I woke up the next morning thinking about the night before and still in some way mad about Ruthie's pregnancy and engagement. I couldn't understand why though. I rolled out of bed got dressed quickly then went downstairs. As soon as my foot hit the first stair I could smell the delicious smell of a homemade breakfast. A smell which I had not smelled since I had moved out of the Camdens house. I walked down stairs and into the kitchen. Annie was standing by the stove cooking.

"Good morning!" Annie said turning around and seeing me. "did you sleep okay?"

"yeah, fine!" I said smiling.

"That's good to hear!" Annie said smiling. It was good to wake up to a happy smiling family. For the past few years all I had waken up to was either a screaming child or classes. I saw that Ruthie was sitting at the table eating pancakes.

"Hello" Ruthie said to me smiling. Why was it when I saw her smiling it made my heart race?

"Hi" I said back to her. i heard the back door slam and looked to see Lucy coming in with her second child, Jacob, now two years old, in her arms and Savannah trailing closely behind her. It was hard to believe that Kevin and Lucy still lived in the same house right next door to her parents.

"Hey Martin!" She said Walking over to Annie. "Mom would you mind watching Savannah for me? Jacob has a doctors appointment and the last time I brought Savannah along it was kinda hard"

"Hey!" Savannah said to Lucy. Everyone in the room laughed. She was cute. She reminded me off Katie. God, I missed her. I heard pounding down the stairs and then someone walking through the kitchen. I looked and saw that Vincent had walked in. Man, was this house busy in the mornings.

"Good morning" Vincent said walking over to Ruthie.

"Morning" Ruthie said kissing Vincent. For some reason seeing him kiss her pissed me off.

"Hi Martin" Vincent said sitting down in a chair next to Ruthie.

"you can sit if you want to" Ruthie told me gesturing towards the chair on the other side of her.

"Oh, no that's all right I think I'm gonna go drive around town" I said. I actually wasn't planning to but I really didn't want to sit around watching Ruthie and her fiance.

"Well at least stay for breakfast" Annie said holding an empty plate in her hands.

"yeah" Ruthie said "Vincent and I are going to but some baby clothes and toys, stuff like that, so we would be more then happy to drop you off at the Promenade or somewhere"

"okay" I said sitting down next to Ruthie. Why couldn't I say no to her? Annie placed a plate of pancakes in front of me. I had not seen pancakes that hadn't come from a box years. When I lived with Sandy, life was mostly centered around Katie meaning all Sandy and I usually had to eat was a piece of toast or a cereal bar and college meals weren't all that great either. while my dad wasn't that good of a cook it was way better then college breakfasts but since most of my days off from college I spent with Sandy and Katie I haven't seen him for a while. I looked over and saw that Vincent and Ruthie were talking to each other. I wanted to look away, but I couldn't. It made me so mad to see her in love with him. Maybe it was because he broke her heart and she had forgiven him or maybe it was because I was upset that Ruthie made the same mistake that I did and became a parent before marriage, or maybe I just don't know why, maybe I never will.

After we finished eating I got in Vincent's pretty expensive sports car and drove to the promenade and even though it was 10 am in the morning Ruthie was craving ice cream. So we got ice cream We found a table and sat down. Vincent gave Ruthie her triple scoop chocolate ice cream and then set his one scoop plain vanilla ice cream down where he was sitting. Ruthie started eating her ice cream. "So Martin how's Sandy doing" she said swallowing down some ice cream.

"She's good" I said

"that's good, and how about Katie?" she asked

"she's doing good too" I said smiling at the thought of my daughter.

"Sometimes I still can't believe your a dad" she said. I could tell that she meant it.

"yeah" I said looking down at my ice cream. I heard Vincent's cell phone ring. Jingle bells, how original. God, It was the middle of June!

"oh, shit. I've gotta take this" Vincent said looking at the number.

"It's okay" Ruthie said. Vincent leaned over and kissed her before he picked up the phone and walked away.

"He gets a lot of those" Ruthie said looking down at her ice cream.

"A lot of what? Important phone calls?" I asked.

"yeah, but you know I understand. He's only twenty and he the assistant manager of his dad's company. I love him though" It sounded to me like she was trying to convince herself that she loved him.

"Do you want to hear something funny?" Ruthie asked me smiling.

"what?" I asked

"I had this huge crush on you all through high school" she smiled. But for some reason I didn't laugh. I smiled. I smiled because I was I guess you could say, happy to hear this.

"What if I did too?" I asked her. She didn't get to answer because Vincent came back. Things were awkward between me and Ruthie the rest of the day. After I walked around town and saw all the old sights. I went back to the Camden's house. It was around 9 pm. It was still pretty early but I decided to go to bed anyways. I laid down in bed and started flipping through the channels on TV. I settled on an old movie, one of those with cowboys and stuff like that. I heard a knock on my door. I got up and opened it. Standing in the doorway was Ruthie. I couldn't tell if she had been crying but her eyes were red and she looked pretty upset.

"Can we talk?" she asked.

"sure I said opening the door further so she could come in. She sat down on the edge of the bed. I closed the door and turned around to face her.

"Are you okay?" I asked her. She didn't say anything.

"Ruthie?" I asked not knowing what the hell was going on.

"I love Vincent right?" she said asking as if she was questioning herself. I didn't answer her. I didn't know how to answer her

"I mean I'm pregnant with his baby, I'm engaged to him, I know I should love him. I know that I say I love him. But, if I love him then why the hell do I feel like this?"

"feel like what?" I finally said. She didn't say anything. There was a long awkward silence then Ruthie stood up. Then she kissed me and it wasn't just a quick kiss kind of thing this was a real passionate kiss. I could have passed out. Once she pulled away I looked in her eyes. She was crying

"Like I still love you"

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