the chair.

"What do you mean?"

"Who is he? What's his story?"

"Oh, John-Paul, your not interested in Doug are you!" Carmel moans.

"What? No! Just curious that's all!" John-Paul takes a sip of his can.

"Well, He's American"

"Really? I wouldn't have guessed" This was a waste of time, why did he bother asking Carmel? When he knows what she's like.

John-Paul takes his son off his sister and heads up stairs to put him down to sleep. Why did he want to know so much about Doug? Was he ready to move on, even though the memory of Craig is raw in is mind? But it was like two of them shared a connection back at the Deli, something that the McQueen boy hasn't felt in a long time. Maybe he should just play it by year? Get to know him, be his mate before diving into something that he's not even sure of yet.

Once he puts his son down, John-Paul heads back down stairs to find most of his family sitting on the couch about to eat the fish and chips that are placed on the coffee table. He sits down on the floor, as there's no room left on the couch and grabs his dinner off the table.

"John-Paul fancies Doug" Carmel blurts out while stuffing chips in her mouth.

All eyes now on him "No, I don't, what are you talking about?"

"Then why did you keep asking me things about him?"

"I asked you one thing, was just curious, you know two gay men can actually be friends without either of them being interested"

"Good, you don't want to get involved in him anyway, the things that I've heard" Myra says.

John-Paul ignored the rest of the comments from his family, but was curious to know what his mum meant by that? Maybe he's got a dodgy past? "Great, why do all blokes that I like always have to be flawed?" He thought to himself while eating the rest of his chips.

After dinner and a few cans of larger, John-Paul decides to head to bed. Lying in bed, he thinks about Craig and how much he spent loving a man that wanted different things from him. Will he ever be able to move on From Craig? Is Doug just a re-bound or is there something there with the two? With all these thoughts running through the teachers mind, he finally manages to drift into a deep slumber.

A/N – Please tell me what you think of the first chapter and if you like it, I will start writing more :)