Hello all our faithful readers eh...too dramatic...how are you?! lol!! Hey everybody angie here!! I would like to say one quick thing before you begin reading: I am so scared for my own life!! haha!! 10 reviews for the first chapter...totally insane!! Keep it up!! Ladies and Guys: Pushing Me Away 3: Five Years Later!!


"Sorry, daddy." Caleb looked adoringly up at Nate. "I was watching a...a blady bug."

Nate smiled gently at the little child. "That's okay, sport," he said. "What was it doing?" Already Caleb loved science and observing things. Anything that moved, that is.

"It was eating!" Caleb's face broke out in a broad grin, small dimples by on his cheeks. Nate thought his son was the most adorable little thing in the world, especially when he got excited. As it was, Caleb was bouncing up and down with every step.

"What was it eating?"

"An ant!"

"Ah. Fascinating, isn't it?" Nate knew Caleb had probably been watching something other than a lady bug, most likely a spider. He always got lady bugs and spiders mixed up.

"Yep!"

Nate hugged the kid to him a little bit, and they continued on their way back to the apartment.


"Mitchie, what are you talking about?!" Shane asked.

"Look at Nate's face. I've never really seen him looking sad before…it never seemed possible for him, especially after Caitlyn. And by the size of that kid, he must be almost five! Caitlyn was barely sixteen at the time when they left…"

"And I bet that's why!" Callie exclaimed. "She and Nate ran away to hide from the paparazzi after she learned she was pregnant!"

"And if she was that young…" Jason added, realizing as the girls did, what had happened to their dear friend. "She couldn't have been strong enough…"

"And died in childbirth," Shane concluded, staring at his younger brothers sad like face.

"Poor kid," Callie whispered. "He had to grow up…without a mother…"

Everyone was quiet, remembering their friend, Caitlyn Gellar.

"Come on let's go," Jason said as he open the opened the door and getting out.

"Ok, everybody, let me do the talking, we don't wan-," Shane started.

"NATE! NATE!" Jason yelled as he flailed his arms.

"No, you idiot," Shane spat.


Nate heard yelling,

Oh, no. Oh, no.

Slowly, he turned.

And there they were. Mitchie, Shane, Callie, Jason…

His friends. His family.

Emotions rushed through him. Happiness at seeing his family. Fear for Caleb. Panic that everything he'd worked for to keep him and Caleb secret was about to be lost.

"Ca- Caleb, let's go," Nate said.

"Who are those people, daddy?" Caleb asked.

"Nobody…" Nate whispered, taking a step back as his friend's came a little closer…

He looked down at Caleb's innocent face and instantly knew the truth.

He and his wife had kept hidden for five years so Caleb could grow up without paparazzi and the media swarming him. Going with his family was not an option now.

Nate didn't wait for the rest. He spun around, snatching Caleb up and took off as fast he could, away from them.

Away from his friends, his brothers, his career as a musician.

Away from everything he missed.


"See what you do," Shane yelled at Jason.

"Don't yell at him," Mitchie said cutting in.

"Mitchie, don't get in to this," Shane said to his girlfriend.

"And why not?! I care about Nate just as much as you do Shane," Mitchie yelled back.

"Everybody stop! Look he is getting away. Don't you think we should, oh I don't know, GO AFTER HIM!" Callie cut in obviously she had enough of the couples constant bickering.

"You're right, let's go," Shane said as he started running towards Nate.


The group followed shortly behind Nate. He had a hand clamped over Caleb's mouth, and had ducked behind a headstone. Then, a minute later, he took off once again, with Caleb squirming and whimpering.

He was already out of the cemetery by the time group arrived, and instantly still in eye's view. He would not allow himself to be found.

"Perfect," he thought as he saw a large crowd at a nearby Starbucks. "C'mon Caleb."

"Mmfffppphhh," Caleb grumbled.

"Huh?" Nate ducked inside and removed his hand.

"Never mind." Caleb gave as much as a scowl as he could, but it was still cute.

"Thatta boy," Nate murmured, still slightly in shock from seeing his family.

"Who were those people?" Caleb asked as they crept to a corner.

"Uh…old…business…partners," Nate lied. "It's okay. We'll be home soon and I'll make you dinner. I promise."

"Okay, daddy."

Nate waited in the dark corner while everyone around him ignored him.

"Uh, Daddy?"

"Yes, Caleb?" Nate was staring off into space.

"Those people found us."